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Otherworlds

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:13am
Stanford-Berkeley English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 5, 2023

“There is another world, and it is this one.” - Paul Éluard
“There is another world, in this one.” - Octavio Paz
“There is no other world, not even this one.” - Emil Cioran

Otherworlds

The Stanford-Berkeley English Graduate Conference seeks proposals for 20-minute papers that
address any aspect of worldmaking in the context of otherness, alterity, subaltern studies, and
literal other worlds, from any period, for a one-day conference, “Otherworlds,” to be held on
April 22nd, 2023, in Stanford, CA, at Stanford University.

Call for Applicants: Global Asias and Japan Studies Cyber Chat 2: “Migration, Identity, and Diasporas at the Intersection of Japan Studies and Global Asias”

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:12am
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

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In early 2023, the Global Asias Initiative (GAI) is kicking off a three-year collaboration with Japan Foundation New York (JFNY) aimed at creating a network of junior scholars between the United States and Japan. The collaboration will involve a Cyber Chats series in spring 2023, a year-long early career networking project designed to cultivate substantial engagement between scholars in the US and Japan, participation in the Global Asias 7 conference (spring 2025), and eventually a publication in Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Call for Applicants: Global Asias and Japan Studies Cyber Chat 1: “Challenges and Opportunities for Global Asias Approaches to Japan Studies”

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:12am
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

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In early 2023, the Global Asias Initiative (GAI) is kicking off a three-year collaboration with Japan Foundation New York (JFNY) aimed at creating a network of junior scholars between the United States and Japan. The collaboration will involve a Cyber Chats series in spring 2023, a year-long early career networking project designed to cultivate substantial engagement between scholars in the US and Japan, participation in the Global Asias 7 conference (spring 2025), and eventually a publication in Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Archiving Black Women's Joys and Sorrows

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:10am
MLA 2024 Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The relationship between Black women and the archive has long been fraught. We invite 250-word proposals for papers that probe Black women writers' literary and/or theoretical negotiations with these realities.

 

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio by March 15th, 2023, to N. Morris Johnson at nmmorris@buffalo.edu. For more information about the MLA conference, please visit https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2024/Presidential-Theme-for-the-2024-Convention

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies): Call for book reviews

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:09am
European Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies): Call for book reviews

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies) invites reviews of current books on topics relevant to American studies for publication in EJAS’ upcoming issues (vol. 18-19) due in 2023 and 2024. 

Please send a review proposal (author, title, publisher, publishing date and place, number of pages), and CV (including the list of publications) to the Book Reviews Editor, Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska (kornelia@amu.edu.pl). We accept proposals on a rolling basis.

Authors of accepted proposals will be expected to write a book review (1000 words) and follow the MLA 8th edition style manual when preparing the manuscript.

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:07am
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 4, 2023

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation (summer 2024).

Refugee Literature and/in Digital Spaces (MLA 2024, Philadelphia)

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:07am
William Arighi, Springfield College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Digital technology and internet access have expanded the ways of making meaning and of building and accessing audiences across the globe. Though unevenly available to refugees (UNHCR, Space and imagination: rethinking refugees’ digital access, 2020), digital technology has nonetheless offered previously unknown platforms for refugees to speak directly to global audiences.

EXTENDED DEADLINE Post-Otherness in Literature, Culture, and Language. New Strategies for the Validation of Identity

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 6:58am
Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Starting from the assumption that identity (seen as a relationship with one's self) and individuality (seen as a relationship of the self with the group) are both discursive constructs, we presume that it is the uniqueness of these constructs that confers authenticity and validation to a particular person/community/society. This issue is a subject already widely researched and problematized in theories of otherness from the perspective of dealing with diversity or even with social distancing and alienation.

Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE) Graduate Student Symposium: Watersheds

updated: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 11:25am
University of Wisconsin Madison Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

CHE Graduate Student Symposium: Watersheds

The UW–Madison Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE) will bring together graduate student researchers, educators, and artists from multiple disciplines to examine and discuss methods, applications, theories, ideas and practices related to the theme of watersheds.

13th International Whitman Week & Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, February 14, 2023 - 9:31am
Sapienza University of Rome & The Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Founded in Paris in 2007, the Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association (TWWA) invites students, researchers, and Whitman enthusiasts to participate in its 13th annual Whitman Week, consisting of a seminar for students interested in Whitman and Whitman’s poetry, and a symposium bringing together international scholars and graduate students. In 2023, the Whitman Week will take place for the first time in Rome, at Sapienza University of Rome from June 12 to June 17.  

Please view the full Call for Papers on the website: https://whitmanweekrome2023.com/

 

Seminar Structure

Investigating Medical Drama TV series: approaches and perspectives

updated: 
Monday, February 13, 2023 - 10:05am
University of Bologna
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Call for papers - Media Mutations 14
Investigating Medical Drama TV series: approaches and perspectives

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, May 18th-19th, 2023

Organized by Stefania Antonioni (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo) and Marta Rocchi (Università di Bologna).

In collaboration with the research project “Narrative Ecosystem Analysis and Development framework (NEAD framework). A systemic approach to contemporary serial product. The medical drama case”

Confirmed keynote speaker:

Irene Cambra Badii (Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya)

Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aestheticism

updated: 
Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 10:27pm
Joseph Bristow / International Walter Pater Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

Marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance, this two-day conference will consider the place of Pater and The Renaissance in nineteenth-century debates on art, literature and culture, their legacies and those of aestheticism into the twenty-first century.

