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4th AISNA Graduates Conference: “What is an American?” (1782-2024) Narratives and Counternarratives of an Imagined Nation

updated: 
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 9:36am
AISNA Graduates
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

In a period of tumultuous changes like the ones brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise of far-right governments, racism, and international tensions caused by the war in Ukraine and Gaza, a great reckoning is happening in the Western cultural context, especially with regard to the Atlantic and Transatlantic world. No nation has undergone more rapid and sometimes contradictory transformations than the US, showing tensions between its foundational narratives and counternarratives rising from its too often neglected socio-cultural realities. Culturally embedded American ideals have always emphasized a single unifying narrative capable of synthesizing the plurality of voices on US soil.

CFP - ReFocus: The Films of Chor Yuen

updated: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 2:54pm
Jessica Siu-yin Yeung / Lingnan University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Papers

ReFocus: The Films of Chor Yuen

Editors: Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, Tom Cunliffe, and Raymond Tsang

Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives CONFERENCE (Debrecen University Symposium, 2024)

updated: 
Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 2:43pm
Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

“Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives”
Debrecen University Symposium, 2024

 

 

This international, in-person conference is organized by the Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, as part of the Debrecen University Symposium series.

Date:

  • October 24-25, 2024

Venue:

  • Debrecen, Hungary, Main Building of the University of Debrecen

 

Air India Flight 182: A 40th Anniversary Conference

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:41pm
McMaster University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

On June 23rd, 1985, a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182, enroute from Toronto to Delhi. All 329 passengers and crew aboard were killed, most of whom were Canadians of South Asian descent. Though this tragedy remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and resulted in Canada’s longest and most expensive criminal investigation, it is little known in national public memory (Angus Reid Institute 2023). Institutional narratives and failings have framed the Air India bombing as a “non-Canadian tragedy involving non-Canadian citizens” (Seshia 2017), leaving the victims’ families suffering and ignored in the wake of such loss.

DEADLiNE APPROACHING Call for Papers MMLA 2024 conference Chicago Postcolonial Studies permanent section

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 2:04pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

The Postcolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: “Health in/of the Humanities.” We seek scholarly work within the realm of postcolonial studies that intersects with the topics of physical health, mental health, disparities in access and care, communal health, and racial disparities. The following questions are areas of interest for the section:

-How does the power imbalance between the Global North and Global South affect one’s access to and quality of one’s healthcare?

How do these factors impact one’s health outcomes?

PAMLA 2024 Panel CFP: Voices of Palestinian Liberation

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 121st Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

VOICES OF PALESTINIAN LIBERATION 

 

PAMLA Conference

7-10 November 2024 in Palm Springs, California 

Session Format: Panel of 3-4 presenters, 15-20 minutes each and a 30-minute group Q&A afterward

 

This panel centers the literary and artistic expressions of Palestinians by exploring how writers, artists, journalists, historians, and activists navigate themes of abject loss, violence, and trauma; the aim is to offer a multifaceted perspective on the Palestinian experience, one that transcends problematically uncomplicated narratives and foregrounds the power of language and media in shaping identity, fostering solidarity, and demanding justice.

Global Film Symposium: Engaging Global Cinema Cultures - Discourses and Disruptions

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:21pm
Bass Jr. School, University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Engaging Global Cinema Cultures: Discourses and Disruptions

In-person at the University of Texas at Dallas

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading)

Dr. Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin)

Special guests include Dr. Iggy Cortez (University of California, Berkeley), Dr. Shekhar Deshpande (Arcadia University), and Dr. Meta Mazaj (University of Pennsylvania).

[CFP] 2024 Situations International Conference: Asian Diaspora in the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:36am
Yonsei University BK21 Project, Situations
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

 

 

Call for Papers

 

2024 Situations International Conference

 

22-23 November, 2024

Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

 

Asian Diaspora in the 21st Century:

Transnational Hauntology and Affective Production

 

 

Reorienting Singapore Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:35am
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 51 No. 1 | March 2025

Call for Papers

Reorienting Singapore Literature

Guest Editors

Angelia M. C. Poon (Nanyang Technological University)

Iping Liang (National Taiwan Normal University)

Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 2024

 

PAMLA 2024 CFP_African American Literature and Culture Session

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 2024 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 2024 PAMLA Conference will be held in Palm Springs, CA from November 6-10. We invite abstract submissions to a guaranteed, standing session on comics and graphic narratives; abstracts can be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

The “African American Literature and Culture” session is open to all papers that explore some aspect of African American literature, media, or culture, but we are particularly interested in papers attuned to some facet of the conference theme, “Translation in Action.”

