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Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment.
ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture
This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that explore ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mutations and Permutations of Care
Graduate Student Conference
Hybrid modality
Hosted By: Graduate students of French and Francophone World Studies
Department of French & Italian, The University of Iowa
Conference Dates: Friday, April 4 through Saturday, April 5, 2025
Location: University of Iowa campus (Iowa City, Iowa) and on Zoom
Abstracts Due: Sunday, December 15, 2024 ** EXTENDED TO SUNDAY, JANUARY 05, 2025 ****
In the Humanities, notions of coloniality and postcoloniality are usually entangled with nation states that are, by nature, multilingual and multicultural. The societies of each of these nations are further stratified based on hierarchies of economic and social-political classifications. In other words, motivated and maintained by and through power and notions of telos, differences of race, sexuality, caste, and religion exist in differing ways. Literatures of these differences then occupy their space(s) under the larger category of ‘postcolonial literature(s)’.
Dear Colleagues:
My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out in 2025.
Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric (see below). I have lost a chapter at the last minute, and need to replace it.
The full chapter is needed by Dec. 31 2024. I will respond right away to any and all inquiries. Please email me to let me know of your interest and/or to submit the chapter: maureen.fadem@gmail.com
Thank you considering this important project--my very best,
CFP - Postcolonial coming-of-age novels in the Indian and Pacific Ocean worlds
Open Group Session at the 2025 ICLA Conference
UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.
NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.
Dear Colleagues:
My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out in 2025.
Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric of the book (see below).
The full chapter is needed by Dec. 31st. Please email to: maureen.fadem@gmail.com
Thank you considering this important project--my very best,
~Maureen Ellen Ruprecht, CUNY
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American Literature Association
May 21-24, 2025
The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at
the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference.
Roundtable: Richard Wright’s Contributions to Postcolonial Studies
In his introduction to AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Vijay Prashad tells
the story of how Richard Wright came to attend the historic Bandung Conference in
DEADLINE EXTENDED
(REVISED) Call for Papers
Courtesans as Agents of Resistance: Unveiling Marginalized Voices in India (Tentative Title)
[DEADLINE EXTENDED - Taking Submissions until Nov. 29th] CSCL Graduate Conference - Universality Renewed - March 21st to 22nd, 2025. Minneapolis, MN.
Keynote Speaker: Todd McGowan, University of Vermont
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
CAPS (formerly CACLALS) 2025 from June 1 to 3, 2025
Proposals due: January 15, 2025
Keynote Speakers: TBA
Conference Theme: Postcolonial Studies, Sustainability, and Shared Futures
The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS) will host its annual conference from June 1 to 3, 2025, at (TBA) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Fantastical Constellations After Magical Realism research group (formerly known as Post-Magical Realist Worlds) of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites submissions to our sessions in the upcoming CCLA 2025 Conference taking place June 7-9, 2025 at Trent University, Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario and online.
The conference, entitled “Comparative Literature Off-Kilter,” considers “our often off-kilter positionality in (and out of) academia,” and the precarity of the balancing act of comparison. We are asked to conceive the conference “as a playground on which marginal practices, thoughts, works and formats can form revolutionary friendships.”
We are pleased to invite proposals from UK-based postgraduate and early-career researchers to participate in a twelve-person, interdisciplinary research workshop, ‘Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848’, to be held on 12-13 June 2025, at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge.
In the history of revolutions, 1848 has often stood as a marker of utopian aspirations—but also a symbol of thwarted hopes. More recently, vibrant scholarly debates on the significance of this crucial year have begun to prompt a new reckoning and to revise a longstanding consensus that the revolutions simply ‘failed’, in part by looking beyond the European scene alone.
Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Failure
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur presents
Anviksha: A Research Scholars’ Conference
8th and 9th February, 2025
Conference Theme: Identities
We are pleased to announce the in-person 2025 Theory & Criticism conference at Western University from April 25th-26th. This conference aims to look beyond visions of the future that are confined to the utopian-dystopian binary. To do so, it will feature theoretically rich work from decolonial, queer, trans, and crip-futurism(s) and their intersections.
Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War considers how the writings of Charles Dickens are shaped by—and contribute to—Victorian discourses of race, nation, and empire in the middle of the nineteenth century. The “discursive roots of modern racism lie in British, European, and colonial writings,” writes Patrick Brantlinger. But often unacknowledged is the “extent to which racism informed virtually all aspects of Romantic and Victorian culture” (Taming Cannibals 6-7).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions
16th -17th June 2025
The University of Western Australia, Perth
Keynote speakers:
Daniel M. Gross (University of California Irvine)
Robbert Boddice (Tampere University)
BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition)
Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas
Florida Atlantic Univeristy - Comparative Studies Student Association
CSSA’s 2025 Intellectual Resistance Conference
Call for Papers
College English Association - Mid-Atlantic Group
67th Annual Conference – 14 March 2025 – Call for Papers
Conference Location:The University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Status Quo and Besides
The State of South African Literary and Cultural Studies
8 to 9 May 2025
26 Degrees South, Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa
The Literature Association of South Africa (LASA) invites literary scholars and postgraduate students to submit abstracts for its 2025 conference, to be hosted at 26 Degrees South, Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa, from 8 to 9 May 2025.
PASE 2025/Crossroads 5 Conference
Voices of the Earth: literary and linguistic perspectives in environmental humanities
June 4-6, 2025
University of Białystok, Poland
Suddenly, we became aware that humans could destroy the livability of the planet—whether
intentionally or otherwise. This awareness only increased as we learned about pollution, mass
extinction, and climate change. One half of current precarity is the fate of the earth: what kinds
of human disturbances can we live with? Despite talk of sustainability, how much chance do
we have for passing a habitable environment to our multispecies descendants?
Anna Tsing
The Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) is currently soliciting submissions for our 2025 open issue. We invite interdisciplinary work with critical and intersectional approaches to race and racialization. In addition to scholarly essays, JCRI welcomes the submission of visual, literary, digital, and audio art and performance documentation relevant to our mandate, as well as activist roundtables, interviews, and shorter essays.
We publish work that features
Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.
Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development
Special issue editor: Goutam Karmakar, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Humanitarianism and Hunger
2025 Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland.
May 29—June 1, 2025
Call for Papers:The 2025 Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on May 29—June 1, 2025. The theme of the 2025 Famine Summer School is “Humanitarianism and Hunger”.
The Uncanny States of America: Encountering the Planetary
https://eaas.eu/eaas-news/call-for-papers-ejas-special-issue-the-uncanny...