In studying the work of the medieval Scottish makars, the consideration of the relationship between Scotland and England is a crucial part of establishing a distinctly Scottish expression of nationhood. Though there is much to discuss regarding the tensions that arise between these two countries in particular, this panel aims to explore the notion of difference within the British Isles on a broader scale, encouraging the study of resistance to the English literary hegemony, as articulated by voices of other bordering nations.

Journal of Contemporary Poetics

Journal of Contemporary Poetics is published by the Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Literature, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. This interdisciplinary journal welcomes articles and book reviews from various disciplines in Social Sciences and Humanities.

Submissions Open for a Special Issue on:

”Competing Narratives on/of Violence in a Globalizing World”

This is a call for presentations for a proposed seminar to be held as part of the American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting that will take place at Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands July 6-9, 2017.
 
Those interested are encouraged to contact the seminar organizers (adriana.teodorescu@gmail.com, kundudevaleena@gmail.com) before uploading their abstracts to ACLA website.

Organizers: John Garrison, Carroll University, and Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia

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This panel seeks to apply the theoretical lens of the ecogothic on texts as a means of better understanding their thematic intent and narrative structure. As a counterpoint to portrayals of the environment as a pristine wilderness and source of healing, this panel will explore the intersection of the eco- (the environment, animals, pollution, ecological concerns) alongside the gothic (terror, anxiety, haunting, contamination, hidden horrors, the supernatural) in literary works. As we discuss the application of the term ecogothic, perhaps we can arrive at an even better understanding of this new and interesting critical entry point for textual analysis. Where else can we identify intersections between the eco- and the gothic?

From David Simon’s Homicide, The Corner, and The Wire to the novels of George Pelecanos, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s books and blog, and Jelani Cobb’s journalistic histories of the city, Baltimore has become a focus of cultural and scholarly engagements with issues of race, class, community, justice, and identity in contemporary America. In this roundtable, we’ll consider these and other voices and texts, using their works and Baltimore itself to help us discuss and analyze the place and role of artistic, journalistic, and public scholarly engagements with 21st-century America.

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries “science” meant certain and systematic knowledge, so that what we now think of as humanities (for example, aesthetics or philosophy) could be sciences, while sciences such as chemistry (according to Kant) might still be arts.