ethnicity and national identity

The First Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, April 25 and 26, 2020

Performing Labor: (Re)Evaluations within the Humanities

South Central Modern Language Association 

2020 SCMLA Conference 

Houston, Texas (October 8-10, 2020)

Native American Literature Panel

Special Topic: Indigenous Presents 

We are now accepting submissions for the Native American Literature Panel at SCMLA 2020, to be held in Houston, TX, from Oct. 8-10, 2020. 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: CfP: Haunted Landscapes of German Eastern Europe (University of Edinburgh: August 12-14th, 2020)

Call For Papers

“Patriotism and Protest”

New England American Studies Association Annual Conference

June 6, 2020

Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

The conference will bring together scholars and intellectuals from the African diaspora, and/or those engaged in African diaspora research and engagement. It will offer perspectives on old and new diaspora from various theoretical, conceptual and disciplinary perspectives. The aim is to generate new knowledge that can inform not only scholarship but also work in the policy/government, civil society and business spheres.

The conference is calibrated as an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary congregation. Multiple viewpoints from which old and new diaspora can be explained and comprehended will be presented.

Optimism is not readily associated with the postcolonial. Indeed, postcolonial writing has been described as melancholic and postoptimistic, a repository of the injurious legacies of empire. It is a reputation consonant with postcolonialism’s revelatory project of unmasking imperial designs in canonical texts and exposing complicity in postcolonial writing. In addition, almost by definition, the postcolonial novel expresses disillusionment with nationhood and the developmentalist logics that frame it.

Call for Papers:

Sego Graduate Student Language and Culture Conference
Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah
Closer Together-Further Apart: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Academia

April 10-11, 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS

Seventh Annual Queens College English Graduate Conference 

MOVE!

Conversations in Motion

Conference Date: April 29, 2020

Keynote Speaker: Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Manhattan College)

Submission Deadline: March 10, 2020

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Dust storms. Flooding.  The fear of nuclear fallout.  While literary critics associate American authors of the 1930s and 40s with leftist political and economic thought, they often ignore concern in the period’s literature and other cultural works with major environmental crises.  In my forthcoming book, The Green Depression: American Ecoliterature of the 1930s and 40s (U of Miss. Press, Oct. 2020), I identify ways that depression-era literature contributed to shifts in conservationist thought during the period that would lay the groundwork for the development of environmental thought in the second half of the 20th century.  

I seek original papers for a panel on "Hollywood and the Holocaust" for Middle Tennessee State University's Holocaust and Genocide Studies Conference in Murfreesboro (near Nashville), TN, Oct 21-23.

Specific topics may emphasize a single director or film or address a theme or representational style. My goal is to include some diversity of approach and paper subject within the broad field of Hollywood cinema's engagement with the Holocaust, 1930s-present.

There is potential for future publication via journal special issue or published conference volume.

For people of color, the future has never been a given. Whether through the policies and practices of state-sanctioned genocide, enslavement, internment, or forced relocation and migration, racialized communities have survived their worlds ending, over and over. To cite the opening lines of Sun Ra’s 1974 Afrofuturist film Space Is the Place, “It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?” This special issue critically interrogates the supposed universal notions of a shared planet, ecological demise, and what it means to be human in an era of climate change. The collection aims to center the perspectives of people of color historically and in our contemporary moment on how they envision(ed) “surviving” apocalypse.

The 16th Annual GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND POWER Student Research and Creative Arts Conference at California State University, Los Angeles

CONFERENCE DATE: APRIL 9-10, 2020 • 9AM-4PM

KEYNOTE: JACK HALBERSTAM, APRIL 9, 2020 • 6PM

SUBMIT PROPOSALS BY MARCH 9, 2020 • 5PM

PLEASE SEND RESEARCH AND/OR CREATIVE ABSTRACTS OF 250 WORDS THAT PERTAIN TO THE CONFERENCE'S ANNUAL THEME OF GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND POWER. INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFO: NAME, EMAIL, MAJOR OR FIELD OF STUDY, PROJECT TITLE, THREE KEYWORDS, AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION.

SEND SUBMISSIONS OR QUESTIONS TO CSGS@CALSTATELA.EDU. NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE WILL BE SENT BY MARCH 15, 2020.

The Afterlives of Anticolonial Aesthetics

Special Issue Proposal for Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

(2021/2)

Guest Editors: Patrick Crowley and Carlos Garrido Castellano

This special issue will examine the ways in which anticolonial thought and praxishave continued to inform aesthetics and creative processes. It seeks to think of decolonization as an ongoing collective project allowing us to challenge and critique more recent configurations of coloniality.

For centuries, the close ties between Britain and Germany have found expression not least on the level of personal travel. Travellers came from Britain to Germany for a host of occasions and with the most diverse aims, expectations, and preconceptions. This conference explores the reports produced about their experiences in German lands by travellers from England, Scotland, and Ireland since the Middle Ages.