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Edwidge Danticat Society: ALA 29 (2018)
The American Literature Association Conference
May 24-27, 2018
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA
CFP for Proposed Panel at African Literature Association's Annual Conference 2018 (May 23-26, Washington DC)
Dear Colleagues, We have extended the deadline for abstract submissions until January 18 for the 24th Annual Carolina Conference for Romance Studies (April 5-7, 2018). You can find the Call for Papers below, as well as in the included attachment. We hope that you will be able to attend and listen to our keynote speakers: - Enrico Cesaretti, Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia (http://spanitalport.as.virginia.edu/people/efc4p)- Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University (
Persian Literary Studies Journal special issue:
Call for papers for a special issue on Iranian children and young adult literature and film. The editor invites papers for a special issue on different aspects of Iranian children and young adult literature and film. Manuscripts (text, quotations, and endnotes) should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words following the MLA Style Sheet, 8th edition. Please submit through http://plsj.shirazu.ac.ir. Deadline for submission, April 1, 2018.
Contact Info:
Editor: Farideh Pourgiv, Shiraz University
Matter(s) of Fact
20th Annual Graduate Student Conference presented by the Graduate Programs in Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Theory & Criticism at Western University
March 15-17, 2018
Abstract submission deadline: January 3, 2018
https://mattersoffactblog.wordpress.com/
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Pauline Wakeham (Western University)
Following the economic development of the mid-nineteenth century, writers and journalists increasingly focused on urban contexts and the experience of protagonists moving from rural to urban backgrounds. As a result, modern authors refer to the coagulating ferment of the metropolis for characters undergoing a formative change, while more numerous voices later investigated the opposite, the fragmenting if not destructive impact on both individuals and the social groups they belong to.
ENGLISH FORUM: JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, GAUHATI UNIVERSITY.
CALL FOR PAPERS.
Revolution/Révolution
A Graduate Conference in French and Francophone Studies
Hosted by the Yale French Department
April 6-7 2018
Keynote Speaker: Madeleine Dobie (Columbia University)
“La révolution littéraire et la révolution politique ont fait en moi leur jonction.” (Victor Hugo, in Tas de pierres, n.d.)
We speak of revolutions in many different registers, from political to literary. What does it mean for a movement to coalesce under the label of “revolution?” What makes a change “revolutionary?”
Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the “Mapping the Text” conference, occurring at New York University on Saturday 21 April 2018. The conference will be held in conjunction with the annual Culture Mapping event hosted at New York University, which will occur on Friday 20 April 2018. The Culture Mapping event will be hosted by NewYorkScapes, a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship.
Resistance: Indigenous and Postcolonial Perspectives
Deadline for submission: 22 January 2018
Abstracts should be 200-300 words in length.
Contact email: pierre-luc.landry@rmc.ca & kris.singh@rmc.ca
Date of the conference: 22-23 March 2018
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 31, 2017
Second Annual DSGS Conference
March 22-24, 2018
The University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
Whether in the American or global context, Souths are the site of cheap labor, once exploited agriculturally and then industrially for the profit of the colonizing and industrialized and technologically advanced Norths.
—James L. Peacock, Carla Jones, and Catherine Brooks, “Gatokaca Drive,”
The American South in a Global World (2005)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 31, 2017
2018 DSGS Conference Call for Papers:
Writing in the South Round Table
March 22-24, 2018
The University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
The 2018 Deep South in the Global South Conference is pleased to announce the first annual
Writing in the South Round Table, which will be held at this year’s conference!
EXTENDED DEADLINE: December 12th
Date: February 16-17, 2018
Location: McGill University,
Montréal, Québec,
The conference hopes to broaden the scope of American literature, opening it to more complex geographies, and to a variety of genres and media. The impetus comes partly from a survey of what is currently in the field: it is impossible to read the work of Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz, Yusef Komunyakaa and Carolyn Forché, Tony Kushner and Lynn Nottage without seeing that, for all these authors, the reference frame is no longer simply the United States, but a larger, looser, more contextually varied set of coordinates, populated by laboring bodies, migrating faiths, generational sagas, memories of war, as well as the accents of unforgotten tongues, the taste and smell of beloved foods and spices.
MEARCSTAPA
Call for Papers
MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application) invites papers on any topic of Monsters/Monster theory, or the Supernatural/Uncanny for a special issue of the journal Preternature (PSU Press). The special issue will celebrate MEARCSTAPA’s tenth anniversary as an academic society dedicated to the study of the monstrous.
Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene
International Conference
October 3-5, 2018
Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
“The relationship between myth and fantasy is a particularly convoluted one. ... [B]oth words have so many meanings and applications that they can be synonyms or direct contraries.”
