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PULSE: THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE
CALL FOR PAPERS
Volume 6
THE ALTERNATE REALITIES OF
LIFE SCIENCES AND SCIENCE FICTION
From Dr Moreau’s ‘Island’ to ‘Area X’
What role do secrets play in 20th/21st century French and Francophone literature? How do secrets, both hidden and uncovered, shape the characters and their humanity? Send 250-word abstracts in French or English and brief bio to Antoinette Williams-Tutt (awilliams2@gradcenter.cuny.edu ) and Lisa Karakaya (karakayalisa@gmail.com ), The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 17 March 2019
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Paper9101.html
Renewed theories, forms, or methods capable of illuminating the ongoing economic and political crises codified during the long-seventies. 350-word abstract and bio by 15 March 2019; Ericka Beckman (ebeckman@sas.upenn.edu) and Emilio Sauri (emilio.sauri@umb.edu). This panel is hosted by the Marxist Literary Group for the 2020 MLA Convention.
How do concepts central to Marxism (surplus populations, class (im)mobility, primitive accumulation, reproductive labor, etc.) illuminate the horror genre? 350-word abstract and bio to Ericka Beckman (ebeckman@sas.upenn.edu) and Emilio Sauri (emilio.sauri@umb.edu) by March 15th, 2019. This panel is hosted by the Marxist Literary Group for the 2020 MLA convention.
CALL FOR ARTICLES ON RADICALISM
JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism—an academic journal published by Michigan State University Press—announces a call for articles and reviews for our fourteenth year of issues.
We are particularly interested in articles that address the process of radicalization in relation to terrorism and radical violence in historical context.
Breaking Down Bars: Perspectives on Hip Hop Poetics
CallforSubmissions
JournalofSino-AmericanHumanityStudies
2020 MLA Convention, 9-12 January in Seattle; https://www.mla.org/Convention Soliciting papers that draw on recent work in Black Geographies to discuss African American literature from the mid-20th century to the present. Work addressing urban space particularly desired. 500-word abstracts to Dorothy Stringer (dorothy@temple.edu) by March 23. Queries also welcome. Thanks a lot, and I'll talk to you tomorrow!
How do we understand black modernisms and modernity? How is a modern black subject constituted? This session invites papers that approach these questions through periodization, intellectual history, aesthetics, or political formations. 250 word abstracts.
To submit an abstract, please e-mail ariel.martino@rutgers.edu
The Pharmakon Symposium
New York University
Friday, 3 May 2019
We invite paper proposals that attempt to seriously engage with the topic of drugs, broadly defined–their cultural, literary, aesthetic, and philosophical ramifications.
Call for papers for a proposed special session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention on January 9-12, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.
The Netflix show Umbrella Academy, which is based on the comic book series from 2008/2009, gives superhero stories a new twist as it revolves more around identity quests and the acceptance of powers or the lack thereof within a dysfunctional family environment. Trying to define what it means to be a hero, what it means to have powers, what it means to be human, and what it means to be a family, the protagonists need to start over. They need to overcome their own individual struggles by means of their family to be a family once again.
This panel welcomes submissions on any aspect of masculinities that have been left on the margins of mainstream literary narratives, pop culture, and scholarship, including but not limited to: race, class, and/or privilege; body integrity, aesthetics, age, and/or health; masculine relationships and roles; and sexuality. Proposals addressing the conference theme of “Languages: Power, Identity, and Relationships” are especially welcome. By Thursday 9th May 2019, please submit an abstract of up to 250 words, a brief bio, and any A/V requests to Dr. Catherine Mainland, NC State University, at cmmainla@ncsu.edu, and Dr.
The Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum invites abstract subissions for their 2020 MLA non-guaranteed session on Transmedia Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature:
Conference Synopsis
https://www.icermediation.org/featuredevents/2019-annual-international-c...
“Literature and Post-Political Theory”
MLA 2020 Panel
This MLA panel seeks papers that reflect on the analytical bridges that might exist between post-political theory and literary studies. The main question the panel aims to answer is the following: Decades after everything was declared to be political, what are the affordances, triumphs, and pitfalls of a post-political theory of literature?