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18th Century Conference: The Book and the City

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:57pm
South Central Society for 18th Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

This year, the Annual Meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies will be held in one of the most thought-provoking cities in contemporary America: Portland, Oregon. The meeting will be held on Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, 2024. While papers on all aspects of the long eighteenth century are welcome, the theme of the conference will be "The Book and the City."

French and Francophone Theater

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:56pm
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 12, 2023

French and Francophone Theater Panel

 

Contact email: imacdona@bowdoin.edu

 

Comparative Drama Conference

Orlando, FL, April 4-6, 2024

Deadline: October 12, 2023

 

This panel welcomes submissions on the broad theme of "French and Francophone Theater." The intention of this panel is to create a space at the Comparative Drama Conference for the presentation of current research on French and Francophone theater by both rising and established scholars. All time periods of French and Francophone dramatic literature and performance are welcome.

Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
University of California - Santa Barbara (Early Modern Center)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2023

The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be held at UCSB on March 1 and 2, 2024. Attending to the presence of disability in the premodern world, this interdisciplinary conference invites proposals that address medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century literary and cultural texts. 

Writing Faith and Place in Early Modern Britain

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:30pm
University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

Writing Faith and Place in Early Modern Britain

17th–19th April, University of Exeter

 

“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 3:18pm
Université Paris Nanterre (CREA EA 370) - Université Clermont Auvergne (IHRIM-UMR 5317)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

                                               Call for papers 

“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”

(Scroll down for the French version, scientific committee and selected bibliography)

A one-day preparatory seminar will take place on April, 5th 2024 (as a hybrid event) to enable scholars to present their research. The conference will then take place at Université Paris Nanterre on April 3-4, 2025

ACLA Montreal 2024: Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 3:52pm
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Deleuze notes in Negotiations that he did not have the chance to write “the book [he’d] like to have done about literature” (143) as he had done for other artforms like cinema and painting. Following Deleuze and Guattari’s definition of great thinkers who “lay out a new plane of immanence” and “draw up a new image of thought” to “change how we think” (What Is Philosophy 51), this seminar takes up Deleuze’s desire for new images of thought focused explicitly on literature. This seminar invites participants to consider the relation between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and commentary on art (e.g., painting, cinema, and literature) and a variety of literary writers to establish new ways of thinking and navigating within literature.

Anne Lister Society: Third Meeting, April 2024 in Halifax UK

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
The Anne Lister Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE THIRD ANNE LISTER SOCIETY MEETING in Spring 2024!

Following on our inaugural meeting in April 2022 and our second in 2023, we are thrilled to announce that the Anne Lister Society will reconvene for its third conference, 5-6 April 2024, in Halifax, U.K., during the events of Anne Lister Birthday Week.

Modelling Change: ALCA 2023

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:44pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

“Things change,” no doubt, and for many decades now changes in literature and the visual arts have often been conceptualized in two interconnected ways. First, artifactual change is taken as a sign of or proxy for deeper, systemic modifications (from old-fashioned “periods” to master changes like “rationalism,” “capitalism,” and “modernity”). To “historicize,” as Frederic Jameson enjoined us to do, means to imagine artifacts as registering the complex conditions that made them possible in the first place. Second, this brand of change is thought through the trope of rupture, since the various systems that relay one another — call them paradigms, epistemes, horizons or regimes — are held to be incommensurable, despite possible surface similarities.

British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century at CEA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers: British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century at CEA 2024 

March 21-23 Atlanta, Georgia 

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta 

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century for our 53rd annual conference.  Submit your proposal by 1 November 2023 at https://www.conftool.pro/cea2024/

Fluid Boundaries: Gender and the Freedom of Movement in American Literature

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:18pm
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

Fluid Boundaries: Gender and the Freedom of Movement in American Literature

International Seminar
1 October-3 December 2023

-Live:Sundays
-Virtually:anytime till 3 December

 

Course FacilitatorOlga Akroyd , Ph.D 

Literature-General

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 12:59pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Literature-General

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

Women’s Connection/Women ‘s Lit/WGST CEA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 12:59pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers, Women’s Connection/Women ‘s Lit/WGST at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Women’s Connection/Women‘s Lit/WGST for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Women’s Connection/Women ‘s Lit/WGST seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.

Transatlantic Literature at CEA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 12:42pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers, Transatlantic Literature at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Transatlantic Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Transatlantic Literature seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MWASECS 2023 Annual Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - 11:42am
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023

The deadline for paper and panel proposals for the MWASECS conference has been extended to SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.

MWASECS 2023 Conference, Nov. 16-18

Call for Book Reviews on Free Speech and Censorship

updated: 
Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 12:41am
Randy Robertson / Susquehanna University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the winter 2023-2024 issue. In recent years, the temperature has risen around free speech debates, and books on censorship and free speech come out with such frequency that it is hard to keep abreast of the new scholarship. I am interested in receiving reviews and review essays on academic books published in the last several years that are in some way related to free speech. The books to be reviewed can center on any historical, geographical, or disciplinary context, and the reviews and review essays can be written from (almost) any theoretical perspective.

