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Call for Session Proposals on Surplus - NeMLA

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:23am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023

SURPLUS is the keyword for the 2024 NeMLA convention for critical and creative work that, in addition to the commonly associated meanings of profit and value, can be more broadly construed as excess or excessive, as surfeit, or what is leftover, or unwanted: an excess of emotion (anger, fear, passion, desire), for example; or surplus time (leisure or its absence); or populations rendered "surplus"- migrants, the marginalized, the unemployed, the incarcerated.

 

Energy Humanities - PAMLA Special Session

updated: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 6:23am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Panel for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, OR. October 26 – 29 2023.

Writing Beyond Borders: South Asian perspectives on Creative Writing

updated: 
Sunday, July 16, 2023 - 3:02pm
Dr Aiysha Jahan, University of Exeter, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The global and digital connectivity of recent years has transformed creative writing infrastructure and practice around the world.  Recent decades have seen a number of critical and popular publications exploring the history and practice of creative writing, from Marc McGurl’s “The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing” (2011) to Lisa Jaillant’s Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writing in Anglo-American Universities (2022). Yet, as these titles suggest, the critical focus has been on US and UK courses.

Adoption Belonging

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 1:01pm
The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

2024 ASAC Biennial Conference CFP

 

Conference Theme: Adoption Belonging, Brown University, April 4–6, 2024

 

Notes from the Nile: Egypt in the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:52am
Ross Conway / University of Birmingham
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

This is a Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) Study Day at the University of Birmingham (UK) on 15 September 2023.

KEYNOTE: Dr Eleanor Dobson (Associate Prof in English Literature at the University of Birmingham) Paper Title TBC

WORKSHOP: Dr Leire Olabarria (Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham) will run a session onthe amassing of Egyptian collections in the long nineteenth century, with a focus on Britain and the Eton-Myers Collection.

Conceptualisms and Erasurisms

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:52am
Southern Methodist University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

SMU Symposium on Poetic Form - Southern Methodist University, Dallas, March 18-19, 2024 
“Conceptualisms and Erasurisms” 
 Hosted by the SMU Department of English and co-sponsored by Tel Aviv University’s Department of English and American Studies and the University of Liège’s Center for Interdisciplinary Poetics/UD Traverses, the Symposium on Poetic Form will gather scholars and poets on the SMU campus for two full days to discuss poetic form in practice and theory.