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Working-class literature of the Finnish diaspora

updated: 
Monday, July 20, 2020 - 11:12am
Journal of Finnish Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 31, 2021

The Journal of Finnish Studies is now inviting manuscript submissions for a special issue on working-class literature. While we are specifically inviting revisions of the papers presented in the literature panels during FinnFest USA 2019 in Detroit, Michigan, this call is open to any work that focuses on academic research on Finnish-American working-class literature, or working-class literature of the Finnish diaspora anywhere in the world (including, but not limited to, Sweden and Australia). The submissions are due to jofinnishstudies@gmail.com by January 31, 2021.

The Journal of Finnish Studies is a peer-reviewed research journal, ranked as JUFO-2  in Finland.

Happiness and Culture CFP: Two Important Changes

updated: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 4:07pm
Vida Penezic/PCA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

 

Please note two important changes since our last announcement: 

1. Paper proposals are now due January 6, 2021. Most other dates have been adjusted accordingly. (The new dates are given at the end of the CFP.)

2. The conference will have a virtual component. 

During these COVID times, it is difficult to commit to travel plans months in advance. We hope that the possibility of a virtual participation may facilitate your decision to submit a proposal.

 

 

Call for Papers

UPDATED: NEMLA 2021: Imagining Queer Domesticity (panel)

updated: 
Friday, October 9, 2020 - 3:34pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 19, 2020

This panel will examine literary, cultural, and legal texts to investigate the space and the concept of home seen queerly. It will focus primarily on an Anglo-American context, though papers from the broader Anglophone world will be considered.

UPDATE: Rescheduled--Renaissance Landscapes (Space, Place, and Performance)

updated: 
Monday, July 20, 2020 - 11:12am
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 15, 2021

The PNRS conference organizers and the organization executive board has made the difficult decision to reschedule our conference to September 2021.  The conference will remain the same regarding thematic focus and plenaries.  A new CFP will be distributed again in September 2020. Theme: Renaissance LandscapesPlenaries: Professor Mary Floyd-Wilson and Professor Janelle JenstadNew conference dates: September 30 to October 2, 2021; plenaries and presentation panels will take place on the Friday and Saturday of the conference dates.Location: Banff Park Lodge, Banff, Alberta, CanadaProposal submission deadline: January 15, 2021 to apatient@mtroyal.ca  

Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Local and Global Contexts

updated: 
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 1:29pm
Samuel Stinson and Mary Le Rouge
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Request for Chapters

Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Local and Global Contexts

Deadline for Proposal Submissions: October 15, 2020.

  

We invite chapter proposals from both scholars and practitioners of environmental and disaster risk communication for an edited collection which the ATTW Book Series Editor, Tharon Howard, has invited us to submit for consideration for the research line of the ATTW Book Series in Technical and Professional Communication. 

Grace Kelly: An Understudied Irish-American Icon

updated: 
Monday, August 31, 2020 - 3:37pm
Mary Burke, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

CFP for a panel on Grace Kelly at NeMLA, Philadelphia, March 11-14, 2021. (Virtual participation possible.)

Écrire (sur) la ville / Writing (on) the City

updated: 
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 1:46pm
Steve Puig / St John's University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

 

 

NEMLA Convention

Philadelphia, PA, March 11-14, 2021

 

Panel on French literature

Anthology: Women and Folk Horror

updated: 
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 1:46pm
Peg Aloi, editor
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Call for Proposals: Women in Folk Horror Anthology!

Seeking essays on women in folk horror for a forthcoming anthology (tentatively titled: "What No Man May See Nor Woman Tell: Essays on Women in Folk Horror").

Edited by Peg Aloi (co-editor, with Hannah Johnston, of "The New Generation Witches" and "Carnivale and the American Grotesque"). Author of forthcoming book "The Witching Hour: How Witches Enchanted Popular Culture" (2021?)

Modernism, Marriage, and the Law in Britain 1890-1945

updated: 
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 1:45pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

This interdisciplinary panel invites papers from those working at the intersection of any of the following areas: Modernism, Women’s and Gender Studies, Law, and Literary and Critical Theory. It focuses on the literary response to the changing legal landscape in Britain between the years of 1890-1945. Though there has been much critical work on law and gender in the Modernist period, particularly as relates to canonical Modernist figures Virginia Woolf and Ford Madox Ford, among others, this panel invites contributions that considers literary texts in the context of the law, broadly conceived.

GENDER EQUALITY FOR A BETTER WORLD: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

updated: 
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 8:09am
WOMEN'S COLLEGE, ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, INDIA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (online)

GENDER EQUALITY FOR A BETTER WORLD : ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

19-20 August, 2020

WOMEN’S COLLEGE, ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, UP, INDIA

In collaboration with

Ministry of HRD, Department of Higher Education and UGC India 

 

Concept note

 

Being Human in the Digital Age: The Future of Humanities (Panel)

updated: 
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 11:03am
NeMLA 2021
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

As we progress deeper and deeper into an age of data abundance, as what Simon Rogers describes a phenomenon of a “time in which we are all surrounded by data” with continued access to it, we are at the heart of a process of self-digitization, datafication, and online existence. Our move into cyberspaces and our dependence on digital platforms for information, communication, congregation, and self-design necessitate the crucial intervention of the Humanities as a discipline and a human-centered approach to understand what it means to be human in the digital age.

Shakespeare in the “Post”Colonies: What’s Shakespeare to Them, or They to Shakespeare

updated: 
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 11:08am
Shakespeare Association of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Call for papers for seminar:

Shakespeare Association of America Seminar for Annual Meeting 2021 in Austin, Texas (31 March to 3 April 2021)

Co-leader: Amrita Dhar (Ohio State University)

Co-leader: Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta)

 

Seminar keywords: vernacular, local, multilingual, intersectional, indigenous, postcolonial, race, caste, pedagogy, influence

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