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MSA 2024 (Chicago, November 7-10, 2024) | In motion: Spectacles of liveliness in modernist cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 - 2:26pm
Emma Ridder and Brenda Wang, UCLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Taking up Jennifer Fay’s call to apprehend film as a “technology of the Anthropocene,” this panel investigates how modernists took advantage of film’s ability to capture motion to envision and to reimagine the limits of life, broadly defined. We invite papers that explore how early twentieth-century film experimented with cinematic form to depict movement and vitality as a phenomenon located beyond or in distinction to the human.

Queer and Trans Literary Embodiments at PAMLA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 2:21pm
Pacific, Ancient, and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Seeking paper proposals for PAMLA 2024 - in Palm Springs, CA November 6-10! Abstracts due 4/30/24. Please include short bio in submission. 

Please use this link to submit your proposals! https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19169

Proposals must be submitted through the PAMLA system to be considered, but feel free to reach out to me with any questions: Jamiee Cook, jcook@ucsb.edu or jamieencook@gmail.com 

Queer and Trans Literary Embodiments 

Essays sought for critical edition of The Smoky City: A Tale of Crime

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:04pm
Michael Dittman
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

The Great Pittsburgh Fire occurred on April 10, 1845, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fire destroyed over a thousand buildings and caused significant damage to the city's commercial district, including the destruction of warehouses, businesses, and homes. The disaster left thousands of people homeless and caused millions of dollars in property damage.

Beyond Trauma : Postmemory in Liquid Time

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:04pm
Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 5, 2024

The Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College invites you to a virtual guest lecture to be delivered by Prof. Marianne Hirsch:

 

Topic: Beyond Trauma: Post Mmeory in Liquid Time

 

About the Speaker:

Marianne Hirsch is a William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in a global south perspective.

MLA 2025 -- Comedy and Horror

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:04pm
MS Screen Arts and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

This guaranteed panel (in-person at the Modern Language Association in New Orleans, Louisiana; January 9-12, 2025) will explore the intersections and overlaps of comedy and horror and the potential power to be derived from disrupting the comedic mode. Please submit abstracts through Friday, March 15 to dmorgan@scu.edu. This panel is sponsored by the Screen Arts and Culture Committee.

 

Abstract word count: 250 words

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024

MMLA - African American Literature Permanent Section

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:04pm
MMLA - Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Call for Papers: MMLA – African American Literature Permanent Section 

Please Note: MMLA 2024 will be fully in person. No virtual or hybrid panels will be scheduled.

14-16 November 2024

Hilton Chicago

720 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL 60605

 

Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:48pm
Cultural Constellations / University of Maryland Global Campus Europe
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Cultural Constellations:  A Journal of Literature and Art

Cultural Constellations seeks original, previously unpublished submissions for a literary journal published by University of Maryland Global Campus Europe. Managed and edited by faculty representatives of UMGC Europe’s Book Club and Military Community Writers group, we offer a platform for writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and for visual artists. Our goal is to nourish the magic of artistic expression by offering a passage through which the literary arts may thrive and blossom. Journal themes will focus on art, literary expression, and culture. 

Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture – NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:48pm
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning with broadcast via Zoom.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15-20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations.