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The University of Exeter’s AHRC-funded “The Art of Fiction” project invites proposals for 15-minute papers on the theme of “patchwork and authorship”.
Greetings, campus!
William and Mary’s Journal of Global Premodern Studies, Noetica, is seeking submissions from you! We emphasize the highest level of erudition in undergraduate scholarship of the premodern past. Our journal is interdisciplinary and welcomes submissions of original research from all of the humanities, including Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Art, and History.
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
2024 Biannual Conference
June 23-26, 2024
Courtyard by Marriot Beachfront | Gulfport, Mississippi
There is a need to reconceptualize queer Souths in the face of the challenges and revocation of rights that the community has faced in the last seven years. While there is certainly an existing body of scholarship on queer Souths, those works tend to focus on specific sites or individuals rather than examining the activism and art that connect to build a genealogy of queer Souths.
This panel welcomes proposals that include but are not limited to:
CFP opened until fev 12th.
Dates of the Conference: 13th, 14th, 15th March
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Time, as a mode of configuring the social, has long been of scholarly concern— such as Durkheim (1912)’s illustration of how regular rhythmic collective gathering provokes the idea of the social in individuals or, more recently, Elizabeth Freeman’s (2019) illustration of how senses of time are instrumental to becoming social in a mode she calls hypersociability, a way of imagining queerness not as antirelational, but as hypersocial.
MLA 2025 (9-12 January)
New Orleans, LA, USA
Panel: Performing Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Medieval and Renaissance Drama
The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) has a guaranteed session at the 2025 MLA Annual Convention (9-12 January). New Orleans, LA, USA–the location of the 2025 conference–boasts a rich history forged through the comingling of diverse ethnicities, races, religions, and identities. In concert with this history of New Orleans, the MRDS panel organizers seek papers that analyze cultural and linguistic mixing on Medieval and Early Modern stages. Possible topics include (and are not limited to):
We're reloading our call for short articles on color!
A dark urban setting scattered with dots of light. Yellow gas flames shoot up against a glowing red horizon, creating an almost hellish feel. Flying cars pierce the atmosphere, revealing the orange smog haze that reappears in urban sequences throughout the movie. As the camera moves closer to futuristic, monumental buildings, cold white beams of light transition to interiors dominated by blue hues. Sequences in the Tyrell Corporation are marked by cool tones as opposed to Deckard’s warm-toned private spaces. How would we feel and think about a cult film like Blade Runner (1982) if cinematographic choices about color had been made differently?
DEADLONE EXTENDED: The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 25–28, 2024. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations. The CAC is designed
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Abstract submissions are now due by February 16th, 2024.
Conference Dates: April 4th - 6th, 2024
Where: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Reclaiming Legacy: From Foundations to Futures in Coalitions & Communities
This year’s conference theme encourages papers, presentations, and original creative works that explore topics concerned with the intersecting of generational work and identities; what do we build our studies on and what do we leave for the next generation of our identified coalitions and communities?
Submit proposals that speak to the representation and/or involvement of these communities in literature, media, art, games, technology, politics, etc.
“Barbenheimer: Beauty and Destruction”
Call for Papers
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2024
April 5th – April 7th, 2024
Literary Text Research is an open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published by Allameh Tabataba’i University, the leading university in Humanities and Social Sciences in Iran. Literary Text Research has been established to provide an intellectual platform for national and international researchers working on issues related to Persian literary texts. The Journal is Published in Collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of the Persian Language and Literature of Iran (Ranked A).
Literary Text Research invites scholars worldwide to submit their papers on the issues related to Persian literature:
Deadline Extended! Abstracts available for submission until February 5!
Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference
June 23-26, 2024
Courtyard by Marriott Beachfront
Gulfport, MS
Theme: "Reconstruction(s)"
There have been several recent discussions on decolonisation, diversity, and inclusion in creative writing pedagogy and publishing, following the Black Lives Matter movement, #publishingpaidme on Twitter on racial disparities in pay, and reports such as ‘Rethinking Diversity’. But have these discussions led to meaningful changes in academia and publishing?
The ‘Rethinking Diversity’ report (2020) stated that publishers have a narrow understanding of their core reader, whom they describe as ‘a white, middle-class older woman sardonically referred to as Susan’, likely uninterested in books by writers of colour.
