Post-colonial Literatures of Waste and Materiality
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Conference: NeMLA Conference, Pittsburgh PA
Dates: April 12-15, 2018
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Conference: NeMLA Conference, Pittsburgh PA
Dates: April 12-15, 2018
Mazaa: Rethinking Fun and Pleasure in South Asia
Call for Papers
March 23, 2018
Brandeis University
We invite papers from advanced graduate students and junior scholars from any discipline for a one-day workshop to be held at Brandeis University that addresses fun, pleasure and play, with an eye towards rethinking the role of the critic in relation to her object of study in South Asian Studies more broadly.
We invite contributions to an edited volume on comparative ecocritical studies of Latin American writing, film visual art, and performance that address the topic of ecological violence. How do writers, filmmakers, visual, performance artists, and practitioners of other forms of material culture conceptualize, visualize, and describe ecological vulnerability and insecurity? What are their strategies to convey the acts of violence on the environment that, as Rob Nixon explains in his definition of “slow violence”, are all too often invisible because they are “dispersed across time and space”? Which forms of expression are chosen, alongside and beyond conventional genres, to help apprehend ecological destruction and threats?
Call for Papers, Caribbean Literature at CEA 2018
April 5-7, 2018 | St. Petersburg, Florida
Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront
333 1st St South, Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701 | Phone: (727) 894-5000
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Caribbean Literature for our 49th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
The general conference theme is “bridges,” so we are especially interested in presentations that build bridges between and among texts, disciplines, people, cultures, media, languages, and generations.
CFP: Indigenous Ecomedia
for the ASLE off-year symposium A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene.
Rethinking Nature: Literary Studies in an Age of Ecological Crisis
Department of English Eleventh Graduate Student Conference
University of Ottawa
9-11 March 2018
Call for Papers: https://queermodernismconference.wordpress.com/
‘Reed / slashed and torn / but doubly rich’ – H.D.
This panel reflects on the relationship between space and psyche in contemporary Latinx and Latin American texts. With movement across the Americas in constant flux, Latin American and Latinx literatures offer insights into this border-crossing psyche, with recent novels depicting the diverse reactions subjects exhibit in forming, surviving, and thriving. For example, the heroine of Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (2011) comes to terms with her subjectivity in her journey north, while the journalist of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Insensatez (2004) finds his conception of self shaken after his move.
World Literature Forum: The Ethics of World Literature
NeMLA/ Pittsburgh, PA/ April 12-15, 2018
Deadline: September 30, 2017
The World Literature Working Group of NeMLA invites submissions to participate in a roundtable discussion at next year's NeMLA convention, where the keynote speaker at this conference will be Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence: The Environmentalism of the Poor.
NEMLA convention (April 12-15, 2018; Pittsbugh, PA)
Globalization and Cultural Production in the Maghreb
Session Chairs:
Alexandra Gueydan-Turek (Swarthmore College)
Neil Doshi (University of Pittsburgh)
While much of the Anglophone world remains transfixed on the rise of the majoritarian right in the United States and Britain, little attention is paid to the nationalist politics that have defined daily existence in states such as Pakistan and India, or Egypt, Turkey and parts of the Middle East through the dialectic of minoritization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This panel is interested in the cultural apparatus—literature, media, museums etc.—that has become indispensable in the making of national identities in the postcolonial state. What are the systems of “social reference,” to use Edward Said’s phrase, that enable the construction of a volk, of the people who constitute the nation?
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 44 No. 2 | September 2018
Call for Papers
Contested Modernity: Place, Space and Culture
Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2018
“Any place is a political place, it’s a cultural space, it’s a landscape.”
—Alfredo Jaar, 2007
ACLA Seminar: Teaching Race in the 21st Century: Anti-Racist Pedagogies in Literary, Media, and Performance Studies
ACLA Annual Meeting (March 29-April 1, 2018)
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
https://www.acla.org/seminar/teaching-race-21st-century-anti-racist-peda...
Seminar Description:
Seminar CFP:American Comparative Literature Association, UCLA, March 29th-April 1, 2018.
We are inviting submissions for December 2017 issue
of 'Literature Today'. Theme of our December 2017 issue is 'Escape'.
You can send us Poems, Short Stories, and One Act Plays on :
1. Escape from self.
2. Scape from society.
3. Escape from native place.
4. Escape from hope.
5. Escape from negative thoughts
6 Escape from values.
7. Any other relevant topic which explores the disassociation,
displacement, and angst of contemporary life
Submission Deadline: November 25, 2017
Organziers: Kaitlyn Murphy, Arizona State University and Stephenie Young, Salem State University
ACLA Seminar @ UCLA, 3/28-4/1/2018
Young adults have historically been both subject to and perpetrators of violence, regardless of social class or culture of provenience. In the 20th and 21st century, literature and media have paid special attention to this relationship, focusing particularly on how violence shapes youths who will become the "leaders of tomorrow." Different cultures assign distinct values to the threats and challenges young adults face and, likewise, demonstrate varying responses to violence against or by youths.
As Holocaust survivors were liberated from concentration camps, prisons, and places of hiding—among other compromised milieus they were forced to inhabit from 1939–45—they brought the memories and the trauma of the Holocaust to the places they eventually came to call “home.” Bringing such emotional and psychological burdens with them, many survivors settled abroad—from Argentina to Canada and from the United States to Israel—and established families, rearing those who would later be called “second-generation” Holocaust witnesses. These children of Holocaust survivors (and their children) have become the carriers and bearers of their parents’ memories and trauma that came to define the domestic experience of survivor households.
A couple of years ago, when the conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith read “The Body of Michael Brown,” an appropriation of Brown’s autopsy report for a conference at Brown University, he unleashed a furious debate about the politics of speaking for another people’s pain or experience. While some accused him of bad taste and pointed to the long, colonial history of white male artists using black bodies as fodder for their art, others defended the right of the artist to provoke and explore, and decried what they considered the essentialism behind condemnations of Goldsmith’s pieces. Appropriation’s discontents are also evident in such recent controversies as the protests against the exhibit of Dana Schutz's "Open Casket" at the Whitney Biennial (and the subs
Harrison Middleton University (www.hmu.edu) is launching a Fellowship in Ideas. This is a writing and discussion project in the humanities designed for a recent university graduate from any field who has an interest in the humanities, interdisciplinary dialogue, and intellectual and professional enrichment.
ACLA Seminar: Teaching Race in the 21st Century: Anti-Racist Pedagogies in Literary, Media, and Performance Studies
ACLA Annual Meeting (March 29-April 1, 2018)
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
https://www.acla.org/seminar/teaching-race-21st-century-anti-racist-peda...
Seminar Description:
In Search of the Hero(es) within the Genre and Beyond
“A Hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
- Joseph Campbell
Sounding Transnational Literature
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting
March 29 – April 1, 2018, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Co-organizer: Julie Cyzewski, Murray State University
Co-organizer: Lisa Hollenbach, Oklahoma State University
https://www.acla.org/seminar/sounding-transnational-literature
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,
in that grey vault. The sea. The sea
has locked them up. The sea is History.
—Derek Walcott, “The Sea is History”
Call for Papers
The University of Toronto’s Centre for Comparative Literature’s 28th Annual Conference
The Ocean and the Seas
“When Black people get free, everybody gets free. #BlackLivesMatter doesn’t mean your life isn’t important–it means that Black lives, which are seen as without value within White supremacy, are important to your liberation.” – Alicia Garza
In his contribution to an anthology of keywords for American cultural studies, Bruce Robbins registers an ambivalence at the heart of the term “public.” This ambivalence, Robbins writes, stems from the fact that the term’s “claim to represent the social whole has continued to bump up against evidence that large classes of people have been omitted from it.” Indeed, “public,” as a terminological category, requires universality. But in our contemporary historical situation – due to enduring social antagonisms, increasingly uneven distributions of resources and power, and ever-lengthening histories of exclusion and oppression – the fault lines of this never-universal are showing with renewed clarity, even as globalization continues to demand thinking
Proposed ACLA 2018 Seminar
Assia Djebar : révolutions, métamorphoses et développements
The interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities offers new ways of considering tropical disasters. Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and similar incidents were once thought to be acts of God or isolated natural occurrences. New eco-critical approaches to the field, however, challenge the separation between human activity and environmental events.
This is a CFP for presentations for the 2018 American Comparative Literature Association in Los Angeles, March 29 - April 1.
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Extreme weather. Defaunation and the sixth mass extinction. The great Pacific garbage patch. Desertification. Coral bleaching. Catastrophic climate change.