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Connections in the (Post-)Anthropocene

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:49pm
MLCS Annual Graduate Student Confreence, University of Alberta
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 14, 2024

In the Anthropocene era, the pace of human development outpaces that of natural evolution, disrupting ecological balance and transforming humans into a potent geological force. Frequently, humans reduce the complexity of other life forms or natural entities on the planet, treating them as mere kinds of resources or energy used by humans without adequate consideration for the future. This perceived human superiority creates a dichotomy between humans and non-humans, further influencing knowledge production dynamics. However, the boundaries between nature and culture have been blurred because of the advancement in science and technology, and nature is not something out there, as a negligible externality. 

 

Call for Papers- Literature and Literary Studies

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:48pm
International Review of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Call for Papers: Regular Issue July 2024

International Review of Literary Studies

 

Deadline: May 30, 2024

The International Review of Literary Studies (IRLS) invites scholars and researchers to submit their original contributions for publication in our peer-reviewed open-access journal with no submission/publication fee. IRLS is dedicated to advancing the literary studies field by publishing high-quality research articles, review papers, and book reviews informed by Literary and Cultural Theory.

Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Place, Traces

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:48pm
Katherine Mansfield Society / IADT Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces

IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin

June 14th–16th 2024

 

An international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society

Hosted by the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire

                  

Language in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:47pm
Kaunas University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology together with the Lithuanian Museum of Education are organizing a scientific research conference that is aimed to discuss various aspects and issues about the rapid development of language industry and possibilities of artificial intelligence application that change the turn of scientific research, methodological approaches and, at the same time, increase the access of the society to information in native and foreign languages. 

Health In/Of African Literatures

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:47pm
African Literature/ Midwest MLA--Permanent Section
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 26, 2024

The Permanent Section for African Literature of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) requests abstracts for this year’s conference which will be in-person in Chicago, Illinois.

Generation X: Studies in Culture, Demographics and Media Representation

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Thomas Pace, John Carroll University; Elwood Watson, East Tennessee State
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2030

We are soliciting manuscripts for monographs or edited collections that examine the topic of Generation X for our new series titled Generation X :  Studies in Culture, Demographics, and Media Representation.  Academics and non-academics alike from all generational backgrounds are welcomed to submit abstracts and/or completed manuscripts for review. Projects will be published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

CfP - Talking Back Conference

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 7:18am
Nottingham Trent Univeristy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, that makes new life, and new growth possible. It is that act of speech, of “talking back” that is no mere gesture of empty words, that is the expression of moving from object to subject, that is the liberated voice.’

bell hooks, “Talking Back.” Discourse (1986), p. 128. 

 

Reposted: Call for Book Chapters on Louisiana and the Caribbean: Interrogating Contemporary Literary and Cultural Connections

updated: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 11:05am
Emily O'Dell/ McNeese State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Call for Book Chapters to Complete Collection:

Louisiana and the Caribbean: Interrogating Contemporary Literary and Cultural Connections

**A press has already expressed interest but we just need a few more chapters to complete the collection**

[Extended Deadline] 121st Annual PAMLA Special Sessions (Palm Springs, CA) – November 7-10, 2024

updated: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 10:54am
Craig Svonkin / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 121st Annual PAMLA Conference

The PAMLA 2024 Conference will be held at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other Hollywood and musical stars) between Thursday, November 7 and Sunday, November 10, 2024.

The 2024 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.

Extension of deadline: The Representation of Famines in Indian Literatures

updated: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 10:29am
ROUTLEDGE
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 5, 2024

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

deadline for submissions: 

April 05, 2024

full name / name of organization: 

Shubhanku Kochar (Ph.D.) and Shehnaz Kabir (Ph.D. Fellow)

contact email: 

shubhankukochar@outlook.com

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

 

The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”

 

Women and Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 1:59am
Turkish Shakespeares
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Women and Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)

Contact email: turkishshakespeares@gmail.com 

 

Call for Chapters

 

Turkey has a long tradition of reading, translating and staging William Shakespeare’s plays as part of the country’s modernisation process. Yet, this long tradition has remained relatively obscure for the majority of both Turkish and non-Turkish academic and non-academic circles.

