CFP for ACLA 2025: Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction
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Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction
Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro this year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the longstanding sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child at the hands of her stepfather, Munro’s husband, Gerald Fremlin—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but the latest revelation to throw into question the legacy of a revered cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in recent years in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse.
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 21-24. We are interested in abstracts that examine the influence of Charles Olson and/or other Black Mountain Poets on poetic practices and on subsequent generations of poets. A variety of poets took up the innovative ideas of figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Dorn and others associated with Black Mountain. How have the practices of this fundamentally important school of poetics been extended, transformed, and/or resisted by poets from subsequent generations?
Call for Papers: Journal of Contemporary Painting
Special Issue: ‘The Curatorial and Painting’, Issue 12.1
Journal of Contemporary Painting invites submissions for issue 12.1 (to be published in April 2026) on the theme ‘The Curatorial and Painting’.
For the issue of JCP ‘The Curatorial and Painting’, we want to explore the contexts made for painting to be shown and painting’s impact on those contexts. We are interested in two ways of understanding an exchange between painting and the curatorial: through spatial/durational dimensions and through social practices.
Potential themes include:
What is an Internet-based conference without addressing the Internet’s favorite topic: cats!? This panel seeks papers interested in exploring eighteenth-century cats in their many facets and figurations. Cats abound during this period: from big cats in the natural histories, moralizing cats in fables and children’s stories, mysterious and symbolic cats in the art of Fragonard or Chardin, to real-life cats in the lives of Samuel Johnson or Horace Walpole.
The roundtable addresses the field of 18th-century-centered digital humanities and digitization projects through the lens of labor, service, and alt-ac career prospects. Extending out of previous ASECS panels on Transkribus-a-thons, challenges in digitization, and collaborative work in DH, this roundtable proposes to focus more closely on these issues in specifically graduate and early career contexts, to ask questions such as “What are the skills required for digitization projects?” and “Do networking/alt-ac skills building opportunities in digitization outweigh the labor demands?
2024-2025 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium
November 8, 2024
Online and completely free
Submission Deadline: October 15
The Illinois Medieval Association is now accepting proposals for our annual Halloween session: Medieval Monstrosities. This session is part of our annual Symposium, which runs online throughout the year. Topics are open to any work being done on the monstrous, supernatural, strange, and/or bizarre. The session will be free and online, and papers presented at the session are eligible for submission to Essays in Medieval Studies, IMA's annual proceedings volume.
Firebrand Burns On!
Conference to Celebrate Firebrand Books
Ithaca College
April 18-19, 2025
From 1984 to 2000 editor Nancy Bereano working out of a tiny office in Ithaca, New York published 104 books, including some of the most influential LGBTQIA+ titles ever produced. This two-day conference celebrates the achievements and legacy of Firebrand Books. For a complete overview of Firebrand publications see https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM07670.html. We invite papers on a variety of topics:
Discussions of the work of Firebrand authors, including:
In the last few years, increasing recourse to ever more efficient technologies and artificial intelligence has radically changed the interpreting and translating professions, triggering an evolution process whose outcomes are currently difficult to predict, but what is certain is that translators and interpreters have to do their best to respond to the changing requirements of a highly diversified market.
This panel seeks proposals to approach Romanticism as a (r)evolutionary mode of thinking. We invite abstracts to revolutionize and de-border the conventional Eurocentric Romantic boundaries in genres, forms, styles, themes, cultural legacies, and critical methods. Proposals are invited to transcend Romanticism of the Romantic Era to a new timeless global Romanticism of both historicity and modernity that contributes to ideological diversity. From the old pan-European Romanticism to a new international Romanticism, reading Romantic Literature as World Literature, this panel welcomes new creative approaches to interpret works by the Romantics.
Eighteenth-Century Cats! [ID 68]
Chair: Taylin Nelson, ASECS Graduate and Early Career Caucus, Rice University, tpn2@rice.edu
Weekend: March 28/29
What is an Internet-based conference without addressing the Internet’s favorite topic: cats!? This panel seeks papers interested in exploring eighteenth-century cats in their many facets and figurations. Cats abound during this period: from big cats in the natural histories, moralizing cats in fables and children’s stories, mysterious and symbolic cats in the art of Fragonard or Chardin, to real-life cats in the lives of Samuel Johnson or Horace Walpole.
Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the summer 2025 issue. In recent years, the temperature has risen around free speech debates, and books on censorship and free speech come out with such frequency that it is hard to keep abreast of the new scholarship. I am interested in receiving reviews and review essays on academic books published in the last several years that are in some way related to free speech. The books to be reviewed can center on any historical, geographical, or disciplinary context, and the reviews and review essays can be written from (almost) any theoretical perspective.
Call for Papers
New Volume: Remembering and (Re)remembering Social Justice in the 21st Century
Publisher: FACET
Please Submit a 500 word Abstract by October 20.
