world literatures and indigenous studies

Dear Colleagues, 

This is a call for chapter proposals to be included in an edited volume on Aboriginal/Indigenous Horror largely produced by Indigenous artists, directors, and writers. Aboriginal Horror, or Horror that relies on the experience and artistic production of Indigenous peoples span from North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond, including Indigenous groups whose migration and diaspora within other countries offer new perspectives. Aboriginal/Indigenous Horror as a cultural and aesthetic lens intersects with horror realism and the fantastic, myth and metaphysics or ways of knowing and being, and traverses various media—e.g., music, performance, visual arts, film or literature.

Proposals accepted until September 30th for the In-Person Panel THE LATIN AMERICAN  CHRONICLE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, NeMLA 2022, Baltimore, March 10th-13th. Please visit https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19536  to submit.This session seeks to establish conversations on the study of the 21st-century Latin American chronicle. We welcome papers that explore its literary and journalistic perspectives.

Comics studies has been an established field long enough now to have consistent theoretical touchstones: Scott McCloud, Thierry Groensteen, and a handful of others. But much contemporary work on comics continues to rely on the same theoretical frameworks, returning to Understanding Comics over and over again. This session invites panelists to speculate on new directions for formal comics theory, leaving behind individual texts and close readings to ask for innovations our theories of comics as a medium. Of course, because of the abbreviated nature of conference papers, it will be impossible to put forward a fully-formed, all-encompassing new theory.

CONFERENCE CALL

MELOW 2021

THE 21st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

MELOW (THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE MULTI-ETHNIC LITERATURES OF THE WORLD)

to be organized by

SHOOLINI UNIVERSITY, SOLAN, HP, INDIA, https://shooliniuniversity.com/ 

FROM 12 TO 14 NOVEMBER 2021

CONFERENCE THEME: ILLNESS, HEALING, AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION

Extended Call for Papers: Erasure and the Environment Conference
Loughborough University, 16-17th September 2021
Keynote Address: Prof. David Herd (University of Kent)

Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad, Madeline Miller’s Circe, Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships, Luigi Malerba’s Ithaca Forever, Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities, and Colm Toibin’s House of Names are just a small sample of contemporary works of literature that engage with and re-tell Classical literature and mythology. Drawing upon ancient subject matters, these new works demonstrate that the Classical tradition remains lively and relevant, even as they pull in new histories, points of view, and contexts.

CALL FOR PAPERS

MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S “GLOBE OF FEAR”:

REFRACTIONS OF THE FATHER AND THE FATHERLAND

CONFERENCE ON “ASIAN LITERATURES IN MOTION”

ORGANIZED BY RISING ASIA FOUNDATION AND JOURNAL,

ON SEPTEMBER 24-25, 2021, ON Google Meet

Online Course

Course dates: 14 August - 5 September 2021

Schedule breakdown

3 modules / 30 hours including

• lectures/discussions  (3 meetings)
• reading/watching
• studying/writing
• final assignment in the form of an essay

Duration: 3 weeks long

Course overview

Journal of Literary and Cultural Analysis

Call for Articles, Poems, and Book Reviews

                                             http://jlca.in/index.php/jlca

Call for Papers

Contemporaries at Post45

The Boredom Cluster

“I’m Not in The Mood”

Papers are sought for a book collection on any aspect of epistemological representations with a focus on ecocritical, environmental, ethic and literary approaches. The book explores both oral and written representations of the land and nature throughout the Ibero-American world.

Subtopics:

Natural landscapes

Exploitation of nature

Habitat destruction

Apocalyptic narratives of nature: fiction and non-fiction

Anxiety and the natural world

Minority groups and their representation as natural resources

De/colonization of nature

Globalization/modernization toll on nature

Travel and nature

Anthropocene vs nature

The Mobilities of Translation

Call for Papers — Recognition and Recovery of Caribbean Canadian Cultural Production

for a special issue of Canada and Beyond: a Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies (Issue 10, 2021) Guest Editors: Michael A. Bucknor and Cornel Bogle