International Brecht Society
Call for Papers
German Studies Annual Conference
5-8 October 2023 (Montréal, Quebec)

Of Robbery and Revolution: 100 Years of Im Dickicht der Städte and Trommeln in der Nacht

CFP: The Agency of Plants in the Literature and the Arts of the French- and English-Speaking Worlds (19th c. – 21st c.)  

Université Paris Cité, LARCA & Catholic University of Paris

15-16 June 2023

Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2023

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair-will hereafter be made the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization.

—W.E.B. Du Bois (1900)

Are there multiple forms or species of racism or simply variations of a fundamental structure?

—Jared Sexton (2012)

I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (1952)

Call for Papers: MLA 2024

Co-sponsored by the Children’s Literature Association and MLA Libraries and Research Forum (non-guaranteed)

Deadline Extended: March 15th

A Call Contribution on Book Chapters

To be published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2023

In 2015, the United Nations approved the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which came to give continuity to the process of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The SDGs cover all possible social, economic and natural aspects, both in a global and local space. It is a complex process of political and economic discussion, with different views, which must be addressed from all areas of society (UN, 2022).