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121st Annual PAMLA Conference Romanticism Session

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 10:41am
Amanda Middleton / PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

This year's theme is “Translation in Action.” While most scholarship about translation deals with the interlingual, we welcome scholarship on the other areas discussed by Roman Jakobson such as intralingual and intersemiotic translation. We plan on celebrating the work of a wide range of scholars and translators such as Michael Cronin, Moira Inghilleri, and many others. We seek proposals dealing with translation as a diverse set of practices, a dynamic field of study, and a set of complex networks that affect our lives. Once again, we are open to a variety of interests, but for this year, we are especially interested in proposals on the theme of “Translation in Action.”

Student Engagement with Theory in the Undergraduate and Dual Enrollment Classroom

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:41am
Julia Reade/PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Teaching literary analysis invariably includes learning activities involving reading, deciphering, and applying theory to a text understudy. For many undergraduate and dual- or cross-enrolled students, this activity is no small feat. Rather than tossing critical theory to the wayside as "too tough," we persevere! This session seeks presentations from educators who have had varying degrees of success bringing critical theory into their humanities courses. In order to render accessible to students the complex and insightful ideas sandwiched within the academic jargon of critical theory, how are we translating the rigor into palpable bites?

"Crisis and the Everyday": 2024 University of Pittsburgh Grad Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:41am
University of Pittsburgh FIlm and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

2024 University of Pittsburgh Grad Student Conference 

Film and Media Studies

“Crisis and the Everyday”

Keynote Speaker: Gil Hochberg, Columbia University

Date: September 21-22, 2024 

Inviting Presences: Intratextual Subjectivities in Early Modern Women’s Writing

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:40am
Sixteenth Century Society Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

Surveying the absence on her shelf where Elizabethan women’s writing ought to be, Virginia Woolf (in)famously dismissed the possibility of Shakespeare’s sister ever finding “a room of her own” to develop her voice. Recent decades of literary scholarship have shown the invention with which early modern women built out their own textual “rooms,” finding voice in surprising places and forms (even in silence, as Christina Luckyj heard [2002]), in visions of new political subjectivities (in a radically equal imaginary, as seen by Mihiko Suzuki [2003]), and through networks of overlooked community (in coteries and in letters, as traced by James Daybell [2006]).

Book series VILLAINS AND CREATURES

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:39am
Lexington Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

TRANSMEDIA VILLAINS AND CREATURES

 

This new series by Lexington Books aims to cover the fascinating subject of villains and threatening creatures through an interdisciplinary perspective represented by fields as different as literary, film, religious, gender and art studies as much as philosophy and sociological and ecocritical approaches. Each volume will focus on a single figure (or group of figures) and examine it in its multiple incarnations, from their origins in myth, folklore and history as well as in a literary text, to their various adaptations in different media, including comics, graphic novels, cinema, TV, exhibitions, the visual arts, merchandise, fandom and tourist attractions.

 

FILM REVIEWS for the quint

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:39am
Dr. Antonio Sanna, journal "the quint"
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT

 

American Post-1945 panel(s) at PAMLA 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:39am
Pacific Modern Language Association_American Post-45 Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present to be shared at the Pacific Modern Lanugage Association, held this year from November 7-10 at the Margariaville Resort in Palm Springs, California. The conference will be held completely in person.

Our panel organizers believe in a capacious understanding of post-1945 American Literature. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors or texts about America or American life are welcome.

[Extended Deadline] Space and Time in Literature and the Arts

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:39am
English Department, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 20, 2024

AICED-25

THE 25th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION

14-16 June 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

The English Department of the University of Bucharest invites proposals for

the Literature and Cultural Studies section of its 25th Annual International Conference:

 

Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2024 (virtual)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:37am
Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 4, 2024

FSNNA24 Call for ParticipationFan Studies Network North America Conference 2024 (virtual)October 17-20, 2024

*taps microphone*

Coming this October!

The greatest fan studies event of this year, or any other.

An academic event of such magnitude, its like will never be seen again.

Four days of research … discussion … and community building!

Hold onto your webcams and get ready for…

FSNNA PRESENTS:
THE MONSTERS OF FAN STUDIES
WORLD TOUR ’24

Submissions for the 2024 FSNNA Conference

Classics (Latin)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:37am
PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

121st PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 7 - Sunday, November 10, 2024

Proposals:

Please use the PAMLA CFP page and submission system, which can be found here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP.

