This Comparative Literature session, like its namesake discipline, strives to be broad, inclusive, and interdisciplinary. We therefore welcome proposals that touch on multiple works of literature and strive to make use of more than traditional comparative studies, borrowing analytic or interpretive practices from other disciplines such as philosophy, film and media studies, digital humanities, cultural or art history, etc.

This session seeks papers engaging with a wide variety of Comparative Literature topics, including perhaps, but not necessarily, papers exploring the main theme of this year's PAMLA conference, "Translation in Action," and/or other topics beyond that. The session also invites papers focusing on:

· World Literature

Inactivity

Between Aesthetic Practice and Sociopolitical Challenge

11–12 July 2024
ICI Institute for Critical Inquiry Berlin
In English

Organized by Oliver Aas, Hana Gründler, Antje Kempe, and Barbara Kristina Murovec

A workshop organized by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute, Research Group ‘Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual’ and University Greifswald, Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research, in cooperation with the ICI Berlin

MLA 2025 (9-12 January)  / New Orleans, LA, USA

Panel: The Seen and the Unseen in the Medieval Romance Epic

The Société Rencesvals has a guaranteed session at the 2025 MLA Annual Convention (9-12 January). New Orleans, LA, USA. We invite submissions of papers that interrogate "visibility" as a function in and of the medieval Romance Epic.

Please send 250 to 300-word abstracts, with the short bio, to Norval Bard (nlbard@noctrl.edu) by April 14th, 2024

121st PAMLA Conference

Thursday, November 7 - Sunday, November 10, 2024

Margaritaville Resort | Palm Springs, California

INTERNATIONAL SIDNEY SOCIETY at the SIXTEENTH-CENTURY-SOCIETY CONFERENCE

October 31 – November 2, 2024

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The International Sidney Society will sponsor panels at the 2024 Sixteenth-Century-Society Conference and invites paper proposals related to Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert (Countess of Pembroke), Lady Mary Wroth, other members of the Sidney-Herbert-Dudley family, or English and international associates of the broader Sidney circle.  

Literary texts affect us emotionally. They can negotiate the ambiguities and complexities of emotions in a highly nuanced way and help readers to develop their "emotional literacy," that is the ability to read, understand and cope with one’s own emotions and those of others. Through modulations of narrative voice and focalization, literature can, for example, generate empathy or insight by allowing readers to reflect upon the emotional impasses, contradictions and precarities faced by marginalized or "othered" individuals or groups (e.g. recent media representations challenging the trope of the presumed "lack of empathy" of individuals on the Autism spectrum) and the cultural variability, historicity and social constructedness of emotions (e.g.

Seeking paper proposals for PAMLA 2024 - in Palm Springs, CA November 7-10!

Please use this link to submit your proposals!  https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19263

Proposals must be submitted through the PAMLA system to be considered, but feel free to contact me if you have any questions: Tianren Luo, tianren_luo@brown.edu

Seeing and Feeling Financial Capitalism: Bodies and Finance

Philip Roth Studies is now accepting submissions for a special Spring 2025 issue on the topic of “Roth’s Redemptive Aesthetics.”  Approaches to this subject might include but are not limited to the nature of redemption – its possibilities, its limitations, its origins—as represented in any of Roth’s works of fiction; Roth’s managing of literary legacy; the use of alternative histories (personal or social/political) in the interest of redemption; art, literature, music as a vehicle for redemption in Roth’s fiction; the redemptive possibilities of Roth’s prose style. Other approaches and interpretations are welcome.  

Call for papers

Narratives and the Social Sciences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

University of Palermo, Italy

Department Cultures and Societies

International Conference

26th, 27th, 28th June, 2024

Building 16, Room D2

Viale delle Scienze, Palermo

Deadline for abstracts: April 20th, 2024

In The Psychology of Clothes (1940), the psychoanalyst John Carl Flügel contends that there is a central tension in human psychology between the desire for modesty through concealment of the body and the desire for exhibitionism through decoration of the body.

Cfp Between XV.29 (May 2025). “Gothic Technologies”

Edited by Anna Chiara Corradino (University of Potsdam), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore), Marco Malvestio (University of Padua)

Submission deadline: September 30, 2024
Publication date: May 30, 2025

Call For Papers

Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks

An International Vernon Lee Society Symposium

Online, 16 & 17 October 2024

In the essay ‘New Friends and Old’ in Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life (1903), Vernon Lee writes:  

Call for Papers: Eudora Welty Review

Special Topic: “Welty and Children”

Submission deadline: September 1, 2024

I'm thrilled to invite submissions for a volume entitled Trespassing in the Archive:  Poetry in Conversation with History, which is under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.