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This roundtable is being organized as part of NeMLA 2024, centered around the theme of SURPLUS.
Description:
In a 2015 multimedia manifesto titled “Towards Arabfuturism/s” the Jordanian artist Sulaïman Majali writes that “Arabfuturism/s, like most creative provocations, is born of counter-culture” in which “notions of belonging are constantly challenged by the strangers, the marginalised, the outsiders: workers, rebels, immigrants, artists who see from the margins– looking in – that there is no homogenous culture or identity.” For Majali, like many contemporary artists interrogating the possibilities and limits of futurity amidst ecological, territorial, existential, and ideological states of crisis, -futurism “signifies a defiant cultural break, a projection forward into what is, beyond ongoing eurocentric, hegemonic narrativ
https://jasna.org/agms/cleveland2024/call-for-papers.php
Through this Call for Papers, the JASNA Ohio North Coast Region invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions at the 2024 AGM, and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker grant.
The AGM theme is “Austen, Annotated: Jane Austen’s Literary, Political, and Cultural Origins.”
Two-Day
International Seminar
on
Literature as Discourse
5th & 6th October 2023
Organized by
Research and Cultural Forum (RCF)
Department of English
Pondicherry University
Puducherry-605014
Host Department:
The FES Acatlán (UNAM) through its Research Program, the Humanities Division, the Humanities Program and the Hispanic Language and Literature and History Sections, have the honor to convene the 3rd "Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space" International Conference. It will take place on November the 14th and 15th 2023 online.
Queer Children’s Film and Television
Online One-Day Symposium, 17th November 2023
Individual papers are welcomed for ‘Queer Children’s Film and Television,’ an online, one-day symposium to be held on 17th November 2023. The symposium explores depictions of queerness in children’s film and television, and the queerness of children’s films and TV. This symposium precedes an opportunity to contribute to a proposed edited collection, intended as a part of Edinburgh University Press’ new ‘Children’s Film and Television’ book series.
The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden seeks proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on Visions of Racial Justice and Childhood to be held in Camden, NJ, USA, on June 6 to June 8, 2024. This conference invites presentations that consider how different social actors and entities, including (but not limited to) governments, corporations, non- governmental organizations, and activist groups, have envisioned racial justice in relation to childhood and youth. What visions of racial justice are sustained, contested, and otherwise engaged across children’s literature, media, and popular culture?
Popular Culture Review seeks to publish compelling, well-argued, and well-researched articles on all aspects of popular culture including
For this special issue, Popular Culture Review is interested in articles related to all aspects of Asian and Asian American popular culture. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, topics including
Society for Cinema & Media Studies–Translation/Publication Committee
in collaboration with
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2023-2024
Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture and the Marist College School of Liberal Arts invite submissions for the 2024 Supernatural Studies Conference, to be held at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, on Friday, March 22, 2024.
The conference welcomes proposals on representations of the supernatural in any form of text or artifact, such as literature (including speculative fiction), film, television, video games, social media, or music. Full panels or roundtable discussions may also be proposed. Submissions regarding pedagogy and supernatural representations will also be considered, as will creative submissions that align with the conference's focus.
The first part of Mary Wroth’s unfinished romance, The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (1621), infamously concludes with a conjunction; Wroth writes, “all things are prepared for the journey, all now merry, contented, nothing amisse; greife forsaken, sadnes cast off, Pamphilia is the Queene of all content, Amphilanthus ioying worthily in her; And[.]” Mary Wroth’s unresolved “And” opens to infinite possible endings for Pamphilia, including negative ones, especially given the other ambiguities of Wroth’s romance, and the anxieties frequently expressed by Pamphilia herself.
In her recent essay, Anandita Pan (2023) explores how the #MeToo movement reproduces casteist, classist, and sexist hierarchies.
The Illinois Medieval Association invites proposals for individual papers and especially full sessions for the 40th Annual Illinois Medieval Association Symposium, to be held online throughout the academic year. Papers presented at the Symposium are eligible for submission to our peer-reviewed proceedings volume, Essays in Medieval Studies, published annually by the West Virginia University Press and available via Project Muse. The Symposium aims to engage all disciplines and geographical areas of medieval studies.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Those of us who are “world”-travelers have the distinct experience of being different in different “worlds” and of having the capacity to remember other “worlds” and ourselves in them.
