world literatures and indigenous studies

CFP for an anthology

CALL FOR PAPERS

CFP: Representations of Home and Space in Shakespeare

An area of multiple panels for the 2017 Film & History Conference:

Representing Home: The Real and Imagined Spaces of Belonging

November 1-November 5, 2017

The Milwaukee Hilton

Milwaukee, WI (USA)

EXTENDED DEADLINE for abstracts: August 1, 2017

CFP: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 19:5 (2017)

Vol. 19 No. 5 | December 2017

Call for Papers

Special Issue - “Suffering, Endurance, Understanding: New Discourses in Philosophy and Literature. Eds. Frank Stevenson, Douglas Berman, Emily Chow.

Deadline for Submissions: August 15, 2017 (extended from June 15)

Laughter in “High Art/Low Art”: Playing with Boundaries in French and Francophone Literatures

Traditionally, the study of early Chinese philosophy has been bifurcated along a specific methodological axis.  Classical sinology has often focused on issues of textual criticism and reconstruction of certain lines of intellectual filiation between texts and schools, while comparative philosophy has tried instead to extract from these texts certain kinds of issues and truth claims which could intervene in debates often still founded on European texts.  Both of these perspectives are important, and they have never been hermetically sealed, as many scholars have been comfortable working in both modes.  However, this structural orientation of the discipline has encouraged a certain kind of binary vision when approaching early Chinese texts: the proper frami

Call for Papers Textos Híbridos Vol. 6 (2017)

Textos Híbridos, the only academic journal dedicated exclusively to the study of the Latin American and U.S. Latinx chronicle, invites submissions for its upcoming issue.

The journal publishes:

• scholarly articles

• book reviews

• translations

• creative work

• audio-visual submissions

Submissions may be sent by email or through the journal’s website.

Articles, translations, and creative work: workman.amber@gmail.com Reviews: viviane.mahieux@uci.edu

Journal website: www.textoshibridos.com

In keeping with the SAMLA 89 conference theme of “High/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture,” we invite participants to explore the convergence of time and place in the works of Caribbean writers living in and in between socially constructed spaces.  These might be identified as spaces where traditional and global cultures interface; where authors construct a world without borders in it; and where identities crossover and are transformed in the process. Narrativity and narratology are important aspects of such Caribbean writing, so we welcome papers with an interest in the narrative and/or poetic structure of the work under examination.

13TH INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE STUDIES CONFERENCE AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY

21st-CENTURY PERSPECTIVES ON THE HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE

APRIL 18-21, 2018

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

• Ronald Grigor Suny
• Gerhard Weinberg
• Niemat Ahmadi

This seminar seeks to explore the dialectical relationship between recent geopolitical crises and people’s responses to them. Once previous hermeneutical and epistemological frameworks and tools no longer work, global citizens need to devise original technologies to respond to and understand what are perceived as radically new experiences.

Research papers are invited for an edited book on

THE MYRIAD SHADES OF MOTHERHOOD: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND LITERARY INTERPRETATIONS

This panel establishes the presence of and explores queer themes and narratives in South Asian literature. While the focus is on the last forty years, we will also include more historic approaches as well. Participants may either focus on one country, work, or writer, or explore convergences and connections.

The emergence of ‘world literature’ as a critical framework of reading in literary studies has not only recalibrated older methodologies of comparative and postcolonial literature but has also foregrounded the aspect of circulation and reception of literary works in a transnational context. The emphasis that this method of reading puts on the cross-cultural travels of a literary text is reinforced by the global technology of social media and web 2.0 which promises instant connectedness and conjures a virtual world which is self-contained, even though it reflects and engages with the actual world of the socio-political, outside itself.

VULNERABILITIES

An Interdisciplinary Symposium at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the

Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University

Supported by the

Matariki Network of Universities

and a Fragile Futures event

Durham University

19-22 September 2017

Keynote speaker:

This panel welcomes papers that address the topic of “Global Media Ecologies” in a broad sense. In an age defined simultaneously by increased media sharing across national lines and the retrenchment of perceived “clashes” of cultures, an analysis of media ecologies offers a unique window onto shifting notions of community and identity. Papers might reflect on contemporary ecologies created by new media platforms, softwares and marketing; on old media forms (radio, television, film) and their popularity in a variety of local and global spaces; on the limits and possibilities of translation; on the emergence of distinct popular narratives and tropes, etc. Papers may analyze these and/or other questions within one region or across regions.