eighteenth century

RSS feed

Extended deadline 7th Prescriptivism Conference 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 - 2:27am
Aix-Marseille Université
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE

The 7th conference on prescriptivism will be held at Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence from June 26th to June 28th, 2024. Previous highly successful conferences have been held in Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013), Park City, Utah (2017) and Vigo (2021) demonstrating that the study of prescriptivism attracts scholars worldwide. The theme of the 7th Conference will be "Transmitting Prescriptivism and Norms" and will focus on how prescriptivism has been transmitted in different ways down the ages to the present day.

Living Enclosures

updated: 
Tuesday, January 2, 2024 - 9:23am
Stony Brook University 36th Annual English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

Enclosure is as much origin-story as it is globally contested condition. Critical accounts positioning the act of enclosure as integral to the root-systems of global capitalism, environmental catastrophe and precarity often refer to the historical effort by landowners to do away with the commons in favor of legally and politically recognized enclosures. Transforming sustainable agricultural practices into sites of energy-production primed for capital development, the early-modern enclosure movement gave rise to what Robert P. Marzec characterizes as “a model of the human that took as its direct enemy an environment thought to be threatening because it had yet to be properly secured, privatized, and cultivated” (18).

Unveiling Untold Narratives: Rediscovering the Literary Legacy of Jewish Female Writers and Representations of Jewish Women by Female Writers from the 1700s to the 1920s

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2023 - 9:42am
Women’s Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Special issue of Women’s Writing (Taylor & Francis)

Unveiling Untold Narratives: Rediscovering the Literary Legacy of Jewish Female Writers and Representations of Jewish Women by Female Writers from the 1700s to the 1920s

Guest Edited by Irina Rabinovich and Brygida Gasztold

 

Description: This compilation seeks to shed light on the often-overlooked voices and hidden gems within the vast tapestry of Jewish women’s writing, as crafted by female authors during a transformative period in history.

Epistolary Friendships Between Writers and Readers

updated: 
Monday, December 11, 2023 - 2:35am
Université de Haute-Alsace, France
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

 

Conference, 13-14 June 2024, Université de Haute-Alsace, France | Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (ILLE)

 

Working languages: French, English

The Global Eighteenth Century: Bodies, Texts, and Ideas in Motion

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:01pm
English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 2, 2024

Felicity A. Nussbaum suggests that we need to formulate new critical framings about the widened eighteenth century as well as a long one. In what ways can we widen the breadth, scale, and scope of eighteenth-century studies from a global and planetary perspective? How might we come up with ways to think about the interconnectivity among ideas, cultures, and texts that “move” beyond the boundaries of the metrapole and the margin, near and distant?

 

Representing Jerusalem in World Literature and Art: Sacred Space and Sacred History - Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:17pm
Harvard University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Jerusalem is the most sacred space in the world uniting mainstream religious traditions and representing various cultures and ethnicities; this city is the holiest for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Holy Jerusalem Itself is also a hierotopic place, presenting a spatial icon associated with God’s presence and the sacredness of history. Human history is not only the history of constant wars. It is the history of creation and ongoing spiritual work. Central to the Old and New Testaments, the Hebrew Bible emphasizes the Jewish sacred connection with the city. This holy space is also a cradle of Christianity. In this edited volume, Jerusalem and its representations will be explored through the lens of world literature, art, and films.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 2:09am
University of California - Santa Barbara (Early Modern Center)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 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. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers, Dr. Rachael King (UCSB), Dr. Bradley Irish (Arizona State University), and poet Jos Charles. 

Transatlantic Literature at CEA 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 8:23am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 13, 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.

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

updated: 
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 8:23am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 13, 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.

British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century at CEA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 9:43am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 13, 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 13 November 2023 at https://www.conftool.pro/cea2024/

Call for Papers for Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature Journal

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:21pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 5/2024

 

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

New Approaches to Rape Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:02pm
Special Issue
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Call for Abstracts: New Approaches to Rape Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century

Co-Editors: Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa, USA) & Doreen Thierauf (North Carolina Wesleyan University, USA)

Girls’ and Young Women’s Textual Cultures Across History: Imitation, Adaptation, Transformation

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:21pm
Lois Burke, Jennifer Duggan & Edel Lamb
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

 

The editors would like to invite chapters of 7,000 words for an edited collection, Girls’ and Young Women’s Textual Cultures Across History: Imitation, Adaptation, Transformation, to be submitted to Routledge’s Children’s Literature and Culture Book Series. We aim to publish the collection in 2025.

Bloomsbury Cultural History of Trans Lives, Vol 4: The Eighteenth Century

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:24pm
Sal Nicolazzo (UC Davis), Scott Larson (University of Michigan), and Aixia Huang (SOAS), co-editors
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The historical period of 1650-1800 includes massive historical transformations with particular purchase for the history of gender, yet this period has only begun to attract substantial attention from scholars of trans studies. This volume seeks to gather work that engages rigorously with trans studies methodologies while deepening the field’s engagement with historical periods and materials across regions, languages, and disciplines.

 

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:

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.

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

 

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?

Pages