Remapping the Boundaries of Identity

An Interdisciplinary PGR & ECR Research Conference at the University of Plymouth

Saturday 10th July

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS IN CLASS STUDIES

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference 2021

We are excited to announce the addition of a new panel on class studies for this year’s conference.

CALL for PRESENTERS!

2021 International eConference on Religious Trauma

DATES: May 29–30, 2021

About this Virtual Conference

The Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR) is hosting the 2021 International eConference on Religious Trauma, which will bring together specialists, psychiatrists, and researchers from all over the world to discuss the causes of religious trauma, as well as its manifestations and treatment options for those afflicted with the sometimes adverse effects associated with religion.

A Pedagogy of Letters: LASA Lecture Seriesin collaboration with
The Faculty of Education

Dear Colleagues,I am writing to announce a Call for Papers in conjunction with this year’s PAMLA Conference. I am honored to serve as Presiding Officer and Chair of the Literature and Religion Panel for our Fall Conference which is set to take place in Las Vegas November 11-14, 2021, with remote presentation options available for attendees and presenters. PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) is a unique community of scholars and it is always a pleasure to participate in a Conference that celebrates a diversity of ideas for the enrichment of interdisciplinary studies rooted in literature.  This panel welcomes papers on a wide variety of religious and spiritual topics in connection to lit

44th Comparative Drama Conference Call for PapersOctober 14-16, 2021Orlando, Florida

2021 Keynote Event   An Evening with Anne WashburnOctober 15, 2021     8 p.m. (followed by a reception)                              Abstract Submission Deadline:  3 April 2021

The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
invites artists, graduate students, and community members to submit papers for the 28th annual St. Clair
Drake Research Symposium, to be held Saturday, May 1, 2021. T

The symposium will take place from 9AM to 5PM with breaks in between each session.

This virtual (online) panel invites submissions which discuss intersectionality in literature, media, or culture pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer representations. You may, should you wish, engage in the conference theme of "City of God, City of Destruction,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer literature or culture is welcome.

This panel will meet entirely online, though other parts of the conference are scheudled to take place in person and or streamed in Las Vegas, NV, USA in October 2021. Please email the presding officer, Natalie Bartels (nbartels@uw.edu), if you have any questions! 

Submit your abstract here:

The editors of a forthcoming collection on literature and television titled Broadcasting Beyond Adaptation: Revisiting the Television and Literature Debate invite abstract proposals for potential chapters on intersections of Māori/te reo television and literature. Aimed at Palgrave’s Adaptation Series, this essay collection argues for the re-examination of scholarly discourses surrounding televisual and literary histories of cultural legitimation.

We are working on an edited volume on the works of Zadie Smith. This is an international project that proposes to chart the complexities of Smith’s works to date. Papers have already been submitted on White Teeth, on the short stories, and on NW, by several colleagues from Turkey, the US, Germany, and Britain. Further papers are welcome on The Autograph Man, On Beauty and Swing Time, or any of Smith’s other works. 

 Alto Quayson argues that “in works where disability plays a dominant role, the reader’s perspective is [ . .

City dwellers have a unique opportunity to see and engage in group political activities that those in more rural areas do not. Their everyday lives can be impacted by political demonstrations whether they are actively participating or not. The perspectives that we usually get are from the government, press, or political leaders. These accounts miss how people actually experience and understand the protests they see and/or participate in. As such, examining the life writing of those who participated or observed city protests can be intriguing and add a personal element to group politics. This panel will focus on the experiences of those who planned, participated, and/or observed protests in various cities. Ideas to be examined include personal vs.

What forms does care take? What does taking care of oneself, another, or each other look and feel like? These are questions that have arisen and persisted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, as everyday intimacies have given way to the need for social distancing, mutual aid groups have organised to try to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in their communities, and NHS hospitals and services have been overwhelmed and altered drastically. Yet these questions also have a rich and interdisciplinary history in the critical medical humanities, disability studies, the environmental humanities, literary studies, affect theory, moral philosophy, feminist theory, and beyond.

Children’s literature in English has long been a tool for literacy instruction and acculturation to English language, used both as a tool for learning and as a force for homogenization within histories of Anglophone colonialism and imperialism. As scholars and professors dedicated to exploring the ways in which texts for young people make meaning, we know that language functions as both a tool of empowerment and one of imprisonment. Amiri Baraka writes that “users”—or dominant cultures—“have words. And it is the users that establish the world’s realities.” Language, then, inevitably divides as it shapes such realities by sorting people into groups of “users” and non-users.