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PHANTASMIC BINDS: CULTURE AS POLTERGEIST
Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature
Biennial Graduate Student Conference
April 3-4, 2020
Keynote: Professor Lydia Liu, Columbia University
The International Doctoral Conference at the University of Padua is an interdisciplinary and bilingual forum which takes place every year. This year the conference is open to PhD students, researchers and scholars interested in the topic of literary and linguistic enigmas from a broader historical and socio-cultural perspective.
Agreeing with Fortini (1991), the difference between obscurity and complexity lies on the nature of “darkness”, which «cannot and must ever not be […] ‘won’ or ‘overcome’ since its raison d’être lies in being […] a particular kind of ‘figure of speech’». In fact, complexity implies at least one chance of effectively decoding the hidden meaning.
International Seminar to be organized by
Comparative Literature Association of India
in collaboration with the
College of Commerce, Arts and Science, Patna
on
“Persian-Arabic Poetics and South Asian Literatures: Readings, Recoveries and Re-orientations”
March 20-23, 2020
Call for papers: Autofiction in the Age of the Self(ie)
Special Issue of English Studies in Canada
Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2020
Deadline for final essays (6000-9000 words): August 15, 2020
Submit to: mbloom@glendon.yorku.ca
2020 Contemporary Women’s Writing Essay Prize
The journal of Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford University Press) is delighted to announce the launch of the 2020 Essay Prize. The Contemporary Women’s Writing Essay Prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of contemporary women’s writing, recognise and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers and support the professional development of next generation scholars.
Call for Abstracts: Representations of Refugee, Migrant, and Displaced Motherhood in a Global Context
Contributions are invited for a scholarly edited collection that aims to explore literary accounts of migrant, refugee, and displaced motherhood in a global context. The collection will look primarily at contemporary writings about migrant motherhood. In a world marked by forced migrations, climate change, and wars, the collection aims to examine writings about the displacement of mothers at the American borders, in the Syrian conflict, and beyond.
BRIDGING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES THROUGH LANGUAGE
MIGRATION AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
Sapienza Symposium, Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies
28th February 2020
Rome, Italy
Call for Latin American graphic novel contributions to Graphic Novels as World Literature (edited collection, Bloomsbury)
CFP: 55th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
Outcasts and Outliers in Literature, Music, and Visual Arts
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14-15, 2020
The Comparative World Literature Program at California State University, Long Beach, invites abstracts for presentations at its 55th annual conference in Long Beach, California on the topic of Outcasts and Outliers.
The past few decades have been crucial for the dismantling of theory, formerly understood as a monolithic concept, applicable to a wide range of epochs and regions. Rather than a timeless or non-spatial concept, theory represents “a historically circumscribed mode of thinking about literature” (Galin Tihanov). Researchers informed by Edward Saidʼs “traveling theory” (James Clifford, Caren Kaplan, Mieke Bal) have also insisted on the enormous pressure of context in shaping and reshaping theory. Convincing metanarratives of itinerant international canonization in the 20th century literature (Mads Rosendahl Thomsen) have opened the theoretical debate.