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Persian Literary Studies

updated: 
Sunday, July 23, 2023 - 2:01am
Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Literary Text Research is an open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published by Allameh Tabataba’i University, the leading university in Humanities and Social Sciences in Iran. Literary Text Research has been established to provide an intellectual platform for national and international researchers working on issues related to Persian literary texts. The Journal is Published in Collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of the Persian Language and Literature of Iran (Ranked A).

Literary Text Research invites scholars worldwide to submit their papers on the issues related to Persian literature:

UPDATE (Call for Journal Articles): Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 2:19am
Çankaya University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is looking for original and well-researched interdisciplinary papers at the intersection of comparative literature, literary studies, literature and translation, language and translation studies, linguistics, foreign language education, translator education, and theory and cultural studies that fall within the scope of the Journal. The mission of the Journal is to facilitate a more expanded and participatory academic discussion on the theoretical and/or applied scholarly work under its scope, and to inform scholars and public about recent developments in these fields.

Writing Beyond Borders: South Asian perspectives on Creative Writing

updated: 
Sunday, July 16, 2023 - 3:02pm
Dr Aiysha Jahan, University of Exeter, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The global and digital connectivity of recent years has transformed creative writing infrastructure and practice around the world.  Recent decades have seen a number of critical and popular publications exploring the history and practice of creative writing, from Marc McGurl’s “The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing” (2011) to Lisa Jaillant’s Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writing in Anglo-American Universities (2022). Yet, as these titles suggest, the critical focus has been on US and UK courses.

Futurisms Now: From European Perspectives to Black, Indigenous, and Multi-Ethnic Futurisms

updated: 
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 3:48pm
Raquel Baker / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 30, 2023

This panel explores and theorizes storytelling strategies used in Black (African and Afro), Indigenous, and Multi-Ethnic Futurist art and social movements, including literature, poetry, film, music, and visual and digital arts. These alternate Futurisms shift the impetus of the creative energy from discarding the past to engaging complex senses of temporality and intertextuality that often center memory, history, folklore, urban legends, and identity.

Gothic Nature, Issue V: Decolonising the EcoGothic

updated: 
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 10:25am
Gothic Nature Journal: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

**Call for Papers, Reviews, and Creative Pieces**

Gothic Nature: Decolonising the EcoGothic

Issue V: Themed Issue

Deadline for Paper Abstracts: Aug 15, 2023

 

Guest Editor: Professor Kim D. Hester Williams

Editors-in-Chief: Dr Elizabeth Parker and Dr Harriet Stilley

 

A note from the Editors-in-Chief:

‘EcoGothic from postcolonial societies has long pointed towards the need to reconceptualise the relation between humans and their environment as central to the project of decolonisation.’
—Kerstin Oloff, 2012

Agricultural Imaginaries

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2024

Boston, MA

March 7-10, 2024

Prisons and Poetry (NeMLA 2024, Boston) - Seminar

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:20pm
Thomas Dichter, Harvard University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Prisons and Poetry (Seminar)

Northeast Modern Language Association 2024 - Boston, MA (March 7-10)

“It is hard,” writes incarcerated poet Etheridge Knight, “to make a poem in prison.” And yet, poetry has long been a major form of literary production in prisons around the world. From Oscar Wilde to Mahmoud Darwish, celebrated poets have reflected on experiences of incarceration in their work. In the context of the U.S. mass incarceration, poets such as Jimmy Santiago Baca and Reginald Dwayne Betts have risen to fame during or after their imprisonment. Poetry has also been an important element of writings by many political prisoners, such as Wole Soyinka, Assata Shakur, and Leonard Peltier.

AAS & AAAS: Call for Proposals for Verge-sponsored Panels

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:17pm
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 14, 2023

Verge will be sponsoring Global Asias panels and roundtables at the upcoming AAS and AAAS conferences. Our goal is to help generate and support work that straddles or otherwise navigates the differences and overlaps between Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian Diaspora Studies as intellectual formations and interdisciplines.

Representing Ecocides in Settler Colonial Arts and Literatures.

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:05pm
LCE Research Laboratory, The University of Lyon 2
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The panel, "Representing Ecocides in Settler Colonial Arts and Literatures", will be organised at the 2024 NeMLA Conference, from March 7-10, 2024, in Boston, MA.

51st Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:00pm
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 18, 2023

February 19-20 (Virtual) – 22-24 (In-Person), 2024

Keynotes—TBA

Societies in Residence at the LCLC include African American Literature and Culture Society, E. E. Cummings Society, Durrell Society, T. S. Eliot Society, International James Joyce Society, Iris Murdoch Society, Flannery O’Connor Society, Charles Olson Society, Harold Pinter Society & International Virginia Woolf Society.

