CALL FOR PAPERS             FRAME 37.1 “Get Lit: A Celebration Issue”

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”

We are falling short of a couple of chapters for this edited work, kindly send your proposal/abstract by November 30, 2023.

The organizing committee of the 2024 ELLAK International Conference invites submissions for the special session titled The Global Bard in Asia: Teaching Shakespeare. The conference will be held at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, on December 12-14, 2024, under the theme of “Rethinking the Global English Studies.”

Note: Springer has shown interest in publishing this book subject to high standard of content and positive review

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International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science
University of Birmingham, 10-12 April 2024

Trajectories of Global CapitalismFrom Cultural Economy to Creative Industries

Bhabani Shankar Nayak

What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose histories are marginalized or overlooked because of their perceived bad taste, abject existence, and the taint they leave on supposedly beautiful, grand narratives of nationhood, well-being, or progress? How do kitsch, camp, and excess function in the realms of activism in contemporary politics? How do nasty, revulsive art, literature, and performances act as sites that engender questions that push boundaries of societal mores and cultural hierarchies?

The past seven years have seen a resurgence of the radical right. In this resurgence, art and literature have played a prominent role. Senior advisors to the Trump administration cited novels as specific influences on federal policy; Jordan Peterson has disguised right-wing manifestos as self-help volumes, hoodwinking young men to the tune of millions; the internet has seen an overwhelming explosion of white supremacist digital art. Walter Benjamin’s dictum that fascism seeks to “aestheticize politics” endures. 

Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender community is currently dominating the contemporary cultural conversation in the United States in an unprecedented way.  Against the backdrop of this discursive moment, Femspec calls for submissions for a special issue (Volume 24, Issue 1) dedicated to exploring speculative approaches to gender, and particularly to transgender identity and embodiment.  Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.  For this issue, we seek both scholarly and creative work that interrogates the co

Since the fin de siècle, the ubiquity of the camera has disrupted notions of gazing at others and ourselves. Moving from the 20th century to the 21st, the camera’s gaze has taken on many overlapping and at times antagonistic roles: it archives, captures, testifies, interrogates, interrupts, imagines, distorts, exposes, imposes, and surveils.

Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

Metamodernist Fiction: Literary Manifestations

of the Ongoing Cultural Shift

edited by Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske

CFP: The Legacy of The Tragically Hip

Dark Tourism and Thanatourism at the Crossroads of the Occult

Growth after the Trauma of Partition: A Critical Study (Working Title)

Editors:

1. Dr. Sambit Panigrahi, Professor  & Head, Deptt. of English, Ravenshaw  University,   Cuttack
2. Dr. Sanjoy K. Dutta, Asst. Prof. in English, Bhadrak (Auto.) College, Bhadrak
3. Dr. Gopinath Khutia, Asst. Prof.(TE) in English, Bhadrak (Auto.) College,  Bhadrak

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