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Foreign Bodies: Becoming Apart, Becoming a Part in Contemporary British Literature

updated: 
Monday, June 19, 2023 - 11:19am
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 - EMMA (EA741)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 30 June 2023

Foreign Bodies: Becoming Apart, Becoming a Part in Contemporary British Literature

12-13 0ctober, 2023

International conference EMMA (EA741)
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3 - Site Saint Charles

Organizers: Katia Marcellin and Carine Nibakure

Keynote speakers: Professor Catherine Bernard (Université Paris-Cité)and Harry Parker (author of Anatomy of a Soldier and Hybrid Humans)

“Christianity and African American Literature(s)—Convergences and Consequences” 

updated: 
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 2:42pm
Peter Kerry Powers/ Christianity & Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

African American literary traditions are unimaginable apart from their engagement with and transformation of numerous Christian faith traditions. From the beginning, African American writers wrestled with the imposition and inheritance of Christianity and its attendant cultural and social formations that had directly contributed to and justified chattel slavery and its aftermath.

Southern Humanities Conference, Savannah, GA, Feb. 2-4, 2024

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:09am
Southern Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Conference Theme: (Em)Body/Environment

Savannah, GA, February 1-4, 2024

 

The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

 

The Invisible Orientation: The Effacement of Asexuality

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:05am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Please submit your abstracts for the panel The Invisible Orientation: The Effacement of Asexuality, which will feature at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston. All abstracts need to be uploaded through the portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20352

From Biopolitics to Ecoaesthetics: Legacies of Encroachment(s)

updated: 
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:02am
Tiako Djomatchoua Murielle Sandra
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

“Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins,” is a popular ( Zechariah Chafee, 1919) is a popular aphorism in legal imaginaries that theoretically synthesizes the scope of concepts such as freedom, power, and sovereignty. The reality of globalization, and its inherent movements and interactions of bodies, challenges the radical frame and geographies of the aforementioned concepts. The inevitability of the relation, in its materialisations as contact, conflict, and integration, highlights the thin lines between acknowledging, understanding, and trespassing boundaries in human relations to each other and to the systems that govern their lives.

Queer Africa: Resilience and Hopeful Now

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:54pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2024)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel calls for stories exploring contemporary creative works as fluid and diverse moments and their relation to what it means to have an identity as both queer and African. This intersection between queer and African is fraught with conflict in the present political and social understanding of homosexuality as un-African and a Western ideology transported to Africa during colonialism. Therefore, when most African nations have made homosexuality illegal, thus, preventing human rights from queer Africans and making them surplus, this panel calls for short stories, poems, memoirs, and novel extracts about queer African characters.

NEMLA 2023 Community, Resistance, and ‘Surplus’ Populations in American Literature

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:54pm
Northeastern Modern Lanuage Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel invites papers that explore literary representations of populations—immigrants, migrant workers, the racially or sexually marginalized, disabled persons, etc.—that are rendered ‘surplus’ by American society. This might be through economic, political, or interpersonal forces. This panel is especially interested in the ways these populations resist this dehumanization and forge their own communities. The label ‘surplus’ pushes these populations to the margins of society, deeply isolating them. Isolation is one of the most crippling afflictions that an individual can encounter, leaving them with no support system when forces like prejudices, poverty, or oppression affect them so deeply.

Pregnancy Loss in Contemporary Literature and Film

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:53pm
Laura Lazzari Vosti, Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities and George Washington University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2024 NeMLA Convention:

This panel aims to examine how elective, therapeutic, spontaneous abortions, and stillbirths are represented in work of literature and cinema from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective at the intersection of gender studies and the medical humanities. We welcome papers that engage with novels, graphic novels, memoirs, cross-genre texts, poems, films, and documentaries, that address experiences of pregnancy loss in contemporary societies, cultures, and languages, by using different methodologies. 

Consent and Cultural Competency (Fall 2023)

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 3:52pm
Journal of Consent-Based Performance
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 10, 2023

Call for Papers: Consent and Cultural Competency (Winter 2023)
Extension of previous deadline.

Seeking submissions in the form of articles and/or notes from the field. Both formats are reviewed through double-blind peer review. Find more details and guidelines here: https://journals.calstate.edu/jcbp/about/submissions

 

Frontiers at 50: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Knowledge Production

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 2:52pm
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies was founded in Boulder, Colorado, in 1975 and was housed in the Women's Studies department at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Frontiers began as a volunteer-based organization to bridge academic and community-based feminist knowledge and corresponded with a local movement among students, faculty, and community members to develop a women's studies program at the University of Colorado. Using a range of informal tactics, the Frontiers editorial collective established itself as "an incorporated legal nonentity," a strategic move aimed at circumventing the heteropatriarchal administrative tactics that had hindered the formation of women's studies programs in universities across the U.S.

Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.3: Trans* Ecologies

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 7:04am
Guest editors: Erin L. Durban and Megan Moore
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.3:

 Trans* Ecologies

 

Guest editors: Erin L. Durban and Megan Moore

 

Eva Hayward (2022) inquires, “Can trans mean anything to ecology? If so, what?” The guest editors of this issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly offer Hayward’s question as an invitation to artists, activists, and scholars to consider the possibilities of combining trans* analytics and undisciplined environmental and ecological thinking. The issue follows the Queer & Trans Ecologies Symposium that took place at the University of Minnesota in spring 2023.

