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Travel and Literature session: 20th and 21st century travel writing

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 6:30pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)- International Conference , November 14-17, 2019, San Diego, CA, US

Session: Travel and Literature

The Travel and Literature session welcomes proposals focused on travel, odyssey, and mobility through a literary lens, with a special interest in 20th- 21st century travel writing. 

Boston to Brazil: Elizabeth Bishop’s Geographies

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - 1:44pm
Susan Gilmore, NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

Seeking papers/presenters for an approved session (#17976) at the 2020 NeMLA convention, Boston, March 5-8, 2020.

Violent Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - 1:43pm
University of Nottingham
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

  Violent Spaces

 

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Violent Spaces, the annual PGR conference of the Landscape, Space and Place Reading Group, which will be held on the 9th of September at the University of Nottingham. Spatial violence is an expansive concept which covers a range of environmental, social, political, economic and historical phenomena. As such, what is offered here is merely an insight into the way in which spatial violence might act upon and shape our contemporary world.

Eighteenth Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - 10:11am
Claflin University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Eighteenth Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions

October 30-31, 2019

THEME: READING AND WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM AND E-LEARNING

Tentative Schedule

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, 8:30 AM- 5:00 PM Ministers Hall, Claflin University campus   

                                                                                  

Registration

Morning: Concurrent sessions

Luncheon

1 PM Keynote address on the national reading gap by Dr. Anthony Graham, Provost, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference Extended Deadline CFP, Travel and Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 5:58pm
Cecile Ruel, Catholic University of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS (First-Come, First-Served Extended Deadline Period)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference

Thursday, November 14, 2019 to Sunday, November 17, 2019, Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel, San Diego, California

Conference Theme "Send in the Clowns"

The Picaro and Picaresque Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 1:13pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Picaro and Picaresque Fiction (Panel)

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference

Intercultural Conversations

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 1:09pm
University of Suceava (Romania)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2020

The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue on intercultural conversations. The theme issue is edited by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh (Dundalk Institute of Technology).

Narrative and Poetic Ethnographies in the Social Sciences (Creative)

updated: 
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 9:45am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

Conference: 51st Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Conference Date: 5-8 March, 2020

Location: Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA

Session Title: Narrative and Poetic Ethnographies in the Social Sciences (Creative)

The Settings of Margaret Atwood

updated: 
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 9:33am
Louisa MacKay Demerjian
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

Margaret Atwood is a world-renowned Canadian writer. Her identity as a Canadian is important to her and is reflected in her work, especially her earlier work. However, she is a well-travelled person as well and her works don't all take place in Canada. Over the years, she has set her work in urban, suburban and rural locations around Canada but also in the Caribbean and, in The Handmaid's Tale, in the Boston area. This panel would look at Atwood's various settings. How does she use place to reflect or cause either the comfort or the alienation of her characters? Why did she choose to set her first dystopian novel in Cambridge rather than in her home city of Toronto?

"Tales from the Grand Trunk Road" Panel

updated: 
Monday, June 10, 2019 - 1:45pm
51st Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

The oldest highway in Southern Asia was named the Grand Trunk Road by the British in the 17thcentury. During the nineteenth century the route carried not just goods for trade, but also British travelers whose numbers increased on the subcontinent as the century progressed. While the Grand Trunk Road was mentioned in Rudyard Kipling’s novel, Kim, many travelers may not have specifically mentioned it in their accounts, but their journeys would have inevitably taken them through such recognizable places on the route like, Calcutta, Delhi, Lahore, and Kabul. 

Transatlantic Connections: Extended Deadline

updated: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 10:34am
Victorians Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2019

The Victorians Institute has extended the deadline for proposals to our 2019 conference:

Transatlantic Connections: Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, & Victorian Studies will take place Oct 31-Nov 2 in Charleston, SC.

