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Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800

updated: 
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 5:08pm
University of California - Santa Barbara (Early Modern Center)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2023

The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be held at UCSB on March 1 and 2, 2024. Attending to the presence of disability in the premodern world, this interdisciplinary conference invites proposals that address medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century literary and cultural texts. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers, Dr. Rachael King (UCSB), Dr. Bradley Irish (Arizona State University), and poet Jos Charles. 

Excess in the Works of Ann Petry and Richard Wright (NeMLA 2024)

updated: 
Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 5:07pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

In keeping with NeMLA's theme on “Surplus,” this roundtable will interrogate the works of Richard Wright and Ann Petry and how they have been interpreted as “excessive.”   It seeks to examine how their work has been understood as excessively: masculine, feminist, violent, Communist, leftist, assimilationist, naturalist, realist, etc.  This roundtable seeks to look at two major African American authors of the twentieth century whose boundary pushing were seen as "excessive."

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CFP: ACLA Panel: "Unruly Women in Contemporary Pop Culture"

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 3:41pm
Lisa Timmermann
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Recently, we have seen a growing number of unconventional female characters in literature, film, and on TV – characters that do not conform to patriarchal and capitalist constructions of femininity, that defy our expectations and refuse to follow the (written and/or unwritten) rules. In her monograph The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter (1995), Kathleen Rowe focused on the representation of “unruly women” in comedy. According to Rowe, the romantic comedy genre has “provided one of the few outlets for representations of female unruliness in Hollywood film” (Rowe 19).

CALL FOR PAPERS – Home/Bodies: NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference, April 5-7, 2024

updated: 
Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 10:55am
University of Tennessee, Knoxville English department
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Gaston Bachelard asserts that "all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home." How does one define "home"? Is it a materially constructed shelter, or a psychological space that holds one's memories, imaginations, and, essentially, a space that "protects the daydreamer" (The Poetics of Space, 5)? Furthermore, what does it mean to exist in a "body"? And what does it feel like to be "at home" in a body? How does one traverse these inhabited spaces, both in public and in private? Or, how are spatial boundaries reinstated when the home and the body is misaligned?

Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century (Southampton, UK)

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:50am
Romance, Revolution & Reform
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

The study of labour in the long nineteenth century has enjoyed a rich critical history, guided by the twentieth century’s New Left focus on class formation and experience, and extended in more recent years by scholarship which has diversified traditional and non-traditional categorisations of ‘labour’. This conference seeks to question the thinking by which we identify forms of labour in the first place: who, both in the nineteenth century and now, is allowed to decide what counts as labour? Which voices of the long nineteenth century emerge if we diversify our definition(s) of labour? And, how can the scholarship of labour – or the labour of scholarship – help us navigate the nature, purpose, and value of labour in a post-Covid era? 

 

“American Afterlives”

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:46am
51st Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

*CFP Deadline Extended*

“American Afterlives” - 51st Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

February 19-20, 2024 (virtual) and February 22-24, 2024 (in person)

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Psychology and Popular Culture - 2024 Popular Culture Association National Conference

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:26pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Psychology and Popular Culture

Call for Papers for 2024 Conference

The Psychology and Popular Culture area concerns itself with the ways in which popular culture both reflects and shapes the nature of our psychology.

 

The Psychology and Popular Culture area invites all interested persons to present papers on a broad array of topics inclusive of psychology and popular culture, such as:

Gender and Sexuality Studies Fall Colloquium

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:24pm
Texas Tech Women's & Gender Studies Program
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 22, 2023

Texas Tech University’s 2023 Women’s and Gender Studies Fall Colloquium, to be held in person in Lubbock, Texas, on October 20, invites research proposals for individual papers or panels on topics relevant to gender and sexuality studies in contemporary society.    The colloquium is interdisciplinary. Perspectives from anthropology, art, business, communication, education, economics, film, history, journalism, languages, law, linguistics, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, and sociology are welcome. Please submit a 250-word abstract or panel proposal to 

Exploring the Intersections of Animal Studies: Understanding Animals in Society

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:18am
Department of English, St Berchmans College, Changanacherry
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

We are pleased to announce an upcoming seminar titled “Exploring the Intersections of Animal Studies: Understanding Animals in Society”. This event aims to encourage meaningful discussions, exchange of ideas, and collaborations in the field of Animal Studies. It will bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, and activists to delve into the various aspects of human-animal relationships and their effects on society.
We welcome original research that explores different aspects of animal studies. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
● Animal Ethics and Welfare
● Human-Animal Interactions
● Animal Cognition and Emotions
● Animals in Literature, Art, and Media
● Animal Agency

Goblin Modes: Pleasure, Care, and Disobedience

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:18am
Indiana University-Bloomington English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 14, 2023

Call for Papers

 

Goblin Modes: Pleasure, Care, and Disobedience

 

21st Annual Interdisciplinary Conference

 

Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington

 

Dates: Friday, March 22nd – Saturday, March 23rd, 2024

 

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Indiana University’s 20th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, hosted by the Department of English. This conference will be held virtually on Friday, March 22nd and Saturday, March 23rd.

 

Call for Proposals, Papers, Plays, Workshops & Performances – 44th Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference

updated: 
Friday, September 15, 2023 - 12:34am
Mid-America Theatre Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC) will be holding its 44th Annual Meeting at the Pyle Center on the campus of UW-Madison in Madison, WI on March 7-10, 2024!

