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MLA 2024 Special Session: Bob Dylan's Blues: Blues Poetics and American Memory

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
Robert Reginio/Special Session MLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

Bob Dylan's Blues: Blues Poetics and American Memory I am seeking  abstracts between 200-400 words for a panel on Dylan's incorporation, use, and revision of blues music especially in the context of theorists of blues poetics such as Houston Baker, Angela Davis, and Fred Moten. Most existing scholarship on Dylan's use of blues music remains informed by the work of writers and critics such as Sam Charters, Michael Gray, Greil Marcus, and Alan Lomax. This work often favors a conceptualization of the blues as a distant,  pre-modern source of "authentic" soundings.

15th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:21am
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The 15th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 23, 2023, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2023 conference theme “Louisiana Works,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

Film-Philosophy Conference 2023

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:20am
Chapman University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The next Film-Philosophy Conference will take place physically on campus at Chapman University, California, USA. 

This year’s event will feature a special screening of Marlon Fuentes’s critically acclaimed film Bontoc Eulogy (1995) followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

20 Years After Katrina: Tracing the Storm’s Impact on American Culture & Society

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Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:19am
Mary Ruth Stewart and Glenn Jellenik/ University of Central Arkansas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina saw an explosion of texts that processed the storm. Works of fiction (novels, graphic novels, poetry, movies, tv shows) as well as a slew of memoirs, literary non-fiction books, documentaries, and songs surfaced to sift through the emotional rubble left in Katrina’s wake. Our 2015 collection, 10 Years After Katrina, was an attempt to critically process these artistic renderings of the storm’s effect on American culture. In the past ten years, it seems as if the storm of Katrina texts has … abated. Only a smattering of books have surfaced after 2015—a novel, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau (2020), Katrina: a History (2020), a memoir, The Yellow House (2019).

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers -- The Twenty-First Century: The New Contemporary?

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Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:17am
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

The Twenty-First Century: The New Contemporary?

 

Publication Date: June 2024 (Issue No. 51)

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2023

 

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It’s time we began to talk about the twenty-first century. Period.

 

Periodization is one of those topics to which academics often say there are no well-rounded approaches. We qualify our account, understate the possibility of being spot-on, and even feel apologetic.  

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940

updated: 
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 10:25am
Dr. Sonia D. Andras, Dr. Roxana Mihaly
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 20, 2023

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)

 

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CfP: Transplanetary Ecologies Workshop

updated: 
Sunday, February 5, 2023 - 11:22am
Centre for Outer Space Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Continuous human presence in Low Earth Orbit, increasing expansion of techno-scientific infrastructures beyond Earth, and the extractivist ambitions of the commercial 'New Space' sector call for a reconsideration of the conventional analytical frameworks used to describe emergent (extra)terrestrial political, ecological, and social processes. On these accelerating investments, Vidmar has stated “the interplay between natural and social phenomena in the highly contested yet vastly open-ended Universe gave rise to an ecology of (trans)planetary systems – biological, technological and intellectual” (Vidmar, 2020, EASST.net).

Call for Submissions, 2023 Special Issue: “Laughter”

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Sunday, February 5, 2023 - 10:54am
The AutoEthnographer Literary and Arts Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

American author Mark twain said it best when he wrote, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” With the world ever balancing so much to cry about with so much to laugh about, The AutoEthnographer Literary and Arts Magazine is excited to announce its call for submissions for the 2023 special issue, “Laughter.” Submissions will be accepted in any of our main categories (writing, poetry, multimedia, video, performance, etc.) between June 1, 2022 and June 1, 2023 and may respond to the following prompts:

MLA 2024: Interpreting Italian American Visual Arts and Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 5:09pm
MLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

This panel investigates Italian American transnational and transgenerational depictions of memory and ethnic identity through visual culture. Our goal is to invite scholars to reflect on diverse media and forms of representation, drawing attention to artists, authors, and performers who used visual components to narrate their hybrid identities and relationships to trauma, diaspora, and postmemory. Names like Fasanella, B. Amore, DiSalvo, Stella, and Scanga, come to mind, as artists who gave form to visual tropes of memory narrating their experience as first and second generation Italian Americans. 

"Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts" - York University English Graduate Student Association 2023 Conference - HYBRID (deadline extended)

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Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 12:50pm
York University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Call for Papers:
“Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts”
York EGSA Conference 2023 - May 12th, 2023

Deadline: EXTENDED -- February 28th, 2023, 11:59 pm EST

CFP: People, Planet and Prosperity for a Sustainable Future Conference

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Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 10:03pm
Chaminade University of Honolulu
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Call for Abstracts and Proposals

Abstracts and proposals are called for research presentations, paper presentations, panels and position paper proposals. All abstracts and proposals must be submitted electronically though the chair persons listed. Only a complete submission is eligible for review. A confirmation email will be sent once the abstract or proposal has been received.

NWSA Panel CFP: The Political Uses and Abuses of Childhood: Queer Pasts, Presents, Futures

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Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:56pm
National Women's Studies Association Conference (NWSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The last few years have seen a resurgence in conservative political activism concerned with protecting children from queer adults. Parents and politicians around the country are pushing to pass homophobic and transphobic legislation. These include, to name a few examples, laws being proposed to prohibit children from attending Drag shows, the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” in Florida, and most recently, DeSantis blaming queer theory for the rejection of a high school AP African American Studies course. These contemporary iterations, of course, have historical precedents: such as Anita Bryant’s “Save Our Children” or The Briggs Initiative to fire gay teachers.

