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The Mysterious Mrs Christie: Evidence, Elusion, Afterlives

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 8:58am
University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

A 1.5-day international conference at the University of Exeter and Exeter Library (UK)

 

12-13 September 2023

  

 

Keynote Speakers: Dr Mark Aldridge, Solent University and Prof. Michelle M. Kazmer, Florida State University

 

CFP: "Communal practices of joy and sorrow in Africa and the diaspora."

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 8:57am
Olabode Ibironke
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Panel Sponsored by the African Languages, Literatures, and Cultures since 1990 Forum:

Modern Language Association Conference 2024 (Philadelphia)

We invite papers on shared experiences of catharsis and purgation; dance and participatory art as tropes of identity, homecoming, and healing; Truth and Reconciliation; digital culture and affective communities, etc., 

Send 250-word abstracts and CV to Bode Ibironke <oi26@rutgers.edu> by March 22. 

Panel for UW-Madison Conference on South Asia, 2023 (Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 11:32pm
Paulomi Sharma
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

VIOLENCE OF MEMORIES: RECLAIMING SPACES AND LOST VOICES IN SOUTH ASIA

 Seeking abstracts for proposing a panel at UW-Madison Conference on South Asia, 2023. 

Panel Abstract: 

Transmedia Monsters and Villains

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 6:06pm
Dr. Antonio Sanna
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

TRANSMEDIA MONSTERS AND VILLAINS

Literary Druid - Regular Issue January 2023

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 1:30pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Literary Druid is a journal that destinies to foster research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

DEADLINE EXTENDED - March 31 - Nourish: Food & Trust. 18th Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (Virtual)

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 11:34am
The MIGC at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - a C21 Working Group
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Nourish. Food & Trust. - CFP open for 18th Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference The MIGC board is pleased to announce this year's conference theme: Nourish. Food & Trust held VIRTUALLY on April 28-29, 2023. In alignment with the Center for 21st Century Studies 3-year programming arc of Nourishing Democracy and annual theme of Nourishing Trust, the conference centers on issues of food and land justice through an intersectional, interdisciplinary lens. There is no fee to submit or present. DEADLINE EXTENDED Proposal submissions are due March 31st, 2023.  We are pleased to announce this year's keynote as Suparna Kure, PhD.

Mapping Mina Loy Studies in 2023

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 11:23am
Loughborough University / European University Institute / Leipzig University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Intro

In recent years, there has been a flurry of new interest in the work of Mina Loy (1882-1966) resulting in a steady output of monographs, new translations, and republications that present Loy from increasingly diverse perspectives. As Sarah Hayden writes in the introduction to the republication of Insel (2014) ‘there have been many Loys; more are emerging’.

[CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED] Decay into Chaos Graduate Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - 11:43pm
UCR Department of Art History
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

The University of California, Riverside’s Art History Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce its 12th Annual Conference, Decay into Chaos. We are honored to host Dr. Naomi Pitamber, Assistant Professor of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University, as this year’s keynote speaker.

MLA: Romanian Studies in the Digital Space

updated: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - 4:23pm
The Romanian Studies Association of America/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

The Romanian Studies Association of America welcomes paper proposals on "Romanian Studies in the Digital Space" for the 2024 MLA convention. This is a great opportunity to engage in a conversation about digital modalities of promoting Romanian culture globally, addressing their impact on disseminating forms of Romanian culture to diverse audiences. Analyses may include journals, websites, translations, film, and the work of various organizations. The following topics are encouraged: 

ASAP Roundtable: Escapology Under Fugitive Law

updated: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - 2:00pm
Samantha Pergadia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Escapology Under Fugitive Law

Roundtable Proposal

 

 ASAP-14 Conference

Arts of Fugitivity

 

Wednesday, October 4th — Friday, October 6th, 2023

Seattle, WA

 

Conveners: Samantha Pergadia and Casey Patterson

 

RSAA 2023: Romantic Renewal

updated: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 8:14pm
Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

RSAA 2023: Romantic RenewalMelbourne, Australia, 6 to 8 December 2023Hosted by Monash University and Deakin University

 

Confirmed keynotes:

Dr Madeleine Callaghan, University of Sheffield

Professor Porscha Fermanis, University College Dublin

Professor Jon Mee, University of York

 

We invite proposals for the 2023 Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Conference, to be hosted in central Melbourne at Deakin Downtown. The conference will explore the theme of Renewal – broadly conceived – in Romanticism.

Rereading Elden Ring

updated: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 7:31pm
The University of Virginia Department of English Speakers’ Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 7, 2023

With its massive world, open-ended quests, and near-limitless options for customization, Elden Ring––the most critically acclaimed video game of 2022––is designed to be replayed. But it is also a text that demands to be reread. Whether we study its environmental storytelling or the lore in item descriptions, the game’s fragmented narrative fuels exegeses that resemble the long history of Biblical interpretation, midcentury criticism of modernist enigmas like Ulysses, and hermeneutic fandoms surrounding popular culture like Twin Peaks. Its spatiotemporally disjunctive universe frustrates efforts to interpret its world “realistically” and prompts one to place it in dialogue with theories of unconventional space and time.

