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Conference date: 29th January, 2024
Department of English
Sri Venkateswara College
Delhi University
The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be held at UCSB on March 1 and 2, 2024. Attending to the presence of disability in the premodern world, this interdisciplinary conference invites proposals that address medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century literary and cultural texts. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers, Dr. Rachael King (UCSB), Dr. Bradley Irish (Arizona State University), and poet Jos Charles.
The primary aim of this edited volume is to explore the word ‘Literature’ in the age of AI. Etymologically, the Latin word litteratura is derived from littera (Latin) meaning the ‘smallest element of alphabetical writing’ (Klarer 1). The word ‘literature,’ then means, any writing e.g., a medical prescription, usage instruction written on the bottle of shampoo or maybe a cautionary warning on the packet of cigarettes. To specify the particular type of literature we use the term ‘Creative Literature’ (called the Literature of Power by Rees).
Sacred Cultures in Politics, a collection of scholarly articles, seeks to reveal sacred and/or religious rhetoric serving as persuasive tools in the vast arena of political activism. In his Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben challenges religious institutions to use their persuasive powers not for priestly privilege but “to make a new possible” for humanity. In a similar spirit, this collection seeks to make transparent both the rhetorical systems and their use in local, national, regional, or global political arenas.
Renaissance Hybridity
Graduate Early Modern Student Society
Seventh Annual Symposium
Friday, April 26, 2024
UW–Madison Memorial Library Special Collections & Hybrid over Zoom
Keynote Speaker: Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Associate Professor of English at Luther College
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 31, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS FRAME 37.1 “Get Lit: A Celebration Issue”
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light
The organizing committee of the 2024 ELLAK International Conference invites submissions for the special session titled The Global Bard in Asia: Teaching Shakespeare. The conference will be held at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, on December 12-14, 2024, under the theme of “Rethinking the Global English Studies.”
UPDATE: Deadline extensions.
“Evolving Forms”
University of Iowa, 19-21 April 2024
Trajectories of Global CapitalismFrom Cultural Economy to Creative Industries
Bhabani Shankar Nayak
What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose histories are marginalized or overlooked because of their perceived bad taste, abject existence, and the taint they leave on supposedly beautiful, grand narratives of nationhood, well-being, or progress? How do kitsch, camp, and excess function in the realms of activism in contemporary politics? How do nasty, revulsive art, literature, and performances act as sites that engender questions that push boundaries of societal mores and cultural hierarchies?
The past seven years have seen a resurgence of the radical right. In this resurgence, art and literature have played a prominent role. Senior advisors to the Trump administration cited novels as specific influences on federal policy; Jordan Peterson has disguised right-wing manifestos as self-help volumes, hoodwinking young men to the tune of millions; the internet has seen an overwhelming explosion of white supremacist digital art. Walter Benjamin’s dictum that fascism seeks to “aestheticize politics” endures.
The Cybernetic-Psychedelic Returns Across Aesthetic Fields
Special Editor: Thomas Mical [Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley (Indian Himalayas), New Centre for Research and Practice (US)]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - Volume 73 (2/2024)
Submission deadline: June 30, 2024
Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender community is currently dominating the contemporary cultural conversation in the United States in an unprecedented way. Against the backdrop of this discursive moment, Femspec calls for submissions for a special issue (Volume 24, Issue 1) dedicated to exploring speculative approaches to gender, and particularly to transgender identity and embodiment. Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing. For this issue, we seek both scholarly and creative work that interrogates the co
The 15th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies
Brown University, April 5 - 6, 2024
“Contested Bodies in Italian Studies”
On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University and the Italian
Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, we are pleased to
announce the fifteenth edition of Chiasmi – Graduate Students conference, to be held on 5-6 April 2024, at
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Since the fin de siècle, the ubiquity of the camera has disrupted notions of gazing at others and ourselves. Moving from the 20th century to the 21st, the camera’s gaze has taken on many overlapping and at times antagonistic roles: it archives, captures, testifies, interrogates, interrupts, imagines, distorts, exposes, imposes, and surveils.
Editors:
Mar Chicharro-Merayo (Universidad de Burgos)
Javier Mateos-Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Lorena Antezana (Universidad de Chile)
Important dates:
Article submission deadline: January 15, 2024
Editors’ decision: May 2024
Expected publication date: May/June, 2024
Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Metamodernist Fiction: Literary Manifestations
of the Ongoing Cultural Shift
edited by Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske
The Graduate Student Conference Committee
of the Comparative Literature & Hispanic Studies Programs
& the Migration and Ethnic Relations Collaborative Graduate Specialization
at Western University
is pleased to invite submissions for this year’s joint Graduate Student Conference
«The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape;
the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes»
CFP: The Legacy of The Tragically Hip
Call for Papers: Volume XI
CRITICAL IMPRINTS
THE JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,
LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA
ISSN: 2319-4774
VOLUME XI 2023: LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
Last Date of Submission of Abstracts: November 30, 2023
Concept Note:
Dark Tourism and Thanatourism at the Crossroads of the Occult
Modernism between Past and Future
The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
31 May – 2 June 2024
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Keynote Speakers:
Jed Esty (The University of Pennsylvania)
Christopher Bush (Northwestern University)
Roundtable Speakers from Various Locations
Growth after the Trauma of Partition: A Critical Study (Working Title)
Editors:
Concept Note:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
https://chesnuttassociation.org/
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300
words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2024 ALA
conference in Chicago.
The August Wilson
Author Society
of the
American Literature Association
announces its
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the
35th Annual ALA Conference
May 23–26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
Saturday July 13 – Sunday July 14, 2024
University College London
This is the 27th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.
Great Writing includes research, teaching and creative writing practice topics. And more! The conference takes place right in the heart of Bloomsbury, close to the British Library, in London’s fabulous ‘Knowledge Quarter’ – https://www.knowledgequarter.london/ - with a great many wonderful accommodation and restaurant options.
Peripheral Modernisms in Theory
Modernism/modernity Print Plus Cluster
Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2024
Editor: Pavel Andrade, Texas Tech University
Contact email: pavel.andrade@ttu.edu
***Italian below*** ***Bibliography at the bottom of the page***
Stigmatised identities: Alternative Sexualities in/out of Normative Representations
The concept of ‘stigma’, including the many perspectives on stigmatised identities and processes of stigmatisation, is a crucial tool to focus on alternative sexualities and their representation. The issue has been addressed in numerous disciplinary fields, with studies attempting to understand stigma both generally in terms of social dynamics (Goffman 1963 and 1969; Becker 1963; Jones et al. 1984), and in its specific relation to sexuality (Herek 1998; Evans 2002).