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Divergence: Departures from the Canon

updated: 
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 12:55pm
Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023

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 Conference 2025

updated: 
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 9:27am
Dr. Ruth Barratt-Peacock University of Huddersfield
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Heavy Childhoods 2025

CFP

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Emotions and the Arts

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 11:08pm
Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

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.

Intimacy and the Right to Privacy in the English-Speaking World

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:17pm
University Jean Moulin Lyon 3
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

“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

“Crossing Genres, Crossing Borders”: Literature and Literary Criticism at the Junctions

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:17pm
Indigenous Literary Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

 

 

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

 

2024 International Conference on Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:15pm
College of Foreign Languages, Fu Jen Catholic University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 20, 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."

Katherine Mansfield's Women

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:15pm
Katherine Mansfield Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

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

ESSAY PRIZE--Katherine Mansfield's Women

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:15pm
Katherine Mansfield Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

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 

CFP: Victorians Institute Journal

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:15pm
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

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.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:14pm
Venti Journal: Air, Experience, Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

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. 

New Perspectives on Studio Ghibli, guest ed. Rayna Denison and Jacqueline Ristola

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:13pm
Mechademia: Second Arc
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

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.

'Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back"

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:13pm
Flannery O'Connor Review / Georgia College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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. 

2nd Hilary Ng'weno Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:13pm
Moi University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

THEME: SUSTAINABILITY OF INFORMATION GENERATION, DISSEMINATION, CONSUMPTION, AND PRESERVATION IN THE AGE OF DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS

 

Hilary Ng’weno Centre for East Africa Media Research

 

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:13pm
Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
invites well researched unpublished articles (with an abstract of
maximum 250 words and 5 keywords), book reviews, and interviews
for Volume 4 Issue 1, June 2024 (Open Issue: 4.1)

Submission Deadline: 31 March, 2024

Sub themes (not restricted) 

We Are All Connected: Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity (2024 Call for Proposals)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:13pm
Peace and Justice Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

We Are All Connected:Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity

The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association 

Hosted by The Justice House Program at Niagara University

OCTOBER 24-27, 2024 | Niagara, New York, USA

 

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 01, 2024

Early Bird Registration: May 1 – July 15, 2024

Draft Schedule Released: June 3, 2024

 

The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:12pm
Emily Banks and Kristopher Woofter
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 19, 2024

The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson will offer scholars and university students at the graduate and undergraduate levels a comprehensive overview of the exciting critical conversations currently shedding new light on Jackson’s novels, short stories, and memoirs, and the literary and moving-image works they have inspired. From architecture to alterity, horror to humour, and pessimism to pedagogy, the forty-five essays in The Oxford Handbook to Shirley Jackson will form a comprehensive guide to Jackson’s role in literary history while highlighting her continued relevance—and, often, prescience—regarding timely considerations of issues concerning gender, sexuality, race, class, mental illness, and apocalyptic anxieties.

Literatures and Laws Online Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:12pm
Rebecca Mills and Samuel Walker / Bournemouth University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Literatures and Laws

A one-day symposium hosted online by Bournemouth University, UK

Department of Humanities and Law, and the Narrative, Cultures, and Community Research Centre

                                                                                        13th April 2024

 

Disability in Comics and Graphic Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:11pm
Palgrave
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS
Palgrave Handbook of Disability in Comics and Graphic Narratives

We invite abstracts for articles to be published in a collection showcasing scholarly research related to disability in comics and graphic narratives. This edited volume will highlight insights from both disability studies as well as comics studies.

Centering a disability justice ethos, we especially welcome: submissions by disabled authors/creators; collaborative submissions; work that engages with disability life writing and/or disclosure; work that addresses accommodations and accessibility as they relate to comics pedagogy, form, and/or readership.

REMINDER Call for Papers: LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:11pm
Faculty of Foreign Languages Alfa BK University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Faculty of Foreign Languages would like to remind you that the 13th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 24 and 25 May 2024. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE

Journal of Ethnic American Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:11pm
JEAL
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY, ESPECIALLY WITH PROMISING GRADUATE STUDENTS & YOUNGER SCHOLARS DOING WORK IN ETHNIC AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES: Journal of Ethnic American Literature, a refereed scholarly annual dedicated to new research and criticism in American literature and culture, seeks scholarly articles (5000 to 7000 words saved in Word) that use the MLA Style. JEAL also plans to develop a "Poetic Notes" section. An interested contributor can select a good but less discussed poem by an American poet and submit an explication of up to 1000 to 1500 words. Submissions can be emailed to journaljeal@yahoo.com, and the subject line should contain JEAL, Sub, your name, and the date. The deadline is August 1.

Milton and Visibility (MLA 2025 New Orleans)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:11pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 23, 2024

The Milton Society of America invites proposals considering visibility, broadly conceived, in Milton’s writings. Potential topics include disability, visual art, race, labor. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.

 

Milton and Love (MLA 2025 New Orleans)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:10pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 23, 2024

The Milton Society of America invites proposals offering new considerations—theoretical, historical, philosophical, or literary—of love in Milton’s writings. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.

 

New England Medieval Consortium conference Nov 9: Books and Transgressions

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:10pm
New England Medieval Consortium
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.

Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
Current Research in Speculative Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2024

14th Annual Conference

3 – 5th July 2024, University of Liverpool, Offline and Online, https://crsfhome.home.blog/

 

I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.(Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower)

 

The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics / Manisa Celal Bayar U.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, to be held by 9-11 May, 2024 in Manisa, Turkiye, as did its predecessors, aims to bring together academics of language studies in sharing their scholarly work. Any academic event of this kind promises to provide a space for academic and interdisciplinary discussions revolving around the philosophy of language and literature. The submitted papers should be about but not limited to:

 

Linguistics

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