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Martineau Society Conference in Lewes, England

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 3:52pm
Beth Torgerson / Martineau Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 19, 2024

Martineau Society Conference 2024 in Lewes, England    06/24/2024-06/27/2024; deadline 04/19/2024

The Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in the historic town of Lewes, East Sussex, 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:

Trauma and Resilience in Contemporary World Literature International Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 3:33pm
Tamanghasset University/Algeria
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

                                The Department of Letters and Foreign Languages at Tamanghasset University

                                                                                   In collaboration with

              The Linguistic and Literary Practices in the Desert of Algeria and Their Extensions in the Sahel Region Research            Laboratory and the Interdisciplinary Approaches to English, African (Sub-Saharan) and Algerian Literary                                                                                                      Texts PRFU Project 

EXTENDED DEADLINE | Collins and Dickens - Dickens and Collins

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 2:33pm
University of Buckingham
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

Conference Details

The University of Buckingham is proud to host a two-day conference on 20-21 June 2024 exploring the dynamic between Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens to commemorate the bicentenary of Collins’s birth. 

 

The 2024 Texas Tech Symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited”

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 11:54am
Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Program
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

The 2024 TTU Symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited”

The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host its 2024 annual symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited” on April 12-13, 2024.

 

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studies Program, Stanford University, USA

Dr. Alfred Hornung, Professor and Chair of American Studies, Editor-in-chief of Journal Of Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany

"Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality" Young Scholars' Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 11:20am
Anna Ronewicz, University of Szczecin
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 3, 2024

NEW DEADLINE: 3rd February 2024

I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Nostalgia: A Virtual Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 10:59am
University at Albany / English Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

Nostalgia

A hybrid/virtual student conference hosted by the University at Albany

 

March 15th, 2024

10 am- to 4 pm EST

Official site: http://egsoalbany.weebly.com/conference.html

“Nostalgia," coined in 1688 by physician Johannes Hofer, originally described a medical condition marked by a painful longing for one's native land. Over time, nostalgia has evolved, encompassing both personal and communal aspects, with debates ranging from its temporal significance to its political and rhetorical dimensions.

 

Patchwork and Authorship

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 10:12am
Alex Gushurst-Moore, University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Invitation 

The University of Exeter’s AHRC-funded “The Art of Fiction” project invites proposals for 15-minute papers on the theme of “patchwork and authorship”.  

Noetica Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 10:12am
Noetica, the Journal of Global Premodern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Greetings, campus!

 

William and Mary’s Journal of Global Premodern Studies, Noetica, is seeking submissions from you! We emphasize the highest level of erudition in undergraduate scholarship of the premodern past. Our journal is interdisciplinary and welcomes submissions of original research from all of the humanities, including Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Art, and History.

Reconstructing Queer Souths

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 10:12am
Allison Rittmayer
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Society for the Study of Southern Literature

2024 Biannual Conference

June 23-26, 2024

Courtyard by Marriot Beachfront | Gulfport, Mississippi

There is a need to reconceptualize queer Souths in the face of the challenges and revocation of rights that the community has faced in the last seven years. While there is certainly an existing body of scholarship on queer Souths, those works tend to focus on specific sites or individuals rather than examining the activism and art that connect to build a genealogy of queer Souths.

This panel welcomes proposals that include but are not limited to:

Challenging the Visual: Distrust, Emergency, Uncertainty

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 10:10am
Pompeu Fabra University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

CFP opened until fev 12th.

Dates of the Conference: 13th, 14th, 15th March

Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

 

ENACTING TEMPORALITY 2024 JHU Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 9:54am
Johns Hopkins University Department of Anthropology
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Time, as a mode of configuring the social, has long been of scholarly concern— such as Durkheim (1912)’s illustration of how regular rhythmic collective gathering provokes the idea of the social in individuals or, more recently, Elizabeth Freeman’s (2019) illustration of how senses of time are instrumental to becoming social in a mode she calls hypersociability, a way of imagining queerness not as antirelational, but as hypersocial.

MLA 2025 (MRDS Guaranteed Panel) Performing Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Medieval and Renaissance Drama

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 9:54am
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 8, 2024

MLA 2025 (9-12 January)

New Orleans, LA, USA

Panel: Performing Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Medieval and Renaissance Drama 

The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) has a guaranteed session at the 2025 MLA Annual Convention (9-12 January). New Orleans, LA, USA–the location of the 2025 conference–boasts a rich history forged through the comingling of diverse ethnicities, races, religions, and identities. In concert with this history of New Orleans, the MRDS panel organizers seek papers that analyze cultural and linguistic mixing on Medieval and Early Modern stages. Possible topics include (and are not limited to): 

Call for short articles extended | The Uses of Color in US Popular Cultural Production and Representation

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 3:59am
PopMeC peer-reviewed academic blog
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

We're reloading our call for short articles on color!

A dark urban setting scattered with dots of light. Yellow gas flames shoot up against a glowing red horizon, creating an almost hellish feel. Flying cars pierce the atmosphere, revealing the orange smog haze that reappears in urban sequences throughout the movie. As the camera moves closer to futuristic, monumental buildings, cold white beams of light transition to interiors dominated by blue hues. Sequences in the Tyrell Corporation are marked by cool tones as opposed to Deckard’s warm-toned private spaces. How would we feel and think about a cult film like Blade Runner (1982) if cinematographic choices about color had been made differently?

