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

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

Call for submissions for Journal of Comparative American Studies

Wendy McMahon and Rebecca Tillett

“Wild Possibility”: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene 

Modern Language Association Annual Convention

4-7 January 2024 Philadelphia 

The Henry James Society invites proposals for the following panel.

Henry James and Event(s)

Mixed Race Shakespeares: A Special Issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Editor: Adele Lee (Emerson College)

General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University)

"Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches to Second and Heritage Languages”

XXIV Annual Céfiro Conference on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

April 21st 2023

Texas Tech University 

The 2023 Céfiro Conference theme aims to interrogate conventional knowledge as a way to expand the frameworks that guide our teaching and learning of Hispanic and Lusphone linguistics and cultures. We welcome participants to submit original research in their respective field of studies including but not limited to topics listed below. 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Whitney Chappell

Call for Proposals – EXTENDED DEADLINE, February 28th, 2023

6th Annual International Conference on Border Studies

 Transborderism: Reimagining Social Space

University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and Autonomous University of Tamaulipas

Nov. 8, 2023: Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Nov. 9-10, 2023: Edinburg, Texas, United States

Designing Urban Universities

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 June 2023

There is a growing dissonance between the urban university as often perceived—its physical, architectural, and emblematic form, its legacy structures and spaces, its time-honoured functions and traditions—and the university as a knowledge factory within the city, subject to political, commercial, and environmental pressures. But this is not a new dissonance. Architectural and design histories can uncover how, across diverse cases, it has often shaped the urban university internally and in its relationship with the city.

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the CFP below for an international conference on “Logic and Modern Literature” we are organising at the University of Lausanne, September 14-15, 2023. 

The conference will address a range of historical, epistemological and interdisciplinary questions about literature and logic from c.1800 to the present (see CFP below).

Keynote speakers include: 

Professor N. Katherine Hayles (Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA), whose many award-winning books include How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Literature, Cybernetics and Informatics and Writing Machines.

“With a Pen in Her Hand”: Communities in Gloria Naylor’s Fiction and her Archives.

Conference dates: Thursday, October 19- Friday, October 20, 2023, held in-person at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, 06825

Gloria Naylor is one of the most important writers of 20th century American literature. Her literary works, from The Women of Brewster Place (1982), a NationalBook Award winning novel, to her fictional memoir, 1996, portray the communities that Black women build to resist, survive, and even thrive against the racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia that confines and violates them.

• 10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture 
• The topical theme of the conference is "Fashion as Material Culture"
• Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Stephen Bending, University of Southampton and Prof. Dr. Abby Lillethun, Montclair State University
  

Guest Editor, Carly Holzwarth (Bucknell University)

Drama Section Editor, Jeanmarie Higgins (Penn State University Park)

Editorial Assistant, Arushi Grover (Penn State University Park)

The International Journal of Education in the Arts (IJEA) seeks scholarship and case studies for a special issue, “Issues in Teaching Theatre Design.”

In this collaborative series, three digital environmental humanities platforms—NiCHE, Edge Effects, and Correspondences—seek short essays, multimedia pieces, and other forms of public writing that engage questions of representation and access in the environmental “commons.”

University of Arkansas Graduate Students in English Conference 2023

LABOR AND WORK AS THEY WERE, AS THEY ARE, AND AS THEY MIGHT BE

The University of Arkansas Graduate Students in English are excited to announce their annual conference. This year’s theme is LABOR AND WORK: AS THEY WERE, AS THEY ARE, AND AS THEY MIGHT BE. This theme spotlights the productivity of typically marginalized aspects of the human community in ways which build understanding of intrinsic value. This is an interdisciplinary conference open to scholars in all fields. This year we will offer creative writing sessions! In addition to presentations from the humanities, we particularly welcome scholars who find their home in the sciences.