ethnicity and national identity

Organizer: Christine Okoth (christine.a.okoth@kcl.ac.uk)

Co-Organizer: Trisha Remetir (trisha.remetir@ucr.edu)

We are seeking participants for a seminar for the 2023 American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, which will take place at the Sheraton Grand in Chicago, Illinois, March 16-19, 2023.

In ACLA seminars, participants share drafts of their work with seminar panelists prior to the conference. The seminar meets over multiple days to discuss their pre-circulated drafts.

TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: A Natural Hair Conference, August 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2023.

Black women view their hair as a problem. To enjoy black hair, such negative thinking has to be unlearned.   bell hooks

Don’t remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain. Marcus Garvey

It takes care and attention and time to handle natural hair. Something we have lost from our African culture are the rituals of health and beauty and taking time to anoint ourselves. And the first way we lost it was in our hair.   Hariette Cole, in Hair Story

Call for Participation: Researchers, Arts Practitioners, and Activists

Winter Symposium : Reading Gerald of Wales Topographia Hibernica (1188) and Itinerarium Cambriae (1191)

The newly established Nordic Summer University study circle Praxis of Social Imaginaries: Cosmologies, Othering and Liminality invite all who are interested in joining our group to investigate the praxis of reading together, the praxis of listening and the praxis of telling stories.

This seminar explores conceptions of empathy in various philosophical, cultural, and linguistic traditions across the world. The English word “empathy,” adapted from the German einfühlung and closely associated with the older term sympathy, is notoriously slippery. Scholars have identified various affective-cognitive processes that empathy connotes, including imagining oneself in others’ situations, comprehending others’ perspectives, feeling what others feels, feeling affected by others’ experiences, and caring for others. Investigating the premises and implications of these empathic processes, scholars have shown that attending to nuanced differences between notions of empathy enhances our understanding of its possibilities and limitations.

To confront literary institutions means to confront paradoxes at every level. Institutionalization is the enemy of “real” literature and art, avant-gardists and critical theorists will tell you. Institutions standardize, constrain, and exclude while they assign value and invite critique. Conversely, there is no literature without institutionalization: it is only through institutional frameworks that we can communicate about literature as an observable phenomenon at all. And often, the fiercest critics of institutions are in turn the savviest institution-builders.

Eighth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium

University of Washington 

March 31 - April 1, 2023 

Submission deadline: November 30, 2022

Keynote Speaker: Douglas S. Ishii 

Additional Faculty Participation by Eva Cherniavsky, Monika Kaup, Melanie Walsh 

Northeast Modern Language Association 2023 roundtable: "Teaching 20th-century African American Women's Writing" 

Given the ongoing cultural assault on the history of race in the United States, now is the perfect time to discuss how we teach African American Women’s writing. This roundtable will focus on twentieth-century literature (broadly defined) and invite conversation about approaches for introducing African American Women’s writing to students and for emphasizing its vastness and power to help us understand our past, present, and future.

Roundtable participants will have between 5-10 minutes to introduce a topic, and conversation will follow.

Conference online (via Zoom platform)

17-18 November 2022

CFP:

 CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES: THE GLOBAL PREMODERN CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS April 20-22, 2023

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 14, 2022

Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas

Featuring Keynote Speakers: Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University and Ulinka Rublack, University of Cambridge 

Jonathan Hsy will be speaking on “Crafty Mobilities: Disabled Travel Writing and a Global Middle Ages”

Ulinka Rublack will be speaking on "The Triumph of Fashion in the Early Modern World"

Father, Fathering and Fatherhood in the Italian American Narrative (tentative title)

Elisa Bordin and Theodora Patrona, editors

Call for Papers, Confluence at CEA 2023

March 30-April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio | 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

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

Post-Colonial Literature by its very nature suggests confluence.  This special topic session welcomes scholarship that explores the blending, bringing together, or the conflicts in bringing together and then the separation in the issues, ideas, and cultures in Post-Colonial literature.

25th Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film

When: March 9-10, 2023
Where: Asheville, NC 
Deadline for abstracts: Nov. 15, 2023

The 25th SCFLLF will be held in Asheville, North Carolina, on March 9-10, 2023, hosted by Western Carolina University and the University of South Florida. Abstracts for papers (and panels) are now being considered. 

Subject: Call for Papers: Confluence at CEA 2023

Call for Papers, Confluence at CEA 2023

March 30-April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio | 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

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

Decolonizing Visuality: Looks, Minds, Ways of Thinking and Acting

Editors : Teresa Mendes Flores (Université Nova de Lisbonne et ULHT), Filipa Duarte de Almeida (Université Omar Bongo) and Joseph Tonda (Université Omar Bongo)