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Current Comparative Literary Studies in East Asia

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:19am
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 50 No. 2 | September 2024

Call for Papers

Current Comparative Literary Studies in East Asia

Guest Editors

Yu-lin Lee (Academia Sinica)

Woosung Kang (Seoul National University)

Deadline for Submissions: December 30, 2023

 

Matter Really Matters: Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:18am
Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Conference 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Matter Really Matters: Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

British and Global Anglophone Panel Session

55th Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Annual Conference

March 7-10, 2024 Boston, Massachusetts

Cultural Representations of Social Reproduction (2024 NeMLA panel)

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:17am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel will focus on cultural representations of social reproduction. Social reproduction theory developed from a Marxist-feminist concern for typically-unwaged labor performed outside the traditional workplace, demonstrating how this “invisible” work is necessary for the reproduction of a capitalist workforce and social relations as well as the maintenance of life itself.

Contemporary Asian Masculinities in Literature and Film

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:09am
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The convergence of critical masculinity studies with postcolonial theory aims to interrogate discourses that created hegemonic and binary categories that in turn became eventual grounds for the historical racialization of gender and sexuality, as well as the gendering and sexualization of race. Following palimpsestic models of narrativization, this session seeks to problematize the layerings and shifting stratigraphies of power that obscure, erase, or overwrite the specific experiences that underpin notions of Asian masculinity and male identity as represented in various forms of literature and media.

Queer Monsters and Monstrous Queers: Abominable Others in Literature and Film

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 9:09am
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

What makes a monster? While monsters take on multiple forms—vampires, werewolves, cannibals, demons, the undead, and the uncanny, to name a few—societies from all over the world remain collectively enamored by the mystery, danger, and grotesquerie of monsters. Monsters and monstrosity inhabit cultural imaginaries as much as historic landscapes, insofar as such concepts construct, explain, or critique “the vulnerable, pathetic fantasy we distort in our simultaneous search for love and property… [t]he mystery we eliminate to create the revolt of simple things, goods, that desire mystery” (William Carlos Williams).

Insecure Ecologies: Resource Exploitation in Postcolonial Ecospheres

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Sunday, June 18, 2023 - 10:35pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE

The climate crisis posits a major threat to the anthropocene regardless of geopolitical boundaries. However, Eurocentric discourses seldom acknowledge the resource exploitation that fuels climate change. This panel seeks to explore works of literature that highlight such instances of resource exploitation in the postcolony vis-à-vis the ideas of security and insecurity in the times of an emergent climate crisis. With a special focus on the specters of neocolonialism that threaten the security of postcolonial ecospheres, this panel seeks to decolonize the discourses of climate change that refuse to address the role played by Western ideology and capital in the rendering insecure of ecologies in the postcolony.  

 

International Literary Canon: Moving Beyond National Borders *Extended Deadline* PAMLA

updated: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 7:30am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

This panel seeks to challenge national paradigms by investigating transnational mediators. We welcome papers addressing writers who specialize in international mediation strategies (adaptation, translation, mimesis, extraction), specific moments of cultural brokerage, or literary works that are considered to have global influences and international linguistic-literary value. Please submit a 250-word abstract directly to the conference website - https://pamla.ballastacademic.com - by May 31.

Saying the Unsayable: Narrative Experimentations in the Representation of Trauma

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Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 4:29am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Trauma is typically considered ‘responsive to and constitutive of “modernity”’ (Micale and Lerner 2001). Certainly, as argued by Mark Seltzer, ‘modernity has come to be understood under the sign of the wound’: ‘the modern subject has become inseparable from the categories of shock and trauma.’ 

DEADLINE EXTENDED 120th Annual PAMLA Conference (2023): Portland, OR - Romanticism

updated: 
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 11:34am
Amanda Middleton
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 29, 2023

****DEADLINE EXTENDED****

The deadline has been extended until June 29th.  

 

120th Annual PAMLA Conference (2023): Portland, OR - Romanticism

The PAMLA 2023 Conference will be held at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon between October 26-29, 2023,

The 2023 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.

