MLA 2025 Guaranteed Session: (In)visibility of Romanian Writers in English as a Second Language
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(In)visibility of Romanian Writers in English as a Second Language
We invite proposals for the second HEL (History of the English Language) and Writing Studies thread at the 13th Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) conference at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, October 17-20, 2024.
The HEL and Writing Studies thread will explore ways in which the study of language change and variation can contribute to rhetoric and writing studies, and vice versa. When proposing, keep in mind that the history of the English language extends from the origins of the language to very recent history, so proposals that engage contemporary language use through a historical lens are welcome.
121th PAMLA CONFERENCE (Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association)
“Translation in Action” https://www.pamla.org/pamla2024/
November 6-10, 2024, Palm Springs, California“Drama and Society Panel”
"Drama and Society" Panel
Call for Abstracts for Issue 18 (Spring 2025)
Frames
Frames are ever-present. We read, use, and propagate them in our daily, as well as academic life. Their definition is difficult to put into words, just like it boggles the mind to imagine in how many ‘frames’ we are entangled ourselves. Frames serve many functions. They reduce the complexity of the world through the art of selection. Be it four pieces of ornamented wood that surround the canvas, an imaginary line on a map dividing one nation from another, or a set of tools used to present an argument, innumerable frames (‘models’, ‘schemas’, or ‘attitudes’) organize our experience.
This panel aims to discuss how contemporary global Anglophone/multilingual writers are dismantling the hegemony of lingua franca and making marginalized tongues visible and unheard stories heard. Topics may address, but not limited to: 1. Multilingual writings of postcolony2. Translation and politics of lingua franca3. Language and trauma4. Linguistic identity in global Anglophone literature.5. Linguistic identity, linguistic attrition.6. Language policies and Anglophone literature of postcolony. Submit 250-300 words abstract and 50-100 words bionote to namratadeyroy@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 25 March 2024
What happens when an author, playwright, or filmmaker choses to embed a translation in a fictional setting? This panel will consider the many forms of fictional, imaginary, and somewhat deceitful translations - from pseudotranslation (a text written as if it had been translated from a foreign language, even though no foreign language original exists) to self-translation (when an author composes a text in one language and translates it into another) - to interrogate the act of translation as both a motor and an obstacle in a work of fiction.
South Asian Crime Fiction since the 1950s
Editors: Shweta Sachdeva Jha (Associate Professor, Department of English, Miranda House, University of Delhi), Garima Yadav (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi)
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World CongressGlobal Studies Center, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
16-19 January 2025
Translation, Transposition, and Travel in the Global Nineteenth Century
Keynote speakers:
Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter
Marwan Kraidy, Northwestern University QatarArthur Asseraf, University of Cambridge
Sarga Moussa, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
International Seminar
Imaginary Communities:
Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction
University of Huelva, Spain
17-18 October, 2024
The Conference on Christianity and Literature, and allied organization of the Modern Language Association, invites proposals for a guaranteed session at the 2025 MLA convention in New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025.
We invite papers that explore the relationship between Indigenous literatures and Christianity, the 2021 First Nations Version of the Bible, or other connections between Indigenous literatures and the Bible. 300-word abstract and brief c.v. requested.
Please send proposals and any questions to Cynthia Wallace (cwallace [at] stmcollege.ca) and Chad Schrock (cschrock [at] leeuniversity.edu).
The MLA Language Change Forum is seeking papers that analyze any aspect of discourse and/or language change related to the rise of populism from any field or methodological approach, whether in the U.S. context or beyond. Please submit a 300-word abstract for consideration.
Conference Title: Modern Languages Association Annual Conference
Conference Dates: January 9-12, 2025
Conference Location: New Orleans, LA
Contact Information: Laura Francis, Cornell U (lrf62@cornell.edu)
The MLA Language Change Forum is seeking papers that document changes in the (in)visibility of minoritized speakers. Topics may include but are not limited to issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and marginalized linguistic varieties across fields and pedagogies. Please submit a 300 word abstract for consideration.
