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Translating the Future: Exploring the Impact of Technology and AI on Modern Translation Studies

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:53pm
CSMFL Academic Collection series
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

This book is an academic-edited volume (to be published by CSMFL Publications under its Academic Collection series) that explores the transformative impact of technology and artificial intelligence on the field of translation studies. This book aims to delve into the evolving landscape of translation in the digital age, highlighting the intersection of technology, AI, and translation practices. By examining the advancements, challenges, and opportunities presented by these emerging technologies, the book seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of how they are reshaping the field and paving the way for the future of translation.

Broad themes of the volume include the followings:

Graphic Psychiatry - Exploring Visual Narratives of Mental Health

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:44pm
Ronja Tripp-Bodola, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 19, 2023

 

Call for Papers, panel@ SAMLA 95, taking place on November 9-11, 2023, in Atlanta, GA


 

 

Graphic Psychiatry--Exploring Visual Narratives of Mental Health

 

26th Generative Art international Conference

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:41am
Argenia Assocition, Rome, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

GENERATIVE ART 2023
C A L L - F O R - P A P E R / P O S T E R / A R T W O R K S / P E R F O R M A N C E

“Air Pollution, Plastics, and Global Health”

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:40am
Savannah Schaufler
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Workshop for Early Career Researchers

“Air Pollution, Plastics, and Global Health

Organized by Savannah Schaufler

 

Type: 

Workshop

Dates: 

November 28-29, 2023

Abstract Submission Deadline:

August 1, 2023

Venue:

Online via Zoom

Subject Fields: 

Environmental Humanities; Health Humanities; Discard Studies; Human Ecology; Anthropology; Sociology; Human Behavior; Art and Visual Studies; Race Studies

 

PAMLA 2023: Critical Approaches and Responses to AI: Roundtable

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:48pm
Grant Palmer/ University of California, Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

120th Annual PAMLA Conference (2023): Portland, OR

Critical Approaches and Responses to AI: Roundtable

Abstract:

Virtual Conference: Literature and the Anthropocene in EFL Education

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 6:42am
Malin Lidstrom Brock / Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

English as a foreign language (EFL) education provides valuable opportunities to introduce global and intercultural perspectives on the challenges of the Anthropocene. One way to engage EFL learners critically with the Anthropocene and make its complexity more accessible, immediate, and meaningful to them is through literary studies. Literature has the power to challenge established ideas, inspire change, and offer fresh perspectives on real-world problems associated with the Anthropocene.

Calvino for the Next Millennium: New Perspectives

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:27am
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

2023 marks one-hundred years since Italo Calvino’s birth in 1923. Even before his death in 1985, he was considered a classic of 20th century literature; his career spans various crucial historical moments, from the Resistance to the Years of Lead, and encompasses various genres and modes of writing, from Neorealism to postmodernism.

Science and Technology in Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:26am
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Science and Technology area of NEPCA encourages proposals for presentations that explore the relation of science and technology (broadly defined) to popular culture and to American culture. We are particularly interested in putting science, technology, culture, and the humanities in conversation with one another. How are science and technology represented in popular culture? How do we use popular culture to understand science and technology? And how do we use science and technology to understand narratives, art, and culture? What do we gain, what do we risk by approaching science and technology from the lens of the humanities, the humanities from the lens of science, by putting these disciplines in conversation with each other? 

As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times, 1-2 December 2023, Sofia University

updated: 
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 5:08am
Department of English and American Studies, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times

01 – 02 December 2023

St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

  

A forum dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the

Department of English and American Studies &

the 135th anniversary of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

 

Keynote Speakers

Science and Fiction: Democracy, Narrative, and the Natural Sciences

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:26am
MMLA (Midwest Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

In conjunction with the conference theme of “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” this year’s Science and Literature permanent session invites papers which engage a related theme of “Democracy, Narrative, and the Natural Sciences.” In particular, it invites papers attentive to the scientific discourses moving through fictional texts as they reveal narrative and/or political commitments to democracy, equity, and justice. Submissions might engage but will hopefully not be limited by the following suggestions:

· Agricultural uplift in the works of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois

· Botanical and geographical metaphors for liberation in Black women’s nature poetry

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.

Energy Humanities - PAMLA Special Session

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:23am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Panel for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, OR. October 26 – 29 2023.

Sensation and Shifting Perspective

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:55am
Pacific, Ancient, and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

This session brings together literary studies and the study of human sensation to question how literature acts as a representation or conduit of sensory knowledge. How can literature challenge our perspectives through unconventional representations of sensation? What are sensory aesthetics? What role do the senses play in eliciting feeling? How can recentering sensation open new pathways and epistemologies of identity and difference? The study of literature and sensation is particularly fertile grounds for the study of perspective: how do our senses shape our perspective? How does the separation of the senses into five distinct categories, as is it commonly depicted, foreclose possibilities for more complex depictions of human experience?

