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DEADLINE EXTENDED: In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism within the U.S. and Around the World in the 21st-Century

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 5:09pm
The Journal of Colorism Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 6, 2023

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair-will hereafter be made the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization.

—W.E.B. Du Bois (1900)

 

Are there multiple forms or species of racism or simply variations of a fundamental structure?

—Jared Sexton (2012)

 

I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (1952)

Nouvelles Perspectives en Études Québécoises multidisciplinaires depuis l’Europe et le Reste du Globe / New Perspectives on Multidisciplinary Québec Studies from Europe and Around the World

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:31am
Québec Studies 77 (Printemps/Été 2024) / (Spring/Summer 2024)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Version française (English version below)

 

Proposition pour un dossier spécial :

“Nouvelles Perspectives en Études Québécoises multidisciplinaires depuis l’Europe et le Reste du Globe”

Québec Studies 77 (Printemps/Été 2024)

 

“Les études québécoises ont [...] depuis quelques années déplacé ou multiplié leurs centres de gravité [...]”(Hauser 2022, 128)

 

The Weird Russian 19th Century

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:20am
Arpi Movsesian | Rutgers University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

 

Symposium: The Weird Russian 19th Century 

April 28, 2023

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (via Zoom)

Organizers: Arpi Movsesian and Chloë Kitzinger (Rutgers University)

Keynote speaker: Jacob Emery (Indiana University Bloomington) 

 

Refugee Literature and/in Digital Spaces (MLA 2024, Philadelphia)

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:07am
William Arighi, Springfield College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Digital technology and internet access have expanded the ways of making meaning and of building and accessing audiences across the globe. Though unevenly available to refugees (UNHCR, Space and imagination: rethinking refugees’ digital access, 2020), digital technology has nonetheless offered previously unknown platforms for refugees to speak directly to global audiences.

REMINDER: Il Parlaggio - new issue May 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 5:10am
Edizioni Sinestesie (Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

IL PARLAGGIO

ISSN 2280-6849

 

This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.

“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.

Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aestheticism

updated: 
Sunday, February 12, 2023 - 10:27pm
Joseph Bristow / International Walter Pater Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

Marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance, this two-day conference will consider the place of Pater and The Renaissance in nineteenth-century debates on art, literature and culture, their legacies and those of aestheticism into the twenty-first century.

 

Volume III, Issue 1 (Open Issue)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 9:02pm
Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies welcomes original, unpublished submissions from interested academics, independent scholars and activists for Volume III, Issue-I. In addition to research articles, Consortium also publishes book reviews, journalistic and reportage works, field reports, and interviews with public intellectuals, literary figures and activists. Submissions can only be made electronically through online submission.

AICED-24: Humour and Pathos in Literature and the Arts

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:30pm
Dragoș Manea
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

AICED-24

 

THE 24th  ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION

 

9-11 June 2023

  

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Working through the Federal Writers’ Project: Labor, Place, Archive, and Representation

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:27pm
Maureen Curtin and Michele Fazio
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

This proposed volume of interdisciplinary essays reexamines the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) as a labor project. We are working with a publisher to feature this book, Working through the Federal Writers’ Project: Labor, Place, Archive, and Representation, as part of a potential series on the FWP,  on the burgeoning field of FWP studies, and on how FWP studies fits in the larger framework of labor studies. Labor, in this sense, is not a narrow category. It encompasses trade unions, working conditions, labor power, political economy, and the everyday reality of working lives.

Melville, Conrad, and Life

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:25pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America and the Melville Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Both Melville and Conrad appeal to the concept of life allied with their artistic activities. Moby Dick is pervaded by appeals to the appeal to life, as in the description of a whale skeleton become a chapel:  "Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories." Conrad, too describes the action of art in fruitful tension with the kinetics of life, as when in his 1897 preface, he connects art with seizing a fragment "from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life." But how exactly do these writers understand and see their relation to "life" -- vegetative, human, physical, spiritual, ethical?

Whose South Asia?

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:24pm
Aparajita De/University of the District of Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 13, 2023

This MLA panel invites critical and ethical interrogations that underpin the urgency to look beyond the single-issue strategies of reading and creating South Asia in critical discourse. Incidentally, the scholarly trajectory of issues on South Asia has flattened the diversity of the geopolitically, culturally rich discursive space and its experiences to increasingly refer to India-centric discussions.

CFP: Negocieri romano-americane: transferuri culturale și intelectuale / Romanian-American Negotiations: Cultural and Intellectual Transfers

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:23pm
Gheorghe Sincai Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

 

INSTUTUL DE CERCETĂRI SOCIO-UMANE, FILIALA CLUJ NAPOCA A ACADEMIEI ROMÂNE

TÂRGU MUREȘ

Proiect/Project PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688

EDERA The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) / Etosul educației și dialogului: Negocieri culturale româno-americane (1920-1940)

Unitatea Executivă pentru Finanțarea Învățământului Superior, a Cercetării, Dezvoltării și Inovării – UEFISCDI, Consiliul Național al Cercetării Științifice (CNCS), Ministerul Educației Naționale

 

“William Gaddis at his Centenary” Special issue of electronic book review (

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:20pm
https://electronicbookreview.com/about-ebr/
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The year between December 29th 2022 and December 29th 2023 would have been the hundredth of William Gaddis’ life. Between 1955, when he published The Recognitions, and 1998, when he died shortly after completing Agapē Agape, Gaddis was notorious for a disproportion between reputation and readership. Being reflexively labelled “difficult,” with his own novels’ wry figurations of characters writing “for a very small audience,” and with a tendency to be categorized (though not always actually read) alongside the increasingly unfashionable “high postmodernists”… all this might have made it hard to envisage his work surviving into the 2000s.

