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CFP: Food in American Literature
Proposals due September 1, 2021
UPDATE:
We have accepted about 3/4 of the papers we need for an edited volume on food in American literature. We are seeking a handful of high-quality papers to complete the collection.
OVERVIEW:
UPDATE: CFP: Food in American Literature
Proposals due December 24, 2021
NOTE:
We are well along in the peer review process with a university press with favorable evaluations. In order to further bolster our collection, however, at this point we are looking only for proposals addressing the following:
For more detailed information on what to send, please see our original CFP below. Thank you.
OVERVIEW:
CFP: Modernism and Literature: A (Re)consideration
Proposals due September 30, 2022
OVERVIEW:
COVID showed us what we already knew, how fragile global capitalist societies are and how unresilient they become when the structures get shocked. Some of those structures deserve to be destroyed (authoritarianism, nationalism, racism, colonialism, labor exploitation, e.g.); others need to be shored up or replaced with even better institutions and practices (healthcare, the planetary ecosystem, wealth equity, social justice, e.g.). When these fragile structures fail, their failures disproportionately affect those least able to bear the harm. And, around the world, the harmful effects of exploitative structures are repeatedly discriminatorily directed.
Continuing an ongoing philosophical conversation about the order of rank and value, media theorist and evolutionary biologist Donna Haraway states in A Cyborg Manifesto that the classifications of human, machine, and animal species blur if one examines them at the genetic or molecular level; the order and rank of human supremacy dissolves. In the late 19th century following the acceptance of Darwin’s theory of evolution, how were the fuzzy lines between humans, animals, and machines drawn and by whom? At what point do we, as humans, become transhuman—enhanced by technology?
We are seeking submissions of abstracts for our NeMLA panel. The NeMLA Convention will take place from March 23-26, 2023, in Niagara Falls, NY, USA. The 2023 conference theme is RESILIENCE.
SpokenWeb Symposium 2023 Call for Papers
We've extended the deadline to Friday, September 16, 2022!
The SpokenWeb Research Network (www.spokenweb.ca) is hosting the 2023 SpokenWeb Research Symposium at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada from May 1-3, 2023. We invite those from inside and outside the Network who engage with sound in their research and/or creative practice to submit paper or panel proposals that respond to the conference theme of:
Reverb: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space
With the turn towards extractivism and energy as objects for critical inquiry, minerals and fossil fuels have become crucial additions to categories of cultural, political, and materialist analyses. The international workshop Archives of the Planetary Mine will explore the intersections between culture, materiality, politics, energy consumption, and extractivism across the Americas, throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its purpose is to address the geohistorical magnitudes of energy consumption and critical engagements with the logic of extraction as a condition of possibility for cultural production.
Is the UK a country of immigration? British immigration historian Panikos Panayi says yes. Although its history and founding are not comparable to that of the United States, which is synonymous with the history of immigration, the history of Britain is also not unrelated to immigration. On the contrary, for the past 200 years, immigration has been a major driving force in history, leading to significant changes in British society. In the context of the dissolution of the British Empire and the decline of the British economy after World War II, Englishness has emerged as a public concern by British people who ask themselves, “What is British?” or “What is English?”.
The twenty-first century is lauded for the strides in progress that have encouraged the rights of individuals to flourish and succeed regardless of gender, creed, or race. Yet issues of disparity still abound relating to gender constructions and sexual orientations especially against the backdrop of ecological crisis that are plaguing the world. The myriad of challenges which include issues of gender representation, sexual orientation, climate and/or environmental challenges, and cultural difference have become topical within scholarly circles.
50th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
February 20-21 (Virtual) – 23-25 2023
Featuring Keynotes by Stephanie Burt, Jennifer Egan, Merve Emre, & Fernando Operé
Societies in Residence at the LCLC include E. E. Cummings Society, International Lawrence Durrell Society, T. S. Eliot Society, Iris Murdoch Society, Charles Olson Society, International Harold Pinter Society & International Virginia Woolf Society
This NeMLA 2023 session will explore literary critical and environmental humanities methods for rethinking water justice and urban climate adaptation. We are interested in formal and informal relationships to water justice; representations of riverine and coastal cities; and readings of texts that help us consider governmental, private, and community-based strategies of water management. Topics might include representations of drought, flooding, toxicity and cleanup, water access, and water infrastructures.
