international conferences

The Gendered Mimesis project in collaboration with the ERC-funded Homo Mimeticus Project (Institute of Philosophy / Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven; http://www.homomimeticus.eu/) is pleased to announce a two-day international conference on the subject of “Mimetic Inclinations” in the work of the Italian feminist philosopher and political theorist Adriana Cavarero.

Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022, in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021.

Submit abstracts at the NeMLA portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/login

Social Justice, Speciesism, and Food Studies: The Next Frontier

What’s the matter in Translation? / Traduction et matérialité

Bilingual (at least) French/English symposium June 8-11, 2022

Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3

Organizers: Paola Artero, Marianne Drugeon, Lily Robert-Foley, Julie Sauvage

Deadline for abstract proposals: July 12th, 2021

Notification of proposal acceptance or refusal: October 15th, 2021

Address email submissions to: whatsthematterintranslation@gmail.com

Dear colleagues,

The Faculty of Foreign Languages (Alfa BK University in Belgrade) is glad to announce its Tenth International Conference on Language and Literary Studies which will be held on 24–25 September, 2021.

We are very pleased to announce that our confirmed keynote speakers are Professor Emerita Janice Kulyk Keefer (University of Guelph, Canada) and Professor Zorica Đergović-Joksimović (University of Novi Sad, Serbia).

Violence has become one of the features of the present-day world, although it has existed throughout times, playing undoubtedly an important role in the development of any society. The analysis of violence is a complicated and controversial issue nowadays, as it may cover different levels – interpersonal, institutional, collective violence; as well as different forms – racist crimes, gender basedviolence, genocide etc. The conference will be an attempt to shed light on the social construction and nature of violence, applying an interdisciplinary approach to various manifestations of violence.

Conference panels will be related, but not limited, to:

Dear All,
The hosting-team is happy to invite you to the CfP for the upcoming ICAS:MP (International Centre of Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political) virtual Workshop with the title “Listen to the Global South! Uncovering the Roles of Southern Actors in Writing Global 
Gender Norms”.

The workshop will take place on December 1st and 2nd, 2021.
Please find the CfP here: https://go.uniwue.de/icascall2021

The hosting-team looks forward to your ideas and abstracts.

Best regards

Catharina Crasser

Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI

Online Conference

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon

November 25-26, 2021

Nature and Overnature in SF and Fantasy Discourses

Science Fiction and Fantasy are lasting fields of inquiring into today’s world. They have become privileged means to question issues of aesthetic, ethical, political, social, economic, environmental and historical nature with high impact on contemporary societies. They have promoted hot-button issues and rich critical debates in literature as well as in cinema, TV, and videogames among other media.

Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images invites you to submit a proposal for NARRATING COLD WARS – A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE to be held in Hong Kong Baptist University on 11-12 November 2021.

NOTE: EXTENDED CFP DEADLINE

We have extended the CFP deadline to June 15, 2021.

CALL FOR PAPERS

25 Years of Infinite Jest:

The (After)Lives and Influences of the Work of David Foster Wallace

VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College (The Netherlands)

28-30 October 2021

Popular/American Culture Associations in the South
2021 Conference New Orleans, LA
September 30th – October 2nd

InterContinental New Orleans
444 Charles Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

TEXT + IMAGE

Seeking panelists for a session featuring works of creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry that incorporate images to illustrate, amplify, or otherwise extend the implications of the written word.The session will feature original creative works, not works of criticism.

17-18 June 2021 - ONLINE (via Zoom)

All details: https://www.migration-conference.info/

Deadline for proposals: 23 May 2021

 CFP: Migration, Adaptation and Memory 

How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories. 

A partnership between The Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities (The Education University of Hong Kong), EMMA (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

and La Maison Française d’Oxford

Venue: University Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France

Dates: September 29 to October 2, 2021

Language: English

Deadline for submitting proposals: 15 June 2021

Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2021

Project co-convenors:

Time: November 4-5, 2021

Venue: John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

Abstract deadline: June 20, 2021

Call for Chapters | BOOK: Contemporary Translation Studies

The book is part of the Translation Studies Series and seeks to include quality works putting light on the contemporary form of ongoing advances in the domain of translation studies.

Editor: Dr. Tian Chuanmao, Director of the Centre for Translation Studies, Yangtze University, China.

Quality un-published works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.

Topics covered by the book

Topics covered by the book are (but not limited to):
Contemporary form of advances in: