Spy Fiction: Exploring Ian Fleming and 70 Years of James Bond

International Conference
30 September 2023
(Zoom sessions: 1 day/Virtual platform: 3 days)

(more information: https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/spy-fiction-exploring-ian-fleming-and-70-years-of-james-bond/ )

Thematic Approach

GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship dedicated to interdisciplinarity organizes the conference dedicated to the captivating world of spy fiction, with a particular focus on the works of Ian Fleming and the 70-year anniversary of the first James Bond novel.

Every society experiences growth as it tries to move from a traditional agrarian one to a more industrialized one. Growth is the only constant in society where it occurs both qualitatively and quantitatively. While population growth, agricultural growth etc. may be considered to be a quantitative growth, urban growth, societal growth etc. may be considered to be qualitative growth. This steady growth also implies that the sustainable development of all societies is crucial. To balance the growth and sustainability in the changing society itself is a complex process and requires a comprehensive study with respect to the growth of population, economic, urban growth and so on.

*Seeking participants for a proposed roundtable for RSA 2024* In recent decades, race has been firmly established as a significant category and rich site of analysis in the early modern world. Religion is an essential part of this story. Christian doctrine was the lens through which European explorers, colonizers, and slaveholders understood somatic and cultural difference and, subsequently, the means by which they justified their violent and extractive practices, including the institution of slavery.

International conference:

Hollywood Before the Code (1921-1934)

Sorbonne University and Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France

June 27-28-29, 2024

The implementation of the Production Code in 1934 established a pre- and post-classic Hollywood era. From 1934 onward, the studios submitted their productions to some internal control to ensure the conformity of contents and guarantee their commercial viability at a time when ideological and religious elites were actively trying to enforce the respect of moral principles.

International Conference for PhD students and young doctors — “Authenticity and Heritage”
 March 7-8, 2024
 Université Bordeaux Montaigne, UR CLIMAS 4196

The Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWSO) is now accepting proposals for the 8th Annual Creative Writing Studies Conference (CWSC) – our first in-person conference since 2020! The conference offers an exciting opportunity to rebuild past connections and create new ones. It will be held the weekend of October 20-22, 2023 at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

Proposals for papers and workshops will be accepted through August 16, 2023.

We would love to see you in person. However, our world is different now, so with this conference we will continue to offer virtual options for both presenters and attendees to increase access and expand our community.

A Critical Companion to Dario Argento

edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

For over a century, studies of the medieval epic in romance languages have focused on questions of genesis, transmission, themes, symbols, and motifs, but the contributions from the non-human—but very real—natural world to this literature remains under-represented. These epics bear witness to a profound understanding of the inter-relatedness of all life forms and to the consequences of its denial. This session invites scholars from diverse disciplines to reconsider medieval romance epic traditions that reaffirm the bond between the human and non-human, and that address any human eclipse due to the discounting of the natural world.

This panel invites papers that theorize the surplus of a literary object as something accidentally produced by that object. What is the substance and effect of this surplus? How is surplus figured in poetry, especially in poetics in or working in relation to the New York School? Following Stephen Best's assertion that "beauty is a force of erasure," papers might contribute theories of beauty in or as surplus. If art implies a frame but beauty can also erase that frame, papers might theorize framing in poetry and consider poetics that both constitute and move to exceed a frame. What else might constitute or figure surplus in poetry? Do New York School poetics figure a surplus of discourse or perhaps of thought?

This call for papers aims at bringing efforts geared towards the study of a much-neglected field of translation which is self-translation. Self-translation may look transparent and easy in terms of definition: an author or a writer translates his work into another language. This of course involves a bilingual attempt: an author writes a text in Arabic and then translates it into English or any other language. What are the problematics involved in this attempt is the main theme of this call for paper which will gather contributions in a publishable special issue once the reviews are completed.

he proposed session will analyze the complex images of women in Dostoevsky novels, focusing on the archetypal female characters in his major novels vis-a-vis other Russian realist novels, such as the works of Leo Tolstoy and Turgenev, investigating social and cultural gender norms of that period. The papers focusing on the image of femme fatale in the European novels will also be considered.

Pseudomorphism, a term introduced to art history by Erwin Panofsky in 1964, refers to the ostensible similarity between two works of art that actually emerge from distinct historical and artistic lineages. More recently, Yve-Alain Bois tried to revive the notion for the study of modern and contemporary art, while Pamela Lee’s work shows how the phenomena is becoming increasingly widespread, putting forth ‘a transhistorical, and perhaps transdisciplinary, agenda in the process’. This issue of re:visions invites graduate students and other scholars, researchers, writers, and artists to think through issues related to likeness/similarity and test bold comparisons, reflecting on the ambivalent nature of pseudomorphism.

Conference online (via Zoom):

21-22 September 2023

Call for papers | RCL nº. 59 | Media-Bodies: matter and imaginary 

https://rcl.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/rcl/announcement/view/6

Submissions deadline: July 31, 2023 changed to 22 September 2023 (full articles)
Expected publication date: December 2023 

Editors: 
Aida Castro (ICNOVA / I2ADS) 
Maria Mire (CICANT / AR.CO)