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Just as there are many Orients, there are many Orientalisms, or approaches to, constructions of, and lenses upon the Orient.
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Just as there are many Orients, there are many Orientalisms, or approaches to, constructions of, and lenses upon the Orient.
An interdisciplinary conference on travel and travel writing
4–6 July 2019, University of Leicester, UK
Conference language: English
Deadline for abstracts: 25 March, 2019
Notification of acceptance: 1 April, 2019
We invite scholars and creative practitioners with an interest in travel and travel writing to the 2019 edition of the Borders and Crossings conference series, held at the University of Leicester from 4–6 July 2019, and generously supported by the Midlands4Cities DTP.
Call for Papers
Volume IV Number ii (July 2019 issue)
Special Issue on
Transnational and Transcultural Spaces
Guest Editor
Dr Jati Sankar Mondal, Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University <skbu.ac.in>
Call for Papers for a volume to be submitted to Routledge
“Human, Intellectual, and Cultural Mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean – From the Late 19th Century to the Present“
Editors:
Birgit Englert, Immanuel R. Harisch, Sigrid Thomsen
(University of Vienna, Research Platform “Mobile Cultures and Societies”)
albeit, an innovative, MLA-indexed online journal of scholarship and pedagogy, invites scholarly articles, detailed lesson plans, book reviews, creative pieces, and nonfiction essays exploring Southern Literature.
Topics for this issue can include, but are not limited to:
The American South in a global context
post-Katrina literature
New Southern Gothic
The South on Film
LGBTQ Southern identities
Appalachia and the opioid epidemic
Southern memoir
Southeast Asian travelogues and global Asia
This laboratory considers the ways in which travelogues by Southeast Asians articulated the concept of inter-Asian connections, thus prefiguring the term ‘global Asia.’ Examples include the study of early modern India and Southeast Asia by Chinese-language Nanyang (South Seas) historians in 1950s Singapore, as reflected in their travel memoirs, as well as the Malaccan writer and translator Munsyi Abdullah’s Bahasa chronicles of his voyages to Mecca and northern Malaysia in the late nineteenth century. We are interested in papers that engage in the following topics:
Inspired by Teresia Teaiwa’s definition of “militourism” as a “phenomenon by which a military or paramilitary force ensures the running of a tourist industry, and that same tourist industry masks the military force behind it,” this panel seeks to consider practices of “militourism” in a long historical context by soliciting papers with critical approaches to militarization, travel, and tourism from antiquity to the present day. We invite papers that engage questions of conquest, colonization, and empire; battlefield/memorial tourism; memoirs by soldiers, soldiers’ wives, and support staff; the intersections of military and tourist industries.
Consider submitting a CFP for the following proposed panel “Action, Inaction, and the Victorian Female” to be held at the 2019 NAVSA (Theme: “Media. Genre. The Generic”) in Columbus, Ohio, 17-19 October.
On the occasion of the Year of the Global at the University of Pittsburgh
The Department of French & Italian Presents:
Representations of Disaster
Call for Papers
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
March 8-9, 2019
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Deborah Jenson
This special issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association aims to interrogate how transatlantic encounters, itineraries, and movements have shaped literary and cultural expressions, influencing the formation of both individual and collective knowledge. In particular, it aspires to foster a dialogue to address political, ethical, sexual, and aesthetic questions related to transatlantic interactions among people, practices, and ideas, expanding from traditional Eurocentric perspectives and canonized narratives to encompass a global perspective. This dialogue becomes even more relevant in the present days, considering the political and cultural implications of such motilities. Transatlantic travels have played a
Call for PapersTourism, Culture and Communication
Special Issue:
CRITICAL THINKING IN TOURISM STUDIES
[Guest Editors: Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds, UK and Maximiliano Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina]
The 52nd Annual Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario
Glendon College, York University, 27 April 2019
Call for Papers
Victorian Marketplaces: Consumers, Consumables, Circulation, and Consumption
EUROPEAN BEAT STUDIES NETWORK 8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Nicosia, Oct 9-12, 2019
Call for Papers
Moving Geographies: Literatures of Travel and Migration
We invite submissions for papers, panels and roundtable discussions for the Eighth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN), which will take place at the University of Nicosia (Nicosia, Cyprus) on October 9 – 12, 2019.
The long Eighteenth Century is the time when ocular-centric thought established itself in Western society. Images and illustrations permeated textual spaces to the point that few books were printed without illustrations. From arts to sciences via fiction and geographic literature, the eighteenth-century citizen was therefore exposed to wide array of visual and textual combinations as part of his/her everyday life.
This one-day symposium will be held at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada on March 8, 2019.
For its 6th symposium, the Enlightenment Group welcomes 20-minute paper proposals engaging with:
- Visual culture
- Iconography
EUROPEAN BEAT STUDIES NETWORK 8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Nicosia, Oct 9-12, 2019
Call for Papers
Moving Geographies: Literatures of Travel and Migration
We invite submissions for papers, panels and roundtable discussions for the Eighth Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN), which will take place at the University of Nicosia (Nicosia, Cyprus) on October 9 – 12, 2019.
