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“It’s come too late for me”: War, Peace, and Commemoration, 1914-Present

updated: 
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 11:07am
A. Irene Mangoutas / ACCUTE
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

In Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain reflects that the Armistice has “come too late”: “[the people] did not cry jubilantly: ‘We’ve won the War!’ They only said: ‘The War is over’” (421-2). This panel addresses practices of memory and commemoration, particularly relating to the fraught relationship(s) between war and peace, and the ways in which, as Madelyn Detloff reminds us, we exist in a “‘patched’ present troubled by modernist constellations of personal trauma, militarized violence, and ‘imperial loss’” (Modernism 10).

Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

updated: 
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 11:07am
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 1, 2016

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, Ca, March 31-April 2, 2017.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.

Text and Performance: Writing the Real

updated: 
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 11:07am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2016

When James Joyce was composing Finnegan’s Wake with Samuel Beckett as a scribe, someone knocked on the door. Joyce responded, “Come in?” When he realized he had mistakenly written this down, Beckett asked Joyce how far back to cross out. Joyce—so the story goes—decided to leave it in the novel, delighted at the way his life had blended with his work. How can we understand the dynamic relationship between art and life? When does the depiction of life become life itself? We propose a panel to investigate performance, specifically, as a liminal space between art and life, or between text and action, that offers the opportunity to explore the possibilities of the real and the unreal, of assumption and disruption, of subject and object.

SPECIAL ISSUE 2018: Investigating Second Language Speech

updated: 
Monday, February 13, 2017 - 1:24pm
Ilha do Desterro Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS - Ilha do Desterro Journal

 

SPECIAL ISSUE 2018: Investigating Second Language Speech

Guest Editors:

Rosane Silveira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Walcir Cardoso, Concordia University

Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Aarhus University

Donesca Puntel Xhafaj, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

 

Taking Drugs Literally — Troping the Human and Turning a Phrase

updated: 
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 11:08am
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

A satirical post on a bulletin board in a hallway of a university arts building condemns the literary genius — citing Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Baudelaire, Poe, Hemingway, the Beats, and others — for the use of performance-enhancing drugs, proposing that we take anti-doping measures to cull the canon of those who would cheat at their craft.  Jesting aside, however, such satire points not only toward the near-ubiquity of psychotropic plant use to the literary imagination, but also to the cultural expectation placed upon the artist to trope, to turn the mind as well as the word.

Race, Gender and Law: A tribute to the scholarship of Sherene Razack

updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 2:01pm
Canadian Journal of Women and Law
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2017

Call for Submissions
Race, Gender and Law: A tribute to the scholarship of Sherene Razack

http://bit.ly/cjwlcfp

The Canadian Journal of Women and Law (CJWL) seeks submissions for a special issue 30(2) to be published in December 2018 on Race, Gender and Law: A tribute to the scholarship of Sherene Razack (guest edited by Gada Mahrouse, Carmela Murdocca, and Leslie Thielen-Wilson). The deadline for submitting articles for this special issue is September 1, 2017.

CFP - Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM)

updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 2:01pm
Northern Illinois University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 27, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS: MCLLM

Conference Date: April 7-8, 2017

Deadline for Proposals: January 27, 2017

Theme: “Altered States, Times, Perspectives”

The 25th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media (MCLLM) at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL, is currently accepting proposals for 15-minute papers from individuals and panels.  We are particularly interested in papers that explore this year’s theme: Altered States, Times, Perspectives. Purposefully broad in scope, this theme offers researchers a chance to present argument-driven papers on topics such as (but not limited to):

American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Annual Conference 20 April – 22 April 2017 (CFP EXTENDED)

updated: 
Monday, October 17, 2016 - 9:24am
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites paper proposals for its 2017 Annual Conference, to be held at Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC, 20 April – 22 April 2017.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Anne Brewster
FEATURED CREATIVE WRITER:
Janette Turner Hospital

Labor, Leisure, and the Anthropocene: ASLE, Detroit, MI, June 20-24, 2017

updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 9:59am
ASLE: Association for Studies in Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Seeking conference paper proposals for ASLE: Association for Studies in Literature and Environment.   

The Anthropocene has developed largely because of our cultures of work and our work machines. This fact calls for a reevaluation of work. How might this effort proceed? How should we reimagine labor and leisure in light of climate change? What does the news of the Anthropocene teach us about ideologies of labor and leisure? What does the naming technology of “the Anthropocene” make possible? What does it suppress or disable?   

Stardom in Contemporary Bollywood

updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 9:59am
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Popular Hindi films stars are a vast but still largely untapped area of academic interest. Within film studies, a number of articles and book chapters have probed the significance of stars as compelling personas, industry assets and bellwethers of larger social trends. As yet, though, there is no volume or collection that brings together a set of reflections on stars and stardom in one forum. This edited volume fills this gap with a sustained and diverse consideration of the phenomenon of stardom in contemporary Bollywood.