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Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)
CFP for Vol. X, Issue 1 (January 2025)
Reviewing Diaspora: Dispersal, Dislocation, Diversities
Kritika Kultura, the online peer-reviewed international journal on literary and cultural studies, invites interested scholars to submit manuscripts to a Forum Kritika special section on the theme “Reading Jameson in Asia: Marxism, Literature, and Postmodernism.” It welcomes contributions from a broad range of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, deploying current or innovative methodologies to develop new insights into its theme.
The Thoreau Society invites paper proposals for the following two sessions, to take place at ALA in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference). Please submit abstracts of around 300 words, along with a CV, to Alex Moskowitz (amoskowitz@mtholyoke.edu) by 15 January 2025. And please feel free to reach out with questions or ideas beforehand!
Panel: Thoreau, Protest, and Social Change
Reimagining Early American Fiction: New Voices and Perspectives
CFP – Society of Early Americanists Conference 2025 – Notre Dame, June 5-8, 2025
Petrocultures is a fast growing sub-discipline in the humanities which contends with the ways fossil fuels shapes our interpersonal, social and cultural lives. There has been little attention yet paid, however, to the relationship between energy culture and music. What Stephanie LeMenager calls the ‘aesthetics of petroleum’ holds a particularly strong resonance with 20th and 21st century music culture.
The Latin word, ‘Surdus’–used to translate the Arabic mathematical term, ‘asamm’–had referred to irrational numbers, those resisting, or willfully remaining deaf to, ratiocination and thus calculability. Its contemporary counterparts, the mathematical 'surd;' and the linguistic use of ‘surd’ for unvoiced consonants find a link in the Proto-Indo-European ‘*swer-’ which meant to buzz, whisper, or whistle. With the rise of contemporary calculation and the computational society of control which derives its power from bayesian modeling, the mathematical theory of communication, and algorithmic machine learning, the ability to remain inscrutible and deafening to such Capitalist ratiocination continues to be, and is an evermore, important aspect of resistance.
Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"
Please find the panel and submit to ACLA: Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time | American Comparative Literature Association (acla.org)
Using Contemporary Theory to Teach the Middle Ages
Submission Deadline: December 1
Session February 7, 2:00 (Central)
Julia Kristeva’s landmark essay, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), will have its 45th publication anniversary in 2025. In that time, its influence has been wide ranging, whether on women and gender studies broadly, on the fields of feminist, psychoanalytic, queer, horror/gothic, and disability theory, as well as on media studies. For this roundtable session we invite proposals that consider any aspect of the influence of Powers of Horror, past and present.
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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
CLASS CON 2025 Call for Papers/Voices/Participation
March 14-15, 2025
Bowling Green State University, Jerome Library
Deadline to Submit December 1st, 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:
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.
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).
Call for Papers for an Edited Book
Virtual Reality Literature
Ratul Nandi and Anik Sarkar
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.
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
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.
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:
Location and Dates
Conference Theme: Leading from the Center
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
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:
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
Special Issue Call for Abstracts: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”
Culture and Dialogue
Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “Cultural and Ethical Shifts in Digital Parenting”
Guest Editor: Suyasha Singh Isser, Amity University, Noida
Culture and Dialogue
Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Toxic”
Guest Editor: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait