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Surplus in African and African Diasporic Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:19pm
Northeastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel seeks papers that investigate the theme of surplus as it relates to African and African Diasporic literature, particularly in terms of representations of multivocality in oral and written traditions, multicultural and intersectional identities, economic excess and competition, and multimodality and hybridity. All genres of literature are of interest.

Please submit proposals via the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20628

Submissions deadline is September 30, 2023.

NeMLA 2024: Narrative Surplus, Literary Specificity, and the Modernist Novel

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:17pm
Jack Quirk / Brown University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

 

Narrative Surplus, Literary Specificity, and the Modernist Novel at NeMLA, March 7-10, 2024 Boston, MA Host: Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences.

What would it mean to think of a novel’s depiction of thoughts, ideas, or emotions as surplus to its plot? What details—historical, social, political—are lost if we think of narrative information as mere details and therefore surplus to literary meaning? Once we extract all essential facts, what is left for the critic to make sense of?

Poetry and anthropology, poets, anthropoets and anthropologists: crossing, borrowing, influencing, returning home in the Americas and the Pacific Rim (1960s-)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:16pm
Peggy Pacini / CY Cergy Paris Université
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Poetry and anthropology, poets, anthropoets and anthropologists: crossing, borrowing, influencing, returning home in the Americas and the Pacific Rim (1960s-)

Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie (Charenton-le-Pont, France)

| September 18-19, 2023

 

Organizers : Peggy Pacini, Gérald Peloux, Anne-Marie Petitjean (CY Cergy Paris Université, UMR Héritages)

 

Unpacking Surplus in the Novels of Tiphanie Yanique (NeMLA)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 6:25am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel invites papers that explore the various engagements with surplus—specifically as in excess, excessive, leftover, or unwanted—in the novels of Tiphanie Yanique. This exploration may take a variety of forms, spanning from the emotional to the spatial and intergenerational. For instance, such an analysis might examine excessive or unwanted emotions, such as love, desire, anger, in Monster in the Middle (2021) and what one couple inherits from their ancestors.

CLiC: To Exit – Literatures of Ending

updated: 
Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 3:06am
University of Worcester
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

7th November 2023

“nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.”

– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

SEMINAR NeMLA. Creativity Against Debt: Fighting Precarity in Latin American Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 1:29pm
Natalia Aguilar Vasquez, Emerson College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel offers a transnational and interdisciplinary vision of how creativity resists debt. Capturing the social alienation of debt embodied in the lives of so many Latin Americans, and contrary to analyzing Latin American debt only as a sophisticated form of socioeconomic oppression— particularly of individuals and communities historically marginalized from politics and power—this panel aims to discuss the creative and resourceful ways indebted individuals are forced to navigate their precarity and reclaim a future for their families.

What a Waste! Representations of Waste in the Post-War (1945 - 1990)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 10:36am
University of St Andrews
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

UPDATED CONTACT EMAIL! - if you have already submitted any proposals or inquiries to the previous email, these have been forwarded and are accounted for.

What a Waste! is an interdisciplinary graduate conference that seeks to explicate the position of waste in the cultural output of the post-war. This conference will be held at the University of St Andrews on 23rd September 2023, and invites proposals from postgraduates and early career researchers.

Too Much of a Good Thing? Surplus Memory, Form, Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 11:17am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Is there such thing as too much memory? According to nineteenth-century French psychologists, there is, which is how they coined the term “hypermnesia,” or “the disease of too much memory” (Michael Roth). As Michael Roth has usefully charted, a “typical” or normal” memory, then, would be one that brings order, allowing for a clear link between the past and present that consequently allows for “possible futures.” In contrast, surplus memory becomes an “agent of disorder” that overwhelms the present.

The Prospect of Scarcity

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:23am
Aaron Dell
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Panel

March 7-10, 2024, Boston

Toxic Ecologies of the Global South: Panel, NeMLA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:19am
The 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Toxic Ecologies of the Global South: Panel, NeMLA 2024

Boston, MA, March 7-10, 2024, https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html

Shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (less developed countries)? … I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that… I’ve always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. (Lawrence Summers, chief economic advisor to the IMF, 1991).

