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A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Its Afterlives (Edited collection)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 10:09am
W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State University; Molly Hand, Florida State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Papers for Proposed Volume: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Its Afterlives

 

Co-editors: W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State University (wrampone [at] scsu.edu)

Molly Hand, Florida State University (mhand [at] fsu.edu)

 

Greying the Carnival: Samuel Beckett Inverting / Inverting Samuel Beckett

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 9:36am
Call for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR in Cologne, Germany, 9th–13th June 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Samuel Beckett’s drama may not be yet mapped as a site of carnival; nevertheless, the Beckettian dramatic ecosystem is open to a sense of the carnivalesque. In Europe and the northern Americas, the carnival tends to be understood as a secularised Christian tradition, the religious roots of which are enshrined in the epistemology of the word. Originating from the Latin carnem levāre – the removal of the flesh (OED) – the carnival used to be a festive threshold leading into the frugality and modesty of Lent. Yet, such grassroots street performances have thrived beyond this limited cultural, historical and geographical frame.

International Conference on Welsh Studies

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:50am
North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

30th Anniversary International Conference on Welsh Studies

University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH

16-18 July 2025

Call for Papers

Next summer, NAASWCH (North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History) will celebrate 30 years since our inaugural meeting, and our return to action after the disruptions of the COVID pandemic. The 2025 conference returns us to where it all began, at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH.

Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers, 5/29 - 5/30/2025, East Lansing, MI

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:50am
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

[Technical and Professional Communication] (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

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Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:50am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Subject: Call for Papers: Technical and Professional Communication at CEA 2025

 

Call for Papers, Grammar/Linguistics at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Technical/Professional Communication for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

[Grammar/ Linguistics] (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:49am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Subject: Call for Papers: Grammar/Linguistics at CEA 2025

 

Call for Papers, Grammar/Linguistics at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Grammar and Linguistics for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE -- Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:44am
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

SPECIAL ISSUE – Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

Though some have dismissed the imagination as “the junkyard of the mind,” just about all artists will vouch for the fact that the imagination is not just essential but also central to the arts. This is true not only of the creation or production of artworks, it is the case also when it comes to the reception or experience of art.

CFP: CINEMATIC CROSSROADS AND DIGITAL FRONTIERS

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:42am
School of Communication & Media Studies, St Joseph's University, Bangalore
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 21, 2024

Cinematic Crossroads and Digital Frontiers

At a time when over two-thirds of the global population has access to the internet, the paradigms of media dissemination have
undergone a profound transformation. The dynamics between producers and content consumers have been redefined, thanks to
the proliferation of accessible technologies. This democratisation of media has empowered both amateur and professional creators to
express their artistic visions through the cinematic medium.

Call for Papers: ‘Re-Imagining Fashion Retailing and Marketing in the Epoch of Sustainability and Digitalization’

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:42am
International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

‘Re-Imagining Fashion Retailing and Marketing in the Epoch of Sustainability and Digitalization’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers

International School on Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Technologies 2024

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:42am
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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**** International School on Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Technologies 2024 ****

10-13th December, 2024 in Naples, Italy.

https://isact-org.github.io/

*** DEADLINE for the application: 30th September 2024 ***

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We are pleased to announce that the International School on Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Technologies (ISACT 2024) will be held from the 10th to the 13th of December, in the beautiful and historic city of Naples, in the south of Italy.

ACIS/BCPS Conference

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:42am
American Conference for Irish Studies/Brisith Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 30, 2024

2025 ACIS-BCPS CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 23-26, 2025 | DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH, GA

The Program Committee for the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) and the British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (BCPS) cordially invites the electronic submission of proposals for papers, panels, and other relevant presentations.

Beyond Monogamy (NeMLA 2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:41am
Ketan Jain
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

In her 2017 debut novel Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney writes, “You can love more than one person” (Rooney 141). A statement so obvious, it’s not even worth stating. However, a simple edit—you can be in love with more than one person—suddenly becomes a much more controversial statement. 

Framing the Francophone: The Seen and the Unseen in Contemporary Graphic Novels

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:41am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The current surge of graphic novels in French, from Marjane Satrapi's oft-celebrated Persepolis to Jessica Oublié's lesser-known-yet-prize-winning Péyi An Nou, signifies a shift in priorities for Francophone storytellers. Graphic novels create meaning through the interplay of text and image; they privilege non-linear storytelling and thinking; and they prioritize accessibility over erudition. As a marginalized genre, graphic novels are a welcome home for those writing and illustrating from the margins of society. In a graphic novel, what we see is never the full story; instead, we are constantly challenged into new modes of "seeing" and "reading" that question assumptions about the consumption of literature and art.

The Post-Truth Handbook: A Practical Guide to Addressing Disingenuous Rhetorics

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:30am
Paul Cook and Bruce Bowles, Jr.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025

Deceptive and unethical rhetorical strategies are increasingly prevalent in politics, media, digital spaces, and everyday conversations. Whether the result of a changing discursive landscape (McIntyre, 2018; Nichols, 2017), our enmeshment in digital environments (Bolter, 2019; Pigg, 2020; Gurri, 2018), or a reflection of long-standing rhetorical trends (Fuller, 2018; Roberts-Miller, 2019) that have simply accelerated in the digital age, the question of how to address these disingenuous rhetorics is a challenge for both scholars of rhetorical theory and researchers from across the disciplines.

ALA Annual conference: "Ecologies of Transition: Spaces and Mobilities in African Literatures and Cultures"

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:30am
African Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

This conference, marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the African Literature Association (ALA), explores the ways in which African writers reconceive movement and place. Often, narratives about Africans on the move, particularly migrant Africans, reflect a tension between motion and stasis. Such tensions highlight the often-unsettling narrative transitions that characterize recent poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction from Africa and the diaspora. While narratives like NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names depict the exigencies of forced removal, others, like Fatou Diome’s Belly of the Atlantic describe identities and situations in flux.

