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The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference March 6-9, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023), Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club series (2021-), and Robert Thorogood’s The Marlow Murder Club series (2021-), but it is a growing trend that cannot be accounted for simply by demographics.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

updated: 
Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 1:09pm
New York University, Medieval and Renaissance Center
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

 Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

 Keynote speaker: Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library

CALL FOR PAPERS for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal Essays and Studies Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Department of English, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS 

for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal 

Essays and Studies

 

Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change 

 

Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Jeanne Marie Rose / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The next Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention will be held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 6-9, 2025. The roundtable "Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses" is seeking abstracts (200-300 words) consistent with the conference theme of (R)EVOLUTION:

"Dante and Ovid" | ICMS 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Societas Ovidiana
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for an in-person panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.

 

This panel invites new perspectives on the relationship between Dante and Ovid.

Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:

"Global Ovids" | ICMS 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Societas Ovidiana
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for a virtual panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.

 

Given the global turn in medieval studies, it is important to reconsider the place of ancient authors beyond the sphere of European reception.

This panel invites global perspectives on the medieval reception of Ovid.

Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of: