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Oceans, Seas and Shorelines volume of interdisciplinary essays for Routledge series

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
Vivienne Westbrook, University of Western Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Oceans, Seas and Shorelines: a natural and cultural environmental history

A volume of multi-disciplinary essays

(Under contract with Routledge)

Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 

15th November 2023

full name / name of organization: 

Mark Nicholls, St. John’s College, Cambridge

Vivienne Westbrook, University of Western Australia

contact email: 

viv.westbrook@uwa.edu.au

amn1000@cam.ac.uk

 

ACLA 2024 Seminar: Literary Criticism as Environmental Thinking?

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
Aleksandr Prigozhin (Utrecht University) and Adrienne Ghaly (UVA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

Is the 20 c. inheritance of literary criticism in its various modes of strong, ‘suspicious’, deep reading woefully inadequate for reckoning with the current and impending environmental crises, as many have claimed?

Critics declare that these crises demand entirely new concepts and ways of doing things, for example borrowing from the sciences and social sciences. But the practice of criticism, as opposed to its programmatic statements, remains remarkably consistent. This observation leads us to ask what kinds of environmental thinking established practices of criticism already perform. In other words, which concepts and methods that are not explicitly environmental are good for thinking environmentally?

Journal of International Women’s Studies Special Issue: Reproductive Justice across Disciplines and Demographics

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
Journal of International Women’s Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Reproductive Justice across Disciplines and Demographics

 

Issues of procreation are the most troubling, disconcerting, confounding, divisive--and (therefore) interesting ones confronting feminism.

                                                                                    Barbara Katz Rothman, 1997

 

Anne Lister Society: Third Meeting, April 2024 in Halifax UK

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
The Anne Lister Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE THIRD ANNE LISTER SOCIETY MEETING in Spring 2024!

Following on our inaugural meeting in April 2022 and our second in 2023, we are thrilled to announce that the Anne Lister Society will reconvene for its third conference, 5-6 April 2024, in Halifax, U.K., during the events of Anne Lister Birthday Week.

Mindfulness in the Academy: Multitasking and Attention (Roundtable -- NeMLA 2024)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:16am
Matthew Leporati / Donetta Hines / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

NeMLA 2024 Roundtable: Mindfulness in the Academy: Multitasking and Attention

This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on mindfulness' ability to assist instructors and students alike in juggling their many tasks, roles, responsibilities, and deadlines.

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: THE INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:15am
Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: THE INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC

 

March 21st – 23rd, 2024

Salem, Massachusetts

 

Conference director: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

With the kind support of the American Literature Association

 

 

Proposals for individual papers, 3- or 4-person paper sessions, and 5-person roundtable sessions are solicited for AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: the inaugural symposium of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic.

 

ACLA 2024 (Montreal) Panel: Mirror/Mirror

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:37am
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

We're accepting paper proposals for the following seminar at the ACLA annual meeting, which will be held in Montreal, March 14–17, 2024. Papers should be submitted online through the ACLA portal. Feel free to email with any questions.
 

Mirror / Mirror

Organizers: Hilary Bergen (The New School), Sandra Huber (Concordia University)

Ecological (In)hospitality in the 20th and 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:32am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Ambiguous and paradoxical, the concept of hospitality has been extensively explored in its social, political, and ethical dimensions. In his cycle of seminars on hospitality (1995-97), Jacques Derrida reconstructs hospitality’s conceptual history, highlights its complexities and contradictions, and underlines the imbrication between hospitality and hostility. Building on Derrida’s reflections, works such as Rosello’s Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest (2001), McNulty’s The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity (2006), and Baker’s Hospitality and World Politics (2013) have considered the global, transnational, and gender aspects of hospitality.

“Narrative Prosthesis” Today: A Critical Reassessment (ACLA 2024, Montreal)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:31am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

It has been nearly twenty five years since the publication of David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder’s Narrative Prosthesis. This seminar considers the status of its eponymous central concept.

Michael Bérubé has stressed the significance of “narrative prosthesis,” describing it, in The Secret Life of Stories, as “the single most influential account of narrative in disability studies” (41). This concept has become so important that, according to Bérubé, “any subsequent account of disability and narrative cannot fail to address” it (41).

International Conference on Cross-Religious Exchanges in Eastern Indian Cultural and Literary Traditions

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:31am
School of Language & Literature, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology-Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

KIIT School of Language & Literature (KSLL) invites papers for the international conference on the topic of “Cross-Religious Exchanges in Eastern Indian Cultural and Literary Traditions” to be held on February 15-17, 2024 in the hybrid mode at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology-Deemed to be University. The conference aims to explore the interactions among religion, philosophy, and literary and cultural texts from the Eastern and North Eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.

'Most rare!': Teaching Surplus Shakespeare

updated: 
Friday, September 15, 2023 - 1:31pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

As early as middle school, students learn to accept if not revere certain plays among Shakespeare’s works as canonical. Some are so ubiquitously recognizable that people know the plot through pop culture or other means without ever having read the work itself. However, there are a number of plays that are rarely recognized at all, let alone produced, read, or studied. Many history plays, for example, bridge a gap between iconic, climactic battles at Agincourt or Bosworth Field. Coriolanus is recognizably Roman, but Julius Caesar is the perennial favorite. Romeo and Juliet is a popular cultural touchstone, but who knows even the outlines of Cymbeline or Pericles?

