Moveable Type is the journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Movement'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme. Submissions are welcome from across the arts & humanities and beyond. All submissions should be sent to editors.moveabletype@gmail.com by midnight on 15 May 2023. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss your choice of topic prior to submission. See below for submission guidelines.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

From the 1200s to 1600s, Stoicism was the antique philosophy that spread most rapidly in Europe. Reborn of secular tradition in cities where culture and politics were linked, classical literature, particularly that of Seneca, served as socio-political model. According to Ronald Witt, Padua’s literary legacy for example was an “eloquence without a conscience,” relying more upon Senecan Stoicism than Christian canon. The tragedies of Seneca would impact Renaissance drama, from Mussato’s Ecernis to both France and England. Oft-copied works of Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Plutarch, and Diogenes Laertius, among others, drove Stoicismas the principal of moral thought — from Machiavelli to Erasmus to Montaigne and Muret to Lipsius.

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries welcomes articles exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries (broadly conceived). In addition to traditional scholarly papers (roughly 4000-7000 words), we welcome essays on fresh pedagogical approaches to the works of Defoe and other writers of his era.

We also encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental non-peer reviewed essays.

Scholarly essays may be eligible for essay prizes awarded by the Defoe Society.

https://www.defoesociety.org/awards/

International Conference

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Sustainable Environments and Interspecies Ecologies: Literature, Creativity, Theory and Praxis

29-30 September 2023

Organized by

Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha, India

Many notable scholars have probed the motif of ruins in ancient and medieval texts: Alain Schnapp, Alan Lupack, Geoffrey Ashe, and Richard Barber read the poetics of ruins in Latin poetry, the Exeter Book, and Arthuriana. Scholars working outside of the Classical Age and Middle Ages have also examined how this topos persists in literary periods up through the Renaissance, Romanticism, and to today. In short, the structural and symbolic purposes of ruins in literary texts have a long history, and the literary-critical history of engaging these poetics influences our interests in essays grounded in reading relationships between literary history and relics and ruins in Tolkien’s legendarium.

Please consider submitting your proposal to the PAMLA 2023 panel “A Leap Over: Formation and Dissolution of Urban Boundaries”.

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective [https://migratingminds.georgetown.edu].

It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

Website: https://themuse.webs.com/newsandevents.htm

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : 'CONTEMPORARY POETRY' (VOLUME 6)

1 Authors may submit up to five (5) poems.

2. ANTHOLOGY seeks honest, thoughtful, well-written poetry.

3. Poems must be submitted in the body of email.

4. While submitting your poems write subject line of email as
“CONTEMPORARY POETRY VOLUME 6 SUBMISSION”

5. Send your submission to contemporarypoetryanthology@gmail.com .
Last date for submission is June 10, 2023.

6 No royalty will be paid to the contributors.

15 July 2023: 1pm-4pm (UK Time GMT+1)

The online workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers in humanities and social sciences who would like to improve their academic writing skills in order to succeed in studies and in career.

It is organised to provide maximum hands-on practice for participants. Each session will include explanations, examples, exercises, and texts to help the participants develop techniques for working productively at different stages of the scholarly writing process.

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      Topics will include:

Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.

Postgraduate Conference

Trinity College Dublin

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies

5 – 6 October 2023

From Homer to Hate Speech: A Humanities View on Language in Conflict

    Writers and critics have in recent years hailed for a “return” of realism to the literary arena with revised notions of what constitutes realist representation to take account of the experiences that are unique to our new era, e.g. “speculative realism”, “metonymic realism”, “ecocritical realism”, and “quantum realism”, to name just a few. Indeed, realism has neverbeen away from the academic limelight despite its accused naivety in aspiring to represent reality objectively, unabashed interpellation of readers into dominant ideologies or as a symptom of the waning of affect in late capitalism.

The editor of the Oxford Handbook of George Santayana is looking for two essays in order to complete the edition of the Oxford Handbook of George Santayana:

- The first must focus on Santayana and the idea of “post-truth.” The aim of the chapter is to explore how Santayana’s ideas of communication and truth may help us understand this recent phenomenon, especially in the field of politics.

- The second must focus on Santayana and Romanticism (German, but not exclusively) and explore the philosopher's attitude to the philosophical principles and ideals of Romantic culture (his relation to Romantic poetry is the object of a different chapter.

Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2022 exhibition Defying Expectations: Inside Charlotte Brontë’s Wardrobe, Brontë Studies invites new and original articles for a Special Issue devoted to the Brontës and material culture. The exhibition, co-created with historical consultant Dr Eleanor Houghton, featured more than twenty pieces of Charlotte’s clothing and accessories and offered intimate insight into both her domestic and literary lives.