Special Session at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024

How might we better understand colonialism, and ways of being and knowing against or outside of it, by foregrounding the maritime: oceans, sailing, ports, cargo, navigation, crews, shoals, shipwreck, piracy? “Water is the first thing in my imagination,” writes Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return: “I knew that everyone here was unhappy and haunted in some way” that “had something to do with the Door of No Return and the sea.” Following Brand’s method, the gambit of this roundtable is that approaching colonialism via the sea can help us see it better and imagine paths past it.

In the Western perception of things, which still preserves the Platonic, or rather Parmenidean image of a stable order in which they exist, the potentiality of monstrousness, emerging from fractures in this world – or, to reach even deeper, from the dark matter of the chōra, the sombre Nurse of all becoming – appears as absurd, and yet at the same time as ecstatic, epiphanic.

Forthcoming Book Series: Global Historical Fictions

Defining historical fictions as encompassing of many media forms, this book series invites contributions that consider the multiple ways in which we shape history for diverse purposes, and that investigate popular history in a variety of contexts, and modes.

Abstract Submission:https://humber.ca/tifa/call-proposals 

Contact: tifa@humber.ca 

Submission Deadline: May 14, 2023 

Conference Date: September 29-September30, 2023 

Conference Fee: $250.00plus taxes(includes registration,some meals, snacks and a reception) 

Spanish and Iberian Comics/Graphic Narratives

This is a proposal for a collaborative session, jointly organized by the Forum Executive Committees ofComics and Graphic Narratives and 20th and 21st Century Spanish and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Call for Book Chapters  

I am seeking proposals for essays to be included in a proposed volume exploring conceptualizations and representations of Queenship as a dramatic role or performance. In bringing together essays from different disciplinary perspectives, that focus on particular Queen or a group of them, on particular actors or other aspects of performance the volume aims to create a clearer picture of what it has meant to ‘play the part’ of Queen at different times, in different places, and across different media and contexts to shed light on the ways in which the office of Queenship in practice in real historical situations has been culturally understood, interpreted and re-interpreted.

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist

Topic: Anger

General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024.

We are excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the twenty-fifth annual conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH), which will be held in person (with some online components) on June 22-23, 2023 at the University of Toronto School of Law in Toronto, Canada. This year's theme is "Absence, The Present and the Past." Proposals are due March 17, 2023. You can find the complete call for papers on our website (https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/2023-annual-conference).

Please spread the word!  We look forward to the prospect of gathering together again this summer.

The Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Debrecen, Hungary invites you to participate in the conference titled

“Games and Language”

Debrecen, Hungary 20-21 Oct, 2023

The forthcoming number ofProspero (XXVIII2023) invites contributions that will focus on paradigm
shifts in the literary and cultural fields of English and German literaturesbetween the Eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Starting with the great political and social revolutions of the eighteenth century in
Westerncivilization, many revolutions and epistemic turns have marked early modernity, both in alongue
duréeperspective and in the turmoilof the epochalpunctum, and have seen moments of dialogic
confrontation and decisive influences between national cultures.
Authorscould consider both the role that revolutions and epistemic turning points have played in the

MLA 2024

Philadelphia

January 4-7, 2024

What does it mean to be treated “like an animal”?

International Conference

Heidelberg, 11-12 April 2024