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Linguaculture Journal - Special issue on CULTURAL EXCHANGES

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Monday, October 17, 2022 - 11:12pm
Linguaculture Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

This thematic issue of LINGUACULTURE deals with mobility and cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia from a humanities perspective, with a focus on the English speaking world. We invite contributions in the fields of literature, language, cultural and translation studies, as well as interdisciplinary approaches dealing with the past or present movement of people and ideas between the two continents, especially in relation to the Anglophone world, highlighting from individual experiences to larger societal phenomena. Papers that focus on representations of intercultural encounters (e.g.

Afro-Hispanism and the Arts in and beyond Africa

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Monday, October 17, 2022 - 11:01pm
African Literature Association- Luso-Hispanophone Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

 

 

JALA Special Issue on Afro-Hispanism and the Arts in and beyond Africa

ACLA 2023: Transnational Arabic Studies

updated: 
Monday, October 17, 2022 - 10:37pm
Karim Mattar / University of Colorado at Boulder; Yasser Elhariry / Dartmouth College
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 30, 2022

What do the words “Arab” and “Arabic” mean today? What have they meant historically? What continuities and ruptures do they signify in contemporary discourses of the Middle East? In a world in which conflict, migration, transnational movements, the blurring of borders, and (self-)translation have become everyday realities for millions of Arabs, these questions have attained new urgency. In this seminar, we explore the relationship between the Arabic language and Arab identity and community in the transnational contexts that have long defined both.

Cultures of the Political Left in Modern India

updated: 
Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:22am
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 5, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Cultures of the Political Left in Modern India

12-13 December, 2022

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay

 

Caribbean Literature at CEA 2023 (March 30 – April 1, 2023 )

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Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:22am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Call for Papers, Caribbean Literature at CEA 2023

March 30 – April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, TX

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

 

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Caribbean Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

 

The general conference theme is “confluence,” so we are especially interested in presentations that feature topics relating to our theme of confluence in texts, disciplines, people, cultural studies, media, and pedagogy.

Afropresentism as Verb and Aesthetic

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Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:15am
Jasleen Singh, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The Present is the Future in Motion: Afropresentism as Verb and Aesthetic 

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) 2023 Conference, York University – Toronto, 27-30 May 2023 (part of the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference)

Panel Organizer: Jasleen Singh (she/her), University of Toronto, ja.singh@mail.utoronto.ca

Special Issue on Black Australian author Mudrooroo

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Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:13am
Australian Studies Journal / Zeitschrift für Australienstudien
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 16, 2022

The editors of the Australian Studies Journal are inviting contributions to a Special Issue on Black Australian author Mudrooroo (1938–2019), to be published October 2024. It will be guest-edited by Gerhard Fischer, UNSW Sydney.

Nearly 30 years after Mudrooroo's publicly rejected claim to Indigenous ancestry, and five years after the author's death in Brisbane (20 January 2019) following a decade of exile in India and Nepal, the proposed Special Issue will provide a first opportunity to re-appraise the complete oeuvre of one of Australia's most prolific, innovative and internationally renowned writers.

ACLA 2023 Panel Proposal: “Dante Beyond Western Culture: Translation, Transcultural Heritage, and Reception of the Commedia”

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Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:13am
Chiara Caputi, Benedetta Cutolo - The Graduate Center CUNY
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

T.S. Eliot considered Dante to be his stylistic and existential model and his Commedia a fundamental reading for the appreciation of modern poetry in any language. He maintained that Dante appealed to universal concepts, which is the aspect that made his poem successful throughout the centuries and across the world. According to the festival Dante nel mondo, realized by the municipality of Ravenna in 2016, there are 58 complete translations of the Commedia in European, Asian, African, and South American languages.

ACLA: Environment as Comparative Method

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Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 9:10am
American Comparative Literature Association 2023 Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Organizer: Christine Okoth (christine.a.okoth@kcl.ac.uk)

Co-Organizer: Trisha Remetir (trisha.remetir@ucr.edu)

We are seeking participants for a seminar for the 2023 American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, which will take place at the Sheraton Grand in Chicago, Illinois, March 16-19, 2023.

In ACLA seminars, participants share drafts of their work with seminar panelists prior to the conference. The seminar meets over multiple days to discuss their pre-circulated drafts.

ACLA: Unfinished : The Theory and Praxis of Incompletion

updated: 
Monday, October 10, 2022 - 2:56pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Organizers: Madeleine Reddon (Loyola University Chicago) and Jeff Noh (Clark University)

ACLA: Human Rights Literature and the Politics of Responsibility

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Monday, October 10, 2022 - 1:45pm
American Comparative Literature Association 2023 Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

In recent decades, human rights have risen to prominence as a “dominant discourse for addressing issues of social justice” (Swanson Goldberg and Schultheis Moore 2012, 4). Scholars have demonstrated (and interrogated) the role that literature has played in human rights’ ascension–from the novel’s progressive expansion of the category of the “human” (Hunt 2007), to the widespread (albeit compromised) liberal belief that conveying narratives of suffering to concerned publics can promote justice (Schaffer and Smith 2004), to the evidence that “human rights bestsellers” shore up American militarism and neoliberal imperialism (Anker 2012). 

Borders of New Earth: Blue Ecocriticism, Geophilosophy and Decoloniality

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Monday, October 10, 2022 - 1:42pm
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Very few attempts have been made so far to decolonize the expanse of Blue Humanities, yet it stands as an ensemble of creative renewals. With Ian Buchanan’s ‘Must we eat Fish’ we get to encounter the topography of such renewals. With his essay Buchanan effects a relation between ‘the foundational non-humanity of our being’ and oceans while Probyn, whose standpoint he critiques, seeks a persistence of exploitative humanist relationality with the same in the guise of “amplifying the level of felt relatedness to it”.

CFP for Proposed ACLA Seminar: “Global Literary History and Peter J. Kalliney’s The Aesthetic Cold War (2022)”

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Monday, October 10, 2022 - 1:05pm
Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Kentucky
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

It is a commonly adopted procedure within postcolonial studies to situate literary objects of the colony in relation to the cultural heritage of the colonizer. Whether read under the “writing back” rubric, or as instances of “hybridity” and “creolization,” postcolonial texts are commonly conceived in terms of an exchange taking place between center and periphery. But recent work on “the global cold war” (Westad 2005) promises to overturn conventional protocol. As a result of this paradigm, we have begun to view the postwar years as characterized by a global contest between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

ICA Panel CFP: Online LGBTQ Discourse + Rhetoric

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Monday, October 10, 2022 - 1:04pm
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, UNC
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 20, 2022

 

Hello from Nanditha Narayanamoorthy and Yvonne Eadon, postdoctoral research scholars from the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at UNC Chapel Hill. We are looking to convene a 6-paper panel for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies Interest Group at the International Communication Association (ICA) 2023 in Toronto. 

 

The Ambivalent Machismo: Representation, Mediascape, and Female Leads in Cinema

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Monday, October 10, 2022 - 12:50pm
Postcolonial Studies Association newsletter
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 13, 2023

Carrie Paechter, in her article “Rethinking the possibilities for hegemonic femininity: Exploring a Gramscian framework” (2018)6, discusses the challenges and possibilities of conjuring a space where the discursive model of feminine essentialism can be better perceived as a binary opposite of hegemonic masculinity and patriarchal oppression. A few popular generic spaces within the mediascape, where machismo claims a front row within the psyche of the audience, have hitherto been dominated by male leads. Since the early 2000s, media representation has been witnessing a tangible shift with the emergence of female leads. The characters played by women started appearing more convincing.

Edward Long in the Twenty-First Century Caribbean

updated: 
Monday, October 10, 2022 - 12:49pm
ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 24, 2022

Following a ceremony (winter 2021) in which Barbados officially removed Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, Prince William and Kate Middleton visited Jamaica. They were met with protestors calling for apologies and reparations from the British Crown. At least five other former British colonies besides Jamaica, including Belize, the Bahamas, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis have also indicated a desire to sever direct relationships with the British Monarchy. Considering 2023 marks the 210th anniversary of Edward Long’s death, the author of the famous three-volume History of Jamaica (1774), how might we read Long’s illustrated book when the British Caribbean seems less British?