See below — or visit the MATC website at http://matc.us — to find individual calls for papers for the all-conference papers, pedagogy symposium, playwriting symposium, practice/production symposium, theatre history symposium, articles-in-progress and pitch-your-book workshops, and emerging scholars panels.

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Area

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:41pm
Shane Trayers/ SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia and Disaster

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

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

Bishop Street Journal: "Faith in the Contemporary World"

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:08pm
The Department of Theological Studies at Concordia University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Concordia University's Department of Theological Studies proudly presents the Call for Papers for volume three of the Bishop STreet Journal. This edition's theme is "Faith in the Contemporary World."

Spring Academy: Interdisciplinary Ph.D Conference in American Studies, March 18-22, 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 10:20am
Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Annual Spring Academy Conference

 

Heidelberg, Germany, March 18-22, 2024

 


 

Call for Papers

 

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 18-22, 2024.

The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects.

CFP for IMC panel on "Crisis, Gender, and Society" -- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 SEPTEMBER

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:44pm
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

This panel will discuss how the conception and operation of “crisis” intersect with issues of gender and the cultural codes of society. Assuming a broad temporal scope for the Middle Ages (c.500 CE–c.1500 CE), the panel is interested in examining how societal constructions of gender triggered and were, in turn, shaped and reshaped by disruptions and upheavals in religious life, literary culture, economic structure, and political organization. With its capacity to span the distance between private and public realms, can gender mediate the conceptualization of internal and subjective crises as well as large-scale social tensions and changes?

NeMLA 2024: 'I, Too, Sing America': Immigrant and BIPOC Reflections on Americanness

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 11:24am
Javiera Morales-Reyes (Pennsylvania State University)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In May 2023, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville replied, “Well, they call them that. I call them Americans,” when asked by Richard Banks, a radio host for WBHM in Alabama, if he believed white nationalists should be allowed in the U.S. military. Tuberville, who later said “I look at a white nationalists [sic] as a Trump Republican,” also later slightly recanted, stating that, “We agree that we should not be characterizing Trump supporters as white nationalists.” However, Tuberville’s initial comments and impulses create and reinforce a corollary that to be American is to be white.

M. Butterfly at 35

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:52am
David Henry Hwang Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

 

 

M. Butterfly at 35

Sponsored Panel by the David Henry Hwang Society for the Comparative Drama Conference

2023 marks the 35th anniversary of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly.  We welcome  papers that engage with Hwang's Tony-winning play, the David Cronenberg 1993 film as well as the 2017 rewritten Broadway revival.   We also encourage discussion of various productions of either play.

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:45am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

Annual Conference

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

NeMLA 2024: Cold War Scarcity

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:42am
Arnav Adhikari
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

If this year's NeMLA Convention centers around the thematic of "surplus," this panel will consider its corollary in the problem of "scarcity." Situating our inquiry in the Global Cold War, which is shaped by the afterlives of decolonization, this panel asks: how might scarcity inflect our understanding of this period? Does it simply connote a lack or loss of unfulfilled revolutionary promises? Or does it point to a system of material debt that shapes cultural expression? Or, perhaps, scarcity might indicate a purposeful obfuscation of meaning that is consequently withdrawn from instrumentalization by political life, therefore incommensurate with nationalist or neo-imperial projects in the twentieth century.

NeMLA 2024: Sonidos y performance en cuerpos racializados en Latinoamérica

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:41am
NeMLA: Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Call for papers: NeMLA Boston, Massachusetts

March 7-10, 2024

Deadline: 30 de septiembre, 2023

https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20395

¡Hola colegas! Los invito  a participar en el panel qué estoy organizando junto a César Salgado: “Sonidos y performance en cuerpos racializados en Latinoamérica”

10th Biennial Graduate Student Conference (UBC-Vancouver)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 11:40am
Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 18, 2023

10th Biennial Graduate Student Conference

Impending Catastrophes Through the Ages: Literature and the Arts in the Context of Doom

Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Hybrid Conference

October 26-27, 2023

Transcending Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Insights in Transpacific Studies

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 8:13am
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Call for Papers

Transcending Boundaries – Interdisciplinary Insights in Transpacific Studies

TPSN Hybrid Conference

February 9-10, 2024 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and Online

 

Terisa Siagatonu knows a thing or two about not being afraid to rile up her audience. The Samoan American poet and Pacific Islander activist pushes listeners to reflect on what it means to come from a region of the world that is often misunderstood, if not altogether ignored. In “Atlas” (2018) she memorably writes:

If you open up any atlas

International Ph.D. Seminar in American History / American Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:43am
Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

Call for Papers

International Ph.D. Seminar in American History / American Studies

Middelburg, The Netherlands, 6-8 December 2023

The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) is a leading research center and graduate school, partnered with Leiden University, dedicated to the study of American history, politics, and society. Since 2003, the Institute has organized regular seminars for doctoral students pursuing research in its areas of interest.

CRES Justice Conference 2024: Movements and Migrations

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:31am
Department of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies - TCU
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 16, 2023

CRES Justice Conference 2024: Movements and Migrations

 

#cresjustice2024

March 7 and 8, 2024

Department of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, TX

Abstract Deadline: Monday, October 16, 2023

 

Conference Keynote Speaker: Dr. Karma Chávez, The University of Texas at Austin

 

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