Heavy Childhoods Conference 2025
Heavy Childhoods 2025
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Scholars across disciplines have long contended with the generative potentials and the deficiencies of affect and emotions like sorrow, melancholy, compassion, grief, sympathy, and happiness. Judith Butler has shown how feelings of loss and acts of mourning are political acts of subjectivity, of rendering a life grievable or forgotten. Sara Ahmed speaks about the promise of happiness that obscures unhappy hierarchies in the world around us, and calls for a killjoy politics. Lauren Berlant tells us that optimism is not just an emotion, but a cruel relation we have with our socio-economic forces.
Call for Papers: Journal of Gulf Studies
Special Issue: ‘Investigating the Developing Relation between the Gulf States and North Africa’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gulf-studies#call-for-papers
“Intimacy and the Right to Privacy in the English-Speaking World”
October 10 & 11, 2024
International conference
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
“If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion.” Justice William Brennan
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
“Crossing Genres, Crossing Borders”:
Literature and Literary Criticism at the Junctions
A Gathering of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association
15 May – 18 May 2024
Inn at the Forks
Nestawaya (also known as The Forks), Wînipêk (Winnipeg), Manitowapow (Manitoba), Kanata (Canada) – located on Treaty One and the homeland of the Red River Métis
Call for contributions to an edited book on 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea
March 1, 2024: please send brief proposals (2-3 paragraphs) to uc1@nyu.edu and yathanassakis@ucsb.eduby 1st of March, 2024.
July 1, 2024: first full drafts of the accepted proposals requested by 1st of July, 2024.
Call for Papers - 2024 International Conference on Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation
Time: November 1-2, 2024
Venue: Fu Jen Catholic University
Dear ALL,
We are pleased to announce that the College of Foreign Languages at Fu Jen Catholic University is organizing an international conference on November 1-2, 2024, at the College of Foreign Languages. The conference theme is "Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation."
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 17 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S
WOMEN
Editors
Dr Aimée Gasston and Dr Gerri Kimber
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2024, open to all, on the subject of
Katherine Mansfield’s Women
The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 17 (2025),the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.
The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
Emeritus professor Clare Hanson
University of Southampton, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
The Victorians Institute Journal is still accepting submissions for Volume 51 through February 1st—act fast! We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.
For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.
Atmospheres of Violence
CALL FOR PAPERS: ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE
Venti Journal - Volume 3, No.1 - Summer 2024 | Deadline: March 1, 2024
Recognition of an atmosphere’s inherent relational capacity is coupled with the desire to control and operationalize; to parse, divide and conquer. Even as the illusory fog of war is superseded by blatant acts of genocide and terrorism, we fail to sense how these engineered atmospheres of violence have long preceded their overwhelming, hyper-visible assemblages.
Call for Chapter Proposals
Playing with Magic: Understanding Disney Games
Edited by Priscilla Hobbs and Jennessa Hester
Studio Ghibli has been Japan’s most internationally renowned animation studio for nearly 40 years. Home to the animated feature films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli has developed a brand of animation that is instantly recognisable for its hand-drawn attention to the natural world, empowered young female protagonists and soaring depictions of flight. Often read as a creator of popular hit films at home in Japan, but as artistically oriented animation abroad, Studio Ghibli’s films demonstrate the fluidity of Japanese animation’s meanings as its travels the world. Making 24 animated feature films to date, Studio Ghibli has enjoyed international acclaim as a pioneering studio for animation.
Paper proposals of 100-200 words are due by 15 May 2024 to Marshall Bruce Gentry at bruce.gentry@gcsu.edu for "Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back," an academic conference to be held 12-15 Sept. 2024 at Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA, as part of the worldwide "Flannery at 100" celebrations of O'Connor's centennial.
Papers may use any approach to studying O'Connor and her works. Along with your paper proposal, please send a short bio and identify your academic affiliation.