Ben Alexander: Bea3@columbia.edu
We are looking for 3, maybe 4, chapters to complete our volume that is in-contract with FACET. Verne Harris will be authoring our Forward, Trudy Peterson our Introduction and Verne Harris our Afterword. Chapter titles include:
Call for themed submissions: the "freak" issue (creative writing only - we do not accept academic writing) Puerto del Sol is seeking work which engages with the theme of freak. Freaking, to freak, to be freaked. A freaky thing. Freak has a past: a rotten one. Freak as a scorn, as a label tied around necks by hierarchy, ableism, transphobia, racism. Freak as pushback. Freak getting freaked the freak up. The grotesque growing despite. Revel in it. Leather-clad tunnel vision. Maximalism. That house in the woods we all want to see. Who is brave enough to look? And let me see your browser history. What are you hiding? What is it that lives behind those walls, under the skin, in the darkest corner of the attic?
For the 2025 Annual ACLA Conference (May 29th-June 1st 2025, held virtually)
This panel asks presenters to consider the logics of fracture, at the level of idenity, artisitic production, and national scales as it realtes to East and Southeast Asian art and literature.
Please submit an abstract and bio on the ACLA Portal link by October 14, 2024 https://www.acla.org/node/add/paper?destination=/interdisciplinary-study-homemaking-mapping-places-routines-memories-and-locales-we-call-home&seminar=47603 We welcome papers that reflect on the diverse, layered, and fluid representations of homemaking for a seminar focused on three key thematic units: Homemaking: Spaces, Architecture, and Urban Geographies; Mapping the Everyday: Visual Arts, Objects, and Media; Gendered Spatial Configurations.
Film Journal invites submissions for thematic issues to be published in 2026, 2027, 2028. We are looking for thematic issues that offer new perspectives on film history, theory, narrative and aesthetics.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Psychology and Popular Culture AREA
2025 POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCiATION NATIONAL Conference
New ORLEANS MARRIOT – April 16-19, 2025
https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 30 NOVEMBER 2024
Inviting English translations of Telugu short stories for an edited anthology of Contemporary Telugu Short Stories (published between 1975-2024) to be published by Antonym Publications, Kolkata. The translated stories need to be between 1000 and 5000 words.Please mail details of the story you plan to translate by the 15th of October 2024.The translated stories need to be mailed in word format (Times New Roman, 12 font, double spaced) to pulunishi@gmail.com within 31st December 2024. Please add a brief bio of both the author and the translator.
Guest editors: Nathan Ashman (University of East Anglia) and Steven Powell (University of Liverpool)
NB! Abstracts have to be submitted through the ACLA webpage. Go to https://www.acla.org/aesthetic-experience-reading-practices-and-literary... and click the link at the top pf the CfP
We invite abstract submissions for contributions to a themed issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies (JAS) on "Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship." Co-Edited by Krystal Carter, Tammy Clemons, and Rachel Terman, we especially invite contributions from authors who identify as early-career and/or underrepresented scholars, but submissions from all are welcome.
This creative session invites readings or performances of original work that experiments with, challenges, and/or disturbs received notions of structure and narrative form. Short fiction, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, diaries, fragments, literary collages, project-books, graphic commentaries, prose poetry, and other stylized word-beings that purposefully question, expand, and/or play with what narrativity is and can do are welcome here.
In 1931, Antonin Artaud envisioned a radically innovative form of theatre after witnessing a performance by a Balinese troupe at the Colonial Exposition in Paris. While this event is widely acknowledged among arts and humanities scholars, its specific details – such as the precise content of the performance and the identities of the performers – are overlooked, thus exemplifying the ambivalent nature of the circulation of performing arts from colonized and/ or marginalized regions. Throughout history, how have conflicting global power structures and unequal socio-political conditions shaped the flow, interpretation, and reception of works, artists, aesthetics and practices from the so-called peripheries in Europe and the United States?
UniNewsletter is a new digital magazine dedicated to sharing higher ed news and research innovations, as well as establishing connections between diverse global educational institutions. We publish general issues quarterly (September; December; February; June) with additional special editions on specific topics. Each issue we engage academic, industry, leadership, student and more voices to foster intercultural dialogue and showcase developments, pedagogies, and campus life at some of the world’s most eminent universities.
The twentieth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Lancaster University, on 10th – 12th April 2025 in person.
The BSLS invites proposals for twenty-minute papers, or panels of three papers, or roundtables, on any subjects within the field of literature (broadly defined to include theatre, film, and television) and science (including medicine and technology). The BSLS remains committed to supporting and showcasing work on all aspects of literature and science.
Myth and Fairy Tales
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline:October 31, 2024
2025 will be a milestone year celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Through this Call for Papers, the JASNA Maryland Region invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions at the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker Grant.
The AGM theme: Austen at 250: Austen's Life, Novels, Juvenelia, & Surviving Letters
Date: Oct. 10-12, 2025
Location: Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore MD
DEADLINE EXTENDED: September 30, 2024
How the World Turns: Scientific Revolutions and Colonization
We are officially extending the Due Date for CFP to OCTOBER 31, 2024!
The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR), is delighted to announce its annual Call for Papers (CFP) for its 2025 Conference, which will be held at Arizona State University. It will be an in-person conference with some hybrid capabilities.
Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference - "Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality"
Dates: March 14-16, 2025
Location: Arizona State University
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31st, 2024