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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.
Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
• Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture
• Relationships between humans and plants
• Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals
• Plants and the environmental crisis
Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 90+ books already published in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice
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.
Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR OPEN ISSUE
VOLUME 6 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 6 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.
International Conference on Dark Tourism (ICDT)
Hybrid mode
Conference Date: 14-16 September, 2024
Theme:
Exploring the Murky Depths: A Conference on Dark Tourism in Modern Societies Where Historical Narratives Encounter Geographical Landscapes.
Sub-themes:
v Concepts of Dark Tourism:
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.
In the U.S., immigrants of Asian origin have historically fallen victim to both extreme violent legal measures and racist stereotype labels—such as the infamous “Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882” and/or other major laws against the naturalization of Asians voted in 1924 and 1934, as well as the notorious use of Orientalist terms such as “inferior race,” “yellow peril,” “perpetual foreigner,” and “model minority,” etc—all of which either aim to “unsee” or to “wrongfully see” Asian presence in the United States of America. Yet, even now two decades into the 21st century, this issue is clearly still ongoing, as the title of scholar Sharon S.
SPECIAL ISSUE – Translation & Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue
Guest Editor: Byron Taylor (Shanghai International Studies University, China)
Colleagues: My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Repair, is in contract and due out late 2024 / early 2025.
Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it. Please, proposals only for work that fits clearly within the rubric of the book.
Proposals due by end of April, or sooner, and full chapters by end of May, early June 2024. I will respond right away to any and all proposals.
Thanks a million for considering this important project--
~Maureen Ellen Ruprecht, CUNY
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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.
Announcement: The Body in/of Don DeLillo’s Plays
June 20 – 21, 2024, online
This allied session on work in multi-ethnic literature of the United States (co-sponsored by MELUS) invites papers that explore work as a component of identity formation, especially as it intersects with gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural identity, and citizenship. In the spirit of Moishe Postone’s antiproductivist Marxism, this panel is particularly interested in papers that present a “critique of labor in capitalism” rather than a “critique of capitalism from the standpoint of labor.” While papers that engage with work broadly from the traditional Marxist position are welcome, we are particularly excited about scholarship that theorizes work itself.
In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our cultures, histories, and narratives, the editors welcome chapter proposals for selection and inclusion into The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies, for which a contract has already been signed.
The volume will be a part of the prestigious Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Media-and-Cultural-Studies-Companions/book-series/RMCSC.
Call for Papers
“Interdisciplinary Asia: Bridges to New Opportunities”
52nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference
November 2nd-3rd, 2024
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous essays written from diverse critical perspectives and about texts from any time period or literary tradition. We are now accepting submissions for our Winter 2024 issue.
Deadline: Submissions due June 30, 2024 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
Call for papers and proposals. All disciplines invited!
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 15
October 25-27, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina
An annual conference exploring the history and legacy of Black Mountain College
Hosted and sponsored by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) and The University of North Carolina Asheville
Thematic Focus: Black Mountain College / Living with the Land
Call for Papers
Religious Communities in the Virtual Age:
Practices, Values, Technologies, Boundaries
28 October 2024, Manchester, England
Keynote Speaker: Prof Linda Woodhead, King’s College London.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities across Europe and the world have engaged with the
digital world and specific digital technologies in a wide variety of ways. Some have embraced online
worship and gathering as a tool for widening or enriching a sense of community. Others have used social
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.
CFP: The Atmospheres and Ambiences of Modernist Literature
Université Paris Nanterre (CREA)
10-11 April 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2024
Keynote Speakers:
Bruce Bégout (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
Birgit Breidenbach (University of East Anglia)
Abstract
We’re excited to announce a Call for Contributors to the Handbook of Humanities Podcasting, under contract with Palgrave MacMillan. Contributors will explore how the present-day humanities look different from the perspectives of people who create podcasts and teach podcasting, and what futures for the humanities and its disciplines podcasting can open up. Contributions will consist of a short essay (3000 words) and participation in a podcast recording.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2024
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.