Global Folios: Books about Shakespeare from around the World NALANS Journal (Special Issue)

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 4:16pm
Turkish Shakespeares
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE (30 June for abstracts, 30 October for full articles)

Global Folios: Books about Shakespeare from around the World

NALANS Journal (Special Issue) https://nalans.com/index.php/nalans

Guest Editors: Amrita Sen, Anna Forrester and Murat Öğütcü

Contact email: turkishshakespeares@gmail.com

 

Call for Articles

 

International Literary Canon: Moving Beyond National Borders *Extended Deadline* PAMLA

updated: 
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 11:00am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

This panel seeks to challenge national paradigms by investigating transnational mediators. We welcome papers addressing writers who specialize in international mediation strategies (adaptation, translation, mimesis, extraction), specific moments of cultural brokerage, or literary works that are considered to have global influences and international linguistic-literary value. Please submit a 250-word abstract directly to the conference website - https://pamla.ballastacademic.com - by June 30.

The Visual Politics of Borders, Migration and Human Rights in Comics and Graphic Narratives

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 7:45pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

This panel aims to explore the ways in which borders intersect with human rights in graphic narratives, whether in fiction or non-fiction. One of the theoretical frameworks for examining borders could be through the lens of border aesthetics, which considers borders as linguistic, cultural, social, political, and spatial entities that can both enable and exclude. The panel will examine how graphic narratives denaturalize and politicize the current global border regime and bordering practices that invariably reproduce the colonial binaries as well as stereotypes about migrants/refugees.

CFP Roundtable: Democracy and the Crisis in the Literature Survey Course

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Monday, June 12, 2023 - 11:56am
**MMLA - Cincinnati**
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

As the “Crisis in the Humanities” continues to witness a decline in all things humanities courses throughout post-secondary curricula under the echoing waves of COVID, teachers of English survey courses are left to do some cleaning up with regard to what we teach as far as the surveys go. In addition to the COVID slope, the number of English majors continues to wane, and some colleges are even restructuring semester scheduling. When the dust settles, where does that leave the last vestibule of the formal introductory map to English studies, the venerable “survey course” – the one, staunch and steadfast bastion of the once bustling English departments?

Southern Humanities Conference, Savannah, GA, Feb. 2-4, 2024

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Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:09am
Southern Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Conference Theme: (Em)Body/Environment

Savannah, GA, February 1-4, 2024

 

The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

 

Social & Environmental (In)Justice in Discourse & in the Literary/Artistic Imagination

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Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:09am
Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Tunis (Tunis, Tunisia)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 4, 2023

Social & Environmental (In)Justice in Discourse & in the Literary/Artistic Imagination

International Conference (in-person and online) organized by

   Department of Languages

   Department of English Language, Literature & Civilisation

   Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Tunis

   Tunis, Tunisia

Contact e-mail address: ens.conference.tunis@gmail.com

Official website and registration site: www.ens-conference-tunis.com

 

Overview

NeMLA 2024 CfP- Reassessing Resource Narratives: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Illusion of Surplus

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:02am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA session "Reassessing Resource Narratives: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Illusion of Surplus" (55th Annual NeMLA Convention March 7th in Boston, MA). The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2023. You can submit an abstract for this session here- https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20666

Conrad and World Literature

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:02am
Simla Dogangun / Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

 

Call for Papers: Conrad and World Literature Studies

The Conradian: The Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)

 

From Biopolitics to Ecoaesthetics: Legacies of Encroachment(s)

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:02am
Tiako Djomatchoua Murielle Sandra
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

“Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins,” is a popular ( Zechariah Chafee, 1919) is a popular aphorism in legal imaginaries that theoretically synthesizes the scope of concepts such as freedom, power, and sovereignty. The reality of globalization, and its inherent movements and interactions of bodies, challenges the radical frame and geographies of the aforementioned concepts. The inevitability of the relation, in its materialisations as contact, conflict, and integration, highlights the thin lines between acknowledging, understanding, and trespassing boundaries in human relations to each other and to the systems that govern their lives.

"Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make": The Prison(er) in Literature and Film (2024 NeMLA panel)

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Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:01am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Imprisoned in 1642, Richard Lovelace penned the words that became his best-known: “Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron walls a cage:/Minds innocent and quiet take/That for a hermitage” (“To Althea, From Prison”).

Lovelace’s poem points to the duality of the prison as both a physical structure and a mental and spiritual condition. Moreover, the poem submits that the mind can remain free even while the body is confined. For Lovelace, the only true prison is the prison of the mind and soul.

This panel will explore the topics of the prisoner and of the prison as a physical and/or psychological element in novels, stories, poems, films, television, and other genres and media.

Literary Druid - Regular Issue July 2023

updated: 
Saturday, June 10, 2023 - 3:58pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Literary Druid is a journal that destinies to foster research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

Queer Africa: Resilience and Hopeful Now

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:54pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2024)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel calls for stories exploring contemporary creative works as fluid and diverse moments and their relation to what it means to have an identity as both queer and African. This intersection between queer and African is fraught with conflict in the present political and social understanding of homosexuality as un-African and a Western ideology transported to Africa during colonialism. Therefore, when most African nations have made homosexuality illegal, thus, preventing human rights from queer Africans and making them surplus, this panel calls for short stories, poems, memoirs, and novel extracts about queer African characters.

Surplus Cities: Urban Space within a Fluid American Canon

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:53pm
Northeast MLA Conference (Mar 7-10, 2024) in Boston
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This roundtable invites critics and writers to rethink cities (or neighborhoods/areas within cities) that are essential to understanding “American writing,” yet still seem to remain outside or “extraneous” to discussions of “American literature.”  What historical cities, lost neighborhoods, or even ruins/necropoli are critical to enduring issues explored within American writing?  What stories seem lost within locales trimmed of their histories?  How does re-centered dialogue around these locations remap American literary production?  What trajectories or points of transit are central to discussions of “canonical texts” in the present moment?  How do these questions reframe concepts of diaspora or a “literature of the Americas?” 

55th Annual NeMLA Convention: Surplus, Scarcity, and the Trials of the Translator

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:53pm
Rebecca Thompson / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The act of translation is often discussed in terms of possession: what is lost, what is revealed, who can claim ownership of a text, and to what extent. It is possible, however, that a more enlightening conversation around translation theory and practice could be had if we shifted our focus from questions of ownership to questions of surplus and scarcity. In an age of globalization where translation is often maligned as useless and mechanized, the field of translation studies must push itself towards inclusive discussions of its most human aspects. To what extent should the translator's work be visible? How do translators negotiate the complexities of excess and lack, "too-much-ness" and "not-enough-ness," when mediating a text?

Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Literature and Film

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:53pm
Laura Lazzari Vosti, Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities and George Washington University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2024 NeMLA Convention:

This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic, spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature and cinema from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective at the intersection of gender studies and the medical humanities. We welcome papers that engage with novels, graphic novels, memoirs, cross-genre texts, poems, films, and documentaries, that address experiences of pregnancy loss in contemporary societies, cultures, and languages, by using different methodologies. 

ImmUnity and CommUnity

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:52pm
Laboratory Values, Society, and Development (LVSD), Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

The terms “community” and “immunity” on both local and global scales have become semantically interdependent with unparalleled currency. They have triggered debates about stopping the propelling cycle of immunization that claims to benefit the community and raised concerns about the pressing need to maintain naturally invulnerable societies. Prominent among the theorists who highlight the close and problematic connection between the two notions is Roberto Esposito (2012), who posits that “community” points to difference and that “immunity” designates relation/contagion.

Class and Culture in the Middle Ages: Contact, Conflict, Concord (9/15 Session)

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 7:04am
Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Illinois Medieval Association invites proposals for individual papers and especially full sessions for the 40th Annual Illinois Medieval Association Symposium, to be held online throughout the academic year. Papers presented at the Symposium are eligible for submission to our peer-reviewed proceedings volume, Essays in Medieval Studies, published annually by the West Virginia University Press and available via Project Muse. The Symposium aims to engage all disciplines and geographical areas of medieval studies.

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