general announcements

 F[R]ICTION

Conference date: April 26, 2024 | Abstracts due: December 17, 2023

In Anna Tsing’s ethnography Friction (2005), Tsing offers “friction” as a metaphor for thinking about global connection: “A wheel turns because of its encounter with the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. As a metaphorical image, friction reminds us that heterogenous and unequal encounters can lead to new arrangements of culture and power.”

In 1938, a group of British expatriates led by Albert Stephen Gispert, known as G or "our father G," founded the Hash House Harriers (H3) in Kuala Lumpur.  Other than during WW II, the group has been in continuous existence for almost eighty years; the original Kuala Lumpur group, Mother Hash, still exists. The hash house harriers, "a drinking club with a running problem," is a unique blend of athleticism, sociability, and hedonism.  Hashing has a rich and diverse history spanning the globe, and this anthology seeks to capture its impact on global culture.

Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism

Pharos University in Alexandria, Egypt – in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and the University of New Mexico, USA–cordially invites you to participate in its international conference titled “Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism,” to be held onsite from 1 – 2 March 2024.

The 71st Annual South Central Renaissance Conference will take place in Savannah, Georgia, 4-6 April 2024. This year, the SCRC will collaborate with the annual New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies for this event, co-sponsored by Georgia Southern University.

The conference will have three key lectures:

William B. Hunter Lecture by Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina

Louis L. Martz Lecture by Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in St. Louis

Conference Keynote Lecture by Jemma Field, Yale Center for British Art

The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association invites both creative and critical proposals for our 2024 Free Exchange graduate conference.

Poems Invited for Dec. 2023 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 44th Issue

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Extended proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2023

Call for Papers, Texas Transformations (for the guaranteed TCEA session) at CEA 2024

March 21-23, 2023 | Atlanta, Georgia

Westin Buckhead, Atlanta | 3391 Peachtree Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30326

(404) 365-0065, https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/atlwb-the-westin-buckhead-atlanta/overview/?scid=f2ae0541-1279-4f24-b197-a979c79310b0 

23-24 November 2023Conference online (via Zoom platform)Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Katja Valli - University of Turku (Finland) Professor Paulo Endo - University of São Paulo, Brazil
   

 CFP: 

Food, the basic amenity of all living beings, is beginning to be perceived from multiple cultural and ideological perspectives, which leads to the broadening of its theoretical concerns as well as its praxis. With the transforming curriculum modifications put forward by NEP for encouraging cross-cultural inquiries, interdisciplinary research, and multidisciplinary collaborations, cutting-edge research in food studies would lead to more rigorous academic deliberations on both the sociocultural significance of culinary studies and the politics of the everyday. Culinary is the most pertinent and bridging agency that engages various sociocultural spaces.

We invite extended abstract proposals for chapters that explore the significance of songs sung in marginalised or minority languages within contemporary music genres (from indige-punk, metal, hardcore, hip hop, rap, pop and so on). For so many minority cultures, language signifies survival. Language presence in contemporary music often constitutes a conscious form of language activism, in terms of freedom of expression and/or a deliberate effort to revive language through increasing its presence, value and usage. As Huang (2022) notes, through modern music the perception of minority languages can be shifted “from traditional, inferior, and underprivileged to international, modern, and confident” (p. 44).

Editorial Team Member Call: Journal of Design, Business & Society

Deadline: 14 November 2023

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-design-business-society#call-for-papers

Following the appointment of a new Editor-in-chief, Dr Philip Ely, the Journal of Design, Business & Society (DBS) is now looking to form a new editorial team that will advance the development of this established and outstanding journal.

The Aesthetix Journal of Indian Studies (http://www.indianstudies.net) is seeking scholarly articles for its themed issue on Indian Aesthetics. The themed issue aims to discuss Indian Aesthetics from different perspectives. Authors from any discipline can submit papers. We will publish papers that are interdisciplinary in nature engaging in discussion relevant to humanities and social sciences.
The issue will cover the following suggestive but not exclusive areas:

The Gender Studies area of the Popular Culture Association explores a broad range of intersections between gender and popular culture, whether within popular culture texts or practices.

The Gender Studies area is now considering proposals for papers, panels, and/or roundtables for the 2024 annual conference. Deadline for proposals is November 30, 2023. Visit https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines for submission instructions. The conference will be March 27-30, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.