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That "Peculiar Lapse": Toward a Poetics of Uncommon Sense(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 5:30pm
NeMLA 2025: (R)Evolution | Philly | March 6-9
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

NB: deadline extended to 10/15!

For Adrienne Rich, those who watch “will never act,” yet therein lies the enactive potential of poetry, which “appears as a rift, a peculiar lapse, in [this] prevailing mode” of “managed spectacles and passive spectators.” As Sean Bonney insists, “The deep truth is imageless. When you know that, you know there’s everything to play for.” And “everything”? It is, per Diane di Prima, that for and after which we must ask: “you can have what you ask for, ask for / everything." To tap Bonney once more, “All else” — indeed, anything short of everything! — “is madness and suffering at the hands of the pigs."

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: “The interrelation of social concepts and biodiversity conservation: Breaking down disciplinary silos to create a better planet.”

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 4:12pm
Vernon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: “The interrelation of social concepts and biodiversity conservation: Breaking down disciplinary silos to create a better planet.”

 

https://vernonpress.com/proposal/332/ef93e9a3eab3e230c347e9e0ed30d51b

*Deadline Extended* NeMLA Panel (March 6-9, 2025 in Philadelphia): Landscapes of Trauma

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 3:31pm
Joe Larios
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

How should we understand the relationship between land and trauma? In what senses can we think of a landscape as traumatic or traumatized? There are the traumas that may happen upon a landscape through the dispossession of peoples from a piece of land or through war and destruction. There is the direct harm done to a landscape that might not even have human occupants on it through the effects of pollution or clearcutting. And there are the transformations that landscapes go through when storms, wildfires, and floods happen upon them. Are these also types of trauma? How shall we distinguish between different kinds of events? How shall we identify the traumatized parties? Can a landscape itself be traumatized or only its inhabitants?

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* NeMLA 2025 Panel - “Theory in the Flesh”: The Function of Praxis in Resistance

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 1:35pm
Marina Malli, Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Focusing on the intersection of theory and practice, this panel calls for contemporary discussions of “theory in the flesh,” i.e., theory considering the material conditions of existence. While the panel is particularly interested in women of color writing, other engagements with the place of material reality in academia will be considered.

 

The Afterlives of Absurdism @ NeMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:44am
Daniel Amaral / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Northeast Modern Language Association 

March 6-9, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

 

Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism 

 

Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world. 

 

Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation (ACLA 2025, virtual)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
Rusaba Alam (University of British Columbia) and Torin McLachlan (Capilano University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Please note that abstract submissions must be sent through the ACLA submission portal online. For details, see the seminar posting on the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/comparative-literature-and-politics-detranslation 

The 2025 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held virtually, May 29-June 1, 2025.

CFP: XXIX LAILAC Graduate Students Conference: Cultures of Extermination—War, Repression, and Survival in Ibero-America and the Caribbean

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

For the Twenty-Ninth Graduate Student Conference of the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the organizing committee is welcoming researchers in cultural studies, intellectual history, performance studies, linguistics, art history, and related disciplines to submit their work exploring and analyzing cultures of extermination in cultural productions across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. The conference is scheduled to take place in New York City on April 10-11, 2025.

MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language 

updated: 
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 1:00am
Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 

MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language 

 

June 26-27, 2025 

Ewha Womans University  

 

Keynote Speakers 

  • Rebecca Walkowitz (Barnard College, Columbia University)
  • Janet Poole (University of Toronto)

 

Call for Papers

ASECS Virtual Conference 2024: South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:03am
Department of English, Texas Christian University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]
Co-chairs: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, j.chow@bucknell.edu, Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, m.narain@tcu.edu

Breathing in the Global South: Panel at ASLE 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:03am
Ben Stanley / University of Delaware
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Breathing in the Global South

Panel proposed for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

AAAS 2025: Literary Imaginaries of the Climate Crisis Within Contemporary Migrant Literature

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Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:01am
Ananya Bhardwaj/The George Washington University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

In her introduction to Living with the Weather: Climate Change, Ecology, and Displacement in South Asia, Piya Srinivasan emphasizes that the focus of the essays in the collection is to “imagine and investigate non-human spaces: charlands, crumbling coastlines, land facing desertification.” (Srinivasan 7) In a reportage-based essay in this anthology, investigating climate migration from the Sundarbans, Dipanjan Sinha discusses the present condition of these marshlands. He argues that the unique ecological and economic challenges faced by the land and its people include salination of water, challenges of relocation in fast-disappearing island communities, and climate migration – all being results of colonial policies of land degradation.

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Illegibility and Aesthetic Form in the African Diasporas of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:00am
Kinaya Hassane (NYU) and Semilore Sobande (Brown University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

This seminar invites submissions that explore intentional illegibilites deployed in literary and visual forms in the African diasporas of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Despite their intertwined histories of slavery and colonialism, these regions have typically been understood as hermetically sealed off from one another in the humanities. The fields of literary studies and visual culture, however, illustrate how racialized subjects across these aqueous geographies have relied on shared strategies of opacity and obfuscation, leveraging forms such as the photograph and the novel whose histories and development were imbricated in colonial processes.

