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South Asian Water Imaginaries in an Era of Environmental Crisis

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:04am
Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai

Presents

South Asian Water Imaginaries in an Era of Environmental Crisis

 A graduate student workshop

 Friday, 13 October 2023

 Concept Note & CFP

 

 

Conrad and World Literature

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:02am
Simla Dogangun / Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

 

Call for Papers: Conrad and World Literature Studies

The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)

 

From Biopolitics to Ecoaesthetics: Legacies of Encroachment(s)

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:02am
Tiako Djomatchoua Murielle Sandra
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

“Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins,” is a popular ( Zechariah Chafee, 1919) is a popular aphorism in legal imaginaries that theoretically synthesizes the scope of concepts such as freedom, power, and sovereignty. The reality of globalization, and its inherent movements and interactions of bodies, challenges the radical frame and geographies of the aforementioned concepts. The inevitability of the relation, in its materialisations as contact, conflict, and integration, highlights the thin lines between acknowledging, understanding, and trespassing boundaries in human relations to each other and to the systems that govern their lives.

Imprisoning Politics

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 4:11am
Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

According to the US State Department, political imprisonment is what happens elsewhere, “enabled by Orwellian legal systems designed to target peaceful protestors or government critics.” That the US would deny its participation in these processes comes as no surprise. Critics of empire and the carceral state often note that the US does in fact target protestors and imprison opponents, such that the “Orwellian” is everywhere. These critics have also put pressure on the distinction between political prisoners and “common criminals,” arguing that this distinction abjects the members of criminalized populations, whom it relegates to a place outside politics.

Queer Africa: Resilience and Hopeful Now

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:54pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2024)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel calls for stories exploring contemporary creative works as fluid and diverse moments and their relation to what it means to have an identity as both queer and African. This intersection between queer and African is fraught with conflict in the present political and social understanding of homosexuality as un-African and a Western ideology transported to Africa during colonialism. Therefore, when most African nations have made homosexuality illegal, thus, preventing human rights from queer Africans and making them surplus, this panel calls for short stories, poems, memoirs, and novel extracts about queer African characters.

ImmUnity and CommUnity

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:52pm
Laboratory Values, Society, and Development (LVSD), Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

The terms “community” and “immunity” on both local and global scales have become semantically interdependent with unparalleled currency. They have triggered debates about stopping the propelling cycle of immunization that claims to benefit the community and raised concerns about the pressing need to maintain naturally invulnerable societies. Prominent among the theorists who highlight the close and problematic connection between the two notions is Roberto Esposito (2012), who posits that “community” points to difference and that “immunity” designates relation/contagion.

The Difficulties of Solidarity

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:51pm
Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

This issue of Critical Times probes the question of solidarity—its subjects, horizons, difficulties, and limits. In some social-theoretical accounts, solidarity is a force that coheres subjects, holds them together in one community, and coordinates their aspirations, sympathies, or interests in perfect unity. Solidarity, in other words, transcends differences to generate unity; indeed, it converts difference into sameness. And when such differences persist or reappear in new forms, solidarity is said to be in danger or to have failed. Yet this is neither the only archive nor the only horizon of solidarity.

Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.3: Trans* Ecologies

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 7:04am
Guest editors: Erin L. Durban and Megan Moore
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.3:

 Trans* Ecologies

 

Guest editors: Erin L. Durban and Megan Moore

 

Eva Hayward (2022) inquires, “Can trans mean anything to ecology? If so, what?” The guest editors of this issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly offer Hayward’s question as an invitation to artists, activists, and scholars to consider the possibilities of combining trans* analytics and undisciplined environmental and ecological thinking. The issue follows the Queer & Trans Ecologies Symposium that took place at the University of Minnesota in spring 2023.

 

Humanities in the Time of ChatGPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:31am
Critical Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Humanities in the Time of ChatGPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2023 Issue of Critical Humanities

Abstract submission deadline is June 15, 2023

In a recent blogpost, Bill Gates announces the beginning of the age of AI. Gates’ enthusiastic pitch for AI is not limited to it being a groundbreaking technological advancement. He sees it as a powerful tool for achieving social and environmental justice. Gates notes “achievement in math is going down across the country, especially for Black, Latino, and low-income students” and he claims that “AI can help turn that trend around.”

