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PAMLA conference 2024: Translating Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 9:32am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Building on the conference theme “Translation in Action,” this panel invites discussion on how Asia is represented and “translated” in modern and contemporary literature, literary criticism, and popular media, including, but not limited to, film, video games, visual novels, music, and fashion. Panelists are encouraged to engage with the following questions:

1. How is Asia and Asian-ness aesthetically and ideologically represented and “translated” by non-Asian authors and producers, e.g., Historia universal de la infamia (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges, La Chinoise (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) by Rob Marshall, and Civilization VI (2016) by Sid Meister and Firaxis Games?

2024 Brandeis Novel Symposium: Anna Burns's Milkman CFP

updated: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 8:42am
Brandeis University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The eighth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on October 25, 2024, invites proposals for papers on Anna Burns’s novel Milkman (2018). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre.

Call for Papers: Collectif Research and Writing Anthology

updated: 
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 9:26am
Center for the Advancement of Women at Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The Center for the Advancement of Women at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles

Collectif Research and Writing Anthology

2024 Call for Papers

Do you want to forge community and ignite your scholarship? Connect with scholars, activists, artists, and others passionate about the advancement of women? Impact a wider audience? By publishing in Collectif, you’ll reach50,000 potential readers. To celebrate the issue’s release, the Center will host a salon, where contributors can share their work and connect with the Center for the Advancement of Women community.

Jean Seberg: Actress, Activist, Icon

updated: 
Friday, April 5, 2024 - 9:26am
Alisia Chase and Richard Ness
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

“Jean Seberg: From Actress to Activist” call for chapters

Editors: Alisia Chase and Richard Ness 

We are seeking chapters of approximately 5000-6000 words for a scholarly anthology on actress Jean Seberg. This collection will expand upon a successful 2020 SCMS conference panel titled, A bout Jean Seberg: Actress, Activist, Icon, as well as the award-winning documentary by Fourth Wall Films on Seberg’s life titled Jean Seberg: Actress, Activist, Icon (2023). 

 

Queer and Trans Literary Embodiments at PAMLA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 2:21pm
Pacific, Ancient, and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Seeking paper proposals for PAMLA 2024 - in Palm Springs, CA November 6-10! Abstracts due 4/30/24. Please include short bio in submission. 

Please use this link to submit your proposals! https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19169

Proposals must be submitted through the PAMLA system to be considered, but feel free to reach out to me with any questions: Jamiee Cook, jcook@ucsb.edu or jamieencook@gmail.com 

Queer and Trans Literary Embodiments 

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area - SWPACA Summer Salon

updated: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 11:48am
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

 Call for Papers

  Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies

 

 Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

  2024 SWPACA Summer Salon

  June 20-22, 2024

  Virtual Conference

 https://www.southwestpca.org

  Submissions open on March 25, 2024

  Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024

 

[DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 APRIL] CFP: CURRENT ISSUES IN GENDER STUDIES

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 11:34pm
Critical Gender Studies Journal (CGSJ)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Critical Gender Studies Journal (CGSJ) is an interdisciplinary (also antidisciplinary), transnational and bilingual platform in English and Spanish for all who are interested in exploring how gender and sexuality shape and are shaped by various social, cultural, historical, and political contexts. It also examines the relationships between gender and sexuality and other facets of identity, including nationality, race, class, ethnicity, religion, and disability. It aims to challenge the assumptions and norms that underlie gender and sexual relations and to promote social justice and equality for all people.

Theme: Current Issues in Gender Studies

Feminisms in the 21st-Century Science Fiction Novel; PAMLA (Nov. 7-10, 2024)

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 4:43pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 121st annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 7, to Sunday, November 10, 2024, at the Margaritaville Resort, Palm Springs, California.

