The Society for the Study of Southern Literature invites papers on the South and science fiction for a panel at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 94th Annual Conference from November 9-11, 2023 in Atlanta, GA.

This conference’s theme of “(In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies” presents a unique opportunity to consider the imagined futures offered within SF works, including their representation of social inequalities and the possibilities of the SF genre to raise awareness to the value of Literature and Language studies.

Call for Proposals – EXTENDED DEADLINE, February 28th, 2023

6th Annual International Conference on Border Studies

 Transborderism: Reimagining Social Space

University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and Autonomous University of Tamaulipas

Nov. 8, 2023: Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Nov. 9-10, 2023: Edinburg, Texas, United States

How do 18th and 19th century Black writers reconceptualize religion beyond the nation-state? How do they utilize religious concepts such as celebration, prophecy, apocalpyse, etc. to critique and think outside the boundaries of the nation-state?

Please send abstract and brief bio to: donaldho@andrew.cmu.edu or kbp5545@psu.edu 

Deadline (Extended): March 30th

Designing Urban Universities

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 June 2023

There is a growing dissonance between the urban university as often perceived—its physical, architectural, and emblematic form, its legacy structures and spaces, its time-honoured functions and traditions—and the university as a knowledge factory within the city, subject to political, commercial, and environmental pressures. But this is not a new dissonance. Architectural and design histories can uncover how, across diverse cases, it has often shaped the urban university internally and in its relationship with the city.

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the CFP below for an international conference on “Logic and Modern Literature” we are organising at the University of Lausanne, September 14-15, 2023. 

The conference will address a range of historical, epistemological and interdisciplinary questions about literature and logic from c.1800 to the present (see CFP below).

Keynote speakers include: 

Professor N. Katherine Hayles (Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA), whose many award-winning books include How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Literature, Cybernetics and Informatics and Writing Machines.