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Teaching While Anxious: The Pedagogy of Anxiety in 2024

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:24pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In a 2019 special issue of Pedagogy, Shawna Ross and Douglass Dowland coined the term “Anxious Pedagogies” to encourage approaches that would theorize the complex functions of anxiety in the classroom.  Ross and Dowland posit the composition classroom as “a site of a seldom-described but sensorially palpable risk for both student and instructor” (510).  Today, in the wake of a pandemic and skyrocketing rates of student and instructor anxiety, the humanities classroom has become an even riskier space in many ways, as global, local, political, and discipline-specific factors pose ever more explicit threats to the process of teaching and learning.

 

Mindfulness in the Academy: Multitasking and Attention (Roundtable -- NeMLA 2024)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:16am
Matthew Leporati / Donetta Hines / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

NeMLA 2024 Roundtable: Mindfulness in the Academy: Multitasking and Attention

This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on mindfulness' ability to assist instructors and students alike in juggling their many tasks, roles, responsibilities, and deadlines.

Deadline approaching--Teacher Development Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 10:15pm
Symposium Organizing Committee / Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Deadline approaching--Teacher Development Symposium

Assisting the Professional Development of Teachers

The 2024 Teacher Development Symposium will be held online on Saturday 20th January from 1:00 to 6:00 pm JST.

The symposium is a chance for teachers, trainee teachers and researchers involved in language education to share their research, ideas, activities and opinions related to the profession.  The symposium is also an excellent opportunity to meet fellow teachers, researchers and trainee teachers from the central Japan region and beyond. 

 

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field (TPS Collective): Fall 2023

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
Notes from the Field [TPS Collective]
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field: Fall 2023 

Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is accepting submissions about teaching and working with primary sources for three series of peer-reviewed blog posts: “Student Perspectives,” “Accessibility in Primary Source Instruction,” and “Primary Sources for K–12 Audiences.” These series are intended to highlight a broad range of voices from all sectors of the TPS community. Please see the calls below for more information.

Series One: Student Perspectives

Call for Session Proposals -- ELA Pedagogy Conference

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 1:54pm
Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023
  • Conference theme: Connections
  • Date and location of conference: Friday, October 27, 2023 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma 
  • Length of conference sessions: 45 minutes 
  • Length of session proposals: 100 - 150 words
  • Session proposal deadline: EXTENDED to October 1, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST
  • To submit session proposals, CLICK HERE 
  • Conference registration deadline: October 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST

THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP “NOT DISABLED, JUST DIFFERENTLY-ABLED”

updated: 
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 11:14pm
Faculty of Letters of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

 

“NOT DISABLED, JUST DIFFERENTLY-ABLED” is the motto-title of this WORKSHOP as it is intended to raise awareness and help us change perspective not only of the way we perceive people with additional needs but of the way it may be faced with exclusion because of the lack of knowledge. As luck would have it, over the years, there has been a shift in the way society views people with special needs from "disabled" rather to "differently-abled". This is a comprehensive phrase that is used to promote a more inclusive and respectful approach to disability, highlighting the unique skills and refreshing perspectives that individuals withspecial needs bring to society.

LAST CALL: Digital Humanities (PAMLA 2023 - Portland, Oregon)

updated: 
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 1:59am
Ariana Lyriotakis / Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2023

Last call! We are looking for one more presenter to round out our panel. If you are interested, please see details below:

Collaborative Scaffolding: Shifting Perspectives and the Future of Digital Humanities

120th session of PAMLA (all in-person - no hybrid or remote presentations)

Oct. 26-29, 2023 - Portland, Oregon

Special Session - CFP

CFP: Pedagogy at CEA 2024 (3/21-3/23/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:49pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

TRANSFORMATIONS 

 

JOIN CEA IN ATLANTA!

 

The Big Peach. The ATL. The Dogwood City. Atlanta is a city always reimagining itself. The city’s history parallels America's own complicated and continuing story. This spirit of TRANSFORMATION—the theme of CEA 2024—is captured in the city's seal featuring a phoenix rising from the ashes. The image captures Atlanta's resilience as a city in how it emerged from the devastation of the Civil War to become a modern industrial metropolis, the center of the movement for Civil Rights, and what the New York Times describes as “hip-hop’s center of gravity.”

