Wednesday 9th & Thursday 10th June 2021

Online (Zoom)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
ISSUE 13: MASKS

A little more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began, masks have become an ever-present symbol of our own historical moment. Yet, apart from their present topicality, masks have long played a part in literature and the arts. For this thirteenth issue of Oxford Research in English (ORE), we invite articles that examine the textual, intertextual, and extratextual ways in which masks feature, are performed, or are regarded more generally in literature.

We hereby welcome contributions to the seminar “Shakespeare on Television” for the 11th World Shakespeare Congress: Shakespeare Circuits (Singapore, 18-24 July 2021), to be held online. 

If you are interested, please send a short abstract between 100 and 300 words and your short bio by April 1, 2021 to the listed email address and enrol for our seminar by making it your first choice on the form on the conference website (http://139.196.28.181:9090/wsc2021/Seminars.html#form-tag).

Seminar Description

26. Shakespeare on Television

Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on Medical Culture in East Asian Cinema and Media

Editors: Ling Zhang (SUNY Purchase College), Yuqian Yan (Washington University in St. Louis), and Pao-chen Tang (University of Manchester)

A Therapy of Things? Materiality and Psychoanalysis in Literature and the Visual Arts
Workshop at the Department of German Studies/English and American Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

03.12.2021 & 10.12.2021 (online)

Getting Personal: American Women Poets and the Autobiographical LyricWebinar 4: Friday, March 19, 12:00-1:00 PM

This special session proposes to explore poetry's role in theorizing and enacting societal change. It will center on two questions:

Where do we go from here?
What roles should poetry play?

Hybrid talks, historical, and comparative approaches encouraged. Some interlocutors: Audre Lorde, Fred Moten, Paul Ricoeur, Sarah Schulman, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, etc.

Please send your CV and and a 250-word abstract by Mar 22.

NOTE: MLA 2022 is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC on 6–9 January 2022

l International Congress "The cinematographic stardom in Spain": Actresses under Francoism

ONLINE EDITION May 25 - 27th 2021

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA

Call for Papers

PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Session: British Literature and Culture: Long 19th Century

Contacts: Gretchen Bartels, California Baptist University (g.bartels@gmail.com)

Description: Any proposals dealing with 19th century British literature and culture are welcome, with particular consideration granted to papers that engage with the conference theme of "City of God, City of Destruction."

Conference Note:

Postcolonial Interventions invites academic articles for the upcoming June 2021 issue of the Journal which will be an Open Issue.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the world into similar processes of distress, loss and anxiety, it has also exacerbated authoritarian inclinations in various nation-states, widened socio-economic disparities and hardened competing fundamentalisms. It is hoped that the prospective submissions will take into account these recent upheavals alongside the usual explorations of literary and cultural representations focusing on postcolonial concerns from various corners of the globe.

Over the past seventy years, neoliberal thinkers have strategically reinvented classical liberal ideals in order to privilege a sense of personal freedom over the perceived overreach of government intervention. Once considered a fringe movement, neoliberalism has steadily become the central tenet of American life. It is now nearly impossible, for example, to imagine any mainstream voice espousing tax hikes or championing the sorts of policies enacted under Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson. Promises of privatization today trump collective action in virtually every aspect of life.

The Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe conference—now scheduled to take place live, April 7-10,2022, at Boston’s historic Omni Parker House—will complete Poe’s triumphant return to the cityof his birth. At the heart of Old Boston, the hotel stands within a block of the Boston Athenaeum,Tremont Temple, King’s Chapel, and Granary Burying Ground. Surviving eighteenth-century brickbuildings near the hotel include the Old State House (1713), Old Corner Bookstore (1718), OldSouth Meeting House (1729), Faneuil Hall (1742), and New State House (1798).

How do altmetrics, indicators beyond citation-based metrics, lend themselves to humanities? What remains invisible, uncounted, untold? Responsible metrics vis-à-vis the language of publication, dissemination channels or publication formats?

We invite short presentations (7-10 minutes) that address these questions for a session at the 2022 MLA Convention in Washington, DC.

Please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words.

Téa Rokolj, U of Ottawa

Call for papers: ReFocus: The Films of Joaquín Jordá

Contact email: gloria.salvado@upf.edu and fran.benavente@upf.edu

 Deadline for abstracts: 30 May 2021

With a career that lasted almost fifty years, Joaquín Jordá (1935-2006) is one of the main figures in unconventional, heterodox and combative Spanish cinema.