— Maria Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception” (1987)
The Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity (CESIC),
The British Cultural Studies Centre (BCSC) of the University of Bucharest
and New Europe College (NEC)
invite proposals for a conference dedicated to MA students, PhD candidates and young researchers on
How to Be an Alien in British Cultural Studies
to be held at
New Europe College
Call for Papers:
New Directions in Hawthorne’s Gothic: for Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
Fragmented Lives
IABA (International Auto/Biography Association) World Conference 2024
in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature, University of Iceland
Reykjavik, 12-15 June 2024
Deadline for abstracts: Oct. 1, 2023
The IABA World Conference 2024 will be held at the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature 12-15 June 2024. The theme of the conference is ‘Fragmented Lives.’ We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of 3-4 papers as well as round-table suggestions on that theme.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur
9th Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference 2023
On
Queer Literature & LGBTQ+: Intersections, Narratives, and Representations
on
Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
Translation is always a site of surplus. What kinds of excess and possibilities arise when translating works about surplus – of people, languages, oppression? This session explores the many surpluses of and in translation of Caribbean literatures and cultural practices. How does translation contribute to surplus value or surplus meaning in Caribbean contexts?
CFP for a Special Issue interconnections: journal of posthumanism
Appel à contributions pour le numéro hors-série de interconnexions : revue de posthumanisme
Guest Editors Dr. Allison Mackey and Dr. Elif Sendur
CFP: Fungal Turn- French version to follow.
CONCEPT NOTE
“Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.”
- Lloyd Alexander.
Conference online (via Zoom) 28-29 September 2023 ABOUT CONFERENCE:
What makes us happy and content in our life? Some people may point to fabulous fame, fortune, or money. Some may say that the key to happiness are interpersonal relationships. But what if someone is alone? Is loneliness really disastrous? Are there any benefits of loneliness? Can loneliness become an epidemic? In order to answer such questions, during our conference we will have to concentrate on many particular issues.
As director Alain Kassanda points out, "the restitution of films should start with access to film archives from the colonial era. Furthermore, Africans do not have access to the pioneering works of cinema produced by the continent's filmmakers: the holding of distribution rights outside of African countries, in Europe and the United States, is one of the reasons for this situation. The vast majority of African film collections, consisting of ethnographic, classic and contemporary films, are held in France and the United States.
About
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, India invites papers for the current and future issues of the Journal of Contemporary Thought. Revived after a hiatus of five years, the Journal returns with fresh resolve to offer a platform for cutting edge research in the field of Theory. Our past contributors include scholars such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Etienne Balibar, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Fred Dallmayr, Gianni Vattimo, William V. Spanos, Martin Jay, S.N. Balagangadhara, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Shannon Bell, Gauri Viswanathan, Stephen Greenblatt, Ashis Nandy, Simon Gikandi, Gaurav Desai, among others.
CFP Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities
May 27th-30th, 2024
The American University of Paris, France
We invite proposals for a conference on the futures of care to be held at the American University in Paris, May 27 - May 30th, 2024.
Instrumental curricula focus on direct, concrete, and explicit causal and quantifiable relationships between programs of study and reductive interpretations of the demands of society and the labor market. Within this broadly appealing system, STEM education and professional programs effortlessly justify their value as essential in any formal educational environment. Although societies and labor markets consistently assert the critical importance of and urgent need for people equipped with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions derived from humanistic education, instrumental systems frequently relegate the humanities to a secondary position of positive complementarity, worthy of investment solely when time and budget constraints permit.
We invite proposals for presentations that analyze Hispanic literary or film texts that critically examine interfaces, interrelations, and/or interactions between technology and humanity to analyze the roles or perceived values of humanity and technology in social contexts, and to interrogate socioeconomic and sociocultural value systems and aspirations. Presenters may be invited to expand their presentations into chapters for an edited volume. https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20789
Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture (Panel)
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Richard Fahey, Carl Sell, and Benjamin Hoover
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2023
55th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association
Sheraton Boston Hotel (Boston, MA)
On-site event: 7-10 March 2024