(Brian Attebery, Stories about Stories)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Trans-Migration: Corporal, Spatial, and Symbolic Mobility
Submission deadline: Friday, January 19, 2018
Publication: March 2018
Date of the conference: 2 and 3 March 2018
Conference venue: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lorenza Jägera 9, Osijek, Croatia
Deadline for proposals: 30 December 2017
Notification of acceptance by: 15 January 2018
Conference fee: 100 HRK (approx. 15 EUR)
Deadline for paying conference fee: 20 February 2018
Working language: English (and Croatian)
Deadline for submission of papers: 30 May 2018
Ecotones 3 – Indian Ocean: Ecotones, Contact Zones, and Third Spaces
Observatory for Indian Ocean Societies, University of Reunion Island
in partnership with EMMA (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3) and MIGRINTER (CNRS-Université de Poitiers),
"Ecotones" Program (2015-2020): Ecotones: Encounters, Crossings, and Communities
June 14-15, 2018
Keynote speakers:
Meg Samuelson, University of Adelaide, Australia
Françoise Vergès, Collège d'Etudes Mondiales, FMSH, Paris, France
Guest writers:
Shenaz Patel
Barlen Pyamootoo
CALL FOR PAPERS
South Texas College’s publication Interstice is looking for Hispanic and Latino book reviews to incorporate in their upcoming 14th volume. Submissions are accepted by January 15, 2018.
The review must adhere to the following criteria.
Armed Conflict and its Afterlives
The Uses of War in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula
University of Pennsylvania
Spanish and Portuguese Department Graduate Conference
February 23rd-24th 2018
Keynote Addresses: Juan Pablo Dabove & Cristina Rivera Garza
Call for Papers
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous essays written from diverse critical perspectives and about texts from any time period or literary tradition.
Submissions to both the general section and the Forum should be between 3000 and 6000 words (not including the bibliography). All submissions should be double-spaced, written in English, and formatted according to the most recent MLA guidelines. Submissions should be uploaded as MS Word files through our website and online submission system. (https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/criterion/)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Republic of Tunisia
The Higher Institute of Applied Studies in the Humanities, University of Monastir in partnership with “l’Association de la Creation Culturelle” and the research laboratory “Approches du Discours” (LAD), University of Sfax organize an international conference on
Literacy, Journey, and Cultural Encounter
Venue : The Higher Institute of Applied Studies in the Humanities of Mahdia, University of Monastir, Tunisia.
April 11-12-13, 2018
The graduate students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities are pleased to announce that we will be hosting our annual conference, titled ''Horror vacui: V Annual Graduate Student Conference''. The conference will take place on March 30-31, 2018 in Minneapolis. Through the Latin expression horror vacui we intend to synthesize a comprehensive Western tradition of the creation of and approach to different kinds of emptiness, be they linguistics, political, cultural, or artistic voids, whose mere existence generates anguish and, thereby, legitimizes the strategies of their occupation and suppression.
We are proud to announce the participation of the plenary speakers:
The 53rd Annual Comparative World Literature Conference: Borders, Place, and Translations
Dates: April 25th-26th, 2018
Location: Anatol Center, California State University, Long Beach
From Starbucks’ retail-branding as a “third place” between home and work to Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, the places of our lives are simultaneously locations and conceptions. To be in a place is to do the representational work of defining that space’s affective and pragmatic borders.
We are excited to announce the CfP for Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place, to be held on the 30th and 31st of May 2018 at the University of Nottingham. Orientations is an interdisciplinary, international conference exploring the relationship between narrative, space, and place.
We are further delighted to announce that our first keynote will be delivered by Fiona Mozley, writer of the Booker Prize nominated novel Elmet (2017). Details regarding our second keynote will be released soon.
For this literary-focussed issue of the New Global Studies journal we invite proposals for essays on any aspect of literature’s engagement with ideas of the global, from the ways in which literature’s conceptual reach may help us to think the possibilities of the planetary, to how the global literary marketplace can act as a barometer for shifting cultural norms.
The central question that this special issue poses is: how does literature help us to conceptualize the global? Secondary to this, the issue asks how literature, literary theory, and literary movements and networks may help us to shape, observe, and define what Bruce Mazlish called the ‘emerging global civil society’.
Theme: The Traditional Systems Of Conflict Resolution
We are looking for proposals for 60-minute presentations at the 2018 Annual Conference of the New England Translators Association. The conference will take place on Saturday, April 28, at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Our theme for 2018 is Diversity through Language. We are open to proposals from all sectors of the field of translation and interpreting and hope to once again have separate tracks for interpreting, translation and technical/support/tools.
We can pay a small honorarium for your presentation, as a token of gratitude. Registration for the conference is also waived for presenters.
The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean Conference
GLOBAL BLACK DESIRES: FREEDOM AND CONSTRAINTS
Conference date and location:
May 4, 2018
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York City
Deadline for submissions: January 5, 2018