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Response and Responsibility: Reframing Women’s Literature in the Age of Precarity
MMLA 2023
“Precarity is a politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support.” (Butler, “Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity,” 25)
XXVII AISNA Biennial Conference
University of Perugia
Call for proposals – panel #20 on “Affective and Relational Responses to Vulnerability in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Narratives”
Coordinators: Virginia Pignagnoli and Laura Roldan-Sevillano
Proposal deadline: 7 May 2023
This interdisciplinary volume seeks to bring multiple fields together in order to investigate diaspora, food, and memory.
This volume takes a multi-field approach to answer the following three questions:
How do diasporic communities use food to navigate a relationship with their homeland?
In what ways do diasporic foodways sustain and/or rupture cultural legacies?
What are the relationships between food and cultural memory?
Proposal Notes
Call for Submissions
Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for its Spring 2024 (Vol. 14) publication. Sankofa welcomes articles that relate to one of the following areas:
(1) “The African Scene,” which provides critical, scholarly articles about African children’s book authors and illustrators, trends and development in book production for children in Africa, or an examination of a specific genre or theme within African children’s, adolescent, or young adult literature (4,000-8,000 words).
We are currently accepting submissions for the Renaissance Literature Excluding Drama panel taking place at the 2023 South Central Modern Language Association annual conference. The conference will be held in Corpus Christi, TX, on October 12-14. We welcome papers on any and all non-dramatic literary Renaissance works, including works from the English Renaissance/Early Modern period. From Machiavelli to Milton and Cervantes to Stanley, all works of poetry and prose are open for consideration. Neither the conference nor the panel have a theme, so we welcome papers with a wide range of topics. The deadline to submit abstracts is July 10, 2023. Please email your 250-word abstracts to chair Nicholas A. Brush.
Call for papers for an international in-person conference on speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy fiction to be held in Milan, Italy, October 18-20, 2023. The conference is organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan, in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group.
Fields of interest: literature, cinema, TV series, comics, games/videogames, new media, cultural studies.
The Journal of Cyberspace Studies (JCSS) is an international peer-reviewed free platinum open access journal that the University of Tehran Press biannually publishes on behalf of the “Cyberspace Policy Research Center” and the “UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture” with links to UNESCO’s IFAP thematic priorities.
The journal aims to contribute to the reinvigoration of the interdisciplinary intersections of cyberspace studies, and to provide a leading scholarly platform for publishing contributions to the field.
Celebrating the 12th Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week (24 – 31 Oct 2023), the Editors welcome submissions of scholarly articles on all MIL-related topics, particularly the following:
The UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture and University of Tehran are organizing the 2023 Media and Information Literacy Seminar with the main theme of “A Collective Global Agenda” on Wednesday, 25 October 2023, which coincides with the World Development Information Day and United Nations Day.
The Sixth Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Seminar commemorates the 12th Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023 (24 – 31 Oct) that highlights the 13th Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Conference and the seventh Youth Agenda Forum.
Abstract:
Henri Bergson was a French philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1927. Bergson’s lectures were popular with not only academia, but public audiences as well. Bergson influenced the literary work of authors like Borges, Proust, and Woolf as well as the philosophical work of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Deleuze. In addition, Bergson, a talented mathematician, debated Einstein on the nature of relativity. Bergson’s work has had instrumental influence in the virtual reality gaming industry. Considering Bergson’s influence in art and science, this panel offers unbounded opportunities to explore and unpack his narratives as they relate to any number of themes related to shifting perspectives.
Historically in the United States of America, immigrants of Asian origin have been the subject of extremely violent legal measures—one need only recall the 1882 “Chinese Exclusion Act” or the other major laws against the naturalization of Asians voted in 1924 and 1934.
New Orleans is known as one of the most haunted cities in the U.S. and as a haven for vampires (thank you, Anne Rice), but there are so many more monsters there than ghosts and vampires. With such a rich tradition of magic and the paranormal, New Orleans dazzles artists and scholars alike, inviting us all into the mysteries. To celebrate the dark depths of the city, PCAS welcomes papers or presentations that explore the monsters and the monstrous that roam the streets and psyches of New Orleans.
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD November 9-11, 2023 in Philadelphia, PA, USA
Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:
- travel and gender/race/class
- travel and religion
- travel and war
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
***VIRTURAL Travel and Tourism! How has lockdown affected travel around the globe?***
America and Deep Time: Alternate Geographies, Temporalities, and Histories
25-27 October 2023
Culture, Theory and Critique invites proposals for guest edited issues.
We are pleased to invite you to submit papers for the third issue of Living in Languages Journal, an online open-source, peer-reviewed graduate journal devoted to translation studies at the University at Albany. We are inviting papers on topics ranging from translational identities to the sounds of the foreign, from Technik/technology to translational memory, from translating trauma to reflections on translation as a process, in sum, from and to Babel and its literary and political cascades.
