The International David Foster Wallace Society will sponsor two panels at the 34th annual conference of the American Literature Association in Boston on May 25-28, 2023.

We are seeking submissions related to any aspect of Wallace’s fiction or nonfiction. 

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words including name, institutional affiliation (if any), and contact information, no later than January 15, 2023 to submissions@dfwsociety.org . Please attach your abstract as a Word document, and indicate if you will need AV equipment. Note that scholars are limited to one presentation at this conference. 

One-day conference, in-person, June 9 2023.

Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW.

The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host the 2023 symposium on “Pandemic, Environment, and Life Writing” on campus on April 21-22, 2023.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Jennifer Ho, Eaton Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for

Humanities & the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr. Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of

California at Irvine

Dr. Muhsin al-Musawi, Professor of Classic and Modern Arabic Literature and of

Comparative and Cultural Studies, Columbia University

Dr. Aretha Phiri, Associate Professor of English, University of Rhodes, South Africa

Overwhelming Nature: Confronting Catastrophe and the Sublime in the Arts and Humanities

Mahindra Humanities Center Graduate Student Conference

Harvard University | 25–26 March 2023

Conference Coordinators: Elaine Chen & Therese Shire

The present conference seeks scholarly contributions across disciplinary and national borders that explore accounts of the experience of facing natural catastrophes. The conference will consider the potential and limits of understanding catastrophic experiences through the concept of sublimity.

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Environmental disasters along with lack of resources and global recession are increasingly rendering many parts of the globe inhabitable and forcing the displacement of billions of people. While large corporations and the global north – directly responsible for the climate crisis– refuse to take responsibility for the ecological breakdown, a narrative casting the blame on vulnerable and marginalized communities has been reemerging. In their attempt to “reclaim the commons” the far right has been reframing the climate crisis through the lens of race while calling for environmental cleansing.

CFP: Edited Collection -  Irish Writers and State Bureaucracy

Jonathan Foster (Stockholm University), Elliott Mills (Trinity College Dublin), and Karl O’Hanlon (Maynooth University)

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Kiel University e-Journal for Comics Studies #10
(November 2023)
Thematic Section: »Ocean Comics«

OPEN SECTION

At the end of autumn in 2023, the e-journal CLOSURE once again offers a forum for all facets of comic research. From cultural, visual and media studies to social or natural sciences and beyond: our ninth issue of CLOSURE embraces (supports, publishes) essays and reviews that deal with the ›state of the comic‹. Whether detailed analysis, comic theory or innovative new approaches – our open section welcomes a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies of all things ›comics‹.

THEMATIC SECTION: OCEAN COMICS