New Ways of Thinking About Modernism and the Left

Scholars have explored modernism’s relationship both with the political right, broadly construed (fascism, nationalism, etc.) and the political left (feminism, pacifism, and Marxism in its time, how it anticipates disability studies in our time, etc.). In the spirit of MSA 2020’s stream topics on crip modernisms, activism, and environmentalism, this panel explores new paths for scholarship on modernism and the left.

This roundtable for the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto invites participants to briefly present and discuss documentary poetry by Canadian and First Nations writers. We particularly invite papers relating to questions of political activism, historical revisionism, and archival materials. Please send 250-word abstracts to Claire Grandy (claire_grandy@brown.edu) and Whitney DeVos (wdevos@ucsc.edu) by March 16th.

Re/Inventions is an annual conference organized by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) of California State University, Long Beach. Our goal is to provide a forum in which graduate students and advanced undergraduates may present their academic research in a conference setting. Re/Inventions promotes interdisciplinary collaberation and engagement among students from Southern California and around the Globe.

The conference will be held at the Karl Anatol Center on the campus of CSU Long Beach on April 16th, 2020.

This year's theme is : "Identity"

Potential topics include, but aren't limited to, the following:

- Narrator Identity

- Rhetoric of Identity

- Rhetorical Identity

MLA (2021): New Directions Towards Theorizing Neoliberal Heteronormative Masculinities Seeking theoretical research abstracts to study the persistent hegemony of heteronormative masculinities. Philosophical and literary meditations are invited. Email 300 word abstracts to ade1@binghamton.edu

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 8 March 2020

Amrita De, Binghamton U, SU of New York (ade1@binghamton.edu )

Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference

Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston

April 8-11, 2021

Of Haunted Houses and Dark Nights of the Soul: Edgar Allan Poe in American Film

Paper submissions and proposals are accepted on a continuous basis throughout the year 2020 and there is no deadline for submission.

Unpublished manuscripts and research papers from the domain of English language and literature are invited for review and consideration of publication in our journal's two regular issues: June and December 2020.

Click on the link below to know the research areas that are covered by our journal's section: English Literature:

https://www.socratesjournal.com/index.php/SOCRATES/English-literature

Submitting your manuscript:

This panel mobilizes the semantic compass of the concept “margin” to rethink the global histories of sexual science. Essentialist accounts of sexology have concentrated on its origins in the Western, primarily German, academy as a distinct “Sexualwissenschaft” or institutionalized science of sex that effected profound shifts in sexual knowledge and subjectivity. And yet sexology was often itself a marginal form of knowledge that emerged at the edges of more well-established disciplines like biomedicine, psychiatry, anthropology, zoology, anthropometry and propelled technologies of endocrinology, eugenics, and population control.