Feminisms in the 21st-Century Science Fiction Novel:

Women Writing Violence – Call for Expressions of Interest

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:51pm
Dr Lara Ehrenfried (LMU Munich), Dr Nikolina Hatton (LMU Munich), Dr Sophie Franklin (UCD & University of Reading)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 3, 2024

In the opening of When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold (2022), Alia Trabucco Zerán meditates on the still-prevalent taboo surrounding violence committed by women: “A woman who kills … is twice outside the law: outside both the codified laws and the cultural laws that define and regulate femininity.” In identifying violent women’s twofold transgressiveness, Trabucco Zerán also articulates a desire to justify her own interest in writing about violent women, framing the book as a feminist project through which women’s rage, disobedience, and brutality are recovered and reconsidered to broaden conceptualisations of womanhood.

“See and Be Seen:” Fashion and (In)Visibility

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:51pm
SAMLA 96 Conference - Jacksonville, FL November 15-17, 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

In The Psychology of Clothes (1940), the psychoanalyst John Carl Flügel contends that there is a central tension in human psychology between the desire for modesty through concealment of the body and the desire for exhibitionism through decoration of the body.

Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:50pm
The International Vernon Lee Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Call For Papers

Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks

An International Vernon Lee Society Symposium

Online, 16 & 17 October 2024

  

In the essay ‘New Friends and Old’ in Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life (1903), Vernon Lee writes:  

Welty and Children

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:50pm
Katherine Henninger/ Eudora Welty Review
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers: Eudora Welty Review

Special Topic: “Welty and Children”

Submission deadline: September 1, 2024

 

Apocalyptic Thinking in the Anthropocene (Journal)

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:50pm
Apocalyptica / Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers Apocalyptica

 

Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.

Editors: Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest, and Jenny Stümer

Article length: 8,000-9,000 words

Deadline: Year-round – 1 September 2024 (for our next issue)

Contact: publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de

Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with History

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:49pm
Kristina Marie Darling
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

I'm thrilled to invite submissions for a volume entitled Trespassing in the Archive:  Poetry in Conversation with History, which is under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.  

Medical Objects in Illness Narratives

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:49pm
European Journal of English Studies (EJES)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

CFP for Volume 30 of the European Journal of English Studies to be published in 2026

 “Medical Objects in Illness Narratives”

Guest editors: Polina Mackay (University of Nicosia), Cristina Hurtado-Botella (University of Murcia), Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley (University of the Arts London)

Reposted: Call for Book Chapters on Louisiana and the Caribbean: Interrogating Contemporary Literary and Cultural Connections

updated: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 11:05am
Emily O'Dell/ McNeese State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Call for Book Chapters to Complete Collection:

Louisiana and the Caribbean: Interrogating Contemporary Literary and Cultural Connections

**A press has already expressed interest but we just need a few more chapters to complete the collection**

Women and Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 1:59am
Turkish Shakespeares
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Women and Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)

Contact email: turkishshakespeares@gmail.com 

 

Call for Chapters

 

Turkey has a long tradition of reading, translating and staging William Shakespeare’s plays as part of the country’s modernisation process. Yet, this long tradition has remained relatively obscure for the majority of both Turkish and non-Turkish academic and non-academic circles.

 

DEADLINE EXTENDEDRace & Queer, Trans, and Reproductive Rights

updated: 
Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 8:32am
Journal of Critical Race Inquiry
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 19, 2024

Call for Papers:

Race & Queer, Trans, and Reproductive Rights

 

“When we are talking about gender and sexual politics…I’m not convinced we need to invent any trans or gender-based rubrics to understand the space or to mobilize against it. The existing critical rubrics of race and empire and racial governance would already encompass and analyze perfectly well what is going on and also provide us with a different political grammar of political solidarity and history.”

-Jules Gill Peterson, “Critical Race Theory Today” JCRI Vol 9 No 2, 2022.

