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Hollywood Before the Code, International Conference, Sorbonne and Nanterre University, Paris

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:54pm
Claire Dutriaux / Sorbonne University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

International conference:

Hollywood Before the Code (1921-1934)

 

Sorbonne University and Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France

June 27-28-29, 2024

 

The implementation of the Production Code in 1934 established a pre- and post-classic Hollywood era. From 1934 onward, the studios submitted their productions to some internal control to ensure the conformity of contents and guarantee their commercial viability at a time when ideological and religious elites were actively trying to enforce the respect of moral principles.

Call for Abstracts--46th Comparative Drama Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:53pm
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

46th Comparative Drama ConferenceCall for PapersApril 4-6, 2024Orlando, Florida                         Abstract Submission Deadline:  15 October 2023

Papers reporting on original investigations and critical analysis of research and developments in the field of drama and theatre are invited for the 46th Comparative Drama Conference, hosted by Rollins College in Orlando, Florida, to be held April 4-6,  2024 . Papers may be comparative across nationalities, periods and disciplines; and may deal with any issue in dramatic literature, criticism, theory, and performance, or any method of historiography, translation, or production.

Insignificant Notations: Thinking Surplus with the New York School

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:52pm
NEMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel invites papers that theorize the surplus of a literary object as something accidentally produced by that object. What is the substance and effect of this surplus? How is surplus figured in poetry, especially in poetics in or working in relation to the New York School? Following Stephen Best's assertion that "beauty is a force of erasure," papers might contribute theories of beauty in or as surplus. If art implies a frame but beauty can also erase that frame, papers might theorize framing in poetry and consider poetics that both constitute and move to exceed a frame. What else might constitute or figure surplus in poetry? Do New York School poetics figure a surplus of discourse or perhaps of thought?

EXTENDED 10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 2:15am
Gümüşhane University and Ankara Science University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 20, 2023
  • 10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture 
  • The topical theme of the conference is "Fashion as Material Culture"
  • Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Stephen Bending, University of Southampton and Prof. Dr. Abby Lillethun, Montclair State University

Call for Papers: The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 3:22pm
Dr. Verna Kale / The Routledge Companions
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Call for Papers: The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway

 

The Routledge Literature Companions feature newly-commissioned work from an international team of contributors in exciting areas of literary studies.  The essays in this volume, written in clear and jargon-free prose, are intended for both students and scholars, providing a comprehensive overview while introducing emerging scholarship. The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway, edited by Verna Kale, is currently under contract. 

 

The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 12:01pm
Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg/IUF)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary 

American Literature and Art

A two-day international conference at the University of Strasbourg organized with support from the Institut Universitaire de France 

Dates: 21-22 March 2024

Venue: University of Strasbourg, France

Confirmed keynote speaker: Dawn Raffel is a writer whose book Boundless as the Sky came out in January 2023.

Another keynote speaker to be confirmed.

Futurisms Now: From European Perspectives to Black, Indigenous, and Multi-Ethnic Futurisms

updated: 
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 3:48pm
Raquel Baker / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 30, 2023

This panel explores and theorizes storytelling strategies used in Black (African and Afro), Indigenous, and Multi-Ethnic Futurist art and social movements, including literature, poetry, film, music, and visual and digital arts. These alternate Futurisms shift the impetus of the creative energy from discarding the past to engaging complex senses of temporality and intertextuality that often center memory, history, folklore, urban legends, and identity.

Fright Nights: Live Horror Events

updated: 
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 9:50am
Kieran Foster/Cassie Brummitt
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: EDITED COLLECTION

 

Fright Nights: Live Horror Events

Editors: Kieran Foster, University of Nottingham (UK), and Cassie Brummitt, University of Nottingham (UK)

 

Theatre in the Digital Age

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:40pm
German Society for Contemporary Drama in English/University of Innsbruck, Austria
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 2, 2023

32nd Annual CDE Conference, Innsbruck (Austria), 2-5 May 2024

 

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 32nd annual conference (2-5 May 2024). It is organized by the Department of English at the University of Innsbruck and will be held as a residential conference at ‘Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof’ in Innsbruck.

 

Theatre in the Digital Age

 

Agricultural Imaginaries

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2024

Boston, MA

March 7-10, 2024

Thoughts (Journal of English Language, Literature, and Translation)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:19pm
Department of English, Chulalongkorn University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Ranked in Tier 1 on the Thai Journal Citation Index, Thoughts is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, published biannually by Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Thoughts welcomes original manuscripts in the areas of English linguistics, English applied linguistics, ฺฺBritish and American literature, Literature in English translation, and translation studies. For more information, visit https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/thoughts/index   

[CFP]/Censoring, framing and regulating images in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:14pm
Transatlantica (online journal of the French Association of American Studies [AFEA])
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Censoring, framing and regulating images in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States

 

Deadline for submissions: September 16, 2023

full name / name of organization: Transatlantica (online journal of the French Association of American Studies [AFEA])

contact email: adrienne.boutang@univ-fcomte.fr

 

 

SAMLA 2023: Bad Art

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:05pm
Ian Afflerbach, George Porter Thomas
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 30, 2023

Scholarship on the politics of literature has, in recent decades, increasingly come to focus on
whether texts from the past conform to the values of the present. Some texts are praised for
modeling, even anticipating, our own progressive values, while others are subject to critique for
the way they ignore, license, or justify forms of inequity, injustice, and subordination. This
disciplinary impulse has come to seem not only justified, but natural. Yet it has also resulted in a
growing corpus of books being dismissed or maligned within the academy, books that are
crucially still being read and revered outside the academy. We call this “bad art” because we

Fiction 2000 and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:02pm
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 8, 2024

To mark the fortieth anniversary of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, in 2024 Foundation will be publishing a special summer issue devoted to the legacy of cyberpunk in the twenty-first century. Cyberpunk culture is conspicuously everywhere – from books and films to videogames, pop videos, TV shows, fashion, advertising, and the visual arts. If cyberpunk was once ‘cutting-edge’, what future does it have when AIs and virtual/augmented realities are increasingly part of everyday life? When global corporations such as Facebook are encouraging its customers to inhabit ‘the Metaverse’, what function does cyberpunk have?

