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“Radical Futures and Decolonization: Law, Marxism, and World Literature”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:26am
North Eastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Description:

This panel will consider Black diasporic literary and/or legal texts in relation to the interdisciplinary field of ‘Law and Literature.’ An emphasis will be placed on the relations and intersections of race, class, and gender, and the historical experience of capitalist modernity, as well as materialist approaches employing ‘world-literary’ perspectives.

Abstract:

The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Edited by A. Robert Lee and Chad Weidner
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Introduction and Scope:

The Mississippi River, often regarded as America’s central artery, has been instrumental in shaping the nation’s geography, culture, and history. This edited volume, The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River, aims to explore the river’s vast influence, tracing its course from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its expansive delta at the Gulf of Mexico.

Medievalisms Area, SWPACA 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference: "Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa"

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Department of English, University of Zululand
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 11, 2024

                                                                              UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND
                                                                2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference
                                                Theme: Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa

                                                         Hosted by the Department of English, UNIZULU

Digital (R)evolution and Cyber Censorship in South Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
NeMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

From election campaigns to marches for equal rights in a patriarchal society, the digital landscape in South Asia has commanded a space which was not easily possible before the digital revolution. In the same breadth, fake news and propaganda narrative has also marred noble causes which hinders this evolutionary social mobility enabled by the digital media. In this scenario, the digital space becomes a double-edged sword where the dominant narrative can be deemed as the ‘truth’. Weaving through the complexity created by opposing narratives, this panel would involve discussions about the medium and culture of the digital world as well to further contextualize echo chambers and shadow bans, which act as filters of information.

The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Holocaust Studies Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:24am
Middle Tennessee State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Fifteenth Biennial

HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE

At Middle Tennessee State University

 

March 6-7, 2025

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

 

Keynote Speaker: Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

                                                                                                                                                                             

Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:23am
Society for Queer and Trans Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Special session hosted by the Society for Queer and Trans Meival Studies at the International Congress for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI in May 2025 seeks submissions for the panel "Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender."

 

Henri Nouwen Academic Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:23am
Henri Nouwen Society; Oblate School of Theology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Following the inaugural Henri Nouwen Lectureship, the Henri Nouwen Society, in partnership with the Oblate School of Theology, is pleased to announce an Academic Symposium dedicated to the life, work, and enduring influence of Henri Nouwen, a profound thinker and writer whose contributions to theology, spirituality, and pastoral care have inspired countless individuals and communities. This symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore and critically engage with Nouwen’s rich body of work.

 

Love and Death in Dostoevsky's novels and Beyond, NeMLA March 6-9, 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This session seeks to examine how Dostoevsky's portrayal of love and death reflects his broader philosophical concerns and how these themes interact within his narrative structures. Although this session primarily aims to explore the themes of love and death in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, papers on other Russian authors will also be considered.

CFP - Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Gender and Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

The journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for papers for the special issue "Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives". Issue editors are Barbora Doležalová (FSV UK), anna řičář libánská (FF UK) and Isotta Rossoni (Leiden University).

Political Speeches in Film

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Université de Lorraine, France
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Dear colleagues, 

Please find below the links to the call for papers of the international conference "Political Speeches in Film" which will take place at the Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France on March 17, 18, 2025:

https://idea.univ-lorraine.fr/sites/default/files/2024-04/CFP%20-%20Political%20Speeches%20in%20Film%20-%20EN-1_0.pdf (English version) 

NeMLA 2025- ChatGPT and teaching persuasive communication: Friend, foe, or frenemy?

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:20am
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This is a call for participation in a roundtable on ChatGPT and teaching persuasive communication at the 56th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention in Philadelphia, PA, USA on March 6-9, 2025

 

This roundtable will examine practical strategies for integrating ChatGPT (or any GenAI bot/software) into rhetoric/persuasive communication classes (i.e., writing and/or speaking persuasively). We are particularly interested in receiving proposals that demonstrate how colleagues implement any of the following strategies:

Game Studies (PCA/ACA National Conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:20am
PCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans. The deadline for proposals is November 30th.

