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Cause/Effect

updated: 
Monday, January 9, 2023 - 11:02am
Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 17, 2023

Cause/Effect

The 18th Annual Graduate Student Conference, April 28-29, 2023

Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago


 

"Causes explain because causes make the difference between the phenomenon occurring and its not occurring. This is connected to the idea of control, since we control effects through causes that make a difference, causes without which the effect would not occur."

-Peter Lipton, What Good is an Explanation?

 

The Iranian Yearbook of Phenomenology2024 3rd Issue: Basic Concepts

updated: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 10:48am
the Iranian Political Science Association-Gam-e-Nou Publisher
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 20, 2024


Call for Papers

 The Iranian Yearbook of Phenomenology2024

3rd Issue

Phenomenology: The Basic Concepts

 

Posthumanism and Environmental Poetics in American Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 10:21am
Journal Issue RSA Rivista di Studi Americani 34
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Issue #34 (2023) of RSA Journal: Rivista di Studi Americani, the official journal of the Italian Association for North American Studies (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani – AISNA) will feature a special section, edited by Cristina Iuli (Università del Piemonte Orientale) and Pilar Martinez (University of L’Aquila), on Posthumanism andEnvironmental Poetics in American Literature. Scholars from different areas of American literature, culture, and the arts are invited to submit their proposals.

 

Autotheory and Its Others

updated: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 10:14am
Becky McLaughlin
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

 

Autotheory, an emergent discourse with historic precedents, lacks a stable definition. Recently, Lauren Fournier defined the term as “a self-conscious way of engaging with theory—as a discourse, frame, or mode of thinking and practice—alongside lived experience and subjective embodiment . . .” (Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism). Yet there are as many approaches to autotheory as there are autotheorists. From a recognizable aesthetic in artistic practices to a more scholarly methodology, autotheory remains a shapeshifter.

Cluster Call for Papers: Poetic Voice and Materiality

updated: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 10:04am
Dr. Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The editors Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Julius Greve seek essays for an ASAP/J cluster on “Poetic Voice and Materiality”. We understand this topic to capaciously include new approaches to questions of poetic voice in contemporary American poetry. Experimental responses to questions of voice in poetry are welcomed, including contributions not only from literary studies but also from sound studies, film and media studies, performance studies, philosophy, the posthumanities, digital humanities, and archives across the globe.

Atmospheres of Violence

updated: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 9:24am
Harvard University / Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Film and Visual Studies Graduate Student Conference Harvard University

May 3–5, 2023

Keynote Speakers: Yuriko Furuhata (William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History, McGill University), Pooja Rangan (Associate Professor of English in Film and Media Studies, Amherst College), and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

The 15th International Symposium on Comparative Literature: The Imaginaire and (Re)Shaping the World (November 14-16 2023) [Deadline Extended]

updated: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 9:06am
Department of English Language and Literature / Cairo University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “To imagine is to represent without
aiming at things as they actually, presently and subjectively are.” Imagination is
associated with creativity and the ability to conceive and envision ideas, images,
visions, societies and sensations in ways that transcend reason, and reach beyond
reality. It is a force that ongoingly wrestles with the constitution of reality, and is
credited for having shaped the world as we know it through the cumulative work of
writers, artists, scientists and philosophers. Imagination, hence, produces, creates a
higher reality that becomes the new reality. It is a synthesizing force that oscillates

Marxism and Cartography- DEADLINE EXTENDED

updated: 
Tuesday, January 3, 2023 - 11:53am
The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 14, 2023

CFP: The 25th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference

 

“Marxism and Cartography”

 

The Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG, University of Florida

 

March 23-26, Gainesville, FL

 

Keynotes: Regina Martin (Denison University), Jason Read (University of Southern Maine), and Robert Tally (Texas State University)

 

April Conference Fifteen - Humanity/Humanities in Krakow, Poland

updated: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 12:12pm
Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 5, 2023

 

Today, as the workings of humanity are increasingly linked with the destruction wrought by the Anthropocene, ‘the era of man,’ we feel compelled to re-examine our links with human and other-than-human others ever more closely. Confronting numerous crises, hostilities and conflicts, as well as witnessing an unprecedented momentum of social, political, medical, technological and linguistic change, we are now facing the challenge of redefining our goals, policies and discourses within the field of the humanities yet again.

We welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

Strange Atmospheres: VII International Flann O’Brien Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 12:03pm
International Flann O'Brien Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Strange Atmospheres: The Seventh International Flann O’Brien Conference

The Department of English at Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, with the International Flann O'Brien Society

27–30 June 2023

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

  • Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  • Flore Coulouma (Université Paris Nanterre)
  • Paul Fagan (Maynooth University)
  • Heather Laird (University College Cork)

  

Visual Culture Papers - 2023 American Studies Association (ASA)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 12:03pm
Visual Studies Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 16, 2023

The Visual Culture Caucus (http://www.theasa.net/caucus_visual/) of the American Studies Association (ASA) promotes the participation of visual culture scholars at the ASA annual meeting. Within the theme “Solidarity: What Love Looks Like in Public” we are looking for papers and panels that investigate or interrogate visual culture in its many forms. Topics might include a variety of visual practices both within and outside the art world; films, filmmaking, and television; emerging vehicles of expression such as the Internet and social media; methods of studying visual culture; and issues of pedagogy.

  

Our general paper/panel proposal criteria, includes:

CFP: Trusting and Distrusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 11:44am
University College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 13, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

Trusting and Distrusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature

University College Dublin, Ireland
7-9 June 2023

 

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. William Davies (Goldsmiths, University of London) 

Prof. Ellen Rutten (University of Amsterdam)

 

Olson Adrift: The Reach of BLack Mountian Poetry

updated: 
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 10:06am
The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 27, 2023

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 25-28. We are interested in abstracts that examine the influence of Charles Olson and/or other Black Mountain Poets on poetic practices and their developments up to the present. A variety of poets took up the innovative practices of figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, and others associated with Black Mountain. How have the practices of this fundamentally important school of poetics been extended, transformed, and/or resisted by other poets?

The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium

updated: 
Sunday, December 11, 2022 - 2:41pm
E Lev Feinman, Rutgers University -Camden
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 5, 2023

The Department of Childhood Studies and the Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University- Camden invite proposals for “The Girl in Theory,” a virtual symposium to be held March 29-31, 2023.

Disability and the Everyday: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

updated: 
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 9:55am
Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan and Indian Disability Studies Collective
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Department of English

Central University of Rajasthan

in association with

 

Indian Disability Studies Collective

invites papers for

 

IDSC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023

on the theme

 

Disability and the Everyday: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

 

Reclaiming the Commons, Rethinking Risk

updated: 
Sunday, December 4, 2022 - 9:07pm
Pamela Carralero
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 9, 2022

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Old Language(s), New Technologies: Corpus Linguistics and European Languages in the Renaissance, 1400s-1600s

updated: 
Sunday, December 4, 2022 - 7:29pm
Status Quaestionis, Journal of Sapienza University of Rome
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

The Renaissance is universally acknowledged to be a crucial moment in Europe for the development of vernacular national languages which begin to establish their prestige alongside Latin. Historical linguists have focused on the many interesting peculiarities of the European vernaculars in this period, such as the high degree of spelling fluctuation, (non-)lexicalisation of words, phonological and morphological adjustments, semantic shifts, etc. When it comes to diachronic approaches to corpus linguistics, however, scholars are sometimes sceptic about the possibilities offered by machine-readable samples of both literary and non-literary texts belonging to the Renaissance.

Extended Call - Transitional Female Being: An Ecocritical Politics of Peri/Post/Menopause

updated: 
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 11:52pm
Nicole Anae, Ph.D. Central Queensland University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Chapter proposals are invited for the edited collection Transitional Female Being: An Ecocritical Politics of Peri/Post/Menopause, due by December 18, 2022. This volume aims to make a significant contribution to communicating beyond the biological elements of menstruation and pregnancy, interests which determines the direction of much ecofeminist theory, toward seriously engaging with a fundamental discourse effectively silenced in ecofeminist thinking: Menopause.

New approaches to the mind in the early North

updated: 
Sunday, November 27, 2022 - 3:19pm
Felix Lummer and Declan Taggart, University of Iceland
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 15, 2023

New approaches to the mind in the early North

Date: 11th–12th May 2023

Location: University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

Keynote speakers: Prof. Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands); Dr Stefka Georgieva Eriksen (Norsk institutt for kulturminneforsknings)

We are pleased to invite submissions to the two-day conference ‘New approaches to the mind in the early North’ from researchers exploring new approaches to the mind in the early history of the Nordic countries (400 CE to 1100 CE).

Negation

updated: 
Sunday, November 27, 2022 - 3:09pm
Brown University Department of German Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Negation | Call for papers
Graduate student conference, dept. of German Studies, Brown University | Feb. 17 & 18, 2023 | in person

What “no” does, is not nothing. This proposition implies that we have understood what it is to say no, that its effects are predictable, and that it is involved with “doing,” with “being,” and with “things.” It also asks us to answer the question: what is “not-no,” and what is “yes”? Negation is not only not- positing, but, depending on the thinker, it is the engine of history, the enigma of the will, the guarantor or violator of being, the weapon of oppression, the foothold of theology, the urgent task of language.

Ugly Modernity: Its Unseen Sides

updated: 
Sunday, November 27, 2022 - 3:01pm
https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/uglymodernity-itsunseensides/home
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

The term ‘modernity’ signifies a brand new age, distinguishing human experiences and values as different from the past. From the mid-nineteenth century, ‘modern life’ began to denote transformations in all aspects, such as technology, economics, industry and urbanisation. In the cultural field, modernity is grounded in critical methods for creating new values to promote the progress of humanity.

International Conference on Crime and Punishment in Colonial India: History, Literature and Testimony

updated: 
Monday, November 21, 2022 - 1:58am
K. K. Das College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 20, 2022

International Conference

on

Crime and Punishment in Colonial India: History, Literature and Testimony

  • The deadline has been extended to 25 November 2022. 

 

A One-day In Person International Conference on Crime and Punishment in Colonial India

Organised by the Department of English & I. Q.A. C., K. K. Das College, Kolkata

in collaboration with New Alipore College & Maheshtala college, Kolkata

Date: 9 December, 2022

Deadline of Abstract Submission: 20 November, 2022

Autobiography

updated: 
Friday, November 18, 2022 - 3:06am
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Guest Editors:

Yalçın Armağan (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul)

Zeynep Zengin (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul)

Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 3:44pm
Dr Ellie Byrne
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

 

 

                  

                

 

 

 

Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith Symposium.

Call for Papers

 

One day symposium at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge on Wednesday 26th April 2023

 

Keynote: Dr Kaye Mitchell, Director of the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester.

 

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