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UK Undergraduate PPE Conference is a global non-profit undergraduate conference. It welcomes submissions of student research from all areas of the humanities and social sciences—with a specific focus on issues pertaining to politics, economics, and philosophy.
Guest edited by James Aaron Green (University of Vienna) and João Paulo Guimarães (University of Porto)
The 2023 NeMLA conference theme is RESILIENCE, an anchor term for critical and creative work that explores how we bear up under trauma, counter ableism, redress social and racial marginalization, environmental destruction, and how we celebrate bodily, cognitive, and neurological difference, access silenced voices, recover from the pandemic, and struggle to save the humanities, and humanity itself from the maw of neoliberalism.
Call for Papers for an Edited Volume of Essays on
Shakespeare and Indian Cinema
Rethinking hospitality through the culture, literature, and thought of contemporary US women of color
New Directions in Brut Studies
Four Hundred Years of the Brut
Here Be Monsters: General Call for Papers for the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022
Proposals are due 15 August 2022
“From ‘Them’ to Now: Changing Metaphors of the Monstrous Insect”
Session Organized by Eddie Guimont, Bristol Community College
Co-Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and the Animals and Culture Special Topic of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022
Proposals are due 15 August 2022
“The worst monsters are the ones we create”: Monstrosity in the Witcherverse
Session Organized by Kris Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022
Proposals are due 15 August 2022
The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century: An International Symposium and Workshop
Hosted by the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (www.global19c.com)
November 5-6, 2022
Mount Saint Mary’s University (Doheny campus), Los Angeles, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts due by September 1
With the advent of social media and platform infrastructures, cancel culture has engendered new means of regulation through digital media platforms which appear to further silence already marginalised communities. Having roots in the Black vernacular tradition, the clear social justice agendas of culturally linked meta-networks of social media practices and community digital infrastructures are argued to have become highjacked by social elites (Clark, 2020). For some commentators this means that the viral nature of social media backlash can claim, to the detriment of democracy, various careers and reputations among well-known celebrities, political figures,
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Please send the manuscript in Microsoft Word format.
Send electronic submissions to: hjamesr@creighton.edu
NeMLA 2023: Niagara Falls, NY. March 23-26, 2023.
In the second half of the 20th century, Haitian society has been profoundly impacted by massive waves of exile provoked by the collective trauma of the Duvaliers dictatorships and epitomized by the internationally recognizable image of the "boat people". On the literary scene, the resulting Haitian diaspora, in North America and elsewhere, has found ways to maintain connections with the native land, reminiscing on childhood memories, revisiting Haiti both physically and metaphorically, and engaging with their shared history, myths, and traditions.
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Global Atomic Horror: Fears of Nuclear Power in Gothic Literature, Film and Media
Overview
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume of critical essays on horrific and Gothic representations of nuclear power. Proposals are welcome from both new and established scholars. Interest in the volume has been expressed by Palgrave Macmillan for their Gothic book series. Edited by Professor Laura Hubner (University of Winchester) and Dr Abigail Whittall (University for the Creative Arts).
Call for Papers
CFP: 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11–13, 2023
Sponsored Session of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Robin Hood Fantasies: Beyond Realism and Verisimilitude (A Roundtable)
Contact: Alexander L. Kaufman, alkaufman@bsu.edu
Session Modality: Virtual
Abstract: This roundtable will bring together scholars interested in developing and studying archives that push the boundaries of what we consider the archive. At the roundtable, through our work, we will consider questions that arise within archival practices and arts, such as: what constitutes or counts as an archive, what kinds of archival delineations should be drawn, pushed back against, or ruptured, and, perhaps most importantly, what is or should be the role of the archive in combating systemic injustice and advancing social justice?
Call for Papers: Dance, Movement & Spiritualities Issue 9.1-2
Please send an abstract outlining your proposed article by 25 July 2022 (not exceeding 1000 words) via the DMAS webpage: www.intellectbooks.com/dance-movement-spiritualities
Full articles to be submitted on 1 August 2022 (Word count 5000-8000).
As indicated by the number in its title, this conference is the second in a series
focused on travel writing studies.The first one, which took place in 2019,
celebrated the 300th anniversary ofthe publication of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
and its literarylegacy.This second edition will celebrate the 100th anniversary
of James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses (1922), which chronicles the
itinerary of Leopold Bloom in Dublinin the course of an ordinary day.
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies,
Universidade Nova, Lisbon) and CELIS (Centre de Recherches sur les
Littératures et la Sociopoétique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-
2022 Dress and Body Association Conference
The Beginner’s Mind:
Asking and Telling About Dress Studies
November 5-6, 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS
The ASCP provides a broad intellectual forum for scholars working within or in communication with continental philosophy and European philosophical traditions. We welcome papers from philosophers, non-philosophers and anti-philosophers working in any discipline, from diverse backgrounds at any stage of their career.
Details about the 2022 annual conference:
University of Melbourne
28 – 30 November
Keynote Speakers:
Claire Colebrook (Penn State)
How does one move from being an undergraduate to a graduate student and then to a professional? How does one prepare for a comprehensive exam? Who would make for the best members of a dissertation committee? What are some milestones to keep track of in the final year before graduation?
Empowering Women in the Digital Economy: A Quest for Meaningful Connectivity and Access in Developing Countries
The Challenge:
Call for Contributions to a Proposed Edited Collection
Book Title: Falling Leaves: Identities, Subjectivities, Mobilities, and the Chinese in Southeast Asia
Project Description:
Please submit abstracts of 300 words directly through the NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) portal here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19891, by 30 September 2022. This is for the NeMLA convention hosted in Niagara Falls, New York from March 23 to March 26, 2023.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Joanna Russ’s landmark short story, ‘When It Changed’, the Science Fiction Foundation and the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow University are proposing an online conference (3-4 December 2022) on women’s role in reshaping science fiction.
The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.
The Milton Society of America seeks to assemble a panel that considers how researching and teaching Milton can advance the shared work of decolonizing our curriculum and scholarship. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.
For this panel, the Milton Society of America invites papers that consider how John Milton’s writings handle loss in its many senses—not just bereavement, but also the foreclosure of personal hopes and political aims. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.
The Milton Society of America invites papers on any aspect of John Milton’s poetics. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.