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Text Under Pressure: Society for Textual Scholarship 2024 conference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:07pm
Society for Textual Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 18, 2024

The Society for Textual Scholarship invites proposals for our 2024 conference hosted by the University of Tulsa, June 6-8, on the theme Text Under Pressure. The deadline for proposals is Monday, March 18.

Texts manifest many varieties of creative, social, and political pressure in their expressive content and form. But text is also often a matter of technological pressure: printing techniques rely on the pressure of a platen, roller, or squeegee; other recording and playback processes require the pressure of a stylus, a chisel, a nib, or the gentle pulse of a wifi wave. Such pressurized circumstances, symbolic and material, reveal core issues of textual production, circulation, reception, and contestation. 

Metaphors of Compilation

updated: 
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 11:24am
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

This special issue of English Language Notes invites interdisciplinary perspectives on the poetic and metaphorical possibilities of compilation, a word both ubiquitous and lacking a single, agreed-upon meaning. From Latin compilatio (“a raking together, pillaging, plundering; hence, concr., sportively of a collection of documents, a compilation”), “compilation” can describe poetic composition, physical construction, and the artful orchestration of those domains by means of page-layout, indexing, and comparable readerly aids. Both action and result, compilation figures an object in terms at once material and literary.

MLA 2025 (LLC 17th-Century English Guaranteed Panel) Early Modern Social Media

updated: 
Friday, February 16, 2024 - 1:35pm
MLA LLC 17th-Century English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

MLA 2025, New Orleans (9-12 January)

The Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity of historical circumstances, harness public affect, and precipitate ideological shifts. Please send 250-word abstracts by 3/15/2024 to Carmen Nocentelli (nocent@unm.edu).

 

Call for Applications: Patrick Leary Field Development Grant

updated: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:28am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Patrick Leary Field Development GrantDeadline: 15 March 2024 The Patrick Leary Field Development Grant is named for long-time RSVP supporter, Board member and former President, and created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.

Call for Applications: Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize

updated: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:28am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize Deadline: 1 March 2024  The Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to the best Ph.D. dissertation, defended in the previous calendar year, that explores the 19th-century British periodical press (including magazines, newspapers, and serial publications of all kinds) as an object of study in its own right, not as a source of material for other historical topics. Winners of the prize receive a monetary award of $1,000.

Summer Seminars at the American Antiquarian Society

updated: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 3:53pm
John Garcia / American Antiquarian Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 19, 2024

Dear friends and colleagues, This summer, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is offering week-long seminars on the history of the book and visual culture. AAS seminars are open to academics, library and museum professionals, independent researchers, and members of the antiquarian book trade. Hands-on sessions with AAS's exceptional collection of rare books, periodicals, manuscripts, and the graphic arts are a hallmark of the seminar experience.  Please follow the links provided below for more information and instructions on how to apply: "Disability Histories in the Visual Archive: Redress, Protest, and Justice" June 9-14, 2024.

From Writing to AI

updated: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 3:53pm
Interface -Journal of European Languages and Literatures
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Dear Colleagues,

"Interface" calls for papers for a conference on the topic: “From the Invention of Writing to the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: Cultural Approaches to Information Technology”

Conference Date: August  28-30, 2024

Conference Place: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 23, 2024

Willa Cather and the Readerly Imagination

updated: 
Friday, February 9, 2024 - 10:48am
Willa Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Willa Cather and the Readerly Imagination

In her own time as in ours, Willa Cather’s books created vibrant and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid reader with an acute awareness of the reading public. The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference seeks to celebrate and explore both the act of reading Cather and the presence of reading and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters. The conference will be held Thursday, June 6 – Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

The directors invite papers on a variety of topics related to Cather, readers, and reading, including but not limited to the following areas.

 

Creative Industries Journal - Call for Guest Reviewers

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 10:07am
Creative Industries Journal (Routledge)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

 

Call for Well-Qualified Guest Reviewers

The international peer-reviewed Creative Industries Journal [CIJ] (Routledge/ Taylor and Francis), now in its 13th volume and approaching its 14th year, seeks to create a pool of guest reviewers, who possess the requisite expertise, to complement our Peer Review Board and Editorial team.

Patchwork and Authorship

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 10:12am
Alex Gushurst-Moore, University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Invitation 

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”.  

New England Medieval Consortium conference Nov 9: Books and Transgressions

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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.

Assimilation and Cultural Identity in Amy Tan's work "The Joy Luck Club"

updated: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 - 10:11am
Nassima Benyouci, Northwestern Polytechnical University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Abstract : 

   Through the stories of Chinese-American immigrant women and their daughters, Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" explores the issue of assimilation and its impact on ethnic identity. This essay explores the characters' struggles to maintain their Chinese cultural identity while assimilating into American society, focusing on important issues such as language, intergenerational relationships, customs, and cultural memory. The story depicts integration as a difficult, intensely personal process in which people must strike a balance between preserving their Chinese ancestry and absorption into American society. 

