world literatures and indigenous studies

Literature, being a creative universal form of expression, addresses spiritual, emotional and social concerns of humanity. It is known that there are reciprocal relations between literature and religion, still the question of how these two disciplines interact with each other invites fresh thought. Looking at the past of English Literature, it is abundantly clear that critics even before Mathew Arnold have referred back to form and content of religious scriptures.

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Vol. 20 No.1 | March 2018

Call for Papers

“Approaching Ian McEwan: Narratological Perspectives”

Deadline for Submission: 31 December 2017

Call for Papers- Breaking New Ground: Pluralistic Approaches to Global Ecocriticism

Friday, March 3, 2017 – Saturday, March 4, 2017

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Graduate Colloquium

University of Maryland-College Park

Keynote speaker: Dr. Stephanie Posthumus, McGill University

Abstract proposals due: December 1

Coming Through Fire: Rebuilding, Reconciling, Rethinking
5th Annual Keyano College Arts and Humanities Conference
March 18, 2017
Keyano College, Fort McMurray, AB

Faculty of Humanities - First International Conference

Forman Christian College (A Chartered University)

April 21-23, 2017 – Lahore, Pakistan

Locating the Transcultural Humanities in Pakistan / South Asia

CALL FOR PAPERS

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 5, 2016 ***

Since its origins in the mid nineteenth century, detective fiction has been populated by a huge array of beasts. If the genre begins, as is widely supposed (though not without some debate), with Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841), then detective fiction’s very first culprit is an animal. Such beastly instances of criminal violence are among the genre’s most recurrent figurings of the non-human. Accordingly, like Poe’s frenzied ourang-outang on the spree in Paris, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) identifies a murderous aggression as part-and-parcel of animal nature. Detective fiction accommodates gentler and more law-abiding creatures too, however.

Will’s Word and World: Commemorating the Bard

To commemorate the 400th death anniversary of William Shakespeare, AJILE (Aesthetique Journal for International Literary Enterprises, E-ISSN 2456-1754) plans to bring out a special issue containing academic articles exploring various avenues of Shakespeare studies. This special volume shall be multidisciplinary in its content and welcomes scholarly contributions from the fields of literature and language, history and culture, stage and costumes, gender and performance. However other relevant topics are also encouraged for submission.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Call for Papers: International Cultural Responses to Wartime Rape: Ethical Questions and Critical Challenges

Conference at Maynooth University, Ireland, 19th-20th June 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

CSECS – Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

NEASECS – Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

From Cosmopolitans to Cosmopolitanisms

Joint Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 18-22 October 2017

Proposals for panels due by 1 February 2017

Proposals for papers due by 1 March 2017

                                                CFP: Indigenous Genocide in America

Special Issue to Appear in Transmotion: An Online Journal of Postmodern Indigenous Studies

                                    http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion

Transmotion is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on the topic of “Indigenous Genocides in America: Erasure and Survivance.”  This issue aims to engage with the latest scholarship related to genocide (which deploys the concepts of social death, historical trauma, and erasure) and to further highlight the applicability of that scholarship in an Indigenous Studies context.

Migrations and Contacts in the French and Francophone World

The LSU Department of French Studies 

The 11th Annual Graduate Student Association Conference

Call for Papers 

The goal of this conference will be to address two phenomena, contact (that is to say, the meeting between cultures and/or languages in a given space or era) and migration, and how they have had an influence on literature, culture, and language in the French and Francophone world. Some topics to consider:

Call for Papers, African Literature Association Conference at Yale University in June 14-17, 2017:

A Creative Writing Panel  

This panel invites writers of poetry and fiction to submit a selection of their creative work. The creative work presented should engage with both the formal concerns of genre and the connections between identity and the diaspora.  Poets and writers who have pieces that experiment with and merge creative and critical examinations of a) the politics of identity in the diaspora, b) popular arts and aesthetics, or c) any of the main topics of this year’s conference are encouraged to submit their work.

Toxic/cities

19th Annual Graduate Student Conference

March 2-4, 2017

Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 2, 2017

Presented by the Graduate Programs in Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Theory & Criticism

Western University invites you to take up the topic: Toxic/cities

at the 19th Annual Graduate Student Conference, to be held from March 2-4, 2017 in London, Ontario, Canada.