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4th Young Graduate Meet 2024: "Interdisciplinary Approaches to South Asian Ecology"

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:23pm
School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi.
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

In the present era marked by a pressing need for sustainable coexistence with the natural world, the centrality of human beings has taken a back seat to make way for integral ontological inquiries into nature, its components and inhabitants and the manifold relationship between them. The “self-organizing powers of non-human processes” have been emphasized in academia and the dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics have been explored.

Special Issue on Barbenheimer

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:23pm
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Canadian Journal of Film Studies 
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Barbenheimer

(Version française ci-bas)

Revelation-izing Scholarly Collaborations & Graduate Student Community

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

In her 2020 article entitled “Communities of care,” Talia Schaffer reminds readers that even when participants “did not share a geographic space,” the communities of those “virtual groups…cobbled together in coronavirus time” were, to all of us, of invaluable importance and “realness,” nevertheless. Thus, this roundtable hopes to promote conversation(s) that showcase and contemplate ways of enduringly enriching both virtual and in-person academic communities, especially amongst graduate students; to continually encourage communications and collaborations between students with related research interests within the same, as well as different, institutional settings.

Possible topics for discussion might be related to:

Revolutionary AI in GTA Teaching

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

In the age of technological revolution, the changes brought by AI are reshaping various facets of society, including how we approach education in the Humanities. In the context of college composition, communication, English literature and other humanities subject classes, AI is revolutionizing writing pedagogy and practice. AI-assisted writing tools and large language models (LLMs) present new challenges and opportunities, creating what Sundvall describes as a “technological problematic” in the composition classroom, which revolutionizes some traditional writing processes and practices we’ve been using for a long time.

EDI-tation: Rethinking and Revolutionizing the Graduate Student Experience

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:20pm
Northeast Modern Language Association(NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

While graduate school has long been a space for cultivating generations of academics, researchers, and intellectuals, it has never been exempt from the dynamics of power that underlie the workings of the University. Recent strides at improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in graduate school—for example in the form of the rise in number of sociopolitically- and culturally-cognizant programs, the push towards increasing international student populations, and the rise of grassroots movements such as labour unions to improve representation—belie the reality that universities remain set up according to ideological lines that facilitate the success of some graduate students while (re)producing the inequities experienced by others.

 

Call for Papers. Aging in Advertising. Reflections on the representation of the elderly in campaigns and on age in the advertising industry

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:14pm
Revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Old age and aging are biological as well as sociocultural constructs and processes; they cannot be completely separated, but rather they influence each other and get interrelated with the passing of time. As sociocultural constructs, old age, aging and their definition are not immovable concepts and, in fact, vary depending on the different historical, social and cultural contexts.   Likewise, the definition and organization of each of the population groups by age are not fixed. For example, for decades, 65+ has been agreed upon by the UN and the WHO, among others, as the beginning of old age; however, market studies propose 50+ and establish two groups: 50+ seniors and 75+ seniors.

“Invisible Secrets in Pre-1865 American Literature” (SAMLA)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:13pm
Michael S. Martin/SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

“Invisible Secrets in Pre-1865 American Literature” (SAMLA) Recent scholarly approaches in antebellum American literature emphasizes the role of secrets and secrecy, as in Dominick Mastroianni’s Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature (2022); essays on secrecy in Emily Dickinson’s poetry (Jeffrey Simons, Paul Scott Derrick, 2011); and the secret lives of nineteenth-century literature (Harper, Dickinson, Melville, 2022) in digital media, as Kayla Shipp has argued. This panel explores the way that unstated ideas, points, or secrets are exchanged in antebellum American literature.

Body Augmentation: Possibilities of Identities and Technology in/of Video Games

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:13pm
MultiPlay Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Body Augmentation: Possibilities of Identities and Technology in/of Video Games

A MultiPlay Network Conference, October 28th, 2024

Abstracts due: 30 August 2024

As is tradition for MultiPlay, we have a special horror related conference for the end of October. This time we are focusing on the monstrous (and liberational!) possibilities of body augmentation through video games. We welcome abstracts from utopian and dystopian perspectives, on the real life hardware capabilities or upon representations of augmentation within games.

