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56th Annual Northeast MLA Convention
March 6-9, 2025 | Philadelphia, PA
Population and production are two terms used to characterize the nineteenth century in Great Britain. For example, the population in England more than doubled by the end of the century due to improving hygiene (i.e., hygeia), increasing birth rate, declining mortality rate (e.g., medical advances), and prosperity. Public health led to a greater commonwealth. The rise of the Industrial Revolution through factories, transportation (e.g., railway), and the synchronization of time stoked the great migration from agrarian to industrial centers. Would the population outstrip production? How could production evolve to keep up with the rising population?
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Special Issue on
Decolonial Hope: Planetary Sustainability, Solidarity, and Transformation
Link to the CFP on the journal's website: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/decolonial-hope-planet...
Special Issue Editor(s)
Goutam Karmakar, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
4th International Poe and Hawthorne Conference: Dis/embodiment
Paris, France
July 1-4, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
Keynote Speakers
Richard Kopley, Penn State-Dubois: “Tales of a Poe Biographer”
Joel Pfister, Wesleyan University: “Why Read Hawthorne Now?”
Ontological and Epistemological Incommensurability: Western Astronomy, Native Hawaiian Cosmologies, and the Mauna Kea Telescope Controversy
Two-Day
International Seminar
on
Mirroring Change: Literature and Social Transformation
3rd & 4th October 2024
Organized by
Research and Cultural Forum (RCF)
Department of English
Pondicherry University
Puducherry-605014
Hello! This is a CFP for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, which will take place July 8-11 in College Park, MD. In accordance with the ASLE 2025 theme (“Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality”), I am soliciting proposals for scholarly presentations that consider the ways in which climate engineering, geoengineering, terraforming (and other related processes) disturb the atmosphere. The panel’s overall purpose is to explore how different representations of and engagements with atmospheric disturbances present opportunities for environmental and climate justice while serving as solutions to potential social and ecological issues like climate change.
This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th thru November 2, 2025. This year’s conference “I’ve known rivers”: The Ecologies of Black Life and Resistance” centers “the river, and waterways, as an analytical framework for Black lives past and present.” Water “serves as a prompt for urgent questions about landscapes and ecologies as well as diasporic ruptures, spiritual practices, labors of many kinds, fugitivity and resistance” (ASWAD CFP).
Call for Papers: Spring 2025 Special Issue on Appalachia
Spring 2025 Special Issue of Critical Humanities on Planetary Thinking [ ] Appalachia
Call for Proposals for Online Symposium: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil
Online Symposium Friday 24th January 2025
Keynote Speaker: Mona Damluji, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Oil is a cultural as well as material product. It is now pervasive in every aspect of modern life: transport, energy, communications and media, pharmaceuticals, farming, food ingredients and packaging, homes. As many scholars in the energy and environmental humanities have demonstrated, to understand our current dependence on oil and enact decarbonisation we need to contend with its cultural dimensions.
Appel à propositions / Call for Submissions : Numéro spécial pour une édition pérenne
The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures
deadline for submissions:
August 25, 2024
full name / name of organization:
Shubhanku Kochar (Assistant Professor at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) and Shehnaz Kabir (Ph.D. Fellow at Jadavpur University)
contact email:
The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures
The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”
“Victorian Energies: Sucrocultures, Carbocultures, and Petrocultures in the Long Nineteenth Century": Victorian Review Special Issue
Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror
Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024
Symposium Date: Friday, October 11, 2024
Format: Online (via Zoom, EST)
Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone
Submit to: brooke.cameron@queensu.ca and noahrgallego@gmail.com
Organizers: Brooke Cameron, Ph.D. (Queens’ University at Kingston, Ontario, CA) and Noah Gallego, M.A. (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, USA)
To celebrate Cummings’ 125th birthday, the E. E.
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 49th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 24-26, 2022, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). Recent criticism of the works of Cummings has gone beyond his well-documented engagement with modernist aesthetic and poetic innovations. From Cummings’ visual and temporal poetics, to iconic meta-sonnets and rhythmic portraiture, to iconicity and ecology, and even to disability studies, the iconoclasm of Cummings in art and language presents a multi-dimensional i/eye that perceives and receives.
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 50th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2023, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).
Sensing Environmental Networks
Disruption
Guest Editors: Justus Grebe, Farouk El Maarouf, Anastasiia Marsheva
Where does sensing occur: within the sensory organ, the perceived object, or somewhere in between? This panel draws on insights from environmental media to explore the history of sensations. We examine how the environment not only shapes our sensory reality but has also been used historically to define, measure, and standardize the senses.
The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
26-27 May 2025
University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark
Abstract deadline: 1 November 2024
Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is concerned with works that apply these narratives in various public-facing contexts.
The Emily Dickinson International Society, in collaboration with the Wenshan Conference, invites proposals for papers and panels at its international conference “Dickinson and Ecologies,” scheduled to take place at the Department of English, College of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, from Thursday, June 19 to Sunday, June 22, 2025.
Call for papers:
For the first edition of Epitaphs, we invite writers, artists and academics to submit their short form Gothic or Horror work on the following theme:
Dark Ecologies.
Seminar Stream proposed for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, which will be held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025.Kindly note that in the ACLA format, you are expected to attend and engage with other presentations in your seminar. This entails a commitment of circa 2 hours over the course of 2-3 days on the dates above. Please do not submit a paper if you are not willing to make this commitment.
Children As the Future: Rights & Representations
ACIS West: Celebrating 40 Years
University of Montana, Missoula
September 19-21, 2024
From the Indian boarding schools of North America to the English curriculum mandate of the British empire, formal education, and the various guises it assumed, was an important instrument for colonial powers to exert dominance over its colonized subjects. The afterlives of such an education continue today through dominant knowledge systems that benefit the few at the expense of the many. This panel seeks papers that aim to disentangle and liberate education from colonial control, so that education can be a vehicle for vital knowledge production and empowerment.
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities welcomes contributions for future issues. Ecocene is published by Cappadocia University, Environmental Humanities Center. Each issue has a general section and a section on creative writing (Storying Ecocenes), creative art (Ecocene Arts), and book reviews. The general section can contain 6-8 articles. These articles should be research articles with a length of 5500 words. The word limit for short fiction is 3000, 1500-2000 for book reviews.
In Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013), Michael Marder posits that plants “are agents in the production of meaning” (35), echoing Jane Bennett’s claim that “the concept of agency [is enlarged] once nonhuman things are figured . . . as actors . . . [and] affective bodies forming assemblages” (Vibrant Matters 21-24).
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal
Essays and Studies
Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change
Genre and Video Games - Science Fiction
We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “science fiction” category of the collection.