 

University of Toronto Quarterly - General Submissions CFP

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:32pm
University of Toronto Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

University of Toronto Quarterly (UTQ) is currently seeking submissions. Established in 1931, UTQ publishes innovative and exemplary scholarship from all areas in the humanities. The journal welcomes articles, in English or French, on art and visual culture, gender and sexuality, history, literature and literary studies, music, philosophy, theory, theatre and performance, religion, and other areas of the humanities not listed here. As an interdisciplinary journal, UTQ favours articles that appeal to a scholarly readership beyond the specialists of a given discipline or field.

Mentoring for Scholars of Color - Roundtable for NeMLA 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:30pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention will be held in Boston March 7-10 2024.

We are soliciting papers for our roundtable, entitled "Mentoring Scholars of Color." The roundtable was very popular at last year's session, and we want to resume conversations about best practices for mentoring diverse scholars today. The goal is to create a safe space for scholars of color to meet and discuss the challenges and opportunities in the area of mentorship among scholars of color.

Bridge Between Japanese Popular Culture and Language Teaching

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:29pm
Katsuya Izumi / Trinity College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

It has been challenging to maintain healthy enrollments in Japanese language courses at all college levels in the U.S. Although this problem is more serious in small liberal-arts colleges, state universities also have the same problem especially in their advanced Japanese courses. If we think about the prevalence of Japanese popular cultural products such as anime, manga, music, games, V-tubers, and traditional artifacts among college students in the United States, we cannot easily understand why the number of students who learn Japanese has been decreasing in many institutions.

Twenty-second Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:58am
Claflin University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Twenty-second Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

November 1-2, 2023

THEME: THE IMPACT OF AI ON WRITING AND READING

Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Concurrent sessions

Thursday, November 2, 2023, Concurrent sessions

11 AM EST Plenary session speaker: Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2021-23, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA.

*(Participants not residing in the United States may request a virtual option)

Theology Without Walls: An Assessment and Critique

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:56am
SHERM Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

In 1982 Robert Neville wrote, “The encounter of Christianity with the world’s other religions has shaken Christian theology to its foundations.” One recent response to this trauma is the so-called “theology without walls” movement, in which Neville has been an active participant. Unlike another response, namely comparative theology (which remains “confessional” or married to the truth of one’s starting or “home” religion), theology without walls is willing and eager to explore other religions—even non-religious sources—in what Jerry Martin calls “an effort to understand ultimate reality as fully as possible.”

NeMLA 2024: Refusal, Disruption, and Persistence in Academia (WGS Roundtable)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:42am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

At the 2023 “Resilience, Failure, and Academic Identity” Roundtable, we participated in a candid conversation that generated inspiring ideas about “thrivance” and saying, “NO” in multiple and strategic ways. Building on this discussion, the 2024 WGS Sponsored Roundtable “Refusal, Disruption, and Persistence in Academia” focuses on strategies such as refusal, disruption, and persistence in academia from an intersectional perspective that focusses on gendered racialization.

A Surplus of Options?: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Language and Literature Classroom

updated: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 12:15pm
Jeanne Marie Rose / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

****Deadline Approaching****

The next Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention will be held in Boston, MA, from March 7-10, 2024. The roundtable "A Surplus of Options?: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Language and Literature Classroom" is seeking abstracts (200-300 words) consistent with the conference theme of SURPLUS.

 

Overcoming Instrumental and Post-humanistic Education - NEMLA panel & edited volume

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:08am
NEMLA 2024 - Boston
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Instrumental curricula focus on direct, concrete, and explicit causal and quantifiable relationships between programs of study and reductive interpretations of the demands of society and the labor market. Within this broadly appealing system, STEM education and professional programs effortlessly justify their value as essential in any formal educational environment. Although societies and labor markets consistently assert the critical importance of and urgent need for people equipped with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions derived from humanistic education, instrumental systems frequently relegate the humanities to a secondary position of positive complementarity, worthy of investment solely when time and budget constraints permit.

Journal Submissions: Indiana English

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
Indiana English / Indiana College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Indiana English, a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Indiana College English Association, encourages submissions on the role of English studies in the Midwest but will consider submissions on any topic related to English literature and criticism, linguistics, or pedagogy. We are particularly interested in narratives that explore the recent struggles our colleagues have had with AI. We also publish original creative work (fiction, poetry, creative or literary nonfiction, and photography).