 

I. Topics of Interest

The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc.) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome. Please see our Facebook group for our mission announcement.

 

New Metal Worlds. Building Bridges and Mending Broken Backs

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:20am
The International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

New Metal Worlds. Building Bridges and Mending Broken Backs

The International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS) and Metal Music Studies-Spain, in collaboration with the University of Seville, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Granada, the University of Córdoba, the University of Jaén, the University of Oviedo, and the University of La Laguna, invites applications in response to the Call for Proposals 2025 for ISMMS’ 7th Biennial International Research Conference. The event will be held in Seville, Spain, 3-6 June, 2025 (and virtually) under the theme:

 

 NEW METAL WORLDS 

BUILDING BRIDGES AND MENDING BROKEN BACKS

Comparative Drama Conference - Now Accepting Abstracts and Panel Proposals!

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:19am
47th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

47th Comparative Drama Conference

July 9-11, 2025

London, England

 

Dear Colleagues, 

 

We are pleased to announce that the Comparative Drama Conference 2025 will be hosted by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and will be held in Europe for the first time in its near 50-year history. 

 

Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:18am
John Miller, ASLE-UKI
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Green Letters invites papers of up to 6000 words in length for a special issue on Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities, guest-edited by John Miller (University of Sheffield), Christie Oliver-Hobley (University of Sheffield) and Peter Sands (University of York).

Shakespeare & Dance - ESRA conference, Porto, July 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:59am
ESRA - European Shakespeare Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Chronotopic revisions, embodiment, and adaptation in Shakespeare-inspired dance pieces.

ESRA conference, Porto, July 9-12, 2025

 

Re-inventing Humanities: Possibilities and Prospects in the Face of Crisis

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:59am
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In the wake of neoliberalism, academia is increasingly being turned into a market imperative, marked by the rising global popularity of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) courses and the concomitant reduction in funding for humanities departments. This situation presents a crisis for the Humanities and the values and forms of knowledge it stands for. This crisis is manifesting itself in ways such as the persistent gap among disciplines as well as between scholarship and lived experiences. The breakdown of disciplinary boundaries and the consequent intermingling of Humanities and Sciences has led to the rise of new knowledge systems.

Media Fields Journal, Issue 19: Archival Elements

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:58am
Media Fields Editorial Collective
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

In 2008, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) released its 70th anniversary manifesto reaffirming film’s status as the “optimal archival storage” of the moving image. “Don’t throw film away!” they urged, for unlike its digital successors, film elements tangibly embody traces of their own material history alongside a bygone cultural heritage. “No matter what technologies may emerge,” they write, existing film elements “connect us to the certainties of the past.”

Call for Papers, Anthology: David. Bowie. Is.

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:58am
Keiser University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

David. Bowie. Is.

CFP, Anthology

Samuel Gladden and James Rovira, editors

2024

Special Topic in Latinx Literature at CEA 2025 (CEA 3/27-29/2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:58am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Call for Papers, Latinx Literature at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Latinx Literature for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

ACLA 2025 CFP: Odd Temporalities

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:56am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

“Odd Temporalities”

ACLA 2025, to be held virtually from May 29 to June 1, 2025

 

Call for Papers:

Neobaroque and/in the Contemporary World

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:55am
University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Call for Papers

International Conference

Neobaroque and/in the Contemporary World

University of Wrocław, Poland  08-09 May 2025

 

Decolonizing Philosophy from the Arabic-Islamic World (hybrid)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 8:54am
2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Despite the growing tide of decolonization, scholars of Arabic-Islamic in the west has refrained from engaging with decolonial theories. Dimitri Gutas' most recent "paraphilosophical" thesis raises even more questions about the entrenchment of the secular in the study of philosophy in the Islamic world. Decoloniality can help scholars from falling into the traps of orientalist scholarships. Approaching the Arabic-Islamic tradition from the celebrated vantage point of critical theory is helpful for scholars from the north and south alike.

 

https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6495

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