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Call for Papers
Litinfinite Journal
December 2023
(Vol 5 Issue II)
On
Literature and Cultural Studies
E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR
All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com
Final papers of 4500-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 5th December 2023.
Dr. Nick Walker (2021) activates “neuroqueering” in her book Neuroqueer Heresies as “intentional noncompliance with the demands of normative performance” (p. 3). Inherently, the verb of neuroqueer resists the classification of neurotypical and heteronormative classification within our binary and colonized society. Queer, decolonization and story as verbs demand active participation in declassifying Euro-American definitions of what is normal and expected of us, our fields and our participation and compliance with(in) them. Hence, it is urgent that we not only discuss, but make intentional action of declassifying the borders and boundaries between identity, nation and embodiment.
The field of David Foster Wallace studies is now approaching two decades of scholarly and academic development. Stephen J. Burn’s guide to Infinite Jest appeared in 2003 and the first conference dedicated to Wallace Studies was organized by David Hering in Liverpool in 2009. In the ensuing years, hundreds of devoted scholars and readers have enriched and benefited from the field of work. Our annual conference is the showcase of this work—and the valuable opportunity to meet others in the field. For the 2024 conference in Austin, home of the Harry Ransom Center and Wallace’s archive, we invite papers commenting on any aspect of Wallace’s work, thought, influence, or context.
I am currently putting together the 2024 programme (January – June) of online talks for Romancing the Gothic: an online programme of talks on subjects related to horror, folklore, the supernatural, and more. We welcome talks from all disciplines and are particularly interested in showcasing the work of international scholars from around the world.
We hold talks every week at the weekend and run each talk twice (time zones permitting!) to make sure as many people from as many time-zones as possible can join us. You can find examples of previous talks here - https://romancingthegothic.com/class-schedules/
Announcing
The 2024 First Book Institute
June 2-8, 2024
Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University
Co-Directors
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature
Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book
The Lonely Londoners (1956); Things Fall Apart (1958); Wide Sargasso Sea (1967); Midnight’s Children (1981); A Small Place (1988); The God of Small Things (1997); Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)...
Chiasma
A Site for Thought
CALL FOR PAPERS
Volume 9: Philosophy / Fascism / State
Theme and Scope:
The English Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Sousse (TUNISIA)
The Research Laboratory Ecole et Littératures “The School and Literatures Laboratory”
Laboratory of Approaches to Discourse (LAD)
organise an international conference on
Pain and PleasureDate: April 25- 26, 2024Conference Venue: Conference Room
Consent-Based Theatre Pedagogy: Anti-Oppressive Practices for Youth Performance
Consent-based performance practices have been widely discussed in recent years–specifically those practices related to the staging of intimacy in live performance and in film. While scholarship dedicated to the practices, theories, and politics of consent in theatrical and cinematic labor continues to accumulate, the use of consent-based practices in theatrical settings to impact the artistic and social-emotional learning of youth remains largely underexplored.
Call for Papers: UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference, 1 March 2024
Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique
Keynote Speaker: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes
Reproductive justice was developed as an international human-rights framework by activists and scholars in the 1990s and has become a cornerstone of intersectional feminist theory and practice within social sciences. Yet, it is only recently that researchers in arts and humanities have begun to tap the rich interdisciplinary potential this framework offers for bringing together reproductive rights, social justice, and cultural representation. In a contemporary moment shaken by ecological and economic crises, rises in far-right nationalisms across the globe, and the rolling back of hard-fought sexual rights in the USA, attention to questions of reproductive justice across the disciplinary spectrum is more urgent than ever.
Themed Issue on Indigenous Performance Ecologies and Ecological Power in the Global South
Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Volume 16 Number 1, 2024
Editor: Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah
University of Warwick, UK
Please do consider joining an especially collegial group of scholars next spring in Atlanta: we would love to have you with us.
The College English Association’s 53rd national conference, from March 21-23, will focus on the theme of transformations. CEA invites proposals from academics specializing in Medieval and Early Modern literature or cultural studies. We especially welcome presentations that focus on the theme of transformations in texts, disciplines, culture, media, education, and pedagogy. But in addition to our conference theme, we happily accept proposals on other topics of interest.
Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s 16th Annual Hybrid Conference
‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’
15-17th July, 2024
Canterbury Christ Church University
Hosted in person and online with Zoom
Call for Papers
If ‘space’ is understood as an area that can be objectively measured or at least conceptualised, the construction of ‘place’ depends on a range of affective and cultural meanings at any given moment.
