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Mazaa: Rethinking fun and pleasure in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 2:45pm
Brandeis University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

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.

Ecofictions and Ecorealities of Latin America and the Hispanic/Latino- a/Latinx Worlds

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 1:04pm
Ana María Mutis / Trinity University, Elizabeth Pettinaroli / Rhodes College, Ilka Kressner /SUNY Albany
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2017

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?

CFP: Caribbean Literature at CEA 2018

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 1:03pm
Laura Barrio-Vilar / College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

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.

Indigenous Ecomedia

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 1:02pm
Association for the Study of Literature & Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2017

CFP: Indigenous Ecomedia  
for the ASLE off-year symposium A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene.

Rethinking Nature: Literary Studies in a Age of Ecological Crisis

updated: 
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 12:45pm
University of Ottawa, Department of English Graduate Student Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2017

Rethinking Nature: Literary Studies in an Age of Ecological Crisis

Department of English Eleventh Graduate Student Conference

University of Ottawa

9-11 March 2018

REMINDER: Space and Psyche in Contemporary Latinx/Latin American Culture (NeMLA Pittsburgh 2018)

updated: 
Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 11:26am
Thomas Conners, University of Pennsylvania
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2017

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.

The Ethics of World Literature

updated: 
Friday, September 22, 2017 - 10:22am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA_
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2017

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.  

Globalization and Cultural Production in the Maghreb

updated: 
Friday, September 22, 2017 - 10:20am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 30, 2018

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)

How to Make a Minority: Nationalism and Identity in the Postcolonial World

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 3:47pm
Maryam Wasif Khan/ ACLA Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 21, 2017

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?

Contested Modernity: Place, Space and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 3:47pm
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2018

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

 

 

REMINDER: ACLA seminar: Teaching Race in the 21st Century: Anti-Racist Pedagogies in Literary, Media, and Performance Studies (paper proposals DUE by September 21)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 3:46pm
ACLA Conference 2018 (March 29-April 1), University of California, Los Angeles, CA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 21, 2017

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:

Call for submissions for December 2017 issue of LITERATURE TODAY

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 3:42pm
LITERATURE TODAY
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 25, 2017

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

ACLA/2018: Art, Forensics, Memory, and the Public Sphere

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 3:42pm
ACLA Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Organziers: Kaitlyn Murphy, Arizona State University and Stephenie Young, Salem State University

ACLA Seminar @ UCLA, 3/28-4/1/2018

Youth and Violence in Contemporary Literature and Media

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 3:38pm
49th NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2017

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.

The Holocaust and the Domestic

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 3:18pm
NeMLA 2018
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2017

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.

Appropriation and Its Discontents (ACLA 2018)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 1:20pm
ACLA at UCLA, 3/29/18-4/01/18
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 21, 2017

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

Fellowship in Ideas

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 1:20pm
Harrison Middleton University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2017

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 (paper proposals due by September 21)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2017 - 2:12pm
ACLA Conference 2018 (March 29-April 1), University of California, Los Angeles, CA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 21, 2017

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

updated: 
Friday, September 15, 2017 - 10:36am
Department of English, MMV, Banaras Hindu University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2017

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

 

ACLA 2018: Sounding Transnational Literature

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 11:28am
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 21, 2017

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

The Ocean and the Seas

updated: 
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 2:30pm
Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2017

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

ACLA 2018: Divided Public(s): On the Intellectual Vocation

updated: 
Sunday, September 10, 2017 - 1:37pm
Robert Ryan, University of Illinois-Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 23, 2017

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

CFP for ACLA Convention in Los Angeles  March 29-April 1, 2018  Tropical Disasters: New Approaches from the Environmental Humanities

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2017 - 3:46pm
Charlotte Rogers
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

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.  

Ecology of Disaster (ACLA 2018)

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2017 - 12:15pm
Isabel Sobral Campos
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

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.

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