2024 Conference Seminars, two topics (April 19-21, 2024; U of Iowa)

updated: 
Monday, January 8, 2024 - 10:54am
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 5, 2024

MIDWEST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Seminars at the 2024 Conference| Call for proposals

April 19-21, 2024. University of Iowa | Applications due: February 5, 2024

 

Conference Theme: Evolving Forms

 

The Morris Circle and Collaboration

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Thursday, January 4, 2024 - 12:38am
Jude V. Nixon Salem State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

The Morris Circle and Collaboration

Co-sponsored with SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Readers and Publishers

William Morris and his circle were constant collaborators—in poetry, journalism, essays, lectures, translations, printing, art, socialism, and much more. We seek papers and presentations on any topic related to shared works by and with Morris and his associates: these could include literary writings and translations, illuminated manuscripts, the Kelmscott Press, Morris’s political and art journalism, the contributions of others in his literary, political, and artistic circles, or of those substantially influenced by his works.

Linda Hall Library, 2024-25 Fellowships

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:12pm
Linda Hall Library
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 19, 2024

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2024-25 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

Call for Nominations: Colby Book Prize

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:24pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

RSVP's Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book PrizeThe Colby Prize is intended to honor original book-length scholarship about Victorian periodicals and newspapers, of the kind that Robert and Vineta Colby themselves produced during their careers. The annual prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press. The winner receives a monetary award of up to $2,000 and is invited to speak at the following year’s RSVP conference.

Gaskell Journal Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
Gaskell Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Gaskell Journal

Joan Leach Memorial

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

 

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2024

 

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

 

Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: 'Signs and Scripts'

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:27pm
University of Oxford
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 17, 2023

CFP for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: ‘Signs and Scripts’

 

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 conference is: ‘Signs and Scripts.’

 

The conference will be held in person on the 8th and 9th of April, 2024. We are delighted to announce this call for papers and invite proposals relating to all aspects of the broad topic ‘signs and scripts’ in the medieval world. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary perspectives, whether historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, interdisciplinary, or anything else. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Whither postcolonialism? New directions in postcolonial studies

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:54pm
Department of English, Swarnamoyee Jogendranath Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Whither postcolonialism?

New directions in postcolonial studies

A Two-day International Online Conference

1-2 December 2023

Whither postcolonialism? New directions in postcolonial studies -- International Online Conference, 1-2 December 2023

updated: 
Friday, November 3, 2023 - 2:14pm
Department of English, Swarnamoyee Jogendranath Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Postcolonial studies as a way of reclaiming history from the perspective of the colonised continues to uncover the myriad fraught legacies of colonialism. The emergence of newer interdisciplinary areas of inquiry, such as climate change, has further revealed tangled legacies of colonialism that continue to persist. The burgeoning field of postcolonial print culture studies, in turn, has been bringing to the fore a fascinating terrain of production, circulation and consumption of print in colonial contexts that is particularly enriching our knowledge of anticolonial resistance in various ways.  This conference aims to bring together academic work in some of the newer sub-fields of postcolonial inquiry with attention to continuities.

Place in the Victorian Periodical Press

updated: 
Friday, October 27, 2023 - 7:37am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Place in the Victorian Periodical Press, June 13 -15 2024, University of Stirling, Scotland, 2024 Conference CFP

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will hold its annual conference in Scotland at the University of Stirling, June 13-15, 2024. The conference will be primarily in-person, although it will include some online sessions, as well as opportunities to attend the Woolf and Colby lectures and the RSVP annual business meeting remotely.

ALA 2024: Stevens and the Little Magazine

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:28pm
Wallace Stevens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

American Literature Association 2024 (Chicago, May 23 – 26, 2024): “Stevens and the Little Magazine”

The publication, circulation, and reception of little magazines made modernism happen. They set modernist poetry in motion, rattling and humming. The little magazine was a medial form, a technology, an infrastructure, a format, and a context for reading. Organized by the Wallace Stevens Society, this panel welcomes scholars to consider Stevens’s work in little magazines and to consider little magazines as mediators of, or resonators for, Stevens’s work. We seek abstracts that draw Stevensian poetics and criticism into contact with cultural and textual studies of the little magazine.

A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:14pm
J. D. Sargan and Micah Goodrich
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

We warmly invite submissions to contribute to A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450), edited by J. D. Sargan and Micah James Goodrich. In the past several years, the emerging field of premodern trans studies has taken shape across disciplinary, geographical, and chronological lines. Our volume, A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450), which spans over one thousand years of history, will serve to index these critical conversations among medievalists and anticipate new contours that our discussions may take. Please take a moment to look at the main series CFP here: https://bit.ly/CHTLvol1-6 

Call for Applications: 2024 Curran Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:23pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.

18th Century Conference: The Book and the City

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:57pm
South Central Society for 18th Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

This year, the Annual Meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies will be held in one of the most thought-provoking cities in contemporary America: Portland, Oregon. The meeting will be held on Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, 2024. While papers on all aspects of the long eighteenth century are welcome, the theme of the conference will be "The Book and the City."

Radical Print Cultures in the US South: A One-Day Conference

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:23pm
University of Leeds
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers: Radical Print Cultures in the US South

University of Leeds, 15th February 2024

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Sharon Monteith (Nottingham Trent University), author of SNCC’s Stories: The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2020).

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