ethnicity and national identity

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, 20 February 2022

Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940

Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)and Dr. Roxana Mihaly (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)

Introduction

Literary theory has contributed towards the recovery of marginalised narratives and discourses in literature during the last three decades. The word, ‘minor’ has acquired a resonance of its own in the context of ‘national’ literature which tends to be part of a ‘great tradition’. Against such a background, the recovery of diverse indigenous traditions has become an important task of comparative studies of literature. Nations emerged as ‘imagined’ communities. However, nation-states were not ‘imagined’ in the crucible of prolonged struggles of anti-colonial resistance in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but were born of the political exigencies of imperial powers.

CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS

We are seeking proposals for essays in an edited volume on the role and relevance of foreign samurai and honorary citizens in constructing and communicating identity in early modern Japan.

Love, Violence, and Feminine Resistance: Dis-/placement, Reckoning, and Reconciliation  

Abstract/Panel submission deadline: May 21, 2023.

Conference dates: September 22-23, 2023.

Venue: Film and media space “Planeta“, A. Goštauto str. 2, Vilnius

Mode of participation: In person only

Conference language: English

Organizers:

Vilnius Academy of Arts

Lithuanian Cultural Research Institute

Vilnius International Documentary Film Festival

Partner: International Network for Small Cinemas

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Laura Rascaroli, Professor, University College Cork

Victorians Journal announces a special topics CFP on Victorian Hospitality for our Winter 2023 number, guest edited by Kristen Pond.

 Victorians Journal CFP Winter Issue 2023

CFP—“Exercises in Joyful Improvisational Practice”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies issue 9.1, Spring 2025

CFP: Langston Hughes Society Panel at the Modern Language Association

January 4-7, 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Not Without Laughter: Langston Hughes and His Contemporaries

The Langston Hughes Society is pleased to invite proposals for a guaranteed session to be held at the 2024 Modern Language Association Convention (MLA2024) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

UCSD Literature Department Graduate Student Conference

University of California, San Diego | Hybrid, May 26th-27th, 2022

Ruptures of In/Justice

The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024.

The central  theme of the forthcoming 40th issue of our interdisciplinary journal "Świat i Słowo" [“World and Word”] is "Literature from a local and regional perspective." In the era of progressive globalization and universalization of culture, sometimes imposed  by the media and the so-called opinion-forming centers of the dominant civilization model, in which the world is perceived as a "global village" inhabited by a consumer society that is supposedly subject to inevitable changes forced by technological progress (with the revolution of artificial intelligence at the forefront), we want to turn to what we perceive as primal and natural, i.e. sources of literature, culture and art in our local and regional spaces and communities.

Calum Waddell (University of Aberdeen) and Chenyu Lin (University of Cardiff) are seeking to put together an edited collection Jackie Chan with the ReFocus series at Edinburgh University Press. This is a Call for Papers for a book on the work of Jackie Chan as filmmaker (NOT actor).

Australia from the Heart:

Envisioning Affective, Environmental,

and Material Reparations

University of the Balearic Islands (Palma, Spain)

6 – 8 September 2023

Trials Before Change

April 7 & 8, 2023

Location: Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho 

Sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association and the Cultural Events Committee at Idaho State University