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Reconceptions of European Literary History, ICMS 2025

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:50am
Olivia Colquitt, University of Düsseldorf
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Welcoming submissions to 'Reconceptions of European Literary History' at ICMS Kalamazoo, 8-10 May 2025. This 2-part series will comprise of the following sessions:

I. How Do We Study Historical Text Traditions? (Paper Session)

“The archives are full of voices”: Decolonising the Archive in the English-Speaking World

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:50am
Université de Reims
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Archives have become a site of contestation because of their status as “an imperial project of domination and affirmation” (Ištok 2016). It is specifically the case in the English-speaking world. The revelation in 2011 of the hiding and culling by British colonial authorities of “incriminating documents from former colonies in the months before each one became politically independent” (Diptée 2024) is a case in point. In this deliberate and pernicious meddling with archives, now known as “Operation Legacy”, the “mother country” aimed to tone down — if not silence — colonial violence and display a more humanist facet that was supposed to undergird the liberation of British territories from colonial shackles (Cobain 2016).

Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:49am
ACLA 2024 Seminar Stream
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Seminar Stream proposed for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, which will be held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025.Kindly note that in the ACLA format, you are expected to attend and engage with other presentations in your seminar. This entails a commitment of circa 2 hours over the course of 2-3 days on the dates above. Please do not submit a paper if you are not willing to make this commitment.  


 

Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

A Time Such as This

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:43am
Institute of Faith And the Academy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Being good makes one a target. History rattles off instances of virtuous individuals cracked by circumstance and at the mercy of a world that seeks its own ends apart from a universal pattern anchored in the Divine. Should one register shock, then, at the violence directed at those whose faces reflect the goodness of God, for the world “hated me first” Christ reminds his disciples. No, we cannot feign surprise. Nor can we fail to act. When Mordecai implored Esther to approach the king on pain of death, he did so with the assurance that God would provide regardless of her choice, and yet, he asked her, “... who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such as time as this?” Yes, God will provide, and perhaps we are that provision.

CFP: Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes [Rolling Submissions]

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:41am
Michael Y. Bennett, Editor
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes(TPNC) is a theatre and performance studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles.

[NOTE: Our first issue, 1.1, has been published (and you can access this issue here: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/tpnc/issue/1/1). Our second issue, 1.2, is currently in production and will come out later this year.]

 

TPNC operates via rolling submissions, so there is no specific deadline to submit your article.

Belvedere Research Journal, New Issue

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:41am
Belvedere, Vienna
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The Belvedere Research Journal (BRJ), a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, invites new submissions. We are interested in articles that shed light on the visual culture of the former Habsburg Empire and Central Europe broadly defined from the medieval period to the present. Contributions that position Austrian art practices within a wider international framework are particularly welcome. We value innovative art historical approaches, such as challenging established narratives or exploring transnational exchanges that highlight the interconnected and cross-cultural nature of the art world.

FOUNDATION MYTH ACROSS BORDERS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: Session at the Society for Renaissance Studies conference 2025

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:40am
Mary Bateman
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 2, 2024

The origin myths of nations, regions, and cities provided an obvious appeal in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to those interested in the deep histories of the places where they lived and were born. While such stories were used to bolster local or national prestige, many origin myths also stretch across borders, inscribing deep connections between places: Britain claimed Trojan origins through Brutus’ foundation, but so too did the French, the Norse, and even the Dutch; and Noah’s offspring were believed to have been the originators of different peoples across Europe.

"Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Shift Era"

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:40am
Howard University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

                        Call for Papers: "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Era"

Hosted by the Department of English, Howard University

The Department of English at Howard University invites scholars, researchers, and educators to submit abstracts for our forthcoming virtual conference on "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Shift Era." This second annual conference will explore contemporary approaches to the study of Womanism and Afrofuturism during this transformative period in American history.