The Right to Read/The Right to Speak and Academic Freedom in the Classroom NeMLA (20978)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
New England Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In educational settings, safeguarding free speech is crucial for upholding democratic principles, yet campuses increasingly face censorship and suppression of dissenting voices. By fostering an environment that values free expression and respectful dialogue, educators can prepare students to become informed citizens who think critically and contribute positively to the (r)evolution of democratic society. How do educators include censored, controversial and diverse perspectives into their curriculum and classroom?

https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/20978

 

Mindfulness and the Humanities (Roundtable -- Nemla 2025)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
Matthew Leporati / Donetta Hines / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on the implications of mindfulness for the humanities and for its/their roles in education and society in honoring human, cultural, and global diversity in all its dimensions, enacting equity and inclusivity, and affecting change.

NeMLA 2025 - Religious Revolutions in and through 19th-Century Literature

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis,” Victor Hugo declares in Les Misérables (1864); “People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.” Nineteenth-century culture is marked by intertwined revolutions in literature and religion. Across the globe, just as religion became increasingly questioned, it also became fuel for social change and cultural reformation.

Special Issue: Queer Studies and Professional Wrestling

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
Professional Wrestling Studies Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Anticipated Publication: Volume 5, November 2025

Guest Editors: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, and Hannah Steele

 

Purpose: Articles that explore the intersection of queer studies and professional wrestling studies to address a scholarship gap on the application of queer theory to explore professional wrestling individuals, texts, practices, and fandoms.

 

Submissions: Seeking empirical articles aligned with the special issue’s purpose that may include, but is not limited to, the following topics:

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

updated: 
Sunday, July 21, 2024 - 12:07pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

NEW DEADLINE! Rolling until 8/15.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

7-10 November 2024, Palm Springs, CA

Submissions should be sent through the link below. You may need to create an account if you have not already presented with PAMLA. Undergraduates are invited to share their research following the guidelines below:

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 1:44pm
Mohsen HAMLI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Essays

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

 

Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.

Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau. 

Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary)  on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.

All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.

*Deadline extended* Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 10:11am
McMcMaster Universty (Hamilton, Canada) and Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada).
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory”

Conference Dates: September 26 - 27, 2024,

Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2024

Notification of decisions by: August 15, 2024

 

Co-organizers: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Darcy Ballantyne (Toronto Metropolitan University), 

 

Keynote Speaker: Rinaldo Walcott, 

Professor and Chair in Africana and American Studies, University at Buffalo

 

Security, Peace, and Sustainable Development in a Troubled World

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 7:55am
AAB College, Kosovo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

International online conference (free of charge)

September 12, 2024

Organizers:

Faculty of Public Administration, Faculty of Law & Faculty of Economics
AAB College, Pristina, Republic of Kosovo

in partnership with:

University of Southeast Europe, North Macedonia
University of  Vlora "Ismail Qemali", Albania

Keynote Speaker: 

Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film

updated: 
Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 9:32am
Cenk Tan & Mikail Boz
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapters: Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film

CFP CLOSED! - THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!

Under Strong Interest by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

Editors’ Introduction

Unreal Prisonscapes

updated: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 11:10am
SAMLA / South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

SAMLA 96 Convention, "Seen and Unseen," will be held Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL

Unreal Prisonscapes (panel--in-person)

New Directions in Partition Studies: ECSAS 2025 panel

updated: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 6:04am
ECSAS 2025, Heidelberg
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 18, 2024

2027 would mark 80 years of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent of 1947. For South Asia, independence from over two centuries of British rule in 1947 was accompanied by a violent and bloody partition - a territorial division of two provinces of British India, Punjab and Bengal  - on the basis of religious majority, which led to a million people dead in bloody communal riots and fifteen million people uprooted and displaced across the newly-formed borders.

: "My Dungeon Shook": A Century of James Baldwin

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:42pm
Morgan State University-Department of English and Language Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Call for Papers: 7th Annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference

Theme: "My Dungeon Shook":  A Century of James Baldwin

Date: October 24-26, 2024

Venue: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024

 

« Traversée du Tout-Monde »: a roundtable for Maryse Condé

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:35pm
Stève Puig / St John's University (NYC)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Maryse Condé’s œuvre has tremendously impacted our understanding of the French Caribbean and Africa, but also of postcolonial France and the Americas as a whole. In a sense, she is truly « a writer for our times, » as the title of a recent tribute in Paris suggested. 

