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Revolutionary Educations: Literary Responses to Colonial Education Around the World

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
Gayathri Goel
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 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

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:10pm
Sinan Akilli / Cappadocia University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

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.

When Plats Fight Back: Eco-revolutions in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
Northeastern Modern Language Assocation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 27, 2024

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

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Department of English, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

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 

 

Science Fiction - Genre and Video Games

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Sabrina Zacharias and Sara Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

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.  

Reading Kenneth White: Anthropoetry/anthropoiesis, experiencing the earth and the living / À la lecture de Kenneth White : démarche anthropo(ï)étique, expérience de la terre et du vivant

updated: 
Monday, July 29, 2024 - 5:21pm
Peggy Pacini / CY Cergy Paris Université
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Reading Kenneth White. Anthropoetry/anthropoiesis, experiencing the  earth and the living

| November 21-22, 2024, Maison SHS (CY Cergy Paris Université, France) / Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie

Organizers : Peggy Pacini, Anne-Marie Petitjean(CY Cergy Paris Université, UMR Héritages) and Gérald Peloux (INALCO, IFRAE / CRCAO)

Special Issue of Extrapolation: Science Fictional Ecologies in Contemporary Art

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:26pm
Extrapolation, Liverpool University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Special issue of Extrapolation (https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/extr)

 Call for Proposals: “Science Fictional Ecologies in Contemporary Art”

 

Due November 1, 2024

Please send abstracts and inquiries to both guest editors:

Guest Editors:

Emiliano Guaraldo, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland: emiliano.guaraldo@unisg.ch

Alison Sperling, Florida State University, USA: asperling@fsu.edu

 

4th Young Graduate Meet 2024: "Interdisciplinary Approaches to South Asian Ecology"

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:23pm
School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi.
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

In the present era marked by a pressing need for sustainable coexistence with the natural world, the centrality of human beings has taken a back seat to make way for integral ontological inquiries into nature, its components and inhabitants and the manifold relationship between them. The “self-organizing powers of non-human processes” have been emphasized in academia and the dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics have been explored.

SEEKING: 1 chapter on race/postcolonialism -- Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:38pm
Monica Sousa (York University), Jerika Sanderson (University of Waterloo)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 9, 2024

We are seeking one (1) chapter contribution to Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives (tentatively titled) to be published with Routledge as a part of their series "Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture." Specifically, we seek a chapter that addresses topics of race/postcolonialism in connection with the book's main scope. 

Abstract proposals of 300-500 words are due on August 9th. Please also include a biographical note including institutional affiliation (if any) of 150-200 words, and a bibliography with a minimum of 5 sources.

Borders / Dialectics / Civility

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:37pm
Association for Philosophy and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The APL conference will take place from 20th-22nd August 2025 at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

NeMLA 2025: Posthumanistic (Im)possibilities: Navigating the (R)evolutions of the Anthropocene

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 10:26am
Sriyanka Basak, Rohini Chakraborty
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

A recent New York Times article, “Are We in the ‘Anthropocene,’ the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say,” reported on the ongoing debate among scientists about classifying the Anthropocene as an epoch or an event. Regardless of its definitive place on the geologic time scale, the Anthropocene is a significant marker of history, signifying humans’ profound impact on the environment and the course of evolution. This raises critical questions about the nature of evolution in the Anthropocene. How do we define evolution in this age? The Anthropocene is characterized by human achievements and significant challenges, including wars and climate destruction. These crises force us to question: what kind of Anthropocene are we striving to preserve?

First Forum 2024 – Infrastructure and Abstraction

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 6:35pm
First Forum – Graduate Student Conference of the University of Southern California, Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 28, 2024

 

FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2024—CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

SEPTEMBER 27TH AND 28TH

This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Mal Ahern (The University of Washington). The conference will also feature a virtual roundtable with Dr. Shannon Mattern (The University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Nicole Starosielski (The University of California, Berkeley). 

Infrastructure and Abstraction

 

“The immaterial has become… immaterial.” 

– Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

 

Transpacific Materialities

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 2:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2025, March 6-9, Philadelphia)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

How are Asian American and Pacific Islander bodies figured across different media—in contemporary novels, poetry, and visual arts? How do the transits and residues of US empire across the Pacific inform these representations? This panel investigates texts that center AAPI bodies and their varying materialities, wherein racialized bodies take on other-than-human forms (i.e., paper, digital, textual, watery, earthy, animal, etc.). The panel aims to explore how these embodiments are shaped by the residual and ongoing violences of US empire and/or war in the Pacific.

New Forms of Revolution in the Francophone World.

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:56pm
Atim Mackin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

NeMLA 56th Annual Convention

 

Philadelphia, PA, 6-9 March 2025

Primary Area / Secondary Area:

French and Francophone / Cultural Studies and Media Studies 

Chair:

Atim Mackin (Harvard University)

New Forms of Revolution in the Francophone World

 Revolutions have always been pivotal moments in the history of societies, but the forms they take are constantly evolving. This panel aims to explore the new forms of revolution within French and Francophone contexts. We seek contributions that question, analyze, and discuss the following aspects (among others):

Creatures of Habit: the Animal in Latin American Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:56pm
NeMLA Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

From Aura’s surreal rabbit to rather unsettling Birds in the Mouth, animals have surfaced as important figures throughout Latin American literature, serving as powerful symbols, metaphors, and subjects of moral consideration. They have been depicted as divine beings, companions, victims, and agents of resistance, often challenging anthropocentric worldviews and inviting us to reconsider our place in the more-than-human world. This panel aims to explore the aesthetic, ethical, and political dimensions of animal representations in Latin American thought and culture.

 

We invite papers that engage with the philosophical and literary treatment of animals in Latin America. Topics may include:

Genres of the (Post)Human: Representing Evolution in Science/Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:56pm
MacKenzie Patterson Boston University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel is being organized as part of NeMLA 2025, centered around the theme of (R)Evolution.

Description:

In dialogue with theorists of (post)humanism, this panel seeks to examine how science fiction has historically been used to bolster erroneous and destructive "scientific" discourses, such as social Darwinism, and, conversely, how science fiction has been used toward revolutionary ends to imagine alternative formations of (post)humanity that defy socially constructed taxonomies and hierarchies.

Abstract: 

In-Betweenness: Atmosphere, Traces, Media

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:53pm
Screen Cultures - Northwestern University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

“In-betweenness” evades simple categorization, boundedness, and singularity, yet it brings to mind the space and moment of connection, the indeterminacy of transition, the passage between reception and meaning. For this conference, we invite contributions that engage with in-betweenness, articulating movement across boundaries and margins, lingering in liminal experiences related to disorientation, queerness, and representation. We seek papers that challenge and expand media’s historicity, conceptualizations, methodologies, and forms.

C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:51pm
C19 Podcast
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical events that spark connections to nineteenth-century America. We are especially interested in episodes that help make both the nineteenth-century and the specific disciplinary knowledge of our scholarly community legible and exciting to a wide audience.  As our podcast grows, we seek to expand its potential to engage diverse publics in the civic and cultural life of the past.

CFP for ASLE 2025 Conference: Collective Atmospheres

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:50pm
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025

ASLE 2025 Biennial ConferenceCollective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality

July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park,
ancestral lands of the Piscataway People

 

Call for Proposals

ICMS 2025: Postpandemic discourse in literature and art (Virtual panel)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:49pm
Lorenz Hindrichsen (Copenhagen International School)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The Second Plague Pandemic inflicted unimaginable hurt and triggered multiple crises (demographic, spiritual, political, socio-economic), whose impact informed new artistic and literary modes of expression such as the danse macabre or the carnivalesque. 

This panel examines how writers and artists processed pandemic experiences, both in terms of actual outbreaks and long-term repercussions (such as peasant revolts or multi-generational trauma). Where do we find traces of ‘long plague’ (analogous to ‘long Covid’), and what form do they take? How do pandemic experiences affect collective memory and shared narratives? And what theoretical frameworks might be helpful for studying (post)pandemic discourse in literature and art?

Shoreline Shakespeares: 6th ASA Conference (Iloilo, 12/4-6/2024; Deadline 8/31/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:47pm
Asian Shakespeare Association (ASA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

CFP: Shoreline Shakespeares:
6th Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association (Iloilo, 4-6 December 2024)

A shoreline is a dynamic border, being created, erased, and reshaped by the eternal dance of tide and time. It separates yet connects ecosystems, identities, and civilizations. Shorelines set boundaries but also open gateways to different experiences and perspectives. The shoreline serves as a focal point for exploration, transition, and adaptation. “Shoreline Shakespeares” welcomes papers that examine the literal and metaphorical meanings of the shoreline in Shakespeare and his afterlife. Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

Call for Contributors - Forgotten Spaces: Ecocriticism, Social Justice, and the U.S. South

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:47pm
Katie Simon (Georgia College) and Catherine Bowlin (Elon University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

The U.S. South is often a forgotten space within ecocritical discussions, yet it provides fruitful ground for thinking about environmental issues. In 2019, in the first edited collection of essays on the topic, Zachary Vernon notes that focusing attention on this bioregion might help “provide a way out of the limitations of thinking too locally or too globally,” and it might inspire a group of stakeholders to come to the table as well (7). One problem with ecocritical approaches is the long history of representing the U.S. South as an “internal other in the national imagination: colonized, subordinate, primitive, developmentally arrested, or even regressive” (Watson 254).

Critical Theory at the Endgame (Special Issue Apocalyptica)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:44pm
Apocalyptica / Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Call for Papers Apocalyptica

Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.

Journal Editors: Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest, and Jenny Stümer

Special Issue editor: Bruna Della Torre

Article length: 8,000 - 9,000 words

Deadline: Year-round – 1 November, 2024 (for our next issue)

Contact: publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de

Creative Writers / SAMLA 2024: Fragmented Writing in the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 8:03am
Julie Boutwell-Peterson / University of Kentucky
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 20, 2024

* Please note: This Creative Writing panel will be part of the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 15-17, 2024.

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