Below are the most recent Calls For Proposals sent to the English Department.
59th International Congress on Medieval Studies
This year the International Sidney Society is sponsoring three open sessions and invites papers on any and all topics related to Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert, Lady Mary Wroth, the Sidney family or their extensive British and Continental network, including Fulke Greville, Samuel Daniel, William Herbert, Alberico Gentili, Veronica Franco, Vittoria Colonna, George Buchanan, Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, Étienne de La Boétie, Giordano Bruno, Justus Lipsius, and others. We encourage submissions touching colonization, pre-modern race, ecocriticism and environmental studies, religious studies, translation studies, travel writing, and other topics related to the Sidneys and their network.
We encourage submissions by newcomers, including graduate students, and by established scholars of all ranks.
According to rules established by the Congress, those submitting abstracts for one session may not submit abstracts for other sessions in the same year. Papers submitted should not have been read elsewhere nor be scheduled for publication in the near future.
The process for submitting abstracts has changed. Starting last year, abstracts are no longer emailed to the session organizer. Instead, all abstracts are submitted through the Congress's Proposal Portal:
https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call
Abstracts should be between 150 and 250 words; abstracts that outline an argument are preferred. Reading time for the completed paper must not exceed 20 minutes.
Deadlines
- September 15, 2023 for abstracts
- Graduate students and independent scholars are invited to apply for the International Sidney Society Award, a financial award for papers of merit, if they submit their completed paper by April 12, 2024.
Please direct questions and correspondence to Joel B. Davis, jbdavis@stetson.edu.
For complete conference Call for Papers, see https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Call for Papers -
Panel 20365 SURPLUS FRAGMENTS: EXPLORATIONS OF THE CONDITIONS AND CAUSES OF OVERFLOW.
Description: Fragmentation is a response or a natural effect of surplus. To combat excess, we create new categories. As with waste, we dump the overflow into mounds that might not necessarily make sense together, collaging and piling entities together. What shape do fragments take when they are amplified in a work rather than silenced?
Surplus implies excess. Whether it be as an excess of people, objects, or materials, surplus connotes too much of an entity. With such overflow, there becomes a need to bundle and categorize, to make sense of the crowdedness.
Fragmentation is a response or a natural effect of surplus. To combat excess, we create new categories. As with waste, we dump the overflow into mounds that might not necessarily make sense together, collaging and piling entities together. What shape do fragments take when they are amplified rather than silenced?
This panel considers fragments as materials, objects, peoples, etc. that are perceived as excess, or are exiled and marginalized by their original contexts/communities, and are then reconstituted into a new framework of existence in life as in cultural production. This panel invites papers that are thinking about fragments as reconstituted and repurposed surplus elements in the form and/or content of texts from any genre (film, novels, stories, poetry, art, performance, etc.) and language tradition:
Some questions that this panel considers are as follows:
- How do the fragments negotiate the terms of their own existence and afterlives in the text?
- How/To what ends are excessive fragments represented in the form or body of a text?
- How do these fragmented constituents resist being homogenized under umbrella terms and categories?
- What is the political importance of highlighting fragments of people/objects as surplus and excess?
- What happens when you recycle and repurpose a surplus? Does it become a new entity, does it preserve any of its original being?
This panel invites cross-disciplinary proposals from researchers in literary and cultural studies, migration and cosmopolitanism studies, postcolonialism, and transnational and world literature on, but not limited to, the following topics:
ecocriticism, slow violence, neoliberal globalization in word and image, nation-states and contemporary postcoloniality, intertextuality studies, discourse and text analysis, modernity’s counter-history in cultural production, postmodernisms, post-nationalisms, and the conditions of refugeehood and humanitarian aid.
Please submit your 300-word abstract by September 30, 2023 through the NeMLA submission portal
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20337
Postcolonial Studies Association's (PSA) Newsletter, Call for Papers - Decolonizing the Ecological Crisis
We encourage submissions that consider how storytelling (fiction, memoirs, poetry, drama, performance, films and new media such as podcasting and video games, etc…) engages with topics such as:
•
environment,
justice
and
race
/
ethnicity
/
indigeneity;
•
environment,
justice
and
gender;
ecofeminism;
•
environmental
justice
in
relation
to
local
and
global
contexts;
•
environmental
justice
and
human
rights;
•
the
Anthropocene
and
climate
change
and
race/
ethnicity
/
indigeneity;
•
the
Anthropocene
and
climate
change
and
gender;
•
neocolonialism
and
toxic
imperialism;
•
petrocultures
and/or
extractivism;
•
relations
between
the
human
and
the
nonhuman
or
more-than-human;
•
multispecies
critique
Original
contributions
should
be
between
700
and
1,200
words
and
should
be
fully
referenced
using
Harvard
Referencing
Style.
Please
also
send
a
100-word
biographical
statement.
We
are
also
looking
for
book
reviews
in
relation
to
any
recent
books
in
the
field
of
postcolonial
studies,
especially
in
the
area
of
postcolonial
ecocriticism,
for
this
issue.
Reviews
should
be
between
500
and
1,000
words
and
should
be
fully
referenced
using
Harvard
Referencing
Style.
The
deadline
for
submissions
is
15th
June
2023.
Please
submit
your
contribution
via
email
to
the
PSA
Newsletter
editorial
team:
Francesca
Mussi
franci.mussi86@gmail.com,
Jennifer
Gray
jgray@tntech.edu
and
Priyanka
Tripathi
priyankatripathi@iitp.ac.in.
Call for Papers - International Journal of Business and Applied Social Science - Open Access Double-Blind Peer Reviews
Subject Area
COVID-19, management, marketing, finance, economics, banking, accounting, human resources management, international business, hotel and tourism, entrepreneurship development, business ethics, international relations, law, development studies, population studies, political science, history, geography, industrial relations, information science, library science, media studies, methodology, demography, organizational behavior and theory, strategic management policy, social issues, and public policy, management organization, statistics and econometrics, personnel and industrial relations, gender studies, journalism, and mass communication, corporate governance, cross-cultural studies, peace and conflict, library and information science, public administration, psychology, philosophy, sociology, women studies, religious studies, social welfare, anthropology, linguistics, education, and so on.
IJBASS is inviting papers for Volume. 9 No. 2, which is scheduled to be published on February 28, 2023.
Last date of submission: February 25, 2023.
However, an early submission will get preference in case of review and publication process.
Upcoming Issue: Call for Papers Vol: 9, Issue: 3, Publication date 31, March 2023
Send your manuscript to the editor at editor@ijbassnet.com
For more information, visit the official web site of the journal at https://www.ijbassnet.com/
International Conference on Games and Narrative (ICGaN) - Call for Proposal - This conference explores the many ways in which games utilize, exploit, and develop narrative forms. Along the way, we add to long-held discussions and debates about the nature of narrative in games: how gameplay facilitates and challenges narrative construction, how growing digital media create space for novel narrative forms, how game designers and players enact and shape their identities in narrative expression.
Dates of Conference: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023, to Monday, May 22nd, 2023
Hybrid Event: In-person at the Games Institute, University of Waterloo and Online
https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/sites/ca.games-institute/files/uploads/files/icgan_cfp-2023.pdf
Modern Language Association alphabetical Call For Papers - the Modern Language Association (MLA) has a call for papers (CFP)out for the 2023 annual convention.