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Reportage and its Contemporary Variations–special MCLC issue (Abstracts due 8/31)

updated: 
Monday, June 26, 2017 - 10:10am
Charles Laughlin and Li Guo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2017

 

This special issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture welcomes essays on reportage narratives in contemporary China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as explorations of nonfiction, documentary, and the art of the real in film, media, theater or visual arts, and related theoretical interventions.

CFP: Fourth Cinema: Indigenous Perspectives on Home (8/1/17; 11/1-5/17)

updated: 
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 11:45am
Film & History
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

CFP: Fourth Cinema: Indigenous Perspectives on Home

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: Representations of Home and Space in Shakespeare (8/1/17; 11/1-5/17)

updated: 
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 11:44am
Film & History
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2017

 

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

 

The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal Call for Paper

updated: 
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - 11:44am
The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal at UCONN
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2017

The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal 

thequietcornerjournal.com | digitalcommons.uconn.edu/tqc

Call for Submissions

 

Deadline Extended - Special Issue of CLCWeb: Suffering, Endurance, Understanding: New Discourses in Philosophy and Literature

updated: 
Monday, June 19, 2017 - 10:25pm
Douglas Scott Berman
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 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)

 

AAS Panel: "Literary Approaches to Early Chinese Philosophy"

updated: 
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 10:54am
Association for Asian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2017

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

Feminist and Gender Studies in a Global Perspective

updated: 
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 11:47am
Namaste Educational Academy -- http://sahitya.namasteeducationalacademy.org/
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2017

FEMINIST & GENDER STUDIES IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE:

Call for Papers / Convocatoria Textos Híbridos Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana

updated: 
Sunday, June 11, 2017 - 6:20pm
Amber Workman
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

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

CARIBBEAN WRITERS AND THE ART OF LIVING IN THE BORDERLANDS

updated: 
Sunday, June 11, 2017 - 5:29pm
SAMLA 89
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 18, 2017

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.

Modernism on the World Stage

updated: 
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 6:10pm
Kevin Riordan / Nanyang Technological University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2017

 

We seek short provocative essays addressing the topic of “Modernism on the World Stage” for a prospective, peer-reviewed cluster on Modernism/modernity’s Print Plus platform.

 

Holocaust and Genocide Studies Conference 2018

updated: 
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 6:06pm
Middle Tennessee State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2017

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

 

Lives in Transit: Subjectivity in the Age of Migration (NeMLA 2018)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 8:12am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2017

More than thirty years ago, Edward Said wrote in Reflections on Exile that “our age...is indeed the age of the refugee, the displaced person, mass immigration.” As migration becomes increasingly recognized as integral to contemporary societies, how does transit become central to how we understand urban spaces, communities, and the experiences of individuals within them? We understand transit as the movement of people, ideas, memories, or emotions, and what Jodi Byrd has described as “liminal existence” in “ungrievable spaces.” In what ways does the concept of "transit" model a rethinking of the relationship between individuals and postcolonial geographies? How does mobility constitute movement through both physical and ontological space?

CFP: NeMLA Seminar: Re-births in Times of Crisis, Pittsburgh, 12-18 April 2018

updated: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 9:31pm
Irene Domingo, University of St Thomas & Almudena Marín-Cobos, Columbia University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2017

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.

NeMLA 2018: Politics of Preservation: Land, Law and Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 9:25pm
Hande Gurses, UMass Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2017

Earlier this year a river revered by the local Mauri people in New Zealand has been granted legal rights as a living entity. This first incident was then succeeded by a court’s decision in India to grant the rivers Ganges and Yamuna the status of living beings. Not all parts of the earth benefit from such legal protection as evidenced by the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in 2013 and by the Dakota Pipeline protests more recently.

call for paper of an edited book- Myriad shades of Motherhood

updated: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 9:23pm
Dr. Nazia Hasan/ Aliagrh Muslim University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Research papers are invited for an edited book on

THE MYRIAD SHADES OF MOTHERHOOD: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND LITERARY INTERPRETATIONS

 

Lusophone Women Writers & Directors

updated: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 9:23pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2017

The 49th NeMLA Annual ConventionApril 12-15, 2018 Pittsburgh, PA"Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds"

 

Narratives of Queer Space: An Inquisition in South Asian Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 9:22pm
NeMLA, https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16721
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2017

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.

