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brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

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Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
Cory Nguyen
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

 

Deadline for submissions: December 2nd, 2024

Conference date/time: February 8th, 2025, UC Berkeley (will be in hybrid format).

Names and affiliations: Paz Regueiro and Cory Nguyen, Department of Comparative Literature

Contact emails: paz_regueiro@berkeley.edu and corytnguyen@berkeley.edu 

“You wanna guess if I'm serious about this song.”

- Charli xcx, 2024. (“Guess”, 17th track on “brat and it's the same but there's three more songs so it's not”.)

 

Textu(r)alities: Semiotics, Bodies, Texts (Special Issue of Multimodality & Society)

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Emilio Amideo (University of Naples Parthenope) and Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 24, 2025

In the last couple of decades, our embodied actions with others have become increasingly more fluid and disentangled from fixed/static contexts so much so that the materiality of social life has been filtered through texts produced in a variety of semiotic resources that bind people together while keeping them apart. By further blurring online/offline boundaries, the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-lasting mediatization of social life leading to a reconceptualization of phenomena such as corporeality and matter and their relationship with both virtual and physical environments.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)’s observation that “‘reinventing’ in the colonizer’s tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression” (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories.

124 – MUSLIM COUNTERPUBLICS IN THE INDIAN NATION-STATE PUBLIC SPHERE

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
ECSAS Heidelberg 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

We welcome papers for our ECSAS panel on Muslim Counterpublics in the Indian Nation-state Public Sphere which will bring together emerging and advanced scholars of Muslim identity in South Asia in the context of the nation-state public sphere. We wish to explore the deep history and contemporary imaginings of Muslimness from the vantage point of songs, music and sound, literary studies, history, anthropology, dastangoi, oral historiography, and cinema. We aim to shed light on the multiperspectival and pan-national Muslim identification process as it also intersects with ideas of ideological homogenisation, modernity, and religious revivalism.

SCSECS 2025

updated: 
Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 8:33pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies invites you to present papers and organize conference panels on being lost and found in the long eighteenth century. Whether one is lost at sea or lost in thought, finding one's bearings can bring about new insights and inspirations. Discovering the answers to the mysteries of existence has led to whole new understandings of the world around and within us -- and whole new speculations about the unseen and unknown. We look forward to hearing your guiding perspectives.

Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
Sacred Journeys
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference: Canberra, Australia

June 3-6, 2025. Venue: Australian Center for Christianity and Culture, Ngunnawal Country. Sponsored by the Indiana University Events and Tourism Institute (ETI), in partnership with the Sacred Journeys Project, and Réseau québécois pour les études pèlerines/ Quebec Network for Pilgrimage Studies, Laval University. Hosted by Rev’d Cameron West, Defence Anglicans, Australia.

Call for Papers

What can pictures still do in the 21st century? Figuring reality in visual arts.

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:37am
Helena LAMOULIATTE-SCHMITT (University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux Montaigne University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

This conference aims to examine the question of figurative art at the beginning of the 21st century. Nowadays, figurative artistic models are challenged by increasingly sophisticated technologies that reshape our definition of “the real,” and more particularly, of reality. AI-generated images tend to normalize manipulated and distorted representations of the world we live in and can sometimes become indistinguishable from real images (“deepfakes”).