 

 

Call for Papers: ​Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 46, No. 2, Summer 2023 (Regular Issue)

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Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:18pm
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics is now accepting submissions for its forthcoming regular issue, Vol. 46, No. 2, Summer 2023.

Manuscripts in MS Word (4,000–8,000 words) following the MLA style should be sent to jclaindia@gmail.com by 31 March 2023.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Expanding the Scope of Victorian Rape Studies

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:33am
NAVSA 2023 Session Sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The majority of research on 19th-century literary representations of sexual violence variously restricts the field by 1) explicitly or implicitly treating rape as an exceptional crime; 2) limiting analyses to what Erin Spampinato has termed “adjudicative reading,” or legalistic approaches that evaluate rape stories as if they were real-life court cases; and 3) attending only to narratives about cisgender men’s violations of white cisgender women, especially within the middle-class home, to the exclusion of nonheterosexual, queer, and colonial contexts.

Joys and Sorrows of Black Geographies

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:32am
Modern Language Association 2024 Annual Convention Philadelphia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

This panel explores Black geographies (both real and imagined) of joy/sorrow in African American literature, examining how geographic thought, speculation, and practice produce joys/sorrows for Black subjects and communities. Send a 200-word abstract and CV.

Dorottya Mozes, University of Debrecen

 

WIF at the MMLA, Nov. 2-5, 2023

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:29am
Women in French
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Papers for Women in French

2023 Midwest Modern Language Association Convention

Cincinnati, Ohio

November 2-5, 2023

 

I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for WIF at the 2023 MMLA Convention (to be held in person November 2-5 in Cincinnati, OH). We welcome proposals that relate the study of French and Francophone women authors, the study of women’s place in French and Francophone cultures or literatures, and feminist literary criticism to this year’s theme: “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy.”

AUSACE 2023 Kuwait University, Kuwait: Changing Media Landscapes: Convergence and Fragmentation

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:26am
Arab US Association for Communication Educators
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

The Twenty Seventh Annual Conference of the
Arab-US Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE)

Kuwait University, Kuwait

28-30 October 2023

THEME: Changing Media Landscapes: Convergence and Fragmentation

Media platforms have developed at an unprecedented rate recently, disrupting traditional
models for publishing, broadcasting, and advertising and creating a need for identifying new
models. As media become more fragmented and at the same time converge, implications can be
seen across several different areas, such as the way people access media, how media are
marketed, and how the media industry is changing.

Strange Heading: Post-Critique and the Medieval Book

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:23am
Sherif Abdelkarim / Modern Language Association LLC Middle English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 13, 2023

Recent work like George Edmondson’s The Neighboring Text or Seeta Chaganti’s Strange Footing models close engagement with medieval manuscripts that offers new modes of experiencing literature beyond the historically positivist, empirically material, or hermeneutically suspicious, either by recognizing the limitations of theoretical lenses or by approaching language beyond information. This session asks how looking at the character of the medieval text on the manuscript page–its calligraphy, titles, rubrics, initials, performance cues, polysemy–might allow us to consider anew readers’ encounters, medieval and modern, with that text.

Oceans, Seas and Shorelines in Film (under contract with Routledge)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:23am
JeongWon Bourdais Park, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China Viv Westbrook, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

We would like to invite humanities and social science scholars to contribute to our edited volume, ‘Oceans Seas and Shorelines in Film’, to be published in 2024/25 by Routledge in the Oceans Seas and Shorelines: a natural and cultural environmental history series.

Film is the most influential of all of the cultural media, combining powerful audio and visual formulas to recreate the world for the purpose of telling a story. It implicitly and explicitly conveys important aspects of real and imagined social change and exchange within a variety of environmental contexts, but the role of the environment and the impact of human agency on the environment has rarely been a focus of critical enquiry. 

MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature

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Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
MLA Middle English Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

Several recent, celebrated studies of late medieval English literature present their anchoring motivations as including one or more twenty-first century activist concerns – for example, scholarship that considers Chaucer and rape culture, examines the medieval roots or affinities of contemporary white supremacy, thinks ecocritically about the medieval beyond-human, juxtaposes medieval political events with modern ones, etc. Methodologically, such studies have involved explicit interleaving of analysis of late medieval English literary texts with considerations of texts, events, or discourses of the present.

A Cultural Experience: The Role of Theatre at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (an edited volume)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
Khalid Y. Long and DeRon S. Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Since their inception dating back to as early as 1829, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have continuously represented the notion of possibility and hope for African Americans. As an initial action, these organizations emphasized the educational improvement of Blacks at the elementary and secondary levels. Since the creation of the first HBCU, these institutions of academic excellence have transformed exclusively into postsecondary institutions, ultimately forming a network where thousands of African descendants could obtain an education that they otherwise could not afford due to years of educational suppression and segregation in higher education.

Di/Con: Writing on the Verge

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:21am
Literature & Writing Studies Graduate Department at CSU, San Marcos
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 19, 2023

 

    What is DiCon?

Diverge: to separate. Converge: to meet. In mathematical terms, the prefix marks the difference between infinity and defined. The Literature and Writing Studies department at California State University, San Marcos seeks papers and creative works that expand, transgress, problematize, and rethink hegemonic boundaries and definitions. 

 

15th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:21am
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The 15th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 23, 2023, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2023 conference theme “Louisiana Works,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

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