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Comics Arts Conference San Diego

updated: 
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 1:10pm
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

DEADLONE EXTENDED: The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 25–28, 2024.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations.  The CAC is designed

2024 Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, & Media (MCLLM)

updated: 
Monday, January 29, 2024 - 11:29am
Northern Illinois University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

Reclaiming Legacy: From Foundations to Futures in Coalitions & Communities

This year’s conference theme encourages papers, presentations, and original creative works that explore topics concerned with the intersecting of generational work and identities; what do we build our studies on and what do we leave for the next generation of our identified coalitions and communities?

Submit proposals that speak to the representation and/or involvement of these communities in literature, media, art, games, technology, politics, etc.

Barbenheimer: Beauty and Destruction

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2024 - 6:15pm
Graduate Students in English at the University of Arkansas
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

“Barbenheimer: Beauty and Destruction”

Call for Papers

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2024

April 5th – April 7th, 2024

Persian Literary Studies

updated: 
Sunday, January 28, 2024 - 1:25am
Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Literary Text Research is an open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published by Allameh Tabataba’i University, the leading university in Humanities and Social Sciences in Iran. Literary Text Research has been established to provide an intellectual platform for national and international researchers working on issues related to Persian literary texts. The Journal is Published in Collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of the Persian Language and Literature of Iran (Ranked A).

Literary Text Research invites scholars worldwide to submit their papers on the issues related to Persian literature:

Toward a New South/a New Southern Studies

updated: 
Friday, January 26, 2024 - 3:54pm
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 5, 2024

Deadline Extended! Abstracts available for submission until February 5!

 

Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference

June 23-26, 2024

Courtyard by Marriott Beachfront

Gulfport, MS

Theme: "Reconstruction(s)"

‘Educating Susan’: Decolonisation and Inclusivity in Creative Writing Pedagogy and Publishing

updated: 
Friday, January 26, 2024 - 11:14am
Dr Deepa Anappara, City, University of London, and Farhana Shaikh, De Montfort University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

There have been several recent discussions on decolonisation, diversity, and inclusion in creative writing pedagogy and publishing, following the Black Lives Matter movement, #publishingpaidme on Twitter on racial disparities in pay, and reports such as ‘Rethinking Diversity’. But have these discussions led to meaningful changes in academia and publishing?

The ‘Rethinking Diversity’ report (2020) stated that publishers have a narrow understanding of their core reader, whom they describe as ‘a white, middle-class older woman sardonically referred to as Susan’, likely uninterested in books by writers of colour.

Graduate Student and Early Scholar Conference: The Intellectual Resistance

updated: 
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 4:29pm
Comparative Studies Student Association at Florida Atlantic University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 23, 2024

CfP

CSSA’s 2024 Conference: Intellectual Resistance

The Comparative Studies Student Association of Florida Atlantic University would like to invite undergraduate students, graduate students, post docs, and scholars early in their careers to participate in our annual conference focusing on the idea of intellectual resistance.

Divergence: Departures from the Canon

updated: 
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 12:55pm
Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature

Date: May 24th and 25th 2024

Call for Papers | Divergence: Departures from the Canon

Deadline Extended - Feb 16th 2024

 

Heavy Childhoods Conference 2025

updated: 
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 9:27am
Dr. Ruth Barratt-Peacock University of Huddersfield
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Heavy Childhoods 2025

CFP

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Emotions and the Arts

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 11:08pm
Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Scholars across disciplines have long contended with the generative potentials and the deficiencies of affect and emotions like sorrow, melancholy, compassion, grief, sympathy, and happiness. Judith Butler has shown how feelings of loss and acts of mourning are political acts of subjectivity, of rendering a life grievable or forgotten. Sara Ahmed speaks about the promise of happiness that obscures unhappy hierarchies in the world around us, and calls for a killjoy politics. Lauren Berlant tells us that optimism is not just an emotion, but a cruel relation we have with our socio-economic forces.

Intimacy and the Right to Privacy in the English-Speaking World

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:17pm
University Jean Moulin Lyon 3
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

“Intimacy and the Right to Privacy in the English-Speaking World”

 

October 10 & 11, 2024

International conference

Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3

 

 

 

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion.” Justice William Brennan

“Crossing Genres, Crossing Borders”: Literature and Literary Criticism at the Junctions

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:17pm
Indigenous Literary Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

 

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

 

“Crossing Genres, Crossing Borders”:

Literature and Literary Criticism at the Junctions

 

A Gathering of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association

 

15 May – 18 May 2024

 

Inn at the Forks

Nestawaya (also known as The Forks), Wînipêk (Winnipeg), Manitowapow (Manitoba), Kanata (Canada) – located on Treaty One and the homeland of the Red River Métis

 

2024 International Conference on Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:15pm
College of Foreign Languages, Fu Jen Catholic University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Call for Papers - 2024 International Conference on Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation

Time: November 1-2, 2024
Venue: Fu Jen Catholic University

Dear ALL,

We are pleased to announce that the College of Foreign Languages at Fu Jen Catholic University is organizing an international conference on November 1-2, 2024, at the College of Foreign Languages. The conference theme is "Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation."

Katherine Mansfield's Women

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:15pm
Katherine Mansfield Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 17 OF

Katherine Mansfield Studies

THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY

PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

on the theme of

KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S

WOMEN

Editors

Dr Aimée Gasston and Dr Gerri Kimber

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