All That Remains Is Madness: An Examination of the Tragic Outcome for Women in A24 Films

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:06pm
Dr. Erica Joan Dymond / NeMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Summary: MidsommarSaint MaudFalse PositiveHereditaryThe Hole in the GroundThe Witch, etc. All of these A24 horror films feature women in crisis. Most are struggling with their mental health, most are betrayed by their loved ones, most are literally or emotionally isolated, and most are victims of an uncaring world. In all cases, the films end with the physical or figurative destruction of woman. She is insane, incinerated, beheaded, broken, forever haunted ... The question remains, should viewers accept these endings? Should they be viewed exploitative or unnecessarily shocking? Or is there room to view these as a warning?

Emplotting Black Vindication as Literary Activist-Self

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:06pm
NeMLA Conference - March 6-9, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel includes various African American writers who used literature, art, history, or social scientific writings to oppose faulty presentations of an inferior tertium quid, i.e., subhuman capability. This panel welcomes review of writers and artists alike who endeavored through artistic, literary, historical, musical, filmic, or other means to contend with pseudo social scientific Untermensch designation. Writings and other media at various times and through varying genres and artistic forms, fashioned to make a case for full cultural and intellect parity.

Joyce Studies Annual Special Cluster James Joyce and Networks of Transnationality

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:01pm
Joyce Studies Annual
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

The transnational turn in modernist studies has helped generate important scholarly works— Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (Jessica Berman, Cambridge UP, 2001),  Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (edited by Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel, Indiana UP, 2005), Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Rebecca Walkowitz, Columbia UP, 2006), The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (edited by Mark Wollaeger and Matt Eatough, Oxford UP, 2012), Chimeras of Form (Aarthi Vadde, Columbia UP, 2016), and many other publications— over the last two decades which have examined how modernism transcends national borders and reveals the aporias of nationhood.

The Implications of Generative AI for Human Creativity, Originality—and Deception

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:39pm
Haoqing Yu
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are currently transforming literary and visual studies—raising issues that range from copyright infringement; to human-computer interaction and collaboration; to the inspirations for human creativity. More broadly, this new technology can lead us to reconsider key issues in the fields of education, media, visual arts, music—and the future of the humanities.

Pedagogical Responses to Whatever's Happening Now (Roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:39pm
Joshua Gooch / NeMLA 25
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Humanities programs, and the writing programs often housed within, are under threat for reasons that are as much political as they are economic. It is not simply a question of whether humanities degrees or writing skills reward students with economic value or how much revenue humanities faculty bring to an institution, but of what humanities programs and writing classes teach: critical histories, texts that capture the perspectives of the oppressed, and how to think critically about complicated social, political, and historical events.

Family Abolition and Social Revolution: Theories of Social Reproduction Now (Panel)

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:38pm
Joshua Gooch / NeMLA 25
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The last twenty years have marked a wave of renewed interest in social reproduction theory, from the republication of work associated with the 1970s Wages for Housework campaign from theorists like Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and Silvia Federici, to new works by Federici and a host of new thinkers focused on questions of social reproduction including Kathi Weeks, Nancy Fraser, Sophie Lewis, M.E. O’Brien, and Premilla Nadasen. Lewis, O'Brien, and Weeks have helped return attention to Marx and Engels's call for "the abolition of the family," and elaborated the history and scope of this demand for social revolution.

SEEKING: 1 chapter on race/postcolonialism -- Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:38pm
Monica Sousa (York University), Jerika Sanderson (University of Waterloo)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 9, 2024

We are seeking one (1) chapter contribution to Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives (tentatively titled) to be published with Routledge as a part of their series "Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture." Specifically, we seek a chapter that addresses topics of race/postcolonialism in connection with the book's main scope. 

Abstract proposals of 300-500 words are due on August 9th. Please also include a biographical note including institutional affiliation (if any) of 150-200 words, and a bibliography with a minimum of 5 sources.

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