ethnicity and national identity

International Workshop / University of Mannheim, 14-15 June 2024

This conference takes its cue from the fact that various topical tendencies and events have refuelled interest in landscapes and the countryside in recent years, be it the climate crisis, the crisis of national identity in the context of the Brexit debate or reconsiderations of Britain’s colonial past. It aims at exploring the multi-layered interest in British and Irish landscapes in the 21st century, as writers and researchers alike critically engage with the ideologically charged notion of the countryside by re-reading and reconfiguring popular tropes.

For forty years, NOFX’s brand of (depending who you ask) witty, offensive, humorous, juvenile, intelligent, existential, political, anti-PC, and/or philosophically probing punk has reared several generations in punk attitude and ethos, for better or worse (again, depending who you ask). The band got its start in the early-1980s Los Angeles punk scene, was among the pioneers of the melodic yet hardcore So-Cal punk style, rode the wave of 1990s punk popularity without signing to a major record label, took a political turn during the Bush era, and continued their punk provocations until retiring in 2023.

Call for Book Chapters

The Caribbean and The Southern United States: Interrogating Contemporary Literary and Cultural Connections

***La version française suit plus bas***

black symposium noir

Black radical thought and praxis in Montreal 

March 15-16, 2024 || Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges

The black symposium noir is a bilingual community gathering and independently organized by graduate students and post-graduates with the support of the Uptown Institute and Chalet Kent, a community-rooted non-profit organization and youth centre in Côte-des-Neiges.

The RAACES Review is the journal of the University of Windsor's RAACES (Researchers, Academics, and Advocates Centering Equity and Solidarity)

For our third publication (2024), our focus is international solidarity and we invite academic and creative pieces about racial empowerment,  racism, racialization, Indigeneity, and anticolonial practice in any field. We welcome submissions from students (undergraduate and graduate) -- especially international students; staff; faculty of all levels; and community members. We are particularly interested in:

Conference Theme: “Roots/Routes of Resistance and Resilience”

Call for Papers: “Writing Back to Flannery O’Connor”

Deadline extended to November 8th, 2023

The Flannery O’Connor Society seeks abstracts for a proposed in-person panel to be held at the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States’s (MELUS) annual conference at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas from April 11-14, 2024.

SHAW 46.1 (June 2026): SHAW AND IRELAND

 New Directions in Brut Studies

Greetings from California State University, San Bernardino. As the editor of the digital edition of the Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature (Facts on File), I'm inviting scholars to contribute essays of approximately 1500-2000 words to this contracted and peer reviewed volume. The volume is scheduled to be published digitally in 2024/2025.  Deadline for proposals is 11/1/23.

Ways to contribute:
1) Research, write and submit for peer review one of the essay topics listed, a biography.
AND/OR
2) Serve as a peer reviewer–reviewers should have expertise/publishing/teaching/editing record in the field of Spanish American and or Latino literature. Each reviewer will read about 50-100 pages.

Northeast Modern Language Association 

Boston MA  |  7-10 March 2024

https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html

[Call for Papers]

Panel on “Diasporic Feminist Approaches to U.S. Imperialism”

https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20483

How do we make visible violence that is actively hidden and erased?

Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta

March 21–23, 2024

Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on IRISH, SCOTTISH, AND WELSH LITERATURE for our 53rd annual conference.

All changed, changed utterly:

A terrible beauty is born.

W. B. Yeats

We are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to the conference theme of TRANSFORMATIONS, but we will consider all proposals.

African American literature has always been under assault and faced threat of erasure. Yet, we are experiencing a heightened moment of attack, when political activists are using legislative action to attempt to eradicate Blackness, intersecting identities, DEI initiatives, and the history of race in America from public education and consciousness. Therefore, this is an important time for us to proactively discuss how we teach African American writing and its expressive power to help us understand our pasts, presents, and futures.

We invite proposals for research chapters for a new edited book, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction, for Manchester University Press. This page outlines the book and how to submit a chapter proposal.

Description of book

In the twenty-first century, readers, publishers, and booksellers have noted a surge in popularity of genre works written by Muslim women, particularly in the Anglosphere. From the detective novels of Ausma Zehanat Khan to S. A. Chakraborty’s fantasy fiction, Ayisha Malik’s romantic fiction to graphic novels by Deena Mohamed – Muslim women authors are embracing popular fiction forms and genres.

2024 CONFERENCE THEME: BUILDING ALLIANCES
 

(A)rchival endeavors should not be about documenting the past, nor even about imagining the future…but about building a liberatory now. 

-Michelle Caswell, Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (2021, 13)