CFP: #Disability and Detective Fiction (theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection) -Clues Journal

 The guest editors welcome proposals for a theme issue of Clues focusing on the representation of disability, broadly defined, in crime and mystery fiction, television shows, films, and other media. We seek a wide range of critical and cultural perspectives on how bodymind anomalousness features in stories about wrongdoing, from the maimed and scarred villains of Conan Doyle to the neurodivergent hero-sleuths of contemporary popular culture. In what ways have impairment, disfigurement, and disease been used to raise the stakes of fear and upheaval in crime stories? How do such narratives perpetuate or challenge ableist notions of order and resolution? Does corporeal vulnerability stoke our pity, sympathy, or admiration—whether for criminals, victims, or detectives whose genius seems to triumph over adversity? Conversely, do the contours of disability facilitate alternative modes of sleuthing and lead to unexpected forms of justice? What alternate forms of knowledge do these characters and texts present and endorse? Since the genre of crime by definition entails what and how we know, how have authors—over time and around the world—engaged disability to probe the meaning of truth? 

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

• Disability as the mark of criminality  

• Disability as a crime—or as damage—that must be redeemed

• Disability as metaphor for social decay

• Supercrip crime solvers and criminals

• Analytical prowess as compensation for physical or emotional loss

• Neurodivergence and the lonely sleuth

• Intersectional plots pairing disability with gender, race, class, and sexuality

• Disability as affective vector: upping the emotional ante

• Specific impairments as modes of knowing: detection and “cripistemology”   

Submissions should include a proposal of 250–300 words and a brief bio. Proposals due: March 15, 2024. Submit proposals to: Prof. Susannah B. Mintz, Dept. of English, Skidmore College, email: smintz@skidmore.edu, and Prof. Mark Osteen, Dept. of English, Loyola University Maryland, email: MOsteen@loyola.edu. Full manuscripts of 5,000 to 6,500 words based on an accepted proposal will be due in September 2024.

About Clues: Published biannually by McFarland & Co., the peer-reviewed Clues: A Journal of Detection features academic articles on all aspects of mystery and detective material in print, television, and film without limit to period or country covered. It also reviews nonfiction mystery works (biographies, reference works, and the like) and materials applicable to classroom use (such as films). Executive Editor: Caroline Reitz, John Jay College/The CUNY Graduate Center; Managing Editor: Elizabeth Foxwell, McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers

Contact Information

Elizabeth Foxwell

Managing Editor, Clues: A Journal of Detection

Editor, McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers

PO Box 611

Jefferson, NC  28640

Contact Email

journalclues@gmail.com

URL

https://sites.google.com/site/cluesjournal

Call for papers: Disability in World Cinema: Translating Subjectivity (NOV-2024)

This panel aims to address the question of the representation of disability in world cinema (fiction and documentary), while moving away from a purely historical approach that would primarily focus on the evolution of representation of disability to consider how Disability Studies have enabled us to reconsider the cinematic representations of disability. This panel hinges on the assumption that Disability Studies have given rise to a series of critical and theoretical tools, as well as to a renewed perception of disability that no longer sees it as a hindrance, but rather as a driving force for creation.

One of the objectives of this panel will thus be to observe how a certain number of artists working today are seizing on the question of disability to provide subjective and non-hegemonic representations that are often overlooked in more mainstream productions. Our approach for this panel is rooted in what constitutes the heart of Disability Studies, namely the possibility that the latter have offered to bring forth new modes of representation that value the lived experience of disabled people.

We welcome presentations that choose to explore the ways in which the theoretical tools developed by Disability Studies have fostered the creative process of artists who no longer perceive disability as the sole defining feature of an individual, but instead seek to translate the subjectivity of the disabled person through the affective power of the audiovisual medium. We are particularly interested in presentations that focus on works whose primary goal is to avoid the essentialization of disability.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

-The possibilities offered by the audiovisual medium to convey a more subjective and affective representation of disability (i.e. haptic images);

-How these modes of representation have redefined spectatorship and the way we approach images;

-How disabled artists are using the audiovisual medium to translate their own experience of disability.

Submission Deadline : April 30-2024

For More details: Visit https://www.pamla.org/

roc104@usask.ca

CFP: Two-Day International Conference TRANSFORMATIONS AND TRANSITIONS: EMERGING TRENDS IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE STUDIES -KL University-11-12th March, 2024

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The Department of English is holding a vibrant and joyful two-day event to share the pleasure and power of language and literature on 11th, &12th of March 2024 in a glorious scenic and invigorating atmosphere at KL University campus. We are delighted to place on record that this International Conference shall be an exciting mix of research discourse and debates. This is a programme of educational and inspiring events in our esteemed university involving students, scholars, expertise professors and critics. In short, this International conference is deliberately planned to mark stimulating dialogue and discourse to provide a rare opportunity to the academics to meet and interact with eminent personalities.

