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ISR Special Issue: 'Conceptualizing Heterodox Palaeoscience'

updated: 
Thursday, February 3, 2022 - 12:20pm
Richard Fallon and Edward Guimont
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 6, 2022

Call for a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on the topic of 'Conceptualizing Heterodox Palaeoscience'

Science has gone down into the mines and coal-pits, and before the safety-lamp the Gnomes and Genii of these dark regions have disappeared … From within them she has brought the bones, and pieced together the skeletons, of monsters that would have crushed the noted dragons of the fables at a blow.

-Charles Dickens, review of The Poetry of Science by Robert Hunt, Examiner (9 December 1848)

A Collective Address to Death (Conference)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 7:27pm
The Ohio State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 28, 2022

Call for Submissions 

A Collective Address to Death 

The Ohio State University Comparative Studies Department 

Spring Conference | May 13th-14th, 2022 

(In-person or virtual TBD) 

A Collective Address to Death

The Ohio State University Comparative Studies Department seeks submissions for a spring graduate conference to be held on May 13th-14th, 2022. This conference aims to extend the conversations generated through a graduate seminar centered on Religion, Medicine, and the Body to scholars across disciplines, by providing an opportunity to collectively address themes of death, dying, and what comes after. 

Special Issue of East-West Cultural Passage

updated: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 7:20pm
Ana-Karina Schneider/ Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Special Issue: Literacy in the Digital Age. June 2023

 

Deadline: 1 November 2022

 

International Virtual Conference on Religion, Spirituality, and Society: Health

updated: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 7:18pm
Research Center on the Dialogue between Science and Theology of „Ovidius” University of Constanta, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 25, 2022

#CFP: Invitation to submit papers on HEALTH, from a religious, spiritual, or secular point of view.
Virtual attendance during May 20-28, 2022

Talking Place: A Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 7:02pm
Manchester Metropolitan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 11, 2022

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Is place central to your work, your creativity, or your understanding?

This symposium, organised by WomenTalkPlace and supported by the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, will provide a platform for conversations between those who find inspiration from their environment, whether that be the countryside, the city, or the places in between. The relationship with place might inspire acts of creativity, philosophical debate, or be a guide for day-to-day living. Sometimes this might engender a feeling of connection, but also less comfortable and more problematic responses.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Between Heaven and Ground: Exploring new atmospheres

updated: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 5:24pm
Chantelle Mitchell/Jaxon Waterhouse
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 28, 2022

Between Heaven and Ground: exploring new atmospheres

 

The atmosphere is an ever-present component of the Earth, and although airy and diffuse, gives rise to an endless multiplicity of realisations, affects and presences. The epistemological and ontological vagueness of the atmosphere belies the criticality of the atmosphere as central to conditions of being (both human and more-than-human), and as a material site for attention and attunement. As Lyall Watson writes in Heaven’s Breath, ‘the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes… close to being a living tissue in its own right’ (1985: 146). 

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE “’…Only Connect’: Sites of Inclusion, Seclusion and Transformative Change and Creativity”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 3:06pm
[HERA] Humanities Education and Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 31, 2022

HERA invites research, papers, panels, and presentations embracing inclusivity in all aspects of the human conditions––including, but not limited to, race, class, gender, sexuality, age, veteran status, ability, power, ecology, sustainability. We encourage a wide and extensive representation of disciplines and interdisciplinary projects. Every field in the humanities, liberal & creative arts, and social sciences is appropriate. Our goal is to foster the sharing and expressing of the humanities as an urgently important human enterprise––helping to clarify the crucial immediacy of the humanities and why they should be encouraged, supported, and sustained.

MLA 2023: Histories of Childhood and Medicine

updated: 
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 11:57am
Mary Gryctko / Northeastern University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

This panel investigates the centrality of childhood to the rapidly changing medical and scientific landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an era that saw the development of Darwin’s theories of evolution, the rise of wide-spread support within the scientific community for eugenics, and the medicalization of birth, of neurodivergence, and of gender and sex. Papers will interrogate how various scientific/medical discourses used actual children as subjects, and how these discourses relied on the imagined figure of the child to bolster scientific claims around “naturalness,” plasticity, race, and gender, and to justify invasive medical practices performed on both children and adults.

Call for book proposals: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 9:00am
Katarzyna Lecky, Loyola Chicago / UW-Madison
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures

A Bucknell University Press Series 

 

Aperçus is a series of books exploring the connections among historiography, culture, and textual representation in various disciplines. Revisionist in intention, Aperçus seeks monographs as well as guest-edited multi-authored volumes, which stage critical interventions to open up new possibilities for interrogating how systems of knowledge production operate at the intersections of individual and collective thought. 