 

Milton Conference

updated: 
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 11:06am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

Description: John Milton is mostly known for writing one of the greatest epics in English, Paradise Lost, but his shorter poems and treatises also contributed greatly to the political and religious conversations of the seventeenth century. The sphere of Milton’s influence was not limited to his time period, but also shaped later periods, including the Romantics, who were fascinated with what they deemed a sympathetic portrayal of Satan.

Shakespeare Conference

updated: 
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 11:05am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

The Shakespeare session at the RMMLA Conference 2024 is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) is a non-profit membership organization, established in 1947, that promotes the study and teaching of language, literature, and culture. The Secretariat and Directorate of the RMMLA is hosted by the University of Wyoming and maintains The Rocky Mountain Review, a scholarly journal included in the JSTOR project and ProjectMUSE at Johns Hopkins University.

Call for contributions - essays on literature and ecology

updated: 
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 2:52am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Papers (3500-5000 words, following the latest MLA guidelines) are invited on the following broad themes:

DEADLINE EXTENDEDRace & Queer, Trans, and Reproductive Rights

updated: 
Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 8:32am
Journal of Critical Race Inquiry
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 19, 2024

Call for Papers:

Race & Queer, Trans, and Reproductive Rights

 

“When we are talking about gender and sexual politics…I’m not convinced we need to invent any trans or gender-based rubrics to understand the space or to mobilize against it. The existing critical rubrics of race and empire and racial governance would already encompass and analyze perfectly well what is going on and also provide us with a different political grammar of political solidarity and history.”

-Jules Gill Peterson, “Critical Race Theory Today” JCRI Vol 9 No 2, 2022.

 

MSA 2024 (Chicago, November 7-10, 2024) | In motion: Spectacles of liveliness in modernist cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 2:26pm
Emma Ridder and Brenda Wang, UCLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Taking up Jennifer Fay’s call to apprehend film as a “technology of the Anthropocene,” this panel investigates how modernists took advantage of film’s ability to capture motion to envision and to reimagine the limits of life, broadly defined. We invite papers that explore how early twentieth-century film experimented with cinematic form to depict movement and vitality as a phenomenon located beyond or in distinction to the human.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 2:09pm
Cerae Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Shifting – or transforming – between states of being is a feature of human and animal societies as well as of the wider living world and the cosmos. This act of shifting is experienced through both natural and unnatural processes and can be seen in all areas of life, from the reproductive cycles of organisms, to epochal changes undergone by entire societies, and everything in between. But transformations can also refer to distortions of reality, both deliberate and accidental, magical or real, as much as they can reflect genuine changes to an individual, an institution, a landscape, or even a society.

Extended: Science Fiction at the End of History Conference

updated: 
Monday, March 25, 2024 - 5:57pm
Dr River Seager / Dr Chris Gerrard
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

“Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet.” 

- Captain Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

 

This conference is about science fiction media in the 1990s. We are looking for high quality papers that examine science fiction properties and fiction during that decade. There has been interest from a publisher for a potential book.

 

The title for this conference is taken from the concept “End of History” by Francis Fukuyama. Papers do not need to interface with this theory directly.

 

Transnational Circuits of Asian Religio-Philosophy: Reception and Racialization in the US (Journal of Transnational American Studies Special Forum)

updated: 
Monday, March 25, 2024 - 1:14pm
Journal of Transnational American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

This special forum links processes of Asian American racialization with the reception and circulation of Asian religio-philosophy in the US. In doing so, this forum builds on the foundation laid by a previous special forum titled Redefining the American in Asian American Studies, published in JTAS in 2012.

MSA 2024: Modernism and Migration across the Atlantic Ocean

updated: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 7:37pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 4, 2024

The word "opportunity" in today's European languages is rooted in "port" as a coastal city, and "opportune" was first used to describe a wind that would be favorable to the European ships and explorers. As we know, for centuries, ports, seas, and oceans that surrounded Europe were considered as "opportunities" to discover new lands, dominate new populations, and to accumulate wealth.

In his poem "Man and the Sea," Charles Baudelaire, often known as the first modernist poet, addresses "the free man" who embraces the sea, regardless of how wild and indomitable it is, as they both "delight in death and carnage."