Our conference site affords an opportunity to think about transatlantic connections in the 19th century, when Charleston was a prominent intersection on a web that connected Britain, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

On the move: narratives of displacement, travel and mobilities (Graduate Student Conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 10:16am
Eighth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2019

Eighth Biennial Graduate Student Conference

Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies

University of British Columbia

25-26 October 2019

Vancouver, Canada

 

On the move:

narratives of displacement, travel and mobilities

Keynote Speaker: Simon Harel (University of Montreal)

 

Creative Writing: Oral Performance in the Classroom

updated: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 10:15am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

Print forms of poetry have traditionally been integral to writing and literature classes. However, for many students, especially those in first- or even second-year classes, the written word and the visual layout of poetic form can be foreign, even intimidating. This session will consider the possibilities offered by oral forms such as storytelling and spoken-word poetry. In addition to considering the pedagogical possibilities of oral performance, this session invites poets and storytellers to share their own original work.

Landscapes of Politics and Identity in American Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 10:13am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

This panel investigates the concept of landscape in American literature.  For Americans, the landscape brings strong associations, whether cultural, political, historical, or commercial.  The landscape, in a sense, is central to the American identity. This session seeks proposals on the meaning of landscape in American literature.  How do Americans use landscape to create identity?  In what ways are landscapes used politically or culturally to create meaning?  This session encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the landscape in American literature, including the examination of literature and the visual arts. 

NEMLA 2020

Marriott Copely Place

Boston, MA

March 5-8, 2020

Jenny Diski: A Celebration

updated: 
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 6:25am
Ben Grant / University of Oxford
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Call for Papers

 

Jenny Diski: A Celebration

 

A Symposium, University of Oxford, 7th April 2020

 

Keynote Speaker: Blake Morrison

 

Jenny Diski sadly died in 2016, and the time is right for a celebration of her work.

 

PAMLA 2019- Travel and Literature session: 20th and 21st century travel writing

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 1:18pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 10, 2019

The travel and literature session welcomes proposals focused on travel, odyssey and mobility through a literary lens, with a special interest in 20th- 21st century travel writing.

We are particularly interested in papers that take into consideration travel writing by authors better known for other forms of writing (novelists, poets, philosophers, essayists) and for whom travel, and travel writing, serve as a means to veer from their habitual modes of writing and allow them to experiment with another form (Baudrillard’s Cool memories, Barthes’ Empire of signs, Leiris’ Phantom Africa are examples of travel narratives of interest).

Topics may include:

Departures and Arrivals: Women, Mobility and Travel Writing

updated: 
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - 11:34am
Revista Feminismo/s
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Feminismo/s, from the Institute of Research in Gender Studies from the University of Alicante, is currently accepting submissions for its 36 issue, entitled “Departures and Arrivals: Women, Mobility and Travel Writing”. This issue seeks to approach women travel writing from a transhistorical and transnational perspective. Thus, we encourage submissions that deal with travelling and mobility in women’s writing from different cultural and national backgrounds and periods.

We are particularly interested in contributions that explore the intersections between gender, mobility and identity, including, but not restricted to the following aspects:

 

Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference

updated: 
Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 11:17am
Yasser Elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2019

 

Call for proposals for

Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean

 International Conference

Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès

March 26-27, 2020

Convened by Yasser Elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

 

Travel Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 11:55am
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2019

The travel studies area of NEPCA invites paper proposals on the subject of travel, broadly conceived.  Paper proposals may include (but are not limited to) analysis and critical perspectives on such travel-related topics as:

 

Ekphrastic Mirrors in Transnational Space

updated: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 4:44pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 10, 2019

The proposed session invites papers that explore how the chiasmic reflections of an ekphrasis reveal the interior subjectivity, ideology and the desire of its author. In Ancient rhetorical theory, ekphrasis refers to the use of language to make an audience imagine a scene.

Adaptation: In Service of Cinema or Novel?

updated: 
Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 1:37am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Collaborations of cinema with other art forms open up myriad of issues like the medium’s ability to maintain fidelity to the original narrative, its transformation of the original narrative, or its desire to treat the original as only an occasion for a different narrative. Adaptation studies have, as yet, largely concentrated on studying films as derivatives of original works reinforcing Rabindranath Tagore’s observation that “[c]inema is still playing second fiddle to literature.” It is commonly viewed as a presumptuous palimpsest whose merit lies in its techniques of appropriation, intersection, and transformation of the source text.