Current Research in Speculative Fiction CFP 2022

updated: 
Friday, January 21, 2022 - 8:59am
CRSF, University of Liverpool
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2022

11th Annual Conference

30th June – 1st July 2022, University of Liverpool - https://crsfhome.home.blog/

 

“Always treat language like a dangerous toy.” (Ansel Hollo)

KEYNOTES:

Dr. Christy Tidwell (South Dakota School of Mine & Technology) Dr. Jalondra A Davies (Writer and Scholar)

WORKSHOP: Sell Your Stories: Writing and Submitting SFF Short Fiction.

Ecological Sensitivity. Media Techno-Aesthetics of Environmental Crisis

updated: 
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - 10:47am
Elephant&Castle #28/2022
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 20, 2022

The theme of environmental crisis has been present in the public debate for several decades, and forcefully resurfaced in 2015 when the 2030 Agenda containing the goals of sustainable development was launched, including the preservation of all forms of life, the struggle against global warming and the production of clean and renewable energy. In the same year, the publication of the papal encyclical Laudato si’ on “integral ecology” and the conclusion of the Paris agreements on climate change also prompted debate on this theme. Throughout the years, environmental issues have progressively permeated the realm of scientific research as well.

FROM LUCAS TO DISNEY: STAR WARS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

updated: 
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - 10:47am
Douglas Brode, Cyrus R. K. Patell, and Jamie Gabrielle Viray Uy
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The editors of a forthcoming volume are seeking concise essays of approximately 5,000 words about any aspect of Star Wars storytelling that has emerged since Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. We are seeking pieces that are academically rigorous, but accessible to the general reader.

Open Issue of Survive and Thrive (Spring 2022) & Poetry Issue (Fall 2022); also Peer Reviewers

updated: 
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - 9:49am
Survive and Thrive
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 28, 2022

Submissions (2/28/2022 & Rolling Thereafter)

 Survive and Thrive (S & T) seeks papers, creative nonfiction, personal narratives, poetry, visual arts, and media in the medical humanities for its open issue (nearly complete for Spring 2022) and its poetry issue (Fall-Winter 2022).  Deadlines for earliest consideration are the last day of February 2022;  deadlines for subsequent issues will roll throughout the year.  See https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/

 Aims & Scope (2/28/2022)

The Child of the Future, Call for Paper Proposals Deadline for submission: January 5th, 2022

updated: 
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 - 7:29am
University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

The Child of the Future Call for Paper ProposalsDeadline for submission: January 5th, 2022 University of Cambridge, St John's College | Thursday June 30th – Friday July 1st, 2022 "...the symbiont children developed a complex subjectivity composed of loneliness, intense sociality, intimacy with nonhuman others, specialness, lack of choice, fullness of meaning, and sureness of future purpose." (Haraway, 2016, Staying With The Trouble, p.149)  After living through a once-in-a-generation pandemic, whilst in the midst of a slowly-evolving climate crisis, our expectations about what the future of humanity will look like have been called into serious question.

Professing Literature / Professing Faith: A Roundtable Discussion - ALA 2022

updated: 
Monday, January 10, 2022 - 11:10pm
American Religion and Literature Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS
American Religion and Literature Society
American Literature Association
33rd Annual Conference
May 26-29, 2022
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe
Chicago, IL 60603

Professing Literature / Professing Faith: A Roundtable Discussion

The Role of the Humanities in Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: A CALS "Unprecedented" Webinar (1/21)

updated: 
Monday, January 10, 2022 - 3:09pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 21, 2022

 

 

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents

 

The Role of the Humanities in Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy

 

Friday, January 21, 2022, Noon–1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom

 

 Register here.

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sV4yrP4kS3-R3dCBBY2A_g

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email

Cavell and Kuhn: A Special Issue of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 - 11:39am
Conversations
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Cavell and KuhnSpecial Issue of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies Deadline for abstract submissions: May 15, 2022 Contact email:Brad.tabas@ensta-bretagne.frp.a.jenner@lboro.ac.uk   There is no question that Stanley Cavell and Thomas Kuhn deeply influenced one another. Both testify to this influence in their published writings. Cavell, for his part, announced that he could not “exaggerate the importance” of his “intellectual companionship” with Kuhn in the preface to The Claim of Reason.

Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance

updated: 
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 - 11:37am
Stefano Boselli and Sarah Lucie
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 28, 2022

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS 

Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance

Edited by Stefano Boselli and Sarah Lucie 

to be published by Routledge

Abstract proposals due by February 28, 2022

Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance is an intervention to reframe current theatre studies methodologies to attend to the broader spectrum of non-human actors and the crucial ways they exert agency in the theatre event. 