CfP
CSSA’s 2024 Conference: Intellectual Resistance
The Comparative Studies Student Association of Florida Atlantic University would like to invite undergraduate students, graduate students, post docs, and scholars early in their careers to participate in our annual conference focusing on the idea of intellectual resistance.
Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature
Date: May 24th and 25th 2024
Call for Papers | Divergence: Departures from the Canon
Deadline Extended - Feb 16th 2024
Heavy Childhoods 2025
CFP
Scholars across disciplines have long contended with the generative potentials and the deficiencies of affect and emotions like sorrow, melancholy, compassion, grief, sympathy, and happiness. Judith Butler has shown how feelings of loss and acts of mourning are political acts of subjectivity, of rendering a life grievable or forgotten. Sara Ahmed speaks about the promise of happiness that obscures unhappy hierarchies in the world around us, and calls for a killjoy politics. Lauren Berlant tells us that optimism is not just an emotion, but a cruel relation we have with our socio-economic forces.
Call for Papers: Journal of Gulf Studies
Special Issue: ‘Investigating the Developing Relation between the Gulf States and North Africa’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gulf-studies#call-for-papers
“Intimacy and the Right to Privacy in the English-Speaking World”
October 10 & 11, 2024
International conference
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
“If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion.” Justice William Brennan
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
“Crossing Genres, Crossing Borders”:
Literature and Literary Criticism at the Junctions
A Gathering of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association
15 May – 18 May 2024
Inn at the Forks
Nestawaya (also known as The Forks), Wînipêk (Winnipeg), Manitowapow (Manitoba), Kanata (Canada) – located on Treaty One and the homeland of the Red River Métis
Call for contributions to an edited book on 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea
March 1, 2024: please send brief proposals (2-3 paragraphs) to uc1@nyu.edu and yathanassakis@ucsb.eduby 1st of March, 2024.
July 1, 2024: first full drafts of the accepted proposals requested by 1st of July, 2024.
Call for Papers - 2024 International Conference on Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation
Time: November 1-2, 2024
Venue: Fu Jen Catholic University
Dear ALL,
We are pleased to announce that the College of Foreign Languages at Fu Jen Catholic University is organizing an international conference on November 1-2, 2024, at the College of Foreign Languages. The conference theme is "Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation."
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 17 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S
WOMEN
Editors
Dr Aimée Gasston and Dr Gerri Kimber
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2024, open to all, on the subject of
Katherine Mansfield’s Women
The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 17 (2025),the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.
The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
Emeritus professor Clare Hanson
University of Southampton, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
The Victorians Institute Journal is still accepting submissions for Volume 51 through February 1st—act fast! We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.
For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.
Atmospheres of Violence
CALL FOR PAPERS: ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE
Venti Journal - Volume 3, No.1 - Summer 2024 | Deadline: March 1, 2024
Recognition of an atmosphere’s inherent relational capacity is coupled with the desire to control and operationalize; to parse, divide and conquer. Even as the illusory fog of war is superseded by blatant acts of genocide and terrorism, we fail to sense how these engineered atmospheres of violence have long preceded their overwhelming, hyper-visible assemblages.
Call for Chapter Proposals
Playing with Magic: Understanding Disney Games
Edited by Priscilla Hobbs and Jennessa Hester
Studio Ghibli has been Japan’s most internationally renowned animation studio for nearly 40 years. Home to the animated feature films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli has developed a brand of animation that is instantly recognisable for its hand-drawn attention to the natural world, empowered young female protagonists and soaring depictions of flight. Often read as a creator of popular hit films at home in Japan, but as artistically oriented animation abroad, Studio Ghibli’s films demonstrate the fluidity of Japanese animation’s meanings as its travels the world. Making 24 animated feature films to date, Studio Ghibli has enjoyed international acclaim as a pioneering studio for animation.
Paper proposals of 100-200 words are due by 15 May 2024 to Marshall Bruce Gentry at bruce.gentry@gcsu.edu for "Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back," an academic conference to be held 12-15 Sept. 2024 at Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA, as part of the worldwide "Flannery at 100" celebrations of O'Connor's centennial.
Papers may use any approach to studying O'Connor and her works. Along with your paper proposal, please send a short bio and identify your academic affiliation.
Keynoters for the conference are Mark Jarman, Mab Segrest, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Karen M. Gravel. Andalusia's new Interpretive Center will be open for visits throughout the conference.