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Economy and Value of Time in Boredom

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Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 10:02am
MLA 2021 in Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2020

The word boredom has been in circulation since Ancient times, in the shape of a variety of synonyms --acedia, taedium vitae, horror loci, melancholy, ennui, spleen-- and bearing a theological stamp, since it was believed to be a demonic sin in the Christian tradition. In modernity, however, for the “enlightened subject” (Goodstein, 4), as a response to social and economic transformations, boredom has become a secular experience concerned with temporality, signifying loss of meaning and feeling of emptiness in the pace of modern life. In critical circles, boredom remains a hybrid phenomenon that brings together a variety of contradictory definitions.

Conservative Counter-Revolutions

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 10:02am
MLA -- CLCS Nineteenth Century Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Conservative Counter-Revolutions: Papers on Nineteenth-century conservatism(s) that emerged in reaction to the century's revolutions and reforms, and on the consequent radicalization of conservatism that still informs it today. 300-word abstracts by March 15th to dwhite@emory.edu 

Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency

updated: 
Sunday, April 5, 2020 - 3:10pm
Bart Welling, Jacob Goessling, and Jordan B. Kinder / Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Call for Papers, Submission Deadline EXTENDED TO APRIL 8/2020. 

Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency

A Nearly Carbon-Neutral (NCN) online symposium sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara

July 10-31, 2020

Is it time to panic yet?

Inventing Time in the Sixteenth Century

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 10:01am
MLA 2021 sponsored panel (LLC 16th-Century English Forum)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2020

The LLC 16th-Century English Forum invites submissions for "Inventing Time in the Sixteenth Century" at MLA 2021 in Toronto:

How does sixteenth-century writing challenge current critical approaches to time and/or the future? What unique investigations might it prompt or support? What kinds of time has it invented? Have such temporal experiments and inventions persisted? Send 300-word abstract and two-page CV to J.K. Barret (jkbarret@austin.utexas.edu) no later than March 15, 2020. 

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper13156.html

Playing with/for Time: Nabokov's Persistent Images (MLA Convention 2021)

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 10:01am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

For its next session at the MLA Convention 2021 (7-10 January, Toronto), the International Vladimir Nabokov Society welcomes proposals  on the following theme:

Playing with/for Time: Nabokov's Persistent Images

 Nabokov created persistent images (visual and other), which mark readers' minds not unlike the phenomenon of retinal persistence. How do such images survive, confer timelessness to his fiction, or anchor it in a specific temporality? Please send a 250-word abstract to Lara Delage-Toriel (ldelage@unistra.fr) and a very short bio by March 24th, 2020.

 

New Journal: New Chaucer Studies, Pedagogy and Profession

updated: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 12:28pm
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession CFP

The mission of the New Chaucer Society is to “provide a forum for teachers and

scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age.” As the working conditions of those

teachers and scholars change, this forum needs to expand to reflect those changes.

For this reason, NCS is happy to announce the launch of a new on-line venue,

New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, hosted on the New Chaucer Society

website. This peer-reviewed, open access site will offer brief essays on teaching,

Call for papers: Special Issue of ELN, "Fashion's Borders"

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 10:01am
Issue of English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2020

This special issue of ELN takes up the complex relationship between clothing and place and seeks to examine the transcultural flow of commodities (specifically clothing and fashionable objects) both within and across national borders. Fashion, we assert, is the cultural medium through which borders shift and move.

The Politics of Escapism

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 10:01am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2020

The Politics of Escapism

Panel at the 2021 MLA Convention

TOronto, DC, January 7-10, 2021

Co-Organizers:

Greg Sharzer, University of Toronto (gsharzer@gmail.com); Keith O'Regan, York
University (keith.oregan@gmail.com)

Escapism, the desire to abandon a difficult present for an ideal alternative,

« Archives de l'émigration. Études - Esquisses – Documents »: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. L'émigration polonaise au pays de Mistral, de Daudet et de Pagnol

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 10:00am
University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

 

https://www.bu.umk.pl/Archiwum_Emigracji/gazeta/en-index.html

 

« Archives de l'émigration. Études - Esquisses – Documents »

Numéro coordonné par: Magdalena Kowalska

ISSN 2084-3550

ISSN Online 2391-7911

 

Date limite d’envoi des propositions : le 9 avril 2020

Date limite de réception des articles : le 30 juin 2020

 

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Travels and Travelers of Necessity

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 9:59am
MLA21 (Toronto)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2020

What is the place of unwilling travel(er)s in travel studies? What are the costs of travel? This roundtable considers travels that are not undertaken strictly by choice. We welcome proposals from any field or period on topics such as: climate-related relocations, internal/political migrants, self-liberation from slavery or captivity, literal/figurative boundaries, eco/animal movements, borderlands/crossings, economic exigencies that require travel, narratives of new beginnings.

Shrewsbury's Darwin

updated: 
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 9:59am
Gaynor Llewellyn-Jenkins. University of Chester
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2020

 ‘I was Born a Naturalist’: Charles Darwin and Shrewsbury 

Friday 3rd July 2020, University Centre Shrewsbury. 

We would like to invite you to a one-day symposium exploring Darwin’s origins in Shropshire. We will discuss the effects of Shrewsbury and its surrounding area on the young Charles Darwin. What were the influences of the Darwin and Wedgwood family members on Darwin’s ambitions? What role did female relatives such as his mother Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood) and his sister Caroline have on Darwin’s formation as a scientist?  

Keynote Speakers: