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NeMLA 2023 Panel: Graphic Resilience: The Visual-Verbal Narratives and Representation

updated: 
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 10:03am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2023)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Resilience is a word used to describe the ability to sustain adversity. Graphic narratives situate the debates about resilience in the realm of popular culture. Many graphic narratives depict the themes of resilience which have emerged as a result of socio-political upheaval, existential urges and institutional threats. Works such as Persepolis, Bhimayana, Fun Home and Nat Turner graphically depict the story of the immigrant experience, caste, gender and race issues based on the varied forms of worded and pictorial texts.

2nd International Conference on "Refugee, Resistance, and Recognition: Global Literary Representations in [Post]post-colonial Perspectives"

updated: 
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 10:02am
Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet 3114, Bangladesh
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 25, 2022

Everchanging world order and its position in the continuum rely on ongoing events and the functioning of different states—country, government, nation, authority, community, land, etc.— embedded within the global makeup. The 2nd International Conference of the Department of English, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet 3114, Bangladesh, to be held on January 27-28, 2023, conceptualizes the narratives related to the terms—Refugee, Resistance, and Recognition— and their articulations in global literary spaces both as distinct and interrelated concepts in the premises of art, literature, language, (social) media, law, and politics in [Post]postcolonial perspectives.

Women and the Great War: A Reexamination

updated: 
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 10:02am
Richard Schumaker/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Typically, scholarly reflection on the Great War focuses on military activity and masculine performance; in contrast, this NeMLA 2023 seminar examines the importance of women as fictional characters, authors, and purveyors of legacies associated with the Great War of 1914-1918. By privileging the role of women, it is hoped that we can bring a fresh critical light to this pivotal moment in world history. Please note the very wide range of perspectives in this seminar: authors, characters, and context.

NeMLA 2023 - Making Life in Limbo: Representing Life, Resilience and Community in Refugee Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 8:58am
Jonathan Nash (University of Victoria)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 54th Annual NeMLA Convention to be held from March 23-26, 2023, in Niagara Falls, NY. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2022.

Submit abstracts at the NeMLA portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/login

Call For Research Papers on World Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 28, 2022 - 8:29am
IMPRESSIONS
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Call for Papers by 31 July, 2022 and 30 September 2022

Impressions

A Bi-Annual International Refereed e-Journal of English Studies

Research Papers on World Literatures

Constructed Languages and Power in Science Fiction and Fantasy

updated: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 12:09pm
Matt Barton
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

We have extended our deadline for submissions.

We invite essays for a collected edition that investigates constructed languages (e.g., Klingon, Trigedasleng, Valyrian, Na'vi, Dothraki, Belter, Tolkien's Elvish) in the contexts and functions of socio-political power within the broad category of science fiction, speculative, and fantasy encompassing film, tv, games, and comics. How are conlangs in a work used to "other" groups of people or to construct their subjectivity? How do they reveal power relations in a geo-political system? How does the analysis of conlangs and power help us understand the world that we live in?

Special Issue: Nuclear Ghosts

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:55pm
Jenny Stümer Centre for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Call for Papers

Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University. 

Editors: Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest and Jenny Stümer

Deadline: Abstracts (250 words) are due Tuesday 9 August 2022 

Contact: publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de

 

Special Issue: Nuclear Ghosts

Enlightenment and Modern Ireland Legacies & Afterlives

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:55pm
ISLE research project
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 17, 2022

Special Issue: “Enlightenment and Modern Ireland:  Legacies and Afterlives”

 

Guest Editors:

James Ward, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, jg.ward@ulster.ac.uk

Joe Lines, Chang'an-Dublin International College, China, joe.lines@ucd.ie

 

Please submit 250 word abstracts to the editors by 17 October 2022

 

Whether we praise or deride it, we now live in its shadows and must reckon with what it has bequeathed us. Western thought is haunted by the Enlightenment

(Genevieve Lloyd, Enlightenment Shadows, 2013)

NEMLA 2023: Migration and Resilience: Between Hospitality and Hostility

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:52pm
Emily Eyestone & Liana Pshevorska, Wesleyan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

 We invite proposals for a panel entitled, "Migration and Resilience: Between Hospitality and Hostility" for the 2023 NeMLA conference, which will be held in Niagara Falls, New York from March 23-26, 2023. Call for PapersMigration and Resilience: Between Hospitality and Hostility

CFP: HyperCultura-No. 11/2022

updated: 
Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 2:36pm
Hyperion University, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

CFP - HyperCultura - no. 11/2022Dear Colleagues,We have the pleasure to invite you to submit articles for our next issue, due March-April 2023. Continuing the last issue’s approach, and in accordance with the times we live in, we will welcome papers on the following themes: NATIONALISM/ POST-NATIONALISM,  COLONIALISM/ POSTCOLONIALISM/ DECOLONIZATION, RACE, GENDER STUDIES, ETHNICITY, and IDENTITY. Following our Journal’s profile, we only receive articles on the following domains: LITERATURE (not classic), MEDIA STUDIES, FILM STUDIES, VISUAL AND  PERFORMATIVE ARTS, and TEACHING (language and literature).

