Literatures and Laws Online Symposium
Literatures and Laws
A one-day symposium hosted online by Bournemouth University, UK
Department of Humanities and Law, and the Narrative, Cultures, and Community Research Centre
13th April 2024
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Literatures and Laws
A one-day symposium hosted online by Bournemouth University, UK
Department of Humanities and Law, and the Narrative, Cultures, and Community Research Centre
13th April 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
Palgrave Handbook of Disability in Comics and Graphic Narratives
We invite abstracts for articles to be published in a collection showcasing scholarly research related to disability in comics and graphic narratives. This edited volume will highlight insights from both disability studies as well as comics studies.
Centering a disability justice ethos, we especially welcome: submissions by disabled authors/creators; collaborative submissions; work that engages with disability life writing and/or disclosure; work that addresses accommodations and accessibility as they relate to comics pedagogy, form, and/or readership.
Faculty of Foreign Languages would like to remind you that the 13th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 24 and 25 May 2024. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY, ESPECIALLY WITH PROMISING GRADUATE STUDENTS & YOUNGER SCHOLARS DOING WORK IN ETHNIC AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES: Journal of Ethnic American Literature, a refereed scholarly annual dedicated to new research and criticism in American literature and culture, seeks scholarly articles (5000 to 7000 words saved in Word) that use the MLA Style. JEAL also plans to develop a "Poetic Notes" section. An interested contributor can select a good but less discussed poem by an American poet and submit an explication of up to 1000 to 1500 words. Submissions can be emailed to journaljeal@yahoo.com, and the subject line should contain JEAL, Sub, your name, and the date. The deadline is August 1.
The Milton Society of America invites proposals considering visibility, broadly conceived, in Milton’s writings. Potential topics include disability, visual art, race, labor. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.
The Milton Society of America invites proposals offering new considerations—theoretical, historical, philosophical, or literary—of love in Milton’s writings. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.
The Milton Society of America invites proposals considering any aspect of Milton's writings and historical significance. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.
COUNSELLORS AND COUNSELLED
The Advice to Princes Tradition between the Hundred Years’ War and the British Interregnum
University of Padua, Italy, 12-13 September 2024
This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.
Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2024
14th Annual Conference
3 – 5th July 2024, University of Liverpool, Offline and Online, https://crsfhome.home.blog/
“I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.”(Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower)
The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, to be held by 9-11 May, 2024 in Manisa, Turkiye, as did its predecessors, aims to bring together academics of language studies in sharing their scholarly work. Any academic event of this kind promises to provide a space for academic and interdisciplinary discussions revolving around the philosophy of language and literature. The submitted papers should be about but not limited to:
Linguistics
International conference
“Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature”
Theme: The Future of the Lumpenproletariat
Subtitle: A Conference in Memory of Glyn Salton-Cox
Type: Interdisciplinary Conference
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Santa Barbara, CA (USA)
Conference date: May 24-25, 2024
Submission deadline: March 15, 2024
[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation
University of Zadar
Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV. br 2
23000 Zadar
www.sic-journal.org
Call for Papers
(Open, Non-Thematic Issue)
[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation invites submissions for the upcoming 30th issue. We accept:
original research papers: 5,000 to 7,000 words including references and footnotes
reviews: up to 2,000 words
Since the “discovery” of psychoanalysis, thinkers of race (creative, intellectual, political, and clinical) have contemplated whether psychoanalytic discourses can contemplate—let alone contend—with the question of Blackness. The range of figures includes thinkers who were focused on the clinical imperative, such as Frantz Fanon, to those who more implicitly yet just as critically have inquired about the psychic life of anti-Black racism (Richard Wright, Patricia Williams, Toni Morrison, etc.). This panel seeks to outline this intellectual history of critical black thought that brings into sharp focus the tensions between psychoanalyses and race while also remarking on current interventions in the state of the field.
Call for Papers
MLA 2025 New Orleans, LA, 9–12 January
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
An Allied Organization of MLA – Guaranteed Session
Australasian Literature at the Crossroads
Official MLA 35-word CFP:
Consideration of any aspect of the literature, film, and/or culture of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, including Indigenous writing, particularly changes to the field, content, and milieu of literary studies. Full CFP aaals.org. 250-word abstracts.
