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UNC Asheville Queer Studies Conference 2018
April 5-7, 2018, Asheville, NC
Prisons, Borders, and Pipelines:
Toward a Queer Abolitionist Movement
EXTENDED DEADLINE! (November 3, 2017)
Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies & Thought
CALL FOR PAPERS: Vol 7, No 1 (2018): “Muddied Waters: Decomposing the Anthropocene”
“Progress means: humanity emerges from its spellbound state no longer under the spell of progress as well, itself nature, by becoming aware of its own indigenousness to nature and by halting the mastery over nature through which nature continues its mastery.” — Theodor Adorno, “Progress” (p. 62)
“This future is unthinkable. Yet here we are, thinking it.” — Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology (p. 1)
Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press) is now accepting articles and reviews written in English or traditional Chinese for a general issue of the journal, tentatively scheduled for publication in June 2018. Hong Kong Studies is the first bilingual academic journal to focus on Hong Kong from an interdisciplinary perspective. The editors believe that the timely expansion of the field of Hong Kong Studies warrants a journal of its own, in order to provide a focused platform for facilitating exchange between different disciplines and viewpoints in relation to Hong Kong.
The Meaning of Food Interdisciplinary Conference on Representations of Food in the Arts & Humanities
Monday, March 26 to Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Call for Presentations: DEADLINE EXTENDED
All proposals are due October 20th, 2017 (11:59 pm EST)
Visit our conference website for more details: http://meaningoffoodconference.com
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CACLALS at Congress 2018
University of Regina (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Proposals due 15 January 2018
Gathering Diversities through Contestation and Coalition
In conjunction with the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, CACLALS (the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) will host its annual conference from May 26-28, 2018, at the University of Regina, in Regina, Saskatchewan.
38th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures
Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for papers dealing with all areas and aspects of Romance Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Proposals on Film, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Digital Humanities, and Non-canonical approaches to literature are especially welcome.
Individual presentations will be limited to 20 minutes and they will be accepted in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, or Italian. For consideration, please submit an abstract or panel proposal including:
Call for Papers
Diálogos Journal is a non-profit international publication on identity and social justice, based in Toronto, Canada. We are dedicated to fostering inter-cultural exchange of ideas and experiences, aimed at building understanding in Canada and internationally.
With this in mind, we invite you to submit essays and photojournalism for our print issue, which will be published in January 2018. For the upcoming issue, we are looking forward to reading research-based submissions providing insight on a wide range of subjects, such as race, ethnicity, gender, collective memory, migration policies.
“The Rest” Writes Back: Collapse of the Empire
Oil Fictions: World literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere
Call for Papers
Anafora, an international journal published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, invites contributions for the upcoming special issue 4.1 on theory, criticism, and pedagogy of adaptation and the 2018 issues 5.1 and 5.2.
The quint’s thirty seventh issue is issuing a call for theoretically informed and historically grounded submissions of scholarly interest—as well as creative writing, original art, interviews, and reviews of books. The deadline for this call is 15th November 2017—but please note that we accept manu/digi-scripts at any time.
All contributions accompanied by a short biography will be forwarded to a member of the editorial board. Manuscripts must not be previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere while being reviewed by the quint’s editors or outside readers.
NeMLA Annual Convention - Pittsburgh, PA - 12-15 April, 2018
For a time, the Absurd was one of the chief literary movements of the day. When Martin Esslin published The Theatre of the Absurd he would frame various emerging playwrights such as Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter under one label. Though they would reject the term, the notion of the Absurd stuck and would invite a flurry of criticism from the academic world.
Two trends in ecocritical approaches to narrative form the basis of this proposed session on Reading & Writing the Body in the Anthropocene. The first is the proliferation of the term Anthropocene itself, which not only attempts to name an epoch but also seems to have become a kind of shorthand for a constellation of political, social, scientific and economic concerns related to our understanding of human impact on the environment. The second trend is the so-called “material turn” in the environmental humanities, a shift that, as Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann observe, has brought “increasing attention” to the imbrications of meaning, narrative and material realities in the larger conversation on literature and the environment (Iovino 550).
2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, 26-29 May 2018
“Oh, the humanity”: Humanitarian Reason, Humanitarian Narratives
Revista Liberia also is accepting submissions for its regular issue, which will published in spring 2018. This edition invites papers which take an interdisciplinary approach to studies of contemporary Hispanic literature, visual culture and history. In addition to critical essays, we are seeking interviews, creative pieces and book reviews. Please send to ketz@lasalle.edu or jmgomez@iona.edu.
Last call! This panel aims to use the framework of oceanic studies to interrogate Victorian sea fiction. We welcome work on nineteenth-century writers across the Anglophone world, though could be open to works in other languages. We are particularly looking for works that do not fall into traditional nationalist canons of literature or works that epitomize transnational networks of culture, empire, and economics.
In the face of violence, acts of witness are crucial to reaffirm the humanity of those that have been dehumanized, rebuild social worlds, and assert new communal bonds. At the same time, efforts at witnessing are fraught with risk. Personal testimonies may increase feelings of isolation instead of yielding catharsis. Writers, scholars, and artists who strive to represent acts of violence risk turning suffering into spectacle and re-inscribing binaries of agency versus victimhood. No act of witness can encompass a person’s experience; there is always more to know than any narrative or representation could portray.
The conference hopes to broaden the scope of American literature, opening it to more complex geographies, and to a variety of genres and media. The impetus comes partly from a survey of what is currently in the field: it is impossible to read the work of Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz, Yusef Komunyakaa and Carolyn Forché, Tony Kushner and Lynn Nottage without seeing that, for all these authors, the reference frame is no longer simply the United States, but a larger, looser, more contextually varied set of coordinates, populated by laboring bodies, migrating faiths, generational sagas, memories of war, as well as the accents of unforgotten tongues, the taste and smell of beloved foods and spices.
The Editorial Board of Acta Iassyensia Comparationis,an interdisciplinary biannual e-journal published by the Department of Comparative Literature of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, invites you to publish in AIC 21 (1/2018), devoted to the CREDINŢĂ ŞI TRĂDARE / FAITH AND TREASON / FOI ET TRAHISONtheme. Our invitation addresses first and foremost the (world & comparative) literature specialists, but we also welcome contributions dealing with the announced theme signed by professionals from other humanistic fields.
The deadline for the submission of articles and book reviews is December 15, 2017.
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16680
Conference: NeMLA Conference, Pittsburgh PA
Dates: April 12-15, 2018
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.
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?
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.
CFP: Indigenous Ecomedia
for the ASLE off-year symposium A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene.
Rethinking Nature: Literary Studies in an Age of Ecological Crisis
Department of English Eleventh Graduate Student Conference
University of Ottawa
9-11 March 2018
Call for Papers: https://queermodernismconference.wordpress.com/
‘Reed / slashed and torn / but doubly rich’ – H.D.
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.
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.
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)
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?