 

New Directions in Ecocriticism

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:36am
PAMLA Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Call for Papers

PAMLA 2024 Conference: November 7-10, at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California, completely in-person

 

19249. Ecocriticism (co-sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature & Environment) (Panel / In-Person)

Ecocriticism and Science / Historical and Political Studies

Presiding Officer: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes (Pennsylvania State University - Penn State Worthington Scranton)

[CFP] 2024 Situations International Conference: Asian Diaspora in the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:36am
Yonsei University BK21 Project, Situations
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

 

 

Call for Papers

 

2024 Situations International Conference

 

22-23 November, 2024

Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

 

Asian Diaspora in the 21st Century:

Transnational Hauntology and Affective Production

 

 

Reorienting Singapore Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:35am
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 51 No. 1 | March 2025

Call for Papers

Reorienting Singapore Literature

Guest Editors

Angelia M. C. Poon (Nanyang Technological University)

Iping Liang (National Taiwan Normal University)

Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 2024

 

Special Session - Bergson: Translating Duration

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:35am
PAMLA - Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

In accordance with the conference theme, “Translation in Action,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s work was written in French and translations are often offered with notes about the richness of his words and potential loss of meaning. Questions of translation surround and even permeate Bergson philosophy.

Teaching Writing in College (SAMLA)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:35am
Matthew Horton / University of North Georgia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 7, 2024

SAMLA 96: CFP for “Teaching Writing in College” Session

November 15–17, 2024

Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, FL

 

Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy (MMLA)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:34am
Matthew Horton / University of North Georgia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel

MMLA 2024, November 14–16, Chicago, IL

 

General Conference Topic: "Health in/of the Humanities"

 

The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes, especially but not exclusively, proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "Health in/of the Humanities" for the 2024 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: 

 

https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers

 

PAMLA 2024 Panel CFP: Teaching Against the Anthropocene

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Please consider submitting a proposal to our panel "Teaching Against the Anthropocene," to take place at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention in Palm Springs California (Nov. 7-10, 2024), and please share the cfp with colleagues who might also be interested!

Submit your proposal at this link before April 30th: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19097

"Teaching Against the Anthropocene" will explore how we translate environmental media into our teaching practices and how we can encourage our students to reflect critically about environmental concepts like the Anthropocene. 

The Pioneers of TransAmerican Art: In the Footsteps of a Caribbean Diaspora Aesthetic

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Frédéric Lefrançois
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 3, 2024

Call for Abstracts 

 

The Pioneers of Trans-American Art: in the footsteps of a Caribbean Diaspora aesthetic 

 

 

 

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference - Cleveland, OH (October 24-26)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 9, 2024

Announcing the 47th Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

October 24-26, 2024

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

 

Conference theme: “Shakespeare and the Mind”

 

PAMLA 2024 CFP_African American Literature and Culture Session

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 2024 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 2024 PAMLA Conference will be held in Palm Springs, CA from November 6-10. We invite abstract submissions to a guaranteed, standing session on comics and graphic narratives; abstracts can be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

The “African American Literature and Culture” session is open to all papers that explore some aspect of African American literature, media, or culture, but we are particularly interested in papers attuned to some facet of the conference theme, “Translation in Action.”

 Some topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

PAMLA conference 2024: Translating Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Building on the conference theme “Translation in Action,” this panel invites discussion on how Asia is represented and “translated” in modern and contemporary literature, literary criticism, and popular media, including, but not limited to, film, video games, visual novels, music, and fashion. Panelists are encouraged to engage with the following questions:

1. How is Asia and Asian-ness aesthetically and ideologically represented and “translated” by non-Asian authors and producers, e.g., Historia universal de la infamia (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges, La Chinoise (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) by Rob Marshall, and Civilization VI (2016) by Sid Meister and Firaxis Games?

Adaptation Studies in the Light of Generative AI

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Association of Adaptation Studies/South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Generative AI has upended ways of visualizing, reading, and interpreting texts, whether in makerspaces, on publishing platforms, or on college campuses. The use of generative AI raises questions about authorship, copyright, authenticity, originality, and integrity—all critical matters that lie at the heart of Adaptation Studies scholarship.

Seeing the Unseen, Unseeing the Seen

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 8:43am
Association of Adaptation Studies/South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

“Seen and Unseen,” the theme of SAMLA 96, which will meet from 15 through 17 November in Jacksonville, Florida, focuses on the tasks of discovering, uncovering, and recovering material that may have escaped earlier notice. The study of adaptation sharpens this duality further. Cinematic and theatrical adaptations famously present visuals that audiences for literary texts have previously had to visualize for themselves. Adaptations that censor the texts they adapt seek to replace old ways of seeing with new by concealing matters they think better unseen. Reparative adaptations seek to heal cultural traumas by shining new light on old assumptions about power and status.

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