Speculating Exile: Literary Estrangements and Fugitive Belongings

Exile is “the signature and permanent mark of the modern age,” M. Nourbese Philip wrote in 1992: “we cutting we teeth on exile— exile in the very air we breathing.” In this waning quarter of the 21st century, more than 281 million or 3.6% of the global population are migrants, a number that, by all accounts, will only rise. Displacement, whether due to economic instabilities, climate change, war, political oppression, or just the “maddest Joy” of desire, alters not only those it subjectifies, but the conditions of belonging that inform their trajectories.

This annual scholarly journal is published by the Comparative World Literature program at California State University, Long Beach.

Genre is dedicated to publishing creative and scholarly work in the Humanities as well as essays related to the annual Comparative Literature conference. Reviews of current works of literary criticism, literature and local Southern California art exhibitions are also featured.

Call for PapersGenre will be accepting papers and creative work along the theme of the CWL 2024 conference: Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective for Volume 40: Writers of Extreme Situations (2024) .

Call for Papers: Mindfulness, Movement, and Cultural Revitalization: Indigenous Contemplative Theories and Practices

CALL FOR PAPERS

2ND INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE AND GOTHIC CONFERENCE (FOGO):

“LANDSCAPES AND TERRITORIES OF HORROR”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Trans-Analytics: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and History

Special Issue of Psychoanalysis and History

Editor: Carolyn Laubender (University of Essex)

Editorial Advisory Board: Matt ffytche, Dagmar Herzog, Camille Robcis, Dany Nobus, and Hannah Zeavin

Context and Aims:

After the encouraging success of last year’s panel, we want to continue our discussion on “bad art.” Scholarship on the politics of literature has, in recent decades, increasingly come to focus on whether texts from the past conform to the values of the present. Some texts are praised for modeling, even anticipating, our own progressive values, while others are subject to critique for the way they ignore, license, or justify forms of inequity, injustice, and subordination. This disciplinary impulse has come to seem not only justified, but natural. Yet it has also resulted in a growing corpus of books being dismissed or maligned within the academy (books that are often, and importantly, still being read and revered outside the academy).

The International Scholar Journal of Arts and Social Science Research (ISJASSR) invites scholars, researchers, and academicians to submit their original research papers for a special issue focusing on Current Topical Issues in English Language and Literary Studies.

Journal Background

Established seven years ago, the International Scholar Journal of Arts and Social Science Research is a respected publication that is widely indexed in recognized databases. The journal is committed to promoting excellence in research and scholarship in the fields of arts and social sciences.

Special Issue Focus

Note: The Journal of Global South Studies (University of Florida Press) has shown interest in publishing this special issue

Concept Note

This volume will explore the outsized influence of community discourses on how games are experienced. Cultures and discourses surrounding games significantly impact player experiences. Salen and Zimmerman (2004) describe open cultural contexts where "the exchange of meaning between a game and its surrounding cultural context can change and transform both the game and its environment”. Consalvo (2007) discusses how videogame paratexts, including guides and wikis, serve crucial functions in understanding approaches to gameplay. Similarly, Mukherjee (2015) views games as multifaceted “assemblages” that are deeply informed by surrounding cultures and communities.

Title: Religious Encounters: Text, Travel, and Tradition

As Michael Pasquier rightly suggests, the concept of 'religion' is relatively modern, emerging predominantly through political and scientific innovations. However, this does not imply that notions of the 'sacred' or 'spiritual' were absent in earlier times. From the dawn of human existence, individuals have sought to create meaning around themselves and their place in the world. This quest to explain the origin of life and the universe has led to the creation of sacred histories, narratives, oral mythological traditions, texts, symbols, and sites.

We are a brand-new INDEPENDENT zine focused on Max Stirner/Egoism/Anarcho-Egoism related work. 

Have a look at the information here: 

https://creative-nothing-zine.com/about

Submission Guidelines: 

For the annual print zine we are looking for various contributions!!!

So if you enjoy Max Stirner and his work and you are an academic (political & social science, humanities, media studies, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy), artist, writer, blogger or content creator, please feel free to submit.

Submissions can include: 

1. Essays

2. Photo Essays

Anthology Call for Submissions - UPDATED DEADLINE 8/1/24 For this astrology-themed anthology, we are looking for 12 stories—one for each Zodiac sign. Writers should submit a short story that aligns with their sign. (So, for example, a Virgo writer would submit a story that has Virgo vibes, Virgo characters, or embodies Virgo-ness in some way. Feel free to get creative with the connection!)

Open to literary fiction, experimental fiction, and genre fiction.

East-West Cultural Passage

Special Issue: Representations of Disaster in the Humanities, September 2024

Submission deadline: 1 August 2024

The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference

H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us

Saturday 21 September 2024 (hybrid: online and at The Art Workers’ Guild, London, UK)

Keynote speaker: Dr David Shackleton, author of British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time, University of Cardiff.