ABOUT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

The Department of English is headed by Dr. K. V. Divya, Associate Professor. The Department has 42 faculty members out of which 39 are Doctorates and 3 are pursuing P.hD. The sister Department, Communication and Soft skills has 6 Soft skills trainers who are vital to the University in achieving 100% campus placements in Campus drives. Two-year Post graduate course in English has been in progress since 2018. In 2023 it is restructured as M.A. in Digital Humanities and Language Studies. Research guidance to Ph.D scholars is actively in progress with 85 scholars and 35 scholars are awarded till date. The Department has published more than 500 publications in various reputed Scopus, WoS, International & National journals with high impact factor. The Department has also organized many workshops, seminars, National & International conferences including Literary Festival.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

KL(Deemed to be)University is situated in a sprawling 100-acre campus on the banks of Buckingham canal of the river Krishna, 8 kms from Vijayawada city. Built within a rural setting of lush green fields, the University is a virtual paradise of pristine nature and idyllic beauty. The campus has been aptly named ‘Green Fields’ and the splendid avenue of trees and gardens bear testimony to the importance of ecology and environment. The campus ambience is most befitting for scholastic pursuits. The mission and vision of the University is to be in line with international universities in imparting quality-based

education with moral excellence. The University takes pride in achieving a rich bounty of Awards for Educational

CALL FOR PAPERS

Well-researched and unpublished articles are invited on the theme of the conference. The following are some of the sub-themes

Anthropocene and Literature

Petro fiction

Blue humanities and Nautical fiction

Energy humanities

Pandemic Literature

Digital age: Cyber Literature and Digital Media

Digital Pedagogy & Digital technologies

Research creation in Digital Humanities

Graphic and Twitter Fiction

Revisiting Indian poetics

Gender studies in the Era of technology

Gender and Queer Studies

Biopolitics

Pain Studies and Trauma Studies

Intersectionality: gender, class, race and LGBT+ representation

Marginality in Cultural Texts Feminist /Postfeminist voices

Feminist histories: memory and trauma

Women empowerment: Breaking stereotypes

Masculinity Studies

Urban and Suburban Studies

Comparative literature

Translation and Diasporic literature

Kitchen literature

Multiculturalism and Diasporic perspectives

Revisiting the Mythologies

Dalit Narratives

Ecofeminism & Ecocriticism and Green Cinema

Climate Fiction

Animal Studies, Zoo criticism and Phyto criticism

Posthuman Studies

Crip Theory and Disability Studies

Green ELT

Renewable English

Latest trends in English Language Teaching

Digital Language Teaching

Flipped/blended class rooms

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Task-based Learning

Trends in Teaching ESL

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

Abstract Submission: 25th February, 2024

Abstract Acceptance: 29th February, 2024

Registration:5th March, 2024

Conference Dates:  11th - 12th March, 2024

PUBLICATION

Selected Papers presented at the Conference will be published as book chapters with ISBN. Full-length articles received by 29th February 2024 will only be considered for publication.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

An abstract of 100-150 words should be submitted along with the information in this order: a) author b) affiliation c) email address d) title of the abstract, and e) the abstract. Send the

abstract to: kluenglishconference@gmail.com

ACCEPTANCE

Acceptance will be sent by the Convener & Registrations Committee, within a week from the receipt of the abstract.

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation will be provided in the Guest House and Students' hostels of the University. Vijayawada /Guntur is moderately warm during the month of March. The temperature is expected to range from 30 to 32 degrees Centigrade during the conference days

Registration link

https://forms.gle/Dcb2DydfW5dcjftdA

For More Information Contact

Dr. K. V. Divya, 9866839934 | Dr. K. K. Sunalini, 9849942819

Dr. M. Suresh, 8500219841 | Dr. K. B. Glory, 9849592241

KONERU LAKSHMAIAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION

(Deemed to be University, Estd. u/s 3 of the UGC Act, 1956)

Green Fields, Vaddeswaram, Guntur Dist., A.P., India, 522 302

Phone: +91 - 8645 - 350200

CFP: International Conference on Belonging/Unbelonging: #Religion, #Gender and ‘Everyday’ #Politics in South Asia- Feb 2024- Mahatma Gandhi University

The intersection of religion, individuation and belongingness is a complex and multidimensional issue that has spawned many interesting academic debates recently. These debates, in general, have centred or problematised the continuous relevance and political force of religion in the face of modernity and rationality and the post-secular reformulation of their basic presumptions. The issue is more expressive and pertinent in the current attempts of scrutinising the intimate connections and contradictions in presupposing Submission and Agency, Sacred and Profane, Private and Public. Recent scholarship has focused on interactions between religion and political institutions, the vast repertoire of religious traditions and practices, and the distinctiveness of sacred belongings from other forms of belonging. There is also an emerging emphasis on the ‘everyday’ and religion and its reflection on articulations of believing, behaving, and belonging. Especially with a phenomenological turn in the study of religion, the religious texts, symbols and practices, therefore, are not understood independently of their social extensions. This development is crucial to studying the interface between the region and gender. The continuous acknowledgement of patriarchy in feminist scholarship has given rise to a gender perspective that has a nuanced understanding of belonging and un-belonging. Another site where gender meets religion is protests of various sorts by women’s movements in South Asia for claiming citizenry rights and social and political spaces (Sabarimala Issue, Nuns fight against sexual harassment, multiple debates and contexts around Hijab in Iran, France and Karnataka, women’s gathering in Shaheen Bagh against CAA etc.). It is in this context the School of Gender Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, in collaboration with the Centre for Cross-national Communication in South Asia, Mahatma Gandhi University is organising a two-day national seminar with a particular focus on the theme Belonging/Unbelonging: Religion, Gender and Everyday Politics in South Asia.

