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Taking Exception: Adversarial Reading in Early Modern Culture
A Paper Panel for RSA 2025, Boston
Sponsored by the Yale Program in Early Modern Studies
The Concord Museum, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society will hold a conference on April 10-11, 2025 on the theme “1775”. The conference will be convened at the Concord Museum and marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. There will be opportunities for attendees to visit historic sites and view objects and collections significant to the Revolution.
Description: Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own imagines Shakespeare’s plays being written by Judith, a fabricated sister of Shakespeare, who had escaped an arranged marriage, and turned playwright. Woolf’s text proposes that women need private spaces to write, but this view implies that women during the early modern period were not already prolifically writing, which is not true. Many women during the early modern period were writing and publishing texts across genre, often engaging in political, religious, and social discourse that attempted to revolutionize their societies.
The call for papers for the next general issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open.
The deadline for submissions of full articles (5-6k words) is August 31 2024. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international. Please submit your articles for consideration (together with a short bio and institutional affiliation) to both Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz) and Dr Ashleigh Prosser (ashleigh.prosser@murdoch.edu.au).
Call for Papers
THE BEATS, RADICALISM, AND THE BIPOLAR WORLD
European Beat Studies Network
13th Annual Conference
University of Hildesheim
September 15-17, 2025
CFP: Occult Detectives
Edited by Michael Goodrum, Kris Mecholsky, and Philip Smith
7th International Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum “Discipline and Freedom in Music and Literature” University of Cologne, 4 – 6 December 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 7th Biennial Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF) will be hosted this year by the University of Cologne and its Slavic Institute. The mission of the WMA Forum is to provide a friendly and open space where emerging scholars interested in this domain of interdisciplinary study can meet, cooperate, and learn together with more experienced scholars. We warmly invite papers on the following topic:
“Discipline and Freedom in Music and Literature”
The field of Cognitive Linguistics has aroused growing interest in discursive and descriptive language studies. Encompassing a variety of approaches that explore the interconnection between language and human cognition, this perspective has been crucial for understanding a range of linguistic phenomena.
In order to promote the exchange of ideas and research in this field, we invite national and international researchers to submit their original and unpublished contributions that address a variety of linguistic phenomena in usage situations, exploring the intersection between discourse, grammar and cognition.
We are particularly interested in articles that fit into the following areas:
CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy:
Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Milan, March 20th – 21st , 2025
Keynote Speakers:
Adrian William Moore (University of Oxford)
Naoko Saito (University of Kyoto)
Organizers:
The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for its fall 2024 issue on the 2023 MMLA convention theme of “Going Public.” The MMLA’s 2023 convention theme, “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” asked convention attendees to explore the following questions:
Date: 04-Dec-2024 - 07-Dec-2024
Location: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Contact Person: Nhan Huynh
Meeting Email: glocal@soas.ac.uk
Web Site: https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/afala2024/
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2024
Official Website: https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/afala2024/cfp/
STAGING SILENCE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE
3–4 July 2025 / St John’s College, Cambridge
This two-day, in-person conference will explore developing traditions of silence in dramatic texts from antiquity to the Renaissance. Papers are sought from scholars across a range of fields, including classical reception, comparative literature, and medieval and/or early modern English literature. Topics may include:
- mute characters and/or characters who never appear on stage;
- characters who gain or lose the power of speech (welcoming perspectives e.g. from disability studies);
From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in transcending traditional norms as well as modern forms of objectification and exploitation. Even though these novels gesture to the need for better physical and societal realities for women, we may not find in the early novels a plan or vision of what exactly is needed for women to surmount various cultural hurdles and to fully actualize their potential in the modern realm.
From the popularity of superhero comics to cult movements around religious leaders, from venerating political figures to idolizing pop-culture celebrities, images and constructions of ‘heroes’ play a significant role in US culture. Simultaneously, there are people and actions outside of the limelight that have been revered as heroic, for example the voluntary work of nurses in homeless shelters and hospitals. While often tied to individuals, heroism occurs not just in these personified forms but can be attached to larger movements, events, or groups in more abstract ways as well. Both the figure of the hero and heroization more generally have equally frequently been weaponized throughout US history or used as a tool for political manipulation.