5th Singapore Literature Conference: Verse Nation

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:09am
Poetry Festival Singapore
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

 

5th Singapore Literature Conference August 2, 2025

Poetry Festival Singapore (PFS) and the Singapore Literature Conference (SLC) are commemorating Singapore's 60th anniversary of independence with the theme "Verse Nation."

 

NEMLA 2025 Panel: The Southern Question: Literary Forms of Revolution in Peripheries of the World System

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Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:06am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Literary forms like the poems, novels, and short stories are often understood to be stand-ins for political resistance in critical theoretical debates especially since the dominance of post-al theories within literature departments. For literary forms emerging in the peripheries of the literary world system yoked by the global literary marketplace, the signification of resistance acts as a marker of value. This is superimposed on the idea of literary forms emerging from the peripheral locales of the literary world system that are read as derivative and mimetic of literary forms emerging from the core of the same system.

Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:37pm
American Comparative Literature Association (2025 Virtual Annual Meeting)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

The way we imagine, represent, and signify the relations between empire and environment significantly shapes contemporary discourses on climate change, development, and globalization. Colonial and neoliberal legacies produce a “combined and uneven development” of the world system, resulting in hierarchies of metropolitan and peripheral relations. The elemental composition of environments (such as air, water, soil, and fire) in literary and cultural forms maps the intensification of these uneven relations under the capitalist mode of production. Jason Moore argues that the economy and environment are not independent of each other and posits that capitalism is a way of organizing nature (2015).

(Revised Deadline!) Migrant Institutions: The Impact of Postwar Newcomers on British Cultural Life

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 3:00pm
Institute of English Studies, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Migrant Institutions: The Impact of Postwar Newcomers on British Cultural Life

Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Monday, 9 December 2024

 

The Institute of English Studies invites proposals for a symposium exploring the impact of postwar migration on British cultural institutions. This one-day event will be held at Senate House, University of London on December 9th, 2024.

 

Narrative Fracture in East and Southeast Asian Art and Literature

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:24am
American Comparative Literature Association / ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

For the 2025 Annual ACLA Conference (May 29th-June 1st 2025, held virtually)

This panel asks presenters to consider the logics of fracture, at the level of idenity, artisitic production, and national scales as it realtes to East and Southeast Asian art and literature. 

2025 ACLA Conference - CFP: Seminar "The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities"

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:16am
American Comparative Literature Association (2025 Virtual Meeting)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

In 1931, Antonin Artaud envisioned a radically innovative form of theatre after witnessing a performance by a Balinese troupe at the Colonial Exposition in Paris. While this event is widely acknowledged among arts and humanities scholars, its specific details – such as the precise content of the performance and the identities of the performers – are overlooked, thus exemplifying the ambivalent nature of the circulation of performing arts from colonized and/ or marginalized regions. Throughout history, how have conflicting global power structures and unequal socio-political conditions shaped the flow, interpretation, and reception of works, artists, aesthetics and practices from the so-called peripheries in Europe and the United States?

Afrifuturism

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 12:11pm
African Literature Today
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

African Literature Today plans to publish a special issue (ALT 43) with a focus on “Afrifuturism” and hereby calls for well-researched articles for the volume. One of the more recent genres in African literature is Afrifuturism. It is a relatively new concept introduced by the Nigerian American science fiction and fantasy novelist, Nnedi Okorafor. The issue seeks to appraise crucial developments in the thematic engagement of writers in this field of writing. 

“Radical Futures and Decolonization: Law, Marxism, and World Literature”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:26am
North Eastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Description:

This panel will consider Black diasporic literary and/or legal texts in relation to the interdisciplinary field of ‘Law and Literature.’ An emphasis will be placed on the relations and intersections of race, class, and gender, and the historical experience of capitalist modernity, as well as materialist approaches employing ‘world-literary’ perspectives.

Abstract:

The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Edited by A. Robert Lee and Chad Weidner
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Introduction and Scope:

The Mississippi River, often regarded as America’s central artery, has been instrumental in shaping the nation’s geography, culture, and history. This edited volume, The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River, aims to explore the river’s vast influence, tracing its course from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its expansive delta at the Gulf of Mexico.

2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference: "Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa"

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Department of English, University of Zululand
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 11, 2024

                                                                              UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND
                                                                2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference
                                                Theme: Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa

                                                         Hosted by the Department of English, UNIZULU

Digital (R)evolution and Cyber Censorship in South Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
NeMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

From election campaigns to marches for equal rights in a patriarchal society, the digital landscape in South Asia has commanded a space which was not easily possible before the digital revolution. In the same breadth, fake news and propaganda narrative has also marred noble causes which hinders this evolutionary social mobility enabled by the digital media. In this scenario, the digital space becomes a double-edged sword where the dominant narrative can be deemed as the ‘truth’. Weaving through the complexity created by opposing narratives, this panel would involve discussions about the medium and culture of the digital world as well to further contextualize echo chambers and shadow bans, which act as filters of information.

CFP - Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Gender and Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

The journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for papers for the special issue "Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives". Issue editors are Barbora Doležalová (FSV UK), anna řičář libánská (FF UK) and Isotta Rossoni (Leiden University).

Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:18am
John Miller, ASLE-UKI
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Green Letters invites papers of up to 6000 words in length for a special issue on Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities, guest-edited by John Miller (University of Sheffield), Christie Oliver-Hobley (University of Sheffield) and Peter Sands (University of York).

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