World religions have long held pilgrimage as an important journey of the faithful. Today, however, there is an increasing number of non-religious, secular or spiritual pilgrims undertaking these journeys. The nearly 800 km-long Camino de Santiago is a popular destination for secular pilgrims travelling through France and across Northern Spain. Established as one of three principal Christian pilgrimage routes over 1,200 years ago, the Camino is experiencing increasing visitor numbers with over 300,000 undertaking the journey each year.
A one-day conference titled “Body in Motion, Travelling Bodies in Anglophone Literature” will take place at the University Paris 8, France on May 24, 2019.
Deadline for proposal submission: January 25, 2019
Tropes of GlobalizationInternational Conference, June 27-29th 2019, LMU MunichKeynote Speaker: Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina)
LITERARY UNIVERSALS WORKSHOP
The University of Connecticut, Storrs
24 May 2019
Announcement and Call for Papers
Paper submissions are invited for the Jack London Society (http://jacklondonsociety.org/) panels at the American Literature Association 30th Annual Conference, May 23-26, 2019, Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116. Papers may address any aspect of Jack London studies. Innovative formats such as roundtables or teaching presentations are encouraged, especially those that connect London with other writers and artists. Send a 250-word abstract for a twenty-minute presentation to Kenneth K. Brandt at kbrandt@scad.edu by January 21, 2019. Include a brief biographical sketch and any AV equipment needs.
We are pleased to announce that the 30th SEDERI (Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies) Conference will take place at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, on 8-10 May 2019.
“Pilgrimages and Tourism”International Conference15-16 June, 2019 – Cambridge, UKorganised byLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Pilgrimages are ancient practices of humankind and are associated with a great variety of religious, spiritual and secular traditions. In today’s world the number of visits to sacred sites such as Santiago de Compostela (Spain), La Virgen de Guadalupe (Mexico), Matka Boska Czetochowska (Poland), secular places such as Graceland, home of Elvis Presley, Eifel Tower in Paris, Hiroshima Peace Museum and virtual pilgrimages, facilitated by video and satellite links is growing. With them, tourism both individual and in groups has been steadily increasing and changing.
Elizabeth Bowen Review: Volume 2, 2019, Call for Papers
The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review are seeking scholarly and innovative essays for publication in the second volume of the journal in May 2019.
Essays may cover any theme or specific work, but the editors are particularly interested in the less-explored areas of Bowen scholarship. These include:
Bowen’s short stories
Bowen as a reviewer and critic
Bowen’s travel writing (e.g. A Time in Rome)
Bowen’s non-fictional writings (Bowen’s Court, Seven Winters, The Shelbourne)
Bowen as a comic writer
This special issue of the Journal of the MMLA aims to interrogate how transatlantic encounters, itineraries, and movements have shaped literary and cultural expressions, influencing the formation of both individual and collective knowledge. In particular, it aspires to foster a dialogue to address political, ethical, sexual, and aesthetic questions related to transatlantic interactions among people, practices, and ideas, expanding from traditional Eurocentric perspectives and canonized narratives to encompass a global perspective. This dialogue becomes even more relevant in the present days, considering the political and cultural implications of such motilities.
CALL FOR ARTICLE PROPOSALS:
Seeking submissions for a forthcoming issue of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
Guest Editor: Peter Arnds, Trinity College Dublin
Special Issue: Literary Walks, Slow Travel, and Eco-Awareness in Contemporary Literature.
Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Philology
University of Montenegro
CALL FOR PAPERS
The XV International Conference on Anglo-American Literary Studies
“Home-Thoughts, from Abroad”
(from a poem by Robert Browning)
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Symposium « Vladimir Nabokov : History and Geography »6-8 June 2019, Paris, Sorbonne University / University of Cergy-Pontoise
Organized by Société française Vladimir Nabokov
Keynote speakers: Isabelle Poulin (Bordeaux-Montaigne University) and Will Norman (University of Kent).
Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the
Constance Fenimore Woolson Society
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Making Her Presence Felt in the World
Rollins College
Winter Park, Florida
April 4-7, 2019
You are invited to present a paper at one of the panels, described below, and join the inaugural business meeting to elect officers for The Diane Johnson Society at the American Literature Association (ALA) Conference on May 23-26, 2019 in Boston.
Please indicate your interest in presenting a paper (with panel title) and/or attending the business meeting a soon as possible to be placed on the mailing list by sending an e-mail to Ferdâ Asya at fasya@bloomu.edu.
Panel Descriptions
Diane Johnson and Travel, Immigration, or Exile
Albuquerque, NM February 20-23, 2019
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
Panels are now forming for presentations regarding all aspects (historical, literary, cultural, etc.) of Captivity Narratives and studies. All topics and approaches to the genre are welcomed. Graduate students/future teachers are particularly welcome to participate (with monetary awards for the best graduate student papers) - or to simply register to attend the conference and its captivity narrative panels.