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31st annual Midwestern Conference of Literature, Language, and Media: "Ethnic Images: Between Art and Reality in the United States"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 2:39pm
Northern Illinois University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Conference Date/Location: March 25 - 26, 2023; DeKalb, IL

Deadline for Proposals: February 28, 2023

*Registration is now Open! https://mcllm7.wixsite.com/mcllm/registration-travel-planning

The 31st annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, is currently accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations from individuals and panels.

No Guardrails: Teaching and Learning in Times of Trauma

updated: 
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 9:04am
Melissa J. Jones
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

This collection seeks essays willing to explore what it means to flounder and flop--to be afraid and uncomfortable--and to get back up to teach (one hopes) another day. For this is the precarious new normal of teaching and learning in post-pandemic America, where primary and secondary educators are fleeing the profession in droves--citing too much pressure, too little pleasure--and murmurs of “quiet quitting” across college campuses suggest that higher ed might not be far behind.

CfP: Transplanetary Ecologies Workshop

updated: 
Sunday, February 5, 2023 - 11:22am
Centre for Outer Space Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Continuous human presence in Low Earth Orbit, increasing expansion of techno-scientific infrastructures beyond Earth, and the extractivist ambitions of the commercial 'New Space' sector call for a reconsideration of the conventional analytical frameworks used to describe emergent (extra)terrestrial political, ecological, and social processes. On these accelerating investments, Vidmar has stated “the interplay between natural and social phenomena in the highly contested yet vastly open-ended Universe gave rise to an ecology of (trans)planetary systems – biological, technological and intellectual” (Vidmar, 2020, EASST.net).

Call for Submissions, 2023 Special Issue: “Laughter”

updated: 
Sunday, February 5, 2023 - 10:54am
The AutoEthnographer Literary and Arts Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

American author Mark twain said it best when he wrote, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” With the world ever balancing so much to cry about with so much to laugh about, The AutoEthnographer Literary and Arts Magazine is excited to announce its call for submissions for the 2023 special issue, “Laughter.” Submissions will be accepted in any of our main categories (writing, poetry, multimedia, video, performance, etc.) between June 1, 2022 and June 1, 2023 and may respond to the following prompts:

MLA 2024: Interpreting Italian American Visual Arts and Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 5:09pm
MLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

This panel investigates Italian American transnational and transgenerational depictions of memory and ethnic identity through visual culture. Our goal is to invite scholars to reflect on diverse media and forms of representation, drawing attention to artists, authors, and performers who used visual components to narrate their hybrid identities and relationships to trauma, diaspora, and postmemory. Names like Fasanella, B. Amore, DiSalvo, Stella, and Scanga, come to mind, as artists who gave form to visual tropes of memory narrating their experience as first and second generation Italian Americans. 

"Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts" - York University English Graduate Student Association 2023 Conference - HYBRID (deadline extended)

updated: 
Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 12:50pm
York University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Call for Papers:
“Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts”
York EGSA Conference 2023 - May 12th, 2023

Deadline: EXTENDED -- February 28th, 2023, 11:59 pm EST

CFP: People, Planet and Prosperity for a Sustainable Future Conference

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 10:03pm
Chaminade University of Honolulu
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Call for Abstracts and Proposals

Abstracts and proposals are called for research presentations, paper presentations, panels and position paper proposals. All abstracts and proposals must be submitted electronically though the chair persons listed. Only a complete submission is eligible for review. A confirmation email will be sent once the abstract or proposal has been received.

VLT #93: Reconsidering Mass Media

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:57pm
Velvet Light Trap
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

CFP Deadline has been extended to February 28, 2023! 

 

VLT #93: Reconsidering Mass Media

NWSA Panel CFP: The Political Uses and Abuses of Childhood: Queer Pasts, Presents, Futures

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:56pm
National Women's Studies Association Conference (NWSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The last few years have seen a resurgence in conservative political activism concerned with protecting children from queer adults. Parents and politicians around the country are pushing to pass homophobic and transphobic legislation. These include, to name a few examples, laws being proposed to prohibit children from attending Drag shows, the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” in Florida, and most recently, DeSantis blaming queer theory for the rejection of a high school AP African American Studies course. These contemporary iterations, of course, have historical precedents: such as Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” or The Briggs Initiative to fire gay teachers.

Samuel R. Delany and the City

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:55pm
Modern Language Association 2024 Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 10, 2023

Samuel R. Delany and the City Samuel Delany has strong ties to New York City and Philadelphia. Not surprisingly, many of his major works investigate cities. We seek papers on the city throughout Delany's work. 200 word abstracts; brief bio

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 10 March 2023

Daniel Shank Cruz, Hunter College, CUNY (danielshankcruz@gmail.com)  https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Paper22607.html 

Modernist Studies Association 2023 Annual Meeting

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:54pm
Erin Kappeler / MSA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 7, 2023

The Modernist Studies Association is thrilled to announce that the submission portal for our upcoming conference in Brooklyn, NY, October 26-29, 2023, is NOW OPEN at 

[CFP] Thanatic Ethics Workshop #4: In search of accountability 

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:51pm
International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

 

Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces

Workshop #4:  In search of accountability

 

A partnership between International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (The Education University of Hong Kong), EMMA (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

and The American College of the Mediterranean (ACM, Aix-en-Provence)

 

Venue: University Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France

Dates: October 5-6, 2023

Language: English

Crisis

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:47pm
Association of Postcolonial Thought and University of Michigan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Crisis

 

The language of crisis suffuses current imaginings of past, present, and future. This symposium invites ambitious and expansive critical reflections on the concept of crisis and the postcolony across time and space. We welcome interdisciplinary provocations in the humanities, arts, and social sciences that offer the potential for thinking about crisis alongside forms of resilience, resistance, and collaboration.

