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Call for Papers

2024 AAAS Annual Conference

April 25-27, 2024

Seattle, WA

Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities

Panel Title: 

How We Do Asian American Studies: AAPI Narratives of Shared Vulnerability and Care Communities

Type: Paper Presentation (3-4 presenters)

This is a call for papers for a virtual conference hosted by O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi-NCR, India

 Title of the Conference: Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in a Post-9/11 World

Conference dates: 3rd and 4th of February, 2024

Conference Organizers: Priyadarshini Gupta (priyadarshini@jgu.edu.in) and Mosarrap Hossain Khan (mhkhan@jgu.edu.in)

Call for papers

Exploring the Contours of Wellness and Health

In the wake of the international conference “Exploring the Contours of Wellness and Health”, held at Sorbonne University on the 23st, 24th and 25th of March 2023, the HDEA research team invites article submissions on the conference theme for an edited volume on the history and representation(s) of wellness and/or health.

Special dossier | to be published in vol 5 no 2 (May 2024)

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.

This special dossier, edited by Marica Orrù, will collect essays on (super)hero figures in twenty-first century US popular culture, with a specific focus on diversity, cross-genre texts, and transmedia representations. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Shirley Geok-lin Lim claimed, “My Westernization took place in my body.” This panel seeks to theorize the female Korean American body as a racialized and excluded site--a biopolitical site for trauma and haunting. More specifically, we seek to investigate representations of Korean women’s bodies in Korean/Korean American women’s writing and how these representations come to embody fidelity, disloyalty, and/or negotiate multiple affiliations and the movement between allegiances.

As such, this panel asks:

How is the Korean female figure situated between Westernization/Americanization and Asian alliances?

Conference Theme: “Roots/Routes of Resistance and Resilience”

Call for Papers: “Writing Back to Flannery O’Connor”

The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks abstracts for a proposed in-person panel to be held at the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States’s (MELUS) annual conference at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas from April 11-14, 2024.

Guest Editors: Susannah B. Mintz (Skidmore College) and Mark Osteen (Loyola University Maryland)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 

(en español abajo)

Deadline for Abstracts  / October 23, 2023

CAMPS, CARCERAL IMAGINARIES, & CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS

The 2nd Graz/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human Rights 

from an Inter-American Perspective

May 30 to June 2, 2024 - University of Graz, Austria

We invite proposals for a panel at the upcoming AAAS annual conference, to be held in Seattle, WA, April 25-27, 2024.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Mississippi Quarterly

“Hurricane Katrina at 20: Rethinking the Literary and Cultural Legacies of the Storm” 

 Guest Editors, Courtney George and Judith Livingston (Columbus State University)

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast with catastrophic results for the surrounding communities, which are still recovering today. Almost immediately, journalists, artists, and scholars began producing significant work about Katrina—work that has continued, especially as we begin to view the disaster and its circumstances in the context of our current social justice and climate-related struggles.

Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journal and her generosity as an editor and reviewer. The two prize-winning essays will be awarded $500 each and—pending anonymous peer review—will be published in the journal.

Between the New Negro and Black Arts Movements

Langston Hughes's long career spanned these two movements, with his first collection, The Weary Blues, appearing in 1926, and his final collection, The Panther and the Lash, appearing two months after his death in 1967. The Langston Hughes Society invites papers related to the decades between the New Negro and Black Arts Movements, or to artists who are not typically associated with those movements.

Call for Papers, Transatlantic Literature at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Transatlantic Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Transatlantic Literature seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.