 Some topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

PAMLA conference 2024: Translating Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Building on the conference theme “Translation in Action,” this panel invites discussion on how Asia is represented and “translated” in modern and contemporary literature, literary criticism, and popular media, including, but not limited to, film, video games, visual novels, music, and fashion. Panelists are encouraged to engage with the following questions:

1. How is Asia and Asian-ness aesthetically and ideologically represented and “translated” by non-Asian authors and producers, e.g., Historia universal de la infamia (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges, La Chinoise (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) by Rob Marshall, and Civilization VI (2016) by Sid Meister and Firaxis Games?

2024 Brandeis Novel Symposium: Anna Burns's Milkman CFP

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 8:42am
Brandeis University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The eighth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on October 25, 2024, invites proposals for papers on Anna Burns’s novel Milkman (2018). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre.

Call for Papers: ‘Global South Diasporic Voices: Rethinking Praxis and Theory in Communication for Development’

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 8:40am
Journal of Global Diaspora & Media
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 26, 2024

Call for Papers: Journal of Global Diaspora & Media

Special Issue: ‘Global South Diasporic Voices: Rethinking Praxis and Theory in Communication for Development’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-global-diaspora-media#call-for-papers

9th Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium

updated: 
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 9:26am
National Institute of Flamenco
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 17, 2024

9th Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium

In conjunction with the National Institute of Flamenco and

the University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance

Albuquerque, New Mexico

CONFERENCE DATES: October 2-4, 2024

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Deadline for Proposals: May 17, 2024 at 11:59 pm MST

 

Verge Issue 12.2 CfP: “Computational Environments”

updated: 
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 9:25am
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

For questions, contact verge@psu.edu.

Convergence Proposals—due September 30, 2024
Essays—due June 1, 2025 [abstracts/proposals NOT required in advance of manuscript submission]

Edited by Andrea Miller, Cindy Lin, and Tina Chen

Call for Research Papers in Translating Cultures

updated: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 2:28pm
The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS)seeks to meet a growing need for interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences that focuses on translating Arab cultures.

Language in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:47pm
Kaunas University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology together with the Lithuanian Museum of Education are organizing a scientific research conference that is aimed to discuss various aspects and issues about the rapid development of language industry and possibilities of artificial intelligence application that change the turn of scientific research, methodological approaches and, at the same time, increase the access of the society to information in native and foreign languages. 

Health In/Of African Literatures

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:47pm
African Literature/ Midwest MLA--Permanent Section
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 26, 2024

The Permanent Section for African Literature of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) requests abstracts for this year’s conference which will be in-person in Chicago, Illinois.

Transnational Circuits of Asian Religio-Philosophy: Reception and Racialization in the US (Journal of Transnational American Studies Special Forum)

updated: 
Monday, March 25, 2024 - 1:14pm
Journal of Transnational American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

This special forum links processes of Asian American racialization with the reception and circulation of Asian religio-philosophy in the US. In doing so, this forum builds on the foundation laid by a previous special forum titled Redefining the American in Asian American Studies, published in JTAS in 2012.

MMLA 2024 - American Literature pre 1870 - Permanent Panel

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:54pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

As historian Kim E. Nielson argues in A Disability History of the United States, the health of the body became metaphorically linked to the health of the nation in the early national period. The nationalist rhetoric of the healthy body politic led to the marginalization of individuals seen as occupying “deficient” or dependent bodies.  This panel seeks to explore this dynamic from the perspective of those excluded by this rhetoric. Papers focused on artists, writers, and other art producers who experienced disability during the era are welcome. How did these figures respond to the nationalist mythos, and how did they envision themselves with respect to the body politic?

MLA 2025 - Apertures of Access: Neoliberal Grammars of White Supremacy

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Diana Molina & Sophie Ziner
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

This panel interrogates the formal and aesthetic evasions of Black texts and authors in response to the overt and obfuscated grammars of white supremacy. We welcome 250-word abstracts that explore the ways that Black writers enable or restrict the visibility of white supremacist and/or neoliberal grammars of language and grammars of living. Hidden in the etymology of the word grammar is “glamour,” suggesting the enchantment of an optical illusion. And yet, grammar is the architecture that unconsciously structures language and thought, creating the very conventions and norms that dictate how the world should be.

Call for Papers: Theatre in Iranian Society

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Istanbul University Press/ Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Call for Papers

Special Issue for December 2024 (Issue 39)

“Theatre in Iranian Society”

Guest Editor: Fatima Parchekani, Kharazmi University

Deadline for article submission: 30 June 2024

 

Race & Ethnicity in Popular Culture

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:47pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) 2024 Hybrid Conference

 

Call for Papers: Race and Ethnicity in Popular Culture
Current Chair: Indya Jackson, Ramapo College of New Jersey, ijackso2@ramapo.edu

Dates: Thursday, October 3, 2024 - Saturday, October 5, 2024. 

Location: Nichols College in Dudley, MA and Online*

 

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