Conference: International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 8-10 2025. Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanitie Text Analysis" Seminar at the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). Call for Papers #nemla2025 Submit your abstract https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20988 Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo is the Chair of a Seminar "Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanities, Text Analysis" for inclusion in the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). https://www.nemla.org/convention.htmlNeMLA's 56th Annual ConventionHotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Cultural Studies and Media Studies
AMP: American Music Perspectives seeks articles associated with Bruce Springsteen’s groundbreaking 1975 album Born to Run. The journal is open to a wide range of cultural and theoretical perspectives, as well as to essays that address the artist’s earlier work in relation to Born to Run. For best consideration, please submit your work by October 15, 2024. This special issue will be co-edited by Kenneth Womack (Monmouth University) and Carlee Migliorisi (Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music) to commemorate the album’s 50th anniversary.
Event :
NeMLA's 56th Annual Convention, March 06-09 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The panel "Abortion, Single Motherhood, and Adoption Schemes in Magdalene Literature" will take place at the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) organised from March 6 to March 9 in Philadelphia, PA.
Magdalenism is a structure which was implemented from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth century in about 60 European and Europeanised countries around the world. Its objective was to control and fashion femininity, women’s social behaviours, and their sexuality. At a time when abortion was illegal in most countries, Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby “Homes” were often seen as a “solution” for unmarried pregnant girls and women.
300 Word proposals
“Sketching the Spectral: Ghosts in French-language Graphic Novels”
56th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Philadelphia, PA
March 6-9, 2025
Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2024
The Eudora Welty Society seeks submissions for its 2024 SAMLA panel, “Mirrors and Magnifications: Eudora Welty and Shifting Perspectives.” In alignment with this year’s SAMLA theme, Seen and Unseen, the panel aims to investigate the methods that Welty uses to mirror, frame, magnify, and even distort the vision of her characters and/or readers. Welty’s work displays a creative use of varying avenues of sight with material, political, and epistemological consequences—some examples from her fiction may be the dimmed lamp that contributes to R.J.
Call for papers for the volume on Ecodramaturgies for Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy series, edited by Magda Romanska:
https://www.routledge.com/Focus-on-Dramaturgy/book-series/RFOD
Bodies of Feminist Resistance: Archives and Practices in Spain and Latin America - Panel Discussion at NeMLA 2025, "(R)EVOLUTION"
Host Institution: La Salle University
Hotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Dates: March 6-9, 2025
Departing from 'the body' as a terrain of feminist analysis and resistance, this panel seeks to explore the wide range of interventions re-imagining 'the political' in contemporary Spain and Latin America.
Seminar 3 of European Shakespeare Research Asociation Conference in Porto, 9-12 July, 2025
Shakespeare and Music: Between Time and Timelessness
Supported by the RMA Shakespeare and Music Study Group
Convenors:
Michelle Assay, University of Toronto, Canada (michelle.assay@utoronto.ca)
Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest, Romania (alina.bottez@lls.unibuc.ro)
CALL FORPAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on the Women of IMAX
Guest Editors: Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney
PoP Moves, an international network of popular dance researchers, invites proposals for a Special Topics Issue of The Journal of Popular Culture on the topic of mediating popular dance histories. For well over a century, popular dance has been present across changing media technologies: from printed instruction manuals in magazines and newspapers to radio, film, and television to digital platforms and social media, dancing has circulated between different bodies, cultural communities, and across geographical and social boundaries.
Adaptation, widely regarded outside the academy as a conservative practice, has been compared to biological evolution by Gary R. Bortolotti, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian Boyd. Although the evolutionary model embraced by these scholars sets itself against reviewers who continue to judge new adaptations as more or less successful copies of familiar texts, it still emphasizes continuity rather than disruption as the rule for textual and cultural adaptation.
Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like feminism, anti-racism, anti- and post-colonialism, and ecocriticism have called out the human’s complicated entrenchment in and with other/othered bodies and landscapes. Posthumanist scholars like Rosi Braidotti define the (post)human body as necessarily relational, nomadic, ever-changing with and in response to others. As such, the body becomes a site for radical transformation through which we may interrogate contemporary issues such as gender and race equity, income inequality, and climate change.
Call for Papers
New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
An International Conference, 28 and 29 March 2025
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany