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Call for Papers
Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culture deadline for submissions: November 30, 2021 full name / name of organization: Department of English, Gauhati University, Guwahati: 781014, Assam, India contact email: margins@gauhati.ac.in
Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culturefull name / name of organization: Department of English, Gauhati University, Guwahati: 781014, Assam, Indiacontact email: margins@gauhati.ac.in
We invite abstracts for a new book of original essays which explore the meaning and/or function of still or moving bodies of water -- lakes, rivers, the sea, gulfs, streams, ponds, canals -- in narratives by African Americans.
This issue of Between aims to investigate the phenomenology of simulacra and their range of functions (conceptual, cultural, literary, aesthetic, and in the media). What is meant here by “simulacrum” is any artificial creature that imitates or replicates the outward form and/or behaviour of living beings, especially human beings. When it comes to artefacts produced by technology – conceived in its broader sense as techne, and therefore also including magic and art – the simulacrum reveals itself as marked by operational autonomy and a variable degree of awareness.
Call for Papers:International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics
Special Issue: Lippmann’s ‘Public Opinion’ at 100: The yesterday and tomorrow of post-truth, disinformation and fake news
Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the value of mimetic representations, but they agreed that humans are mimetic animals—for good and ill.
American Comparative Literature Association 2022 Annual Meeting
National Taiwan Normal University
June 15-18
"Future of Cities / Future Beyond Cities"
In the last decades, cities around the world have experienced unprecendented economic, political, social, and spatial transformations. As these changes bring new challenges for the ways in which we categorize the boundaries of the urban and the definitions of the city, urban theorists have been condering the possibilities of the twenty first century bringing in post-urban stage.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
The 2022 NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference Committee and the University of Tennessee Graduate Students in English invite proposals for presentations for the 2022 NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference: “Community and Collaboration: How the Light Gets In.” NEXUS is a biennial, interdisciplinary conference hosted by the graduate students in the University of Tennessee’s English Department in Knoxville, Tennessee. The conference will be held March 4-6, 2022 and will feature keynote speakers Ross Gay, Maren Linett, and Josh Eyler.
The concept of South Asian literature is inherently unstable; South Asia is a regional term that covers several countries, some of which are still enemies recovering from shared histories of violence. In addition, the region of South Asia encompasses dozens of literary languages, including English – ironically the one “common” language of the region that is also the most "foreign." This panel seeks to animate comparison as a postcolonial and decolonizing practice in South Asian literary criticism. Comparison calls on scholars to think across boundaries of language, region or nation-state to imagine new points of connection among authors, texts, genres and modes.
This CFP is for a roundtable session sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Caucus (WGSC) at NeMLA 2022. The convention will be held from March 10-13, 2022, at the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott.
Mentorship as Intersectional Feminist Practice
Mastering Oral History:A Concise Guide20 November 2021International Workshop
2 groups (same workshop, different time).
Group 1: 11:oo am Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia
Group 2: 19.00 pm Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from the American continent
Find your timezone here
Course Facilitator: Konstantinos D. Karatzas, Ph.D
The Idea
Advanced Oral History Training
Mastering the Interview:Techniques and Methods
21 November 2021International Workshop 2 groups (same workshop, different time).
Group 1: 11:oo am Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia
Group 2: 19.00 pm Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from the American continent
Find your timezone here
Course Facilitator: Konstantinos D. Karatzas, Ph.D
This special issue of Women’s Studies aims to bring together new and exciting scholarship on the work of Eileen Myles. From their early involvement with the St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York City in the late 1970s, to their breakthrough success in 2015 with the Ecco/HarperCollins publication of I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems and republication of their 1994 book Chelsea Girls, Myles has operated at the intersection of multiple traditions: the New York School, queer and trans feminisms, autofiction, and performance.
The Dante sponsored session is designed to engage the poet’s interrogation and exploration of Justice as a fundamental ethical imperative that is rooted in the active free will of knowing and conscientious members of society and transcends contemporary debates about the purview or the limits of Retributive Justice, Distributive Justice, Procedural Justice, and Restorative Justice.
The THALiS Research Team (Transhistorical Anglophone Literary Studies) based at the University of Alicante takes pleasure in announcing the publication of a collective volume to commemorate the fourth centenary of the Shakespearean First Folio. This volume will be edited by Dr. Remedios Perni and entitled
SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO REVISITED:
QUADRICENTENNIAL ESSAYS
More details will follow shortly. Scholars working in this field and willing to submit a proposal can expect further briefing in a few weeks’ time.