Journal Submissions: Indiana English

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:29am
Indiana English (Indiana College English Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

Indiana English encourages submissions on the role of English studies in the Midwest but will consider submissions on any topic related to English literature and criticism, linguistics, or pedagogy. For this volume, we are particularly interested in exploring writings on national politics, the Midwest's impact on Presidential elections, works studying candidates who came from the Midwest, and the rich literary history that comes with such considerations (speeches, policies, educational content). We also publish original creative work (fiction, poetry, creative or literary nonfiction, and photography).

NeMLA 2025 -- Not Even Past: Personal Encounters with the Pre-Industrial Past

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:28am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2025)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Although writers like Sappho and Shakespeare died hundreds of years ago, the works they left behind are still vibrantly alive. When we read them, we recognize something fundamental about ourselves. In this roundtable, literature scholars, creative essayists, and poets reflect on deeply personal encounters with “old” books, texts, and images from the pre-Industrial past. Covering a range of topics—Shakespeare and divorce, Dante and gender, Hippocrates and the modern health-care system, St. Agatha and embodiment, studying the Middle Ages while Black—these essays show how conversations with the past continues to animate our twenty-first century lives.

We are especially interested in essays that engage the 17th and 18th centuries.

Abjection and the Joy of Movement in African Female Writings

updated: 
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 2:38pm
Diweng Mercy Dafong/ University of Alabama (NeMLA 2025)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

As today we see Western countries enacting various immigration laws and borders are being mined to prevent “intruders” from accessing those countries. Faced with (in)security in sub-Saharan Africa the African woman has become that monster of abjection residing in that marginal geography, dwelling in the gates of difference in unfamiliar spaces. The African woman faced with (im)migration goes through a strong feeling of revulsion, fear, or aversion, she is treated as something that is a threat to one's boundaries and undermines one's sense of identity and security, exemplifying Kristeva’s idea of abjection.

Creative (R)evolution of Philadelphia

updated: 
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 10:24am
Maureen McVeigh Trainor - NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

UPDATED DEADLINE! OCTOBER 15, 2024

This creative session seeks writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction who address Philadelphia’s past, present, and future creative evolution, revolution, and devolution in their work. 

 

ABSTRACT

As one of America’s oldest cities, Philadelphia has experienced drastic changes many times over, often celebrated or maligned by its creative class in music, literature, and performing arts. 

 

Bugs and early Animal-Eco Literature in the long 19thC

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 8:27pm
Brooke Cameron / Queen's University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection on 'Bugs in long-19thC Eco-Literature.'

Essays in this collection will focus on a specific subgenre of eco-literature, ranging from Gothic horror to children’s fantasy.

"(R)evolutionary Feminist Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Literature" (NeMLA 2025 Roundtable)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 1:05pm
Leah Fry (University of Connecticut-Hartford)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

In 21st-century Ireland, women have experienced several (r)evolutions in their political rights that have, in turn, shaped the imagination of the nation. Irish abortion law faced a major public challenge with the 2012 death of Savita Halappanavar after she was denied an abortion while suffering a septic miscarriage; in 2018, lawmakers passed a law that allows abortion up to week 12 of pregnancy, a small victory in a nation where abortion under any circumstances beyond saving the life of the mother was forbidden.

Classical Queers Here and Now: Mythmaking in the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 12:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Literary works, video games, comics, TV shows, films, and podcasts that adapt or retell Classical mythology remain popular. Yet, recent attention on these contemporary stories has focused largely on women and women’s perspectives, while Classical queer identities have been decidedly underexplored or even excluded from feminist scholarship. Works such as Xena: Warrior Princess, BBC/Netflix’s Troy: Fall of a City, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, Steven Sherrill’s The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, and Supergiant Games’ Hades and Hades II demonstrate a sustained interest in centering queer bodies and voices within the Classical tradition.

2024 Arkansas Philological Association (APA) Call for Papers--extended to October 11, 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 11:49am
Arkansas Philological Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 11, 2024

The Arkansas Philological Association invites papers/presentations for its 51st annual conference. The conference will take place Nov. 8-9, 2024, at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.

We welcome faculty, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and independent scholars from a wide range of disciplines to submit proposals of no more than 200 words for 15- to 20-minute presentations on topics related to language(s), literature, theoretical and cultural analysis, creative works, and pedagogical approaches. Papers addressing any aspect of literary and cultural studies are welcome, but we particularly encourage proposals for talks (or panels) on the APA 2024 conference topic of food and culture.

Vonnegut and (R)Evolution (Kurt Vonnegut Society Session)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:30am
Nicole Lowman/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

56th NeMLA ConventionPhiladelphia, PA |  March 6-9th, 2025

All abstracts must be submitted through NeMLA's CFP portal: View Session (cfplist.com)

 

This session is sponsored by the Kurt Vonnegut Society and seeks abstracts that engage the conference theme of "(R)EVOLUTION."

We are open to what shape presentations might take, but possibilities might include:

Hip Hop and American (R)evolution

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:30am
Nicole Lowman/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

56th NeMLA ConventionPhiladelphia, PA |  March 6-9th, 2025

All submissions must be made through NeMLA's submission portal: View Session (cfplist.com)

Hip hop began in the Bronx, NY, in the early 1970s, but the musical genre and cultural movement build from a rich history of Black American traditions, experience, and epistemology. This session seeks short presentations that will prompt a roundtable discussion about how hip hop has influenced and been influenced by American (r)evolution.
Some might argue that hip hop was and is a cultural (r)evolution for many reasons, including:

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