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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

updated: 
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

updated: 
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).

'Poetry Off the Page' Blog

updated: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - 6:08am
Poetry Off the Page
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

'Poetry off the Page’ Blog

Poetry off the Page is an online, international platform for anyone interested in the study and analysis of Anglophone spoken word and poetry performance from the 1960s to the present day.

Re-thinking the Postcolonial: Texts and Contexts

updated: 
Monday, September 9, 2024 - 10:05pm
NEW LITERARIA JOURNAL IN COLLABORATION WITH ASSAM UNIVERSITY(A CENTRAL UNIVERSITY), INDIA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS

New Literaria Journal, in collaboration with the Department of English, Assam University(A Central University), India invites papers for its International e-Conference on ‘Re-thinking the Postcolonial: Texts and Contexts’ to be held on 25th, 26th and 27th September, 2020.

 

CONCEPT NOTE

Gender, Culture and Society

updated: 
Monday, September 9, 2024 - 10:05pm
New Literaria
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL PROPOSALS

3rd International e-Conference

Gender, Culture and Society

Date: 26th, 27th, and 28th November, 2022

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

and

Department of English and Foreign Language, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur

           

Concept Note:

4th International e-Conference "On Exploring Crisis in Literary and Cultural Studies" to be organized by New Literaria Journal in collaboration with the Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan (CURaj), India

updated: 
Monday, September 9, 2024 - 10:04pm
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

4th International e-Conference

On

 

Exploring Crisis in Literary and Cultural Studies

Date: 19th & 20th October, 2023

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

in collaboration with

Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan (CURaj), India

 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 Mode: Online

Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia and India's North-East Region

updated: 
Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 2:11am
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies, in particular literature, poetry, music, art, society, as well as politics and diplomacy. We are interested in the use of diplomacy in the arts as well.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

Film Studies: Research Articles focusing on Southeast Asia, China, East Asia, and India's Northeast

updated: 
Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 2:11am
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Film Studies in the geographical areas of Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies. Authors may use any thematic or theoretical discourse such as gender, race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and others.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 8:38pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

A World Unknown: New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 15 2024

Retheorizing Theory: Claiming Space for the African/ African Diaspora Woman Writer as Theorist

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:58am
Renee Schatteman/ Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

This panel proposes to examine the works of women writers from Africa and the African diaspora who have extensive oeuvres, which include creative work (often of multiple genres) as well as analytical writing (in forms such as essay, interviews, speeches, and other occasional pieces), to posit the argument that the creative work they produce performs theoretical work  in exploring the complexities, contradictions, and dilemmas facing the ever-changing postcolonial environment.

The Diasporic Eighteenth-Century (sponsored by the Graduate Student and Early Career Scholars Caucus (GECC

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:57am
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

This panel addresses the emerging diasporic consciousness that accompanied the movement of people and changes in ecologies in the eighteenth century. Extending last year’s two-part roundtable “Eighteenth Century in Motion” to the question of Diaspora, participants are invited to consider questions including but not limited to:

While the ‘diasporic eighteenth century’ offers proliferating instances of movement, what are some ways to simultaneously consider communities and people subjected to increased physical, discursive, and representational confinement?

What are some circumatlantic relations that the diasporic eighteenth century allows us to consider?

10th Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference 2024

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:34am
Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur

10th Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference 2024

November 1920, 2024

Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India

Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:34am
Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Panel for the 2025 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting (online, May 29 - June 1, 2025).

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University)

Deadline for proposing a paper: October 14, 2024

To propose a paper, please visit the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting (the portal for submitting an abstract will open on September 13)

Decolonial Hope: Planetary Sustainability, Solidarity, and Transformation

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - 1:35am
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Special Issue on

Decolonial Hope: Planetary Sustainability, Solidarity, and Transformation

 

Link to the CFP on the journal's website: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/decolonial-hope-planet...

 

Special Issue Editor(s)

Goutam Karmakar, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

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