 

Class and Culture in the Middle Ages: Contact, Conflict, Concord (9/15 Session)

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 7:04am
Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Illinois Medieval Association invites proposals for individual papers and especially full sessions for the 40th Annual Illinois Medieval Association Symposium, to be held online throughout the academic year. Papers presented at the Symposium are eligible for submission to our peer-reviewed proceedings volume, Essays in Medieval Studies, published annually by the West Virginia University Press and available via Project Muse. The Symposium aims to engage all disciplines and geographical areas of medieval studies.

Special Issue: Pulp Fiction Turns 30

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Friday, June 9, 2023 - 7:02am
South Central Review SCRev
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 3, 2023

“Once upon a time in Hollywood, Pulp Fiction turns 30”

Pulp Fiction is approaching the 30th anniversary of its release in 1994, and a special issue of  South Central Review will help mark the occasion.

Thinking about Intersectionality: Minorities and diverse Dominations in the United States

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:51am
université Bretagne Sud, France
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

                                                              Thinking about Intersectionality:

                                              Minorities and diverse Dominations in the United States

 

International conference

April 11-12, 2024

Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient

 

LGBTQ Studies at MAPACA

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:50am
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The LGBTQ Studies Area of MAPACA welcomes proposals of relevance to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.

Research in this area uses interdisciplinary ways of thinking to understand the development and construction of sexual identity and the diversity of sexuality in society. We seek papers from contemporary, critical, or historical perspectives.

Topics of interest include:

• Apps and dating in the digital age

• “Bury your gays,” queerbaiting, and television representation

• Drag culture and performance

• Femininities, masculinities, intersections of gender and sexuality

• Gaymers

• Globalization, tourism, and queer migration

• LGBTQ Cinema

Artificial Intelligence, Pornography, and Sex Work (Journal special issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 4:00am
Porn Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 4, 2023

We invite proposals for a special issue of the journal Porn Studies focused on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on pornography and sex work. The rapid advancement of AI technology and its increasing influence on these sectors present pressing ethical and societal issues that require further examination.

On New Developments in Critical Theory

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:19pm
Anglica. An International Journal Of English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Call for Papers Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies University of Warsaw

Thematic Issue 2024: On New Developments in Critical Theory

Guest Editor: Jeremy Tambling

Professor, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

Transnational Feminist Rhetorics Collection

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:01pm
Belinda Walzer, Mais T. Al-Khateeb, Jennifer Nish, and Sweta Baniya
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 25, 2023

*Apologies for cross-posting

Please see this CFP (full call below) for an edited collection on Transnational Feminist Rhetorics titled “(Re)Mobilizing Solidarity: (Re)Mobilizing Solidarity in/and Transnational Feminist Rhetorics” edited by Belinda Walzer, Mais T. Al-Khateeb, Jennifer Nish, and Sweta Baniya.

Call for chapters: A Critical Companion to Jane Campion

updated: 
Monday, May 29, 2023 - 8:21am
Elsa Colombani / Independant Scholar ; Eurydice Da Silva, Professor of Practice in Screenwriting / Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

A Critical Companion to Jane Campion

Edited by Elsa Colombani and Eurydice Da Silva

Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series

edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

 

[Extended deadline]

 

 

 

Call for Papers for an edited Volume on "Fashion in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction"

updated: 
Sunday, May 28, 2023 - 10:36am
Ankara Science University & Gumushane University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers: "Fashion in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction"

 

We are pleased to invite submissions for an edited volume titled "Fashion in Eighteenth-century English Fiction." This volume will explore how fashion, an inclusive notion associated with such terms as dress, clothing, costume, appearance, and other cultural objects like jewellery, furniture, foods, and architectural forms, is represented and politicised in English fiction in the eighteenth century.

 

Call for Complete or Nearly Complete Chapters, Handbook on Games and Sex/Sexuality

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:27am
Steffi Shook, Manhattanville College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 17, 2023

We have a contract with Bloomsbury Publishing for a handbook on the intersection of video games and sexual content and sexuality. Traditionally, handbooks are envisioned as comprehensive surveys of the discipline aimed at the library market. Volumes typically consist of about 25-35 contributions written by experts in their respective areas of the field. Much work has been done by our contributors already and we are working with them on final edits and revisions. However, to be blunt, attrition due to many factors has taken a toll on us and we are now a few chapters short of our target. Our publisher has given us permission to do a second call for contributors.  

 

European Studies Conference (Black Europe Session)

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:27am
Sara Marzioli / University of Nebraska at Omaha
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The 48th European Studies Conference, which will be held on October 5-6, 2023, both online and in person at the University of Nebraska Omaha, welcomes papers on European topics in all disciplines.

 Founded in 1975, our interdisciplinary conference draws every year participants from colleges and universities in the United States and from abroad.

Areas of interest include art, anthropology, history, literature, current issues and prospects in cultural, political, social, economic, or military areas; education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, music, geography, theater, and film.

 This year we will also offer special panels on the following topics:

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions on Transgender Issues

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:25am
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender and feminist communities currently dominates contemporary cultural conversation globally. Against this backdrop, Femspec calls for submissions exploring speculative approaches to gender, and particularly to transgender identity and embodiment; the rise and use of what some liken to Orwellian doublespeak; and projections extrapolated from our present into the future. 

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  

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