NEMLA Panel: Narratives of Literary Recovery

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:31pm
Rod K. Taylor/Ball State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Cary Nelson’s stance on archival work in his 1989 book Repression and Recovery applies to the intimate, frustrating, and rewarding practice of archival research’s potential to offer literary scholars the chance to rehabilitate both author and text. He states, “For texts previously ignored or belittled, our greatest appreciative act may be to give them fresh opportunities for an influential life. That discourse can include new constructions of the cultural work those texts may have done in their own time” (14). When archival research uncovers voices that showcase underrepresented voices, the outcome is tremendous in how it results in new ways of reading the past in contemporary culture. But what about historically problematic constructions?

Economies and Poetics of the Forest

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:50am
American Society for 18th Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

“To the uncultivated eye a forest appears simply as uncultivated land—an expanse of woodland and heath which has been left ‘wild’ ... But a forest has its own complex economy.” —E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters

New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:42am
ASECS 2024 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

During a roundtable discussion (now published in Journal18), scholars pointed out that visual culture emerged as a distinct methodology. Visual culture aims to problematize the Eurocentric, colonialist, racist, heteronormative, and patriarchal assumptions that enforced and continue to enforce the art historical discipline. This panel continues and expands these crucial conversations by exploring the relationship between art history and visual culture during the long eighteenth-century.

Overdetermined and Under-determined authorship

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 6:06pm
J.P. Ascher & Eleanor Shevlin, ASECS/SHARP
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Author-focused literary studies have long ruled the roost, but some of the most important books have not had clear authors. Rather than a single author, these books have multiple authors, or false authors, or no author, or we simply do not know who conceived of and wrote

Austen, Annotated: Jane Austen's Literary, Political, and Cultural Origins. JASNA 2024 AGM.

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:18am
Jane Austen Society of North America 2024 Annual General Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

https://jasna.org/agms/cleveland2024/call-for-papers.php

 

Through this Call for Papers, the JASNA Ohio North Coast Region invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions at the 2024 AGM, and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker grant.

The AGM theme is “Austen, Annotated: Jane Austen’s Literary, Political, and Cultural Origins.”

Romantic Religions: Re-evaluating Secularism in the Romantic Era

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 4:12pm
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA session "Romantic Religions: Re-evaluating Secularism in the Romantic Era" (55th Annual NeMLA Convention March 7th in Boston, MA). The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2023. You can submit an abstract for this session here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20719

Session Abstract: How does our understanding of religion in the Romantic era shape our interpretation and evaluation of Romantic thought and literature? How might we reconsider Romantic literature within the contexts of religious surplus in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Naturalizing the Normative in the Eighteenth Century

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 4:00pm
Sam Hushagen/ American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Call for Papers: Panel, "Naturalizing the Normative in the Eighteenth Century," ASECS 54th Annual Meeting (Toronto, April 4-6)

Deadline: September 15th, 2023

 

The Shelley Conference 2024: 'Posthumous Poems', Posthumous Collaborations

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 3:02pm
The Shelley Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 29, 2024

The Shelley Conference 2024

Posthumous Poems, Posthumous Collaborations

Keats House Museum, London, 28-29 June 2024

 

Two years after the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the summer of 1822, Mary Shelley, after a painstaking editorial process, published Posthumous Poems (1824). The volume contained much of Shelley’s major poetry, including the hitherto unpublished ‘Julian and Maddalo’, together with translations of Goethe and Calderón, and unfinished compositions such as ‘The Triumph of Life’ and ‘Charles the First’. 

 

All Work, No Play

updated: 
Sunday, July 30, 2023 - 11:12pm
The University of Melbourne
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 14, 2023

Deadline Extended: ALL WORK, NO PLAY
Please send proposals by August 14 2023

This is a symposium on pedagogy and the pedagogical imaginary presented by the English and Theatre Studies Program at The University of Melbourne and generously supported by the Shakespeare 400 Trust and the ETS program.

Keynote Speaker: Dr Claire Hansen, The Australian National University

Date: Tuesday 28th of November 2023

Attendance: in-person on the Parkville Campus and virtually via Zoom

https://allworknoplaysymposium.wordpress.com/

Diversity.Equality.Unity

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Upasana Ray
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

‘Feminism’ , according to the Oxford Dictionary , is defined as a “belief in and advocacy of
the political , economic and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through
organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests”. From the various
spheres of feminism , ‘feminine feminism’ has become a quite attractive topic ,
especially among women . It suggests women not to sacrifice her identity for the
patriarchal society , both physically and mentally , be powerful and strong . Though ,
it is a complex notion as femininity is a feeling and not a concrete thing , but it, at
the same time , also inspires to not to sacrifice the ‘girly’ features thus expected from

Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:00pm
Ege University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

OVERTONES EGE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES
CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual deadline: September 15

NeMLA 2024: Excess Feeling in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 3:59pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

“Feeling,” in its multiple forms of meaning, is central to the literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The eighteenth century saw the rise of the the cult of sensibility, aesthetic explorations of the sublime, and medical explorations of the nerves; while the nineteenth saw the literary cultivation of sympathy and psychological theories of emotion. Whether emotional, affective, or physical, the push to define and understand “feeling” was frequently attended by anxiety about feeling’s propensity to spill over and overwhelm.

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