American, British and Canadian Studies, Silver Jubilee Issue: 25 Years of American, British and Canadian Studies: Lofty Aspirations, Protean Visions, Ongoing Quests

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:16am
Ana-Karina Schneider, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 10, 2024

Guest Editors:

 

Charlotte Beyer, University of Gloucestershire

Christine Berberich, University of Portsmouth

Sean Matthews, University of Nottingham                     

 

Special Issue Consultants:

 

David Brian Howard, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University

Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Rebecca Nesvet, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

 

Home Editor: Adriana Neagu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

 

Call for Book Reviews

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:16am
Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies (published online by the Open Library of Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London) seeks reviews of recent publications, including autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and so on. Word length: 1000-1500 words. Citation style: Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (author/date). Once accepted, you will be asked to register on our website, which will also give you access to our house style sheet. Expected online publication of volume 6 is December 2023. Please get in touch with short proposals and questions. Robert_P_Ward@brown.edu.

A Critical Companion to Clint Eastwood

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:13am
A Critical Companion to Popular Directors Series
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

A Critical Companion to Clint Eastwood

 

Deadline for submission of abstracts:

November 1, 2023

Prof. Ian Bekker & Dr. Philip van der Merwe

North-West University, South Africa

Contact e-mail: ian.bekker@nwu.ac.za & Philip.vandermerwe@nwu.ac.za

Edited by Ian Bekker and Philip van der Merwe

Who Loves Paul Auster? (NeMLA 2024 roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:11am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Calling all Paul Auster fans to propose presentations for a roundtable discussion on all things Auster.

Do you want to do a scholarly reading of one or more of his novels? Would you like to do an analysis of any of his films? Are you thinking of doing a close reading of one of his poems? Do you just want to tell us why you love Auster’s work? We’d love to hear it!

Would you like to talk about…

Old stuff? (The New York Trilogy, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo)?

New stuff? (4 3 2 1, Burning Boy)?

Borrowed stuff? (Squeeze Play…his early novel in which he borrowed a style/genre  that didn’t quite work out for him)?

Blue stuff? (Blue in the Face)?

Small and Subtle Feminisms: Reconsidering Who or What Is Feminist Enough

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:10am
Tammie M. Kennedy & Jessi Thomsen / Peitho’s Summer 2024 Special Issue
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

This open invitation calls for authors to submit 500-750 word abstracts for Peitho’s Summer 2024 Special Issue: “Small and Subtle Feminisms: Reconsidering Who or What Is Feminist Enough.”

Syndemic Motherhood: Exploring American Epidemics through Engaged and Applied Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:09am
Ali Duffy/Texas Tech University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Syndemic Motherhood: Exploring American Epidemics through Engaged and Applied Arts, a case study anthology, explores how various artistic practices and processes have been instrumental in processing, sharing, and learning about the intersectional epidemics unique to US-Americans and their experiences in motherhood. Issues related to social inequity such as gun violence, healthcare access, the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty, and childcare converge to create challenging circumstances for women and mothers in the United States. The arts provide a malleable yet rigorous framework to unpack these issues publicly.

Foreign Bodies: Becoming Apart, Becoming a Part in Contemporary British Literature

updated: 
Monday, June 19, 2023 - 11:19am
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 - EMMA (EA741)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 30 June 2023

Foreign Bodies: Becoming Apart, Becoming a Part in Contemporary British Literature

12-13 0ctober, 2023

International conference EMMA (EA741)
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3 - Site Saint Charles

Organizers: Katia Marcellin and Carine Nibakure

Keynote speakers: Professor Catherine Bernard (Université Paris-Cité)and Harry Parker (author of Anatomy of a Soldier and Hybrid Humans)

Saying the Unsayable: Narrative Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 4:29am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Trauma is typically considered ‘responsive to and constitutive of “modernity”’ (Micale and Lerner 2001). Certainly, as argued by Mark Seltzer, ‘modernity has come to be understood under the sign of the wound’: ‘the modern subject has become inseparable from the categories of shock and trauma.’ 

