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Oikography: Homemaking through Photography

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:07am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Book Chapter
Oikography: 
Homemaking through Photography

[UPDATE] Anger: Special issue of The Comparatist

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:06am
The Comparatist
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist

Topic: Anger

General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

 

Images at Work Conference 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:02am
King's College London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

German Screen Studies Network (GSSN) & King’s College London 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image

King’s College London 

Thursday, 22 and Friday, 23 June 2023 

Deadline for Proposals:31 March 2023  

 

Cinema in Crisis

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:49pm
Chalchitra Darpan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

ABOUT CHACHITRA DARPAN (translates to Cinematic Review)

Chalchitra Darpan is an undergraduate film journal by Celluloid, the Film Society of Miranda House, University of Delhi, India. The inaugural edition (2019-20), which was Delhi University’s first ever undergraduate journal, was introduced with the vision of building a student community of future film scholars around it. The journal aims to provide an academic space for undergraduates interested in film and media, who wish to explore and engage in film academia.

 

3rd EDITION THEME: CINEMA IN CRISIS

 

Big Bad Future: Scale and Speculation in Environmental Literature (ASLE @ SAMLA)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:42pm
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment / South Atlantic Modern Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

From Thoreau’s description of “vast, Titanic, inhuman nature” to Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects, scale has long been an epistemological tool for theorizing the relationship between nature and humanity. This tool has taken on special significance in the age of global anthropogenic climate change as artists and scholars struggle to give form to such enormous, widely dispersed upheaval as it slowly but persistently creeps into view. In the light of drowning major cities and intensifying weather events, we are left with the evergreen question: “what is to be done?” What role, if any, can literature play in the comprehension of and adaptation to such a brave new world? What interdisciplinary connections can be adopted to make art a more transformative force?

Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts & Design

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:42pm
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nicosia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts & Design is an annual peer-reviewed and open-access journal published by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Nicosia (UNIC).

We are now accepting contributions for the second volume of Zealos due to be published in Fall 2024. Zealos welcomes original and previously unpublished articles that fall within the scope of the journal and follow internationally sanctioned scientific standards. Submissions are free of charge. We welcome contributions in Greek or English.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Global Authoritarianisms and the Arts

updated: 
Friday, March 3, 2023 - 2:26pm
Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Global Authoritarianisms and the Arts
12th Annual Shifting Tides Anxious Borders Conference
Hosted by the English Department, Binghamton University–SUNY

Date of Conference: April 29, 2023
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jini Kim Watson, NYU

Reading In Place: Emplaced Humanities Methods (MLA 2024 Working Group

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:54pm
Katharine G. Trostel and Valentino L. Zullo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

This working group considers what it means to teach the humanities in a rooted, regional context. What do we mean by emplaced humanities? What tools or methods can we use? 250-word abstract & CV.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Katharine G. Trostel, Ursuline C (katie.trostel@gmail.com ) Valentino Zullo, Ursuline C (valentino.zullo@ursuline.edu )

What is the Every Day? - MLA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:54pm
Molly Young and Noa Nikolsky / University of Pennsylvania
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Literary, theoretical, and philosophical engagements with “the everyday” have a broad, transhistorical scope—from stoic philosophy to canonical hours, or medieval books of precepts; from Locke and Kant in the eighteenth century to Wittgenstein, Austin, and the ordinary language philosophy of the early twentieth century; from Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau to Toril Moi and Stanley Cavell; from considerations of the realist novel of the nineteenth century to the modernist novel of the twentieth (and beyond). 

CFP: 39th International Conference on Psychology and the Arts

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:28pm
The PsyArt Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 5, 2023

we are excited to announce that this year’s conference will be held at Il Fuligno – Montedomini in Florence, Italy, June 21-24, 2023. There will be an optional post-conference excursion to Siena, San Gimignano, and Chianti in Tuscany on June 25. The event is sponsored by The PsyArt Foundation. Visit our 

Psychoanalysis and Decolonization

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:16am
MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In recent years there have been calls as well to decolonize psychoanalysis and/or resurrect psychoanalysis for the people, the collective, the subaltern, and those without economic or social advantages for accessing the clinic.

NWSA CFP: Decolonizing Feminist and Queer Pedagogies

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 3:11pm
National Women's Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

"This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emphasize intersectionality in our classes, women of color or queer of color critiques are largely offered after—and as correctives to—a canon where whiteness is default and invisible. As a result, these institutionalized canons, which naturalize whiteness alongside colonial conceptions of gender, retain their primacy of thought. How can we instead design our courses to center the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of gender? How do we put to practice a pedagogy that takes to heart the work of Lugones, Mohanty, Munoz, and hooks, among others?" 

