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Entrenched Narratives, Hidden Figures: Reappraising Representations of War Across German Screen Media

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:40am
Lawrence Alexander
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

In February 2022, German chancellor Olaf Scholz gave a speech to the German parliament in response to and denunciation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Describing the moment as a ‘turning point’, Scholz referred to Putin’s act of aggression as a watershed moment that altered geopolitical reality and announced a volte-face in Germany’s defence and energy policies. This conference adopts the contemporary moment, which also sees the reality and spectre of armed conflict across many parts of the Global South, as an inflection point for reconsidering representations of war across a range of screen media: from narrative cinema to moving image installation; streaming to VR. 

 

CFP: Afrofuturism in Black Literature, Film, Media & Culture

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:39am
Coppin State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 25, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

AFROFUTURISM IN BLACK LITERATURE, MEDIA, FILM & CULTURE

Edited by DuEwa M. Frazier

Publisher: Routledge

SEEKING ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS for EDITED VOLUME:

The dynamic tradition of Black literature and storytelling now stands at the crossroads of where historical realities meet with present day - dreams of Afro futures, to re-make, re-mix, re-store, and re-envision an ideal and artful world, from diverse points of view with the goal to inspire and educate current and future generations of scholars and creators.

TOPICS INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

Afrofuturism - Interviews & Reviews

Bending the Clock: Crip Time in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:39am
Children's Literature Association Accessibility Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Albert Einstein famously told the world that time is relative, and theorists from various fields–including children’s literature and disability studies–continue to grapple with what that means for lived experience. Children’s literature (and childhood studies more broadly) scholars examine how societies believe young people move through time towards adulthood, leading to theories of developmentalism and stages of childhood (like Piaget’s). Conversely, disability scholars explore what has been termed crip time: the kind of time experienced by people whose disabilities mean that they engage with the world at a different pace than normative time.

CFP UPDATE Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICSM 10/26-28/2023)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:39am
Michael Torregrossa / The Medieval Comics Project
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual)

 

Call for Papers (UPDATED) - Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2023

The Medieval in Cyberspace: 2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism

The UNICORN Castle (https://unicorn-castle.org/)

Online event: Thursday, 26 October, through Saturday, 28 October, 2023

 

Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual)

 

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Comics Project

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions on Transgender Issues

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:38am
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 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

Modernism, India and the Colonial Gaze

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:34am
Department of English, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Greetings!
We hope this message finds you well. We are delighted to announce that the Department of English at Daulat Ram College, under the aegis of IQAC, invites papers for an International Conference on “Modernism, India and the Colonial Gaze” to be held in New Delhi on February 1-2, 2024.

Traveling Texts: Translating Nineteenth Century European Classics in Vernacular languages of South Asia

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 6:14am
Dr. Shantanu Majee, Dr. K Subramanyam
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Traveling Texts: Translating Nineteenth Century European Classics in Vernacular languages of South Asia

 

Dr. Shantanu Majee

Dr. K Subramanyam

The proposed work is under consideration to be published in the Routledge series on ‘South Asian Literature in Focus’.

ICMS 2024: Medievalisms in Middle Grade and Young Adult Media

updated: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 4:33pm
Amelia Lehosit
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

From Disney films to historical cosplay to young adult fantasy novels to webtoons to viral TikToks, contemporary media continues to shape how younger generations view the medieval world. This panel welcomes papers that discuss contemporary media depictions of the medieval world—whether fictional or historical—aimed at youth audiences and examine ways in which these depictions might shape how younger audiences understand “the medieval.”

A Surplus of Options?: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Language and Literature Classroom

updated: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 12:15pm
Jeanne Marie Rose / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

****Deadline Approaching****

The next Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention will be held in Boston, MA, from March 7-10, 2024. The roundtable "A Surplus of Options?: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Language and Literature Classroom" is seeking abstracts (200-300 words) consistent with the conference theme of SURPLUS.

 

Non-Thematic

updated: 
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 3:19pm
Women's Link Journal, Jamia Millia Islamia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Call for Papers for January 2024 Non-thematic issueWomen’s Link is a bi-annual peer-reviewed international journal, brought out by Jamia Millia Islamia, which engages with women’s issues and gender concerns from an interdisciplinary perspective. Its objective is to generate debate and discussion around the current state of affairs related to women’s status in society.

10th Biennial Graduate Student Conference (UBC-Vancouver)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 11:40am
Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 18, 2023

10th Biennial Graduate Student Conference

Impending Catastrophes Through the Ages: Literature and the Arts in the Context of Doom

Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Hybrid Conference

October 26-27, 2023

OVSC: Shakespeare, Social Justice, & Human Rights

updated: 
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 4:48pm
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Location: The University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

Dates: October 26-28, 2023

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Patricia Akhimie-Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Director of the RaceB4Race Mentoring Network, and Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark

New Scholar Plenary Speaker: Dr. Amrita Dhar, Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University

Palgrave Handbook on Parenthood in Popular Culture: Deadline approaching!

updated: 
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 12:10pm
Edited by Elizabeth Podnieks (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Helena Wahlström Henriksson (Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

As editors of the Palgrave Handbook on Parenthood in Popular Culture, which is under contract and has 15 commissioned chapters, we seek approximately 25 additional chapters (6,500-7,500 words) on topics related to parenthood in popular culture. We aim to foreground Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ+ and non-normative experiences, in contributions that explore popular cultural representations of parental identities from intersectional perspectives, and from diverse cultural and geopolitical locations. Chapters may focus on either mothers/mothering/motherhood or fathers/fathering/fatherhood, or interrogate parents/parenting/parenthood as more comprehensive terms, across genders and in non-binary contexts.

