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We invite you to participate in a collaborative writing workshop, “Writing with Thirty Hands,” leading up to and meeting at the PSi conference in London.
CALL FOR PAPERS
vol. 6/2025
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 editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.
University of Siedlce
Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
and
University of the Balearic Islands
Faculty of Philosophy and Art
would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part in the
9th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues
in Language and Literature
The Spanish Cultural Studies permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks proposals for the upcoming MMLA conference in Chicago. Proposals related to any aspect of Spanish Cultural Studies are welcome, but we encourage submissions that explore the conference theme of "Health In/Of the Humanities." Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to Dr. Kathy Korcheck at korcheckk@central.edu by 22 April 2024. Presentations may be in Spanish or English.
Abstract
ontemporary literary, computer game, and cinematic history are rife with forms of interactive fiction and storytelling. Gamebooks such as the Bantam Choose Your Own Adventure series of children’s books, video games from early text-based games like Zork to more contemporary gaming, and interactive movies of the type becoming increasingly common through streaming technologies, allow for a different kind of relationship between audiences and narratives.
These types of narratives have been read, watched, and played by adults and children alike with increased regularity since the popularization of the form in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Resources for American Literary Study (RALS), a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2024 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis.
CALL FOR PAPERS - CONFERENCE
Comprehending Comics: Exploring Methodologies and Approaches to Comic Studies in History and the Social Sciences
The conference will take place online September 8-9, 2024.
We are pleased to announce that Rachel Marie-Crane WilliamsandMarcus Weaver-Hightower will be our keynote speakers.
Please submit your proposal by May 1, 2024.
VIRTUAL GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON SURROGACY
THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION: SURROGACY IN LITERATURE, FILM, VISUAL ART, AND SOCIAL MEDIA
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Historian and Reproductive Justice Activist Rickie Solinger
Italian Filmmakers Rossella Anitori and Darel Di Gregorio (Surrogacy Underground, 2023)
On November 22-24, 2024, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the University of Dayton will host an academic symposium to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Fr. Clarence Rivers, the “father of Black Catholic liturgy,” and the 40th anniversary of the Black Bishops of the United States’ pastoral letter, “What We Have Seen and Heard.” In addition to keynote addresses and workshops inspired by Fr. Rivers and “What We Have Seen and Heard,” we will also have opportunities to gather for song and prayer in the traditions of soulful worship called for by Fr.
In regards to this years Midwest Modern Language Association conference theme, Health in/of the Humanities, we invite papers that consider how health materializes in various facets of academia. We’re particularly interested in the discursive modes by which health is defined, represented, and mobilized in and between disciplines. This Science and Fiction panel welcomes papers that interrogate disciplines, exploring how representations change or impact the general notions of health and health outcomes.
Consider the following as generative questions:
Poems Invited for JUNE 2024 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 45th Issue
Post-Pandemic Imaginaries : Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown (updated)
A two day conference on the 5th and 6th September 2024
Organised by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life at the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK
Keynote speakers:
Professor Stef Craps (Ghent University)
“Modern?” CFP
Saint Louis University—Madrid, June 7-8, 2024
The OED defines “modern” as “being in existence at this time; current, present,” but also as something that is “opposed to the remote past.” Given that the concepts of “past,” “present” and “future” are not fixed, but, to paraphrase Einstein, illusory, the meaning of “modern” itself is hard to pin down.
Abstract proposals for 20-minute paper presentations are invited for a two-day conference hosted by Atatürk University in Erzurum, Türkiye. This international conference on ageing and its representations in literature will be held on 18-19 April 2024.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR OPEN ISSUE
VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2
NEW LITERARIA invites the submission of articles, shorter essays, interviews, and book reviews offering historical, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and cultural approaches to literature and related fields for its Volume 5 Issue 2.
Submissions should be emailed to newliteraria@gmail.com by no later than 30th May 2024. All submissions must include a cover letter that includes the author’s full mailing address, email address, telephone number, and professional or academic affiliation.
Mediation and Remediation
Venue: the Language Village of Mahdia, University of Monastir, Tunisia. November 14-15, 2024
We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice. This open-access journal understands money creation as a situated political problem that constitutes societies. It moves away from claims that money is a scarce instrument of barter, an inherent (if necessary) evil, or the infamous commodity-form and toward actualizing money’s unrealized potentials to shape collective life in emancipatory ways.
