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West Bengal, IndiaSubject FieldsCultural History / Studies, Digital Humanities, Literature, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Enclosure is as much origin-story as it is globally contested condition. Critical accounts
positioning the act of enclosure as integral to the root-systems of global capitalism,
environmental catastrophe and precarity often refer to the historical effort by landowners to do
away with the commons in favor of legally and politically recognized enclosures. Transforming
sustainable agricultural practices into sites of energy-production primed for capital development,
the early-modern enclosure movement gave rise to what Robert P. Marzec characterizes as “a
model of the human that took as its direct enemy an environment thought to be threatening
In today's world, we bear witness to epidemics and pandemics, the global climate change caused by human actions, as well as ecological collapse marked by floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes. These events underscore the risks and challenges of a human-centered way of life. At the same time, they remind us of the need to reconsider our binary and hierarchical divisions between humans and the Earth, humans and animals, mind and body, nature and culture.
Conference Call
LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY
24th MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
The seminar will be hosted by SRM University
Delhi-NCR, Sonepat, India
2-3 March 2024
Concept Note:
Call for Papers: Margaret Fuller, Women in the 19C, and Resilience
Panel for the Thoreau Gathering in Concord, MA, July 10-14, 2024
Margaret Fuller both overcame odds and recognized the virtue of resilience in others. “Resilience” is the theme of this year’s Thoreau Gathering, and the organizers suggest four categories for considering this strength: ecological, cultural/political, personal/spiritual, and legacy. With some major differences from Thoreau, these same categories are helpful with Fuller, and in our annual contribution to the Gathering we invite presentations approaching her and likeminded women writers in her circles that also draw on one of these kinds of resilience.
Call for Papers:
Science Fiction, Gender, and Sexuality: The Eighth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium
Date and Time:
November 30, 2023, 9:00AM-5:00 PM EST
Location:
Online via Zoom, Sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY.
Organizers: Jill Belli, Wanett Clyde, Leigh Gold, Kel Karpinski, Lucas Kwong, Vivian Papp & Sean Scanlan
This year’s City Tech Science Fiction Symposium explores Science Fiction in the context of Gender and Sexuality. Previous symposia have centered interdisciplinarity, diversity, inclusion/exclusion, and the historical and cultural determinants of the genre.
Still Cruising Utopia:
A Utopian Studies Special Issue on Queer Utopia
UTOPIAN STUDIES: The Journal of The Society for Utopian Studies
Deadline for all manuscripts: April 1, 2024.
2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS
Call for Participation
Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 23d meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars, to be held at the UCLA School of Law, on June 9-10, 2024.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Call for Papers
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), Kolkata Journal
Inaugural Special Issue Vol 1, 2024 On
Critical Ramblings
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), an institute under the Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal, functions as a nodal centre for research, documentation of language and culture-related materials, translation studies, and training in critical thinking, cultural and linguistic interaction.
Seminario Internacional Ficciones sobre arte, modernización y democracia en el estado español
Coordinación: Carlos Garrido Castellano, Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro
Universidad de Murcia, 15-17 de Abril de 2024.
Carlos.garridocastellano@ucc.ie, mahernandez@um.es
Convocatoria:
The Gender Studies area of the Popular Culture Association explores a broad range of intersections between gender and popular culture, whether within popular culture texts or practices.
The Gender Studies area is now considering proposals for papers, panels, and/or roundtables for the 2024 annual conference. Deadline for proposals is November 30, 2023. Visit https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines for submission instructions. The conference will be March 27-30, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.
Call for Abstracts: New Approaches to Rape Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century
Co-Editors: Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa, USA) & Doreen Thierauf (North Carolina Wesleyan University, USA)
CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINIST HEALTH HUMANITIES
Call for Book Chapters to the forthcoming edited volume, Deconstruction in Action: From Theory to Praxis, edited by Dr. Raisun Mathew, Assistant Professor of English, Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), India. The publisher of the edited volume is Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.
Concept:
Embrace Empowerment at WOMENSCONF2024: Join the Global Movement
Are you ready to be part of a transformative experience that is shaping the future of women's studies? Look no further than the 6th Global Conference on Women's Studies (WOMENSCONF2024), coming to Zurich, Switzerland, from 5th to 7th July 2024. Let us take you on a journey of knowledge sharing, global networking and empowerment like never before.
