Calls for Papers

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks submissions for its seventh biennial conference, which will take place March 14-16, 2024, in Pasadena, California. We invite individual papers or group proposals on literature and culture in and beyond the United States during the long nineteenth century.

The 2024 conference theme, THE END, speaks to the catastrophes of various scales, speeds, and epicenters in which we are living—from increasingly apocalyptic climate events to the dire state of our profession, threatened by the casualization of academic labor, ...

Panel for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, OR. October 26 – 29 2023.

Submit abstracts via PAMLA CFP system. Link to panel: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18860

Emerging as a rapidly-developing interdisciplinary field, scholarship in the Energy Humanities seeks to engage with how energy shapes cultural and creative practices of society. As scholar Derek Gladwin states in his book Ecological Exile: “The energy humanities offer a framework to discuss alternative energy models, aesthetic ways of presenting energy forms in public, and predicting energy futures” (71). Whether ...

CEP International Conference

Interweaving Anthropology, Science, and History: Postanthropocentric Novels in the Era of Climate Crises

Event dates: 1st to 3rd November 2023

Place: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Extended Abstract Deadline: 30 September, 2023

This conference organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur in association with University of Oldenburg, Germany can be attended both through online and offline mode.

Coordinator (s): Dr. Saswat Samay Das, Liberal Arts and Critical Humanities, Department of Humanities and Social ...

Proposed panel for ASAP-14, Seattle and Bothell, WA, October 4-7, 2023

We are seeking four papers for a panel entitled “Infiltration Visuality” for the 2023 meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Please send a 250-300 word abstract and short bio to srvolz@uci.edu by March 30.

Infiltration Visuality

This panel critically addresses the history, legacies, and tactics of police infiltration of revolutionary and activist movements, and reflects on cultural practices opposing surveillance capitalism and the carceral state. The Intercept ...

For a guaranteed ASLE-sponsored panel at the Rocky Mountain MLA annual convention, please send titles and abstracts on any topic related to literature and the environment to Jenna Gersie at jenna.gersie@colorado.edu.

RMMLA will be held in Denver, CO, October 11-14, 2023. For more information please visit https://www.rmmla.org/convention.

A Mostly Screen-Free, Zine-Full, Remote-Participation Conference on Experimental Methods for Research and Research Exchange

https://diymethods.net/

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As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to solve real problems in our daily lives and account for the constitutive effects of ...

The Promises and Limitations of Entangled Thinking in the Environmental Humanities

Guaranteed Panel of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

MLA 2024 (Jan. 4-7, Philadelphia, PA)

Panel Organizer: Sean Collins | University of Utah | u1140127@utah.edu

Deadline for Abstracts: Please email 350-word abstracts and CV by March 24th

Overview Entanglement—and related concepts like networks, enmeshment, imbrication, and relationality—is central to EH scholarship. At the core of these concepts is the notion of a relational ontology that does not clearly delineate between humans/nonhumans, self/other, and nature/culture. Instead, ...

Solarpunk Joy: Celebrating beyond Sorrow Proposed panel for MLA 2024, Philadelphia, PA January 4-7

This is a non-guaranteed allied panel with the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.

Panel Organizers • Phoebe Wagner | Lycoming College | wagnerp@lycoming.edu • Heather O’Leary | Illinois State University | hmolear@ilstu.edu

Deadline for Abstracts: Please email 250-word abstracts, with a 100-word bio, to the panel organizers by Sunday, March 19.

How do we overcome climate grief on the way to communal joy? Find comfort in a place of despair? Seeking papers ...

Call for proposals for the 2024 Modern Language Association conference to be held in Philadelphia:

What potential do “vegetal afterlives” or “vegetal resistance” (Marder) offer the recent human crises of war, pandemic, or systemic racism? Work on performance, literature, or culture widely defined welcome. Please send a 250 word abstract and brief bio.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Send to: Alicia Carroll, Auburn University (carroal@auburn.edu) Courtney Ryan, University at Albany, SUNY (cryan@albany.edu)

2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia, PA. A guaranteed session organized by the 19th-Century French LLC Forum. A roundtable with short papers on different forms of recycling (environmental waste, theories of sustainability, literary traditions, political regimes, etc.) in 19th-century French studies. Submit a 250-word abstract to quandtk@wabash.edu and ao358@georgetown.edu by March 15, 2023.