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Conference Online (via Zoom)
16-17 March 2023
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet, MN will be hosting the tenth annual Lake Superior Summit on the Teaching of Writing and ESL on Friday, March 3, 2023 (9:00AM to 3:30PM)!
There is no fee to attend. The tentative schedule and link for further information and registration can be found below.
The full schedule is now available online, at https://fdltcc.edu/10th-annual-lake-superior-summit/.
Where is that place where what should not ‘happen to nobody’ happens every day? Why is it that, in so many places found in every corner of the global space, so many human beings face that which ‘no one deserves’?
—Ferreira da Silva (2009, p. 212)
You better understand White people’s fantasies because tomorrow they’ll be legislation
—Jared Sexton, invoked by Frank Wilderson (2020)
I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me
—Fanon (2013, p. 153)
This is America. Don’t catch you slippin’ now.
—Childish Gambino, This is America (2018)
CALL FOR PAPERS
vol. 4/2023
The editorial board of Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that comprise with the profile of the journal.
Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.
The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for submissions to the Ninth Annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference in the Las Colinas area of Irving, TX, 2-4 June 2023.
Fandom for us includes all aspects of being a fan, ranging from being a passive audience member to producing one’s own parafictive or interfictive creations. Neomedia includes both new media as it is customarily defined as well as new ways of using and conceptualizing traditional media.
The New Daydream Imaginary – On the Ethico-Aesthetics of Spontaneous and Non-productive Thought
Simon Fraser University — School for the Contemporary Arts, 16-17 June 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS
SOMNAMBULATIONS 2: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO SLEEP
June 26-27, 2023, Montreal
Somnambulations 2 is a two-day colloquium for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers that aims to explore the emerging field of critical sleep studies. A follow up to the first edition held in January 2022 (program link), we continue to rethink sleep for our restless times.
The Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in Norwich, England. The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900).
Started by Norwich Unitarians in 1994, the Martineau Society encourages scholarship on the Martineau family and their nineteenth-century context as well as their continuing influence.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Theology and Religion
Literature (all genres, including Children’s Literature and Travel Writing)
Language and Linguistics
Latinx Linguistic Justice, an edited collection to be submitted toRoutledge, calls us to re-examine our understandings of Latinidad or Latinx studies within Linguistic Justice. This edited collection aims to highlight marginalized voices within Latinx communities such asafro-caribeños,chicanxs,cubanxs, nuyoricans o mexicanxsfrom Arizona, California, and/or Florida. We also seek to uplift marginalized voices from Indigenous or First-Nation, Francophone, or Lusophone peoples. A sampling of topics appropriate for this collection includes, but is not limited to:
STREAM ORGANISER: SUBHAM MUKHERJEE AND CRAIG LUNDY
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT (250 WORDS) SUBMISSION: MARCH 13, 2023
Breaking Convention: Diasporic Fiction and the Re-Making of Genre
A one-day workshop
16 May 2023, King’s College London
Deadline for abstracts: 22 Feb 2023
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Poets and Prose Authors Read their Works in English, Session II Prose.
Audra Spicer, Colorado State University Global audra.spicer@csuglobal.edu
Location: Golden/Denver, CO
Dates: October 11-14, 2023
Costs:
RMMLA membership: $35/year
Conference registration: $85 by April 1
Friday luncheon: free of charge for presenters ($35 for guests)
Hotel room: $147/night and sleeps four
The Sports Culture caucus of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Studies Association is proud to announce the call for papers for the 2023 MPCA/MACA conference at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, October 6-8. Papers pertaining (but not limited to) to current and historic sports media texts, players, teams, broadcasting personalities and their representation in popular culture are encouraged.
Please submit a 250-word abstract at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels . The deadline for submission is April 30, 2023.
The LGBTQ+ and/in Popular Culture caucus of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Studies Association is proud to announce the call for papers for the 2023 MPCA/MACA conference at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, October 6-8. Papers pertaining (but not limited to) to current and historical issues of the LGBTQ+ community and their representation in popular culture are encouraged.
I am proposing an MLA 2024 special session on "Political Oratory and African American Literature." Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
2023 marks the anniversaries of Jerzy Grotowski's 90th birthday and Krystian Lupa's 80th birthday. On this occasion, Pamiętnik Teatralny, a bilingual Polish-English academic quarterly, invites scholars to reflect on the international presence of these two Polish directors in different cultural contexts around the world.
CfP: Public History in European Historical Perspectives | C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
14-15 September 2023 at the University of Luxembourg, followed by a book publication. Deadline: 1 April.
Hard Times
The 2023 Conference of the Victorians Institute
NC State University and Methodist University
Raleigh, NC
Sat-Sun October 7-8, 2023
https://victoriansinstitute2023.wordpress.com/
"Hard Times" was a frequent Victorian refrain, perhaps most famously in the title of Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel but also in Stephen Foster’s 1854 song "Hard Times Come Again No More"; in the title of Hubert von Herkomer’s 1885 painting; and throughout the century as an experience of socioeconomic difficulties, political oppression, and personal suffering.
In this two-week in-person NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty from 16 July to 28 July 2023, twenty-five participants will explore place-based and archival approaches to the life and works of American novelist Willa Cather. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, participants will have access to unparalleled archival holdings of Cather materials and the expertise of a leading center for digital humanities. At the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, they will experience landscapes and buildings represented in Cather’s fiction that function as a kind of archive.
This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of care; the various ways bodily ability are articulated in different spaces within the early Francophone world. We especially welcome papers engaging with these topics from global and/or intersectional perspectives, as well as those considering diachronic and transtemporal approaches.
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS
2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference | Television Area
Friday-Sunday, 6-8 October 2023
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Address: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 | Phone: (312) 362-8000
The Television area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its 2023 conference in Chicago on the campus of DePaul University.
We are looking for papers that examine any aspect of television, from any time period and using any number of methods. Potential topics for paper or panel proposals include, but are not limited to:
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Submission link: https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday, 06-08 October 2023
DePaul University
Address/Phone:
DePaul Center
1 E. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 362-8000
Henry James and the Visual Arts
University of Reading, Thursday 29 June 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 362-8000
The Philosophy and Popular Culture Subject Area welcomes submissions to the 2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference.
Publicly available text-generating engines like ChatGPT make large language models (LLMs) “writers” in their own right. How can we interpret the changing status of the writer in the age of machine learning? What does the success of AI-generated textuality ask us to reconsider, revisit, or reinvent in the context of literary theory and the digital humanities more generally?
This panel is a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the TC Digital Humanities executive forum for the 2024 MLA conference in Philadelphia (January 4-7).
The John Clare Society of North America invites paper proposals for its guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, January 4-7th, 2024. Scholarship on any aspect of Clare’s poetry, prose, life, and/or sphere of influence. Send abstract and short bio by 17 March 2023 to Erica McAlpine at erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk
CFP: MLA Annual Convention 2024 (4-7 January)
Guaranteed Session at MLA 2024: 4–7 January, Philadelphia, PA
We welcome 10-minute papers on any aspect of care in early modern literature and culture. How do texts portray the attachments, solidarities, labors, costs, vulnerabilities, hierarchies, etc. implicated in care? Please submit a 200-word abstract and CV to nazarian@northwestern.edu
MLA 2024 SolarpunkCFP
Philadelphia, PA January 4-7
Panel Organizers
Phoebe Wagner | Lycoming College | wagnerp@lycoming.edu
Over the centuries, there has been a connection between pessimism and poetry/song. We invite proposals examining this connection sent to jdailey@gts.edu. Include your name, phone number and e mail in an e mail--not as attachments.