Space in Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:47am
The Warburg Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

SPACE IN TIME: FROM THE HEAVENS TO OUTER SPACE

The Warburg Institute

12–13 October 2023

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

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

 

Malady

updated: 
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - 12:11pm
Georgetown University (EGSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 20, 2023

The English Graduate Students’ Association (EGSA) at Georgetown University invites submissions for our 2023 conference, “Malady,” taking place October 20th and 21st in Washington DC. 

Digital Platforms and Agency

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10:06am
Lateral: A Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Read full call here: https://csalateral.org/upcoming/#digital-platforms-agency

 

How do digital platforms shape our agency, and how do we shape digital platforms in turn? What is the role of digital platforms in forming our social, cultural, and political practices?  How and whom do digital platforms (dis)empower? This special section of Lateral invites scholars from diverse fields to advance critical cultural inquiry at the convergence of platforms and agency on digital, networked, and/or new media. 

ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 9:59am
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

The 2023 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the Literature and Science Hub at the University of Liverpool. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from anywhere in the world.

Electricdreams - Between fiction and society II / The (Post)human Condition in Times of Crisis: The Interplay between Artificial Intelligence, Otherness, and Environmentalism

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 5:06am
IULM
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Call for papers for an international in-person conference on speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy fiction to be held in Milan, Italy, October 18-20, 2023. The conference is organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan, in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group.

Fields of interest: literature, cinema, TV series, comics, games/videogames, new media, cultural studies.

Call for Special Issue Papers on Media & Information Literacy

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:59am
Journal of Cyberspace Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Journal of Cyberspace Studies (JCSS) is an international peer-reviewed free platinum open access journal that the University of Tehran Press biannually publishes on behalf of the “Cyberspace Policy Research Center” and the “UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture” with links to UNESCO’s IFAP thematic priorities.

The journal aims to contribute to the reinvigoration of the interdisciplinary intersections of cyberspace studies, and to provide a leading scholarly platform for publishing contributions to the field.

Celebrating the 12th Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week (24 – 31 Oct 2023), the Editors welcome submissions of scholarly articles on all MIL-related topics, particularly the following:

Media and Information Literacy Seminar 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:59am
UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture and University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 22, 2023

The UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture and University of Tehran are organizing the 2023 Media and Information Literacy Seminar with the main theme of “A Collective Global Agenda” on Wednesday, 25 October 2023, which coincides with the World Development Information Day and United Nations Day.

The Sixth Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Seminar commemorates the 12th Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023 (24 – 31 Oct) that highlights the 13th Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Conference and the seventh Youth Agenda Forum.

Unpacking Henri Bergson: Shifting Perspectives

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:58am
Nan Darbous Marthaller, MA / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1927. Bergson’s lectures were popular with not only academia, but public audiences as well. Bergson influenced the literary work of authors like Borges, Proust, and Woolf as well as the philosophical work of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Deleuze. In addition, Bergson, a talented mathematician, debated Einstein on the nature of relativity. Bergson’s work has had instrumental influence in the virtual reality gaming industry. Considering Bergson’s influence in art and science, this panel offers unbounded opportunities to explore and unpack his narratives as they relate to any number of themes related to shifting perspectives.

Future Spaces of Power: The Cultural Politics of Digital and Outer Spaces

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:44am
Caroline Alphin; E. Leigh Mckagen; Shelby Ward
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

This collection focuses on the cultural, global, political, and social narratives of future space(s).

We suggest that critiques of narratives and discourses about digital and virtual spaces,

artificial intelligence, space exploration, and even the colonization of space and planets can

provide needed insights about global futures, especially as they inform how we ought to and who

ought to live in the present with environmental destruction, information capitalism,

neoliberalism, and the remaining infrastructures of colonialism. The works here complicate the

"Narratives of Temporality: Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures" International Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:38am
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 5, 2023

This conference will provide a deeper look into the dynamic and complex relation between construction, codes, language, expression, on one side and the crisis of representations, traumas, discontinuities and tensions in discourses, on the other. This will be conducted according to three research areas:

  1. The anachronism

  2. Narratives and discourse

  3. The temporality of trauma and subjectivity

International Conference on Poetry Studies: "Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation"

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:37am
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.

"Narratives of Displacement" International Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:37am
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will particularly focus on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. The subject of displacement will be regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”.

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

DEADLINE EXTENDED: The Solarpunk Conference 2023: Imagine, Act, Thrive: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 8:22pm
The Solarpunk Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 8, 2023

Call for Presentations – The Solarpunk Conference 2023: Imagine, Act, Thrive

Solarpunk is a new genre of speculative science fiction art, literature, and media, as well as a growing social movement. Solarpunk portrays a vision of an accessible, equitable world either without systemic barriers, or with those barriers in the process of disassembly, while championing intersectional social and climate justice. Drawing on ideas from permaculture, post- and trans-humanism, social ecology, and anarcho-socialism, while reacting against late stage capitalism, Solarpunk declares that our world is worth saving, and that saving it is possible.

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