postcolonial

This Conference is the first of what is expected to be a series of collaborations aimed at surveying late twentieth century and early twenty-first century developments in the oral and written literature of all the islands of the English-speaking Caribbean including Guyana and Belize.

The first component of the initiating Trinidad and Tobago conference is the production of an annotated Bibliography of works by writers of Trinidad and Tobago led by the Library of the University of the West Indies, NALIS and the National Archives.

The Southeast Asian and Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association invites submissions for a panel:

Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia

Modern Language Association Annual Convention

January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Presidential Theme: “Persistence”

There are two ways of defining what we mean by the precariat. One is to say it is a distinctive socio-economic group, so that by definition a person is in it or not in it. This is useful in terms of images and analyses, and it allows us to use what Max Weber called an ‘ideal type’. In this spirit, the precariat could be described as a neologism that combines an adjective ‘precarious’ and a related noun ‘proletariat’.

                                                                                                                                – Guy Standing

Call for Papers for Critical Insights: Life of Pi (2020)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 2020

This is a call for chapter proposals for a forthcoming edited collection on the 2001 philosophical novel Life of Pi by Canadian author Yann Martel. This volume will be published in Fall 2020 by Salem Press as part of the following subseries of their Critical Insights collection: https://www.salempress.com/ci_works.

In line with the expectations of the Critical Insights series, I ultimately seek essays that:

Located at the edge of Vancouver’s city limits, the University of British Columbia is perched on the edge of an ocean. Down an interminable set of winding stairs is Wreck Beach, and with a few more steps you are submerged in the saltwater of the sea. As a West Coast school, the possibility of submersion is always waiting at our door. What does this mean in a time of climate catastrophe and imminent sea level rise? How do we navigate relationships to the ocean, to submersion, and drowning in these chaotic times?  Submersion evokes the existence of multiple, nuanced truths and interpretations.

Please check out these CFPs for MLA 2021 in Toronto, sponsored by the CLCS Medieval Forum ObjectsHow do objects circulating within and around premodern literary texts reframe or intervene in traditional (national or imperial) literary histories or unearth new “global” literary histories? 250-word abstracts to Shirin Khanmohamadi (shirin1@sfsu.ed) by March 15. Medieval EmpiresWhat is a medieval empire? Extending the debate beyond the controversies of statehood in Europe, the panel considers non-European empires of the medieval world, imaginary or real, isolated or in contact with Europe. 250-word abstracts to Amy Vines (anvines@uncg.edu) by March 15.

CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2020)

Working Title for Proposed Volume: 

Through the Looking Glass: Orientalism, Reverse Orientalism and Beyond in Literature and Film

Editors:

Sharmani Patricia Gabriel

Professor

Department of English

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Universiti Malaya

Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Bernard Wilson

Professor (Adjunct)

Department of English Language, Communication and Cultures

The University of the Sacred Heart

Site/Seeing: Sites of Spectatorship

16th Annual Graduate Student Conference

Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago

April 24-25, 2020

Keynote Speaker: Alison Griffiths

www.sitesofspectatorship.com

Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies - Reviews

deadline for submissions:

December 15, 2019

full name / name of organization:

Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies

contact email: ijcs@uiowa.edu

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal edited by graduate students at the University of Iowa and dedicated to publishing cultural studies scholarship from both established and emerging scholars, is currently soliciting book reviews for our upcoming issue: Speaking of Violence. The Deadline for Reviews is Sunday, December 15th, 2019.

Rapunzel lowers her plaited hair 20 cubits deep, so that her prince can climb into her hermetically sealed tower. Donald Trump’s signature quiff – a piece of interwoven fabric with no evident beginning and end – is treated as a metaphor for his relationship to truth and politics. Samson defeats the Philistines oppressing the Israelites in the Old Testament with his superhuman strength: the origin of his invincibility lies in the vigour of his hair as long as it is not cut.

AFTERLIVES: Pasts, Presents and Futures of Arts and Cultures
Call for Proposals

University of Glasgow

IMPORTANT DATES:
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 16TH FEBRUARY 2020
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: BY 23RD MARCH 2020
CONFERENCE DATE: 21ST MAY 2020

Destination – the word itself concerns both journey and journey’s end. For this issue of Oxford Research in English, we invite articles that delve into arrival and setting forth in literature, as well as the textual, intertextual and extratextual ways one can examine literary places and spaces. “Destination” derives from the Latin dēstināre—to resolve, to determine, to destine— before journeying into French and arriving in English.

Deadline Extended to February 8, 2020. The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication, seeks submissions for its eleventh annual issue, to be published in spring 2020. Contributors are encouraged to submit manuscripts on any aspect of maritime literature, history, or culture, following MLA style, using endnotes and the works cited format. Manuscripts are usually in the range of 20-25 pages; however, shorter and longer works are sometimes accepted for publication.

Deadline extended to 7th February 2020

Global Cities: Culture, Ecology, World Literature

11-12 June 2020

Keynote speakers: Prof. Jini Kim Watson (NYU), Prof. Rashmi Varma (U of Warwick)