Conference Themes:

We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  1. Literary Works and Authors:

Screen, Image, Psyche: On Film, Psychoanalysis, and Becoming Other

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:39am
Julia Brühne / University of Bremen; Matthew Lovett (University of Pittsburgh)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

NeMLA's 56th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 6 to March 9, 2025

Chairs:

Julia Bruehne (University of Bremen)

Matthew Lovett (University of Pittsburgh)

 

NEW DATE & DEADLINE: Fall 2024 Conference on Christopher Marlowe’s Plays—“A Marlowe for All Seasons”

updated: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 7:00pm
Resurgens Theatre Company / Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

Resurgens Theatre Company, along with the Georgia State University Department of English, is pleased to announce our third biennial conference on early modern verse drama by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, “A Marlowe for All Seasons.” We’re calling for papers that examine some aspect of Christopher Marlowe’s plays in performance, from the Elizabethan era through the current day, but also welcome topics involving Marlovian influence on the development of Renaissance drama and/or early modern print culture. The conference will be held on its NEW DATE, September 13 and 14, 2024, at the historic Pythagoras Masonic Temple (108 E.

Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

updated: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 5:01pm
Shaj Mathew / ACLA 2025 Virtual Seminar (May 29-June 1)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

This ACLA 2025 virtual seminar convenes scholars working in philosophy and literature, broadly construed. It harnesses the frisson between global modernist literature and global philosophies of mind. Seemingly remote from reality, how might the philosophy of mind illuminate the modern global metropolis? Do idealist theories of reality—German, French, or Indian—have a place in accounts of modernity that are so often dominated by Marxian materialism? How might philosophy reconcile, or extricate us from, the impasse between singular and multiple theories of modernity? How does non-European philosophy complicate our extant understanding of this concept?

ICSSR-ERC Sponsored Two-Day International Conference on “Literature & Heritage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, 20-21 September, Organised by the PG Section of Malda College, Malda, West Bengal-7322101

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 9:25pm
Malda College
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The intersection of literature and heritage provides a rich tapestry for a nuanced interdisciplinary exploration  of cultural narratives, historical contexts, and societal evolution. This symbiotic bond intertwines the text with the material and immaterial facets of the cultural identity. Literature engages in re/negotiating identity and re/imagining heritage in complying with the transformations of community over the ages owing to various factors. These narratives, having fictional or realistic bases, are the spaces that mirror the intricate collective memory of a community, regulating a dynamic reciprocity with the past and the present.

Watching Eyes: Literature, Religion, and Surveillance

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 3:05pm
Department of English, St Berchmans College, Changanacherry
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

This proposal is for the Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series, edited by Heather Ostman and devoted to the literary examination of religion. The series intends to look into how literature has depicted and transformed the role of religion and divinity. However, this proposed book aims to contribute to the series by looking at how literary texts engage with religious ideology and their implications for surveillance.

Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
Brandon Hutchinson/Southern CT State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Abstract

What role do the genres autoethnography and/or memoir play in the revolution and evolution of Black women in the academy? How can they help instigate radical change and encourage sustainable practices for Black women who seek to thrive in higher education?

In a roundtable format, "Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy" will shift the conversation from studying others to reflecting on oneself. This interactive session aims to create an intentional space for Black women who serve in academia to reflect and center on their daily experiences in their own words. 

Call for Papers: 'The Author'

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
Book 2.0
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Call for Papers: Book 2.0

Special Issue: ‘The Author’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/book-20#call-for-papers

Authors mean different things at different times and in different contexts. For example, the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary conceives it as ‘[a] writer, and senses relating to literature’ and ‘[a] creator, cause, or source’. In 2004, Andrew Bennett suggested that ‘questioning the nature of authorship’ can be a hallmark of crises and turning points in literature.

Revolutionary Educations: Literary Responses to Colonial Education Around the World

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
Gayathri Goel
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

From the Indian boarding schools of North America to the English curriculum mandate of the British empire, formal education, and the various guises it assumed, was an important instrument for colonial powers to exert dominance over its colonized subjects. The afterlives of such an education continue today through dominant knowledge systems that benefit the few at the expense of the many. This panel seeks papers that aim to disentangle and liberate education from colonial control, so that education can be a vehicle for vital knowledge production and empowerment.

CFA: 90s Alternative and Philosophy

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
McFarland and Co. Publishers Inc.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 18, 2024

Call for Abstracts!

90s Alternative and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Heart-Shaped Box

Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene

2025 Gothic and Horror Talks series (interdisciplinary)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:12pm
Romancing the Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Please note that all papers are accepted on a first come/first served basis so to guarantee the slot you want (subject to the paper being accepted), we recommend applying as early as possible.

