Going against tenacious perceptions of the south as firmly rooted to the past, we argue for a vision of multicultural, diverse souths oriented towards the future. At times, southern futurism has been a force of oppression, including the technological innovations of the plantation; the rebranding of Atlanta as a place where commerce could ignore racism or complicate it as a model of true global exchange; or the militaristic and privatized response to Hurricane Katrina that foreshadows a disaster-capitalist approach to climate change. However, the south’s overlapping histories of decolonial and anti-racist activism have always imagined progressive futures.

Conference: Digital Humanities Against Dark Times

Dates:  April 14 – 15, 2023

Location: Vanderbilt University Center for the Digital Humanities, Nashville, TN

Abstract Deadline: March 5, 2023

We are pleased to share that the Center for Digital Humanities is hosting a two-day conference titled “Digital Humanities Against Dark Times” this upcoming April 14 – 15, 2023. This conference provides a venue for early-career scholars to discuss digital humanities work that engages with emerging and ongoing crises of our moment, such as:

MLA 2024: Philadelphia (4-7 January)

T. S. Eliot Unsealed

With more of Eliot’s work and life available to view than ever before—nine volumes of letters as well as the letters to Emily Hale; new biographies of Hale, Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot, and T. S. Eliot himself; all eight volumes of the Prose; and a documentary film—a new era of Eliot studies is underway. What can we expect?

Please send 200-word abstracts and a brief CV to Dr. Megan Quigley at megan.m.quigley@villanova.edu by 20 March.

"This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emphasize intersectionality in our classes, women of color or queer of color critiques are largely offered after—and as correctives to—a canon where whiteness is default and invisible. As a result, these institutionalized canons, which naturalize whiteness alongside colonial conceptions of gender, retain their primacy of thought. How can we instead design our courses to center the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of gender? How do we put to practice a pedagogy that takes to heart the work of Lugones, Mohanty, Munoz, and hooks, among others?" 

ASCA WORKSHOP 2023 – Call for Papers

Organized by Nadica Denić, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp, and Eszter Szakács

Forms of (More Than) Human Relationality

June 28 – 30, 2023

 2023 Call for Proposals

Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association

The Art and Science of Peace: Building Positive Peace in the Twenty-first Century

[To view this CFP as a PDF for easy downloading]

September 15-17, 2023 | Iowa State University (Ames, IA)

The 6th edition of the "Migration, Adaptation and Memory" International Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on June 15, 2023, online (via Zoom platform) and on June 16, 2023 in-person in Gdańsk (Poland)  
 

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

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet, MN will be hosting the tenth annual Lake Superior Summit on the Teaching of Writing and ESL on Friday, March 3, 2023 (9:00AM to 3:30PM)!

There is no fee to attend. The tentative schedule and link for further information and registration can be found below.

The full schedule is now available online, at https://fdltcc.edu/10th-annual-lake-superior-summit/.

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 4/2023

The editorial board of Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal.

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

The New Daydream Imaginary – On the Ethico-Aesthetics of Spontaneous and Non-productive Thought

Simon Fraser University — School for the Contemporary Arts, 16-17 June 2023

The Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in Norwich, England.  The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900).

Started by Norwich Unitarians in 1994, the Martineau Society encourages scholarship on the Martineau family and their nineteenth-century context as well as their continuing influence.  

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Theology and Religion

Literature (all genres, including Children’s Literature and Travel Writing)

Language and Linguistics

STREAM ORGANISER: SUBHAM MUKHERJEE AND CRAIG LUNDY

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT (250 WORDS) SUBMISSION: MARCH 13, 2023

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Poets and Prose Authors Read their Works in English, Session II Prose.

Audra Spicer, Colorado State University Global audra.spicer@csuglobal.edu

Location: Golden/Denver, CO

Dates: October 11-14, 2023

Costs:

RMMLA membership: $35/year

Conference registration: $85 by April 1

Friday luncheon: free of charge for presenters ($35 for guests)

Hotel room: $147/night and sleeps four