Call for Papers
Fantasy Goes to Hell: Depictions of Hell in
Modern Fantasy Texts
A Mythcon Online Winter Seminar (28 January 2023)
and Special Issue of Mythlore (Fall/Winter 2023)
Chairs/Editors: Janet Brennan Croft and Erin Giannini
Deadlines:
Proposals for the seminar: November 15, 2022
Submissions for the special issue: May 15, 2023
The environment is still being shaped by anthropocentric acts, facing continuous destruction, and reverberating catastrophic effects on numerous species, including humans both as individuals and as communities. This panel wants to contribute to the ongoing debate about the necessity to improve the human relationship with the environment, with nature, and the need for a significant, long overdue change of the current course of action. The ongoing unscrupulous devastation can lead to extreme outcomes such as extinction, announcing the termination of numerous representations of life in various forms. Yet, a strong resistance to this threat can be encountered in various contexts and is defined in disparate ways through diversified means of communication.
Global Conference on Women and Gender
To be held in person March 16-18, 2023
This interdisciplinary conference on Women and Gender brings together participants from all academic fields to engage in wide-ranging conversations about education as a catalyst for freedom and transformation. Contributors are encouraged to consider education in the diversity of its forms, and how “traditional” and/or “alternative” models, both inside and outside of the classroom, intersect with the politics of gender. What are the social, economic, and intellectual consequences of denying women and marginalized communities access to education? Alternatively, how may education serve as an act of resistance to systems of oppression throughout the world?
In a germinal essay of literary study, W.J.T. Mitchell observes that the human, “for many philosophers both ancient and modern, is the “representational animal,” homo symbolicum, the creature whose distinctive character is the creation and manipulation of signs—things that “stand for” or “take the place of” something else.” And in the twenty-first century, representation—in its aesthetic, cultural, semiotic, political, and myriad other contemporary dimensions—is strategically deployed for its presumptive ability to carry the burden of material disparities produced along intersecting lines of difference.
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge) seeks high quality articles, as well as creative work.
Articles submitted might focus on:
• Creative Writing in universities and colleges
• pedagogy, practice or research topics
• the processes of creative writers, their drafts and completed works
• the history of particular writing forms
• analysis of particular creative works
8-9 October, Online (Blackboard Collaborate).
Keynote speaker: Professor Kathryn Yusoff
Guest creators TBC.
Situating Extraction
Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL): Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek at 50
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2023
Full name / name of organization: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
Prospective publication: September, 2024
Contact email: TSLL@austin.utexas.edu
Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language: Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek at 50
To be held: 3rd, November 2022
Location: Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
Keynote: to be delivered by Dr Malcolm Guite
South Asian literary works have given us a memorable array of complex portraits of women and men and the relations between them. Some characters favor traditional modes of understanding the roles and behaviors of the sexes and their interrelations, others seem oriented to a progressive outlook on gender and the relations relations between women, men and non-binary individuals, while still others apparently embody a mixture of these attitudes. May we discern patterns or differences in matters of gender and gender relations when taking into account whether the authors in question identify as female, male, or non-binary?
Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL): Kazuo Ishiguro
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2022
Full name / name of organization: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
Prospective publication: September 2023
Contact email: TSLL@austin.utexas.edu
TSLL Website: https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/texas-studies-in-literature-and-lang...
Special Issue: Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the 19th, 20th and 21st Century
FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/18/osmosis-interdiscip...
The deadline for submission has been extended to 14 August 2022. Authors will be notified by 31 August 2022.
Keynote Speakers:
Day 1 - Professor Michael Keith, PhD
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK
Day 2 - Professor Kaiser Hamidul Haq, PhD
Poet, Translator, and Critic
Former Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hull (UK), 8th - 9th December 2022
In the last five years, renewed focus has been on Philip Larkin.
FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT
Conference Director: Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia
*Extended Deadline for Proposals: September 30, 2022*
You are invited to propose a scholarly paper, panel, or roundtable, or more public-facing creative presentation, performance, or screening to a conference designed to explore the career of Asian North American writer Winnifred Eaton Reeve (1875-1954) and her contexts..
Ain-Shams University
Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages)
Department of English
4th International Conference
19th -21st March 2023
Beyond Boundaries: Paradigm Shifts in Literature, Linguistics and Translation
REMINDER: AUGUST 15 DEADLINE
CALL FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS
Women in French Studies
2024 Special Topics Issue
Out of Confinement: Creativity in Constraint
“True enclosure was surely a state of mind.”
—Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages