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Osmosis 2023: Liberal Arts and AI Ecosystem

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:48pm
Department of English, East Delta University, Chattogram, Bangladesh
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Osmosis 2023: Liberal Arts and AI Ecosystem

3rd International Conference Organised by the Department of English, East Delta University, Bangladesh

Date: Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Contact Email: osmosiseduconference@gmail.com   

Registration Fees:

i. International Presenter (Academics): USD 50 per person

ii. International Presenter (Graduate-Level Students Only): USD 30 per person

iii. National Presenter (Academics): BDT 2000 per person

iv. National Presenter (Graduate-Level Students Only) / Non-Presenter Participant: BDT 1500 per person

 

MLA 2024 panel: Speculative Fiction and Work: Histories, Futures and Resilience [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:47pm
Dr. Sagnika Chanda/ Georgia Institute of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Please send in your abstracts for a special panel proposed by me for MLA 2024: "Speculative Fiction and Work: Histories, Futures and Resilience" This panel examines speculative/sci-fi re-imaginings of the exploitation of laboring, vulnerable bodies to serve an extractive society and their resistances. How to envision a socially just future shaped for and by precarious labor? Please submit 250-word abstracts by 25 March, 2023 to schanda32@gatech.edu  Full description: This panel traces the interconnected histories and future of labor, vulnerable populations, and their resilience. In a post-pandemic era the definition of work has undergone a sea change with the constant threat of automation.

Praxis, Joy, and Sorrow

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:47pm
Modern Language Association, HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

Inspired by Nannie Helen Burroughs, this roundtable conversation will center on the precarity of educators working at the intersections of race, class, and gender, more importantly, the lessons faculty can learn from innovative educational praxis.

PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE AND ESSAYISTIC FORM IN NONFICTION FILM AND ART

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:47pm
International Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Abstract/Panel submission deadline: May 21, 2023.

Conference dates: September 22-23, 2023.

Venue: Film and media space “Planeta“, A. Goštauto str. 2, Vilnius

Mode of participation: In person only

Conference language: English

Organizers:

Vilnius Academy of Arts

Lithuanian Cultural Research Institute

Vilnius International Documentary Film Festival

Partner: International Network for Small Cinemas

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Laura Rascaroli, Professor, University College Cork

Call for 2023 Issue Submission: AI, Algorithms, and Leadership

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:46pm
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

In addition to our Open Call for Papers, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies, with the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies, publishes a wide range of high-quality scholarship. We are currently accepting paper proposals that contemplate the relationship between leadership and the digital landscape. More specifically, we invite papers that question the advantages, drawbacks, and ethics of artificial intelligence (e.g., chatbots, algorithms, etc.), social media, the singularity, et al. What, we ask scholars to question, are the relationships between these forces and leadership?

Migration In and Out of Africa: A Cultural Perspective

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 2:24am
Indraprastha: An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies 

invites original and unpublished papers for its 2023 edition on the theme: 

Migration In and Out of Africa: A Cultural Perspective

 

Concept Note

2nd annual Sturgeon Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:43pm
Gunn Center for the Study of SF, University of Kansas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 17, 2023

The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction is excited to announce our 2nd Annual Sturgeon Symposium (Wed. 9/28 – Fri. 9/30/2023), celebrating the 30th anniversary of Octavia Butler's groundbreaking novel, The Parable of the Sower. As KU's choice for the 2023 Common Book program, this novel is a powerful inspiration for our Symposium's theme, "Fantastic Worlds, Fraught Futures."   

MUSLIM WOMEN’S POPULAR FICTION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 5-9 SEPTEMBER 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:42pm
University of Birmingham (UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 16, 2023

MUSLIM WOMEN’S POPULAR FICTION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 5-9 SEPTEMBER 2023

Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction AHRC Research Network International Conference

Birmingham, UK, 5-9 September 2023

Free to attend for all speakers and attendees.

Keynote speakers

Professor Claire Chambers

Dr Rehana Ahmed

In the twenty-first century, readers, publishers, and booksellers have noted a surge in popularity of genre works written by Muslim women, particularly in the Anglosphere. From the detective novels of Ausma Zehanat Khan to G. Willow Wilson’s fantasy fiction, Ayisha Malik’s romantic fiction to graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi – Muslim women authors are embracing popular fiction forms and genres.

JITP Themed Issue 23: The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:41pm
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Themed Issue 23: 

The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt

 

Issue Editors:

Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida

Summer L. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University

Asma Neblett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Kush Patel, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland

 

Next-Generation Research in English and World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Two Graduate Student Showcases

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:41pm
Janine M. Utell & Lydia B. Tang, Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Call for Papers: Next-Generation Research in English and World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Two Graduate Student Showcases

Across English and world languages, literatures, and cultures, graduate students are developing engaging, inventive, and transformative projects that envision their disciplines in new and exciting ways. In an effort to highlight this “next-gen scholarship,” two parallel sessions will feature lightning round presentations to offer a snapshot of where these fields are headed. 