 

Thomas Hardy: Special Session RMMLA

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:44pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Papers on any aspect of Thomas Hardy, poetry or prose, 19th or 20th century. Conference Dates: October 11-14, 2023. Conference Location: Denver, Colorado. Email abstracts or papers by April 1 to clay.daniel@utrgv.edu

Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:38pm
MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

MLA LLC (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) 16th-Century English (D024)

 The MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages.

Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alongside histories of empire, settler colonialism, racial capitalism, etc.? How did global encounters shape depictions of dis/ability?

Send queries to Penelope Geng (pgeng@macalester.edu). 250-word abstracts due 28 Feb. 2023.

Pedagogy and performance special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:37pm
Matteo Pangallo, Virginia Commonwealth University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Guest editors Matteo Pangallo (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe) invite article abstracts for a proposed special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin on the use of performance in teaching Shakespeare and early modern drama in the twenty-first century. Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:

The Invention of Traditions in the United Kingdom and the British Empire, 1840-1940

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:34pm
Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique (CRECIB) and Société Française d'Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes (SFEVE)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

The Invention of Traditions in the United Kingdom and the British Empire, 1840-1940

 

Conference organized jointly by the Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique (CRECIB) and the Société Française d'Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes (SFEVE).

 

University of Haute-Alsace, France (Mulhouse campus), November 16-17, 2023.

 

Unearthing: Past in Present and Future

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:34pm
Bhawna Vij Arora
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Call for Papers

Unearthing

Past in Present and Future

Associative Interactions in the Orbit of Memory Studies

 

Deadline for Submissions: March 25, 2023

 

Concept Note

 

17th Biennial Communication Ethics Conference

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:32pm
Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and Communication Ethics Institute at Duquesne University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

 

The 17th Biennial Communication Ethics Conference will be held virtually, June 6–8, 2023. The conference is sponsored by the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and the Communication Ethics Institute at Duquesne University.

NOTE: The conference will take place entirely on Zoom. Access to the Zoom meeting will be provided in June.

CharlOz--an interdisciplinary festival celebrating Oz

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:31pm
UNC Charlotte
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2023

At this three-day festival, writers, scholars, collectors, and fans will explore The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Written in 1900, Baum's fairy tale incorporated timeless life lessons, and his stories were ahead of their time.

As Oz magic continues far beyond Baum's lifetime, we benefit from fresh Oz interpretations in visual, performing, and literary art. Works like The Wiz, Wicked, Dorothy Must Die, and Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee's Sea Sirens reflect changes in American culture, while incorporating the non-traditional gender roles and diverse characters that Baum ingrained in Oz.

Proposals accepted February 10, 2023, and November 17, 2023

American, British and Canadian Studies, Special Issue: Being // Non-Being: Interpretive Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Culture, December 2023

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:31pm
Ana-Karina Schneider, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

American, British and Canadian Studies

Call for Papers

 

Special Issue: Being // Non-Being: Interpretive Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Culture

December 2023

 

Submission Deadline: 1 August 2023

 

Guest Editor: Emma Tămâianu-Morita (Kindai University, Osaka), emmorita@intl.kindai.ac.jp

 

Early European Puppetry Studies Conference

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:25pm
Yale University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

From moving statues to artificial animals to marionette performances, puppetry seems to have appeared in every sector of medieval and early modern European society. Jointed religious figures illustrated the liturgy, while dragon effigies processed through cities on feast days, and popular and courtly audiences enjoyed puppet shows of legendary and historical events. Despite the ubiquity of medieval and early modern puppets in Europe, scholarly consideration of these performing objects is often limited to case studies. Consideration of “puppetry” as a particular form with its own norms and commonalities is also uncommon, due in part to the marginal position of puppetry in Western culture.

Call for Papers: Themed Issue on Displacement (Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:24pm
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 28, 2023

THEMED ISSUE: DISPLACEMENT 

Issue editor: Dr Rebecca Blanchard, University of Tours 

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN 2791- 6553) invites submissions for its upcoming issue on the theme of displacement in literature, theatre and culture studies. 

Displacement, in its various manifestations, serves as one of the defining  characteristics of the 20th and 21st centuries and remains a salient concern in diverse  cultural and political contexts. 

CFP: Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference May 26-27, 2023

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:23pm
Oceanic Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

 

 

Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference Honolulu, HI May 26-27, 2023 Chaminade University of Honolulu

 

We are pleased to invite panel and/or individual paper proposals for the Tenth Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference. All topics and proposals are welcome, particularly those treating cultural productions within and/or about the Oceanic region. For more information, please visit our website at https://oceanicpopularcultureassociation.blogspot.com/

 

VISAWUS 2023: Victorian Elements

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:23pm
Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Victorian Elements

VISAWUS 2023
Seattle Public Library (Seattle, WA), 10/19-10/21

Keynote Speaker: Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington)

We encourage papers across all disciplines. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • ❖  Elements of style in the Victorian era (design, literary form, fashion, architecture, etc.)

  • ❖  Braving the elements: weather, the environment, and climate change, then and now

  • ❖  The periodic table of elements and its history

  • ❖  The discovery of radium, polonium, and other “new” elements

  • ❖  Classical elements: earth, water, fire, air, ether

SAMLA 95: (In)Security--The Future of Literature and Language Studies

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:22pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

SAMLA 95: (IN)SECURITY: THE FUTURE OF LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE STUDIES

NOVEMBER 9-11, 2023 | ATLANTA MARRIOTT BUCKHEAD HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER | ATLANTA, GA

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