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‘A Rebel with a Cause’: The Real Subversive Potential of Transgressive Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 6:26pm
Rebecca Warshofsky / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

“In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking. / Now, heaven knows, Anything goes.” This epigraph begins Chris Jenks’ 2003 work Transgression, exemplifying the sense in which acts of transgression can have real, tangible, palpable effects on society. Jenks defines “transgression” as violating, infringing upon, or going beyond the limits set by a boundary or convention (2). Transgressive fiction, then, is the genre of literature that depicts various acts of boundary-crossing in order to analyze and criticize them for the purpose of reflecting upon the ideological constructions that its characters react against or wholly reject.

Digital (R)evolution and Cyber Censorship in South Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
NeMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

From election campaigns to marches for equal rights in a patriarchal society, the digital landscape in South Asia has commanded a space which was not easily possible before the digital revolution. In the same breadth, fake news and propaganda narrative has also marred noble causes which hinders this evolutionary social mobility enabled by the digital media. In this scenario, the digital space becomes a double-edged sword where the dominant narrative can be deemed as the ‘truth’. Weaving through the complexity created by opposing narratives, this panel would involve discussions about the medium and culture of the digital world as well to further contextualize echo chambers and shadow bans, which act as filters of information.

The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Holocaust Studies Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:24am
Middle Tennessee State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Fifteenth Biennial

HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE

At Middle Tennessee State University

 

March 6-7, 2025

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

 

Keynote Speaker: Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

                                                                                                                                                                             

Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:23am
Society for Queer and Trans Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Special session hosted by the Society for Queer and Trans Meival Studies at the International Congress for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI in May 2025 seeks submissions for the panel "Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender."

 

Henri Nouwen Academic Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:23am
Henri Nouwen Society; Oblate School of Theology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Following the inaugural Henri Nouwen Lectureship, the Henri Nouwen Society, in partnership with the Oblate School of Theology, is pleased to announce an Academic Symposium dedicated to the life, work, and enduring influence of Henri Nouwen, a profound thinker and writer whose contributions to theology, spirituality, and pastoral care have inspired countless individuals and communities. This symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore and critically engage with Nouwen’s rich body of work.

 

Leeds IMC 2025 Call for Papers (Hybrid) - Learning, Knowledge and Awareness

updated: 
Thursday, September 12, 2024 - 10:58am
CERÆ: AN AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 27, 2024

In an ideal situation, learning leads to knowledge and knowledge raises awareness. Set within the context of the past, this simple statement leads us to consider a range of different questions. How did medieval and early modern people learn and what did they learn? How did they teach and what did they teach? Who was taught and who was not? Who decided what was to be taught? Such questions, among others, help us understand the process of how learning and knowledge was acquired in the premodern world. But it also helps us better appreciate what we know about the premodern world and what people were trying to achieve when they set out to gain knowledge about their world and the society they lived in.

Love and Death in Dostoevsky's novels and Beyond, NeMLA March 6-9, 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This session seeks to examine how Dostoevsky's portrayal of love and death reflects his broader philosophical concerns and how these themes interact within his narrative structures. Although this session primarily aims to explore the themes of love and death in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, papers on other Russian authors will also be considered.

CFP - Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Gender and Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

The journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for papers for the special issue "Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives". Issue editors are Barbora Doležalová (FSV UK), anna řičář libánská (FF UK) and Isotta Rossoni (Leiden University).

Political Speeches in Film

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Université de Lorraine, France
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Dear colleagues, 

Please find below the links to the call for papers of the international conference "Political Speeches in Film" which will take place at the Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France on March 17, 18, 2025:

https://idea.univ-lorraine.fr/sites/default/files/2024-04/CFP%20-%20Political%20Speeches%20in%20Film%20-%20EN-1_0.pdf (English version) 

Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism

updated: 
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 2:13am
Dr. Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Dr. Yannis Mazarakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Call for Papers

Editors Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Yannis Mazarakis invite book chapter proposals for a scholarly collection entitled Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism. Edinburgh University Press has expressed interest in publishing the book.

International Conference on Fostering Multimodal Literacy Through English Language Education

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:09am
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Location: Bangalore, India 

Subject Fields: English Language Teaching/ English Literature/Linguistics/Computer Science/Education 

Venue: CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore, India 

Mode: Offline and Online (Only for Presenters) 

Date: 20 January 2025 (Tentative date. Final date to be announced soon) 

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm 

Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions

updated: 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 2:30am
The University of Western Australia/ Society for the History of Emotions
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions 

16th -17th June 2025

The University of Western Australia, Perth

Keynote speakers: 

Daniel M. Gross (University of California Irvine)

Robbert Boddice (Tampere University)  

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