world literatures and indigenous studies

2018 ASECS Race and Empire Caucus Graduate Student Essay Prize

The Race and Empire Caucus invites submissions for the 2018 ASECS Race and Empire Caucus Graduate Student Essay Prize. The Caucus welcomes essays that are revised versions of papers read at the regional and national conferences of ASECS and its affiliates (including the Society of Early Americanists, Early Caribbean Society, SHARP, NABMSA, etc.) between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. The prize-winning essay will be considered for publication in the 2018-2019 volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and the prize will be awarded at the 2019 ASECS meeting.

This Regular Session welcomes submissions on any aspect of Postcolonial Literature, Politics, and/or Culture. Proposals addressing the SAMLA 90 conference theme, Fighters from the Margins: Sociopolitical Activists and Their Allies, are especially welcome. By June 15, 2018, please submit an abstract of 250-350 words, a brief bio, and any A/V requests to the SAMLA email address, samla@gsu.edu.

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider proposing a German session at the 50th NeMLA Annual Convention to be held in Washington, DC, on March 21-24, 2019.

The deadline to propose a session is May 29, 2018. To propose a session (traditional paper session or a roundtable) please follow the link: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/session.html.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me (pichugin@rutgers.edu) if you have any questions about NeMLA German Area, from proposing a session to networking opportunities. I will be glad to help.

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CFP: Turkish Literature as World Literature

Call for Papers

Global Prehumanisms: An interdisciplinary conference

Sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies, University of Illinois

October 18-20, 2018

PAMLA 2018 Special Session

Acting Out: The Role of Environmental Humanities in the Anthropocene

Proposals are invited for a Special Session of PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) 2018, which will meet November 9-11, 2018, in Bellingham, Washington. The conference theme is “Acting, Roles, Stages.

This panel invites speakers to consider the role of the humanities (and the “actors” within various academic disciplines) in anthropogenic contexts and possible climate futures. In what ways might we translate, mediate and act out environmental issues for our readers, colleagues, students, institutions and public audiences at large?

International symposium of the research project « Out of place : Law, literature and migration » (SSHRC), organized in collaboration with La maison de la Syrie

Call for papers 

November 22-24 2018

Organizing committee : Marie-Eve Bradette (University of Montreal), Laurence Sylvain (University of Montreal), Simon Harel (University of Montreal) and Youssef Shoufan (La maison de la Syrie)

No borders. No fences. Free movement for all.

Propagandhi

Conference topic

CFP: Settler Social Identities: Rational Recreation in the Long Nineteenth Century

24-25 July 2018, University College Dublin

Confirmed keynotes:

Dr Natasha Eaton (University College London)

A/Professor Clara Tuite (University of Melbourne)

Ariel: a Review of International English Literature seeks proposals for publication in its 50th Anniversary Special Issue, slated for publication in 2020. This special issue will unpack and explore the tensions and interrelationships between postcolonial studies and Indigenous studies. When Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin published The Empire Writes Back (1989), the ensuing recognition of Canada and the United States as products of imperialism and colonization necessarily provoked questions about the people who preceded settlers. Indigenous literary studies became recognized as a necessary missing piece of those conversations.

Aigne  

Online Journal of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork 

Call for submission: conference / academic events reports 

Aigne seeks reports on recent academic events and conferences. Potential contributors are invited to contact the Reports Editors to agree the submission of a report. Submissions in Harvard style, along with a short biographical note (150 words) and contact information, will be accepted on a rolling basis.  

Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies: “Complicity in Post-1945 Literature: Theory, Aesthetics, Politics”

The Two-day Symposium on 'Victorian Indian Identities' to be hosted in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Chennai, India) on 6 and 7 June 2018, India, seeks fifteen-minute papers to reengage with the notions of identities that are assumed in relation to the idea of the Indian or “native” within the literatures in English produced within India and Great Britain during Queen Victoria’s reign, both prior to and after her assumption of the role of the Empress of India in 1858.

This panel welcomes submissions exploring the logics of disposability and/or sustainability. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: ecological sustainability, theories of excess and expenditure, the materiality of bodies and how they may be said to matter (or not), wasted time and wasted space. We welcome literary or theoretical perspectives from environmental humanities, race studies, psychoanalysis, queer-theory, and necro- or bio-politics. Proposals addressing the conference theme are especially welcome. By May 25th, please submit an abstract of 250-300 words, a brief bio, and any A/V requests to Violeta Espigares, Emory University, at vruizes@emory.edu.