Nahi Hatenge / We Shall Not Move: Perspectives on Muslim belonging in South Asia

updated: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 6:22am
Panel for Annual Conference of South Asia 2024 at Wisconsin-Madison
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Panel Convener: Shahwar Kibria Maqhfi, UCLA. This panel aims to bring together diverse ideas of being Muslim in contemporary South Asia. We wish to explore multiple articulations and evidence of sameness through sound, image, text, performance, active recollection, and memory, in the context of increased otherisation. We are therefore interested in papers, which explore junctures, events, overlaps, and nodes, situated across time and space, which act as vestibules between the idea of “Muslimness” and “belonging”. Conceptions of Muslim belonging may not only be appended to notions of religiosity, but also explore linkages with class, caste, gender, hegemonies, place making, pioneership, and rootedness.

How Good Maugham Was: A Critical Reassessment - An International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:58pm
Le Mans University, France
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Conference Dates: Thursday 13 and Friday 14 March 2025

Location: Le Mans University, France (https://maps.app.goo.gl/nrrshiTddgof53vB7)

Keywords: W. Somerset Maugham, Popular, Middlebrow and High Culture, Literary Criticism, Colonialism, Travel Studies, Gender Studies, Biography, Adaptations, Translations, Cultural Transfers, Propaganda

Conference Format: In-person, but videoconference will be possible in specific cases

Conference Languages: English; French a possibility for a limited number of papers

Conference Website: https://maugham-le-mans.sciencesconf.org

 

CFP: Online Summer Conference, June 20-22 2024

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:58pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Call for Papers

Stardom & Fandom

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2024 SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 20-22, 2024

Virtual Conference

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 25, 2024

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024

Some Circumstance of the Text: Essays in Honor of William Proctor Williams

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:58pm
Matteo Pangallo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Proposals are invited for Some Circumstance of the Text, a planned collection of essays to memorialize and celebrate William Proctor Williams (1939–2023), whose more than half-century of scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and reviewing has made a profound and lasting contribution to the fields of early modern English literature and drama, Shakespeare studies, textual criticism, bibliography, and book history.

Proposed essays should draw upon, build upon, or engage with William’s ideas across any of the subjects in which he worked, including but not limited to:

*Essay Collection* New Faces of William Gaddis: Reconsiderations for his Second Century [new deadline]

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:57pm
Crystal Alberts, Ali Chetwynd, Michael Sanders
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

December 2022 marked William Gaddis’s (1922-1998) centenary. Reputed during his lifetime for being—in his characters’ words—“difficult as I can make it,” or writing “for a very small audience,” the years since his death have nonetheless seen his work republished in increasingly wide-reaching editions and discussed in numerous online reading groups, with his unpublished archive increasingly studied and brought to public attention.

The present edited collection of academic essays seeks contributions that will challenge, update, expand, or surpass the extant understandings of Gaddis’s work, clarifying what it can offer readers more than a century after his birth.

Creative Writing III: Short Story (Permanent Section)

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:57pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

“Reading for Wellness”

 

Taking inspiration from the in/of that joins Health and Humanities in this year’s conference theme, this panel seeks papers that broadly consider the relationship between the short story form and wellbeing.   

 

Individual and Collective Wellbeing

 

Claims made for the humanness of the short story form – its capacity to capture, condense, and convey essential elements if not the Truth of human experience – take on added urgency in an age increasingly characterized as inhuman.   

 

Submissions to this panel, then, might

 

John Steinbeck Panel at the Western Literature Association Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:57pm
International Steinbeck Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 10, 2024

Call for Papers: Panel on John Steinbeck Scholarship

The International Steinbeck Society is pleased to announce a call for papers for a panel dedicated to scholarship on John Steinbeck at the 2024 Western Lit Association Conference, which will take place from October 2-4 in Tucson, AZ. We invite scholars and enthusiasts of Steinbeck's works to submit proposals for papers that will approach Steinbeck from a variety of literary lenses.

This panel seeks to engage with diverse perspectives on John Steinbeck's writings. Papers may explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:

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