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Posthuman Studies (MLA 2025 Conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 3:36pm
Akim Golubev/UNLV/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

The Posthuman Studies session welcomes abstracts/papers that deal with the application of literary theory to historical/social/cultural issues. Posthuman as an umbrella term includes a range of topics/periods from the 18th-C dualism/monism to deconstruction/postmodernism.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024

Akim Golubev, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (akim.golubev@unlv.edu )https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26259.html 

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 2:14pm
Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)

Call for Papers

 Vol. IX, Issue 2 (June 2024) 

(Un)Becoming: Interrogations of Beauty in Literature

updated: 
Friday, February 9, 2024 - 6:43pm
York University English Graduate Students Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

(Un)Pretty: Interrogations of Beauty in Literature

Call for Proposals

York University English Graduate Students Association Conference

May 10th, 2024

 

In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry writes:

 

Literature, Culture and Technology

updated: 
Friday, February 9, 2024 - 12:13pm
Intersections: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Noted Marxist scholar, Kohei Saito in his book, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2018) rightly pointed out that the evolution of society is in close correlation to the trajectory of the progress of technology. Drawing upon the principle of thermodynamics, another notable Marxist scholar, Amy E. Wendling argued in Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation (2009), that purpose of labour had undergone a radical transformation following the progression of technology, allowing for a re-valuation of all material objects. Hence, the use of labour for harnessing natural resources, chiefly for the purpose of sustenance of human life, had been deeply altered by technology.

Literary Druid - Regular Issue April 2024

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 3:34pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

Coping with Reality through Storytelling as a Performative Act

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 3:31pm
Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

In Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative (2017), James Phelan suggests a transformative approach to narrative theory, shifting the focus from seeing narrative as a mere structural entity to understanding it as a rhetorical act. In this act, the narrator strategically utilizes storytelling tools to achieve specific goals for specific audiences.

Face, Form and Modern Fictions

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 2:48pm
_LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory_
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

LIT Special Issue CFP: Face, Form and Modern Fictions

Call for Papers on South Asian Studies

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:26am
Journal of South Asian Exchanges
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

ies and Social Sciences

Menu Call for Papers on South Asian Studies 

The Journal of South Asian Exchanges invites original research papers, theoretical studies, book reviews, and review articles on a wide range of topics related to South Asia. The journal is open to scholars, academics, and practitioners who are interested in discussing and deliberating on the path to South Asia in 2024 and the potential futures of South Asia. The journal will cover a wide range of themes, including but not limited to:

Tales of Resistance and Resilience: Cinemascapes from Contemporary India

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 11:22pm
Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Cinema in contemporary India has been evolving in multifarious ways, technological innovations and the multiplicity of digital platforms significantly altering the experience of film production and reception. Apart from the mainstream Hindi cinema that enjoyed a national viewership till recent times, regional films have also emerged as popular forms of entertainment across the nation. Popular Indian cinema is being redefined and in this new environment, regional content is appreciated, new genres are welcomed, and a new viewing experience is well appreciated. Film production methods have also changed radically, with independent films gaining in popularity especially among the urban audience.

Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 2:45pm
Pharos University, University of New Mexico, and Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 5, 2024

Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism

Pharos University in Alexandria, Egypt – in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and the University of New Mexico, USA–cordially invites you to participate in its international conference titled “Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism,” to be held onsite from 1 – 2 March 2024.

Theorizing Cyborgs, Elves, and Vampires: Popular Genres in the Academy

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 8:41am
Binghamton University Comparative Literature Department
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 9, 2024

The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization at Binghamton University invites proposals for papers discussing popular genres for our graduate conferencescheduled for April 12-13, 2024.

 

There has been a heightened academic interest in popular genres within the last decade. Scholars have approached these texts from a variety of lenses, and—with our graduate conference—we hope to make space for further research through various forms of critical engagement. In addition to welcoming essays regarding individual texts and specific genres, we are also interested in examining the state of popular genres in the academy, and especially encourage submissions engaged with non-Western texts and theory.

 

The Shared Language of Sex and Violence in Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 4:02pm
The Acacia Group
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

The Shared Language of Sex and Violence in Literature

2024 Acacia Group Annual Academic Conference

California State University, Fullerton

March 15-16th, 2023

Special Issue: AI

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 4:00pm
Alienocene: Journal of the First Outernational
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

In July 2023, a tech startup called “Simulation Inc” released an AI technology capable of generating entire t.v. episodes—including dialogue, voice acting, animation, and editing—from nothing more than a two-sentence prompt. Somewhat oddly (and provoking suspicion that the project might be a hoax or internet prank), Simulation Inc’s website lists a fake address under their contact info: 500 Baudrillard Drive, San Francisco, CA. 

A special issue on the short stories of Ivan Coyote

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 4:00pm
Halmstad University, Sweden
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

We are looking for 500-word abstracts for a theme-based special issue of critical essays on the short stories of the queer Canadian writer and performer Ivan Coyote to be published in 2025. The full articles should be approx 7000 words. The deadline for the articles is October 1st, 2024. There will be a peer-review process. Any questions should be sent to anna.fahraeus@hh.se.