Modernist Studies Association 2023 Annual Meeting

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:54pm
Erin Kappeler / MSA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 7, 2023

The Modernist Studies Association is thrilled to announce that the submission portal for our upcoming conference in Brooklyn, NY, October 26-29, 2023, is NOW OPEN at 

[CFP] Thanatic Ethics Workshop #4: In search of accountability 

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:51pm
International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

 

Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces

Workshop #4:  In search of accountability

 

A partnership between International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (The Education University of Hong Kong), EMMA (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

and The American College of the Mediterranean (ACM, Aix-en-Provence)

 

Venue: University Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France

Dates: October 5-6, 2023

Language: English

Crisis

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:47pm
Association of Postcolonial Thought and University of Michigan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Crisis

 

The language of crisis suffuses current imaginings of past, present, and future. This symposium invites ambitious and expansive critical reflections on the concept of crisis and the postcolony across time and space. We welcome interdisciplinary provocations in the humanities, arts, and social sciences that offer the potential for thinking about crisis alongside forms of resilience, resistance, and collaboration.

 

Unearthing: Past in Present and Future

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:34pm
Bhawna Vij Arora
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Call for Papers

Unearthing

Past in Present and Future

Associative Interactions in the Orbit of Memory Studies

 

Deadline for Submissions: March 25, 2023

 

Concept Note

 

CharlOz--an interdisciplinary festival celebrating Oz

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:31pm
UNC Charlotte
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2023

At this three-day festival, writers, scholars, collectors, and fans will explore The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Written in 1900, Baum's fairy tale incorporated timeless life lessons, and his stories were ahead of their time.

As Oz magic continues far beyond Baum's lifetime, we benefit from fresh Oz interpretations in visual, performing, and literary art. Works like The Wiz, Wicked, Dorothy Must Die, and Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee's Sea Sirens reflect changes in American culture, while incorporating the non-traditional gender roles and diverse characters that Baum ingrained in Oz.

Proposals accepted February 10, 2023, and November 17, 2023

American, British and Canadian Studies, Special Issue: Being // Non-Being: Interpretive Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Culture, December 2023

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:31pm
Ana-Karina Schneider, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

American, British and Canadian Studies

Call for Papers

 

Special Issue: Being // Non-Being: Interpretive Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Culture

December 2023

 

Submission Deadline: 1 August 2023

 

Guest Editor: Emma Tămâianu-Morita (Kindai University, Osaka), emmorita@intl.kindai.ac.jp

 

Early European Puppetry Studies Conference

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:25pm
Yale University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

From moving statues to artificial animals to marionette performances, puppetry seems to have appeared in every sector of medieval and early modern European society. Jointed religious figures illustrated the liturgy, while dragon effigies processed through cities on feast days, and popular and courtly audiences enjoyed puppet shows of legendary and historical events. Despite the ubiquity of medieval and early modern puppets in Europe, scholarly consideration of these performing objects is often limited to case studies. Consideration of “puppetry” as a particular form with its own norms and commonalities is also uncommon, due in part to the marginal position of puppetry in Western culture.

Call for Papers: Themed Issue on Displacement (Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies)

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:24pm
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 28, 2023

THEMED ISSUE: DISPLACEMENT 

Issue editor: Dr Rebecca Blanchard, University of Tours 

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN 2791- 6553) invites submissions for its upcoming issue on the theme of displacement in literature, theatre and culture studies. 

Displacement, in its various manifestations, serves as one of the defining  characteristics of the 20th and 21st centuries and remains a salient concern in diverse  cultural and political contexts. 

CFP: Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference May 26-27, 2023

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:23pm
Oceanic Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

 

 

Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference Honolulu, HI May 26-27, 2023 Chaminade University of Honolulu

 

We are pleased to invite panel and/or individual paper proposals for the Tenth Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference. All topics and proposals are welcome, particularly those treating cultural productions within and/or about the Oceanic region. For more information, please visit our website at https://oceanicpopularcultureassociation.blogspot.com/

 

VISAWUS 2023: Victorian Elements

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:23pm
Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Victorian Elements

VISAWUS 2023
Seattle Public Library (Seattle, WA), 10/19-10/21

Keynote Speaker: Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington)

We encourage papers across all disciplines. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • ❖  Elements of style in the Victorian era (design, literary form, fashion, architecture, etc.)

  • ❖  Braving the elements: weather, the environment, and climate change, then and now

  • ❖  The periodic table of elements and its history

  • ❖  The discovery of radium, polonium, and other “new” elements

  • ❖  Classical elements: earth, water, fire, air, ether

“Wild Possibility”: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:20pm
Dr Wendy McMahon and Dr Rebecca Tillett, University of East Anglia, U.K.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

Call for submissions for Journal of Comparative American Studies

 

Wendy McMahon and Rebecca Tillett

 

“Wild Possibility”: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene 

 

Call for Papers: Swamped! Muddied Environments and the Ecology of Being Bogged Down

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:20pm
Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

For the upcoming issue of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers and established scholars alike to submit academic essays or creative works that critically engage with the theme of swamped. We are inviting extended proposals (500-1000 words) that follow consistent and complete formatting and referencing style to be submitted to submissions@soapboxjournal.net by February 21st, 2023.

 

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