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Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:41pm
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the fifth issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

Black Genres of Political Theology

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:34pm
ACLA 2025 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development … but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for sociological consideration of these concepts. 

–Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (1922)

 

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE -- Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:44am
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

SPECIAL ISSUE – Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

Though some have dismissed the imagination as “the junkyard of the mind,” just about all artists will vouch for the fact that the imagination is not just essential but also central to the arts. This is true not only of the creation or production of artworks, it is the case also when it comes to the reception or experience of art.

Beyond Monogamy (NeMLA 2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:41am
Ketan Jain
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

In her 2017 debut novel Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney writes, “You can love more than one person” (Rooney 141). A statement so obvious, it’s not even worth stating. However, a simple edit—you can be in love with more than one person—suddenly becomes a much more controversial statement. 

Abjection and the Joy of Movement in African Female Writings

updated: 
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 2:38pm
Diweng Mercy Dafong/ University of Alabama (NeMLA 2025)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

As today we see Western countries enacting various immigration laws and borders are being mined to prevent “intruders” from accessing those countries. Faced with (in)security in sub-Saharan Africa the African woman has become that monster of abjection residing in that marginal geography, dwelling in the gates of difference in unfamiliar spaces. The African woman faced with (im)migration goes through a strong feeling of revulsion, fear, or aversion, she is treated as something that is a threat to one's boundaries and undermines one's sense of identity and security, exemplifying Kristeva’s idea of abjection.

Second Annual National Advanced Writing Symposium (NAWS) - Innovative Pedagogies and Student Engagement in Advanced Writing

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:28am
Christene d'Anca, University of California Santa Barbara
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Second Annual National Advanced Writing Symposium (NAWS) - Innovative Pedagogies and Student Engagement in Advanced Writing


Friday, January 31, 2025

The pandemic years have shown us that writing instruction needs to become more inclusive, more robust, and more compassionate. However, it has also challenged us to find new and innovative ways to maintain student engagement, foster participation, and address declining student attendance, among other concerns. 

Asian Influences in/on American Poetry

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:25am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

What effect has Asian thought or culture had in/on American poetry? How has it diversified or failed to diversify that poetry or its epistemology? This panel seeks papers on connections between American poetry/poetics and Asian culture, philosophy, and/or religion. Any connection is welcome including how poets have (mis)used Asian culture and/or thought in their poetry and thinking about poetry. However, in keeping with NeMLA’s theme of “(R)EVOLUTION,” I am particularly interested in affinities between ways of knowing in Asian thought and American poetry and how such affinities may disrupt traditional Western epistemologies or cause American and European readers to rethink their connection to the world.

Call for Chapters - Qualitative Research and Justice Education

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:23am
Co-Edited Volume
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research. 

See full CFP at link for further details. 

Class Con III: A Conference on Class and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:22am
Ray Browne Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

CLASS CON 2025 Call for Papers/Voices/Participation

March 14-15, 2025

Bowling Green State University, Jerome Library

Deadline to Submit December 1st, 2024

ONE MONTH TO DEADLINE - Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy: Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 6:45am
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy:

Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational

Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Milan, March 20th – 21st , 2025

 

                                                          

Keynote Speakers:

Adrian William Moore (University of Oxford)

Naoko Saito (University of Kyoto)

 

Organizers:

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* NeMLA 2025 Panel - “Theory in the Flesh”: The Function of Praxis in Resistance

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 1:35pm
Marina Malli, Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Focusing on the intersection of theory and practice, this panel calls for contemporary discussions of “theory in the flesh,” i.e., theory considering the material conditions of existence. While the panel is particularly interested in women of color writing, other engagements with the place of material reality in academia will be considered.

 

Broken Middles [ACLA 2025, Virtual]

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 11:41am
George Mather, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Against the backdrop of a 21st-century addicted to ‘origins’ and ‘ends,’ this ACLA seminar uses the work of Gillian Rose (1947-1995) to explore the possibilities of the ‘broken middle’. Contemporary politics and literature too often eschew the middle in favour of posited utopias: perceiving in the crisis of the present an imminent transcendence towards redemption (the nation-state made great again) or catastrophe (climate apocalypse); attempting to circumvent social institutions and the media in favour of direct relationships with the other; believing fervently in materiality, affect or corporeality ‘beyond’ the mediation of language (even as its residue).

Reading Reading: Contemporary Literary Practices - NeMLA: March 6-9, 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 10:08am
Malaika Sutter and Sofie Behluli
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

We are constantly engaged in processes of reading. We read literary texts, historical sources, films and other media, political moods and affects, and shifting social formations. Amongst the plethora of reading strategies available to us, close reading is perhaps the most widely known and most accepted one in literary studies (cf. I.A. Richards and William Empson). Other approaches to texts include ‘paranoid’ and ‘reparative reading’ (Sedgwick 1997), ‘distant reading’ (Moretti 2000), ‘wide reading’ (Hallet 2010), and ‘surface reading’ (Best and Marcus 2009), to name just a few. More recent research has examined intermedial reading practices (Rippl 2015), the reading of affects (Brinkema 2014), and non/institutional readers (Emre 2017). 