Deadline Extended: 17th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education (GDE) Conference: Kinship-in-action: Relationality and the Spaces We Occupy in Time of Ecological Precarity

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 2:56pm
Washington State University College of Education
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 12, 2023

17th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education (GDE) Conference

Kinship-in-action: 

Relationality and the Spaces We Occupy in Time of Ecological Precarity

September 14-16, 2023

Airway Heights, WA

 

Proposals have been extended until June 12th, 2023. Please submit a proposal if you are interested.

Global Competencies: New Methodologies in 21st Century Global and Intercultural Education

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:13pm
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

In the past decade, an increasing number of colleges and universities have added elements of intercultural and global awareness to their discipline, degree, and course outcomes. Whether titled “intercultural awareness” or “global citizenship,” “intercultural competence” or “global awareness,” these new focal points center on a more international, cross-cultural understanding of the world and its interactions. The American Association of Colleges and Universities, for example, has generated a “Global and Social Responsibility Initiative” that articulates three main outcomes for students in the 21st century:

1.) Become informed, open-minded, and responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the spectrum of differences.

III International Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature and Linguistics (IPSELL)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:03pm
University of Granada
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The III International Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature and Linguistics (IPSELL) organised by the Master’s in English Literature and Linguistics of the University of Granada aims to provide a forum where postgraduate students/researchers can present the results of their current research projects (preferably MA dissertation or early PhD work). This event intends to allow master’s and early career research students to share their research interests with national and international young scholars and get acquainted with the critical visions and methodological approaches that will be leading academic research in the years to come.

Fashioning the Asian Century -- Attention scholars of Southeast Asian fashion!

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:02pm
Amanda Sikarskie / University of Michigan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The authors for this edited collection on Fashioning the Asian Century are mostly set, but we still need one or two essays on Southeast Asia generally, or Thailand or Vietnam specifically. We could also use another essay on a topic relating to Chinese, Japanese, or Korean fashion. Please note that we already have several inquiries relating to fashion in India.

If you're interested, please send a 150 word abstract and short bio to the editor, Dr. Amanda Sikarskie, asikarsk@umich.edu, by June 30, 2023. (The editor is working with Bloomsbury.) 

Fashioning the Asian Century 

Transnational Feminist Rhetorics Collection

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:01pm
Belinda Walzer, Mais T. Al-Khateeb, Jennifer Nish, and Sweta Baniya
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 25, 2023

*Apologies for cross-posting

Please see this CFP (full call below) for an edited collection on Transnational Feminist Rhetorics titled “(Re)Mobilizing Solidarity: (Re)Mobilizing Solidarity in/and Transnational Feminist Rhetorics” edited by Belinda Walzer, Mais T. Al-Khateeb, Jennifer Nish, and Sweta Baniya.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Radical Humanism

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 10:45am
Department of Arts & Human Sciences at Northern New Mexico College
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Radical Humanism

call for papers

 

Deadline for Submissions: May 31, 2023. Extended to June 30, 2023.

 

Decision: July 31, 2023

 

Name of Organization: The Department of Arts & Human Sciences at Northern New Mexico College

 

Conference Chair: Robert Beshara

 

Date: September 8-9, 2023

 

Time: 8 am – 5 pm

 

Location: Santa Fe Community Convention Center, Oga Po’geh, Nuevo México, Turtle Island

 

The Materiality of Excess

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:24am
NEMLA 2024 CFP
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

What does "too much" feel like? 

The slimy or gelatinous texture elicits a sense of disgust in some, while others experience pleasure and luxuriousness. Excess can also manifest as waste and pollution: the plastic gyre in the ocean's center; the sticky, musky sensation on one's skin amidst smog. The materiality of excess can also be defined by the marginalized, commodified bodies that become sites of extraction as their labor, organs, and corporeal bodies enter global capital circulation. This session invites papers exploring the materiality of excess – its affect, texture, aesthetics, and politics – to engage with the realm of otherness. 

Possible areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to:

DEADLINE EXTENDED: African American Literature Permanent Panel

updated: 
Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 2:24pm
MMLA - Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

2023 Call for Papers:

The African American Literature permanent section invites proposals for in-person presentations at the 2023 meeting of the Midwestern Modern Language Association taking place in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 2-5. The conference’s theme this year is “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” and papers addressing literature’s connection to and challenge of democracy will be given preference.

