international conferences

Taking Exception: Adversarial Reading in Early Modern Culture

A Paper Panel for RSA 2025, Boston

Sponsored by the Yale Program in Early Modern Studies

7th International Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum “Discipline and Freedom in Music and Literature” University of Cologne, 4 – 6 December 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th Biennial Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF) will be hosted this year by the University of Cologne and its Slavic Institute. The mission of the WMA Forum is to provide a friendly and open space where emerging scholars interested in this domain of interdisciplinary study can meet, cooperate, and learn together with more experienced scholars. We warmly invite papers on the following topic:

“Discipline and Freedom in Music and Literature”

“Sketching the Spectral: Ghosts in French-language Graphic Novels”

56th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 6-9, 2025

 Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2024

Call for Papers

New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

An International Conference, 28 and 29 March 2025

Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany

   The Student Scientific Circle of Cooperation and Dialogue with The East (the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw) & the Eastern House Show-Window of the KARTA Centre Foundation have the pleasure to invite you to

   The First Scientific Conference
   P O L I S H   &   R U S S I A N   C I N E M A S

   Date: 25–26th October 2024
   Venue: The Eastern House Show-Window,
   Warsaw (Poland), 6 plac Konstytucji

   Details are in the attachment below ↓

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 JULY

Call for Papers – The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s First Annual Symposium

October 31-November 1
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin

NEW DEADLINE: 31 JULY

Keynote Speaker: Professor Hil Malatino (Penn State)

To honor the work of Elizabeth J. Bryan on Lawman and the English prose Brut, this session focuses on the collaborative nature of Brut texts.  By examining both literal collaborations between scribes, illuminators, and compilers, and collaboration broadly conceived, as between readers of Brut texts or between texts and editors to derive meaning, for instance, papers in the session will offer insight into the intricacies of the production and reception of Brut manuscripts.  Papers will advance conversations that, in Professor Bryan’s words, “make room in our critical model for the multiple participants of a manuscript text” (Collaborative Meaningxiv).

Ever since Steven Russell, Wayne Wittanen, and J. M. Graetz, three MIT employees who fantasized about bringing Edward E. Smith’s (1890-1965) Skylark novels (1915-1966) to the big screen, developed Spacewar! (1961), one of the first digital games created and a clear inspiration for games that would be designed in the following decades, the game industry has grown exponentially. As Egenfeldt-Nielson et al. have stated (2024), “[i]n the historical blink of an eye, video games have colonized our minds and invaded our screens” (2).

What is a good life? Scholars often attempt to answer this question by examining people’s ideals. Exemplified by Joel Robbins’ call of “the anthropology of the good,” anthropologists are encouraged to make ethnographic inquiries into qualities that are “imaginatively conceived” to be desirable and even “outstripped” the immediate realities (2013, 457). In other words, the scholarly examination of the “good life” has long been domesticated in the realm of thoughts and beliefs, insulated from that of the lived experiences.

Conference online (via Zoom)

29-30 July 2024

CFP:

​In our postmodern world there are a lot of questions that should be re-considered and re-defined. What does it mean to fight against colonialism and racism in the world of migration crisis and xenophobic attitudes towards minorities? What does it mean to be a postcommunist country in the face of the common nostalgia for order and rules? How is it possible to have a national identity being aware of the relative character of every national feature?

Thinkers, Texts, and Traditions:  A Cultural Coalition

A Two-Day Multidisciplinary International Conference

Vivekananda School of English Studies

Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-TC, Delhi

The Matter of the Humanities

“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressors.”
Paolo Freire

“The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
William Gibson

Dates: November 7th-9th, 2024.

Mode: Mixed mode: In-person, hybrid, and online.

Venue: 7th- In person at Yale University, 8th Hybrid, 9th online only.

Hosts: Council on African Studies at Yale University & the University of South Africa (UNISA).

The Council on African Studies at the MacMillan Center, Yale University, and the Department of Religious Studies & Arabic at the University of South Africa (UNISA), jointly invite presentations for the second African Epistemologies for the 21st Century conference. This year’s theme is “Genesis Epistemologies: Origins, Syncretism, and Human Evolution in Africa.”

Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid | November 25–26, 2024