2nd International Folklore and Gothic Conference (FOGO)
CALL FOR PAPERS
2ND INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE AND GOTHIC CONFERENCE (FOGO):
“LANDSCAPES AND TERRITORIES OF HORROR”
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CALL FOR PAPERS
2ND INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE AND GOTHIC CONFERENCE (FOGO):
“LANDSCAPES AND TERRITORIES OF HORROR”
This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th thru November 2, 2025. This year’s conference “I’ve known rivers”: The Ecologies of Black Life and Resistance” centers “the river, and waterways, as an analytical framework for Black lives past and present.” Water “serves as a prompt for urgent questions about landscapes and ecologies as well as diasporic ruptures, spiritual practices, labors of many kinds, fugitivity and resistance” (ASWAD CFP).
Routledge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Co-Editors: Riché Richardson, Philathia Rufaro Bolton
300-word abstracts due:
September 15, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
Trans-Analytics: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and History
Special Issue of Psychoanalysis and History
Editor: Carolyn Laubender (University of Essex)
Editorial Advisory Board: Matt ffytche, Dagmar Herzog, Camille Robcis, Dany Nobus, and Hannah Zeavin
Context and Aims:
Dates: November 7th-9th, 2024.
Mode: Mixed mode: In-person, hybrid, and online.
Venue: 7th- In person at Yale University, 8th Hybrid, 9th online only.
Hosts: Council on African Studies at Yale University & the University of South Africa (UNISA).
The Council on African Studies at the MacMillan Center, Yale University, and the Department of Religious Studies & Arabic at the University of South Africa (UNISA), jointly invite presentations for the second African Epistemologies for the 21st Century conference. This year’s theme is “Genesis Epistemologies: Origins, Syncretism, and Human Evolution in Africa.”
After the encouraging success of last year’s panel, we want to continue our discussion on “bad art.” Scholarship on the politics of literature has, in recent decades, increasingly come to focus on whether texts from the past conform to the values of the present. Some texts are praised for modeling, even anticipating, our own progressive values, while others are subject to critique for the way they ignore, license, or justify forms of inequity, injustice, and subordination. This disciplinary impulse has come to seem not only justified, but natural. Yet it has also resulted in a growing corpus of books being dismissed or maligned within the academy (books that are often, and importantly, still being read and revered outside the academy).