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ASLE 2024 Symposium "Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction"

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:52pm
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

ASLE 2024 Symposium "Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction"University of North Florida
May 16-19, 2024

Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals

(Un)Making

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:52pm
NYU Tisch - Center for Research & Study Spring Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

(Un)Making
April 5th - 6th, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Keynote Speaker: Mel Y. Chen

Inside a chrysalis, the caterpillar liquifies its body into imaginal cells which become reoriented, old
tissues forming new parts of the yet-to-be butterfly. It unmakes its body to make itself anew.

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

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:49pm
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.

Disaster and Apocalypse

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 1:34pm
Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Call For Papers

Deadline: November 30, 2023

 

Scope of the paper topics accepted under this area:

Disasters and Apocalypses offers a forum for these questions and critical approaches surrounding the culture of disasters, catastrophes, accidents, and apocalypses in global art, literature, media, film, and popular culture. Disasters and Apocalypses will address broader disciplinary topics and innovative intersections of humanities, musicology, social science, literature, film, visual art, psychology, game studies, material culture, media studies, ecology, and information technology.

 

Global Anthropo-scene: Rethinking Sustainability and Cultural Preservations

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 1:33pm
Department of English, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

GLOBAL ANTHROPO-SCENE:

RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL PRESERVATIONS

 

30-31 January 2024

 

A Two-Day International Conference

Department of English

Jadavpur University

Ecologies of Creation and Criticism in Canada Free-Exchange Conference

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 12:23pm
The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

 

The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association invites both creative and critical proposals for our 2024 Free Exchange graduate conference.

CFP Extended: Caribbean Language, Literature, Identity, and Digital Intersectionalities: Crossing and Merging Disciplines

updated: 
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 8:40pm
Caribbean Without Borders 2024: 10th Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Caribbean region is a vibrant and culturally diverse space where languages, literatures, and identities have long intertwined. In the digital age, these intersections are increasingly complex, opening up exciting avenues for interdisciplinary exploration. This call for papers invites graduate students to examine how digital technologies are reshaping Caribbean languages and literatures, while also influencing the construction of identities in multifaceted ways.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

Narratives of Land: Place, Space, and Human Identity

updated: 
Monday, November 6, 2023 - 10:29pm
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, KAZI NAZRUL UNIVERSITY
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 16, 2023

The land is always stalking people. The land makes people live right. The land looks after us. The land looks after people.
– Mrs Annie Peaches, a 77-year-old member of the Western Apache community of Cibecue (Basso 2000: 41)

Global Metamorphosis

updated: 
Friday, November 3, 2023 - 2:15pm
St. John's University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 18, 2023

The Humanities Review Spring 2024 Issue, “Global Metamorphosis,” seeks to explore how the world around us, socially, politically, academically, literarily, etc., has transformed or is transforming. We look forward to scholarly papers, short sections of dissertation or thesis chapters, book reviews, narratives, fiction, poetry, art, etc., that engage the issue’s broad theme of global metamorphosis. Why “Global Metamorphosis”?

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.

Multicultural and World Literature Papers at the CEA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 5:14pm
Moumin Quazi / College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 13, 2023

Call for Papers, Multicultural and World Literature at CEA 2024

March 21-23, 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia

Westin Buckhead, Atlanta | 3391 Peachtree Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30326

(404) 365-0065, https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/atlwb-the-westin-buckhead-atlanta/overview/?scid=f2ae0541-1279-4f24-b197-a979c79310b0 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Re-Reading British and Irish Landscapes in the 21st Century: Nature, Networks, Identities

updated: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 11:01am
University of Mannheim
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

International Workshop / University of Mannheim, 14-15 June 2024

This conference takes its cue from the fact that various topical tendencies and events have refuelled interest in landscapes and the countryside in recent years, be it the climate crisis, the crisis of national identity in the context of the Brexit debate or reconsiderations of Britain’s colonial past. It aims at exploring the multi-layered interest in British and Irish landscapes in the 21st century, as writers and researchers alike critically engage with the ideologically charged notion of the countryside by re-reading and reconfiguring popular tropes.

(Deadline Reminder) II. Theatre and Drama Studies Conference: Adaptation, Appropriation, Translation (Online, 8-10 Dec 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, October 29, 2023 - 6:06am
Theatre and Drama Network (TDN)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

II. Theatre and Drama Studies Conference: Adaptation, Appropriation, Translation (Online, 8-10 Dec 2023)

We are delighted to announce that our confirmed keynote speakers are:

Aleks Sierz (Journalist, Author and Theatre Critic)

Dr Catherine Rees (Loughborough University, UK)

Prof Benjamin Poore (University of York, UK)

Prof Julie Sanders (Royal Holloway University, UK)

 

Call for Papers

Ecocriticism, Sustainability, and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:20pm
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

In today's world, we bear witness to epidemics and pandemics, the global climate change caused by human actions, as well as ecological collapse marked by floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes. These events underscore the risks and challenges of a human-centered way of life. At the same time, they remind us of the need to reconsider our binary and hierarchical divisions between humans and the Earth, humans and animals, mind and body, nature and culture.

LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY 24th MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:20pm
MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

 

 

Conference Call

 

LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY

 

24th MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The seminar will be hosted by SRM University

 Delhi-NCR, Sonepat, India

2-3 March 2024

 

 

Concept Note:

Margaret Fuller, Women in the 19C, and Resilience (Thoreau Gathering in Concord, MA, July 10-14, 2024)

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:19pm
Thoreau Gathering in Concord, MA, July 10-14, 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 8, 2023

Call for Papers: Margaret Fuller, Women in the 19C, and Resilience

Panel for the Thoreau Gathering in Concord, MA, July 10-14, 2024

Margaret Fuller both overcame odds and recognized the virtue of resilience in others. “Resilience” is the theme of this year’s Thoreau Gathering, and the organizers suggest four categories for considering this strength: ecological, cultural/political, personal/spiritual, and legacy. With some major differences from Thoreau, these same categories are helpful with Fuller, and in our annual contribution to the Gathering we invite presentations approaching her and likeminded women writers in her circles that also draw on one of these kinds of resilience.

Call for Papers for Poltergeist: A Journal of Literary and Critical Studies: "Failings"

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:33pm
The School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

We find ourselves in a landscape of failure. We have failed to reach every climate goal we have set, and there is no returning to an unpolluted world. Institutions have failed their workers, resulting in a resurgence of industrial action and defiance. On the international stage, governments have failed migrants and refugees, leading to unprecedented levels of displacement. 

 

Can something productive be drawn from failing? How have past failures – of revolution, of technology, of selfhood – been put to constructive ends? And how might failure be mobilised as a new site of resistance?

 

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

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:23pm
Hsin Hsieh, University of Reading, UK / Viv Westbrook, University of Western Australia, Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 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. 

Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers, 5/28-30/2024, East Lansing, MI

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:18pm
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)

May 28-30, 2024. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

 

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:13pm
Sinan Akilli / Cappadocia University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Call for Papers

3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century

Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey)

May 20-22, 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speakers  

  • Alexa Weik von Mossner (University of Klagenfurt) (Online)
  • Serenella Iovino (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

 

San Sebastian and Bilbao 2024 / EH-EH: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EUSKAL HERRIA

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 12:25pm
Dr Verna Kale / The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

EH-EH: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EUSKAL HERRIA

THE HEMINGWAY SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ITS CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL HEMINGWAY CONFERENCE TO BE HELD JULY 14-20 2024 IN SAN SEBASTIÁN AND BILBAO, SPAIN.

Participants are invited to get to know the people, places, cuisine, and culture of contemporary Euskal Herria—the Basque Country as it is called in the Basque language.

20th International Hemingway Society Conference / San Sebastian and Bilbao, Spain 2024

updated: 
Monday, October 16, 2023 - 8:27am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

EH-EH: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EUSKAL HERRIA THE HEMINGWAY SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ITS CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL HEMINGWAY CONFERENCE TO BE HELD JULY 14-20 2024 IN SAN SEBASTIÁN AND BILBAO, SPAIN.

Participants are invited to get to know the people, places, cuisine, and culture of contemporary Euskal Herria—the Basque Country as it is called in the Basque language. From the colorful depictions of the Navarrese Pyrenees in Hemingway’s first commercial success, The Sun Also Rises, to the characters at the Basque bar in the posthumously published Islands in the Stream, the Basque Country and its people made a lasting mark on Ernest Hemingway’s life and work.  

Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:18pm
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 27, 2023

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2024

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

 

Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment 

 

Critical theory has questioned the conceptual limits of ideas like the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and supremacy of human animals over nature. Ongoing global crises, such as climate change, divergent levels of modernization, and the search for bold and expedient solutions to accelerating environmental crises urge new frameworks to analyze an interdependent world.

 

Religion in the Global Age: The Irreplicable Human/-ities?

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:16pm
International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Religion in the Global Age

The Religion in the Global Age panel at the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture seeks papers that address the conference theme of "The Irreplacable Human/-ities?" within the framework of the analytic, scientific, or critical study of religion. In this panel, preference is given to papers focussed on comparative studies or on specific religions in the Global Age not otherwise represented by existing ISRLC panels. 

Violence - “Cultural Carolina” Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:06am
Languages, Literatures and Cultures’ Graduate Student Association (LLCGSA) Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Violence surrounds us, sometimes visibly (in times of conflict and wars, directly or mediated through images), and sometimes invisibly, as part of a statistic. With the increasingly extremist rhetoric on parts of the US political spectrum, the so-called “culture wars,” violent hate crimes against LBTQ+ people have surged in recent years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pacific-Asians and Asian-Americans were targeted because of xenophobia and conspiracy theories. Similarly, the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were met with violent responses from authorities. Additionally, mass and school shootings hit an all-time high for two years in a row between 2021 and 2022.

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