Life Writing in African Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 1:46pm
Renee Schatteman/ SAMLA (Nov. 3-5, Atlanta)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 16, 2017

 

 

LIFE WRITING IN AFRICAN LITERATURE: THE POWER OF THE PERSONAL

[UPDATE] CFP: WHY WORLD LITERATURE? (Deadline June 15, 2017)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 5:07am
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry (Vol 4. No. 1)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2017

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.

CORRECTION!!EXTENDED DEADLINE (June 5th) for SAMLA panel—The Avant-Garde and Modern Visual Culture: At the Crossroads of High and Low Art

updated: 
Friday, June 2, 2017 - 11:24am
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 5, 2017

This panel examines the imbrication of the avant-garde with mass-produced art in order to discern the relationships between the proliferation of images and capitalism in the advent of modern visual culture. Imitating the shock value of advertising, the avant-gardists appeal to the eye of the viewer to gain visibility in the domains of art and draw the consumer’s attention to its product, thereby revealing the profit-oriented motives of marketplace exchanges. Immaterialities such as images are thus transformed into commodities that blend high and low aesthetic genres that participate in the consumer society.

Vulnerabilities - An Interdisciplinary Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 4:56pm
Durham University (Institute for Hazard Risk and Resilience)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

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:

CFP: Folklore and Mythology for PAMLA Conference 2017 Honolulu, Hawaii (11/10-12/2017)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 4:44pm
John J. Thompson, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 26, 2017

This panel seeks any and all papers on folklore and mythology in relation to this year's theme of sight, visuality, and ways of seeing. 

Individual paper presentations will be between 15 and 20 minutes long. Please submit proposals via the online system by June 26, 2017. The PAMLA 2017 Conference will be held at the lovely Chaminade University of Honolulu (with the official conference hotel being the Ala Moana) from Friday, November 10 to Sunday, November 12.

Paper proposals must be made via our online system found here:

CFP: Global Media Ecologies for PAMLA Conference 2017 Honolulu, Hawaii (11/10-12/2017)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 4:43pm
Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois, Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 26, 2017

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.

CFP: Victorian Empire and Oceania for PAMLA Conference 2017 Honolulu, Hawaii (11/10-12/2017)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 4:38pm
Anna Feuerstein, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 26, 2017

Many analyses of Victorian empire focus on India and Africa, yet the British empire also expanded to many parts of Oceania, both directly and indirectly. The papers in this session will examine cultural texts that explore relationships between Victorian empire and Oceania. This session especially welcomes essays that make connections between Victorian empire and Hawai'i.

Individual paper presentations will be between 15 and 20 minutes long. Please submit proposals via the online system by June 26, 2017. The PAMLA 2017 Conference will be held at the lovely Chaminade University of Honolulu (with the official conference hotel being the Ala Moana) from Friday, November 10 to Sunday, November 12.

'Nevertheless, they persisted': The Aesthetics of Resistance

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 4:35pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2017

This panel seeks papers that analyze textual, visual, and/or performance-based media in which female, trans*, and/or genderqueer protagonists fight against injustice, whether through explicitly political acts (e.g. protest) or by living a life in opposition to oppressive hegemonic demands. How is this resistance coded aesthetically, linguistically, formally, and/or narratologically? How do intersecting aspects of the protagonist’s identity, such as race, ability, class, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, and/or nationality/citizenship status shape the kinds of resistance undertaken? How are these acts interpreted by other actors in the storyworld and what is their impact?

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