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Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures [ACLA 2025; virtual; May 29–June 1, 2025]

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 1:25am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate the flow of goods, people, or ideas and allow for their exchange over space” (327). Though most commonly associated with its physical manifestations, the term infrastructurealso encompasses intangible elements that play a crucial role in society. Thus, infrastructures are not merely "limited to pipes, roads, and wires" but should, instead, be understood as “interdependent networks of materials, people, and nature that enable the functioning of modern life” (Lockrem 529).

NeMLA 2025- Uncanny Families: The Trauma Revolution

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:49pm
Rachel McKinley, University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The family can be a place of hidden and haunted spaces, and in these spaces they bring to mind the uncanny, often moving deftly from the ordinary to the extraordinary or supernatural. Families are also notorious receptacles for trauma and are frequently explored in writing from Isabel Allende’s La casa de los espíritus/House of the Spirits to Tara Westover’s Educated.

NeMLA 2025-Fringe Benefits: Leveraging Revolutionary Teaching Models to Transform Education

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

After working in alternative or hybrid spaces throughout the pandemic, the return of educators and students to the “traditional” classroom has brought its own unique challenges and frustrations both for students and instructors. Learners who previously participated in fully remote classes are expected to integrate smoothly into synchronous in-person courses with little guidance or preparation. Instructors are offered little guidance in easing the transition for students and are often already stretched thin themselves. In light of these circumstances, educators must reevaluate what teaching methods and structures might best serve students and instructors in a technological and AI-driven era.

College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:35pm
Dr. Heidi M. Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

Call for Proposals (CFP): College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice

Deadline for Submission: Nov. 29, 2024

As the homeschooling movement continues to grow, with close to 4 million documented homeschoolers in America (NHERI), college professors who choose to educate their own children at home bring a unique and valuable perspective to this educational approach. We invite college professors from various disciplines to contribute chapters to an upcoming collection on "College Professors and Homeschooling: Bridging Academic Scholarship and Home Education."

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 10:02pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 10:01pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 7:56pm
Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. / MICDS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
https://rebrand.ly/cfp-transmedia-k-pop

I am excited to invite submissions for a new volume titled Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, which is under contract with Lexington Books—an imprint of Bloomsbury Books.

Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 6:30pm
Airelle Amédro; Enrica Leydi - University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024
  • Conference date and location: 07 March 2025 at the University of Warwick  
  • Confirmed keynote speakers:Professor Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter) and Professor Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck, University of London)

According to Julia Kristeva, decay is a ‘privileged site of mingling, of the contamination of life by death, of begetting and ending’ (1982). As a cyclic organic process where life and death inexorably meet, decay is an irresistible metaphor in social, artistic, medical, and political investigations. Since the 18th century, its malleable imagery has lent itself to both the most emancipatory and the most oppressive ideas.   

“To be or not to be”: Trauma, Crisis, and Shakespearean Fragments

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:29pm
ESRA - European Shakespeare Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

ESRA conference, Porto, July 9-12, 2025 (https://esra2025.com

Seminar 2: “To be or not to be”: Trauma, Crisis, and Shakespearean Fragments

Organizers: Richard Ashby, King’s College London, UK (richard.ashby@kcl.ac.uk), Natalia Khomenko, York University, Canada  (khomenko@yorku.ca), and Georgina Lucas, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (g.lucas@napier.ac.uk).

2nd Call Synergies in Communication International Conference

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:29pm
Bucharest University of Economic Studies/Dept. of Modern Languages
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 12th International Conference
Synergies in Communication (SiC 2024)
31 October- 1 November 2024
(hybrid format)

Narratives of Development

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:28pm
Lauren Horst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

In his seminal work, Encountering Development, Arturo Escobar traces a history of development that begins with the Truman Doctrine and unfolds as a western plot to control and contain the so-called “Third World.” Here, development is something undertaken by western financial institutions and imposed on the economies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is counter-revolutionary, intended to curtail the radical economic visions that emerged with decolonization and the formal end of empire.

Teaching Medievalism

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Illinois Medieval Association Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Teaching Medievalism

Deadline for Submissions: December 1

Session: February 28, 2:00 pm (Central)

Using Contemporary Theory to Teach the Middle Ages

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Illinois Medieval Association Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Using Contemporary Theory to Teach the Middle Ages

Submission Deadline: December 1

Session February 7, 2:00 (Central)

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Literature and International Development

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Lauren Horst, Columbia University & Susanna Sacks, Howard University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

See ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) listing for submission portal: https://www.acla.org/literature-and-international-development. 

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

ACLA conference will take place May 29–June 1, 2025, via Zoom.

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“Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality…What better preparation can a people desire as they begin their journey into the strange, revolutionary world of modernization?" (Chinua Achebe, “What Has Literature Got to Do With It?”)