Creative Writers / SAMLA 2023: Fragmented Writing in the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 11:54pm
Julie Boutwell-Peterson / University of Kentucky
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

* Please note: This Creative Writing panel will be part of the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 9-11, 2023.

Extended Deadline--PAMLA 2023 Panel: 15-Minute Cities--Mobility Studies in Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 2:15pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The “Romance of the Road” had its run in 20th-century literature and culture, and we must now consider what will follow on its heels as it fades into the gloom of an anthropogenically tarnished future.

Car culture has radically renegotiated the individual’s place within human-constructed spaces, and the end of car culture will demand even further revisions to planning codes and architecture. This panel invites participants to discuss a century of car dependency and how literary and cultural discourses can contribute to management of the after-effects, especially in urban environments that have grown steadily clogged with traffic.

“William Gaddis at his Centenary” Special issue of electronic book review (

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:08am
https://electronicbookreview.com/about-ebr/
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

The year between December 29th 2022 and December 29th 2023 would have been the hundredth of William Gaddis’ life. Between 1955, when he published The Recognitions, and 1998, when he died shortly after completing Agapē Agape, Gaddis was notorious for a disproportion between reputation and readership. Being reflexively labelled “difficult,” with his own novels’ wry figurations of characters writing “for a very small audience,” and with a tendency to be categorized (though not always actually read) alongside the increasingly unfashionable “high postmodernists”… all this might have made it hard to envisage his work surviving into the 2000s.

"Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make": The Prison(er) in Literature and Film (2024 NeMLA panel)

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:01am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Imprisoned in 1642, Richard Lovelace penned the words that became his best-known: “Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron walls a cage:/Minds innocent and quiet take/That for a hermitage” (“To Althea, From Prison”).

Lovelace’s poem points to the duality of the prison as both a physical structure and a mental and spiritual condition. Moreover, the poem submits that the mind can remain free even while the body is confined. For Lovelace, the only true prison is the prison of the mind and soul.

This panel will explore the topics of the prisoner and of the prison as a physical and/or psychological element in novels, stories, poems, films, television, and other genres and media.

Boundary Struggles: Marxism and Surpluses Now (NeMLA 24)

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:01am
Joshua Gooch, D'Youville University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

In classical accounts of Marxism, surpluses seem to be made only by labor power. Perhaps the most important shift in  contemporary Marxist thought has been to uncover how capitalism appropriates surpluses from non-capitalist systems. As Jason W. Moore explains, capitalism lives off what he calls “the Four Cheaps,” labor, food, energy, raw materials. Capitalism’s surpluses don’t just come from exploitation—that is, the use of the wage to extract surplus value from labor. It also comes from appropriation—that is, taking without paying at all.

Literary Druid - Regular Issue July 2023

updated: 
Saturday, June 10, 2023 - 3:58pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Literary Druid is a journal that destinies to foster research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

NEMLA 2023 Community, Resistance, and ‘Surplus’ Populations in American Literature

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:54pm
Northeastern Modern Lanuage Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel invites papers that explore literary representations of populations—immigrants, migrant workers, the racially or sexually marginalized, disabled persons, etc.—that are rendered ‘surplus’ by American society. This might be through economic, political, or interpersonal forces. This panel is especially interested in the ways these populations resist this dehumanization and forge their own communities. The label ‘surplus’ pushes these populations to the margins of society, deeply isolating them. Isolation is one of the most crippling afflictions that an individual can encounter, leaving them with no support system when forces like prejudices, poverty, or oppression affect them so deeply.

T. S. Eliot at SAMLA 95

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:53pm
International T. S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 17, 2023

SAMLA 2023 (9-11 November)

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