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5th Singapore Literature Conference August 2, 2025
Poetry Festival Singapore (PFS) and the Singapore Literature Conference (SLC) are commemorating Singapore's 60th anniversary of independence with the theme "Verse Nation."
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of modern life. From fashion and art to political science and history, AI’s influence is reshaping the way we interact with the world around us. In the realms of writing and social media, AI offers new opportunities for content creation, while posing questions about authorship, originality, and ethics. Fashion designers are now using AI to predict trends, create unique designs, and streamline production. Artists employ AI to create cutting-edge digital works that blur the lines between human and machine creativity. Meanwhile, AI is making waves in political science, helping to predict voting trends and offering new insights into historical patterns.
Call for Essays
Edited Anthology
The Heroine's Tale: Reimagining The Female Hero's Journey in the New Millennium
We are seeking essays for an edited collection titled “The Heroine's Tale: Reimagining The Female Hero's Journey in the New Millennium.” This collection considers the role of the contemporary heroine, aiming to take stock of existing conversations and debates related to cultural and creative representations of heroines and heroinism and providing the basis for new directions of inquiry.
Despite its long and varied history, the infamous subgenre of body horror didn’t gain critical currency until the 1986 January/February volume of the journal Screen. Indeed, it was in this special issue on the “textuality of contemporary horror” that body horror emerged as an object worthy of scholarly attention. We now find ourselves with nearly forty years of distance from this moment in horror criticism, all the while body horror has remained as a key subgeneric tendency within the horror genre with exciting new and (un)timely directions having been explored by directors and authors such as Julia Ducournau, Jordan Peele, and Brian Evenson.
Borderlands: Reimagining the Medieval Periphery
MEST Symposium, Indiana University Bloomington
April 11-12
Keynote: Dr. Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University)
The Middle Ages and our study of it are defined by borderlands. To better understand and enrich our knowledge of the medieval world, this conference asks us to consider what lies at its peripheries and what happens when we attend carefully to these “borderlands.”
Potential panels might consider:
SUBMIT ABSTRACTS OF 1500 CHARACTERS VIA ACLA WEBSITE: https://www.acla.org/mediating-illegible-theory-aesthetics-and-activism-under-regimes-capture
Global Historical Fictions
Defining historical fictions as encompassing of many media forms, this book series invites contributions that consider the multiple ways in which we shape history for diverse purposes, and that investigate popular history in a variety of contexts, and modes.
Call and Response – A Special English in Africa edition dedicated to South Africa’s revolutionary poet and activist-scholar, Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile.
We are proposing an ACLA Seminar to convene, for the first time, the interdisciplinary community of scholars working on or in the spirit of J.L. Austin (1911–1960). Though widely, albeit often begrudgingly, acknowledged as an important twentieth-century philosopher, Austin is unique among this rarified class of thinkers in several unfortunate ways: he is the progenitor of no noteworthy schools, there are no chaired positions named for him, and until recently there were no collections of essays about his work and even fewer conferences about his legacy. Yet, many scholars owe a debt to Austin, and there have been signs recently of a more pronounced reemergence of interest in him.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your original research articles and review papers in the forthcoming special issue of Anglica Wratislaviensia devoted to the concept of companionship in its various social, technological, historical manifestations.