Gloria Naylor’s fictionalized memoir 1996 (2005) remains the least studied but most controversial selection in her decades-long literary output. Published by Third World Press at the tailend of her illustrious career, 1996 stands in stark contrast to Naylor’s iconic tetralogy — which includes Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988), and Bailey’s Cafe (1992), as well as the sibling text Men of Brewster Place (1998) — by centering the author herself in its bold critiques of state power and the ways marginalized communities fight to uphold it.
The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference is presented by the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at the University of Central Oklahoma with assistance from the UCO chapter of the National Organization for Women. In tandem, these organizations promote engagement with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality issues.
Reckoning with October 7:
Israel, Hamas, and the Problem of Critical Theory
A TPPI Conference
November 8–9, 2024
New York City
The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute welcomes paper proposals for a conference that reckons with the response, both within higher education at large and especially from the precincts of critical theory, to the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The conference will cap a year of webinars, podcasts, blog posts, and publications about the topic, and will form the basis of a special memorial issue of the journal Telos. Full papers intended for that special issue will also be considered at this time.
The MA/PhD Program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY
invites applications for the annual Graduate Conference to be held on
Friday November 15th, 2024
At the CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Deadline to send an abstract and a mini-biography: June 1, 2024
Deadline to send the full article: July 20, 2024
The ADE Bulletin is the refereed journal of the Association of Departments of English, published annually by the Modern Language Association. The bulletin is soliciting abstracts for a special issue on advising and mentoring in the undergraduate English major. Publication is scheduled for 2025. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024. Deadline for submission of selected essays: 30 September 2024. Special issue editor: Felicia Jean Steele, associate professor and associate chair of English at The College of New Jersey and Eastern Regent for Sigma Tau Delta.
On June 23rd, 1985, a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182, enroute from Toronto to Delhi. All 329 passengers and crew aboard were killed, most of whom were Canadians of South Asian descent. Though this tragedy remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and resulted in Canada’s longest and most expensive criminal investigation, it is little known in national public memory (Angus Reid Institute 2023). Institutional narratives and failings have framed the Air India bombing as a “non-Canadian tragedy involving non-Canadian citizens” (Seshia 2017), leaving the victims’ families suffering and ignored in the wake of such loss.
Articles are invited for a special Issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English on Tennessee Williams’s Short Fiction, to be published in 2026.
More info: https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/4005
Suggested areas of research include, but are not limited to, the following topics in relation to Williams's short fiction:
Narrative voice and narrative strategies.
Repeated motifs, images, settings, characters, situations, etc.
Intertextuality.
Between Journal Vol. XV, N. 28 (November 2024) The Public Dimension of Dwelling
edited by Clotilde Bertoni, Massimo Fusillo, Giulio Iacoli, Marina Guglielmi, Niccolò Scaffai
(https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/announcement/view/11)
Submission deadline: 2024-05-31 (Friday)
Estimated review date: 2024-07
Publication date: 2024-11-30 (Saturday)
In the past two decades, there has been a distressing rise in suicides worldwide. In what has been termed an “age of crisis” – encompassing economic, environmental, and health crises – these rising statistics may underscore the urgency of acknowledging the intersectional impact of these potential risk factors and may even require social and individual countermeasures.
SPECIAL ISSUE – Translation & Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue
Guest Editor: Byron Taylor (Shanghai International Studies University, China)
Western Literature Association Annual Conference
Tucson, Arizona, October 2-5, 2024
Call for Papers: Deadline for submissions, June 5th, 2024
While this year’s theme is focused on the speculative West and the re-inscription of territory, we also welcome proposals for individual papers, organized panels, workshops, posters, performances and other forms of academic engagement on all themes relative to the literary culture of the American West.
Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism is helpful in understanding how the fetish animates produced commodities to have a mysterious power of their own, in which power is obscured, mystified, and alienated, holding sway over people in the dominion of capitalism. In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives, Lorgia García-Peña asserts that “to translate thus presents us with the possibility of seeing the Other. This act of seeing is also an act of recognition that can contradict hegemonic knowledge.” The work of translating the fetish can thus be presented as a means of revealing real relations hidden by the fetish, an antihegemonic project of deconstructing systems of capitalism and oppression.