 

Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:23pm
Defense Language Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"

This seminar explores the concept of "future memory" across literature and film. We will examine the impact of memory, trauma, and technology on human cognition. We will analyze texts that challenge traditional notions of temporality and consciousness. We will question how memories shape identity, and how technological advancements might alter our understanding of lived experience.

Mid-Atlantic Review - Volume 33 (2025)

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:23pm
College English Association, Mid-Atlantic Group
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Mid-Atlantic Review seeks scholarly articles, position papers, short fiction, poems, and pedagogical reflections for its Special 2025 Issue focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the span of a year or two, generative AI has posed unprecedented challenges to and opportunities for higher education, the humanities, and the arts. Intellectual, pedagogical, and artistic engagement with this emerging technology is vital in our current world and this issue of The Mid-Atlantic Review encourages such engagement. We are also looking for original photographs or artwork related to the Mid-Atlantic region. Ethically produced AI art related to the Mid-Atlantic region would be of particular interest for this issue.

Kristeva's Powers of Horror at 45

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Julia Kristeva’s landmark essay, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), will have its 45th publication anniversary in 2025. In that time, its influence has been wide ranging, whether on women and gender studies broadly, on the fields of feminist, psychoanalytic, queer, horror/gothic, and disability theory, as well as on media studies. For this roundtable session we invite proposals that consider any aspect of the influence of Powers of Horror, past and present.

Book Chapters: Neoliberalism and Affect in Twenty-First Century Culture

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Dr Holly Parker, University of Lincoln and Dr Tommaso Villa, University of Lincoln
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 7, 2024

“We’re people, not parts of people. Even with what little they gave us these are our lives. no one gets to just turn you off” - (Severance, S1.8)

South Central Renaissance Society Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
South Central Renaissance Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

SCRC welcomes 15-20 minute papers on all aspects of Renaissance Studies for its international conference which will be held, for the first time, in coordination with the Saint Louis University 12th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies June 9-11, 2025.

Submit 300 to 500 word abstracts on the SLU Symposium Site (accessible via the SCRC website, here: https://southcentralrenaissanceconference.org/scrc-2025-st-louis-univers...). Deadline December 31, 2024.

International Conference on "Precarious Wetlands in Anthropocene: Representations in Literature, Cinema and Media". Conference Date: 12-13 December 2024 (Virtual)

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Woxsen University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 25, 2024

International Conference on "Precarious Wetlands in Anthropocene: Representations in Literature, Cinema and Media"

Conference Date: 12-13 December 2024 (Virtual)

Organised by: School of Liberal Arts and Humanities & CoE-Literature Studies, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India

Concept Note

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area, SWPACA

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:21pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

Disability Studies Area, SWPACA

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:21pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Disability Studies Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

Nurturing Curious Minds: Approaches to Assessing and Enhancing Critical Thinking and Writing in Higher Education

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:21pm
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Nurturing Curious Minds: Approaches to Assessing and Enhancing Critical Thinking and Writing in Higher Education

13 – 14 June 2025

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/cts2025/

We invite abstracts for a two-day symposium that aims to gather educators, researchers, and practitioners from all disciplines to share their experiences and contribute to the ongoing dialogue on improving the critical thinking skills of university students. 

Aside from panels, our symposium will feature two keynote speakers.

Revolt or Reinvention?: Citizenship in the Contemporary Literary Imagination [ACLA 2025, Virtual]

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:21pm
Daniel Bergman, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Please submit 200-300 word paper proposals through the online submission portal provided by the ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), which can be accessed through the original listing here: https://www.acla.org/revolt-or-reinvention-citizenship-contemporary-literary-imagination.

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

The ACLA conference will take place May 29-June 1, 2025. This conference is virtual.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino - Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:20pm
Cristina Perez-Ordoñez/University of Malaga
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

The Works of Amy Sherman-Palladino

Edited by Patricia Prieto-Blanco (Lancaster University, UK) and Cristina Pérez Ordóñez (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

Book Series: Screen Storytelling, Bloomsbury. Series Editor: Anna Weinstein

(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:20pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

In How Societies Remember (1989), Paul Connerton writes that the present “distort[s]” the past, and vice-versa, in our collective memory” (2). These distortions can be instrumentalised by politicians seeking to mobilize people behind a nostalgic vision of the past. Conceiving of nostalgia as a “superimposition” of the past over the present, Svetlana Boym explores how it creates a multi-temporal memory-scape that one longs to recover – but which, paradoxically, has never and can never exist (The Future of Nostalgia, xiv). Similarly, Joseph Roach describes how societies seek replacements for figures from the past via a process he calls “surrogation,” which is virtually always doomed to fail (Cities of the Dead, 2).

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