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Call for Papers for an edited Volume on "Fashion in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction"

updated: 
Sunday, May 28, 2023 - 10:36am
Ankara Science University & Gumushane University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers: "Fashion in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction"

 

We are pleased to invite submissions for an edited volume titled "Fashion in Eighteenth-century English Fiction." This volume will explore how fashion, an inclusive notion associated with such terms as dress, clothing, costume, appearance, and other cultural objects like jewellery, furniture, foods, and architectural forms, is represented and politicised in English fiction in the eighteenth century.

 

CFP Roundtable: Democracy and the Crisis in the Literature Survey Course

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:26am
**MMLA - Cincinnati**
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

As the “Crisis in the Humanities” continues to witness a decline in all things humanities courses throughout post-secondary curricula under the echoing waves of COVID, teachers of English survey courses are left to do some cleaning up with regard to what we teach as far as the surveys go. In addition to the COVID slope, the number of English majors continues to wane, and some colleges are even restructuring semester scheduling. When the dust settles, where does that leave the last vestibule of the formal introductory map to English studies, the venerable “survey course” – the one, staunch and steadfast bastion of the once bustling English departments?

Peninsular Literature and/or Culture from 1700 to the present, session C

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 11:29am
South Atlantic Modern Languages Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Abstracts for session C will reflect any theme related to Peninsular Literature and/or Culture from 1700 to the present. This session will explore a wide range of topics from different periods. Session C is part of a quadruple session with a maximum of three presenters per session, with presentations not to exceed 20 minutes. Presenters must be SAMLA members to attend and may read only one paper at the convention. Interested participants may send a 250-word abstract in Spanish or English, a short academic bio (approximately 100 words), and contact information via email in a single Word document at their earliest convenience. Deadline for abstract submission: June 15, 2023. Please send materials and/or questions via e-mail to Dr.

Reception of Indic Antiquity in Romantic Literature

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 11:30am
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Cultural understandings of the East, specifically of India, in British Romanticism have opened up numerous lines of inquiry in Romantic and eighteenth-century studies. Phiroze Vasunia, Michael J. Franklin, Andrew Rudd, and others have commented at length on the ways in which English writers related to India during the Romantic period. Works by writers like William Jones, Phebe Gibbes, Robert Southey, Sydney Owenson, and Wilke Collins reveal the extent to which India became a point of creative fixation as well as cultural appropriation. The translations of many works of ancient and medieval Indic texts were important to the galvanization of the British literary imagination.

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:44am
The Defoe Society/Digital Defoe
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries welcomes articles exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries (broadly conceived). In addition to traditional scholarly papers (roughly 4000-7000 words), we welcome essays on fresh pedagogical approaches to the works of Defoe and other writers of his era.

We also encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental non-peer reviewed essays.

Scholarly essays may be eligible for essay prizes awarded by the Defoe Society.

https://www.defoesociety.org/awards/

 

“Writing with Security and Insecurity in Early America”

updated: 
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 7:47pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 4, 2023

South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 95th Conference:

Pre-1900 American Literature Panel: “Writing with Security and Insecurity in Early America.” 

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries

updated: 
Monday, May 1, 2023 - 4:39pm
The Defoe Society/Digital Defoe
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries welcomes articles exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries (broadly conceived). In addition to traditional scholarly papers (roughly 4000-7000 words), we welcome essays on fresh pedagogical approaches to the works of Defoe and other writers of his era.

We also encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental non-peer reviewed essays.

Scholarly essays may be eligible for essay prizes awarded by the Defoe Society.

https://www.defoesociety.org/awards/

 

120th Annual PAMLA Conference (2023): Portland, OR - Romanticism

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:52am
Amanda Middleton, Independent Scholar
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

120th Annual PAMLA Conference (2023): Portland, OR - Romanticism

The PAMLA 2023 Conference will be held at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon between October 26-29, 2023,

The 2023 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.

PAMLA, founded as the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast in 1899, and the western affiliate of the Modern Language Association, is dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of ancient and modern languages, literatures, and cultures.

PAMLA 2023 Conference Theme

Studies in Hogg and his World

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:42pm
James Hogg Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

(Update: Deadline Extended)

 

London Foundling Hospital History: An Online Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 11:01am
Group of Researchers of different Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

The Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children was established in 1739.  It was the ‘darling project’ of Thomas Coram who saw the need to care for infants when their parents were unable to.  The Hospital underwent great changes between 1739 when its opening was a watershed event in British child welfare and 1954 when it ended its practice of institutional care.  This conference aims to bring together the global community of Foundling Hospital researchers for the first time to discuss all aspects of the charity’s history, and stimulate new avenues of investigation in the institution’s archives.

Transgender Embodiment: 1400-1700: DEADLINE EXTENDED

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:34am
University of York (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Transgender Embodiment: 1400-1700 (June 2nd): DEADLINE EXTENDED

University of York, UK (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)

Keynote: Prof Melissa Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania)

Celebrating Virginia Woolf’s Eighteenth Century

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:26pm
Miriam Wallace/ ASECS & MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Celebrating Virginia Woolf's Eighteenth Century

Beyond her call to lay flowers on Aphra Behn’s grave or taking her “Common Reader” from Samuel Johnson, Woolf’s engagement with the eighteenth-century was profound. Proposal might consider aesthetics, visual and literary history, fashion and decor, print culture and/or printing technology, waxworks, politics, etc.
 

