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Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere
A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures
Call for Papers Prospero XXIII (2018)
Queer Futurity (MSA Columbus)
CFP, 2018 Modernist Studies Association conference (“Graphic Modernisms”)
Panel proposal for MSA Columbus, November 8-11 2018
Afrographics: Visual Cultures of Black Modernism (MSA Columbus)
CFP, 2018 Modernist Studies Association conference (“Graphic Modernisms”)
Panel proposal for MSA Columbus, November 8-11 2018
SOUTH ATLANTIC MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
November 2-4, 2018
Birmingham, Alabama
This panel invites submissions that think about the way women writers and artists nationally and globally have confronted the political and legal regulation of women’s bodies, and the way the body itself can subsequently become an important site of socio-political resistance. Paper proposals may consider (but are not limited to) regulatory measures in the areas of reproduction, sexual expression, beauty culture, body modification/transformation, and miscegenation/relational body politics.
Proposals focusing on transnational, multiethnic, and multicultural women writers and artists are especially welcome.
Nineteenth-Century Workshop 2018
War / After War: Memory, Fear, Indifference
Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ
October 4-5
War as memory. The fear of war. War as experience. How does culture mark its relationship to organized violent conflict?
In 2018, Rutgers’ Nineteenth Century Workshop will address the long-lasting effects of war on nineteenth-century literature and culture. It is a topic we take to be both urgent and of particular scholarly interest to students of the era.
Henry James occupies an unusual position in the literary categories of English language fiction. Claimed by both the British and the Americans, as well as by both the 19th century and the 20th, James’ fiction crosses many of the artificially imposed borders our field has created, yet his stories often deal explicitly with the social changes and their consequences that caused the borders to be established in the first place. As we live through yet another period of social upheaval, is James still relevant? What can his short fiction offer a 21st century reader? How might we convey this to our students, many of whom initially find his content dated and his prose challenging?
This panel examines the role of avant-garde women in confronting models of gender, domesticity and political practices safeguarded by patriarchal society. From the margins of vanguardism women effectively engaged in syndicalist and anarchist movements that reacted to state politics, while urging the importance of launching social reforms and radical art. This panel will thus provide an overview of artists who participated in a variety of experimental trends such as Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Imagism, Vorticism, Dadaism and Surrealism, among others.
Sexology and Development: Exploring the Global History of the Sexual Sciences
Barcelona, Spain
5th and 6th October 2018
This international conference seeks to investigate the global history of the sexual sciences by focusing on the concept of development. Key questions might include, but are not limited to:
Maritime Modernities: Literary and Cultural Representations of The Indian Ocean World
Ed. by Anupama Mohan
Special Issue, Postcolonial Text
Projected date of Special Issue: June 2019
Photo. Graphic. Modernism.
Panel proposal for MSA Columbus, November 8-11 2018
This panel considers how working with photography reshapes how modernist writers conceived of graphic or violent images. Taking Virginia Woolf’s decision to leave the photos of “dead bodies and ruined houses” out of her feminist, anti-war essay, Three Guineas (1938), as a starting point, this panel welcomes papers that interrogate the relationship between literature and photography, particularly as it relates to images of violence, war, and dispossession.