MLA 2024: Large Language Models and the Writer

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:21am
MLA TC Digital Humanities Executive Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Publicly available text-generating engines like ChatGPT make large language models (LLMs) “writers” in their own right. How can we interpret the changing status of the writer in the age of machine learning? What does the success of AI-generated textuality ask us to reconsider, revisit, or reinvent in the context of literary theory and the digital humanities more generally?

 

This panel is a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the TC Digital Humanities executive forum for the 2024 MLA conference in Philadelphia (January 4-7). 

JOHN CLARE MLA SESSION

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:21am
Erica McAlpine/John Clare Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

The John Clare Society of North America invites paper proposals for its guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, January 4-7th, 2024. Scholarship on any aspect of Clare’s poetry, prose, life, and/or sphere of influence. Send abstract and short bio by 17 March 2023 to Erica McAlpine at erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk

Solarpunk Joy: Celebrating beyond Sorrow

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:20am
Heather O'Leary and Phoebe Wagner / MLA24
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 5, 2023

MLA 2024 SolarpunkCFP 

Philadelphia, PA January 4-7 

Panel Organizers 

Decolonizing Cartographies - Graduate Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:07am
Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 27, 2023

The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference to be held on 20th and 21st of April, 2023. This conference is a space for graduate scholars, activists, artists, and others to think through and confront colonial systems.

Our conference this year is interested in “Decolonizing Cartographies” – or, stated broadly, how do we challenge colonial regimes of knowledge and the ways they divide the world.

Archiving Black Women's Joys and Sorrows

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:10am
MLA 2024 Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The relationship between Black women and the archive has long been fraught. We invite 250-word proposals for papers that probe Black women writers' literary and/or theoretical negotiations with these realities.

 

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio by March 15th, 2023, to N. Morris Johnson at nmmorris@buffalo.edu. For more information about the MLA conference, please visit https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2024/Presidential-Theme-for-the-2024-Convention

Melville, Conrad, and Life

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:25pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America and the Melville Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Both Melville and Conrad appeal to the concept of life allied with their artistic activities. Moby Dick is pervaded by appeals to the appeal to life, as in the description of a whale skeleton become a chapel:  "Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories." Conrad, too describes the action of art in fruitful tension with the kinetics of life, as when in his 1897 preface, he connects art with seizing a fragment "from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life." But how exactly do these writers understand and see their relation to "life" -- vegetative, human, physical, spiritual, ethical?

Special Issue: Ordinariness (Qui Parle)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:35am
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

In times of crisis—war, pandemic, severe disruptions of supply chains, climate apocalypse, systemic erasure of reproductive autonomy—there might seem to be no meaningful distinction between the extraordinary and the ordinary. Yet after the cultural emphasis on catastrophe in the last few years, a return to the ordinary is overdue. What role can critical thought on ordinary language, affect, and aesthetics now play in interrogating the evolving concept of ordinariness, imagining alternative ordinaries, and expanding our geographies and objects of study? Additionally, what are the limits of critical theory for understanding and communicating about ordinary experience?

CFP: Humor and Conflict in the Digital Age Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:30am
HACIDA, Ghent University, Belgium
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Proposals:

Humor and Conflict in the Digital Age Conference

29-30 November 2023

Ghent University, Belgium

Humor and Conflict in the Digital Age (HACIDA), an ENLIGHT Scientific Research Network at Ghent University, welcomes proposals for 20-minute presentations as part of a two-day conference in Ghent, Belgium.

Strange Heading: Post-Critique and the Medieval Book

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:23am
Sherif Abdelkarim / Modern Language Association LLC Middle English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 13, 2023

Recent work like George Edmondson’s The Neighboring Text or Seeta Chaganti’s Strange Footing models close engagement with medieval manuscripts that offers new modes of experiencing literature beyond the historically positivist, empirically material, or hermeneutically suspicious, either by recognizing the limitations of theoretical lenses or by approaching language beyond information. This session asks how looking at the character of the medieval text on the manuscript page–its calligraphy, titles, rubrics, initials, performance cues, polysemy–might allow us to consider anew readers’ encounters, medieval and modern, with that text.

MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
MLA Middle English Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

Several recent, celebrated studies of late medieval English literature present their anchoring motivations as including one or more twenty-first century activist concerns – for example, scholarship that considers Chaucer and rape culture, examines the medieval roots or affinities of contemporary white supremacy, thinks ecocritically about the medieval beyond-human, juxtaposes medieval political events with modern ones, etc. Methodologically, such studies have involved explicit interleaving of analysis of late medieval English literary texts with considerations of texts, events, or discourses of the present.

Di/Con: Writing on the Verge

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:21am
Literature & Writing Studies Graduate Department at CSU, San Marcos
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 19, 2023

 

    What is DiCon?

Diverge: to separate. Converge: to meet. In mathematical terms, the prefix marks the difference between infinity and defined. The Literature and Writing Studies department at California State University, San Marcos seeks papers and creative works that expand, transgress, problematize, and rethink hegemonic boundaries and definitions. 

 

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