The 2024 postgraduate conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network at the University of Edinburgh between 5-6 September 2024.

ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from postgraduate and early career scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, arts, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from anywhere in the world.

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Journal Special Issue (SI) edited by Agata Mergler and Joshua Synenko

Call for Proposals: 12 February 2024

Dissensus is not a confrontation between interests or opinions. It is the demonstration (manifestation) of a gap in the sensible itself.
         Jacques Rancière

Québec 2024

The 23rdBiennial Conference of the ACQS

October 3-6, 2024, at the Hôtel Le Concorde, Québec City

In Passage : The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, the journal of the Department of English of the University of Boumerdes (Algeria), seeks essays in English or French for its sixth issue, to be released in September 2024.  
 
 All the contributions should either be written in English or discuss questions that relate to the English-speaking world. They should fit within the broad scope of texts and mobility and their interconnectedness in the fields of literature, linguistics, and translation, among others. 

Suggested topics: 

- Travel literature and intercultural contact.

- Nomadism.

- Exile in literature

-  Literary genres and movements

LOOKING BEYOND BORDERS

March 29 & 30, 2024

Location: Idaho State University in Pocatello, ID

Times: TBA

Sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association at Idaho State University

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Intermountain Graduate Conference. This year we are seeking a variety of papers around the theme “Looking Beyond Borders” interpreted and explored broadly across topics and perspectives. Generally, to ‘look beyond borders’ is to look beyond boundaries, biases, conditions, weaknesses, limitations, and mundaneness to achieve greater unity in its many forms. 

Various approaches to our theme might include:

We are pleased to announce a special issue of JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy) titled “Resurgence and Decolonization: Creating Alternative Worlds.” Our inquiry aims to explore the transformative power of Indigenous Resurgence movements, which seek to transcend the limitations of settler colonial systems by envisioning alternative ways of thinking, organizing, and being.

Call For Papers Mardi Gras Conference 2024: Legacies of Power and the Power of Legacies

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, February 1-3, 2024. 

Enclosure is as much origin-story as it is globally contested condition. Critical accounts positioning the act of enclosure as integral to the root-systems of global capitalism, environmental catastrophe and precarity often refer to the historical effort by landowners to do away with the commons in favor of legally and politically recognized enclosures. Transforming sustainable agricultural practices into sites of energy-production primed for capital development, the early-modern enclosure movement gave rise to what Robert P. Marzec characterizes as “a model of the human that took as its direct enemy an environment thought to be threatening because it had yet to be properly secured, privatized, and cultivated” (18).

The organizing committee of the 2024 ELLAK International Conference invites submissions for the special session titled “Revisiting the Korean Wave in a Global Context.” 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.”

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This online panel is being organized for the upcoming hybrid Young Scholars’ Conference on “Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality.” Please note that the conference will be held in CET time zone. As such, the panel, while entirely online, will also adhere to CET time zone.

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.

CFP Deadline Extended: Phish Studies May 2024: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Band, its Music, and its Fans

Call for papers deadline extended for Phish Studies 2.0, an academic conference devoted to the music and fan culture of the improvisational rock band Phish in celebration of the band's 40th anniversary. The conference will take place on Oregon State’s campus in Corvallis, Oregon, May 17-19, 2024.

For the full CFP, details about the conference, and directions for submission, please visit our website, https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/phish2024/cfp/. Proposals in all categories are due no later than January 15, 2024.

Call for Papers: Narratives of Coercive Control

University of York, 19-20 April 2024

Bringing together literary critics, legal historians, and creative practitioners, this conference will provide the first in-depth analysis of literary representations of coercive control. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers or creative submissions that draw out ways in which coercive control has been identified and interrogated by writers from the 1800s to the present day. 

The Anthropocene refers to a proposed epoch that recognizes the significant and lasting impact of human activities on the Earth's geology and ecosystems. This concept has gained prominence in discussions about environmental change and serves as a framework for understanding the profound alterations humans have made to the planet. Postcolonial perspectives often highlight the role of colonial powers in exploiting natural resources from colonized territories. The Anthropocene can be seen as an extension of this historical exploitation, with the environmental consequences affecting not only the colonized regions but the entire planet.