NeMLA 2023: Literature of Resistance

updated: 
Monday, June 13, 2022 - 1:27pm
Amanda Gonzalez Izquierdo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 29, 2022

For people of Latin America and the Caribbean, centuries of modernity/coloniality have resulted in continuous and compounding traumas that demand resilience. Yet, when we talk of resilience, are we ever naturalizing trauma and legitimizing the status quo, accepting that the way to be of oppressed peoples must always be in response to abusive conditions? Is it not possible that in focusing on resilience, we enable the continuation of unequal power structures by putting pressure on the oppressed to learn to adapt to what hurts us, rather than putting pressure on the world to destroy oppressive systems including racism, patriarchy, and capitalism? Instead of focusing on resilience, we should be imagining and enacting ways of being otherwise.

Away from Home: Black British Women’s Writing, 1970 and Beyond

updated: 
Sunday, June 12, 2022 - 9:26am
Camille S. Alexander/Tuskegee University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 1, 2022

The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 marked the beginning of an important period in British writing but also an era that largely silenced women writers—particularly women writers of colour. In the years following the arrival of the Windrush, the output of women writers of colour in the UK, or Black British women writers, increased. Yet, recognition of this group was not as forthcoming as acclaim and acknowledgement rested largely on male writers. While the work of all immigrant writers in the UK—particularly those texts that recount the lived experiences surrounding immigration—is critical to literature studies, women writers have historically been isolated to the margins of the canon.

Call for Papers-Vol. 4, Issue 1

updated: 
Sunday, June 12, 2022 - 9:26am
International Review of Literary Studies- IRLS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

Call for Papers-International Review of Literary Studies

Call for Papers:

Upcoming Volum 4, Issue 1 January-June 2022

International Review of Literary Studies (IRLS) is an International peer-review journal of literary studies that publishes original research articles, review papers, book reviews, and cutting-edge research informed by Literary and Cultural Theory. Acceptable themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

Postcolonial Crime Narratives as Social Critique

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 11:36pm
(NeMLA 2023)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

NeMLA Annual Convention (Niagara Falls, NY; 23-26 March 2023)

Postcolonial Crime Narratives as Social Critique (Panel)

Call for Papers-Vol. 4, Issue 1

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 2:47pm
International Review of Literary Studies- IRLS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

Call for Papers-International Review of Literary Studies

Call for Papers:

Upcoming Volum 4, Issue 1 January-June 2022

International Review of Literary Studies (IRLS) is an International peer-review journal of literary studies that publishes original research articles, review papers, book reviews, and cutting-edge research informed by Literary and Cultural Theory. Acceptable themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

Conference Ventana 4: Decolonial Dialogues from within and beyond the Global Margins

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:57pm
Ventana Conference on Latin America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 8, 2022

Extended deadline for

Call for Papers and Workshops

8th July 2022

 

 

Conference Ventana 4 has extended the deadline to receive applications for Papers and Workshops. The new date is Friday 8th of July 2022.

Bodily Transgressions in Fantastika Media: A Digital Symposium

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:56pm
Fantastika Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

Bodily Transgressions in Fantastika Media

A Digital Symposium: 12 November 2022

“Fantastika” – a term appropriated from a range of Slavonic languages by John Clute – embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror, but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk, Young Adult Dystopic Fiction, or any other radically imaginative narrative space. Our goal is to bring together academics, independent researchers, creators, and audiences who share an interest in this diverse range of fields with the aim of opening up new dialogues, productive controversies, and critical collaborations.