Examples include, but are not limited to: 

  • Community-centered projects

AI and What It Means to Create: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:41pm
Janine M. Utell, Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

Call for Papers: AI and What It Means to Create: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation

Considerations of AI in the humanities can often feel cataclysmic or even apocalyptic. While discussing concerns is undoubtedly important, this panel turns towards the question of how departments can support informed and creative responses to, and good practice regarding, AI technology. This cross-disciplinary conversation aims to attract speakers from writing studies, literary studies, and creative writing, all examining what AI means for teaching, writing, and creating. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

Thematic issue “Philosophy of Classical Antiquity in Current Philosophical Debates: A Dialogue between Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy”

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:40pm
Department of Contemporary Philosophy, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Athena: Philosophical studies, No. 18, 2023

(Editor: Naglis Kardelis)

Thematic issue “Philosophy of Classical Antiquity in Current Philosophical Debates: A Dialogue between Ancientand Contemporary Philosophy”

 

I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:39pm
CORERISC / The Sociability of Sleep
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

                                                                            CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

                                         I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media 

                                                                           July 2-7, 2023 in Montreal

                                                                          DEADLINE: March 31, 2023

 



PAPER TRAILS: Post-industrial histories, technical memories and art practices

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:38pm
TECHN&ART and EDHEA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 5, 2023

The PAPER TRAILS project has secured the edition of an issue of the journal Ge-conservación (https://ojs3.ge-iic.com/index.php/revista) to be published in 2023 under the title PAPER TRAILS: Post-industrial histories, technical memories and art practices. The volume will be edited by Federica Martini, Renata Barbosa, Herminia Sol and Ricardo Triães and will have a Scientific Committee external to the journal that will evaluate the articles following a blind-review process.

 

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Shifting from a Lethargic Pedagogy to an Enthusiastic

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:37pm
Dr. Shivam Jhamb/ Dr. Manoj Kumar
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Dear esteemed colleagues,

 

Please Contribute and share with your scholars, researchers and colleagues.

 

Call for book chapters for an edited book by the renowned publisher with an ISBN on

"Shifting from a Lethargic Pedagogy to an Enthusiastic" 

Deadline for submissions: 15th April, 2023

 

 

Sub themes 

 

1) Concept Checking Questions

 

2) Interaction Patterns in Teaching- Learning 

 

3) Lesson Plans for a Large Size Classroom

 

4) Identifying Students Strength to Encourage them

 

5). Making Learners Interdependent to Self Dependent 

 

6) Assessment of the Learners  

 

[Edited Collection] Reading Contemporary Irish Culture in the Works of Sally Rooney

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:37pm
Angelos Bollas / Dublin City University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 29, 2023

The proposed publication (to be published by a major academic publisher upon approval of book proposal) will provide wide-ranging critical insight into the works of Sally Rooney (novels, short fiction, poetry, essays) and the TV adaptations of her works with attention to contemporary Irish culture. The aim of this edited collection is to offer readings of the works of Sally Rooney which illustrate contemporary issues relevant to Irish history and culture. Even though the structure of the collection will be finalised once proposals are received, the current organisation of the book will be a thematic one, covering issues such as:

H-Net Teaching Conference 2023 // Critical Conversations: Teaching and Creating Community in Difficult Times

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:36pm
Christine Peffer / H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 27, 2023

H-Net’s theme for this year’s conference, “Critical Conversations: Teaching and Creating Community in Difficult Times,” will resonate with teachers at all levels of the educational system and especially those in the humanities and social sciences. In an era when educators are under assault for teaching Critical Race Theory, implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, and subjected to various external forces regarding curriculum development, book bans, and course redesigns, this conference will be a gathering to navigate these challenges and discuss solutions and strategies in the face of threats to academic freedom.

The Weimar Republic and Anglo-American Modernism

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:36pm
MSA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

This panel will seek to understand the draw of Weimar Germany for the many British and American modernist writers who spent time there.  In keeping with the theme of this year's MSA, papers that consider the attraction of Weimar street life, in all its varieties, are particularly encouraged.

 

Please send a 250 word abstract and short biography by 3/31/2023.

 

 

Progression, Regression, and Transgression in Gothic World Literature & Film: New Approaches to the Ethics of Difference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:33pm
Department of World Languages and Literature, Simon Fraser University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

 

Progression, Regression, and Transgression in Gothic World Literature & Film:

New Approaches to the Ethics of Difference

 A Gothic-Without-Borders Conference

September 29th to October 2, 2023,  fully online,  hosted by the Department of World Languages and Literatures (WLL) at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada, coordinated by the SFU Center for Educational Excellence (CEE), and co-sponsored by the International Gothic Association (IGA)

Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2023

Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability - Second International Memory Studies Conference at IIT Madras

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:33pm
Indian Network for Memory Studies & Centre for Memory Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability

 The Second Annual International Conference of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) in association with the Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) at IIT Madras

                                                                                  20-22 September 2023

 

Faculty Coordinators: Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj, Associate Professors, IIT Madras, Faculty Investigators CMS, Founding Chairpersons, INMS.

(Re)translating-Rewriting the Classics in the XXIst century

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:32pm
Sarah Montin/ Sorbonne-Nouvelle University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

International Conference: 19-20 October 2023

(Re)translating-Rewriting the Classics in the XXIst century

Sorbonne-Nouvelle University /Maison de la Recherche, 75005 Paris

T.R.A.C.T. (Prismes EA4398)

Victorians Journal Special Issue: Hospitality

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:32pm
Victorians Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

Victorians Journal announces a special topics CFP on Victorian Hospitality for our Winter 2023 number, guest edited by Kristen Pond.

 Victorians Journal CFP Winter Issue 2023

CFP The Afterlife in Popular Culture (special issue of the The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:31pm
Angelique Nairn and Justin Matthews (Auckland University of Technology)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 13, 2023

CFP The Afterlife in Popular Culture (special issue of the The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture)

Due to the great interest in the Depicting the Afterlife edited collection, we have arranged to co-edit a special issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture set for publication in early 2024.

The theme remains the same:

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