Concentration and Distraction: Education,Literature and Mass Communication in the 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 6:55am
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Concentration and Distraction: Education,Literature and Mass Communication in the 21st CenturyInternational Conference
4-5 November 2023
(Zoom sessions:2 days/Virtual platform:5 days)  Organizing Committee John Dean  –  Gerhard Finster  –  Laura Gimeno-Pahissa   

Thematic Approach

NeMLA 2024 - Surplus Selves: Whitmanian Multiplicities

updated: 
Sunday, August 27, 2023 - 8:47am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The line, encased by parentheses in the 1892 version of Leaves of Grass, famously runs: “(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” Extending and containing the self conceptually and syntactically, Whitman proclaims his potential for contradiction as well as the creation of a protean lyric psyche.

Cracking Impossible Silences: Women's Narratives of Political Conflicts in South Asia (Panel)

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 1:59pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Update: Panel for NeMLA 2024. Abstract submission deadline 30th September 2023

Please submit your abstracts for the panel Cracking Impossible Silences: Women's Narratives of Political Conflicts in South Asia, which will feature at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston.

All abstracts need to be uploaded through the portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20560


 

The Rise of Autoliterature (NeMLA 2024 panel)

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 11:42am
Northeast Modern Language Association / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel will analyze autofiction and autotheory as contemporary literary genres still on the rise, with particular interest in putting the two in conversation with each other. 


Autofiction and autotheory continue to grow in popularity as forms of contemporary life writing. Despite their differences, these two genres share a concern in representations of selfhood and subjective experience that explicitly engage and are shaped by other literary and philosophical texts. Moreover, by emphasizing the intertextuality of lived experience, they both challenge (1) the perceived conventionality of more established life writing genres, such as memoir, and (2) everyday assumptions of unmediated, individual self-expression. 

Call for Chapters: Teaching Humanities With Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 11:41am
DuEwa Frazier / Coppin State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS - DUE SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 

Link: Call for Chapters: Teaching Humanities With Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs | IGI Global (igi-global.com)

NOTE: We will consider submissions from scholars who teach at institutions outside of HSIs and HBCUs if the submission is focused

on any of the below topics for culturally relevent pedagogy. We will also consider scholars who have completed studies on the bridge in culturally responsive teaching from K-12 to higher education. 

Transcending Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Insights in Transpacific Studies

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 8:13am
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Call for Papers

Transcending Boundaries – Interdisciplinary Insights in Transpacific Studies

TPSN Hybrid Conference

February 9-10, 2024 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and Online

 

Terisa Siagatonu knows a thing or two about not being afraid to rile up her audience. The Samoan American poet and Pacific Islander activist pushes listeners to reflect on what it means to come from a region of the world that is often misunderstood, if not altogether ignored. In “Atlas” (2018) she memorably writes:

If you open up any atlas

C19 2024: "The End(s) of Originality?: The Transcendentalists and AI"

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 12:17pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 28, 2023

[The deadline for submissions is Monday, August 28th, 2023. If you have questions, please contact markgallagher@ucla.edu]

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society will sponsor a panel at the seventh biennial conference for C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists taking place March 14-16, 2024, in Pasadena, California.

The End(s) of Originality?: The Transcendentalists and AI

Perspectives Issue 4: Climate Change and Sustainability

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:50am
Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Perspectives – A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary E-Journal

Janki Devi Memorial College 

University of Delhi 

eISSN 2583 - 4762 

 

Perspectives is a bilingual double-blind peer-reviewed, annual E-journal published by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi with eISSN 2583 - 4762. 

Economies and Poetics of the Forest

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:50am
American Society for 18th Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

“To the uncultivated eye a forest appears simply as uncultivated land—an expanse of woodland and heath which has been left ‘wild’ ... But a forest has its own complex economy.” —E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters

Call for article submissions for New Horizons in English Studies - Literature, Media and Culture Here and Now (open access peer reviewed journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:49am
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

New Horizons in English Studies vol. 9/2024

LITERATURE, MEDIA AND CULTURE HERE AND NOW

New Horizons in English Studies (https://journals.umcs.pl/nh, indexed in MLA International Bibliography and ERIH+) invites submissions to the 9/2024 issue, welcoming previously unpublished research papers and reviews in the broadly understood field of literary, media and cultural studies (L, M & C). The scope of subjects includes but is not limited to the following:

Conference in education, linguistics, and digital technology

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:45am
European Scientific Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Call for papers:

Conference in education, linguistics, and digital technology

Possibility for Scopus indexed publication.

 

Venue: Grigol Robakidze University, Tbilisi- Georgia ( also on-line session)

Date: 22 September 2023

 

https://emf.euinstitute.net/

 emails: contact@eujournal.org Subject: EMF 2023

 

Mothering and Motherhood: Past, Present, and Future

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:44am
IAMAS and Boston University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Mothering and Motherhood: Past, Present, and Future  

 

Location: Boston, Mass. (USA) and online 

Dates: June 21-23, 2024

Abstract due date: Oct. 15, 2023

 

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