ASECS/IVWS joint-session

Modern Language Association MLA 2024, Philadelphia

Miriam Wallace, New C of Florida (mwallace@ncf.edu ) Laura Engel, Duquesne University (engell784@duq.edu )

Old and New, Beginnings and Endings (18th Century)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:20pm
NEASECS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 16, 2023

NEASECS 2023 “Old and New, Beginnings and Endings,”

 

Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington DC, November 17-19, 2023

 

MLA 2024: Special Session - Theatrical Performance in Literature

updated: 
Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 11:14pm
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth / MLA Special Session 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

This special session panel, for the 2024 MLA in Philadelphia, PA, will reflect on how performativity, acting, and theatre appear in writing. When we consider the novel, especially, how does theatre show its impact on authors and how do authors invoke theatrical performance or acting in a non-visual form? For texts with visual components, such as manga or illustrated stories, how do the images interface with the text to create an experience of performance for readers? When we see the theatre itself appear in literature, what is its role? When we see an amateur performance, such as Lovers' Vows in Austen's Mansfield Park, what does that say about how theatre is constructed in Austen's understanding of society?

"Itinera" 2024: Memory and Poiesis between Aesthetics and Rhetoric

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:21am
Itinera. Journal of Philosophy and Art Theory, University of Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Memory and Poiesis between Aesthetics and Rhetoric

 

Edited by Amalia Salvestrini and Fosca Mariani Zini

 

 

Among the various fields that have historically contributed to the constitution of Aesthetics as an autonomous discipline in the 18th century is rhetoric, from which Aesthetics has taken terms, concepts and problems that it later develops and transforms (Saint Girons; Franzini; etc.). One of the themes with which the relationship between Aesthetics and Rhetoric can be investigated is memory, understood in its poietic dimension that concerns various fields of human productive and artistic activity.

Health, Care, and Disability in the Early Modern Francophone World

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:24am
Modern Languages Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of care; the various ways bodily ability are articulated in different spaces within the early Francophone world. We especially welcome papers engaging with these topics from global and/or intersectional perspectives, as well as those considering diachronic and transtemporal approaches.

Marginalized Women in American Historical Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:20pm
College English Association at the Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 19, 2023

CEA session at MLA, January 4-7, 2024 in Philadelphia, PA

Designing Urban Universities

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:01pm
Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 24, 2023

Designing Urban Universities

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 June 2023

There is a growing dissonance between the urban university as often perceived—its physical, architectural, and emblematic form, its legacy structures and spaces, its time-honoured functions and traditions—and the university as a knowledge factory within the city, subject to political, commercial, and environmental pressures. But this is not a new dissonance. Architectural and design histories can uncover how, across diverse cases, it has often shaped the urban university internally and in its relationship with the city.

British Women Writers Conference: Liberties

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 11:39am
British Women Writers Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

The organizers of the 2023 BWWC invite papers and panel proposals interpreting the theme of ‘Liberties’ in global and transatlantic British women’s writing from the long eighteenth century to the present. We ask participants to consider ‘liberties’ not only as a political abstraction but also as part of material and experiential subjectivity. Interpreted broadly, liberties include (but are not limited to) legal rights and freedoms, liberty of the person and bodily autonomy, liberties of creative and artistic expression, liberty of profession and vocation, freedom of movement both physical and social, and self-determination in the private and public spheres.

QAQV8 Body | Mind | Spirituality

updated: 
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - 4:39pm
From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

 

20-22 September 2023, Warsaw, Poland


 

This is the 8th QAQV biennial conference abut the first in-person meeting since the outbreak of the pandemic. To celebrate that, we would like to focus on the perceptions of and relationships between body, mind and spirituality in 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture and their contemporary rewritings.

We encourage proposals considering diverse forms of cultural expression, including literature, poetry, theatre, the arts, film, fashion, and performativity, as well as a range of social, geographical and historical contexts.


 

 

Treaties and Literature (Diplomatica special issues)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 12:21pm
Ken Weisbrode/Network for New Diplomatic History
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

For two special issues of Diplomatica we invite proposals for essays on (1) the history and culture of diplomatic treaties; and (2) aspects of diplomacy’s relationship to literature. Essays may cover any historical period up to the present-day. The central questions that the special issues pose are:

(1) Treaties

– How and why have diplomatic texts evolved?

– How has their hermeneutics changed over time?

– Are treaties better understood as literary artifacts or as socio-political constructs?

– What can the evolution of treaties tell us about the evolution of diplomacy and the diplomatic profession?

(2) Literature

Writing Religious Conflict and Community in the Southwest, 1500–1800

updated: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 12:00pm
University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 13, 2023

Writing Religious Conflict and Community in the Southwest, 1500–1800

Friday 21st April 2023

Organised by Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Writing Religious Conflict and Community in Exeter’ (ReConEx) in association with the International John Bunyan Society with the endorsement of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

 

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature - general submissions

updated: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 11:51am
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature seeks submissions of Articles, Notes, and essays for our Archives, Innovations, and Academy sections. TSWL focuses on women’s literature in all time periods and places, including foreign-language literatures, and in every genre—poetry, prose, drama, essays, diaries, memoirs, journalism, and criticism. While submissions need not be exclusively concerned with female writers, the focus must be on women and writing, explicating the specific links between the woman writer and her work.

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