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British Marxism and Cultural Studies Today

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 11:33am
Journal for the Study of British Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

British Marxism and Cultural Studies Today

Call for Contributions

Journal for the Study of British Cultures 32.2 (2025)

edited by Sebastian Berg & Claus-Ulrich Viol

 

FRAME 38.1 "Page to Planet"

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 11:31am
FRAME Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 6, 2024

One of the primary challenges in confronting the climate crisis is effectively representing its magnitude and impact on both the environment and humanity. The quest for a sustainable future cannot be fulfilled without the capacity of imagining one. As Timothy Clark argues in his work on scale framing (Ecocriticism on the Edge, 2015), the act of imagining requires placing concepts within specific temporal and contextual frameworks. Envisioning the complex effects and mechanisms of climate change necessitates grappling with unprecedented and expansive scales. Environmental fiction has emerged as a literary field that attempts to capture these scales and their interplays.

52nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 9:47am
Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 16, 2024

FEB 17-18 – Virtual

FEB 20-22 – In-Person

Featuring Keynote Speakers

 RACHEL KUSHNER, BEN LERNER, JAHAN RAMAZANI,

 and JORGE MEDINA!

 

The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture welcomes critical papers and full panel discussions about literature from the 20th and 21st centuries and its connections to other art forms and academic fields. The conference also welcomes creative submissions, such as literary compositions, videos, or hybrid genres. Additionally, critical-creative submissions exploring poetics, crafts, or writing practices are welcomed.

 

Hard Bodies: Aesthetic, Materiality, and Mediality of Masculinity in American and European Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 – today

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 9:47am
Max Böhner (Humboldt-University of Berlin/University of Potsdam), Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe University); Clara J. Lauffer (Goethe University); Simon Wendt (Goethe University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Hard Bodies: Aesthetic, Materiality, and Mediality of Masculinity in American and European Art and Visual Culture, c. 1900 – today

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Germany, 9th–11th January 2025

Deadline: 15th July, 2024

 

Description:

The hard body is omnipresent in contemporary culture. It evokes purity, whiteness, and resistance to cracking or contamination. It is the result of disciplined self-optimization (physical training, a strict diet, dietary supplements, and/or surgery) and part of the iconography of white supremacy. Contemporary artists only refer to the hard male body to destroy it – like Candice Lin in her installation A Hard White Body (2017). 

The Textual Self: Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Self-Narration

updated: 
Monday, June 3, 2024 - 4:58am
English Department / LMU Munich
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

IBZ, Munich

*21st-22nd November, 2024*

*Keynotes*

 

  • Kirsty Bell (Author of The Undercurrents, Berlin)
  • Claire Squires (Stirling)
  • Corinna Norrick-Rühl (Münster)
  • Alexandra Effe (Oslo)
  • Julia  Lajta-Novak (Vienna)
  • Sabine Erbrich (Editor, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin)

 

2025 Katherine Anne Porter Session at the ALA

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:20pm
Katherine Anne Porter Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Christine Grogan will chair the Katherine Anne Porter Society session at the 36th American Literature Association Conference. The conference will take place May 21-24, 2025, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. Conference details and information about hotel reservations are available through the web site of the American Literature Association, https://americanliteratureassociation.org/.

Asynchronous short course on Multimodality and American Literature

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:20pm
Center for Education and Life-long Learning / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 14, 2024

Subject: Asynchronous short course on Multimodality and American Literature

 An asynchronous short course is offered by the Center for Education and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, with emphasis placed on Multimodality and American Literature under the following title: Multimodality: Print and Digital Anglophone Narratives (3,5 ECTS).

Star Trek and Disability

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:18pm
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers — Disability and Star Trek, Special Issue of CJDS

 

Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2024

 

Hideous Progenies: Adulterous Adaptations of Frankenstein in the 21st-Century

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:18pm
Kyle William Bishop
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

With the commercial and critical success of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023), I am assembling a collection of scholarly essays that will explore additional unfaithful 21st-century adaptations (in various media) of Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein. Taking a page from Thomas Leitch’s idea of the “Ethics of Infidelity,” I propose that investigating the longevity of Shelley’s essential story (the overreacher plot coupled with an animated or re-animated creature) as translated into a variety of “adulterous adaptations” would demonstrate how the plot, structure, character types, themes, etc.

The Coming Freedom: Censoring Queer Lives, Bodies, and Books

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:17pm
Kurt Milberger & Hannah Shearer The Journal of Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The Journal of Popular Culture Special Issue Call for Papers

The Coming Freedom: Censoring Queer Lives, Bodies, and Books

About this Issue

Panel exploring the representations of motherhood in Canada for the in-person conference “Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives” (University of Debrecen, Hungary, October 24-25, 2024)

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:11pm
Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, University of Debrecen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

CFP: Panel exploring the representations of motherhood in Canada for the in-person conference “Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives” (University of Debrecen, Hungary, October 24-25, 2024)

Teaching Octavia E. Butler: SAMLA 96 Special Session

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:10pm
Octavia E. Butler Literary Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Teaching Octavia E. Butler: Call for Papers SAMLA 96

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association

November 15-17, 2024
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront
Jacksonville, FL

We invite proposals from educators, graduate students, independent scholars, and anyone passionate about incorporating Butler’s works into their teaching and learning environments.

Panelists are encouraged to share specific lesson plans, classroom activities, and resources that effectively engage students with Butler’s texts. Discussions on the challenges and opportunities of teaching Butler in diverse educational settings are also welcome.

British Literature 20 and 21st Century

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:03pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The "British Literature and Culture: 20th and 21st Centuries" session welcomes papers that explore the rich cultural heritage of 20th and 21st Century British literature. It is important to note that this session uses the term “literature” liberally to include visual and performing arts, products of stage and screen that point to aspects of British culture generally, including the country’s politics. With regard to the conference’s theme “Translation in Action,” the session also welcomes but does not require proposals that discuss how the non-Anglophone world has reacted to/understood/re-interpreted 20th and 21st century British literature, or thoughts on teaching this literature in the American classroom.

Sci-Fi Special Issue

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:02pm
The Classical Connection
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Call for Papers: 

Special Issue: “Vol. 2 No. 1, Sci-Fi’s Narratives of Possibilities and Probabilities” 

The Classical Connection (ISSN 2994-9262 Online)

 

Overview:

RSA 2025 - Milton Studies: A General Session (Milton Society of America)

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:01pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-20-minute papers considering any aspect of Milton's writings, their reception, and their significance. Send a paper title (15-word maximum), 200-word abstract, and resume (.pdf or .doc) to Marissa Greenberg at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than July 1.

Afrofuturism, Special Issue of Studies in American Culture

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 6:02pm
Studies in American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

As an aesthetic and cultural movement, Afrofuturism began with Mark Derry’s 1993 essay, “Black to the Future.” Derry poses a difficult question: “Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine possible futures?” The clear answer is a resounding, “YES!” Not only can Black folk imagine possible futures, but they can also write, paint, and sculpt them into being. In this special issue we invite contributors to explore what these possible futures look like. How do Afrofuturist artists reimagine a world where Black folks can be/are free? What is the cost of such freedom? 

 

Rhetorical Approaches to Literature (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

updated: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 5:13pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 16 ***  
 

PAMLA Annual Conference  

Palm Springs, California 

November 6-10, 2024 

 

 "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel)    

Call for proposals for Post45 special issue: ‘The potential of cliché’

updated: 
Friday, May 31, 2024 - 10:27am
Harriet Smith Hughes & Siraj Sindhu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 7, 2024

When we call something a cliché, we’re typically calling it tired, banal, repetitive, or boring. Whether it’s an art object, a turn of speech, or a pattern of behavior, we’re identifying what it lacks: distinctiveness, originality, creativity, thrill. But in pointing to a cliché, we’re also pointing to a response. Noticing cliché creates a fissure. It elicits a reflexive movement, by which we’re forced to reckon with the repetitiousness of language; the ideological and economic structures that shape the creation of art; the social patterns that guide how we relate and self-present. Pointing to cliché, in other words, opens up the possibility for subversion.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! American and Diaspora Studies Session Proposals for NeMLA

updated: 
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 11:59am
Nicole Lowman/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Seeking session proposals for the American and Diaspora Studies area of the Northeast Modern Language Association. 

March 6-9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
Hotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

Our Thursday opening address will be given by Benjamin Fraser.
Our Friday keynote event will be given by Julia Alvarez.

ENSEIGNER LA LANGUE À TRAVERS LA TRADUCTION Perspectives franco-italiennes comparées entre Renaissance et Ère numérique

updated: 
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 3:05am
Université de Bâle ▪ Université de Bologne ▪ Université de Catane ▪ Université de Ferrare ▪ Université de Modène
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

ENSEIGNER LA LANGUE À TRAVERS LA TRADUCTION

Perspectives franco-italiennes comparées entre Renaissance et Ère numérique 

Ferrare, 21-22 novembre 2024   

Axes de recherche

Crime Fiction and Communism

updated: 
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 2:29pm
Carlos Uxo / Monash University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

In 1971, when the Cuban government launched the Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution Crime Fiction award, local literary critics were acutely aware of the genre’s roots in a capitalist setting. Yet, José Antonio Portuondo considered that crime fiction could serve a purpose within a Communist framework of life, provided it underwent adaptation to suit the new context. Over the following years, Cuban journals published numerous programmatic texts aimed at guiding writers willing to produce what would be termed Revolutionary crime fiction. Similar adjustments took place in other Soviet bloc countries, albeit with varying degrees of success and popularity.

CFP: “Is Abundance A Luxury?” Seminar, ASAP/15 Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 2:01pm
Heather Houser
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 26, 2024


Call for Proposals: “Is Abundance A Luxury?”

We welcome submissions for a seminar at the 2024 Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference, October 17-19 in New York City.

Full conference information: ASAP/15: Not a Luxury

Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 2:00pm
The South Asian Literary Association (SALA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

CFP: Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis 

    24th Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Online Conference 

                                    January 18th and 19th, 2025 

Consent Puzzles: Exploring the Ambiguities of Sexual Consent in Narratives and Media Debates

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:58pm
Michele Meek
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

This CFP is a call for essays for a forthcoming edited collection.

Consent is often deemed a prerequisite to ethical interactions—particularly sexual ones. A nonconsensual act is viewed as an affront, a violation, an oppression. For an act to seem permissible, one requires what Heidi M. Hurd calls the “moral magic” of consent.

Conference on Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:58pm
Seattle University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Conference on Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities ● Call for Abstracts  
Seattle University, April 25 – April 27, 2025 (Friday through Sunday)
  
Full Name/Name of Organization:   
Seattle University

There will be no registration fee for this conference.

The funding for this conference is provided by the Mellon Foundation, for the “Race, Racialization and Resistance in the US” curricular project at Seattle University.
    

2024 MAPACA War Studies Area

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:52pm
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

2024 Conference of   Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association (MAPACA)

MAPACA War Studies Area

Thursday, November 7 -- Saturday, November 9, 2024
Tropicana Casino and Resort
Atlantic City, New Jersey

Proposals due to http://www.mapaca.net  by  June 30, 2024

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