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We invite submissions to our panel at 4S 2025 in Seattle, Washington (September 3 – 7, 2025). Please see details below:
Blackness as Onto-Epistemological Departure and Arrival*
To think in terms of risk is to imagine the future as a set of foreseeable possibilities and to ameliorate the potentially hazardous ones through action in the present. Distinct from danger, which is seen as inchoate and incalculable, risk carries with it the notion of statistical, probabilistic, or otherwise enumerated legibility, and the costs and benefits of prospective courses of action are given the narrative authority of mathematical language. But even as risk posits itself as a rational approach to considerations of the future, it ignores the mythology of its own construction: risk is, as its critics note, always a process of storytelling.
Special Issue of Mississippi Quarterly,
“Emerging Scholars, Emerging Scholarship”
For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth-century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. The editors of this book proposal seek essays that explore some of the compelling changes Lowery makes to the base text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and what we can learn about the importance—or dangers—of retelling popular stories in new and inventive ways.
“FREEDOM”
14 March 2025
Keynote Panelists TBA
Conference Location:The University of the District of Columbia
Law School Building, 4340 Connecticut Avenue,
Washington, DC 20008
Aesthetics of the Clinic
Recently I, Tawnya Azar (co-editor), posted a request for information on the Writing Studies listserv to solicit information and ideas about hosting a celebration of student writing event in my composition program. After a long search for published research or essays on student writing events, I was finding very little and hoped I would at least get a few additional recommendations for published works on the subject. Instead many faculty and program heads contacted me with generous, detailed descriptions of student writing events they previously ran or currently run, and I was struck by the diversity and potential impact of these events on campus communities.
Call for Papers
IABA European Conference
Life Writing, and Social Transformation
July 23 to 26, 2025
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra
Call for papers until 15 January 2025
We are pleased to announce that the next IABA Europe Conference will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra in partnership with the Centre for Social Studies, 23-26 July 2025. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of 3-4 papers as well as round-table suggestions on the theme of the Conference: “Life Writing and Social Transformation”.
Despite its status as one of cinema’s most enduring and popular genres, complete with a rich history of narrative tropes, aesthetic conventions and character types, the sports film is more frequently analysed as a vehicle for the on-screen representation of sport than a distinct film genre. The representation of sport may be an identifying feature of the sports film, but in the way that horses are an identifying feature of westerns: a key part, to be sure, but film criticism would be much poorer if it elided the complexity of John Wayne’s performance in The Searchers to focus on the horse he rode. We seek abstracts for an edited collection reflecting the depth and breadth of the sports film as genre.
We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday April 24th and Friday April 25th2025. Proposal submissions are due on Friday January 10th, 2025 and can be submitted through this form.
Blurring the lines between art and scholarship, creative-critical practices combine imaginative production with theoretical analysis and reflection. The creative process itself becomes a method of research, discovery and meaning-making, extending and transforming critical theories. By inhabiting a space between established genres and methodologies, creative-critical practitioners generate hybrid works that provoke new ways of seeing, understanding and engaging with the world.
The crafts of India are varied and illustrate the economy, history, culture, religious beliefs, politics, material culture, societal formations and creative faculties of a civilization. The craftsmanship of many states of India reflects diverse cultural influences and has a significant narrative relating to its origins. For ages, crafts have served as an archive of culture and heritage in various communities in India. Every state of India narrates its tales of handicrafts. The wonderful artistry of handcrafted artifacts, the traditions woven in time, get eroded by automation and accuracy, which draw us towards the ‘sophistication’ of repetitive mass production in a capitalist society.
CFP for A Warning to The Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales
An ONLINE conference on 23rd and 24th August 2025 marking the 100th anniversary of MR James A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th April 2025
The conference is fully online and is open to scholars and experts from around the world.
Our culture is undoubtedly influenced by various forms of games, especially video games. These relatively new forms of expression quickly became a driving force of culture. All the generations have become indulged in the pleasure and escapism of games. Nowadays, most of us relax by playing on tabletop systems, devices, or by using cards or miniatures.
Deadline Extended to Friday, January 17, 2025
The George Saunders Society invites prospective participants for one or two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, to be held May 21 to 25, 2025. We are interested in presentations on any aspect of George Saunders’s life and work; in this, our fifth year of activity at ALA (returning after an absence in 2024!), we continue to be interested in papers that challenge, complicate, or go beyond the most common (particularly religious, ethical, or new sincerest) readings of the author’s work in the critical literature to this point. The topic is therefore open, but possible approaches might include:
Conference online (via Zoom): 13-14 February 2025
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
Strangeness and Oddity: Embracing the Extraordinary
in Arts-Based Research
A Transdisciplinary Conference
February 25-26, 2025
Online
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25, 2025
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/strangeness-and-oddity/
Call for Papers:
Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 5-6, 2025
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/fact-fiction/
Fees: 100 GBP
15% discount for LABRC members
Call for Papers:
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing
“It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. ... We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposals relating to the theme of “Forward Moving / Moving Forward” for our 18th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 7, 2025.
Keynote speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz (Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington)
Keynote roundtable: Moderated by Bishnupriya Ghosh (Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara); other roundtable participants from UCSB to be announced
Dates: March. 7-8, 2025
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Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
【Special Issue】Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment
Guest editor
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za
CALL FOR PAPERS
BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition)
Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas
Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development
Special issue editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Housekeepers: The Latina Maid in Contemporary American Film and Literature, Myra Mendible, Editor
“Approaching Dystopia”
Call for Papers
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025
The GPA is accepting submissions for a special edition of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association on the 19th century. Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy as they relate to the 19th century will be considered.
Please send submissions to Nate Gilbert, Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by March 31, 2025.
Please visit our website for information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php
Call for Book Reviews: Volume 14, Issue 2 (2025)
The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for book reviews for a forthcoming volume.
Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship.
If you would like to contribute, you may submit a review for consideration at https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors. If you would like to serve as reviewer, but have no text in mind, please send your CV and a statement of interest to citl@bu.edu.
Following on from the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ...
This new edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.
In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?
How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?
Contributors are invited to consider:
EXTENDED DEADLINE (JANUARY 31)
2-4 July 2025
Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació.
Av. de Blasco Ibáñez, 32, València
Universitat de València (Spain)
Call for Chapters | Variational Translation: Practical and Theoretical Explorations
This edited volume seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into the practical and theoretical explorations of variational translation.
EDITORS
Dr. Chuanmao Tian, Professor, Centre for Translation Studies, Yangtze University, China, Jingzhou, China
Dr. Juntao Deng, Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China
Dr. Zhonglian Huang, Professor, Center for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.