Cinematographic Pathologies: Representations and Figurations of the Sick Body

Guest Editors: Alan Salvadó, Àngel Quintana and Daniel Pérez-Pamies 

The Covid-19 pandemic has established the sick body as one of the main axes of contemporary thought and 21st-century visual culture. There has been a resurgence in the importance of the body and mental health in media perceptions that has changed political, economic and social life at the global level. 

32nd Annual CDE Conference, Innsbruck (Austria), 2-5 May 2024

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 32nd annual conference (2-5 May 2024). It is organized by the Department of English at the University of Innsbruck and will be held as a residential conference at ‘Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof’ in Innsbruck.

Theatre in the Digital Age

Teaching the Literature Survey Course

International Workshop / University of Mannheim, 14-15 June 2024

This conference takes its cue from the fact that various topical tendencies and events have refuelled interest in landscapes and the countryside in recent years, be it the climate crisis, the crisis of national identity in the context of the Brexit debate or reconsiderations of Britain’s colonial past. It aims at exploring the multi-layered interest in British and Irish landscapes in the 21st century, as writers and researchers alike critically engage with the ideologically charged notion of the countryside by re-reading and reconfiguring popular tropes.

Whether in bridging divides or leaping over them, contesting a binary or dismantling it, “trans(-)” linguistically registers changes of state as well as movements in time and space; it indexes communication or traffic that puts places, persons, and things in new relations to one another and, perhaps, to themselves.

The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics is now accepting submissions for its forthcoming regular issue, Vol. 46, No. 3, Autumn 2023.

Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–8,000 words) following the MLA style should be sent to jclaindia@gmail.com by 31 August 2023.

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The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Race and Ethnicity area welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, and independent researchers of popular culture.  NEPCA’s 2023 fall virtual conference will be held October 12 – October 14, 2023, via Zoom. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2023.  

We encourage panel proposals, as well as, individual submissions. 

Papers are generally 15-20 minutes in length.  We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. The key expectations on presentations are that:

Call for Papers: Symposium on "The Identity of Fictional Characters"

Dates: November 15-17, 2023

Location: University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2023

We are pleased to announce the Symposium on "The Identity of Fictional Characters" as part of the "International Comic Book Research Conference: Perspectives from Visual Culture." This symposium aims to delve into the nature of fictional characters, with a specific emphasis on exploring how the identity conditions of characters in visual media, such as comic books, differ from those in written works of fiction.

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2024

Boston, MA

March 7-10, 2024

The lightning-fast pace of innovation in weak and strong AI, open AI, and natural language processing have jointly given rise to a developing need to reshuffle and refurbish most of our pedagogical and rhetorical practices. The growing use of GPT 3, Chat GPT, LaMDA, DELL E-2, Packback, and other AI-empowered algorithmic tools have pushed the field of rhetoric and composition to transform, giving rise to a grim scenario characterized by pedagogical emasculation, professional anxiety on the part of writing instructors and researchers in rhetoric and composition.

Gendered Marginalities at the Border(s): Intersections, Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary Asia

Prisons and Poetry (Seminar)

Northeast Modern Language Association 2024 - Boston, MA (March 7-10)

“It is hard,” writes incarcerated poet Etheridge Knight, “to make a poem in prison.” And yet, poetry has long been a major form of literary production in prisons around the world. From Oscar Wilde to Mahmoud Darwish, celebrated poets have reflected on experiences of incarceration in their work. In the context of the U.S. mass incarceration, poets such as Jimmy Santiago Baca and Reginald Dwayne Betts have risen to fame during or after their imprisonment. Poetry has also been an important element of writings by many political prisoners, such as Wole Soyinka, Assata Shakur, and Leonard Peltier.

We are updating The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature (Ed. Alan Velie and Jennifer McClinton-Temple) to include authors and works that have been published or gained prominence since the original publication. 

We welcome contributors to write biographical entries (500 words) on the following authors and works:

Dimaline, Cherie.

Erdrich, Heid.

Fasthorse, Larissa. 

Hobson, Brandon. 

Jones, Stephen Graham.

Nolan, Yvette.

Orange, Tommy.

Pico, Tommy. 

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Fasthorse, Larissa.  The Thanksgiving Play. 

Hobson, Brandon. Where the Dead Sit Talking. 

Orange, Tommy.  There, There. 

Bruchac, Joseph. Killer Enemies.

South Asian Review: Special Issue on Bangladesh