 

Cornell EGSO 2023 Conference: Reciprocity

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 6:07pm
Cornell University English Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Call For Academic and Creative Proposals:

Conference Date: April 28-29, 2023

Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

“Through reciprocity the gift is replenished. All of our flourishing is mutual.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

AICED-24: Humour and Pathos in Literature and the Arts

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:30pm
Dragoș Manea
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

AICED-24

 

THE 24th  ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION

 

9-11 June 2023

  

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Translation, Interpreting, and the Platform Economy

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:28pm
Hunter College Language Works Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

 

Hunter College's 3rd Annual Language Works Conference

 

Title: Translation, Interpreting, and the Platform Economy
Date: Friday, April 28th, 2023 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
695 Park Ave. HW Faculty Dining Hall.

Working through the Federal Writers’ Project: Labor, Place, Archive, and Representation

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:27pm
Maureen Curtin and Michele Fazio
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

This proposed volume of interdisciplinary essays reexamines the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) as a labor project. We are working with a publisher to feature this book, Working through the Federal Writers’ Project: Labor, Place, Archive, and Representation, as part of a potential series on the FWP,  on the burgeoning field of FWP studies, and on how FWP studies fits in the larger framework of labor studies. Labor, in this sense, is not a narrow category. It encompasses trade unions, working conditions, labor power, political economy, and the everyday reality of working lives.

Melville, Conrad, and Life

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:25pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America and the Melville Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Both Melville and Conrad appeal to the concept of life allied with their artistic activities. Moby Dick is pervaded by appeals to the appeal to life, as in the description of a whale skeleton become a chapel:  "Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories." Conrad, too describes the action of art in fruitful tension with the kinetics of life, as when in his 1897 preface, he connects art with seizing a fragment "from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life." But how exactly do these writers understand and see their relation to "life" -- vegetative, human, physical, spiritual, ethical?

Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:25pm
AMODERN
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

AMODERN 12: Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution

Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstutz
300-word proposals due: 31 March 2023
Drafts of 4000-8000 words due: 1 June 2023

Adapting Middle English Literature

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:24pm
MLA Middle English Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

 

Please send 250-word abstracts for roundtable presentations to be delivered at the 2024 MLA National Convention in Philadephia, PA (Jan 4-7, 2024) to Susie Nakley, snakley@sjny.edu and Ruen-chuan Ma, RMa@uvu.edu by March 17, 2023.

 

 

Whose South Asia?

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:24pm
Aparajita De/University of the District of Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 13, 2023

This MLA panel invites critical and ethical interrogations that underpin the urgency to look beyond the single-issue strategies of reading and creating South Asia in critical discourse. Incidentally, the scholarly trajectory of issues on South Asia has flattened the diversity of the geopolitically, culturally rich discursive space and its experiences to increasingly refer to India-centric discussions.

MPCA American, British, and Canadian Literature: 1800-1999

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:23pm
Midwestern Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

 

Friday-Sunday, 6-8 October 2023

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

 

Address: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: (312) 362-8000

 

Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging. 

 

Eco-Phenomenology and Passivity

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:21pm
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Phenomenology is a tradition of thinking that acknowledges the already-givenness of our bodies, our relationships to others, and the ecosystems in which we live. Since the founding of the field in the early twentieth century, phenomenologists have taken an interest in the ways that humans engage the world that precedes us, but it was only in the last twenty years that scholars recognized the potential phenomenology could have for environmental ethics and the ongoing multi-disciplinary rethinking of our human relationship to the more-than-human world.

Dialogue - Special Issue "Unreliable Me: Constructing and Inventing the Self"

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:21pm
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 10, 2023

Wayne C. Booth, in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), coined the term unreliable narrator to discuss the “artificial authority” that we as readers assign the narrator that is telling us a story (4). The question, however, comes when the narrator withholds information, manipulates information, or outright disguises or hides the information to fulfill a particular purpose. Perhaps the narrator wishes their reader to believe a particular idea, or they do not want the reader to know something to maintain the image they are creating through their narration. Literature has always played with the concept of narration. From Cervantes to Poe to George R.R. Martin, readers experience narrators that are confused, obscured, illusive, and more.

“William Gaddis at his Centenary” Special issue of electronic book review (

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:20pm
https://electronicbookreview.com/about-ebr/
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The year between December 29th 2022 and December 29th 2023 would have been the hundredth of William Gaddis’ life. Between 1955, when he published The Recognitions, and 1998, when he died shortly after completing Agapē Agape, Gaddis was notorious for a disproportion between reputation and readership. Being reflexively labelled “difficult,” with his own novels’ wry figurations of characters writing “for a very small audience,” and with a tendency to be categorized (though not always actually read) alongside the increasingly unfashionable “high postmodernists”… all this might have made it hard to envisage his work surviving into the 2000s.

 

 

Music and Memory in Anglophone Literature and Film

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:36am
Claire Guéron/ University of Burgundy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Please find below a call for contributions for issue 19.1 of Textes et Contextes, an online jounal published by the University of  Burgundy). The papers we are calling for will be published along with the proceedings of the two-day symposium, entitled “Music and Memory in Anglophone Literature” that was held in Dijon on September 19-20, 2019.

 

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