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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.

Translations, Revisions, and Adaptations in the Eighteenth Century

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 7:02am
Lina Jiang/Fordham University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

NEASECS 2023 Conference: “Old and New, Beginnings and Endings”
Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington DC, November 17-19, 2023

Panel: Translations, Revisions, and Adaptations in the Eighteenth Century

Panel Chair: Lina Jiang (ljiang28@fordham.edu)

Extended Deadline: Indigenous Speculative Fiction (PAMLA 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, June 4, 2023 - 4:54am
Carlos Tkacz / University of Nevada, Las Vegas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Speculative Fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate, not totally free of the specter of history, but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. Because settler histories work towards indigenous erasure, the question of individual and communal autonomy is central. In this context, Speculative Fiction has become a key component in the Indigenous fight to regain personal and communal autonomy from narratives of erasure and abjection.

 

Dreaming Stars (Re)Interpreting Celestial Stories in Contemporary Indigenous Literatures and Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:18pm
Marie-Eve Bradette and Caroline Nepton-Hotte
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Guest Editors: Caroline Nepton Hotte and Marie-Eve Bradette

« Il y a longtemps, fort longtemps, le monde tel que nous le connaissons aujourd’hui n’était qu’un vaste océan. Il était peu habité, sauf par quelques animaux aquatiques. À cette époque, les ancêtres des Wendat vivaient plutôt au-dessus, dans un autre monde : le Monde-Ciel. »

Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, La femme venue du ciel. Mythe wendat de la création

 

Virtual Conference: Literature and the Anthropocene in EFL Education

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 6:42am
Malin Lidstrom Brock / Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

English as a foreign language (EFL) education provides valuable opportunities to introduce global and intercultural perspectives on the challenges of the Anthropocene. One way to engage EFL learners critically with the Anthropocene and make its complexity more accessible, immediate, and meaningful to them is through literary studies. Literature has the power to challenge established ideas, inspire change, and offer fresh perspectives on real-world problems associated with the Anthropocene.

The 11th International Conference Synergies in Communication

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:26am
Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 11th International Conference

Synergies in Communication (SiC 2023)

Bucharest, 26-27 October 2023 (hybrid)

                                                   

CFP: German Women Writers *Extended Deadline* May 31, 2023 (MMLA, Nov. 2-5, 2023 in Cincinnati)

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:25am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS

2023 Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio
November 2-5, 2023

Convention Theme Description: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/

Topic: OPEN

We encourage submissions addressing the literary texts and lives of German-language women writers from any period and in any genre. Papers that engage with the Convention theme of “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy” are especially welcome.

CFP: German Literature and Film *Extended Deadline* May 31, 2023 (MMLA, Nov. 2-5, 2023 in Cincinnati)

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:25am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

CFP: GERMAN LITERATURE AND FILM

2023 MMLA Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio
November 2-5, 2023

Convention Theme Description: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/

Topic: OPEN

We encourage submissions addressing German-language literature and film from any period and in any genre. Papers that engage with the Convention theme of “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy” are especially welcome. 

Please submit 250-word abstracts and a 50-word bio as email attachments to Bethany Morgan at bamorgan@iastate.edu by May 31, 2023. 

 

The Materiality of Excess

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Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:24am
NEMLA 2024 CFP
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

What does "too much" feel like? 

The slimy or gelatinous texture elicits a sense of disgust in some, while others experience pleasure and luxuriousness. Excess can also manifest as waste and pollution: the plastic gyre in the ocean's center; the sticky, musky sensation on one's skin amidst smog. The materiality of excess can also be defined by the marginalized, commodified bodies that become sites of extraction as their labor, organs, and corporeal bodies enter global capital circulation. This session invites papers exploring the materiality of excess – its affect, texture, aesthetics, and politics – to engage with the realm of otherness. 

Possible areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to:

The Routledge Handbook of Endangered and Minority Languages: Call for Reviewers

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:24am
Dr Chris Shei Swansea University UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

If you would like to serve as a reviewer for the handbook please email me. Having reviewed three papers and provided detailed feedback, your name will be listed as a member of the Editorial Board at the front of the book on a conspicuous page.

The handbook has 52 prospective chapters now but there will be withdrawals and rejections before final completion. If you have a full paper to contribute between now and December 2023 please feel free to approach me at c-c.shei@swansea.ac.uk. We may still be able to use your paper.