 

How Good Maugham Was: A Critical Reassessment - An International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:58pm
Le Mans University, France
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Conference Dates: Thursday 13 and Friday 14 March 2025

Location: Le Mans University, France (https://maps.app.goo.gl/nrrshiTddgof53vB7)

Keywords: W. Somerset Maugham, Popular, Middlebrow and High Culture, Literary Criticism, Colonialism, Travel Studies, Gender Studies, Biography, Adaptations, Translations, Cultural Transfers, Propaganda

Conference Format: In-person, but videoconference will be possible in specific cases

Conference Languages: English; French a possibility for a limited number of papers

Conference Website: https://maugham-le-mans.sciencesconf.org

 

Care in the Environmental Humanities

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:56pm
Dr. Alice Hall (University of York), Dr. Thomas Houlton (University of York)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

'Care in the Environmental Humanities'

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787)

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2024 

Website: https://www.mdpi.com/si/194481

 

*Extended Deadline* Black Feminist Excesses

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:54pm
Proposed Working Group for MLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Black Feminist Excesses

(MLA 2025 Proposed Working Group)

 

This working group aims to theorize excess, desire and unbridled being in Black feminist and womanist studies. How does Black feminism and womanism engage disparate, wayward, or fringe forms of identity, embodiment, materiality, affect and culture?  How can concepts like ‘indulgence’ or ‘aspiration’ be considered or troubled among current theoretical frameworks? What do you think is on the horizon for Black feminist and womanist thought in moving beyond the postfeminist moment?

 

Narratives of Health(s): Exploring Positionalities through the Medical Humanities Lens

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:54pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Keeping in mind the theme of MMLA 2024, “Health in/of the Humanities,” the Women in Literature panels seek ways to explore the intersection of Medical Humanities and women in literature. Particularly, it aims to highlight the variety of representations and embodiedness of queer and women’s health, dis/abilities, illness, and motherhood in multiple sites and through various forms of media, including popular magazines, newspapers, television and film, fiction, advertisements, and medical records. In terms of temporal and geographic scope, the panel solicits contributions focusing on the late-nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with no geographical restrictions.

 

Call for Book Chapters on East Asian Pop Culture and Fandom Studies

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Nandini Pradeep J
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

East Asian pop culture has been increasingly in vogue across the globe since the 1990s, and the Hallyu wave of the early 2000s has further propelled the momentum of this movement. With the growth of this incredible cultural enterprise arose the global fandoms, paving way to the birth of novel fan cultures and traditions and, furthermore, to a global tribe of its own. This presence, which is felt internationally, calls for a space of parrhesia, of breaching certain boundaries, of destroying normative assumptions, of suggesting deviancies, of reclaiming spaces, and so on. The BTS revolution exemplifies this changing geo-cultural flux rather well.

MLA 2025 - Apertures of Access: Neoliberal Grammars of White Supremacy

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Diana Molina & Sophie Ziner
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

This panel interrogates the formal and aesthetic evasions of Black texts and authors in response to the overt and obfuscated grammars of white supremacy. We welcome 250-word abstracts that explore the ways that Black writers enable or restrict the visibility of white supremacist and/or neoliberal grammars of language and grammars of living. Hidden in the etymology of the word grammar is “glamour,” suggesting the enchantment of an optical illusion. And yet, grammar is the architecture that unconsciously structures language and thought, creating the very conventions and norms that dictate how the world should be.

CFP - Journal of the Wooden O

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Dr. Stephanie Chamberlain/Journal of the Wooden O
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 18, 2024

The Journal of the Wooden O (JWO) is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. The editors invite papers on topics related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

 

Barbie, Feminism, and Learning through Media

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:48pm
Popular Culture Consitutency Group @ NWSA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Pop Culture Constituency Group

National Women’s Studies Association

 

Inspired by the NWSA’s 2024 conference theme of “(Re)thinking Feminist Movements”, the Popular Culture Constituency Group is proposing the following panel for the 2024 Conference. We invite paper submissions from members and non-members of our group, and we look forward to meeting in Detroit.

 

‘Genre and Nation: British and Australian cinema, 1960 – now’ Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:46pm
Robert Shail/ Leeds Beckett University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

‘Genre and Nation: British and Australian cinema, 1960 – now’ Conference

5-7 September 2024

 

Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK

 

 

Despite the brutal, colonial origins of Australian settlement, and the ongoing consequences for Indigenous people, an enduring connection between Britain and Australia remains. As Rolfe (2022) argues, until the 1960s, Australians incorporated a dual identity as both Australians and Britons, and although American influence has grown since then– the British/Australian relationship persists and has been widely explored in screen media.

 

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