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“We’re people, not parts of people. Even with what little they gave us these are our lives. no one gets to just turn you off” - (Severance, S1.8)
In a 2023 article, the Black British writer Derek Owusu describes the transformative experience of reading D. H. Lawrence’s St Mawr (1925) as simultaneously an awakening to language and to a wider sense of connectedness. ‘I don’t have the words to describe what happened to me while turning the pages of that short story,’ he writes, ‘but I know language became something three-dimensional, and everything around me seemed connected by an unexpressed narrative.’
The “Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations” panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites proposals for 20-minute papers exploring themes of revolution and evolution in Margaret Atwood’s texts, adaptations, and real-life crossovers. In what ways has Atwood’s works sparked revolutionary change—or not? What role does evolution play in her texts?
Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a brief bio (<100 words) by September 30th through the NeMLA portal for consideration: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21213. Please reach out to Riley Thomas at riley.thomas@temple.edu with any questions.
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media
Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell
Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024
56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)
On-site event: 6-9 March 2025
Rationale
Saving the Day for Medieval Studies: Using Comics for Teaching the Middle Ages (Roundtable)
Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell
Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024
56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)
On-site event: 6-9 March 2025
Rationale
ACLA: GROWING UP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: CHILDREN AGENCY AND WORLD-MAKING IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
The current surge of graphic novels in French, from Marjane Satrapi's oft-celebrated Persepolis to Jessica Oublié's lesser-known-yet-prize-winning Péyi An Nou, signifies a shift in priorities for Francophone storytellers. Graphic novels create meaning through the interplay of text and image; they privilege non-linear storytelling and thinking; and they prioritize accessibility over erudition. As a marginalized genre, graphic novels are a welcome home for those writing and illustrating from the margins of society. In a graphic novel, what we see is never the full story; instead, we are constantly challenged into new modes of "seeing" and "reading" that question assumptions about the consumption of literature and art.
Deceptive and unethical rhetorical strategies are increasingly prevalent in politics, media, digital spaces, and everyday conversations. Whether the result of a changing discursive landscape (McIntyre, 2018; Nichols, 2017), our enmeshment in digital environments (Bolter, 2019; Pigg, 2020; Gurri, 2018), or a reflection of long-standing rhetorical trends (Fuller, 2018; Roberts-Miller, 2019) that have simply accelerated in the digital age, the question of how to address these disingenuous rhetorics is a challenge for both scholars of rhetorical theory and researchers from across the disciplines.
HJEAS Books: Contemporary maternal subjectivities on the page and on the screen - Call for Papers for an edited collection
In 21st-century Ireland, women have experienced several (r)evolutions in their political rights that have, in turn, shaped the imagination of the nation. Irish abortion law faced a major public challenge with the 2012 death of Savita Halappanavar after she was denied an abortion while suffering a septic miscarriage; in 2018, lawmakers passed a law that allows abortion up to week 12 of pregnancy, a small victory in a nation where abortion under any circumstances beyond saving the life of the mother was forbidden.
56th NeMLA ConventionPhiladelphia, PA | March 6-9th, 2025
All abstracts must be submitted through NeMLA's CFP portal: View Session (cfplist.com)
This session is sponsored by the Kurt Vonnegut Society and seeks abstracts that engage the conference theme of "(R)EVOLUTION."
We are open to what shape presentations might take, but possibilities might include:
56th NeMLA ConventionPhiladelphia, PA | March 6-9th, 2025
All submissions must be made through NeMLA's submission portal: View Session (cfplist.com)
Hip hop began in the Bronx, NY, in the early 1970s, but the musical genre and cultural movement build from a rich history of Black American traditions, experience, and epistemology. This session seeks short presentations that will prompt a roundtable discussion about how hip hop has influenced and been influenced by American (r)evolution.
Some might argue that hip hop was and is a cultural (r)evolution for many reasons, including:
What effect has Asian thought or culture had in/on American poetry? How has it diversified or failed to diversify that poetry or its epistemology? This panel seeks papers on connections between American poetry/poetics and Asian culture, philosophy, and/or religion. Any connection is welcome including how poets have (mis)used Asian culture and/or thought in their poetry and thinking about poetry. However, in keeping with NeMLA’s theme of “(R)EVOLUTION,” I am particularly interested in affinities between ways of knowing in Asian thought and American poetry and how such affinities may disrupt traditional Western epistemologies or cause American and European readers to rethink their connection to the world.
CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy:
Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Milan, March 20th – 21st , 2025
Keynote Speakers:
Adrian William Moore (University of Oxford)
Naoko Saito (University of Kyoto)
Organizers:
NB: deadline extended to 10/15!
For Adrienne Rich, those who watch “will never act,” yet therein lies the enactive potential of poetry, which “appears as a rift, a peculiar lapse, in [this] prevailing mode” of “managed spectacles and passive spectators.” As Sean Bonney insists, “The deep truth is imageless. When you know that, you know there’s everything to play for.” And “everything”? It is, per Diane di Prima, that for and after which we must ask: “you can have what you ask for, ask for / everything." To tap Bonney once more, “All else” — indeed, anything short of everything! — “is madness and suffering at the hands of the pigs."
Please consider submitting a proposal for our third edition of “American Afterlives” @ the 52nd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, February 17-18, 2025 (virtual) and February 20-22, 2025 (in person).
The LCLC seeks submissions for “American Afterlives,” a dedicated panel stream that crosses the pre-1900/post-1900 divide. Presentations will focus on ways of rethinking the chronologies by which we structure stories and studies about American literature and culture. Previous panels and papers have considered aesthetic experiments and traditions, remediations of early American texts, speculative and historical fiction, cultural histories of technology, and more.
Panel sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Caucus, NeMLA
March 6-9, 2025
We are constantly engaged in processes of reading. We read literary texts, historical sources, films and other media, political moods and affects, and shifting social formations. Amongst the plethora of reading strategies available to us, close reading is perhaps the most widely known and most accepted one in literary studies (cf. I.A. Richards and William Empson). Other approaches to texts include ‘paranoid’ and ‘reparative reading’ (Sedgwick 1997), ‘distant reading’ (Moretti 2000), ‘wide reading’ (Hallet 2010), and ‘surface reading’ (Best and Marcus 2009), to name just a few. More recent research has examined intermedial reading practices (Rippl 2015), the reading of affects (Brinkema 2014), and non/institutional readers (Emre 2017).
“Rooted as it is by feminism, cyberfeminism is an imperfect umbrella term,” Mindy Seu frames her archival project Cyberfeminism Index. Though it traces the same exclusions and western biases of feminist history, she writes, the Web 1.0 term “cyberfeminism” also provides a quick shorthand for the much broader expanse of art, activism, community, and scholarship of its many branches, including “Cyberfeminism 2.0, black cyberfeminism, xenofeminism, post-cyber feminism, glitch feminism, Afrofuturism, and hackfeministas, transhackfeminism, 넷페미 (netfemi), 女权之声 (feminist voices), among others" (https://cyberfeminismindex.com/about).
Call for Papers for an Edited Book
Virtual Reality Literature
Ratul Nandi and Anik Sarkar
Northeast Modern Language Association
March 6-9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism
Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world.
“A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data
Digital & Analog Cultures
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A Fitzgerald Centennial: The Great Gatsby, New York, and New Perspectives
The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference
Hosted by the New School, New York, NY
June 22-28, 2025
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, we invite scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts to submit proposals for The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in New York City.
ALA Annual Conference (May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA) — Wallace Stevens’s Essays
We invite abstracts for a proposed edited collection of scholarship on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.
Topics of interest include gender, sexuality, race, regionality, reception, pedagogy, performance, and adaptation.,
Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques
Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, October1-3, 2025
https://congresida2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15
Workshop:
LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
While the literary and artistic magazines from various regions of the Americas and the Caribbean have been the topic of books, monographs and case studies, often in connection with Europe —particularly since the “material turn” in the humanities— they have seldom been examined from a trans-American angle.
FEMSPEC Journal is looking for writers to join their review team in the areas of speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy (including dark fantasy or horrort), myth, and utopian/dystopian texts.
Creative and scholarly texts are both covered. Books and films, as well as other media, are all considered.
Opportunities to submit once are available, and regular contributor positions are also open.
Here are several lists of upcoming or recent titles, but reviewers are welcome to suggest titles for approval, also.
MYSTIC GALAXY,
https://www.mystgalaxy.com/upcoming-sff.
LIBRARY JOURNAL,
Fandom | Cultures | Research is the first international journal based in Germany for scholarship in the fields of Fan, Audience, Media, and Cultural (Data) Studies. With its different formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers – the journal fosters academic discussion across these disciplines, especially regarding methodological questions: Each issue will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed full papers, alongside with an editorially reviewed section consisting of data papers (data sets and complementary text), reviews, conference reports, and a “Method Lab” section with shorter papers and interviews that provide insight into work-in-progress, methodological challenges, as well as best practices.
Breathing in the Global South
Panel proposed for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park