Current table of contents:

The Routledge Handbook of Endangered and Minority Languages

Mahabharata Epic Across Asia Ancient Indian Knowledge System Transcending Spatio-Temporal Boundaries

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:26am
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 25, 2023

"The greatest event of our age is the meeting of cultures, meeting of civilizations, meeting of different points of view, making us understand that we should not adhere to any one kind of single faith, but respect diversity of belief. Our attempt should always be to cooperate, to bring together people, to establish friendship and have some kind of a right world in which we can live together in happiness, harmony and friendship. Let us therefore realize that this increasing maturity should express itself in this capacity to understand what other points of view are’?"- Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Call for Session Proposals on Surplus - NeMLA

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:23am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023

SURPLUS is the keyword for the 2024 NeMLA convention for critical and creative work that, in addition to the commonly associated meanings of profit and value, can be more broadly construed as excess or excessive, as surfeit, or what is leftover, or unwanted: an excess of emotion (anger, fear, passion, desire), for example; or surplus time (leisure or its absence); or populations rendered "surplus"- migrants, the marginalized, the unemployed, the incarcerated.


 

Energy Humanities - PAMLA Special Session

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:23am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Panel for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, OR. October 26 – 29 2023.

The Poetics of American Speech according to Beat Generation Poet Lew Welch

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:52am
Charles Upton
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Poetics of American Speech

according to Beat Generation Poet Lew Welch

 

by Charles Upton

[Excerpted from Giving Myself Away, an autobiography-in-progress;

submitted for consideration to CONTEMPORARY POETRY, Volume 6]

 

 

I: The Art of Poetic Recitation

as taught by Lewis Barrett Welch

 

Southeast Asian Performance and Ecology

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:50am
Catherine Diamond
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

 

A new volume edited by Kirstin Pauka, Dennis Gupa, and Catherine Diamond will address the particular contributions made by Southeast Asian live performances of theatre, dance, puppetry, and performance art to further a healthy engagement with nature.

In Passage 6 UPDATE

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:47am
University of Boumerdes
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 2, 2023

In Passage : The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, the journal of the Department of English of the University of Boumerdes (Algeria), seeks essays in English or French for its sixth issue, to be released in December 2023. 
 
 All the contributions should either be written in English or discuss questions that relate to the English-speaking world. They should fit within the broad scope of texts and mobility and their interconnectedness in the fields of literature, linguistics, and translation, among others.

Suggested topics:

 

- Travel literature and intercultural contact.

- Nomadism.

- Exile in literature

-  Literary genres and movements

Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World: Call for Contributions

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:47am
Yiru Lim
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 16, 2023

Title: Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World

Series: Routledge Literary Studies in Social Justice

Expected Completion date: 31 May 2024

Expected Publication date: Second half of 2024

 

Republic of Literature, Literature of Republic

updated: 
Friday, May 12, 2023 - 3:46am
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, Nesir: Journal of Literary studies will dedicate its fifth issue to the theme of “Republic of Literature, Literature of Republic.” In this issue, the journal delves into Turkey’s republican experience and its manifestations and effects on fictional and non-fictional literary productions, as well as their reception, in comparison to similar experiences in other countries. In addition to examining the relationship between literature and politics, the issue encourages critical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives to be applied to the concept of the “autonomy of literature.”

The Poetics and Politics of Gender, Mobility and Migration in the New Anglophone Literatures | Special Issue

updated: 
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 10:00am
Michelle Stork, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

"The Poetics and Politics of Gender, Mobility and Migration in the New Anglophone Literatures"

CFP for Volume 29 of the European Journal of English Literature to be published in 2025

 

Guest editors: Nadia Butt (University of Giessen), Radhika Mohanram (Cardiff University) and Michelle Stork (University of Frankfurt)

 

Sankofa: Call for Submissions

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 5:06am
Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Call for Submissions

Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for its Spring 2024 (Vol. 14) publication. Sankofa welcomes articles that relate to one of the following areas:

(1)    “The African Scene,” which provides critical, scholarly articles about African children’s book authors and illustrators, trends and development in book production for children in Africa, or an examination of a specific genre or theme within African children’s, adolescent, or young adult literature (4,000-8,000 words).

Speculative Mapping -- Guaranteed Panel at SAMLA 95

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:49am
Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO) -- Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

CFP: Speculative Mapping

SAMLA 95 (Home (memberclicks.net) will meet in Atlanta, GA from 11/9 - 11/11/2023. The ESO (Emerging Scholars' Organization) is guaranteed a panel. The CFP is below:

 

Decolonization and Development for Africa and People of African Descent

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:48am
The 2023 Joint conference of The Social Practice of Human Rights Conference and the 6th International Conference on the Right to Development
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 22, 2023

Decolonization and Development for Africa and People of African DescentUniversity of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)November 2-4, 2023

 

Conveners:

  • University of Dayton Human Rights Center
  • Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
  • University of the Free State Centre for Human Rights, South Africa

CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENDED to MAY 22, 2023)

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