MLA 2024: Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) UPDATE

updated: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 12:41pm
Dorothy Stringer
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the January 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers.

Queer theory embraces psychoanalysis and its speculative concepts as crucial elements of counter-identitarian critical practice. Yet the relationship between these two fields remains under-examined. Topics of particular interest include:

Joseph Conrad Centennial Commemorative Book Project

updated: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 5:08am
Prof. John G. Peters, University Distinguished Research Professor, University of North Texas and Chandrakant A. Langare, Associate Professor of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, M.S. India. ,
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

 

Dear Conradians/Colleagues/ Scholars/Academics

Creature Redux: Considering the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Chimera in Fiction and Popular Culture [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 3:20pm
academic anthology edited by Samantha Baugus and Ayanni Cooper
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 21, 2023

Call for Papers - Creature Redux: Considering the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Chimera in Fiction and Popular Culture
Extended Deadline: April 21st, 2021 (4/21/23)

Animals are the quotidian absolute Other. They are not inherently horrifying, dangerous, or invasive; nor do they have designs to usurp or subjugate humanity. In his lecture-turned-book The Animal That Therefore I Am, Derrida critiques the use of the word “animal” to describe an almost limitless array of creatures. “Animal” becomes a catch-all term for everything that is otherwise than human–and not the biological entity, but a specific, constructed hegemonic entity. 

Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy (MMLA)

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 11:54am
Matthew Horton / University of North Georgia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel

MMLA 2023, November 2-5, Cincinnati, OH

Abstract Deadline: May 10, 2023

General Conference Topic: "Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy"

 

The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes, especially but not exclusively, proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy" for the 2023 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: 

https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/

The Paradox of Emotion in Modern Poetry (MLA 2024)

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 12:43am
Ariana Lyriotakis / Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

How does modern poetry enact a paradox of emotion? This MLA 2024 special session invites proposals exploring ambivalence, co-existence or contradiction of emotive states in modern/late modern/postmodern poetics. Broader interpretations of the theme are certainly welcome. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Joy/Sorrow
  • Emotional valences
  • Mood
  • Somatic/Carnal
  • Intimacy
  • Hope/Loss
  • Pride/Shame
  • Emotion/Logic
  • Trauma
  • Embodied knowledge
  • Perception
  • Temporality
  • Phenomenology of emotions

Kindly submit your abstract (250-350 words) as well as a short bio by Monday, March 20th to:

SUBMISSION WINDOW CLOSED - Time and Its Influences - IUP EGO Spring Conference 2023

updated: 
Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 9:21am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania English Graduate Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

While we sometimes feel like life is moving around us rather than with us, it is essential to take a moment and consider how we got where we are. Over time, attitudes, opinions, and feelings have shifted along with what we choose to carry with us. To avoid leaving important things behind or risk forgetting them altogether, it is time to ask ourselves why we leave certain things behind and what it means when we do.

Doris Lessing and Contemporary African Critiques of Colonialism/Neocolonialism

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:14pm
Doris Lessing Society/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

We invite papers for our 2024 MLA Convention session examining Lessing’s critiques of colonialism and/or neocolonialism, especially in conversation with post-colonial African women writers from Aidoo, Gordimer, Dangarembga, and Vera to Gappah, Bulawayo, and Mbue. 250-word abstracts and brief bio requested.

The Griot in Doris Lessing and African/Postcolonial Diaspora Writers

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:14pm
Doris Lessing Society/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

We invite papers for an MLA 2024 session exploring figures of the griot—as chroniclers, poets, songmakers, and Memories—in Doris Lessing’s later works and in the works of writers from Africa and throughout the postcolonial diaspora. This topic has been designed to fit in with the MLA's 2024 Presidential Theme, "Celebration: Joy and Sorrow." For more details on the theme, see: <https://www.mla.org/Events/2024-MLA-Convention/Presidential-Theme-for-th....
250-word abstracts and brief bio requested.

Constructions of Identity 11 - Transmission

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 12:29pm
Department of English Language and Literature Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

Constructions of Identity 11 - Transmission

Department of English Language and Literature

Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)

 

 

Conference dates: 18-20 May 2023

Conference venue: Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea St., Cluj-Napoca

Conference website: Transmission: Constructions of Identity XI – Event Landing Page (ubbcluj.ro)

Extended deadline for proposals: 10 April 2023

 

Adaptation

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 7:05am
Timothy Ryan Day / Saint Louis University Madrid
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Adaptation

Saint Louis University—Madrid April 21-22

Adaptation is a term that bridges the divide between literature and evolution. Texts are adapted to speak to new circumstances as time advances and younger writers, directors, actors, artists, and audiences seek connections to a mutable culture. Likewise, organisms adapt over generations to better suit their circumstance.

Transgender Embodiment: 1400-1700: DEADLINE EXTENDED

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:34am
University of York (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Transgender Embodiment: 1400-1700 (June 2nd): DEADLINE EXTENDED

University of York, UK (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)

Keynote: Prof Melissa Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania)

America in the Global World (Student Conference)

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:21pm
Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

The Center for American Studies at the University of Bucharest 

and the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission

invite proposals for their annual student conference on the topic

America in the Global World 

to be held online and in person

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