Feminism has become the most controversial, most discussed and most contested subject in India’s current academic field. North East Indian feminism generally depended on Western feminism as well as Indian feminism frameworks. These two frameworks are diversely intricate from North-East India in term of race, class, caste, culture and religion, etc. Moreover, it is important to note that most Indian mainstream feminists are brought up in a specific cultural setting i.e. class, caste, religion etc. from various parts of India. ‘Indian feminist thought’ is a term that they coined through their own discourse.

*Call for abstracts - Studies of Food in Literature and Media 

*Conference - Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association 

*Dates - October 26th-29th 2023

*Location - Hilton Portland Downtown, Oregon USA 

Audience/Participant places are still available for

Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Saturday July 15 – Sunday July 16, 2023

University College London*

(*note the exciting new location)

This is the 26th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.

The English Graduate Students’ Association (EGSA) at Georgetown University invites submissions for our 2023 conference, “Malady,” taking place October 20th and 21st in Washington DC. 

Call For Papers- Black Literature and Black Heroes

We are presently accepting abstract submissions for the Renaissance Drama session(s) at the 80th meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association conference.

The conference will be held October, 12-14, 2023, in Corpus Christi, TX.

Special dossier | to be published in vol 5 no 2 (May 2024)

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.

This special dossier, edited by Marica Orrù, will collect essays on (super)hero figures in twenty-first century US popular culture, with a specific focus on diversity, cross-genre texts, and transmedia representations. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Illinois Medieval Association Annual Symposium: Medieval Monstrosities
October 27, 2023, 3:00 pm via Zoom

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, Nesir: Journal of Literary studies will dedicate its fifth issue to the theme of “Republic of Literature, Literature of Republic.” In this issue, the journal delves into Turkey’s republican experience and its manifestations and effects on fictional and non-fictional literary productions, as well as their reception, in comparison to similar experiences in other countries. In addition to examining the relationship between literature and politics, the issue encourages critical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives to be applied to the concept of the “autonomy of literature.”

Illusions IN/OUTSIDE the Theatre
Intermedial Performance from Renaissance until Today
International Scholarly Conference
09/13-14/2023

Faculty of Humanities of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun (Poland)
Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3 (Torun, Poland)

Cultural understandings of the East, specifically of India, in British Romanticism have opened up numerous lines of inquiry in Romantic and eighteenth-century studies. Phiroze Vasunia, Michael J. Franklin, Andrew Rudd, and others have commented at length on the ways in which English writers related to India during the Romantic period. Works by writers like William Jones, Phebe Gibbes, Robert Southey, Sydney Owenson, and Wilke Collins reveal the extent to which India became a point of creative fixation as well as cultural appropriation. The translations of many works of ancient and medieval Indic texts were important to the galvanization of the British literary imagination.

Call for Papers

South Asian Review Special Issue on Sri Lanka

 “Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture”

We are seeking contributors to a special issue or edited volume on representations of ethnic deportations from Eastern and Central Europe to the Soviet Union (1930-during and after WWII) favoring representations from ethnic minority groups. Articles are not limited to but can focus on:

• First and second generation memory, postmemory (Hirsch) as expressed in life-writing, literary representations of all genres, art of all genres

• On “portable monuments” (Rigney), narratives/stories/histories that could be re-written, appropriated, and transformed in new contexts

Read full call here: https://csalateral.org/upcoming/#digital-platforms-agency

How do digital platforms shape our agency, and how do we shape digital platforms in turn? What is the role of digital platforms in forming our social, cultural, and political practices?  How and whom do digital platforms (dis)empower? This special section of Lateral invites scholars from diverse fields to advance critical cultural inquiry at the convergence of platforms and agency on digital, networked, and/or new media.