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Modernism/modernity Print+ CFP – proposed Forum
Title: Vanguard U: Universities as Infrastructures of the Avant-Garde
Editors: Joyce Tsai (University of Iowa) and Jennifer Buckley (University of Iowa)
250-word abstracts due April 20
3000-word position papers due June 15
Thinking Beyond the Poery-Prose Binary
MLA Special Session, Seattle, WA, January 9-12, 2020
Organized by Nick Bujak, Oglethorpe University, and Lizzy LeRud, Emory University
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society invites paper proposals on 'Nabokov and Contemporary Writing' for its guaranteed panel at the MLA 2020 Meeting in Seattle next January. We are interested in papers on how living writers - whether novelists, poets, playwrights, or writers of creative non-fiction - have drawn on Nabokov's work, whether in celebration or in criticism. How does Nabokov continue to be a fertile and challenging presence in contemporary letters?
Redefinining public discourse rhetoric in (post)communist Romania 30 years after the fall of communism. How can (post)communist wooden language be used to theorize on the regime? 250 word abstracts and short bios by March 15.
It’s All Relative: Modernism and Science
2020 MLA Convention, Seattle
The International T.S. Eliot Society is accepting proposals for a panel at the 2019 Midwest MLA conference in Chicago, to be held November 14-17, 2019. Any proposal on a subject reasonably related to Eliot studies will be considered. If you are interested in participating, please send abstract proposals (up to 250 words) to Professor Edward Upton (edward.upton@valpo.edu). Please also forward a CV or a brief biographical statement. Submissions must be received no later than May 15, 2019. For more information on MMLA 2019, please go to www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/.
CALL FOR PAPERS
CoSMo – Comparative Studies in Modernism
Human Transitions, Global Change
People, images, forms, symbols and stories in global flows
No. 15 (December 2019)
In the global era, the transformation of humanity is intrinsically connected to the intensification of transit of people on the surface of the earth — flows of migrants, tourists, professional and educational flows etc. — and simultaneously to transit of cultural elements — flows of images, forms, symbols, stories, codes, formats etc. — occurring in media culture.
What role do secrets play in 20th/21st century French and Francophone literature? How do secrets, both hidden and uncovered, shape the characters and their humanity? Send 250-word abstracts in French or English and brief bio to Antoinette Williams-Tutt (awilliams2@gradcenter.cuny.edu ) and Lisa Karakaya (karakayalisa@gmail.com ), The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 17 March 2019
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Paper9101.html
Late Romanticism, Past and Present
University of Leuven, 12–14 December 2019
https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/lateromanticism
Keynote Speakers
Plenary Seminars
Modern Language Association Conference (Seattle, Jan 9-12, 2020)