 

INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS (Individuals and Groups)

GENERAL OVERVIEW

For all of the following categories listed below, please follow these directions:

NeMLA 2024 - Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value

updated: 
Thursday, July 6, 2023 - 5:30pm
Leo Kadokura, University of Oxford, NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

  • Conference: 55th NeMLA Convention 
  • Conference Theme: Surplus
  • Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Abstract Deadline for Paper Proposals: 30th September 2023
  • Conference Date: 7-10th March 2024

PanelHalf Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value 

Chair(s): Leo Kadokura (University of Oxford)

Configurations of Sovereignty, Human Rights and Resilience as Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, July 6, 2023 - 1:29am
Bennett University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

The proposed Special Issue of Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture (web of science indexed; https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/720)  aims to examine the everyday existential struggles in societies triggered by the exceptionalism of state-capital nexus. It will analyze the epistemes of violence, structures of rampant coloniality in different manifestations, extraction of lands, bodies, and life that underpin the self-expansionist project of cannibalistic capitalism.

A Leap Over: Formation and Dissolution of Urban Boundaries

updated: 
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - 3:49pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Please consider submitting your proposal to the PAMLA 2023 panel “A Leap Over: Formation and Dissolution of Urban Boundaries”.

 

Precarious Planet: Disability, Rights and Justice

updated: 
Monday, July 3, 2023 - 10:04am
Bennett University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

 

Conference hosted by the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies and Challenging Precarity: A Global Network.

University of Wollongong, Sydney Campus, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia

29 November – 1 December 2023

 

Organisation websites:

https://challengingprecarity.network

Deadline Extended: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom Call for Assessments

updated: 
Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 7:52pm
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

 

Overview

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assessments that model inclusive, antiracist, antiableist, and anticolonial assessment practices for teaching the nineteenth century. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.

 

Full Solicitation

The Senses and War

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:22pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

How do authors describe the sensory reality of war? What are the sounds of war, the smells of war (the textures, visuals, taste of war)? How are these described and how do they differ? These are questions that remain of interest to historians and literary scholars as we try to understand past events and representations of violence and conflict. From world wars to the war on climate change, our relationship with bodies and spaces is shifting and the sensorium carries these shifts. This panel is looking for abstracts interested in the senses and war across mediums (film, texts, art), whether these represent real or imagined conflicts.

Translation, Travel Writing, and Excess

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:17pm
NorthEast Modern Language (NeMLA) 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Translation, Travel Writing, and Excess  (Rountable)

Chairs:

Sanjukta Banerjee (York University)

Elisa Leonzio (Università di Torino)

 

From a Surplus of Time

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:36pm
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Climate change and impending ecological crises make clear, we are running short of time. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that we have until 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5C. Assuming that the status quo endures, at the start of this conference, we will have fewer than six years remaining on that deadline to make significant changes. Much of the damage we now need to recover from is a direct result of a myopic view of time:the greed for quarterly profits and how much wealth an individual can accumulate during their own lifetime. But what if we could think of the future not as a scarcity of time, but an abundance?

Surplus in African and African Diasporic Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:19pm
Northeastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel seeks papers that investigate the theme of surplus as it relates to African and African Diasporic literature, particularly in terms of representations of multivocality in oral and written traditions, multicultural and intersectional identities, economic excess and competition, and multimodality and hybridity. All genres of literature are of interest.

Please submit proposals via the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20628

Submissions deadline is September 30, 2023.

Poetry and anthropology, poets, anthropoets and anthropologists: crossing, borrowing, influencing, returning home in the Americas and the Pacific Rim (1960s-)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:16pm
Peggy Pacini / CY Cergy Paris Université
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Poetry and anthropology, poets, anthropoets and anthropologists: crossing, borrowing, influencing, returning home in the Americas and the Pacific Rim (1960s-)

Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie (Charenton-le-Pont, France)

| September 18-19, 2023

 

Organizers : Peggy Pacini, Gérald Peloux, Anne-Marie Petitjean (CY Cergy Paris Université, UMR Héritages)

 

NEMLA 2024 - CFP - SURPLUS INVISIBILITY: CONCENTRATED SPACES OF THE DISPLACED AND EXPELLED

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:16pm
Irene Hatzopoulos & Valentina Morello
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Surplus Invisibility: Concentrated Spaces of the Displaced and Expelled
NeMLA 2024--Boston, MA March 7-10th, 2024

Abstract deadline: September 30th, 2023

Response deadline: October 15th, 2023

 

The concept of surplus is largely understood in economics as “the amount of resources that exceed the portion actually utilized”. Gramsci, when touching on this idea, focuses on the rise of capitalism. However, “surplus” can refer to a host of different fields. What happens when the “surplus” is used to define the lives of human beings?

PAMLA 2023--CFP--ITALIAN CINEMA Extended Deadline

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:16pm
Irene Hatzopoulos
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Consider submitting an abstract to the permanent Italian Cinema session for PAMLA 2023.  Please upload your file (300 words max) directly to the Session CFP linked below. 

 

CFP Deadline: June 30th, 2023

 

Session CFP: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18828

 

Decision Date: July 2023

 

Conference Dates: Oct. 26-29, 2023

 

Location: The Hilton Portland Downtown Hotel

 

This panel invites papers focusing on various aspects of Italian film history and contemporary film culture. 

 

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