theory

The International Conference ‘Translation and the Periodical’ will be hosted from 13-15 September 2023 at Ghent University in Belgium.

It will start with a postgraduate workshop on 13 September, followed by the main conference on 14 and 15 September.

Keynote Speakers
Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar (Glendon College York University, Canada/ Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Evanghelia Stead (Versailles Saint-Quentin University, France)

Moveable Type is the journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Movement'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme. Submissions are welcome from across the arts & humanities and beyond. All submissions should be sent to editors.moveabletype@gmail.com by midnight on 1 May 2023. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss your choice of topic prior to submission. See below for submission guidelines.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

This panel will focus on the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and Affect Theory broadly construed. Papers analyzing any short story from Borges' many collections (e.g., Ficciones, The Book of Sand, Shakespeare's Memory etc.) along with any affect-focused reading are welcome. With analyses of the often enigmatic, and occasionally cryptic, atmospheres of Borges’ fiction, the aim of this panel is to add to (perhaps even shift!) discourses on the conceptualization of affect.

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

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

Categorically Resistant: Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body at 50

The priority deadline for abstract proposals is April 1

Films have for a very long time been used to form a narrative that may oppose what the heteronormative society believes and that is why probably it is one of the most popular forms of artistic expression. When we think of films like Her or the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell we see the use of technology in brilliant ways. It shows how easily humans are replaceable emotionally as well as physically. But how well do these films and many others like these refute the social conditioning that often clouds our visions? Is the world of cyborgs too dystopian for humans to survive in? Or just like any ‘other’ cyborgs and AI will just become another way for the powerful in the human world to exert dominance?

The NGY Review (ngyreview.com) is a new & rebranded literary journal focusing on fiction, creative nonfiction, and critical essays that are centered on writing craft. We are back after a two-year hiatus and are now accepting submissions with the theme of AI, artificiality, and anything that is not ‘reality’ for Spring 2024 publication online. Note: Fiction and creative nonfiction will not be accepted until 10/1-10/31.

Just a few examples related to this theme:

The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the January 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers.

Queer theory embraces psychoanalysis and its speculative concepts as crucial elements of counter-identitarian critical practice. Yet the relationship between these two fields remains under-examined. Topics of particular interest include:

CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel

MMLA 2023, November 2-5, Cincinnati, OH

Abstract Deadline: May 10, 2023

General Conference Topic: "Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy"

The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes, especially but not exclusively, proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy" for the 2023 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: 

https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/

This CFP is for a special journal issue focused on South Asia and aimed for a postcolonial journal.

Blended online and on-site conference

Hi,I am soliciting submissions for the special panel at the 2024 MLA conference. This panel focuses on love, desire and extractivism in the global south. How do flatness and fragility intersect with aspirationality and regional vectors to contest/corroborate the logic of neoliberal capitalism? 350-500 abstracts by 20th March to ajd7145@psu.edu

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 20 March 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED - deadline for submissions: March 24 2023

Contemporary Modernisms - Call for Papers 

Institute of English and American Studies and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform

Goethe University Frankfurt

25th–27th May 2023 

Confirmed Speakers:

John Brannigan (University College Dublin)

Julie McCormick Weng (Texas State University)

Václav Paris (City University of New York)

Barry Sheils (Durham University)

Call for Book Chapter
Oikography: Homemaking through Photography