world literatures and indigenous studies

Call for Papers

International Conference

Université de Montréal/ Research Center for Planetary Literary and Cultural Studies (CELCP)

April 21-23, 2022

Planetary Drifts—Methodology, Technology, and the Creative Imagination in the Age of Planetary Transformation

RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

65th Annual Conference

Saturday, 19 March 2022

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 65th Annual Conference, to be held in-person (public health considerations permitting) at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

The conference will feature a

PLENARY ROUNDTABLE,

“Cross-Cultural Currents in Early Modern Studies,”

with

This panel explores concepts and stereotypes lying behind the vision of love and eroticism expressed by Latin American authors. This panel creates a dialogue about writers’ depictions of love, affections, and womanhood and how those ideas reflect, renew, or challenge Latin American societies. Comparative or feminist approaches in Spanish/English/Portuguese are suitable; other approaches also considered.

Submit abstracts (300 words maximum) by September 30, 2021, to Session ID # 19143

Abstracts must be submitted through NeMLA’s website:  https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19143

Keynote speakers: to be announced shortly

Website: https://buildingbridgesntu.wordpress.com

With the recent fall of Kabul, Afghanistan has resurfaced in political and critical discourses. The “Graveyard of Empires” as it is known, the popular imagination of the country has been a source to draw courage from for subalterns the world over. Its crucial geopolitical location has often made it a site for global scuffles of major powers as we witnessed in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and its backdrop of the Great Game. We have also often seen how Hollywood’s Orientalist lenses transformed the country into a site for fulfilment of neocolonial American desires—Rambo vanquishing the Soviets almost single-handedly in the background of the Cold War. 

Updated

53rd NeMLA Annual Convention - Baltimore, Maryland, 10-13 March, 2022

ALECC 2022

Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada

Association pour la littérature, l'environnement

et la culture au Canada

Biennial Conference

June 15-19, 2022
 University of Saskatchewan

At the heart of Saskatoon, on Treaty 6 territory and the homeland of the Métis.

If one were to judge the genre of science fiction by the blockbuster films it has produced, one would think it is a hypermasculine, imperialist, anti-feminist genre. However, non-white, non-male people have shaped, defined, and sustained the genre throughout its existence as authors, editors, and fans. The modern founder of the genre was arguably Mary Shelley who initially published anonymously. However, authors like Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler are now synonymous with literary sci-fi. Furthermore, some of the most compelling and successful contemporary writers of science fiction are women of color.

CFP: Indian Writing in English Online, University of Hyderabad

Indian Writing in English Online at The University of Hyderabad (henceforth IWE Online), an initiative being executed and funded by the prestigious Institution of Eminence (IoE) project of the University, aims at being the single authoritative academic web resource for any student or a general reader searching for information on the subject of Indian Writing in India.

Call for Papers/Chapters

Beyond the Occident: Perspectives on Past, Present and Speculative Future in Fiction, Art, Media, and Film

To be edited by Sümeyra Buran and Jiré Emine Gözen.

In this seminar, we wish to examine how people of different positionalities vis a vis the ‘center’ and ‘peripheries’ of modern research universities, practice comparative literary studies within institutions which, from the start, were built upon the logic of exclusion and exclusionary tactics.  The “modern university” stands in a long tradition of colonial and racialized traditions of knowledge-making which purported to be secular and universalizable.

In recent decades, the practice of collaborative intellectual labor has had an unexpected resurgence, both among writers and artists, and within scholarly and academic spaces. Drawing on a rich history of intellectual, activist, and artistic practices of collaboration, new collectives and research groups have embraced collaborative forms of knowledge production to challenge the individualization of intellectual labor and the demands of the neoliberal episteme.

We are very pleased to announce the launch of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, which will be published by Liverpool University Press from spring 2022. GNCS is the flagship publication of the newly formed Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. You can learn more about the society and become a member at www.global19c.com

This panel invites papers on eighteenth-century texts or visual art that engage with, provide accounts of, or create Orientalist fictions about “Arabia.” The growing interest in the Orient and orientalia fueled by eighteenth-century travelers to the Near East and by translations like Galland’s A Thousand and One Nights (1704-1717), rendered in English as the Arabian Nights Entertainments (1706-1721), produced a large corpus of works that often used “Arabia” as an umbrella term that described not one location, but many. How did these texts represent “Arabia” and the “Arabs” and what sets of images or cultural stereotypes about the place and its people emerged at the time?