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Conference of the SOFEIR (Société Française d’Études irlandaises / French Association of Irish Studies)
9-10 March 2023
University of Lille, France
Call for Papers
The Presence of the Past:
Problematising Temporalities in Irish Studies
This is a call for paper for the panel titled ' Moving towards a sustainable future: Decolonising theory, praxis and pedagogy in South Asia' at the 27th European Conference of South Asian Studies (ECSAS) in Turin in July, 2023
Abstract:
Mythology in Contemporary Culture
Popular Culture Association National Conference
April 5-9, 2023
San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, Texas
“Clasp Hemispheres, and Homes”
The History Graduate Student Association at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The 2nd Annual Michael Gordon Memorial History Graduate Conference
The Presence of History: Crises of Emotion, Identity, and Nostalgia
April 28-30, 2023
"POSTHUMANISM: A STUDY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PERSPECTIVES"
JOINT-EDITORS: PINAKI ROY AND TANIMA DUTTA
The world and human civilisation are governed by rapid and gradual changes. In order to perceive and explore these changes - among other disciplines of literature and social sciences - posthumanism was developed very late in the 20th century as a literary-philosophical approach to interpreting these changes.
Tall Tales and Urban Legends in American Literature
Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) 2023 Conference, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, September 22-24, 2023
Organized by Ross Bullen (OCAD University) and Jasleen Singh (University of Toronto)
The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association invites submissions for its spring 2023 special issue focused on the theme “Affective Labor.” The special issue editors seek essays from across historical periods that address the role of affective labor in literature, film, and media. We seek analyses of the role of kin work, caring labor, nurturing and maternal activities; of pink collar, gendered labor; and other ways in which the affective is put to work, broadly conceived. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2023.
A non-exhaustive list of subjects we would appreciate reading essays on includes:
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society solicits proposals for two panels to be presented at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference. The conference will take place May 25-28 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts.
The society seeks papers on the topic of mental illness and mental health in early national and antebellum America. We welcome proposals that address Catharine Maria Sedgwick's own works (including her published works, her letters and journals, and her manuscript autobiography) or writings by her contemporaries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Suggested topics might include (but are by no means limited to):
Study the South announces a general call for papers. Study the South is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, online journal, published and managed by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Founded in 2014, Study the South (www.StudytheSouth.com) exists to encourage interdisciplinary academic thought and discourse on the American South, particularly through the lenses of social justice, history, anthropology, sociology, music, literature, documentary studies, gender studies, religion, geography, media studies, race studies, ethnicity, folklife, and visual art.
Call for Papers: The Willa Cather Foundation seeks proposals for both a roundtable and a panel at the 34th annual conference of the American Literature Association, held in Boston from May 25-28, 2023.
The roundtable, “Contextualizing Willa Cather,” will be comprised of either four or five brief (8-10 minute) presentations dealing with some aspect of Cather’s life or work. There will be time after the presentations and before the Q&A for participants to respond to one another’s work. Please note that the rules of ALA permit presenters to participate in a roundtable in addition to giving a paper.
The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting a panel on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels at the annual conference of the American Literature Association.
The conference will take place in Boston, MA, May 25-28, 2023.
Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by Friday, January 6, 2023.
The Marilynne Robinson Society and the American Religion and Literature Society (ARLS) will hold a joint panel at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 25-28, 2022; Boston, MA). We are seeking papers that examine the author’s relationship to American evangelicalism. Robinson’s spiritual vision has been shaped by the writings of Jonathan Edwards, who is considered to be the founding father of American evangelicalism. How does Robinson’s body of work lead us to think critically about the evangelical tradition in the United States? How do her essays and novels, particularly Gilead, provide a counter-narrative to the discourses found in modern and contemporary American evangelicalism? In what ways can they respond to the inc
The third Summer School of the ReportAGES research project, a five-day graduate course for Master’s and PhD students – throughout Europe and, potentially, South Africa – of Journalism, Communications, Media Studies, English, German, or French Literature, Cultural Studies or Government Policy, will explore how historical trends in narrative literary journalism in France, Germany, England and the Netherlands from the Anglo-Boer War to post apartheid reshaped the media landscape of each country, distinguishing a European development of the genre not just from its Anglo-American cousins but also from each other.
The 30th Annual Meeting of the Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature will be held April 14th & 15th 2023 in the Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex
on the beautiful campus of Bemidji State University, Bemidji MN.
Dr. Richard McCoy, Distinguished Professor, English and Distinguished Professor, Global Early Modern Studies, Emeritus, of Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center,
will present our keynote address, “Shakespeare’s Boy Heroines.”