Insurgent Infrastructures

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 6:59am
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 5, 2022

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature

Call for Papers for Special Issue: Insurgent Infrastructures

Edited by Gabriella Friedman, Henry Ivry and Harriet Stilley

The Cultural Deliberation of Europe

updated: 
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 9:28am
Margriet van der Waal/University of Groningen
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Special issue working title: The Cultural Deliberation of Europe 

Intended journal: Continuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

Editors: Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam, NL), Margriet van der Waal (University of Groningen/University of Amsterdam, NL)

 

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Dante Decolonizer—Poet of Justice: Epistemic Plurality and the Ethical Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 10:02pm
Catherine Adoyo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Dante Decolonizer: Poet of Justice

Epistemic Plurality and the Ethical Imagination

 

…ché, per quanti si dice più li ‘nostro’… (Purgatorio, 15.55)

 This NeMLA sponsored seminar is designed to engage Dante’s interrogation of justice as an epistemically rooted, ethical imperative. This year’s speaker’s panel and subsequent roundtable seek to explore Dante’s attention to the centrality of epistemic plurality in the ethical imagination with respect to justice, as exemplified in key passages like: Inferno 3–5, 8, 26, 32–33; Purgatorio 10–11, 13, 15–18, 30–31; and Paradiso 3, 10–12, 17–21. 

Outlander and Crimes of the British Empire

updated: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 4:43pm
Erin E. MacDonald, Fanshawe College
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

I am in need of ONE essay for a collection called Outlander as Crime Fiction, pre-approved to be published by McFarland. A Ph.D. is preferred but please feel free to send your proposal even if you are a doctoral student. Email me if you would like to discuss an idea before submitting a proposal. At this point, I only need one paragraph describing your general topic/idea. The completed essay due date is flexible but I'm looking at probably Sept/Oct. 2022 at the latest. Most of the collection has already been written. 

Topic: Crimes of the British Empire in Diana Gabaldon's Lord John (and Outlander) Series

Ethics of Life Reconsidered: Coexistence in a Chronic Emergency

updated: 
Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 10:46am
ELLAK (English Language and Literature Association of Korea)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

deadline for submissions: June 30, 2022 full name / name of organization: ELLAK (English Language and Literature Association of Korea) contact email: ellakconference2022@gmail.com 

The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) presents its annual conference to be held virtually from Thursday, December 15 to Saturday, December 17, 2022. 

 

SUMMER SCHOOL 2022 »TACET AD LIBITUM! TOWARDS A POETICS AND POLITICS OF SILENCE« 24-29 JULY 2022 (Registration deadline: July 1, 2022)

updated: 
Monday, May 30, 2022 - 10:41am
WWU Münster / Graduate School Practices of Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

Silence (tacere or Schweigen) has been considered by Franz Rosenzweig among others as a subversive act or defiant stance of the tragic hero against overwhelming power mechanisms of necessity, i.e., totalization and universality. It has also, however, been regarded as an epiphenomenon (or a result) of marginalization and oppression by postcolonial theorists. The latters’ understanding marks silence as an end, a potential violent effect of the logics of exclusion and marginalization by “signifying machines”. The former understanding marks silence as a means of rendering mechanisms of powers inoperative.

FIRST FORUM 2022: ACCUMULATION AND EXCESS

updated: 
Monday, May 30, 2022 - 10:39am
USC Division of Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 15, 2022

FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2022

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

OCTOBER 20TH AND 21ST

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Accumulation and Excess

 

Accumulation and excess are rich, polymorphic concepts that can speak to local and global histories, radical filmmaking traditions and other poetic acts of defiance, or even the basic sensory schemata through which we experience our social and aesthetic environments. We seek to experiment openly with the articulation and intersection of these terms, as we examine how they are mediated, developed, and problematized by film, television, and other audiovisual forms.

 

(CFP: PAMLA 2022) The Fantastic and the Quotidian Filipino/a/x in the Diaspora

updated: 
Monday, May 30, 2022 - 10:38am
Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 10, 2022

PAMLA 2022 is excited to announce that the extended deadline for paper proposal submissions is July 10 for the 119th annual PAMLA Conference at the beautiful UCLA Luskin Conference Center and Hotel in Los Angeles, California!

Visit our conference portal CFP page and begin to search for a session that interests you! Once you’ve done so, you will hear back from your prospective presiding officer in the following days after the deadline.

--Presiding Officer(s)

[CFP] Thanatic Ethics International Conference: Response, Repair, Transformation

updated: 
Monday, May 30, 2022 - 10:37am
Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities, The Education University of Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces International Conference #2

Response, Repair, Transformation

 

 

Venue: Centre for the Study of Social Sciences (CSSSC), Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, Kolkata, India

Dates: December 12-14, 2022

Language: English

Deadline for submitting proposals: July 10, 2022

Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2022

● This conference will be held in person and participants will be expected to travel to the venue at their own cost, obtaining their visa as applicable.

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