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ENGLISH GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (EGSA) CONFERENCE 2023
Looking through the Anthropocene: Exploring Climate Change and Global Uncertainties
Date: 10-12 March 2023
Call for Papers: The Space Between Society Annual Conference
INNOVATION AND RE-INVENTION IN THE SPACE BETWEEN
JUNE 13-16, 2024 | DAYTON, OH, USA
Messengers from the Stars:
On Science Fiction and Fantasy
No. 7, 2024
Guest Editor: Ana Daniela Coelho
Co-editor: Diana Marques
Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy. The 2023 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:
Adapting Fantasy and Sci-Fi in the Age of Streaming
Is the ‘culture war’ a distraction from ‘real’ issues? Conventionally, ‘culture-warring’ has been conceptualised as a cynical political technique to divide people according to mere ‘cultural’ differences rather than material interests. Yet, as Judith Butler once remarked in a 1998 essay, this framing of certain issues as part of a ‘culture war’ presumes that “the distinction between material and cultural life is a stable one.” Other writers, such as Amardeep Singh Dillion, have also challenged this common-sense distinction between ‘culture wars’ and ‘class struggle.’ In the field of cultural studies, scholars have repeatedly stressed that the realm of culture is central to the political and material life of post-industrial societies.
Critical essays are invited for a book on queer representations in literature from South Asian countries. The local and allied global developments in queer literature in the regions and subregions of South Asia encompass diverse themes which bring to the fore the intricacies of political activism and demand for rights and policies cutting across myriad socio-cultural forums and settings. Emphasizing on how local, 'situated' and specialized knowledge is produced and how they impact operations of power in multi layered South Asian societies, the proposed book would throw light on shared and shifting conversations on/of queer communities across diverse disciplines, fields of knowledge and areas.
In Germany, drag is a hot topic ... again. Through the spread and visualization of diverse, subcultural manifestations that long ago left rigid binaries such as king and queen behind, e.g. during the international festival go drag! in Berlin in October 2022, and through its entry into pop culture, not least thanks to the first broadcast of Drag Race Germany in fall 2023, drag is experiencing an upswing in Germany.
The 27th Southern Writers/Southern WritingGraduate Student Conference
University of Mississippi
July 26th-27th, 2024
Call for Submissions
“Southern” Legacies in the 21st Century
The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 27th edition of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from July 26th-27th, 2024.
Like no other, Marcel Proust was able to depict Paris, from the Belle Epoque to the interwar period, as the stage of a vast mundane theatre on which the last scions of aristocracy who were also successful writers like Robert de Montesquiou, Élisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre, Anna de Noailles, Marthe Bibesco, Carmen Sylva, Elena Vacaresco, Aurélie Ghika, and Ludmila Savitsky enacted their glamorous lives by turning them into striking performances.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Papers and Research-Creations
Interactive Film and Media Annual Virtual Conference
June 12-14, 2024, via Zoom
Communities Structures Entanglements
New Deadline: Tuesday, January 16th
The VI Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024 is thrilled to announce a Call for Proposals focused on the compelling and intricate themes of "Communities Structures Entanglements." These themes present a rich ground for exploration, innovation, and critical examination in the rapidly evolving interactive film and media domain.
Themes:
Bodies in Motion: Reassessing Materiality through Space and Time
16th annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
March 29-30, 2024
Keynote lecture to be delivered by: Kirsten Pai Buick, University of New Mexico
MIDWEST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Seminars at the 2024 Conference| Call for proposals
April 19-21, 2024. University of Iowa | Applications due: February 5, 2024
Conference Theme: Evolving Forms
17th ESSE Conference
26-30 August 2024 in Lausanne, Switzerland
Seminar 33
Convenors:
Sibel Izmir (Atilim University, Turkey)
sibeleceizmir@gmail.com / sibel.izmir@atilim.edu.tr
Claus-Peter Neumann (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Liminality and Border-Crossing in Contemporary English-Speaking Theatre [in person]
Hip-Hop and Comics
book anthology
By editors: Drs. Sheena Howard, Brea Heidelberg, Justin Burton
Contact: showard@rider.edu, jburton@rider.edu, brea.heidelberg@gmail.com
(Tentative Publisher: University Press of Mississippi)
Notable deadlines: 250 to 300-word abstracts due by February 15th, 2024, for consideration.
