Generative AI is changing how we conceptualize writing and thus thinking and creation. As scholars of literature and writing, we are uniquely positioned to reflect on these changes. To this end, this panel aims to spark interdisciplinary conversations about AI and its relation to writing, the writing process, and writing instruction. We hope to encourage an inclusive forum for exchanging perspectives, experiences and practices.

Call for Papers
ICSSR-sponsored National Conference
on
Narrative Matters: Materialities, Modalities, and Ethical Dimensions of Storytelling
8th – 9th February 2024
Centre for English Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Embrace Empowerment at WOMENSCONF2024: Join the Global Movement

Are you ready to be part of a transformative experience that is shaping the future of women's studies? Look no further than the 6th Global Conference on Women's Studies (WOMENSCONF2024), coming to Zurich, Switzerland, from 5th to 7th July 2024. Let us take you on a journey of knowledge sharing, global networking and empowerment like never before.

Benefits of WOMENSCONF2024:

We find ourselves in a landscape of failure. We have failed to reach every climate goal we have set, and there is no returning to an unpolluted world. Institutions have failed their workers, resulting in a resurgence of industrial action and defiance. On the international stage, governments have failed migrants and refugees, leading to unprecedented levels of displacement. 

Can something productive be drawn from failing? How have past failures – of revolution, of technology, of selfhood – been put to constructive ends? And how might failure be mobilised as a new site of resistance?

Proposals on any aspect of men, men’s studies, and/or masculinities are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:

As countries of the Global North continue to reshape their immigration policies to tighten the

legal/illegal movement of Global Southerners into and through their borders, globalization

announces itself as doubly edged, having positive economic benefits and undesirable

consequences on both sides of the global divide. Yet, with the twentieth-century surge in

migration, a noticeable trend in African migrant fiction like Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were and

Indian diasporic novels, such as Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways, including films like Amata’s

Black November, is that while much of global migration remains north-directed, with the Global

CFP: Queer/ing Horror: Video Essays at the Intersection of Horror and Queerness
MONSTRUM 7.2 (December 2024)
Guest Editor: Dayna McLeod

We are delighted to announce two new Book Prize Awards, under the auspices of the UK-based Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA): the VPFA First Book Prize and the VPFA Second Book Prize awards. These book prizes will be awarded in alternate years, beginning in 2023 with the First Book Prize, followed in 2024 by the Second Book Prize. The VPFA First Book Prize is intended for the first book of an early-career scholar; the VPFA Second Book Prize is for a second book by scholars at any career stage.

Submissions for the 2023 VPFA First Book Prize are now open, with a deadline of 31 December 2023. The winner will be announced in the spring of 2024.

GUEST EDITORS: DR. KUDZAIISHE VANYORO AND DR. SAYAN DEY

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL DIVERSITY STUDIES (IJCDS) (PUBLISHED BY PLUTO PRESS)

IJCDS invites scholars to submit abstracts for a special issue that that engages with challenges and opportunities of critical transformation in the higher education environment. The theme of this issue is CONVERSATIONS ON CONVIVIALITY AND CRITICAL DIVERSITY LITERACY: OVERLAPS, TENSIONS AND GRAY AREAS.

The WAC Journal seeks scholarly work at the intersection of writing with teaching, curriculum,

learning, and research focusing on our special issue topic of how WAC pedagogies (dis)engage adult and returning learners. Our review board welcomes inquiries, proposals, and articles from 3,000 to 6,000 words.

The last few years has given education a great insight into its own practices. Between online classrooms during the pandemic and the rapid emergence of more and more powerful technologies, we educators have seen a growing need to reevaluate our classrooms, as well as work with new tech to enhance these learning environments.

Date: 27th April 2024

Location: University of Warwick (in-person)

Keynote speaker: Professor Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh)

Submission deadline: 30th November 2023

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black symposium noir

Black radical thought and praxis in Montreal 

March 15-16, 2024 || Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges

The black symposium noir is a bilingual community gathering and independently organized by graduate students and post-graduates with the support of the Uptown Institute and Chalet Kent, a community-rooted non-profit organization and youth centre in Côte-des-Neiges.

Call for papers / panels/ round tables/ workshops for Lesbian Lives International Conference 2024 at the University of Brighton UK

22-23 March 2024

The theme for the 2024 Conference is Global Connections: Solidarities, Communities, Networks and Activisms. The conference aims to highlight the ongoing struggles against homophobia, transphobia and misogyny across the globe.

This work takes many forms and is context bound, depending on geography, culture, political climate, histories of mobilization and intersectional aspects of racial and other forms of discrimination and socio-economical lived realities.