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance

updated: 
Friday, September 15, 2023 - 10:18am
46th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 8, 2023

46th Annual Comparative Drama Conference 

Conference Dates: April 4 - 6, 2024

Location: Orlando, Florida 

Deadline for Abstract Submission: October 1, 2023

 

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance 

Papers are sought for a special panel series on the subject of disability studies in dramatic texts and performance. We invite research on representation, imagery, symbolism, societal regulation, social impact, or the construction of disability as it pertains to casting and depictions of those with disabilities in playtexts and dramatic performance. 

Ann Leckie and Speculative Fiction Revolution

updated: 
Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:57am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Multiple award-winning author Ann Leckie is extremely well-regarded in speculative fiction, but relatively understudied in academia. With a new book out in June 2023 that expands the world of the Imperial Radch trilogy, it is an exciting time to be an Ann Leckie scholar. This session invites essays that address her work broadly.

The Speculative Fiction Novella (conference panel)

updated: 
Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:56am
NeMLA Conference, 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In the past decade, the novella has re-emerged as one of the dominant forms of contemporary speculative fiction, with both stand-alone debuts and long-running series taking part in the form. This session invites papers that examine the novella form in speculative fiction in a number of ways.

Deadline approaching--Teacher Development Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 10:15pm
Symposium Organizing Committee / Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Deadline approaching--Teacher Development Symposium

Assisting the Professional Development of Teachers

The 2024 Teacher Development Symposium will be held online on Saturday 20th January from 1:00 to 6:00 pm JST.

The symposium is a chance for teachers, trainee teachers and researchers involved in language education to share their research, ideas, activities and opinions related to the profession.  The symposium is also an excellent opportunity to meet fellow teachers, researchers and trainee teachers from the central Japan region and beyond. 

 

Modelling Change: ALCA 2023

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:44pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

“Things change,” no doubt, and for many decades now changes in literature and the visual arts have often been conceptualized in two interconnected ways. First, artifactual change is taken as a sign of or proxy for deeper, systemic modifications (from old-fashioned “periods” to master changes like “rationalism,” “capitalism,” and “modernity”). To “historicize,” as Frederic Jameson enjoined us to do, means to imagine artifacts as registering the complex conditions that made them possible in the first place. Second, this brand of change is thought through the trope of rupture, since the various systems that relay one another — call them paradigms, epistemes, horizons or regimes — are held to be incommensurable, despite possible surface similarities.

CFP: Global Perspectives on Surveillance (Jump Cut)

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
Jump Cut
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Global Perspectives on Surveillance

Call for Papers

 

Special Section of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (editor-in-chief Julia Lesage)

Section Editor: Gary Kafer (University of Chicago)

 

Description

This special section of Jump Cut seeks original research and review essays that examine the global circuits of surveillance that increasingly mark contemporary social and political life.

 

“Global Plant Humanities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Botanical Life”

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, John C. Ryan, & Goutam Majhi
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

                                                                A One-Day International Conference

                                                                               on

                                   “Global Plant Humanities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Botanical Life”

                                                                            organised by

The Department of English, Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya in collaboration with the School of Arts & Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia

Date of Conference: 12-12-2023                                                                 Mode: Hybrid

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field (TPS Collective): Fall 2023

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
Notes from the Field [TPS Collective]
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field: Fall 2023 

Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is accepting submissions about teaching and working with primary sources for three series of peer-reviewed blog posts: “Student Perspectives,” “Accessibility in Primary Source Instruction,” and “Primary Sources for K–12 Audiences.” These series are intended to highlight a broad range of voices from all sectors of the TPS community. Please see the calls below for more information.

Series One: Student Perspectives

“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
International Lawrence Durrell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence

 

Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society

 

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900

 

 

The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on artificial intelligence in the modernist era. Potential subjects include:

 

Queer & Trans Philologies

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

QUEER & TRANS PHILOLOGIES, 22–23 MARCH 2024 (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE / HYBRID)

 

Hurricane Katrina at 20: Rethinking the Literary and Cultural Legacies of the Storm

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
Courtney George/Columbus State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Mississippi Quarterly

“Hurricane Katrina at 20: Rethinking the Literary and Cultural Legacies of the Storm” 

 Guest Editors, Courtney George and Judith Livingston (Columbus State University)

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast with catastrophic results for the surrounding communities, which are still recovering today. Almost immediately, journalists, artists, and scholars began producing significant work about Katrina—work that has continued, especially as we begin to view the disaster and its circumstances in the context of our current social justice and climate-related struggles.

NeMLA 2024 CfP: Archives in Transit: From Personal Life Histories to Public Experiences as Academics

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Archives in Transit: From Personal Life Histories to Public Experiences as Academics

 

Northeast Modern Language Association

 

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2023, at: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20713

 

Abstract

While life in the academy often precludes acknowledging one’s own personal and familial life histories and experiences, generative and embodied scholarship in the humanities requires a thorough reckoning with our positionality and intersectionality. In this creative session, participants traverse from the personal to the professional by paying homage to the roots that lead to routes.

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