2024 EGSA Conference at UTA

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 4:00pm
English Graduate Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 12, 2024

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: 12 February 2024

Conference Meeting: 19 April 2024  

Host: English Graduate Student Association at the University of Texas at Arlington  
Location: Arlington, Texas

Conference Website: www.egsaconference.com

Nostalgia: A Virtual Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 10:59am
University at Albany / English Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

Nostalgia

A hybrid/virtual student conference hosted by the University at Albany

 

March 15th, 2024

10 am- to 4 pm EST

Official site: http://egsoalbany.weebly.com/conference.html

“Nostalgia," coined in 1688 by physician Johannes Hofer, originally described a medical condition marked by a painful longing for one's native land. Over time, nostalgia has evolved, encompassing both personal and communal aspects, with debates ranging from its temporal significance to its political and rhetorical dimensions.

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Emotions and the Arts

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 11:08pm
Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Scholars across disciplines have long contended with the generative potentials and the deficiencies of affect and emotions like sorrow, melancholy, compassion, grief, sympathy, and happiness. Judith Butler has shown how feelings of loss and acts of mourning are political acts of subjectivity, of rendering a life grievable or forgotten. Sara Ahmed speaks about the promise of happiness that obscures unhappy hierarchies in the world around us, and calls for a killjoy politics. Lauren Berlant tells us that optimism is not just an emotion, but a cruel relation we have with our socio-economic forces.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:14pm
Venti Journal: Air, Experience, Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Atmospheres of Violence  

CALL FOR PAPERS: ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE

Venti Journal - Volume 3, No.1 - Summer 2024 | Deadline: March 1, 2024

Recognition of an atmosphere’s inherent relational capacity is coupled with the desire to control and operationalize; to parse, divide and conquer. Even as the illusory fog of war is superseded by blatant acts of genocide and terrorism, we fail to sense how these engineered atmospheres of violence have long preceded their overwhelming, hyper-visible assemblages. 

Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
Current Research in Speculative Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2024

14th Annual Conference

3 – 5th July 2024, University of Liverpool, Offline and Online, https://crsfhome.home.blog/

 

I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.(Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower)

 

The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics / Manisa Celal Bayar U.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, to be held by 9-11 May, 2024 in Manisa, Turkiye, as did its predecessors, aims to bring together academics of language studies in sharing their scholarly work. Any academic event of this kind promises to provide a space for academic and interdisciplinary discussions revolving around the philosophy of language and literature. The submitted papers should be about but not limited to:

 

Linguistics

The Future of the Lumpenproletariat: A Conference in Memory of Glyn Salton-Cox

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
University of California, Santa Barbara
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Theme: The Future of the Lumpenproletariat

Subtitle: A Conference in Memory of Glyn Salton-Cox

Type: Interdisciplinary Conference

Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara

Location: Santa Barbara, CA (USA)

Conference date: May 24-25, 2024

Submission deadline: March 15, 2024

Black Psychoanlayses?

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:08pm
MLA Executive Forum: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 23, 2024

Since the “discovery” of psychoanalysis, thinkers of race (creative, intellectual, political, and clinical) have contemplated whether psychoanalytic discourses can contemplate—let alone contend—with the question of Blackness. The range of figures includes thinkers who were focused on the clinical imperative, such as Frantz Fanon, to those who more implicitly yet just as critically have inquired about the psychic life of anti-Black racism (Richard Wright, Patricia Williams, Toni Morrison, etc.). This panel seeks to outline this intellectual history of critical black thought that brings into sharp focus the tensions between psychoanalyses and race while also remarking on current interventions in the state of the field.

the Black Theatre Review Vol. 3.1 - Nurturing

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:07pm
the Black Theatre Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

the Black Theatre Review (tBTR) is now accepting submissions for our fifth publication, Vol. 3 No. 1, to be published in July 2024. “They didn’t bring the hum; they didn’t bring the leader-call, they didn’t bring the field hollers, because they didn’t know them…. the hum, the holler, the leader-call are women things.”  
Nikki Giovanni, Black Women Writers at Work

tBTR is pleased to accept submissions for its fifth publication, Vol. 3 No. 1, to be published July 2024 online. We invite authors to reflect on the theme of nurturing.

Ideas in Pop Culture – Potential and Risks "The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Vol. 72 (1/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 8:38am
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Ideas in Pop Culture – Potential and Risks

Special Editors: Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) and Paweł Dybała (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 72 (1/2024)

NEW Submission deadline: March 31, 2024

Ideas, multifaceted in nature, embody thoughts, beliefs, and abstract representations of concepts or entities. Their manifestation and propagation occur through diverse techniques across various media. This special issue aims to delve deep into the intricate relationship between ideas and their portrayal within popular culture.

DEADLINE EXTENDED Modern and Contemporary Regional Writers (ALA 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 7:28am
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 29, 2024

Jonathan Bayliss Society

The Jonathan Bayliss Society is sponsoring two roundtable panels for the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 23-26, 2024, at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL. For additional information about the conference see https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference.

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu or info@jonathanbayliss.org by January 29, 2024.

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