Society Must Be Inoculated: Covid-19, Governance, Propaganda

updated: 
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 - 11:05am
The University of California Santa Cruz and Irvine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 11, 2022

Since COVID-19’s first infection, the virus has mutated. Each expected virological mutation summons increased governmental and medical surveillance, received both positively and suspiciously by the public. The instituted state of exception was most aggressively diagnosed by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Agamben, however,  is not alone in theorizing the pandemic. Thinkers like Slavoj Zizek, Jean-Luc Nancy, Sergio Benevenuto, and Catherine Malabou have also published reflections on the virus’s spread. In fact, a veritable sub-section of academic publishing has emerged due to the virus.

Intersections and the Anthropocene: Sustainability, Ethics, and Gender

updated: 
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 - 10:57am
Catherine Thomas / Georgia Gwinnett College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 15, 2021

Call for Papers 

Intersections and the Anthropocene: Sustainability, Ethics, and Gender 

Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia 

March 31-April 1, 2022 

 

Review of submissions begins December 15th and ends February 15th. 

 

"What might eco-deconstruction be?"

updated: 
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 - 10:57am
Oxford Literary Review (45.1)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 31, 2022

Oxford Literary Review 45.1, July 2023. "What might Eco-deconstruction be?”

 

It is not I who deconstruct; rather, something I called ‘deconstruction’ happens to the experience of a world, a culture,

a philosophic tradition: ‘it’ deconstructs, ça ne va pas, there is something that budges, that is in the

process of being dislocated, disjointed, disadjoined, and of which I begin to be aware. Something is

‘deconstructing’ and it has to be answered for.” (Jacques Derrida, in A Taste for the Secret (2001).

 

(ACLA 2022) The Elemental and The Formless

updated: 
Monday, January 3, 2022 - 11:47am
Oliver Aas (Cornell University)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 15, 2022

This seminar departs from the idea that we need a clearer understanding of elemental forms—traditional and non-traditional—that are in different stages of becoming formless (loss, disappearance, transmutation etc.). On the one hand, we build up on the critical genealogy of the formless (l’informe), a concept once popularized by Bataille in the surrealist journal Documents (1929-30) and later taken up by Bataille’s readers, most famously by Rosalind Krauss & Yves-Alain Bois (1997) and Georges Didi-Huberman (1995). While, on the other hand, we also welcome proposals that conceptualize the formless through different disciplinary vantage points and bring it to bear on the question of elemental forms.

*FINAL REMINDER* Special issue of Hélice: Speculative Landscapes

updated: 
Saturday, January 1, 2022 - 7:30am
Hélice: Critical Thinking on Speculative Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report concludes, our planet’s landscapes are rapidly undergoing drastic short-term transformative changes due to anthropogenic factors. The wholesale thawing of Arctic permafrost stands to exacerbate planetary warming to runaway levels (p. 1270); droughts in arid areas are massively exacerbated by agricultural activity (p. 1984); greenhouse gas emissions disrupt natural weather systems so greatly that new microclimates emerge (p. 3514); ocean acidification threatens the viability of aquatic ecosystems (p. 1200); biodiversity is in rapid decline around the globe (p. 211); sea level rise will reclaim vast areas of low-lying land (p.

Feeling, Form, Mind: A Conference on the Thought of Susanne K. Langer

updated: 
Monday, December 20, 2021 - 5:03am
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 6, 2022

Feeling, Form, Mind: A Conference on the Thought of Susanne K. Langer

An interdisciplinary conference by the Susanne K. Langer Circle in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

June 22–24, 2022

Susanne K. Langer (*1895; † 1985) is widely known for her contributions to a variety of fields ranging from the philosophy of art to mathematical logic. Her thought continues to be felt across diverse traditions, in theory as well as in artistic practice. 

14th International Conference on Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences(HPSCONF)

updated: 
Monday, December 13, 2021 - 8:02pm
Acavent
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 8, 2022

We are pleased to welcome you to the 14th International Conference on Humanities, Psychology and Social Sciences. Taking place on the 29th- 31st of July in the vibrant city of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, it will bring together a truly international community of academics to share experiences and exchange research findings on all aspects of specialized and interdisciplinary fields. This is a premier learning opportunity, combined with vibrant networking activities and engaging discussions on the latest innovations, trends, and practical concerns and challenges in the field.

The Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium Third Annual Conference--Digital Pandemic Studies: Public Health and Structural Oppressions

updated: 
Monday, December 13, 2021 - 8:02pm
The Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 31, 2021

The Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium (CDHC) invites submissions for its third annual conference: Digital Pandemic Studies: Public Health and Structural Oppressions In the early 2020s we as citizens of the world find ourselves grappling with two pandemics - COVID-19 and its long tail, race and structural oppressions in public life, and all the places where these two intersect. With this in mind, the Chesapeake Digital Humanities Conference invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2022 CDHC on any topic related to the COVID-19 pandemic and/or structural oppressions in public life, and in particular where the two intersect.

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