Multispecies Entanglements in Literatures of the Global South: ACLA 2023

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Monday, October 10, 2022 - 12:47pm
Thakshala Tissera/University of Massachusetts Amherst and Sreyashi Ray/University of Minnesota
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

This panel aims to bring together the theoretical, methodological and political concerns of literary animal studies and postcolonial studies. As theoretical frameworks, the intersection of the two is not always free of contention. For instance, certain seminal postcolonial texts such as Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth have been noted to affirm a strongly humanist position in advancing the political project of reclaiming the humanity of the racialized, colonized subject. Nevertheless, the last decade has seen the growth of a significant body of work in literary studies and other disciplines that considers multispecies entanglements from postcolonial perspectives.

Caribbean Literature, Art, and Environmental Activism

updated: 
Monday, October 10, 2022 - 12:46pm
Journal of West Indian Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other arts performers have taken a leading role in protesting governmental failure and corporate responsibility for environmental destruction and disaster across the Caribbean. In the 2000s, Caribbean writers, filmmakers, visual and other artists have spoken truth to power in Puerto Rico and Dominica after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, in the struggle to preserve Jamaica’s Cockpit country from bauxite mining, and against extractive industries, tourism, and other environmentally destructive forms of development. In fact, writers and artists have been documenting, illuminating, and protesting environmental destruction since Caribbean cultural traditions emerged.

 

ACLA 2023: Theories and Practices of Empathy Across the World

updated: 
Monday, October 10, 2022 - 10:25am
Saumya Lal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

This seminar explores conceptions of empathy in various philosophical, cultural, and linguistic traditions across the world. The English word “empathy,” adapted from the German einfühlung and closely associated with the older term sympathy, is notoriously slippery. Scholars have identified various affective-cognitive processes that empathy connotes, including imagining oneself in others’ situations, comprehending others’ perspectives, feeling what others feels, feeling affected by others’ experiences, and caring for others. Investigating the premises and implications of these empathic processes, scholars have shown that attending to nuanced differences between notions of empathy enhances our understanding of its possibilities and limitations.

“DIASPORIC JAPANESE WRITERS:STRADDLING HAIKU AND ZEN"( ANNUAL ASIAN LITERATURES IN MOTION SERIES) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

updated: 
Monday, October 10, 2022 - 2:08am
Rising Asia Journal and Foundation ( www.rajraf.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 30, 2022

(For Abstracts)

Date of Conference: 16-17 November 2022.
On the Google Meet Platform.

HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: To present a paper in the conference, please email a 300-word abstract with a Title, Name of Presenter and Affiliation, and Presenter’s Email, to Rising Asia Journal’s Editorial Board member Professor Tuan Hoang: tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu  

Please mention “Rising Asia Conference” in the subject line of your email.

The Conference Administrators will contact you with further details. 

Before Maastricht: Identity and Place in European Writing before the EU

updated: 
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - 5:07am
Institute for English Studies, University of Luxembourg
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Call For Papers

27th-28th April 2023, Institute for English Studies, University of Luxembourg

Before Maastricht: Identity and Place in European Writing before the EU

Virtual papers welcome!

 

ACLA 2023 Seminar: South Asian Untranslatables

updated: 
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 9:38am
Eesha Kumar, Tyler Richard
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

South Asian texts and cultures offer a panoply of terms that are difficult to translate. Consider bhāva — a keyword in premodern philosophy, dramaturgy, and poetics — which may refer to an emotion, a meaning, an essential characteristic, a physical object, a living being, or existence itself. In contemporary South Asia, numerous colloquial terms such as timepass, jugaad, and aunty evoke nuanced existential states, techniques, and relationships that call for careful (and playful) theorization. 

Muslims in America

updated: 
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 9:35am
Syed Hassan Abidi / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

The panel intends to explore the depiction of Muslim American identity across various discourses and works of Muslim American authors, filmmakers, novelists, and musicians who draw upon such identities. The diverse emergence of Muslim American identity calls for insights that examine such identities depicted in various forms of text and talk. Keeping in context the theme of NeMLA’s 54th convention “resilience” the session draws on the theoretical underpinnings of Edward Said’s notion of Orientalism in order to further investigate discursive constructions of Muslim identities along with various discourses and the role Muslim Americans play in shaping these identities.

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