Major Sub Themes-1

SUB THEMES:

• Everyday Politics and Embodied Religiosity 
• Religious Diversity and Pluralism 
• Religion, State, and Governance Faith, Youth and Change
• Religion and Visuality in South Asia 
• Religion and Ecology in South Asia 
• Religion, Speech and Expression 
• Marketing of the Sacred and Spiritual 
• Migration, Religion, and Reformation 

Major Sub Themes-2

SUB THEMES 

• Religious Texts and Gender
• Religion, Gender and Activism
• Religion, Gender and Family 
• Religion, Body and Social Space 
• Gendered Mobilities and Immobilities in Religion 
• Belonging in Religion 
• Protesting Unbelongings 
• Religion, Gender and Disability Religion,
• Gender and New Media Religion, 
• Gender and Performance 
• Religious Polarization and Gender

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Conference date : FEBRUARY 28, 29

Submission link: https: //forms.gle/wzZfCp8QGP2yrJ4P8

Contact: conference2024onreligion@gmail.com 

Call for Book Chapters: "#Disability, #Race, and #Masculinity: #Disabling and #Resisting the Disabling of #Black #Masculinity"

Vernon Press invites book chapters for a forthcoming edited volume on the subject of "Disability, Race, and Masculinity: Disabling and Resisting the Disabling of Black Masculinity."

Emerging as one of the branches of health/medical humanities, Disability Studies has been of interest to scholars and researchers from Literature, to Psychology, Medicine, Law and the Humanistic Social Sciences. The past few years have witnessed the rising importance of and interest in informing disability studies from multidisciplinary, intersectional approaches. Understanding the term ‘disability’ often ignites questions regarding how and why one’s (dis)ability is distinctly understood and construed by a composite of factors like race, gender and class. How do existing theoretical frameworks diversify the conceptual and contextual understanding of disability beyond its traditional sense, linked only with defects or disease in the biological body? How do biological-physical impairment and the broader range of disabilities (social, legal, etc.) at once overlap and stand apart?

This book proposes to bring into its ambit critical trajectories offered within and beyond the periphery of disability studies that shape the meaning of disability as a product of social injustice, not just medical condition. Disability thus becomes a mark of, a way to understand, and a new venue for critique of the formation of minority identity, interrogating the social construction and existence of identities subject to the politics of social control.

David Mitchell and Sharon Synder observe that, “stigmatized social positions founded upon gender, class, nationality and race have often been relied upon disability to visually underscore the devaluations of marginal communities.” Douglas Baynton reveals that discrimination in United States against people of color, women and immigrants has been justified historically by representing them as disabled. This book will incorporate chapters and articles that will broaden by bringing into conversation the critical scholarship and discourses on disability, race and masculinity. The chapters will offer comparative study of works/texts, thus presenting a new body of theory to several fields of critical scholarship; it will offer fresh research and critical approaches to primary materials rather than secondary research on the topic. After an introduction informed by a thorough review of existing scholarship, each chapter will further contribute to understanding, interpretation, and theorizing of the intersections of race, masculinity and disability and fill in gaps or create new, interrogative spaces.

Contributors will expand current disability studies and thus serve to initiate new alignments in future race, masculinity, and disability studies. This is a scholarly effort to transgress beyond conventional responses by interrogating the intersections of race, disability, and masculinity.

Chapters will address the following themes, but will not be limited to:

• Race, Masculinity and Disability in Literature and Film
• Law and Social Justice: Disabled/ing Black Masculinity in US Prisons
• Politics of Spaces: Disability, Blackness and Masculinity
• Human Rights and Black Masculinity: Negotiating Identity with (Dis)ability
• Affect, Disability, and Black Masculinity
• Resisting Disability: Reading Black Masculinity and (Dis)ability
• Writing and Resisting Racial Disability in/through Life Narratives

Chapter proposal submission

An abstract of not more than 300 words, and five keywords must also be submitted along with a brief profile of the contributor to Dr Sucharita Sharma, sucharita.sharma@iisuniv.ac.in
Plagiarism report of the paper along with the full paper submission.
Kindly adhere to MLA 9th Edition style of citation.
The length of the full paper should be between 4000-5000 words.

The proposed deadlines are as follows:
Deadline for abstracts submission: January 30, 2024
Acceptance of abstracts: February 15, 2024
Full chapter submission:  April 20, 2024

Contact Information

Dr Sucharita Sharma

Contact Email

sucharita.sharma@iisuniv.ac.in