Conference Dates: January 9-12, 2025
Conference Location: New Orleans, LA
Contact Information: Laura Francis, Cornell U (lrf62@cornell.edu)
CALL FOR PAPERS FRAME 37.2 "Between the Lines"
This conference aims to discuss the representation of epidemic remedies in medical
writing in England and in France between 1500 and 1920. Prospective presenters are
invited to address epidemic remedies across five centuries, bearing three main
methodological observations in mind. Firstly, the pivotal role of the plague and the
Spanish influenza as opening and closing points to the selected timeframe. Secondly,
the working definition of “remedy” as a cure “for a disease, disorder, injury, etc.; a
medicine or treatment that promotes healing or alleviates symptoms.” (OED, remedy
2). This comprehensive definition intends to allow for historical specification and
The Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature, University of Calcutta
organises
A Two-Day National Seminar
on
History of Translation of Tribal Literature in India
March 21-22, 2024
Concept Note
Beyond Borders: Trends in World Children’s Literature and Children’s Literature in Translation
Call for Paper Proposals
Deadline for Submission: 10th March 2024
A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture
University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday 21st June - Saturday 22nd June 2024
Call for translators: ABSINTHE literary magazine
Absinthe: World Literature in Translation invites submissions of original English-language translations of Brazilian literature for its 30th issue, to be published in December 2024.
Absinthe publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Owned and operated by the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Absinthe is edited by graduate students. This issue will be edited by Júlia Irion Martins and Sam McCracken.
Call for articles: John Dryden, Revolutionary Readings and Readers : New Perspectives on a Restoration Multitasker
Special Issue 2027, Caliban (an international peer-reviewed journal in Anglophone studies published by Presses Universitaires du Midi : Caliban - French Journal of English Studies (openedition.org))
Eds. Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac (Service Historique de la Défense), Filip Krajník (Masaryk University) , Nathalie Rivere de Carles (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
Call for Papers - 2024 International Conference on Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation
Time: November 1-2, 2024
Venue: Fu Jen Catholic University
Dear ALL,
We are pleased to announce that the College of Foreign Languages at Fu Jen Catholic University is organizing an international conference on November 1-2, 2024, at the College of Foreign Languages. The conference theme is "Transition and Transformation: Explorations in Language, Literature, Culture, and Translation."
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
Call for Proposals
ACQL's 2024 annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec from June 14 to 16.
Resurgence of Epistemologies of Gender in Contemporary Indigenous Literatures
Panel organized by Isabella Huberman (UBC), Marie-Eve Bradette (U. Laval) and Sophie Larue (U. Laval)
Update: The EGSS is pleased to announce that Professor Mayurika Chakravorty (University of Carleton) will be the keynote speaker for the conference! Her presentation will explore the question of identity in relation to the diaspora in contemporary YA and speculative fiction.
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Global Modernism and Simultaneity
The University of Tokyo
September 14-15
Keynotes
Josephine Park (UPenn)
Christopher Bush (Northwestern)
With a special talk by Peter D. McDonald (Oxford)
Abstract
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.
The 28th Symposium of Students in English
Deadline for submissions:
February 10 , 2024
Name of organization:
West University of Timisoara
Contact email:
studentsymposium.tm@gmail.com
In Passage : The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, the journal of the Department of English of the University of Boumerdes (Algeria), seeks essays in English or French for its sixth issue, to be released in September 2024.
All the contributions should either be written in English or discuss questions that relate to the English-speaking world. They should fit within the broad scope of texts and mobility and their interconnectedness in the fields of literature, linguistics, and translation, among others.
Suggested topics:
- Travel literature and intercultural contact.
- Nomadism.
- Exile in literature
- Literary genres and movements
When: June 10-12, 2024 (Monday-Wednesday)
What: The 49th Annual St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (In-Person Only)
Where: St. Louis University at St. Louis, Missouri
Conference Website: https://www.smrs-slu.org/
Up for a challenge? An Open Call to all Old English Scholars—
Join us in June at “The Odd Words in Beowulf” Roundtable in St. Louis at the “Symposium on Medieval Studies.” The ivory halls will heat up with a groundbreaking discussion that fundamentally will change our current understanding of Beowulf.
Call for Papers
Obscurity and Exegesis
Towards an Unwritten Chapter of the History of the Bible
Programme
Felicity A. Nussbaum suggests that we need to formulate new critical framings about the widened eighteenth century as well as a long one. In what ways can we widen the breadth, scale, and scope of eighteenth-century studies from a global and planetary perspective? How might we come up with ways to think about the interconnectivity among ideas, cultures, and texts that “move” beyond the boundaries of the metrapole and the margin, near and distant?