 

I’m opening up the call for the 2025 Romancing the Gothic talk series! Each month has a theme but please interpret it liberally. We want a range of papers from different countries and traditions.

We welcome people from all stages of their academic career and from outside academia.

You can find a list of topics by month. If you don’t know where you’d fit, reach out anyway!

MEMORY, TRAUMA AND RECOVERY - 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:12pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Conference online: 19-20 September 2024

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

​CFP:

CFP: "Speculative Detectives," Special Issue of Studies in the Fantastic

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:12pm
Studies in the Fantastic
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

SPECULATIVE DETECTIVES

The biannual journal Studies in the Fantastic invites proposals for an upcoming special issue investigating the popular yet puzzling pairing of detective and speculative genres, guest edited by Christiana Salah and Steven Mollmann.

SCMS 2025 (Chicago, April 3-6, 2025) | “Unreasonably Long; Unbearably Dull: On Slow and Pointless Cinema”

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:12pm
Brenda Wang and Emma Ridder, UCLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 23, 2024

Films that seem to demand more than their “fair share” of their audience’s lives or are deemed not “worth” watching index the complex ways spectatorship, attention, labor, and biopolitics are imbricated in our treatment of moving-image media. This panel examines how exhausting, pointless, and/or somnolent cinema stages experiences of duration and endurance as feats of aesthetic difficulty. We invite papers that consider the relationship(s) between cinematic temporality, modes of diffused attention, and the affective labor of spectatorship. How might we expand beyond interpretations of such media as solely about refusal and negation? What interdisciplinary methodologies might help us approach this “difficult” cinema?

Southern Humanities Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:11pm
Southern Humanities Council
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2025

Call for Papers

 

Conference Theme: Real, Artificial, and Superficial

Greenville, SC, January 30- February 2, 2025

 

The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

 

Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:10pm
Sinan Akilli / Cappadocia University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities welcomes contributions for future issues. Ecocene is published by Cappadocia University, Environmental Humanities Center. Each issue has a general section and a section on creative writing (Storying Ecocenes), creative art (Ecocene Arts), and book reviews. The general section can contain 6-8 articles. These articles should be research articles with a length of 5500 words. The word limit for short fiction is 3000, 1500-2000 for book reviews.

The Past, Present, and Future of the South Asian Revolutionary Cultural Praxis

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:10pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The explosion of revolutionary literature in South Asia is traced back to the formation of the All India Writers’ Association in 1936. Within a few years, the Indian People’s Theatre Association was formed in 1943. Operating with a distinct socialist fervor partly inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, these umbrella organizations brought together hundreds of poets, writers, thespians, and musicians working in various languages across the length and breadth of undivided India to consolidate a consensus against colonialism and fascism. Although the 1947 partition soon separated them into India or East/West Pakistan, the polemics of their art could not be stopped from reverberating across borders.

My So-Called Life at 30: An Introspective Retrospective

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
Post45 Contemporaries
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Abstracts (200 words) due: August 30

Final essays (2500-3000 words) due: December 15

 

My So-Called Life at 30: An Introspective Retrospective

Genre et dynamiques socio-économiques: Quelles trajectoires en Afrique?

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
56th NeMLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

L’Afrique est un continent aux expériences historiques et culturelles diversifiées, aux contextes politiques, économiques et sociaux variés. Ce continent incarne également des disparités culturelles, politiques et économiques, notamment en matière de développement humain et d’égalités de genre. Dans la majorité des pays africains, il est possible de tracer les grandes lignes d’un état des lieux du genre dans sa complexité et ses contradictions.

NeMLA Conference 2025, CFP: Memory and Exile: The Spanish Civil War in the Light of Female Voices

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
Estefania Tocado, PhD (Lafayette College)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel seeks to explore and shed light to the multiplicity of voices and accounts that surround issues of memory and exile in Spain in relationship to the Spanish Civil War and its impacts as a reflection of unresolved issues that are portrayed in recent contemporary fiction. The goal is to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about how memory, and exile, that in many cases are intertwined in these narratives, deepen our understanding of how the female experience is portrayed. The intention of giving agency to the unheard women voices and those marginalized by normative discourses is prevalent in these counter discourses that, frequently, have an autobiographical component. 

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