Full CFP:
the Black Theatre Review (tBTR) is now accepting submissions for our fifth publication, Vol. 3 No. 1, to be published in July 2024. “They didn’t bring the hum; they didn’t bring the leader-call, they didn’t bring the field hollers, because they didn’t know them…. the hum, the holler, the leader-call are women things.”
Nikki Giovanni, Black Women Writers at Work
tBTR is pleased to accept submissions for its fifth publication, Vol. 3 No. 1, to be published July 2024 online. We invite authors to reflect on the theme of nurturing.
Turkey with geographical, historical, social, and cultural attributes stands as a unique laboratory for memory studies. Memory studies in turn can serve as an antidote for grappling with Turkey’s past, present, and the looming issues, challenges and crisis within and beyond its borderlands. Despite such mutual benefits, there remains a notable lack of development in memory studies within Turkish academia, and a shortage of collaborative research on the Turkish memory culture in transcultural memory studies. The underrepresentation of memory studies in the Turkish context inevitably underscores the need for research initiatives that contribute to bridging this gap through comprehensive academic resources.
Call for Chapters: Golden Age Detection Goes to War
Editors: Dr J.C. Bernthal (Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Suffolk) and Dr Rebecca Mills (Senior Lecturer in Communication and English, Bournemouth University).
Call for Proposals
ACQL's 2024 annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec from June 14 to 16.
Resurgence of Epistemologies of Gender in Contemporary Indigenous Literatures
Panel organized by Isabella Huberman (UBC), Marie-Eve Bradette (U. Laval) and Sophie Larue (U. Laval)
Ideas in Pop Culture – Potential and Risks
Special Editors: Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) and Paweł Dybała (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)
"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 72 (1/2024)
NEW Submission deadline: March 31, 2024
Ideas, multifaceted in nature, embody thoughts, beliefs, and abstract representations of concepts or entities. Their manifestation and propagation occur through diverse techniques across various media. This special issue aims to delve deep into the intricate relationship between ideas and their portrayal within popular culture.
Jonathan Bayliss Society
Tangents and Divigations
Jonathan Bayliss Society
The Jonathan Bayliss Society is sponsoring two roundtable panels for the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 23-26, 2024, at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL. For additional information about the conference see https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu or info@jonathanbayliss.org by January 29, 2024.
CFP: The California Ideology Conference
Submission Deadline (updated): February 1st, 2024, by midnight PST.
Speakers: Alberto Toscano, Banu Bargu; Massimiliano Tomba
The California Ideology Project (UCHRI) welcomes submissions for an upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the theme of “The California Ideology” at UC Santa Cruz on April 6-7, 2024.
In the seventh edition of the Crossroads Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, we aim to foreground indigeneity as a key theoretical framework for investigating and challenging systems of oppression and as an invaluable component of studies in literature, film, and other media. Indigeneity unsettles colonial mechanisms and intervenes in such contentious discourses as subjectivity, domination, and environmental collapse. By looking at indigeneities comparatively, the conference seeks to underline the intrinsic pluralism and inclusivity of such modes of thinking, to consider indigeneity as a series of non-systems rather than a monolith, and to bring to the forefront the possibility of vibrant solidarity.
30 November 2024 will mark 150 years since the birth of internationally celebrated writer L.M. Montgomery, creator of Anne of Green Gables, twenty other novels, short stories, poetry, diaries, memoir, journalism, textiles, photography, and collage.
Description: As the AATSP’s guaranteed session at the MLA Convention, this session seeks to explore representations of health, well-being, and illness in Lusophone and Hispanophonecontexts from a variety of perspectives that include social justice, pedagogy, cultural production, linguistics, and cultural analysis across places and through time. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Call for Proposals
Mirrors, Shadows, Simulations, and Other Uncanny Doubles
Editors: Pamela Bedore and Anita Duneer
In our cultural moment, we are constantly faced with questions about the very nature of reality. How can we grapple with rapid developments in the power of AI to impersonate, simulate, and replicate personal identities and virtual images? How can we teach our students to identify originals from their copies and to create a sense of their own unique identities?
CFP: “What my Granny once told me…” - International Conference on Urban Legends, Myths, and Horror
Call for Papers
Unruly Borders
“Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.” Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera
The English Graduate Students Association of the University of Ottawa is excited to review your submissions for our 2024 Conference