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Call for chapter proposals
Theatre, Performance and the Fantastic
Bloomsbury (Methuen Drama)
Edited by Ian Farnell
REVISED - Call for Book Chapter Proposals
Editors: Dr. Animesh Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of English St. Xavier's College (Ranchi University), Ranchi, India
Srija Sanyal, Research Scholar, Ronin Institute for Independent Research, NJ, USA
Women and Literature in India: A Critical Perspective (Working Title)
Acta Ludologica (ISSN 2585-8599, e-ISSN 2585-9218) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice a year in both online and print versions. It focuses on the comprehensive discourse of games and digital games, including theoretical and empirical studies, research results, and their implementation into practice, as well as professional publication reviews and scientific reviews of digital games.
Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for Vol. 7, No. 1, scheduled to be published in June 2024. The submissions deadline is December 31, 2023.
Conference Theme: “Roots/Routes of Resistance and Resilience”
Call for Papers: “Writing Back to Flannery O’Connor”
Deadline extended to November 8th, 2023
The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks abstracts for a proposed in-person panel to be held at the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States’s (MELUS) annual conference at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas from April 11-14, 2024.
Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC) will be holding its 44th Annual Meeting at the Pyle Center on the campus of UW-Madison in Madison, WI on March 7-10, 2024!
See below — or visit the MATC website at http://matc.us — to find individual calls for papers for the all-conference papers, pedagogy symposium, playwriting symposium, practice/production symposium, theatre history symposium, articles-in-progress and pitch-your-book workshops, and emerging scholars panels.
As hip-hop turns 50 in 2023, there is much to celebrate and reflect on, including its impact on higher education. This session is engaged with questions about the latter: what is hip-hop doing in our classrooms and conversely, what are we doing with it in our teaching practice?
Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory SpacesInternational Conference #3
Death “Matters”: The (Im)material and the Sensory in Death in Migration
Deadline for submission of abstracts extended until October 30, 2023. A few travel bursaries will be considered on a case by case basis for outstanding proposals.
Venue: The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dates: January 7-9, 2024
Language: English
Deadline for submitting proposals: Oct 30, 2023 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance: Nov 2023
II International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences: Fostering Global Resilience through Cross-cultural Collaboration
ISCAP Porto Portugal, 27-28 novembre 2023
Deadline: 15 septembre 2023
The conference is an opportunity for academics and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests to share the latest research findings and new ideas (theoretical and practical) related to the cross-cultural contributions of HSS in addressing global issues. The main goal is to contribute to the realization of a sustainable and inclusive development model.
The Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Management, Economics, Cultural and Creative Industries:
**extended deadline**NeMLA (March 7-10, 2024 - Boston)Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain
Dear colleagues,
International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education
The Human Life. Energy, Conscience and Freedom. 8th MCDSARE Conference, 1-2 th November 2023
The 8th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education
SERIES - Call for Abstracts:
Mental TV: Changing the Narrative of Mental Disorders on Television
We are now accepting proposals for the upcoming Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, “Create, Connect, Reflect: Launching Collaborations and (Re)building Community in Our Fields,” which will be held on Zoom from February 28-March 1 and in-person at the University of Louisville from March 7-9, 2024.
A brief summary of what we are planning is below; for more details and the exigence, please see our call for proposals. Project proposals are due on Sunday, November 26 at 11:59 pm EST.
https://louisville.edu/conference/watson/2024-watson-conference
What We are Planning, In Brief:
International Shaw Conference Dublin June 5 th -7 th 2024
Venue: MOLI, UCD Naughton Joyce Centre, 85 St Stephen’s Green, St Kevin’s Dublin
CALL FOR PAPERS
SHAW 46.1 (June 2026): SHAW AND IRELAND
Moderns and Others: genre, gender, faith and form in noncanonical British literature
(deadline 3rd November 2023)
The historical period of 1650-1800 includes massive historical transformations with particular purchase for the history of gender, yet this period has only begun to attract substantial attention from scholars of trans studies. This volume seeks to gather work that engages rigorously with trans studies methodologies while deepening the field’s engagement with historical periods and materials across regions, languages, and disciplines.
Seeking proposals for a roundtable discussion on defining qualities of 21st Century African American literature and cultural production and the process of creating collaborative scholarly projects on this emerging, multifaceted, and evolving body of work.
Prominence and Precarity is the name of the seventeenth volume of the Cambridge University Press series African American Literature in Transition. Focused on 21st century African American literature and cultural production, the chapters in this volume explore the tension between African American cultural prominence and African American vulnerability and precarity in contemporary US society.
You're invited to apply for the WIS Symposium: Dear colleagues, We hope you will join us for another WIS! Specifically, Writing Human/s, the 6th annual Writing Innovation Symposium, is slated for February 1-2, 2024. Proposals for flashtalks, workshops, posters, and displays are due 10/27; proposals for flares, an undergrad-only program category, are due 12/15; applications for this year’s Bedford/St. Martin’s WIS Fellows cohort is due 12/1. Notifications will begin in early November, and registration will open in December. We want to call special attention to the 3-minute pre-recorded “flares” we are inviting undergrads to share.
Rogue Mobilities
WANT TO PUBLISH YOUR SCHOLARLY WORK?
WHAT IS JURH?
THE SACRED, THE SPIRITUAL AND THE RELIGIOUS
IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL SOCIETIES
INTERNATIONAL ONLINE STUDY DAY
December 14, 2023
Presentation
The Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.
35th Annual American Literature Association Conference May 23-26, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.
New Directions in Brut Studies
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 29–31, 2024. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions. The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian
Saturday, October 14, 2023, 10AM- 12PM, Hybrid:
In Person at Seton Hall University, Fahy Hall, rm. 129
Virtual in Zoom
Please join us for the NJCEA annual Fall Roundtable. There will be two topics of discussion, both of which will inform our spring conference.
“Facing the Challenges of Generative AI”
How are you and your institution addressing the challenges being raised by generative AI, including ethical considerations and policies? How are you handling the use of generative AI in your classes, if at all?
"How Can Literature, Writing, And Language Programs Survive and Even Thrive in These Challenging Times?"
NeMLA 2024: 20717. Hart Crane in the 21st Century: Crossing The Bridge and Beyond (Roundtable)American/Diaspora
Chair: John Wargacki (Seton Hall University)
This roundtable discussion addresses Hart Crane’s poetry and legacy in modernism
Please log in to the convention portal for additional details and to submit: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2024
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment
Critical theory has questioned the conceptual limits of ideas like the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and supremacy of human animals over nature. Ongoing global crises, such as climate change, divergent levels of modernization, and the search for bold and expedient solutions to accelerating environmental crises urge new frameworks to analyze an interdependent world.