Submission guidelines:
The Department of English, Rhetoric & Writing, and Media Communication and the Department of History, Social Sciences & Philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
The Works and Influence of Charles Portis: A Symposium
November 2-5, 2023
A Call for Papers on the Works and Influence of author, veteran, journalist, bureau chief, and Arkansawyer, Charles Portis for a Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas Fort Smith. In celebration of the May 2023 publication of the Library of America series, The Collected Works of Charles Portis, edited by Jay Jennings, this symposium explores the writing and cultural influence of Portis.
Serial Repetitions: Retheorizing Fantasy in TV and Other Media
Special Issue -- Science Fiction Film and Television
Guest editors: Michelle Anya Anjirbag (maa93@cantab.ac.uk) and Timothy S. Miller
Abstracts of 500 words due by July 1, with indicative bibliography
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by July 15, with complete drafts of 6000 words due by
November 1
We invite essay submissions for an upcoming special issue of the journal Science Fiction Film
Brontë Studies is delighted to announce the launch of an Essay Prize established in honour of Margaret Smith. The Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognize and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars.
Cyberwit is now accepting articles for the book "Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A Critical Study" Cyberwit is planning to publish a book on Mark Twain work, his imperishable contribution to World Literature. This book of criticism on Mark Twain will include several essays and reviews about his work. MAXIMUM 15000 WORDS per author If you want to be a part of this project you may please write and send us a critical article revealing emotional depth in Mark Twain's writings. If you need Mark's book, please email me, I will send you book in PDF file. A reply will oblige. Email: info@cyberwit.net
Since people with certain deformities have been part and parcel of mankind then why they should be ignored, oppressed, and marginalized. They have even outshined in every field including literature, science, music, dance, sports, and politics. Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, George Washington, Hellen Keller, Franklin D Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Ludwig Van Beethovan, Walt Disney, Sudha Chandran, Ravindra Jain, Arunima Sinha are a few names who never allowed their physical weakness to take over their spirit. They successfully created their own history.
Ruptures, Resistance, Reclamation: Global Feminisms in a Digital Age
Co-Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Jennifer Jill Fellows, Lisa Smith
Scheduled for Publication in August 2024
The PAMLA 2023 Conference will be held in person at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon between October 26-29, 2023. For more information, visit https://www.pamla.org/pamla2023/
Canadian Literature and Culture
CFP: Speculative Mapping
SAMLA 95 (Home (memberclicks.net) will meet in Atlanta, GA from 11/9 - 11/11/2023. The ESO (Emerging Scholars' Organization) is guaranteed a panel. The CFP is below:
Call for Book Chapters: “The Senses and Memory”
Vernon Press invites book chapters for an edited volume on the subject of “The Senses and Memory.”
In the field of sensory studies, the role of memory in sensory perceptions has always been a central preoccupation. From smell’s “Proust effect” to music’s ability to improve memory and mood, the senses are processed in the brain in particular ways that highlight the strong link between remembering and sensing the world. Likewise, the senses work in tandem, through synesthesia, to evoke feelings and sensations of a past event. The body plays a central role in navigating the world, and the senses provide routes to past, at times forgotten, memories.
The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 80th Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on September 29th and 30th, 2023. This year’s conference will focus on “The Dynamics of Fiction” in art, history, and literature.” We will launch our annual meeting with a plenary talk delivered by Robert E. Stillman, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Decolonization and Development for Africa and People of African DescentUniversity of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)November 2-4, 2023
Conveners:
CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENDED to MAY 22, 2023)
Resonance 2023
Centre of Excellence – Literature Studies
and
School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Woxsen University
presents
International Conference
on
“Conflict Studies and South Asian Literature”
Date: 9th and 10th August 2023
MODE - VIRTUAL
CONCEPT NOTE
Revisiting the Early Modern Green Spaces
2023 UAAC-AAUC Conference Panel session [https://uaac-aauc.com/cfp2023/]
Location: BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY, Banff, AB, Canada
Date: October 19-21 octobre, 2023
Panel moderator: Iraboty Kazi, Western University, ikazi3@uwo.ca
The World Conference on Gender and Women's Studies is the ultimate platform for those who want to gain unique perspectives on a variety of themes in the field of gender and women’s studies. #GWSCONF2023 will take place in the lively city of London, on the 10th to 12th of November.
GWSCONF is an excellent opportunity to make new connections, share your knowledge, and help shape the global discourse. Attendees will get a chance to learn in an interactive, immersive environment, share their own experiences and knowledge, and network with a global group of peers.
Whether you join as a speaker or an attendee, Gender and Women’s Conference 2023 is packed full with learning and networking opportunities.