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Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 4:44pm
Journal of Amazigh Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production

 

Orality, that is, the culture of the spoken word, is a central feature of Amazigh everyday life, history, and linguistics, and communal knowledge. Indeed, although Imazighen have one of the oldest writing systems in North Africa, known as Tifinagh, the latter is not associated with a body of written literature, an Amazigh literary canon. On the other hand, the Amazigh peoples have an extensive and rich oral literature that includes poetry, myths, fables, songs, proverbs, sacred rituals, and tales, which are excluded from a simple textualist notion of culture and communal identity. 

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:07am
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 4, 2023

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation (summer 2024).

Call for Applicants: Global Asias and Japan Studies Cyber Chat 2: “Migration, Identity, and Diasporas at the Intersection of Japan Studies and Global Asias”

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:12am
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

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In early 2023, the Global Asias Initiative (GAI) is kicking off a three-year collaboration with Japan Foundation New York (JFNY) aimed at creating a network of junior scholars between the United States and Japan. The collaboration will involve a Cyber Chats series in spring 2023, a year-long early career networking project designed to cultivate substantial engagement between scholars in the US and Japan, participation in the Global Asias 7 conference (spring 2025), and eventually a publication in Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Call for Applicants: Global Asias and Japan Studies Cyber Chat 1: “Challenges and Opportunities for Global Asias Approaches to Japan Studies”

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:12am
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

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In early 2023, the Global Asias Initiative (GAI) is kicking off a three-year collaboration with Japan Foundation New York (JFNY) aimed at creating a network of junior scholars between the United States and Japan. The collaboration will involve a Cyber Chats series in spring 2023, a year-long early career networking project designed to cultivate substantial engagement between scholars in the US and Japan, participation in the Global Asias 7 conference (spring 2025), and eventually a publication in Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Refugee Literature and/in Digital Spaces (MLA 2024, Philadelphia)

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:07am
William Arighi, Springfield College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Digital technology and internet access have expanded the ways of making meaning and of building and accessing audiences across the globe. Though unevenly available to refugees (UNHCR, Space and imagination: rethinking refugees’ digital access, 2020), digital technology has nonetheless offered previously unknown platforms for refugees to speak directly to global audiences.

Translation, Interpreting, and the Platform Economy

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:28pm
Hunter College Language Works Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

 

Hunter College's 3rd Annual Language Works Conference

 

Title: Translation, Interpreting, and the Platform Economy
Date: Friday, April 28th, 2023 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
695 Park Ave. HW Faculty Dining Hall.

MPCA American, British, and Canadian Literature: 1800-1999

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Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:23pm
Midwestern Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

 

Friday-Sunday, 6-8 October 2023

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

 

Address: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: (312) 362-8000

 

Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging. 

 

Melville, Conrad, and Life

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:25pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America and the Melville Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Both Melville and Conrad appeal to the concept of life allied with their artistic activities. Moby Dick is pervaded by appeals to the appeal to life, as in the description of a whale skeleton become a chapel:  "Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories." Conrad, too describes the action of art in fruitful tension with the kinetics of life, as when in his 1897 preface, he connects art with seizing a fragment "from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life." But how exactly do these writers understand and see their relation to "life" -- vegetative, human, physical, spiritual, ethical?

Splendid Difficulty: Teaching Conrad

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:31am
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Conrad's works feature linguistic sophistication, narrative complexity, psychological nuance, subtle irony, political contestation, and historical challenge. While some might seek to avoid difficulty, this panel instead embraces difficulty and considers how precisely the most challenging aspects of Conrad's art can empower students and cultivate subtlety, humanistic and historical breadth, and even humility. This panel invites papers that consider how the multivalent difficulty of Conrad’s works — syntactic, psychological, political, or aesthetic — offers pedagogical opportunity.  Comparative approaches are welcome.

Expanding the Scope of Victorian Rape Studies

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:33am
NAVSA 2023 Session Sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The majority of research on 19th-century literary representations of sexual violence variously restricts the field by 1) explicitly or implicitly treating rape as an exceptional crime; 2) limiting analyses to what Erin Spampinato has termed “adjudicative reading,” or legalistic approaches that evaluate rape stories as if they were real-life court cases; and 3) attending only to narratives about cisgender men’s violations of white cisgender women, especially within the middle-class home, to the exclusion of nonheterosexual, queer, and colonial contexts.