51st Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:00pm
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 18, 2023

February 19-20 (Virtual) – 22-24 (In-Person), 2024

Keynotes—TBA

Societies in Residence at the LCLC include African American Literature and Culture Society, E. E. Cummings Society, Durrell Society, T. S. Eliot Society, International James Joyce Society, Iris Murdoch Society, Flannery O’Connor Society, Charles Olson Society, Harold Pinter Society & International Virginia Woolf Society.

 

INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS (Individuals and Groups)

GENERAL OVERVIEW

For all of the following categories listed below, please follow these directions:

Visions of Excess: Class Politics, Fear, and the Representation of Surplus in Horror Cinema (Seminar)

updated: 
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 3:30pm
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

55th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts

Systems of excess: unsettling visions of the unwanted and grotesque, pushing the limits of our collective imaginary. This is the very texture of horror. For the last few years, the NeMLA convention has allowed our growing community of scholars to lay the foundation for a new trajectory of horror criticism —one that focuses on the class politics at play in horror cinema, as well as on potential materialist analyses of the genre and its spectatorship. The 2024 “Surplus” theme aligns with the theoretical landscape we have been exploring, adding a new level of specificity to the academic discourse we wish to collectively build.

CFP: Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture – Northeast Popular and American Culture Association Fall Conference 2023

updated: 
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 3:30pm
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture area welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, educators, and independent researchers of popular culture. NEPCA’s 2023 fall virtual conference will be held October 12 – October 14, 2023 via Zoom. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2023.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Democracy Today?

updated: 
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 12:07pm
The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Democracy Today?

 

The 2024 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference

March 22–23, 2024

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY

New York, NY

Co-sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY

Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2023

 

Conference Description

Mediated Ruins in Contemporary Landscapes of the Americas

updated: 
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 12:07pm
Cornell University NEMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Mediated Ruins in Contemporary Landscapes of the Americas

chairs: Paulo Lorca Fuentealba (Cornell University) and Ashley Edlund-Chescheir (Cornell University)

Join us in Boston for NEMLA, March 7th-10th, 2024

Description:

NeMLA 2024 - Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value

updated: 
Thursday, July 6, 2023 - 5:30pm
Leo Kadokura, University of Oxford, NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

  • Conference: 55th NeMLA Convention 
  • Conference Theme: Surplus
  • Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Abstract Deadline for Paper Proposals: 30th September 2023
  • Conference Date: 7-10th March 2024

PanelHalf Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value 

Chair(s): Leo Kadokura (University of Oxford)

Cather Studies 16: Willa Cather’s New York Intersections

updated: 
Monday, July 3, 2023 - 7:41am
Cather Studies, University of Nebraska Press
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Call for submissions: Willa Cather’s New York Intersections

Submissions are invited for volume 16 of Cather Studies, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. The theme for the volume will be “Willa Cather’s New York Intersections.” Submissions may address New York City as Cather knew it but also the metropolis that was present around her, though perhaps not always visible to her. 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Children in the Fiction and Photography of Eudora Welty

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:27pm
Eudora Welty Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 6, 2023

The Eudora Welty Society welcomes proposals for papers for a special session (traditional format) addressing representations of children, childhood, or childness in Welty’s fiction, nonfiction, and/or photography. Considering relationships of such representations to the conference theme of in/security is especially welcome, though not required. Please submit a 300-word abstract and brief biographical statement by July 7 to Katherine Henninger at Louisiana State University, kth@lsu.edu.

The Senses and War

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:22pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

How do authors describe the sensory reality of war? What are the sounds of war, the smells of war (the textures, visuals, taste of war)? How are these described and how do they differ? These are questions that remain of interest to historians and literary scholars as we try to understand past events and representations of violence and conflict. From world wars to the war on climate change, our relationship with bodies and spaces is shifting and the sensorium carries these shifts. This panel is looking for abstracts interested in the senses and war across mediums (film, texts, art), whether these represent real or imagined conflicts.

Human vs Non-Human Languages

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:17pm
South Atlantic Modernist Association (SAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

In the past six months, the world has been shocked by the rapid progression of AI, specifically as manifested in ChatGPT, which propelled fears ranging from the integrity of education to the prospect of massive loss of jobs, to even the very end of writing. While much remains to be seen about the effect of AI on our daily lives, it is clear that we are on the verge of a paradigm shift in human culture, rooted in the impossibility to distinguish between human- and AI-generated text, images, and art. Discourses about originality in language and the formative power of language have been spun from the beginning of documented history, as evident in The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Tao De Ching,  Plato, Aristotle, The Bible, etc.

Edited volume on films and TV series written and created by Jon Favreau

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:27pm
Guy Nicolucci/Montclair State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023


Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection
 
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci

 

 

deadline for submissions: 

August 15, 2023

full name / name of organization: 

Guy Nicolucci/Montclair State University

contact email: 

guynicolucci@gmail.com

 

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