Submission Instructions:

  • Scholarly articles should be between 4,000-10,000 words, include an abstract of no more than 300 words.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Special Volume on Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Critical Thinking

updated: 
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 11:19am
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

The growing potential of artificial intelligence to generate content undetectable to plagiarism checkers has created a sense of urgency across higher education.  What are the pedagogical and curricular implications of artificial intelligence for writing and critical thinking?  What are the pedagogical and curricular responses to this rapidly advancing technology that is both widely available and affordable? 

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites submissions for a special volume on Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Critical Thinking.

Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2023.

Vonnegut Surplus, Surplus Vonnegut (NeMLA 2024 Kurt Vonnegut Society Session)

updated: 
Monday, July 3, 2023 - 7:47am
Kurt Vonnegut Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Kurt Vonnegut Society is seeking 250-word abstracts for a panel session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Boston, MA, March 7-10, 2024.

Northeast Modern Language Association - University at Buffalo

All submissions must be made through the following link: View Session (cfplist.com)


Vonnegut Surplus, Surplus Vonnegut

In line with this year’s convention theme, the Kurt Vonnegut Society seeks abstracts that consider what we might call “Surplus Vonnegut” or “Vonnegut Surplus.”

Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

Milton’s Place in the Profession: Global Perspectives (RSA 2024) *deadline extended*

updated: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023 - 11:28am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The Milton Society of America seeks to assemble a roundtable at the RSA 2024 on the shifting role of teaching and writing about the work of John Milton in the academic profession today, in different places across the world. Although some of our conversations will revolve around the serious institutional and vocational challenges that many Miltonists confront, we also hope to hear about creative responses to those challenges as well as contexts in which Milton scholarship is beginning to take hold or developing in new ways. Participants will be asked to open with brief (approximately seven-minute) prepared remarks in order to allow ample time for conversation and discussion.

Navigating Alt-Ac: Beyond Higher Education

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:38pm
Mridula Sharma/ Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

A professional career in the academy is perceived as a desirable, if not the only, outcome of doctoral study. Many students in the humanities are, however, keen to leverage the skills they acquire during graduate study to identify and apply to jobs in the creative and cultural industries. Lately, even students who are determined to become academics have been forced to reevaluate their plans owing to lack of adequate faculty positions for recent PhDs in academia and systematic attacks on pay as well as working conditions. Falling enrollment in the humanities has exacerbated precarity in the form of a below-inflation pay rise and increased casualization.

'How do I write what I don’t know?': Mastering Grant Application Writing

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:37pm
Samadrita Kuiti/ Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The decline of the humanities in recent years triggered by falling enrollment numbers and coupled with pandemic-induced budget crunches have ushered in various forms of economic precarity for graduate students across North America, Europe, and beyond. The importance of securing funding to finish a dissertation, a master’s thesis, and miscellaneous short-term and long-term research projects cannot, therefore, be overstated for graduate students across the board. As such, this GSC-sponsored roundtable will attempt to answer some pressing questions about mastering grant-writing and fellowship-application writing, a genre of academic writing about which graduate students often receive very little formal training at a departmental level.

Preparation for Profession: Sharing Information for Early Career Teaching

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:36pm
Priya Kumari/ Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Many graduate students within the broader humanities and social sciences want to pursue a teaching career either inside or outside the boundaries of higher education. As such, the time they spend working as teaching assistants and instructors of record in the college classroom constitutes valuable experience to them in many ways. In the absence of insufficient pedagogical resources and curricular training, the processes of developing and creating original courses and assignments aside from working through classroom management issues become difficult for graduate students.

Anti-Oppressive Practice and Transformative Pedagogy: Building Community in an Unstable World

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:30pm
Sheena Jary / McMaster University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Educational commitments to anti-oppressive practices and transformative pedagogies are under fire as we witness the escalation of neoliberal political interventions into higher educational institutions. Many of us work to create more inclusive understandings of the classroom community and challenge our students to engage in difficult conversations at the same time that “anti-woke” legislation and conservative politicians promote hegemonic views of the higher education classroom and privilege certain communities. Unlearning and challenging systems of power, as bell hooks notes, are important aims in transformative pedagogies that encourage critical thinking and responsible engagement with learning.

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