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Gender and Ecology

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 2:56pm
Women's Link Journal, Jamia Millia Islamia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Call for Papers

Women’s Link

A Bi-annual Peer Reviewed International Journal

Women and Ecology

(Vol. 31, Issue 2- July 2024)

From Ovid to Covid: Investigating the Global Environmental Issues in Art, Culture and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 2:51pm
Editors: Dr. PARTHA SARATHI MANDAL and Mr. DAYAL CHAKRABORTTY
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Concept Note: In 1989, in WLA conference when Glotfelty first used the term ‘ecocriticism ’ and subsequently edited The Ecocriticism Reader with Harold Fromm, the global literary circle had had a new way of discourse. The narrative of the study of the relationship between art/culture/literature and the physical environment had been shifted from the human centric romantic approach to nature to the narrative of the biocentric approach to nature. It started to interrogate the role of human imagination in literature as well. This shift in approach fathered some naturecentric ecological narratives like Deep Ecology.

Marxism and the Digital Public- Deadline Extended

updated: 
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 10:36pm
The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

CFP: The 26th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference- Deadline Extended

“Marxism and the Digital Public”

 

Weekend of April 12-14, 2024

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

 

Keynotes: M.E. O’Brien (Pinko and Parapraxis) and Jasper Bernes (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments

updated: 
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 8:50am
Cortland Rankin, Bowling Green State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

Call for chapter proposals for edited volume

 

Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments

Edited by Cortland Rankin (Bowling Green State University) and Brady Fletcher (University of Rochester)

"Making Nature: The Labor of Natural History," June 6–7, 2024

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:28am
American Philosophical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will explore the ways humans have imagined, depicted, and constructed representations and knowledge about the natural world over time. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, naturalists, and collection professionals, as well as artists, filmmakers, climate activists, and others to consider the different forms of labor and expertise that have contributed to shaping past, present, and future understandings of nature as well as the place of humans within it.

Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference, 2025: Oceanic Melville

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:26am
The Melville Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference

University of Connecticut (maritime campus), Avery Point, Connecticut, USA

Dates: June 16-19, 2025

 

Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2024

 

Conference Theme: Oceanic Melville

 

Meditation and water are wedded forever.

Moby-Dick, Chapter 1

 

The oceans cover two thirds of our planet’s surface and are responsible

for over half of our oxygen and one fifth of our nutrition. They are in trouble.

International Conference Counter-Image 2024 - Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking: reimagining relationships in the world

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 4:04pm
EVAM, ICNOVA e Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 18, 2024

International Conference Counter-Image 2024 - Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking: reimagining relationships in the world

 

7, 8 & 9 August 2024

Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas , Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

 

There is an extractivist monoculture of the way of producing images that performs imagery itself as a mere representation of a given world and which has the effect of homogenising pictures and, therefore, the possibility of performing worlds. How can we address these issues?

 

Call for Papers (Issue 35): Emotion and Affect

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 4:02pm
FORUM
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Affect theory turns our attention towards a re-contextualisation of emotional and affective experiences within past and contemporary constructions of race, gender and sexuality. It leads us towards the para-rational zones of lived experience (sensations, disturbances, intensities, etc) and offers new interdisciplinary methodologies. The study of emotionality interrogates the boundary between human and non-human, with contemporary research in ecological feeling playing with the border between humans and other species, nature and geological formations. This issue is interested in how these contemporary and modern affective debates have impacted, and continue to impact, the ways in which we think about feeling.

 

EASTAP Annual Conference 2024 - ECOSYSTEMS OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 4:02pm
EASTAP - European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance / IAB -- Institute of the Arts Barcelona
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

We are delighted to announce the EASTAP Annual Conference 2024, hosted by the Institute of the Arts Barcelona (Sitges, Spain), under the theme “Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance”. As host city, Sitges has been a biosphere destination since 2016, and is committed to environmental, economic, and social sustainability. 

The conference aims to bring together international scholars, practitioners, and researchers, inviting submissions for papers and presentations that delve into various aspects of this theme and offer fresh insights into the dynamic field of theatre and performance. 

Graduate Student and Early Scholar Conference: The Intellectual Resistance

updated: 
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 4:29pm
Comparative Studies Student Association at Florida Atlantic University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 23, 2024

CfP

CSSA’s 2024 Conference: Intellectual Resistance

The Comparative Studies Student Association of Florida Atlantic University would like to invite undergraduate students, graduate students, post docs, and scholars early in their careers to participate in our annual conference focusing on the idea of intellectual resistance.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:14pm
Venti Journal: Air, Experience, Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Atmospheres of Violence  

CALL FOR PAPERS: ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE

Venti Journal - Volume 3, No.1 - Summer 2024 | Deadline: March 1, 2024

Recognition of an atmosphere’s inherent relational capacity is coupled with the desire to control and operationalize; to parse, divide and conquer. Even as the illusory fog of war is superseded by blatant acts of genocide and terrorism, we fail to sense how these engineered atmospheres of violence have long preceded their overwhelming, hyper-visible assemblages. 

New Perspectives on Studio Ghibli, guest ed. Rayna Denison and Jacqueline Ristola

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:13pm
Mechademia: Second Arc
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

Studio Ghibli has been Japan’s most internationally renowned animation studio for nearly 40 years. Home to the animated feature films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli has developed a brand of animation that is instantly recognisable for its hand-drawn attention to the natural world, empowered young female protagonists and soaring depictions of flight. Often read as a creator of popular hit films at home in Japan, but as artistically oriented animation abroad, Studio Ghibli’s films demonstrate the fluidity of Japanese animation’s meanings as its travels the world. Making 24 animated feature films to date, Studio Ghibli has enjoyed international acclaim as a pioneering studio for animation.

'Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back"

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:13pm
Flannery O'Connor Review / Georgia College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Paper proposals of 100-200 words are due by 15 May 2024 to Marshall Bruce Gentry at bruce.gentry@gcsu.edu for "Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking Forward, Looking Back," an academic conference to be held 12-15 Sept. 2024 at Georgia College in Milledgeville, GA, as part of the worldwide "Flannery at 100" celebrations of O'Connor's centennial.

Papers may use any approach to studying O'Connor and her works. Along with your paper proposal, please send a short bio and identify your academic affiliation. 

Keynoters for the conference are Mark Jarman, Mab Segrest, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Karen M. Gravel. Andalusia's new Interpretive Center will be open for visits throughout the conference. 

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:13pm
Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
invites well researched unpublished articles (with an abstract of
maximum 250 words and 5 keywords), book reviews, and interviews
for Volume 4 Issue 1, June 2024 (Open Issue: 4.1)

Submission Deadline: 31 March, 2024

Sub themes (not restricted) 

Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Université Paris Cité
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

International conference

“Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature”

 

MLA 2025 CFP Australian Literature at the Crossroads

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:08pm
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 12, 2024

Call for Papers 

MLA 2025 New Orleans, LA, 9–12 January

American Association of Australasian Literary Studies 

An Allied Organization of MLA – Guaranteed Session

 

Australasian Literature at the Crossroads 

 

Official MLA 35-word CFP: 

Consideration of any aspect of the literature, film, and/or culture of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, including Indigenous writing, particularly changes to the field, content, and milieu of literary studies. Full CFP aaals.org. 250-word abstracts.

 

Full CFP: 

Crossroads VII: Comparative Indigeneities

updated: 
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 1:45pm
University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 9, 2024

In the seventh edition of the Crossroads Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, we aim to foreground indigeneity as a key theoretical framework for investigating and challenging systems of oppression and as an invaluable component of studies in literature, film, and other media. Indigeneity unsettles colonial mechanisms and intervenes in such contentious discourses as subjectivity, domination, and environmental collapse. By looking at indigeneities comparatively, the conference seeks to underline the intrinsic pluralism and inclusivity of such modes of thinking, to consider indigeneity as a series of non-systems rather than a monolith, and to bring to the forefront the possibility of vibrant solidarity.

Waste(d) Worlds

updated: 
Sunday, January 21, 2024 - 5:29pm
The George Washington University English Graduate Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 29, 2024

Waste(d) Worlds
Keynote: Jesi Taylor
March 22nd, 2024

The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) at The George Washington University invites submissions for our virtual conference

Literary Geographies CFP: Conversations

updated: 
Friday, January 19, 2024 - 11:51am
Literary Geographies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Following the format of the 2021 Literary Geographies collection of essays on ‘Literary Geographies of Isolation’ (https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/issue/view/13) the journal’s editors are now seeking short contributions which engage with the theme of ‘Conversations’ from a literary geography perspective for the 2024 October issue.

We welcome submissions of approximately 1500 words which engage with the theme of ‘conversations’ in relation to theory and practice in and for literary geography.

Topics might include, for example:

CFP: Material Lives of Logistics (Panel Proposal for ALA 2024)

updated: 
Friday, January 19, 2024 - 11:48am
Tierney S. Powell (UIC)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

"The Material Lives of Logistics" - As part of a panel proposal for the upcoming American Literature Association (ALA) Conference (Chicago, IL - May 23-26, 2024), we invite paper abstracts that explore logistics and infrastructures in literary texts. The global supply chain accounts for the movement of 90% of everything and over 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions (George 2013, MIT Climate Portal). The organizational imperatives enabling the ecocidal acceleration of commodity circulation, Alberto Toscano reminds us, encompass “a deeply incoherent, contradictory, conflicted and competitive domain” (2014). Literary forms are particularly apt for dealing with contradiction and incoherence.

CFP CURRENTS NO. 10: POLITICS AND POETICS OF DIFFERENCE: APPROACHES IN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND LINGUISTICS

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 10:04am
Academic Association for Doctoral Students of English Philology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Call for Papers

 

CURRENTS NO. 10: POLITICS AND POETICS OF DIFFERENCE:
APPROACHES IN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND LINGUISTICS

 

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the tenth issue of CURRENTS: A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review. CURRENTS is an open access, peer-reviewed, yearly interdisciplinary journal, based in Toruń (Nicolaus Copernicus University), addressed to young researchers in the field of English studies.

 

Resisting Extraction in the Age of Global Climate Change

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 10:02am
Critical Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Fall 2024 Issue of Critical Humanities examines narrative innovations and new scholarly approaches in representations of contemporary and/or day-to-day struggles against climate change and extraction. How do narratives from the Global South ― in literature, print, film and media ― understand the impacts of climate change and industrial extraction on minority communities? In what ways do representations of climate change highlight its intersections with colonial, neo-colonial and postcolonial forms of extraction? What are the new and innovative methods for us to theorize responses, struggles, and resistance efforts against the hostile conditions of extraction in the context of climate change?

 

 

C21 LITERATURE SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CENTURY AT 25

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:46am
C21 Literature: Journal of Twenty-First-Century Writings
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 26, 2024

The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done. The contemporary – that category which has so often been theorised, following Barthes and Agamben, as fundamentally out of step with its own time – is starting to synchronise its watch with the temporal bounds of the current century.

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