world literatures and indigenous studies

Performance studies in and from South Asia: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

(Thursday October 11, 2018, 1:45 - 5:30 pm, Madison WI)

This special issue focuses on the rise of graphic arts, Comics and Memes in the Arab world as a means of expression, representation, and political resistance against ideological hegemony. The aim of this Special Issue is to explore Graphic arts, Comics and Memes, and their uses and functions in a changing Arab world. We are interested in scholarly works that examine the intersectionality of the literary and artistic production created before, during, and after the Arab uprisings and the significance of the development of visual means of production of these works especially in relation to online communication. The uprisings that began in Tunisia in December 2010 popularized the use of non-traditional and independent media for publishing.

A one-day conference on Saturday, Sept. 22 at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, OK.  Conference theme: "The Multicolored Tapestry of Asia: Traditions, Conversations, and Development." We welcome individual papers, thematic panels, and poster presentations exploring and examining topics relating to Asian cultures and societies for a multidisciplinary reflection on and conversation about Asia’s past, present, and future.

Registration includes a luncheon featuring authentic Asian foods and an exquisite martial arts performance by real Japanese ninjas!

Further information can be found at https://ucoascf.wixsite.com/ucoascf

Following milestone moments in Canadian history, namely the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it has become imperative that all members of the nation should be implicated in processes of conciliation and reconciliation. This turn must include immigrants, migrants, and refugees who diaspored to Canada through colonial networks of their own, and whose presence has been largely overlooked in the “difficult binary” constructed between colonizer and the colonized in both historical and emergent discourses on decolonization. How might these postcolonial subjects enter into artistic or curatorial collaboration with Indigenous peoples of Canada that both acknowledge cultural diversity and their shared colonial beginnings?

Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce a call for manuscript submissions for its new book series, Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History, edited by Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary, University of London).

CFP for the 9th Annual Conference of the South East African Languages and Literatures Forum (SEALLF) from October 5th to October 6th, 2018, Department of English and Foreign Languages at Norfolk State University, Norfolk VA, USA: Celebrating Chinua Achebe & African Languages, Literatures, Arts and Cultures beyond the Continent: The 60th Anniversary of Things Fall Apart.
 
Deadline for submissions:                                           May 29, 2018
Notification of acceptance date:                                June 30, 2018

Unpublished Manuscripts and Research papers are invited for #review and consideration of #publication in "VOL. 6 NO.2 (2018) ISSUE -JUNE" to be Published in JUNE - 2018.

#Deadline for full paper submission is May 15, 2018.

Kumoricon Anime and Manga Studies

‘Intertextual Anime’

Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR

October 26-28, 2018

Deadline for Paper Proposals: July 15, 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference

Friday, November 9, 2018 to Sunday, November 11, 2018, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington

Conference theme: “Acting, Roles, and Stages”

Session: Comparative Literature
Presiding Officer: Richard Sperber, Carthage College, rsperber@carthage.edu
Proposal Due Date: May 30, 2018 - submit via PAMLA website, http://pamla.org/2018/topic-areas

Panel description:

HONG KONG STUDIES—Issue 3 (Spring 2019) Call for Papers—Special Section on Orientalism Forty Years on; and General Research Papers

The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting articles for Issue 3 (scheduled for publication in Spring 2019), which will comprise both general research articles on Hong Kong and a special section on Edward Said’s Orientalism.

1. Memoir and Manifesto: Life Writing and/as Resistance

7th International Conference on

IMAGE & IMAGERY

October 10th & 11th, 2018 Brock University, St. Catharines, ON

Im/Migrant Passages: Crossing Visual, Spatial and Textual Boundaries

The contemporary world is undergoing a period of accelerated change which can be attributed to a number of different developments: technological advances, the ubiquity of social media and smartphones, the acceleration of global warming and the resultant environmental disasters, and major political upheavals such as Brexit and the growth of white nationalist movements across the globe. These and other changes create constantly shifting and unstable contemporary environments. In this climate of economic, political and environmental uncertainty, it is important to address the impact on and outcomes of these and other major changes in our contemporary world.

Faulkner and García Márquez
A Conference Sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
October 11-13, 2018

This “Faulkner and García Márquez” conference invites proposals for 15-20 minute papers on any topic related to William Faulkner and/or Gabriel García Márquez.  All critical approaches, including pedagogical, are welcomed.  We are particularly interested in inter-textual approaches that treat both authors. Proposals for organized panels are also encouraged.