Interweaving Anthropology, Science, and Narrative: Postanthropocentric Mappings in the era of Climate Crises.

updated: 
Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 1:06pm
Dr Saswat Samay Das / Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Call for Papers

CEP International Conference

Interweaving Anthropology, Science, and Narrative: Postanthropocentric Mappings in the era of Climate Crises.

Event dates: 1st to 3rd November 2023 

Place: Department of Humanities and Social  Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Extended Abstract Deadline: 30 September, 2023

 

This conference organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur in association with University of Oldenburg, Germany and IMIS Bhubaneswar, India can be attended both through online and offline mode.

Unsettling The Coloniality of Knowledge: Toward More-Than-Human Approaches to Epistemological and Environmental Justice

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:24am
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference 2023 Honolulu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 26, 2023

Most academic disciplines today remain entrenched in a lack of epistemic trust. The theories and methods through which knowledge production is validated are still determined at the centers of global academic production, while some epistemologies, counted as 'peripheral', are prevented from disseminating beyond their national borders. Non-Western epistemologies are stunted by hegemony and the pervasiveness of anthropocentric Western thought and are thus not central in the shaping of academic fields.

Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World: Call for Contributions

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:47am
Yiru Lim
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 16, 2023

Title: Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World

Series: Routledge Literary Studies in Social Justice

Expected Completion date: 31 May 2024

Expected Publication date: Second half of 2024

 

The 2023 Jack London Society 16th Biennial Symposium

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:40am
The Jack London Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

 

Call for Papers: The 2023 Jack London Society 16th Biennial Symposium: October 5-8, 2023, The Huntington Library in San Marino, California

 

The Necropolitics of Environmental Decline

updated: 
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 11:06am
Special Issue- Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Call for Papers 

The Necropolitics of Environmental Decline 

A Special Issue of Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 

Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Annihilation of Caste

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10:04am
All About Ambedkar: A Journal on Theory and Praxis
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Annihilation of Caste

B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste (AoC) has been described by Anand Teltumbde as the Communist Manifesto of “caste India.” Unfortunately, however, there is a dearth of critical readings on this text. The upcoming special issue of All About Ambedkar: A Journal on Theory and Praxis aims to address this lacuna. The objective is to inspire renewed engagements with Ambedkar’s classic. The special issue will be co-edited by Dr Sanjiv Kondekar and Dr Mahitosh Mandal and is scheduled to be published in December 2023.

The Poetics and Politics of Gender, Mobility and Migration in the New Anglophone Literatures | Special Issue

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10:00am
Michelle Stork, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

"The Poetics and Politics of Gender, Mobility and Migration in the New Anglophone Literatures"

CFP for Volume 29 of the European Journal of English Literature to be published in 2025

 

Guest editors: Nadia Butt (University of Giessen), Radhika Mohanram (Cardiff University) and Michelle Stork (University of Frankfurt)

 

The poetical and the political in Galician and Portuguese speaking literatures and cultures: social conflict and dialogisms (Galicia, Portugal, Brazil and Africa)

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 9:18am
Nuno Neves
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

UPDATED DEADLINE

 

CHAMADA DE PROPOSTAS DE ARTIGOS | CALL FOR PAPERS NÚMERO ESPECIAL DE | SPECIAL ISSUE OF

Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal (13, 2024)

"O poético e o político nas literaturas e culturas de língua galega e portuguesa: conflito social e dialogismos (Galiza, Portugal, Brasil e África)"

"The poetical and the political in Galician and Portuguese speaking literatures and cultures: social conflict and dialogisms (Galicia, Portugal, Brazil and Africa)"

Editoras/es convidadas/os | Guest Editors: Burghard Baltrusch, Lúcia Evangelista, Antía Monteagudo, Nuno Miguel Neves

Response and Responsibility: Reframing Women’s Literature in the Age of Precarity

updated: 
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 4:12pm
Midwest Modern language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Response and Responsibility: Reframing Women’s Literature in the Age of Precarity

MMLA 2023

 

 “Precarity is a politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support.” (Butler, “Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity,” 25)  

 

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