CFP Migrant Writings

updated: 
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 11:40am
Scritture Migranti. Rivista di scambi interculturali
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Editorial Board of “Scritture migranti. Rivista di Scambi Interculturali” is now accepting articles for its 12/2018 issue. Interested scholars should send an abstract of their proposal (about 500  words) to redazione.scritturemigranti@unibo.it Deadline for abstract submission: May 10 2019. Notification of acceptance will be sent no later than May 31 2019.

The deadline for the submission of the final text is: OCTOBER 31 2019.

In Passage: The International Journal of Writing and Mobility seeks contributions for its second issue

updated: 
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 2:42pm
University of Boumerdes
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 17, 2019

In Passage: The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, the electronic journal of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures of the University of Boumerdes, seeks contributions for its second issue, to be released in December 2019. The subjects addressed by In Passage include, but are not limited to:

-  Literary genres and movements- Travel literature and intercultural contact.- Nomadism.- Writing and sexual identity                                                     - Code switching/code mixing- Multilingualism and Multiculturalism- Translation issues- "Digital writing" (SMS language, social networks)- Status of the author in the digital age

 

The 5th Graduate Literature and… Conference: Literature and The City

updated: 
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 4:54am
Dr. Aşkın Çelikkol / Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Istanbul University, Department of American Culture and Literature 

The Fifth International Literature and… Conference:

Literature and The City

 

 

October 31- November 01, 2019

Istanbul,Turkey

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

MMLA 2019: Travel Writing/Writing Travel Session

updated: 
Sunday, April 7, 2019 - 4:40pm
Shannon Derby / Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2019

In keeping with the annual theme, “Duality, Doubles, and Doppelgangers,” this panel seeks to explore the relationship between duality, broadly conceived, travel, and writing about travel. We seek to interrogate the ways in which travel writing serves as a discursive engagement with multiple dualities, including self and other, authority and subordination, as well as style and content. Submissions from any time period will be considered and papers that explore a broad spectrum of genres, disciplines, and geographic regions will be given special consideration. Papers that address any approach to the conference theme are welcome. Potential topics and themes include (but are not limited to): 

Double Talk: Dialect, Multilingualism, and Coded Language in American Literature

updated: 
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 1:27pm
Andy Harper / Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 29, 2019

In Strange Talk (1999), Gavin Jones argues the ambivalence of late-nineteenth-century American texts’ incorporation of accents, dialects, and foreign tongues, suggesting its tendency both to reinforce and to resist white hegemonic control of the English language. Writing around a decade earlier, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1988), Houston A. Baker (1987), Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1986) theorize the radically subversive and “deterritorializing” politics of African American English. Today, American writers Junot Díaz and Esmé Waijun Wang incorporate untranslated Spanish and Chinese, respectively, into their work. This session invites papers exploring the politics of dialect, multilingualism, and coded language in American literature.

Book Series: Tourism Security Safety And Post Conflict Destinations

updated: 
Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 10:45am
Emerald Group Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Tourism Security Safety And Post Conflict Destinations

Since the turn of the century, the international rules surrounding security and safety have significantly changed, specifically within the tourism industry. In the age of globalization, terrorism and conflict have moved beyond individual high-profile targets; instead, tourists, travellers and journalists are at risk. In response to this shift, the series invites authors and scholars to contribute to the conversation surrounding tourism security and post-conflict destinations. This call invites potential authors to present their book proposal revolving around tourism secuity and post conflict destinations. 

Representing Disembarkation: Migrations, Arrivals, Territories

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 2:50pm
Liverpool John Moores University (UK) / Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale (Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Representing Disembarkation: Migrations, Arrivals, Territories

Conference / Procida, Naples 27 – 29 April 2020

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Sandro Mezzadra, Iain Chambers, Miguel Mellino, Tiziana Terranova

Textual Transactions and the “Non-Fictional Turn”

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 10:04am
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
  • 250-word proposals due April 10, 2019
  • Essays of 2,000-3,000 words due July 1, 2019
  • Publication: Spring 2020

The guest editors of a special issue of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies seek proposals for essays that address non-fictional forms in relation to multiply mediated concepts of truth and reality.

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