February 19, University of Vienna & online
Furious Flower IV Call for Proposals
Words. Worlds. Abundance.
The Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University invites proposals for papers, panels, and performances that engage the global histories, aspirations, and forms of Black poetry. Since our groundbreaking 1994 gathering, the Center has convened a series of decade-defining conferences that explore and generate significant developments within Black poetic activity and scholarship.
With a canonical perspective and long historical memory, we have, in the intervening decades, curated, catalogued, and nurtured Black poetic activity in its plural manifestations as it surged and moved from the margins to eminence.
Nowhere is the changing landscape of higher education more evident than in Florida. From changing student demographics and enrollment to discussions surrounding academic freedom, our institutions of higher education are at the forefront of many political and philosophical conversations. Oftentimes, the intellectual and creative work of the faculty, staff, and independent scholars that support these institutions continues to challenge and further these conversations. However, there is more fluidity in Florida than merely the political situation: our natural environment is in a state of flux as our population is growing at an exponential rate.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship
Each year the Hemingway Society accepts applications for its Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grant, and typically makes two awards of $1,000 each to support the development of a Hemingway-related project. Preference is given to enrolled graduate students, independent scholars, or recent recipients of doctorate degrees. Applications are due by Friday, March 1, 2024. Winners will be announced at the end of March.
We are pleased to announce that the 40th International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at the Center for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS), University of Zagreb, Ul. don Frana Bulića 4, 20000, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 26-June 30, 2024. CAAS is an educational establishment located in a region with a rich history that dates back to around the 6th century. CAAS was founded by the University of Zagreb as a public academic institution for international scientific programs and postgraduate studies .
BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS
The Annual Undergraduate English Literature Conference at Seton Hall University
Friday, April 19th, 2024
Keynote Address by Dana Luciano (Rutgers University)
International Shaw Conference Dublin June 5 th -7 th 2024
Venue: MOLI, UCD Naughton Joyce Centre, 85 St Stephen’s Green, St Kevin’s Dublin
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference
On
“Linking Latitudes: Postcolonialism and After”
3-5 February, 2024
Swami Vivekananda University
Organized in collaboration with
Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis (Routledge) and SAGE
“Johnson-Reed 100 Years Later”:
Critical Reflections on the Global Legacy of US Immigration Quotas, 1924-2024
This international conference is organized by the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary in partnership with the American Hungarian Educators Association to mark the 100th Anniversary of the US Immigration Act of 1924.
Date: August 22-23, 2024
Venue: Debrecen, Hungary, Main Building of the University of Debrecen
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL
The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar and contemporary topics for the 2024 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Chicago, IL from May 23-26, 2024 (information on the annual conference can be found at the American Literature Association website). The Postwar Literature Group has three guaranteed panels this year, two in postwar studies and one in contemporary studies. Please review our calls for papers below, and email nicoledib@suu.edu with any questions.
Conference online: 22-23 February 2024
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
Coined by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, the term postmemory by now entered various disciplines who search to understand how memory form our identity and how we position, articulate or just make sense of our place in the society and our relations with it. The term postmemory problematizes the concept of memory by bringing attention to the memories that are not exactly personal but that keep on shaping one’s life and one’s way of seeing the world.
An international hybrid conference sponsored by the Daiwa Foundation UK
Location: Oxford Brookes University, UK
Contributions by Peter Boxall (Oxford), Sebastian Groes (Wolverhampton), Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes), Professor Megumi Kato (Tsuru University, Japan), Professor Ria Taketomi (Kindai University, Japan), and Dr Jerrine Tan (City of Hong Kong University, Hong Kong - TBC)
SHAW 46.1 (June 2026): SHAW AND IRELAND
Routledge Book Series – Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World
Series Editors: Lewis Gordon, Rozena Maart, Epifania Amoo-Adare and Sayan Dey
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
All the President’s Men at 50: Investigative Journalism in an Age of “Both Sides”
Friday, January 19, 2024, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
Register here
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_46vaWLnNSZGcQKnXVzYZkA
Volume to be Published in December of 2024
The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is eager to announce a Call for Papers for our fifth volume.
The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works concerning anime, manga, cosplay, and the fandom surrounding these areas. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach an audience of scholars both inside and outside the academe, encouraging public engagement through the digital humanities.
CALL FOR PAPERS: American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL, May 23-26, 2024