Indigeneity and the Greco-Roman World: Modern and Ancient Responses
27th Annual UVA Classics Graduate Student Colloquium
Conducted in person at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 18, 2023
Keynote Speaker: Craig Williams (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
CFP for Adapting Horror in Popular Culture
Deadline for Submissions: Jan. 24, 2023
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Contact Email: monsteradaptations@gmail.com
The editors of Adapting Horror in Popular Culture are seeking abstracts for essays that could be included in the upcoming collection. The essays should address the long-running global appeal of the monstrous in popular culture. Each essay will examine the adaptation of a creature, monster, or source of terror into a new medium.
Adaptations inherently transform an audience’s relationship with the original while presenting a version with contemporary relevance. T
A panel sponsored by NAVSA (the North American Victorian Studies Association) for ACCUTE 2023 (the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English) 27-30 May 2023 at York University's Keele campus, in Toronto, Canada The Victorian Archive, Revisited and Reimagined
Organizers: Rachelle Stinson, York University, rstinson@yorku.ca; and Tina Y. Choi, York University, tinayc@yorku.ca** The deadline for ACCUTE has been extended to Thursday 24 November 2022.**
The Post-Magical Realist Worlds research group of Canadian Comparative Literature Association invites submissions to our session “Post-Magical Realist Worlds: Contemporary Postcolonial Storytelling Modes, Critiques, and Perspectives” for the coming CCLA congress 2023. We welcome critical voices and diverse perspectives, recognizing the multiple ways magical realism has been developed or reused globally and various reactions to its heritage in Latin American countries connected to its initial boom and elsewhere in world. This year our particular focus is on the 2023 CCLA congress theme of Reckonings and Re-imaginings in Comparative Literature.
Call for Papers 2023:
Greening the Medical Humanities: The Environment and the Body in Conversation
The PJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, based at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History is now accepting submissions for articles and book reviews for its seventh edition ‘Greening the Medical Humanities: The Environment and the Body in Conversation’. we welcome original articles and book reviews that engage with any aspect and interpretation of this theme.
Please submit Abstracts (200 words) by 15 January 2023, and full articles by 15 April 2023.
Articles received will be peer reviewed and selected for publication by a leading International academic publisher. Please send articles to Professor Tuan Hoang at tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu, and to Dr Harish Mehta at hmehta76@yahoo.ca.
Articles should be between 5,000 to 6,000 words long. They should have a title, an abstract of 200 words, 5 keywords, authors' bio and present affiliation in 130 words, and a Works Cited.
Horror literature’s resurgence in recent years has yielded huge results for the genre - not only a proliferation of new and diverse horror fictions but also an interest in reclaiming critically dismissed titles of the past. Whether disdained as pulpy trash or ignored for appealing to youth demographics, a large swathe of pre-2000s horror literature has frequently been deemed unworthy of critical analysis.
Bridges and Borders: Laboring for Community
A Graduate Student Virtual Conference presented by the Departments of English and Modern Languages Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Xine Yao.
April 14-15, 2023
The antisocial declaration “I don’t care” meets “we don’t care”:
a mode of self-care grows into collective care.
-- Xine Yao Disaffected (2021)
The term ‘modernity’ signifies a brand new age, distinguishing human experiences and values as different from the past. From the mid-nineteenth century, ‘modern life’ began to denote transformations in all aspects, such as technology, economics, industry and urbanisation. In the cultural field, modernity is grounded in critical methods for creating new values to promote the progress of humanity.
Socio/Criticism XXXII-2
Thematic Issue : « Oppositional Gazes »
Independent Cinema in the Americas in the XXIst Century
Coordination : Michèle Soriano (CEIIBA), Cristelle Maury (CAS), Laurence Mullaly (ICD), Émilie Cheyroux (CAS).
2023 Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland.
June 22-25, 2023
Call for Papers: The 2023 Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on June 22-25, 2023. The theme of the 2023 Famine Summer School is “Famine Journeys and Trails: Communities, Diaspora, Memory”.
Call For Papers
Caesura—Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies
Special Issue: 21st century Fiction and the City
Guest editor: Prof. Mavis Tseng
Call for Papers: Collection of Essays on 21st-Century Fiction and the City
The Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference:
(de)composition
Keynotes:
Prof. Ana María Ochoa, Tulane University
Prof. Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania
March 3, 2023
Call for Papers:
"20TH-CENTURY WAR-WRITINGS AND FILM: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRITICAL APPROACHES"
Editor: Pinaki Roy
The proposed anthology of critical writings on 20th-century war-literature and war-movies is likely to be published from an old and reputed university-press located in northern U.K.
The last date for submissions is 15 March 2023.
Special Issue "Religion and the Working Class in Film"
edited by Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra)