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Postgraduate Conference
Trinity College Dublin
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
5 – 6 October 2023
From Homer to Hate Speech: A Humanities View on Language in Conflict
Updated CFP
Symposium: Petro-Logic/Machine Intimacy
An international conference
***Postponed until the Autumn 2023***
The University of Wolverhampton, UK
Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel Klara and the Sun (2021) tells the story of an A.I.-powered “artificial friend” who serves as a companion to a young girl, Josie, a privileged child “lifted” in order to secure the best opportunities whilst resentful masses are left behind. Ishiguro’s novel extrapolates the economic and socio-cultural divisions that haunt our present moment to understand how digital technology engenders and exacerbates old and new socio-economic and cultural inequities, including access to education and medical healthcare.
Queer Environs
Special Issue of Diacritics
Edited by Austin Lillywhite and Nicole Seymour
Call for Proposals
Both noun and verb, “environ” points to what’s “out there,” one’s milieu or surrounding world, the assemblage of human and more-than-human beings in which one finds oneself situated, as well as the activity of encircling an area to enclose, circumnavigate, or occupy it. So too, “queer,” as noun and verb, derives its original meaning from space, referring to something that is oblique, slanted, or off-center.
Call for Presentations – The Solarpunk Conference 2023: Imagine, Act, Thrive
Solarpunk is a new genre of speculative science fiction art, literature, and media, as well as a growing social movement. Solarpunk portrays a vision of an accessible, equitable world either without systemic barriers, or with those barriers in the process of disassembly, while championing intersectional social and climate justice. Drawing on ideas from permaculture, post- and trans-humanism, social ecology, and anarcho-socialism, while reacting against late stage capitalism, Solarpunk declares that our world is worth saving, and that saving it is possible.
CALL FOR PAPERS
PSA International Newsletter #30 Decolonizing the Ecological Crisis
169. Smellworlds
Mathew Arthur, Simon Fraser University;
XXXI AIA Conference
Rende, Cosenza, 13-16 September 2023
Associazione Italiana di Anglistica
Call for proposals for panel
Convenors: R. Ciocca (Università di Napoli L’Orientale) and Marta Cariello (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
The 120th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2023) will be held at the at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon between October 26-29, 2023, sponsored by the University of Washington, Seattle.
A New American Vein:
Critical Essays on Contemporary Appalachian Literature
Scholarly Collection: Call for Contributions
Editors: Nicole Drewitz-Crockett and Zackary Vernon
Call for Papers
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
THE END
Pasadena, California, March 14-16, 2024
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks submissions for its seventh biennial conference, which will take place March 14-16, 2024, in Pasadena, California. We invite individual papers or group proposals on literature and culture in and beyond the United States during the long nineteenth century.
We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - 'Aesthetics, Environment, and Sustainability', No.
UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies
3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Speculative Futurities, Past and Present
November 13-14, 2023
The graduate students of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles are inviting submissions to the third annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference. Our keynote speakers will be Prof. Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California) and Prof. David Bates (University of California, Berkeley).
Consider submitting an abstract to the permanent Italian Cinema session for PAMLA 2023. Please upload your file (300 words max) directly to the Session CFP linked below.
CFP Deadline: May 31st, 2023
Session CFP: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18828
Decision Date: June 11th, 2023
Conference Dates: Oct. 26-29, 2023
Location: The Hilton Portland Downtown Hotel
This panel invites papers focusing on various aspects of Italian film history and contemporary film culture.
“Emerging from the Rubble: Asian/ American Writings on Disasters”
Care, hope, resilience: critical emojis in the age of permacrisis
What is the connection between the current state of permanent crisis, now expressed in its own brand-new word,* and the proliferation of critical buzzwords in contemporary culture? Care, hope, resilience: ubiquitous in social commentary from academic research to popular journalism and social media, these terms behave more like emojis than elements of systematic thought. Are they useful short cuts to a comprehension of shifting social imaginaries in the age of permacrisis? Or a dangerous limitation of the mental energies we need to think our way to a more positive of future?
CALL FOR PAPERS
23rd MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
To be held in Chandigarh on
6-8 October 2023
Borders, Boundaries, Lines of Control: Literature across Disciplines in Contemporary Times
Special Issue “World Mythology and Ecocriticism: Remembering Nature as a Sacred Teacher”
A special issue of Humanities.
Join us for the Pacific Modern Language's (PAMLA) 120th Annual Convention in Portland, Oregon at the Hilton Portland Hotel, October 26-29, 2023. Seeking presentations/papers in any genre for a session on the theme of health and wellness!
Submit your proposal using PAMLA's online submission form. Go to https://pamla.ballastacademic.com to login or create an account first. Decisions on proposals will be made directly after the May 31st deadline so that all proposals are considered at the same time.
Session Title: Perspectives on Health & Wellness
Abstract:
(Un)Common Worlds III - Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocene
A human-animal studies conference at the University of Oulu, 4-6 October 2023
The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity, and so little has happened that the fourth decade begins with the recent UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) declaration that we are now dealing with an existential crisis. One of the identified root causes of biodiversity loss is said to stem from people’s perceptions of other species – a realm of inquiry addressed widely in human–animal studies and critical animal studies.
Haunted Shores is inviting contributions to our blog. Our online platform aims to broaden the reach of our academic work, generate discussion, and engage scholars, scientists, artists, and members of the general public.
X ABIL Conference
7th-8th of September 2023: University College Cork (Ireland)
Call For Papers
Pandemic Poetry
Please send an abstract and your biography to Sarah Montin by June 20th 2023 at the following email address: sarah.montin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
The research group CULIVIAN (“Culturas Literarias y Visuales del Animal” / “Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures”) is hosting the international conference “The Factual Animal: Audiovisual Representations of Real Other-than-Human Animals.” The conference will be held face-to-face at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació at the Universitat de València (Spain) on November 29 – December 1, 2023. The conference is organized as part of the CIGE/2021/100 research project, funded by the Conselleria d’Innovació, Universitats i Societat Digital, and is additionally sponsored by the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València, and the Friends of Thoreau Program at the Instituto Franklin
The research group CULIVIAN (“Culturas Literarias y Visuales del Animal” / “Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures”) is hosting the international conference “The Factual Animal: Audiovisual Representations of Real Other-than-Human Animals.” The conference will be held face-to-face at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació at the Universitat de València (Spain) on November 29 – December 1, 2023. The conference is organized as part of the CIGE/2021/100 research project, funded by the Conselleria d’Innovació, Universitats i Societat Digital, and is additionally sponsored by the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València, and the Friends of Thoreau Program at the Instituto Franklin
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the urgent need for efficient and effective communication and collaboration processes between the five systems science/ education, politics, economy, the media-based and culture-based public as well as the natural environment of societies. The SARS-CoV-2 virus assaulted the world suddenly, and the COVID-19 disease became a pandemic within three months after the discovery of the first case in China. As a consequence, the high infection rate had an impact on communication processes between all systems. Especially during the first wave of the pandemic, the information needed in society was extraordinarily high because many people were afraid and scared.
Call for Papers
Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Deadline: August 15, 2023
Must We? The Discourse of Student Need
Writing studies, in its aims to meet “student need,” has always been teleological in its orientation. But should we continue to assume that we know what future we are preparing our students for and maintain confidence in what best serves them? This special issue asks for a critical reappraisal of our reliance on those discourses of goals, needs, and assessments and how they have shaped and continue to shape our fields, especially given emerging transnationalism and globalism in teaching and scholarship.
Australia-India Encounters: Past, Present, Future
3-4 May, 2023
Organised by
The Centre for Australian Studies, Department of English and Culture Studies,
The University of Burdwan
in collaboration with
Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University, Canberra
The research group CULIVIAN (“Culturas Literarias y Visuales del Animal” / “Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures”) is hosting the international conference “The Factual Animal: Audiovisual Representations of Real Other-than-Human Animals.” The conference will be held face-to-face at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació at the Universitat de València (Spain) on November 29 – December 1, 2023. The conference is organized as part of the CIGE/2021/100 research project, funded by the Conselleria d’Innovació, Universitats i Societat Digital, and is additionally sponsored by the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València, and the Friends of Thoreau Program at the Instituto Franklin
"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.