WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)

May 28-30, 2024. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

The RAACES Review is the journal of the University of Windsor's RAACES (Researchers, Academics, and Advocates Centering Equity and Solidarity)

For our third publication (2024), our focus is international solidarity and we invite academic and creative pieces about racial empowerment,  racism, racialization, Indigeneity, and anticolonial practice in any field. We welcome submissions from students (undergraduate and graduate) -- especially international students; staff; faculty of all levels; and community members. We are particularly interested in:

Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media into everyday lives, where digital objects and systems are shaping social and cultural paradigms anew. Contemporary writers, in and through their writing, actively engage with the digital media experience of the twenty-first century.

Location: Mauritius (Details to come)

Dates: June 27-29, 2024

College English Association – 

Middle Atlantic Group

66th ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2024

Call for Papers

“Transformations”

15 March 2024

Keynote Speaker: Tricia Elam Walker 

Conference Location: University of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC

We invite early career colleagues to apply to the 2024 Global Asias Summer Institute. SI2024 will focus on the theme of Involuntary Migration.Applications deadline: March 1, 2024. For more information visit GAI website (https://bit.ly/3turEN5) or see below. 

Call for Applications  

Call for Papers

3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century

Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey)

May 20-22, 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speakers  

• Alexa Weik von Mossner (University of Klagenfurt) (Online)
• Serenella Iovino (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Essay Collection  

Abstracts/Expressions of interest are invited for an essay collection: British Theatre and the 1920s

These new essays will explore British theatre in the 1920s across a spectrum of genres and locations. The book’s focus is on theatre in a broad sense, encompassing a range of performance cultures and demonstrating some of the major ways in which theatre operated within the broader culture and society of the time.

 Topics might include (but are not limited to):

The dramatic legacy of WWI

Political theatre

Melodrama

A hybrid conference hosted by James Madison University

February 7-10, 2024
Deadline EXTENDED: November 1, 2023

The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center at James Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary conference, to be held from Wednesday, February 7 to Saturday, February 10, 2024.  The conference brings together scholars, archivists, and practitioners from a wide variety of overlapping and intersecting fields. This year’s theme is “Reckoning,” a term that evokes the multitudinous ways responsibility and accountability may be linked to forms of measurement, methodology, and knowledge-constitution.

EH-EH: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EUSKAL HERRIA THE HEMINGWAY SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ITS CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL HEMINGWAY CONFERENCE TO BE HELD JULY 14-20 2024 IN SAN SEBASTIÁN AND BILBAO, SPAIN.

Participants are invited to get to know the people, places, cuisine, and culture of contemporary Euskal Herria—the Basque Country as it is called in the Basque language. From the colorful depictions of the Navarrese Pyrenees in Hemingway’s first commercial success, The Sun Also Rises, to the characters at the Basque bar in the posthumously published Islands in the Stream, the Basque Country and its people made a lasting mark on Ernest Hemingway’s life and work.  

Conference Theme: “Roots/Routes of Resistance and Resilience”

Call for Papers: “Writing Back to Flannery O’Connor”

Deadline extended to November 8th, 2023

The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks abstracts for a proposed in-person panel to be held at the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States’s (MELUS) annual conference at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas from April 11-14, 2024.

As hip-hop turns 50 in 2023, there is much to celebrate and reflect on, including its impact on higher education. This session is engaged with questions about the latter: what is hip-hop doing in our classrooms and conversely, what are we doing with it in our teaching practice?

II International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences: Fostering Global Resilience through Cross-cultural Collaboration

ISCAP Porto Portugal, 27-28 novembre 2023

Deadline: 15 septembre 2023

The conference is an opportunity for academics and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests to share the latest research findings and new ideas (theoretical and practical) related to the cross-cultural contributions of HSS in addressing global issues. The main goal is to contribute to the realization of a sustainable and inclusive development model.

The Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Management, Economics, Cultural and Creative Industries:

Dear colleagues,

International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education

The Human Life. Energy, Conscience and Freedom. 8th MCDSARE Conference, 1-2 th November 2023

The 8th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education