The Afterlives of Absurdism @ NeMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:44am
Daniel Amaral / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Northeast Modern Language Association 

March 6-9, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

 

Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism 

 

Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world. 

 

‘A Rebel with a Cause’: The Real Subversive Potential of Transgressive Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:31am
Rebecca Warshofsky / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

“In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking. / Now, heaven knows, Anything goes.” This epigraph begins Chris Jenks’ 2003 work Transgression, exemplifying the sense in which acts of transgression can have real, tangible, palpable effects on society. Jenks defines “transgression” as violating, infringing upon, or going beyond the limits set by a boundary or convention (2). Transgressive fiction, then, is the genre of literature that depicts various acts of boundary-crossing in order to analyze and criticize them for the purpose of reflecting upon the ideological constructions that its characters react against or wholly reject.

CFP: Guest Reviewers, New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 1:46pm
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Guest Reviewers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers.

New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise. 

The journal can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmnw20/current

George Saunders Society, ALA, Boston, MA, May 21-25, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
George Saunders Society / American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The George Saunders Society invites prospective participants for one or two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, to be held May 21 to 25, 2025. We are interested in presentations on any aspect of George Saunders’s life and work; in this, our fifth year of activity at ALA (returning after an absence in 2024!), we continue to be interested in papers that challenge, complicate, or go beyond the most common (particularly religious, ethical, or new sincerest) readings of the author’s work in the critical literature to this point. The topic is therefore open, but possible approaches might include:

Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation (ACLA 2025, virtual)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
Rusaba Alam (University of British Columbia) and Torin McLachlan (Capilano University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Please note that abstract submissions must be sent through the ACLA submission portal online. For details, see the seminar posting on the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/comparative-literature-and-politics-detranslation 

The 2025 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held virtually, May 29-June 1, 2025.

NeMLA 2025: : Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
Mamen Rodriguez
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Dates: March 6-9, 2025

Location: La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th , 2024

Panel Title: Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed

Panel Description: 

Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
Bennett University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

“Decolonial Utopia and the War to Be Human” 

Critical Survey Journal

Guest Editor: Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Bennett University, India 

Leading from the Center

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:59am
Southeastern Writing Center Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Location and Dates

Conference Theme: Leading from the Center

Time is Power: Temporality and Caste

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:49am
Gaurav Pathania and Bonnie Zare, Virginia Tech and Eastern Mennonite U
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

We are bringing out an edited collection of essays with the working title Time is Power: Temporality and Caste. Time is an ontological phenomenon organized around humans’ need for social interaction and collective life, often compelling individuals to be chrono-normative or abide by a rigid clock. Currently little scholarship exists which examines the power of time and temporal agency in an environment organized by systems of caste and other intersecting identities.

Call for submissions in all areas of narrative theory and studies

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:47am
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for submissions in all areas of narrative theory and studies

Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices. 

Our general issues support the publication of research in all areas relating to narrative studies, including, but not limited to:

Untangling Bioethical Dilemmas: Narrative Ethics and Bodily Rights

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 2:59am
Dr. Aloke Prabhu, O P Jindal Global University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Call for Proposal for Edited Book

Dr. Prabhu Aloke N (O P Jindal Global University)

Dr. Lisa Thomas (Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University)

Untangling Bioethical Dilemmas: Narrative Ethics and Bodily Rights

In the recent past, the study of ethics has diversified into emerging branches with interdisciplinary areas of studies. While such studies require specialization in different disciplines, they also demand application of theoretical and empirical knowledge. In a quest to broaden the understanding of ethics to its sub- field of bioethics, this book proposal seeks to collate works that center on narrative ethics within the discourse of bioethics.

Special Issue Call: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 6:09pm
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies

Special Issue Call for Abstracts: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”

Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 2:38pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research

A Transdisciplinary Conference

 

Date: November 9-10, 2024
Location: University of Oxford, UK
Online option available
Cost:        180 GBP
90 GBP (Online)
Abstract Deadline: Sep 30, 2024


Conference Webpage:
 https://labrc.co.uk/2024/04/21/alchemy/

ACLA 2025 (Online): Postcolonial South Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 11:21am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

In the Humanities, South Asia is usually understood as a set of plurilingual, multicultural nations. Each constituting nation is internally differentiated or socially stratified according to its economic and sociological power hierarchies. In other words, differences exist in different ways: caste, religion, gender, geopolitics, economics, etc. are a few of the markers. Reciprocal to these markers, different categories of ‘literatures’ are assumed to be the subsets of the broader category of ‘South Asian literature’. 

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