Keynoters for the conference are Mark Jarman, Mab Segrest, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Karen M. Gravel. Andalusia's new Interpretive Center will be open for visits throughout the conference.
THEME: SUSTAINABILITY OF INFORMATION GENERATION, DISSEMINATION, CONSUMPTION, AND PRESERVATION IN THE AGE OF DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS
Hilary Ng’weno Centre for East Africa Media Research
Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
invites well researched unpublished articles (with an abstract of
maximum 250 words and 5 keywords), book reviews, and interviews
for Volume 4 Issue 1, June 2024 (Open Issue: 4.1)
Submission Deadline: 31 March, 2024
Sub themes (not restricted)
We Are All Connected:Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity
The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association
Hosted by The Justice House Program at Niagara University
OCTOBER 24-27, 2024 | Niagara, New York, USA
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 01, 2024
Early Bird Registration: May 1 – July 15, 2024
Draft Schedule Released: June 3, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson will offer scholars and university students at the graduate and undergraduate levels a comprehensive overview of the exciting critical conversations currently shedding new light on Jackson’s novels, short stories, and memoirs, and the literary and moving-image works they have inspired. From architecture to alterity, horror to humour, and pessimism to pedagogy, the forty-five essays in The Oxford Handbook to Shirley Jackson will form a comprehensive guide to Jackson’s role in literary history while highlighting her continued relevance—and, often, prescience—regarding timely considerations of issues concerning gender, sexuality, race, class, mental illness, and apocalyptic anxieties.
Literatures and Laws
A one-day symposium hosted online by Bournemouth University, UK
Department of Humanities and Law, and the Narrative, Cultures, and Community Research Centre
13th April 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
Palgrave Handbook of Disability in Comics and Graphic Narratives
We invite abstracts for articles to be published in a collection showcasing scholarly research related to disability in comics and graphic narratives. This edited volume will highlight insights from both disability studies as well as comics studies.
Centering a disability justice ethos, we especially welcome: submissions by disabled authors/creators; collaborative submissions; work that engages with disability life writing and/or disclosure; work that addresses accommodations and accessibility as they relate to comics pedagogy, form, and/or readership.
Faculty of Foreign Languages would like to remind you that the 13th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 24 and 25 May 2024. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY, ESPECIALLY WITH PROMISING GRADUATE STUDENTS & YOUNGER SCHOLARS DOING WORK IN ETHNIC AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES: Journal of Ethnic American Literature, a refereed scholarly annual dedicated to new research and criticism in American literature and culture, seeks scholarly articles (5000 to 7000 words saved in Word) that use the MLA Style. JEAL also plans to develop a "Poetic Notes" section. An interested contributor can select a good but less discussed poem by an American poet and submit an explication of up to 1000 to 1500 words. Submissions can be emailed to journaljeal@yahoo.com, and the subject line should contain JEAL, Sub, your name, and the date. The deadline is August 1.
The Milton Society of America invites proposals considering visibility, broadly conceived, in Milton’s writings. Potential topics include disability, visual art, race, labor. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.
The Milton Society of America invites proposals offering new considerations—theoretical, historical, philosophical, or literary—of love in Milton’s writings. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.
The Milton Society of America invites proposals considering any aspect of Milton's writings and historical significance. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.
COUNSELLORS AND COUNSELLED
The Advice to Princes Tradition between the Hundred Years’ War and the British Interregnum
University of Padua, Italy, 12-13 September 2024
This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.
Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2024
14th Annual Conference
3 – 5th July 2024, University of Liverpool, Offline and Online, https://crsfhome.home.blog/
“I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.”(Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower)
The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, to be held by 9-11 May, 2024 in Manisa, Turkiye, as did its predecessors, aims to bring together academics of language studies in sharing their scholarly work. Any academic event of this kind promises to provide a space for academic and interdisciplinary discussions revolving around the philosophy of language and literature. The submitted papers should be about but not limited to:
Linguistics
International conference
“Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature”