“Refusal, Disruption, and Persistence in Academia centers on strategies such as refusal, disruption, and persistence in academia from an intersectional perspective that focusses on gendered racialization.
This roundtable will engage participants about structural change in their local context by sharing strategies from diverse standpoints. This could mean sharing stories about surviving contract work, probation, tenure review, and administrative roles while coping with and
Heidelberg Center for American Studies Annual Spring Academy Conference Heidelberg, Germany, March 18-22, 2024
Call for Papers
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 18-22, 2024.
The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly dis
Special Editors: Agnieszka Mikrut-?aczkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) and Pawe? Dyba?a (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)
"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 72 (1/2024)
Submission deadline: January 31, 2024
Ideas, multifaceted in nature, embody thoughts, beliefs, and abstract representations of concepts or entities. Their manifestation and propagation occur through diverse techniques across va
Speculative Fiction (SF) creators regularly imagine worlds in precipitous decline where the privileged few live in a safe, prosperous, hazard-free enclave from which surplus subaltern populations are excluded. What do these stories of safety for the few while the “surplus rot outside or join a captive servant class status tell us about our own concepts of borders, citizenship, and expendability? Presenters are invited to engage with one or more SF texts using cultural studies, po
(***If interested, please submit your abstract here through the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20556 ***)
The topic of Artificial Intelligence in the classroom has been a hot issue recently given the massive strides made by creators of programs like ChatGPT and Midjourney that trivialize certain writing activities and visual image creation, respectively. Given that best practices around the use of AI in the classroom are still being developed, thi
“Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/CULTURE) invites submissions for a topical issue “Safe Places, edited by Diana Gonçalves (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) and Tânia Ganito (University
We invite proposals for research chapters for a new edited book, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction, for Manchester University Press.
Description of book
In the twenty-first century, readers, publishers, and booksellers have noted a surge in popularity of genre works written by Muslim women, particularly in the Anglosphere. From the detective novels of Ausma Zehanat Khan to S. A. Chakraborty’s fantasy fiction, Ayisha Malik’s romantic f
Don't miss this virtual conference, designed to help you empower your employees! With expert speakers in Employee Retention, Stress Management, Public Health, Behavioral Medicine, and more, this event is perfect for those in Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, HR, Organizational Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Learning and development, Management, Employee Assistance, or anyone interested in creating a safe and healthy workplace. Join us to gain invaluable insights a
Leadership is a subject of different studies and analyses that attempt to understand what makes a person a leader and how it is different from management. Indeed, social sciences, management studies, and even Humanities manifest great interest in leadership, its characteristics, roles, importance, and primordiality for companies and businesses' success. Hence, the important number of studies and analysis.
Besides those studies, feminists display significant attention to relationships
Co-organizers: Christine Xiong (Stanford) and Fiana Kawane (University of British Columbia)
Édouard Glissant, in Poetics of Relation (1990), famously emphasizes that “Cultures develop in a single planetary space but to different ‘times.’ It would be impossible to determine either a real chronological order or an unquestionable hierarchical order for these times.
Our seminar takes up Glissant’s suggestion and orients it toward the
What is the potential, liberatory or otherwise, of excess as a figure, motif, scene, or problem? Blake’s “road of excess offers a counterpoint to an industrial-capitalistic ethos of productivity, frugality, and reason. Moreover, Bataille speaks of “excess as a form of unproductive expenditure of energy under modernity. If “animatedness (Ngai) operates as a racialized iteration of exaggerated affect, how does one read the overdetermined sentimentali
The 20th century — an epoch of genocides — will be forever associated with feelings of guilt and shame. And it is not only the case of perpetrators. People are still ashamed of their ancestors and of the members of their nations, societies or families. Those who suffered from crimes and cruelties often experience survivor guilt, a mysterious phenomenon that psychotherapists try to tame. The status of bystanders is
The College English Association’s 53rd conference, from March 21-23 in Atlanta, will focus on the theme of transformations. CEA invites proposals from academics specializing in Medieval and Early Modern literature or cultural studies. We especially welcome presentations that focus on the theme of transformations in texts, disciplines, culture, media, education, and pedagogy. But in addition to our conference theme, we happily accept proposals on other topics of interest.
Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries
We are inviting chapter proposals for the edited book The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries. It is a collection of academic essays that scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and heroines in different folkloric traditions and narratives
The 20th century — an epoch of genocides — will be forever associated with feelings of guilt and shame. And it is not only the case of perpetrators. People are still ashamed of their ancestors and of the members of their nations, societies or families. Those who suffered from crimes and cruelties often experience survivor guilt, a mysterious phenomenon that psychotherapists try to tame. The status of bystanders is
Architecture and Architectural History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Film and Film History, Literature Mediated Ruins in Contemporary Landscapes of the Americas
chairs: Paulo Lorca Fuentealba (Cornell University) and Ashley Edlund-Chescheir (Cornell University)
Join us in Boston for NEMLA, March 7th-10th, 2024
Description:
The notion of ruin has a number of entries: it is a subject, a process, a cer
Now accepting proposals for individual papers, panels and roundtables for the biennial meeting of the Association for Philosophy and Literature. Please visit the websited https://www.philosophyliterature.com/gettysburg-2024 for further details.
Neoliberalism has become the economic background Latin American authors have written and published in the last twenty years. At the same, 55% of the world population lives now in cities; in Latin America, 81% of the total population lives in urban areas and cities. This panel focuses on the literary production of poetry and fiction that deals with both topics: how neoliberalism has transformed the urban experience and how this change is depicted in 21st century in Latin America. Since liberal
Shirley Geok-lin Lim claimed, “My Westernization took place in my body. This panel seeks to theorize the female Korean American body as a racialized and excluded site--a biopolitical site for trauma and haunting. More specifically, we seek to investigate representations of Korean women’s bodies in Korean/Korean American women’s writing and how these representations come to embody fidelity, disloyalty, and/or negotiate multiple affiliations and the movement between all
Journal of Advocacy, Research and Education (JARE) is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality original submissions (both empirical and theoretical), reviews, position papers and commentaries on multidisciplinary themes to address all areas of Sustainable Development Goals.
We invite researchers, scholars, practitioners and doctoral students to submit original research articles, reviews, and short communications for possible publication in JARE.
