Conference Theme: “Roots/Routes of Resistance and Resilience”

Call for Papers: “Writing Back to Flannery O’Connor”

Deadline extended to November 8th, 2023

The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks abstracts for a proposed in-person panel to be held at the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States’s (MELUS) annual conference at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas from April 11-14, 2024.

As hip-hop turns 50 in 2023, there is much to celebrate and reflect on, including its impact on higher education. This session is engaged with questions about the latter: what is hip-hop doing in our classrooms and conversely, what are we doing with it in our teaching practice?

II International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences: Fostering Global Resilience through Cross-cultural Collaboration

ISCAP Porto Portugal, 27-28 novembre 2023

Deadline: 15 septembre 2023

The conference is an opportunity for academics and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests to share the latest research findings and new ideas (theoretical and practical) related to the cross-cultural contributions of HSS in addressing global issues. The main goal is to contribute to the realization of a sustainable and inclusive development model.

The Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Management, Economics, Cultural and Creative Industries:

Dear colleagues,

International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education

The Human Life. Energy, Conscience and Freedom. 8th MCDSARE Conference, 1-2 th November 2023

The 8th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education

We are now accepting proposals for the upcoming Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, “Create, Connect, Reflect: Launching Collaborations and (Re)building Community in Our Fields,” which will be held on Zoom from February 28-March 1 and in-person at the University of Louisville from March 7-9, 2024.

A brief summary of what we are planning is below; for more details and the exigence, please see our call for proposals. Project proposals are due on Sunday, November 26 at 11:59 pm EST.

https://louisville.edu/conference/watson/2024-watson-conference

What We are Planning, In Brief:

Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature  

(deadline 3rd November 2023) 

Seeking proposals for a roundtable discussion on defining qualities of 21st Century African American literature and cultural production and the process of creating collaborative scholarly projects on this emerging, multifaceted, and evolving body of work.

Prominence and Precarity is the name of the seventeenth volume of the Cambridge University Press series African American Literature in Transition. Focused on 21st century African American literature and cultural production, the chapters in this volume explore the tension between African American cultural prominence and African American vulnerability and precarity in contemporary US society. 

Rogue Mobilities

THE SACRED, THE SPIRITUAL AND THE RELIGIOUS

IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL SOCIETIES

INTERNATIONAL ONLINE STUDY DAY

December 14, 2023

Presentation

35th Annual American Literature Association Conference May 23-26, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

https://orbit.openlibhums.org/news/655/

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 29–31, 2024.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

NeMLA 2024: 20717. Hart Crane in the 21st Century: Crossing The Bridge and Beyond (Roundtable)American/Diaspora

Chair: John Wargacki (Seton Hall University)

This roundtable discussion addresses Hart Crane’s poetry and legacy in modernism

Please log in to the convention portal for additional details and to submit:  https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Memory and Representation area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites submissions on any pertinent topic (see description below) for the 2024 National Conference in Chicago, Illinois, March 27-30, 2024.

Memory and Representation: Area Description