Benefits of WOMENSCONF2024:
Proposals on any aspect of men, men’s studies, and/or masculinities are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:
CFP: Queer/ing Horror: Video Essays at the Intersection of Horror and Queerness
MONSTRUM 7.2 (December 2024)
Guest Editor: Dayna McLeod
CFP: LABOUR AND SCREEN MEDIA
BAFTSS 12th Annual Conference. 3rd -5th April 2024. University of Sussex, UK.
GUEST EDITORS: DR. KUDZAIISHE VANYORO AND DR. SAYAN DEY
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL DIVERSITY STUDIES (IJCDS) (PUBLISHED BY PLUTO PRESS)
IJCDS invites scholars to submit abstracts for a special issue that that engages with challenges and opportunities of critical transformation in the higher education environment. The theme of this issue is CONVERSATIONS ON CONVIVIALITY AND CRITICAL DIVERSITY LITERACY: OVERLAPS, TENSIONS AND GRAY AREAS.
Panel Organizer: Monica Sousa, York University, msousa93@yorku.ca
Panel to be held at ACCUTE 2024, in Montreal, Canada
The ACCUTE Conference runs June 12- 15, 2024 at McGill University.
The WAC Journal seeks scholarly work at the intersection of writing with teaching, curriculum,
learning, and research focusing on our special issue topic of how WAC pedagogies (dis)engage adult and returning learners. Our review board welcomes inquiries, proposals, and articles from 3,000 to 6,000 words.
Dear Colleagues,
The PhD in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center CUNY is calling for doctoral applicants for our Fall 2024 cohort. Located in the heart of New York, with longstanding ties to public service and the city itself, we are thrilled to welcome interdisciplinary, practice-based, and passionate applicants this year. Our Admissions deadline is January 1 2024.
To that end, we warmly invite you to our open house (in hybrid form), which takes place on November 2, 2023, from 5-7pm. RSVP to Alexandra Rego (arego@gc.cuny.edu) or Patricia Goodson (pgoodson@gc.cuny.edu).
Date: 27th April 2024
Location: University of Warwick (in-person)
Keynote speaker: Professor Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh)
Submission deadline: 30th November 2023
Fantasy, a genre that has captivated the hearts and minds of countless individuals throughout history, invites us to embark on extraordinary adventures beyond the realm of the ordinary. A space where magic, mythical creatures and epic quests reign supreme, Fantasy offers a respite from reality and inviting us to explore realms beyond the boundaries of our imagination.
Call for papers / panels/ round tables/ workshops for Lesbian Lives International Conference 2024 at the University of Brighton UK
22-23 March 2024
The theme for the 2024 Conference is Global Connections: Solidarities, Communities, Networks and Activisms. The conference aims to highlight the ongoing struggles against homophobia, transphobia and misogyny across the globe.
This work takes many forms and is context bound, depending on geography, culture, political climate, histories of mobilization and intersectional aspects of racial and other forms of discrimination and socio-economical lived realities.
PLEASE NOTE: Currently I am looking for abstract submissions on the topic related to Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh only.
Call for Papers
In 1950, the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing asked the world: “Can machines think?”
Published in his article in Mind when he was 38 years old, Turing’s question emerged from a life of relentless imagination. By then, Turing had applied his brilliance to help the allies win World War II and revolutionized computing—creating the foundation for much later developments in AI technologies and machine learning. His intrepidness included living as a gay man in a society that would criminalize and cause him irreparable harm for it.
Call for Proposals: The Work and Legacy of Minnie Bruce Pratt
On July 2, 2023, Minnie Bruce Pratt died at the age of 76 after a brief illness resulting from a glioblastoma. (Obituaries are available here and here.) Pratt leaves behind an important body of creative, theoretical, and political work as a gift and legacy to scholars, activists, cultural workers, writers, poets, and readers.
Location: Mauritius (Details to come)
Dates: June 27-29, 2024
We warmly invite submissions to contribute to A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450), edited by J. D. Sargan and Micah James Goodrich. In the past several years, the emerging field of premodern trans studies has taken shape across disciplinary, geographical, and chronological lines. Our volume, A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450), which spans over one thousand years of history, will serve to index these critical conversations among medievalists and anticipate new contours that our discussions may take. Please take a moment to look at the main series CFP here: https://bit.ly/CHTLvol1-6