“The worst monsters are the ones we create”: Monstrosity in the Witcherverse

Session Organized by Kris Larsen, Central Connecticut State University

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022

Proposals are due 15 August 2022

With the advent of social media and platform infrastructures, cancel culture has engendered new means of regulation through digital media platforms which appear to further silence already marginalised communities. Having roots in the Black vernacular tradition, the clear social justice agendas of culturally linked meta-networks of social media practices and community digital infrastructures are argued to have become highjacked by social elites (Clark, 2020). For some commentators this means that the viral nature of social media backlash can claim, to the detriment of democracy, various careers and reputations among well-known celebrities, political figures,

NeMLA 2023: Niagara Falls, NY. March 23-26, 2023.

In the second half of the 20th century, Haitian society has been profoundly impacted by massive waves of exile provoked by the collective trauma of the Duvaliers dictatorships and epitomized by the internationally recognizable image of the "boat people". On the literary scene, the resulting Haitian diaspora, in North America and elsewhere, has found ways to maintain connections with the native land, reminiscing on childhood memories, revisiting Haiti both physically and metaphorically, and engaging with their shared history, myths, and traditions.

Call for Papers

Abstract: This roundtable will bring together scholars interested in developing and studying archives that push the boundaries of what we consider the archive. At the roundtable, through our work, we will consider questions that arise within archival practices and arts, such as: what constitutes or counts as an archive, what kinds of archival delineations should be drawn, pushed back against, or ruptured, and, perhaps most importantly, what is or should be the role of the archive in combating systemic injustice and advancing social justice?

As indicated by the number in its title, this conference is the second in a series
focused on travel writing studies.The first one, which took place in 2019,
celebrated the 300th anniversary ofthe publication of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
and its literarylegacy.This second edition will celebrate the 100th anniversary
of James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses (1922), which chronicles the
itinerary of Leopold Bloom in Dublinin the course of an ordinary day.
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies,
Universidade Nova, Lisbon) and CELIS (Centre de Recherches sur les
Littératures et la Sociopoétique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-

The ASCP provides a broad intellectual forum for scholars working within or in communication with continental philosophy and European philosophical traditions. We welcome papers from philosophers, non-philosophers and anti-philosophers working in any discipline, from diverse backgrounds at any stage of their career.

Details about the 2022 annual conference:

University of Melbourne

28 – 30 November

Keynote Speakers:

• Claire Colebrook (Penn State) 

Empowering Women in the Digital Economy: A Quest for Meaningful Connectivity and Access in Developing Countries

The Challenge:

Please submit abstracts of 300 words directly through the NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) portal here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19891, by 30 September 2022. This is for the NeMLA convention hosted in Niagara Falls, New York from March 23 to March 26, 2023.

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.

The Milton Society of America seeks to assemble a panel that considers how researching and teaching Milton can advance the shared work of decolonizing our curriculum and scholarship. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.

The Milton Society of America invites papers on any aspect of John Milton’s poetics. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

The notion of an emergent medieval ‘gay subculture’ remains one of the most highly contested claims of John Boswell’s 1981 magnum opus Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. In the decades since its publication, research on medieval queerness has tended to emphasise the individual over the collective whether in terms of identity, experience and as constructed discursive subjects. Despite this, landmark studies such as those by Michael Rocke, Carolyn Dinshaw and Kadin Henningsen have demonstrated some of the ways in which medieval people built networks of companionship and mutual support grounded in a shared experience of living outside of their societies’ norms of gender and sexuality.

The humanities as an academic field has always been predicated on helping societies harness critical knowledge in improving our understanding of the human condition. Yet, scholars in the humanities continue to have a challenging time bridging their work with the larger preoccupations of the community, continuing to be weighed down by the twin discourses of triviality or the “Ivory Tower”. The rise of public humanities–the work of engaging communities-at-large in the intersections of history, traditions, humanistic culture, and material realities of civic life–is a testament to the value that humanities scholars can bring to the public when they are able to translate their high-level academic skills into transformative prospects outside the university.

In his 2017 inauguration speech, Donald Trump painted a picture of “American carnage” sweeping the nation. Echoing the rhetoric used throughout his campaign, he described his vision of the present state of America in apocalyptic terms: from “rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape” to “the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives.” For Trump and his supporters, this apocalypse was the America he was inheriting—yet for many other Americans, such tropes were instead used to characterize the nation that Trump led from 2017 to 2021. Accordingly, in his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden evoked similar language when he framed the presidential election as a “battle for the soul of this nation.”