This special issue of Tinakori seeks to explore representations of physical and emotional pain in Mansfield’s writings. In her seminal text The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry suggests that pain defies language to become ‘unrepresentable’, an idea more recently challenged. How does Mansfield represent hurt and pain using the literary conventions of short story form (or verse) as a medium? How is this also communicated in her letters and journals?How do bystanders in Mansfield’s work or life respond to those who suffer in some way? Is pain a source of connection or separation?
The Asian American Religious Studies Unit (AARSU) is inviting scholars of religion to attend the coming American Academy of Religion – Western Region’s (AAR-WR) Annual Conference 2022, which be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on March 18-20, 2022.
We are inviting scholars of all levels to join and participate in AARSU’s discussions. Following the main theme for the conference, AARSU’s theme is Religion and Asian American Hate: Reconciliation, Healing, and Forgiveness.
Our Call for Papers:
2022 ASLE Symposium
https://www.asle.org/conference/affiliated-symposia/
June 24-26, 2022
University of Delaware
CFP Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL-12)
http://depts.washington.edu/shel12/
Please join us in Seattle for the twelfth meeting of SHEL on May 19-21, 2022. SHEL has been meeting biennially for two decades; it is the preeminent gathering in North America that examines the English language and its history. The conference is returning to the University of Washington after 20 years, and we are excited to welcome you back.
Special Volume on Anti-Ableist Activism:
Volume 4, June 2022
Edited by the Anti-Ableist Composition Collective
with support from Spark
Submission Deadline: 10 January 2022
Call for submissions
“I grow old as the world does.” --- Adso of Melk, The Name of the Rose
Reminder: Call for papers - deadline November 1st
Scoring Peak TV: Music and Sound in Television’s New ‘Golden Age’
We invite abstracts proposing contributions to a project led by Dr Steve Halfyard (RCS) and Prof. Nicholas Reyland (RNCM). The project will involve two phases of work: a conference/workshop (to be held in 2022, location and medium tbc.) and an essay collection co-edited by Halfyard and Reyland (to be submitted end 2023).
32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
(Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien / GAPS)
Keynote Speakers/Writers
Arundhati Roy (India)
Sinan Antoon (Iraq/USA)
Open Channels: Divinatory Poetics and Critique of the Lyric
A Roundtable at the 53rd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
March 10-13, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland (although hybrid presentations are possible)
Queer Sahara | Queer Sonora
A Panel at the 53rd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
March 10-13, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland (although hybrid presentations are possible)
In this panel, we will consider shared connections across desert spaces in the queer imaginary, using the Sonoran Desert and the Sahara Desert as specific sites of comparison, reinvention, liberation, and self-definition. Rather than empty spaces or zones of death, these deserts and their vibrant ecosystems contain various well-established queer enclaves such as Palm Springs, California; Bisbee and Melrose (Phoenix), Arizona; and locales at the edge of the Sahara, such as Fes and Marrakesh, Morocco.
Back to “Normal”
The University of Florida’s Writing Program invites proposals for our annual Conference on Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy. This year, as we approach the tenth anniversary of this conference, we want to recognize the continuing importance of developing practical strategies and approaches for teaching writing while also interrogating universities across the US’ desire to return to “normal” instruction this year, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
CFP: RELIGIONS OF ASIA
Subject: Call for Papers: GRAMMAR and LINGUISTICS at CEA 2022
Call for Papers, Grammar and Linguistics at CEA 2022
March 31-April 2, 2022 | Birmingham, Alabama
Sheraton Hotel, Birmingham | 2201 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd N, Birmingham, AL 35203
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Grammar/Linguistics for our 52nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Subject: Call for Papers: Technical Writing at CEA 2022
Call for Papers, Technical Writing at CEA 2022
March 31-April 2, 2022 | Birmingham, Alabama
Sheraton Hotel, Birmingham | 2201 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd N, Birmingham, AL 35203
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on [special topic title] for our 52nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
For over a decade now, the interdisciplinary study of human rights and literature has offered a generative lens for thinking about questions of citizenship, the nation-state, and narrative form. Scholars have studied the human rights novel (James Dawes), the co-constitution of human rights and the bildungsroman (Joseph Slaughter), literary and cinematic depictions of torture (Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg), and the rights-based political imaginations of American writers of color (Crystal Parikh), among other projects. These approaches have emphasized the discursivity of human rights: literature does not represent a static conception of human rights but rather helps shape understandings of what human rights are or could be.