Abstracts are sought for a NeMLA seminar entitled Decentering the Anthropocene: Spanish Ecocritical Texts and the Non-Human, which aims to expand critical study of representations of the environment in Spanish culture by exploring specifically the more-than-human. Our purpose is to highlight the central roles that the beyond-human has played in texts from the medieval through the post-crisis periods that counter those political, economic, and social strategies that have led to
This panel seeks to understand the relationship between Memory, Female Power, and Subversive Narratives. This is an important area of interest as the world continues to struggle with the growing voices of women who were intimidated, were forced to keep quiet or powerless, and how memory places a function in that role. World literature has long explored power in all its nuance yet it is important to understand how female power has taken control of a male dominated narrative. Literature can inc
Scenographers use drawing as an expressive and communication tool in rehearsal and in performance. They use it as a record of a thought process and an instrument for reflection. Drawing allows discussion and error and serves as a register of the creative process for all involved.
This conference aims at reflecting upon the artistic and pragmatic relationship scenographers, directors and choreographers have with drawing as a device for the creation of space and time of performance and
Imagine having provided a faithful translation of an Italian poem into Arabic, then having this Arabic text translated into French and the French version in its turn into Polish. Continue with this chain of translations using different languages (Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Dutch, German, Spanish). Last of all, have the text translated back into Italian. What would the result of this ‘game’ be? It would be a new text, certainly different from the original one and — maybe &nda
Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we announce two sessions for NeMLA’s 51st Annual Convention to be held in Boston, MA on March 5-8, 2020. Please find the CfPs below; abstracts may be submitted by September 30, 2019 via the links provided. Feel free to disseminate this invitation and send any questions to the organizers Erin Myers and Kate Bastin (erin.a.myers@gmail.com and bastink@eckerd.edu). Thank you for your consideration!
Call for Papers, for a panel at the next NeMLA conference, in Boston, March 5-8, 2020.
NeMLA’s theme this year will be: "Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures"
Help Thou My (Un)Belief: Reading Belief in 20th- and 21st-century American Literature
Studies of 20th- and 21st-century American literature have, in the last decade, increasingly opened to questions of religion. Some such studies attempt to examine an
India and EU are currently redefining their roles as actors within International relations. Amidst recent developments and challenges stemming from Brexit, European Sovereign Debt Crisis, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative, there is a pressing concern to accelerate India-EU cooperation to the next level. The potential gains of an effective partnership between the two are indubitable.
In recent years, growing convergence - between European and Indian counterparts on issues of p
Talking about different political slogans that she has written for different eras, namely “Cyborgs for Earthly Survival during Reagan’s era, “Run fast Bite Hard for father Bush’s era and “Shut up and Train for George W. Bush’s presidency , Donna Haraway declares that today her slogan is “Stay with the Trouble! (137) Amidst the very real and imminent threats of environmental disasters, rise of racism, and an expanding precar
Proposals invited on any aspect related to the topic described below:
Diversity, which in the US and UK had initially been associated with and largely confined to the areas of employment and college admissions, has recently taken center stage, most dramatically with the seating of the US House of Representatives on 2 January and the Golden Globes film awards 4 days later. Despite the gains, diversity remains a contentious issue even in an area asso
The proposed panel will analyze the relationship of music and music performance and the text within various national literatures, from 19th century to present day, by offering an overview of the different methodological approaches to this topic and investigating the role of music in literature. We invite a broad range of papers devoted to the analysis of the complex interplay of the two art forms, aesthetic and cultural interactions between music and literature, audience and performers, the n
Entrepalavras journal invites original research papers to its 20th edition, n1, v. 10, January 2020, dedicated to Phonetics and Phonology. The theme of this special issue will be “the phonic dimension of languages in the construction of meaning and structure. The issue will be published in April 2020 and its guest editors are professors Ronaldo Lima Jr. (Universidade Federal do Ceará), Luciani Tenani (Universidade Estadual Paulista) and Antonio Pamies (Universida
This panel seeks papers addressing the impact of alcohol on American authors from 1940 to 1970. Is it true, as Susan Cheever has argued, that being a writer during this period “almost always meant getting drunk? The panel will work to separate the myths from the reality regarding the use of alcohol among writers of the period. In addition, it will assess the impact of alcohol on the quality of writing and its impact on the talent of writers.
2019 marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Marian Evans, otherwise known as the writer George Eliot. The long trajectory of her personal and professional life was marked by early scandal and ostracism and ended with reverence for the “sibyl in the gloom. This panel particularly invites papers that consider how social ostracism is performed in her works, but also welcomes fresh approaches to a range of Eliot texts, from the familiar to the less studied.
Session Description: This creative session will present a collection of narratives and poems based on ethnographic fieldwork. The goal of this session is to encourage scholars to use alternative literary genres to explore concerns in the social sciences (broadly defined). We specifically call for presentations of ethnographic research as non-fiction narratives or non-fiction poetry. Rather than traditional academic nonfiction that foreground discussions of theoretical framewo
Deep Learning has got tremendous opportunities in various domains and therefore exploring the ongoing research at both national and international level is the need of the hour. Amalgamation of machine learning in cloud applications not only makes the technology affordable but also generates the opportunities in areas like customer support, business intelligence, fraud detection, inventory management predictive marketing and machine monitoring. Through this book, we want to prevail solutions t
CALL FOR PAPERS Papers and panels are invited for an interdisciplinary conference ‘Affects and Their Vicissitudes in The Postdigital Age’, which will take place in Warsaw, 24-25 October 2019. The conference is organized by the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and is a part of the project Technology and Socialization.
How do digital platforms impact textual forms at the level of production, dissemination and consumption? As the 21st century world becomes increasingly digitized, so too does our relationship to the ways in which we produce, engage, and distribute the written word. Following Nadia Ellis’s work on the intersections between nationalism and mourning as well as Lauren Berlant’s timely engagement with the fracturings of genre conventions under neoliberalism, this panel seeks to take th
SAMLA invites prospective conference participants to submit abstracts to our annual General Call for Papers.
The General Call will be used to build programming from accepted abstracts that did not resonate with any of our currently published CFPs. Abstracts will be reviewed internally, and accepted abstracts will either be placed on an extant panel or combined with other General Call abstracts to create new sessions.
"Revelry and Reverence" Baton Rouge Marriott, Baton Rouge, LA, January 30-Feb 1, 2020
Mikhail Bakhtin says, “The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extra-temporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities
The Queen of Suspense: A Patricia Highsmith Symposium 2019 — Poet of Apprehension University of Chester, Saturday 7th December 2019
Following the success of Queen of Suspense 2018, an international, interdisciplinary one-day symposium hosted by the University of Chester, we are pleased to announce the return of this event to Chester on Saturday 7th December 2019. This inclusive symposium welcomes paper proposals from academics, writers, independent researchers and p
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submitted papers should be approximately 3,000 - 5,000 words in length. Please read carefully all the other guidelines hosted at:
The second edition of the Conference Digital Art History — Methods, Practices, Epistemologies aims at bringing together established and early career scholars, independent researchers, and professionals involved with the transdisciplinary digital research initiatives, who are interested in critically examining a recent developments in the field of Digital Art History, Digital History of Architecture and Urbanism, Visual Studies, Museology, Digital Cultural Heritage, Social and Cultural H