Discontinuous Compositions: Reading Fragments
Date: April 5 and 6
Format: In person
Submission and contact:ctl-conference@jhu.edu
Submission deadline: January 29th
Location: Johns Hopkins University
CFP: The Global South (Journal): “Toxic Ecologies of the Global South”—Deadline December 31st, 2023
Shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (less developed countries)? … I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that… I’ve always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. (Lawrence Summers, chief economic advisor to the IMF, 1991).
Call for Papers: ‘Drama Therapy and the Climate Crisis’
Drama Therapy Review Special Issue 11.1
Submission deadline: 1 August 2024
Editors: Nisha Sajnani, Alida Gersie and Jessica Bleuer
View the full CFP here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/drama-therapy-review#call-for-papers
The 4th POM ConferenceRWTH Aachen University
KäteHamburger Kolleg:
Cinephile 18.1 – (Un)recovering Lost Futures
The late cultural theorist Mark Fisher asks, “how long can a culture persist without the new?” For Fisher, the postmodern future under capitalist realism, “harbours only reiteration and re-permutation” (6-7). In capitalism’s inability to look beyond itself, media culture has become excessively nostalgic and “incapable of generating any authentic novelty” (63). Accordingly, one can observe a certain malaise surrounding media’s inability to imagine new and alternative futures.
CFP for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: ‘Signs and Scripts’
The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 conference is: ‘Signs and Scripts.’
The conference will be held in person on the 8th and 9th of April, 2024. We are delighted to announce this call for papers and invite proposals relating to all aspects of the broad topic ‘signs and scripts’ in the medieval world. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary perspectives, whether historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, interdisciplinary, or anything else. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.
Panel: A William Dean Howells Retrospective
Conference: 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
Call for Creative Submission | Writing with the Bots | AI Literature Submission
Using neural networks, the AI literature tools produce human-like pieces of literature that are, in most cases, marked by twisted imitations of the masterpieces both in language and content. The ‘Artificial’ is repetitive and selected from the vast body of literature available on the web or from the classics, a particular language model is fed with. With this caveat, we venture into experimenting with writing with the Bots.
Rupkatha Journal is inviting submissions of AI literature following the instructions below:
Salman Rushdie and the Historical Novel
online conference panel (ESSE seminar)
The Mythic Circle is the creative writing journal of The Mythopoeic Society, an international association of scholars and fans of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, the Inklings, and fantasy literature with a mythic bent. The journal has been in continuous publication since 1987; it comes out annually in time for the summer conference of the Mythopoeic Society.
In 1938, a group of British expatriates led by Albert Stephen Gispert, known as G or "our father G," founded the Hash House Harriers (H3) in Kuala Lumpur. Other than during WW II, the group has been in continuous existence for almost eighty years; the original Kuala Lumpur group, Mother Hash, still exists. The hash house harriers, "a drinking club with a running problem," is a unique blend of athleticism, sociability, and hedonism. Hashing has a rich and diverse history spanning the globe, and this anthology seeks to capture its impact on global culture.
New Modalities of Irishness: Performance, Race and Inequality
The Modalities of Irishness project co-hosted by University College Dublin’s Clinton Institute and Boston University’s College of Fine Arts is now accepting submissions for its second event, following the successful first symposium in Boston in June 2023. The next symposium in the series will take place at the Clinton Institute on Friday 19th April 2024.
GLOBAL ANTHROPO-SCENE:
RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL PRESERVATIONS
30-31 January 2024
A Two-Day International Conference
Department of English
Jadavpur University
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton—Chicago
The SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC will organize two sessions at the 35th Annual Conference of the ALA.
CFP One: Gothic in Horror, Horror in Gothic
Al-Kīmiyā - Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation (FdLT)
Call for Papers for Issue Number 24
The issue 24 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of Saint Joseph University of Beirut will receive, under the sign of diversity, articles covering various fields of research in translation and in language. Proposals can deal with issues that currently concern research in translation studies and language sciences. The choice of themes is left to researchers who will thus reflect in their articles the diversity of approaches and perspectives paving the way to dismantle the barriers among the disciplines.
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of Studies of Biblical Interest (SBI) is now inviting submissions. SBI strives to foster an environment of open and pluralistic inquiry through articles related to comparative biblical studies, textual criticism, etymological research, archaeology, anthropology, religion and science, the study of religious and cultural texts worldwide, alternative readings, discussions, critiques, and reviews. We also reserve space in each issue for items that would not traditionally be published in an academic journal, including art, literary fiction, music, opinion pieces, photography, and poetry.