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NeMLA 2022 Panel: Information, Data, Media: Literacies and Cultures of Care

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:26pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 30, 2021

NeMLA 2022: Baltimore, MD. March 10-13, 2022

Today, much of our research and information gathering takes place online. The reality is that despite information literacy efforts, many, if not most, users are increasingly vulnerable online. How do we care about information literacy, data literacy, and media literacy?

Thinking beyond Competition: Envisioning Practices of Collaboration for Doctoral Writers

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:26pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panel at the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference to be held from March 10-13, 2022, in Baltimore, MD. Abstracts are accepted from June 15 to September 30, 2021.

Submit abstracts of approx. 150-200 words to the NeMLA portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/login

Can Novels Do Theory: Methods in Modern South Asian Fiction (NEMLA 2022)

updated: 
Friday, July 9, 2021 - 6:32pm
Nemla 2022, Baltimore
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

My colleague Sharanya Dutta and I are proposing a panel for the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)’s annual conference in 2022 (March 10-13, Baltimore) on the work of theory that South Asian novels can do. You will NOT need to pay a registration fee or become a member to apply but you WILL need to make an account to log in. Please submit your abstract through the NeMLA portal in order to be considered. We are pasting the link below. The NeMLA website contains a short description, but the complete panel proposal is:

 

Can Novels Do Theory: Methods in Modern South Asian Fiction

 

Transformations: Evolving Approaches to Teaching, Poetry, and the Natural World

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:26pm
The West Chester University Poetry Center
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 15, 2021

The West Chester University Poetry Center 

Call for Papers 

Transformations: 

Evolving Approaches to Teaching, Poetry, and the Natural World 

A Virtual Conference 

November 11-13, 2021 

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2021 

Call for Articles for Inaugural Issue: Leadership, Disease, and Pandemic

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:26pm
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 1, 2022

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies is seeking submissions for its inaugural volume, themed around “Leadership, Pandemic, and Disease.” We welcome submissions from any discipline in the social sciences, humanities, sciences, arts, or cross-disciplinary studies that address questions of leadership, justice, policy, and/or society relating to the concepts of illness, disease, and pandemic (taken literally or metaphorically). 

 

Making Space for Care: Reimagining Sites of Care in 19th-century Literature

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:25pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 30, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the capabilities of our modern healthcare infrastructure and forced us to reimagine everyday spaces as sites of convalescence and caretaking. As hospitals reached mass capacity, we had to question: what accommodations can we make to transform both private and public places into spaces of care? The same question motivated nineteenth-century debates over how to best tackle the century’s national health crises. At a time of high imperialism, rapid industrialization, and rampant contagion, Victorians realized that models of caretaking could no longer be relegated to the provincial sickroom.

National and Individual Memories in Spanish Urban Society and Landscapes

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:25pm
NeMLA 2022 (MARCH 10-13)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 30, 2021

This panel explores topographies of memory and architecture as a powerful force for cinematic storytelling, cityscapes’ psychosis, etc. As part of the special session, we are looking for contributions examining and analyzing diverse relationships between cinema, television, architecture, and memory and their links with contemporary Spanish media and identity. Submissions in English and Spanish, although we recommend the latter.

 

Update (New deadline) Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy No. 6, 2021 - Pandemics

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:25pm
ULICES-ULisbon/Messengers from the Stars
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy

No. 6, 2021

Edited by: Elana Gomel

Co-edited by: João Félix

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy. The 2021 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:

Pandemics

Studies in Religious Trauma: Causes, Manifestations, and Treatments

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:25pm
GCRR Press
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 30, 2021

BOOK: Studies in Religious Trauma: Causes, Manifestations, and Treatments
Click the link below to submit your proposal:
https://www.gcrr.org/submit-proposals

GCRR Press is releasing a large-scale publication that will offer an interdisciplinary and scientific examination of the origins, impact, and treatment options of religious trauma. The intended audience for this publication will be therapeutic practitioners, psychological researchers, and sufferers of religious trauma. Currently, this textbook-style resource will include sections on:

“Caliban’s Mirror”: The 2022 Wilde and Joyce Symposium (Trinity College Dublin, 5-6 May, 2022)

updated: 
Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 1:25pm
Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 15, 2021

In June 1906, James Joyce wrote to his publisher Grant Richards, who suggested changes to Dubliners for mitigating the text’s supposed ‘indecency’, “I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilization in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking-glass.” Joyce’s metaphor recalls the popular Wildean aphorism, first published in the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray: “The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban at seeing his own face in a glass.