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This CFP is part of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, which will be held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 6-9, 2025.
The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
26-27 May 2025
University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark
Abstract deadline: 1 November 2024
Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is concerned with works that apply these narratives in various public-facing contexts.
Dear Fellow Writers and Thinkers,
We are thrilled to announce the return of the Windhover Writers' Festival, taking place February 19-21, 2025, after a five-year hiatus. This year's festival promises to be a vibrant gathering that explores the profound intersection of faith and creativity, with a central theme of The Vocation of Christian Literary Arts.
The Windhover Writers' Festival has long been a cherished space for writers, scholars, and readers to connect, share their work, and delve into the power of words. We invite you to be a part of this exciting event by submitting a proposal for an individual or a panel discussion.
Proposals:
Deadline for Proposals: October 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) November 22, online via Zoom
Medieval topics tend to intrigue elementary, middle-school, and high-school students. In a teaching environment where time is precious, how do teachers approach the Middle Ages? This session seeks papers addressing issues, opportunities, and innovations in the K-12 classroom to inform the larger community of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators about how the topic is approached at the K-12 level.
Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than October 1, 2024.
Deadline for Proposals: September 11
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) October 18
In the last few decades, courses on the Middle Ages and medieval studies programs have been either cut or severely restricted in the United States. In fact, recently a variety of humanities programs have been on the chopping block, forcing and providing an opportunity for specialists in medieval studies to integrate our specialties into other courses. This year’s Illinois Medieval Association Symposium seeks to explore issues incorporating medieval studies into our curricula. We seek papers that deal with problems/solutions, opportunities, and innovations. Single papers (20-minute length) and, especially, full sessions are encouraged.
A special issue of Gothic Studies guest edited by the Internet Ghost Collective (Chera Kee, Erika Kvistad, Line Henriksen, and Megen de Bruin-Molé)
Call for Papers: "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Era"
Hosted by the Department of English, Howard University
The Department of English at Howard University invites scholars, researchers, and educators to submit abstracts for our forthcoming virtual conference on "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Shift Era." This second annual conference will explore contemporary approaches to the study of Womanism and Afrofuturism during this transformative period in American history.
Conference Themes:
We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
Literary Works and Authors:
From the Indian boarding schools of North America to the English curriculum mandate of the British empire, formal education, and the various guises it assumed, was an important instrument for colonial powers to exert dominance over its colonized subjects. The afterlives of such an education continue today through dominant knowledge systems that benefit the few at the expense of the many. This panel seeks papers that aim to disentangle and liberate education from colonial control, so that education can be a vehicle for vital knowledge production and empowerment.
The next Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention will be held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 6-9, 2025. The roundtable "Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses" is seeking abstracts (200-300 words) consistent with the conference theme of (R)EVOLUTION:
Creative Writing Studies Conference
Call for Papers/Presentations
November 15-17, 2024
Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA
Submit: https://forms.gle/rEppuokrzkfRaKiH7
CALL: Creative Writing in Crisis?
Teaching Class: Pedagogical Approaches to Working-Class Literature in English
Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures (March 20 & 21, 2025)
This conference aims to explore the multifaceted portrayals of academia and academics in films and TV series, in both fictional and documentary modes, across diverse cultural contexts. These multimodal media not only capture societal perspectives and moods but also play a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions. They can serve as catalysts for reflection on academic practice and societal discourse, fostering a deeper understanding of cultural imprints and trends, highlighting differences and similarities across cultures, raising critical awareness, challenging stereotypes, and promoting inclusivity.
It has been two years since AI was introduced into daily life, and it has been applied in academia, pedagogy, classrooms, and beyond. As we discover both the potential benefits and harms of AI, we are also recovering from the initial panic, uncertainty, or excitement. We are beginning to recognize that it will lead to an "inevitable" integrated fusion of human and machine intelligence (Kurzweil), and we are entering a phase of adaptation. We have seen a range of AI use guides, policies, and reflections. However, compared to the initial reaction, we cannot ignore where we will or want to go with AI in the composition classroom. As AI continues to evolve, how do we recreate our classrooms in light of this new technology?
In the age of technological revolution, the changes brought by AI are reshaping various facets of society, including how we approach education in the Humanities. In the context of college composition, communication, English literature and other humanities subject classes, AI is revolutionizing writing pedagogy and practice. AI-assisted writing tools and large language models (LLMs) present new challenges and opportunities, creating what Sundvall describes as a “technological problematic” in the composition classroom, which revolutionizes some traditional writing processes and practices we’ve been using for a long time.
While graduate school has long been a space for cultivating generations of academics, researchers, and intellectuals, it has never been exempt from the dynamics of power that underlie the workings of the University. Recent strides at improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in graduate school—for example in the form of the rise in number of sociopolitically- and culturally-cognizant programs, the push towards increasing international student populations, and the rise of grassroots movements such as labour unions to improve representation—belie the reality that universities remain set up according to ideological lines that facilitate the success of some graduate students while (re)producing the inequities experienced by others.
In educational settings, safeguarding free speech is crucial for upholding democratic principles, yet campuses increasingly face censorship and suppression of dissenting voices. By fostering an environment that values free expression and respectful dialogue, educators can prepare students to become informed citizens who think critically and contribute positively to the (r)evolution of democratic society. How do educators include censored, controversial and diverse perspectives into their curriculum and classroom?
https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/20978
This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on the implications of mindfulness for the humanities and for its/their roles in education and society in honoring human, cultural, and global diversity in all its dimensions, enacting equity and inclusivity, and affecting change.
Humanities programs, and the writing programs often housed within, are under threat for reasons that are as much political as they are economic. It is not simply a question of whether humanities degrees or writing skills reward students with economic value or how much revenue humanities faculty bring to an institution, but of what humanities programs and writing classes teach: critical histories, texts that capture the perspectives of the oppressed, and how to think critically about complicated social, political, and historical events.
The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for its fall 2024 issue on the 2023 MMLA convention theme of “Going Public.” The MMLA’s 2023 convention theme, “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” asked convention attendees to explore the following questions:
EXTENDED DEADLINE
We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline for Alizés 45 - Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments, has been extended to September 1, 2024.
Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments
Deadline for abstracts (400 words) and short biographical notes (150 words):: Sptembre 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2024
Submission of full draft papers: January 31, 2025
Submission of final papers: June 15, 2025
Languages: English, French
Have you given a talk on drag culture recently? A conference paper on Drag Race that you’d like to publish? A thesis chapter on anything related to drag and/or social and racial justice that can be developed further? We are reopening this CFA for interested scholars to contribute a chapter to this edited collection.
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale is now taking submissions of articles between 5,000 and 10,000 words on fantastic and speculative literature from about the time of the French Revolution to about the time of World War I. We are interested in works from all parts of the globe.
Articles on early film (until about 1920) are also encouraged.
Studies on neo-victorian works, such as Steam Punk reimaginings of the Victorian era or newer fantastic works set in the nineteenth century are welcome as well. We are interested in not only written literature, but also films, television, video games, and other media.
Justice-oriented pedagogical practices are adapting to the advent of generative AI by prioritizing equity, inclusion, and critical engagement with these technologies. Educators and writing instructors incorporate discussions and activities encouraging students to critically examine generative AI's societal/ethical/pedagogical/citational impact and explore ways to mitigate potential harms (Bao et al., 2022). Students learn about algorithmic bias and the importance of designing fair and equitable AI systems. They also develop critical literacy skills to evaluate AI-generated content and discern misinformation.
Call for Papers: Prompt Engineering and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution
121st Annual PAMLA Conference (Palm Springs, CA) on Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies, Nov. 6-10, 2024
Abstract
AI in Arts Administration: Pedagogy and Practice
Edited by
Alicia Jay, Ph.D., Indiana State University
Youngaah Koh, Ph.D., Miami University
Erin J. Hoppe, Ph.D., Miami University
The Matter of the Humanities
“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressors.”
Paolo Freire
“The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
William Gibson
Routledge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Co-Editors: Riché Richardson, Philathia Rufaro Bolton
300-word abstracts due:
September 15, 2024
The International Scholar Journal of Arts and Social Science Research (ISJASSR) invites scholars, researchers, and academicians to submit their original research papers for a special issue focusing on Current Topical Issues in English Language and Literary Studies.
Journal Background
Established seven years ago, the International Scholar Journal of Arts and Social Science Research is a respected publication that is widely indexed in recognized databases. The journal is committed to promoting excellence in research and scholarship in the fields of arts and social sciences.
Special Issue Focus
8th INTERNATIONAL PhD CONFERENCE
Reimagining Crises
Turning Points in Language Studies and Literary Narratives
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
04-05 November 2024, Sala B, Ca’ Bernardo, Venice
Call for papers
The SAMLA 96 General Call for Abstracts will be used to build programming from abstracts that did not resonate with any of our currently published CFPs. SAMLA will review all submissions internally, and accepted abstracts will either be placed on an extant panel or combined with other General Call abstracts to create new sessions. The General Call is open to any and all disciplines.
Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee acceptance and placement, though we will work earnestly and diligently to place all abstracts.
Although there is no proscription against submitting multiple abstracts, each participant may present only one traditional paper per SAMLA conference.