ASAP/Journal seeks critical and creative contributions for a guest-edited special issue on “autotheory.” Fusing self-representation with philosophy and critical theory, autotheory moves between the worlds of “theory” and “practice,” often exceeding disciplinary boundaries, genres, and forms. This special issue embarks on a rigorous investigation of the autotheoretical impulse as it moves across medial, disciplinary, and national borders from the 1960s to the present. In dialogue with scholars, artists, and activists, this issue will broach the central question: What are autotheory’s conditions of possibility, and what are the political, aesthetic, and cultural effects of this theoretical turn in contemporary cultural production?

CFP: NeMLA (ASLE Session): Urban Environmental Pedagogy: Literature, Culture, Space, and Ecology (deadline 9/30/19; conference 3/5-3/8/20, Boston, MA)

51st Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 5-8, 20
Boston, MA

Urban Environmental Pedagogy: Literature, Culture, Space, and Ecology (ASLE Session)
Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)

 Immersive learning, active learning, creative inquiry: all these terms are used to describe innovative pedagogies. What are some techniques that have worked for you in or out of the classroom? How to you get funding for active learning strategies that take students out of the classroom?

Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice.  How is (Scientific) Knowledge Validated, Valued and Contested?

International Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop.  19-21st February, 2020, Munich

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Rethinking the French Classroom:  Innovative Approaches to Teaching Diversity and Inclusion

Call for Contributors to a volume of essays edited by E. Nicole Meyer and Eilene Hoft-March

This four-day event will provide a unique conversation space for artists, performers, creatives, academics, and activists, to consider the vital role of the imagination in today’s complex climates – social, cultural, environmental, political, racial, religious, spiritual, intellectual, etc.

It will also invite conversation around further questions: What kinds of change? What are the grounds and manner of hope, transformation, and resilience? What might the arts and theology have to contribute to such discourse and action, if anything? How do we attend to the margins of this discussion, and speak and act more holistically as communities of change?