The Victorian era in general viewed animals not as mere property or utility, but as thinking, feeling subjects worthy of inclusion within a political community. It is increasingly in this light that the nineteenth-century British animal welfare movement and animal characters in Victorian literature are now being re-examined. Rather than regarding the literary sphere as a means of generating static influence over human attitudes towards animals, the deliberations at this colloquium shall seek to prove that it may be regarded as a repository of resources open to uses in the ongoing animal rights movement of the later nineteenth century in Britain and as the stepping stones to deeper ecological consciousness of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The tension between adherence to traditional modes of expression, and experimentation has underlain modern Irish literature. Regarded as the epitome of Modernist experimental writing, James Joyce went so far in pushing the boundaries of what constituted prose as to become the object of criticism from such different commentators as Lukács and Pound, both of whom found fault with Joyce for the radicalness of experiment, particularly in Finnegans Wake. However, Joyce himself considered his work to be firmly set in the realist tradition. At a time when he was yet to publish his first collection of lyrics, W. B.

Conference: https://aais.wildapricot.org/2023CallforConference

Panel: ITALIAN AMERICAS: INTRACONTINENTAL IMAGES OF THE ITALIAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

Organizer: Joseph D. Pecorelli, Ph.D. (University of North Georgia)

This book will be published by Routledge.

Today, as the workings of humanity are increasingly linked with the destruction wrought by the Anthropocene, ‘the era of man,’ we feel compelled to re-examine our links with human and other-than-human others ever more closely. Confronting numerous crises, hostilities and conflicts, as well as witnessing an unprecedented momentum of social, political, medical, technological and linguistic change, we are now facing the challenge of redefining our goals, policies and discourses within the field of the humanities yet again.

We welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

Romancing the Gothic is a long-running online education project run by Dr Sam Hirst (University of Liverpool, Oxford Brookes University) which offers free online classes and talks. You can find out more about the project at the website www.romancingthegothic.com, including links to the YouTube channel. We are currently setting up our third annual ONLINE conference for 2023.

Shakespeare and Music in a Changing World: “The rude sea grew civil at her song”

Conveners: Michelle Assay (University of Toronto, Canada) michelleassay@gmail.com, Alina Bottez (University of Bucharest, Romania) alina.bottez@lls.unibuc.ro / alinabottez@gmail.com, David Fanning (University of Manchester, UK) david.fanning@manchester.ac.uk

The Borders and Crossings international conference series is dedicated to the study of travel writing. It was first hosted in Derry in 1998 thanks to the work of Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs and since 2012 has taken place on a regular basis. The Borders and Crossings conference series has played a catalytic role in the development of travel writing studies as it provides a forum for scholars across a range of disciplines and from wide variety of national contexts to meet regularly, to explore an increasingly rich corpus of travel writing, and to debate its importance to the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

The Vernon press is issuing the following call for contributions to the collective volume

William Shakespeare: Tensions and Tempest

Though scholars indicate a few later works, The Tempest can be read as Shakespeare’s last play, and as such, sums up the various interests, concerns and themes that inform his work, be it the magic of peripheral spaces, the rivalries for power, or the social relationships that bind family and class. In short, The Tempest is Shakespeare’s Testament.

Strange Atmospheres: The Seventh International Flann O’Brien Conference

The Department of English at Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, with the International Flann O'Brien Society

27–30 June 2023

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck College, University of London)
• Flore Coulouma (Université Paris Nanterre)
• Paul Fagan (Maynooth University)
• Heather Laird (University College Cork)

ANGLICA: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES is an open-access, annual, peer-reviewed journal in literary, cultural, and linguistic studies published under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, DOAJ, CEEOL, MLA, BazHum, EBSCO, MIAR, Index Copernicus, ERIHPLUS, Sherpa Romeo, and included in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers.

We invite submissions on all aspects of Anglophone cultures and linguistics for our next issue to be published September 2023.

Session Title: Children’s Play: Fun, Love, and Solidarity among Young People

The Stephen Graham Jones Society is inviting participants for an American Literature Association panel for the 2023 meeting comprised of emerging and established scholars who have interest and/or experience with the recent and ongoing scholarship and/or pedagogical value of Jones' ever-expanding body of writing. We are seeking proposals that examine any aspect of Jones’ literary, philosophical, cultural or historical engagements as reflected in his novels or short fiction. Proposed presentations on his more recent experimentations in genre and horror are especially welcomed. 

Chapter contributions are welcomed for an edited scholarly volume on the global impact of streaming services, crucially Netflix. The American company Netflix has, owing to its pioneering role, become synonymous with the world of streaming. The growing list of “Netflix Nations” (to invoke the title of Ramon Lobato’s 2019 book) means that there are only a few territories such as China, Iran, North Korea, and Syria that remain outside its purview. In recent years, a number of streaming giants have emerged in the Western world– mostly notably, Amazon and Disney+ –that compete tightly within international markets.