CFP: MUSLIM WOMEN’S POPULAR FICTION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 5-9 SEPTEMBER 2023

 MUSLIM WOMEN’S POPULAR FICTION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 5-9 SEPTEMBER 2023

Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction AHRC Research Network International Conference

Birmingham, UK, 5-9 September 2023

Free to attend for all speakers and attendees.

Keynote speakers

Professor Claire Chambers

Dr Rehana Ahmed

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 G. Willow Wilson’s fantasy fiction, Ayisha Malik’s romantic fiction to graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi – Muslim women authors are embracing popular fiction forms and genres.

We invite paper proposals for a free international conference on Muslim women’s popular and genre fiction and film across all languages, forms and periods. We aim to bring together researchers to examine the global turn in popular fiction, and the concurrent ‘popular turn’ in Muslim women’s writing and film-making. Focusing on writing by women deemed ‘popular’ rather than ‘literary’, we encourage proposals that engage with under-studied popular and genre texts (including romance, chick lit, detective fiction, Young Adult, fantasy, life writing, and science fiction) from a range of critical disciplinary perspectives.

Indicative topics (not exhaustive):

• Studies of individual authors or works of popular and genre fiction
• Translation of popular and genre works by Muslim authors
• Visual culture (graphic novels, comics, film, TV)
• Digital culture (Instagram, YouTube, BookTok)
• Decoloniality and popular fiction
• Teaching Muslim women’s popular fiction
• Publishing and production

A key aim of the conference is to encourage collaboration between researchers working in similar areas but across languages, disciplines and genres. The conference programme includes time for researchers to meet previously identified and new research partners during structured sessions in which network members can plan for future collaboration. We intend to publish collaborative outputs resulting from the conference in an edited book, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction, intended for publication in Manchester University Press’ Multicultural Textualities series.

We have allocated funding to help with travel and attendance costs to make the conference as accessible as possible. The conference will be child-friendly, with play spaces available. We are investigating a hybrid option – please indicate in your proposal whether this is an option you would like to consider.

Please send abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers, including a short bio for all speakers, to a.burge@bham.ac.uk by 30 April 2023. Acceptances will be sent by the end of April. Panel proposals of three or more papers are also welcome. Please direct all queries to a.burge@bham.ac.uk.

For more information, go to: https://more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/

Funding generously provided by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Contact Email: 

a.burge@bham.ac.uk

URL: 

https://more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/muslim-womens-popular-fiction-international-conference/

Call For Articles-Edited Book: Indian Responses to 21st Century African Women’s Writing.

Call For Papers-Edited Book : Indian Responses to 21st Century African Women’s Writing.

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for an upcoming edited book on the topic “Indian Responses to 21st Century African Women’s Writing.” We are seeking contributions from scholars and researchers who are interested in exploring the intersection of Indian and African literature, feminist studies, and cultural studies.

The book aims to examine the diverse and complex responses of Indian readers, critics, and writers to the emerging and established voices of African women writers in the 21st century. We welcome contributions that analyze the themes, styles, and contexts of African women's writing, as well as explore the ways in which Indian readers and writers engage with, interpret, and respond to these works.

We encourage original and unpublished chapters that engage various themes related to the title “Indian Responses to 21st Century African Women’s Writing.”

Please refer the link for publication guidelines and themes -

https://bit.ly/Guidelines_Themes

We invite chapters that range from 3000-4000 words and follow the MLA 8 citation style. The deadline for paper submissions is May 15, 2023. Please submit your chapters to editor@limj.org

We are planning to collaborate with a reputable academic publisher and hope to publish the book in July 2023. We look forward to receiving your contributions and engaging in meaningful conversations around the topic.

Best regards,

Dr. Abhijeet Dawle (Contact Person: 9960765485)

CFP: Postcolonial Pirandello: Grotesque Plays/Fiction, Postnational Narratives, Ethnic Discourse Conference_University of London October 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

Society for Pirandello Studies Annual Conference

in collaboration with

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Postcolonial Pirandello:

Grotesque Plays/Fiction, Postnational Narratives, Ethnic Discourse

Saturday 21 October 2023 - Sunday 22 October 2023

Venue: Birkbeck, University of London

The annual two-day conference of the Society for Pirandello Studies aims to embrace a wide variety of methods and approaches to Pirandello's œuvre, and to bring together theatre professionals, critics and scholars representing a range of disciplines. Both in-person and online/from-home 20-minute papers are welcome. This year's conference sheds light on Pirandello's awareness of colonialist/nationalist hegemony and its relation to more recent practices of (fiction/theatre) storytelling. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Pirandello's work critiquing war and fascism despite his formal membership to the latter;

Pirandello's theatrical and literary representation of national and ethnic identity/-ties;

Pirandello's uncovering of colonial discourse & hegemony at play in the north/south and mainland/island (Sicily) cultural narratives;

Pirandello's metafiction: narratology, theory and practice;

Pirandello's influence on later theories of metafiction;

Metafiction and neighbouring categories, such as Romantic mise-en-abyme, the absurd, and the grotesque;

Characters in twenty-first-century literature, cinema, and other media;

Authorship, umorismo, and gender;

Metafiction and authorship across disciplines, including sociological, psychological and anthropological perspectives.

Abstracts and biographies of c.200 words each (in English) for papers of 20 minutes' duration to be presented either in person or remotely should be sent to Matt Mild at m.mild@alumni.maastrichtuniversity.nl and pirandello-studies@lcir.co.uk. Download Paper proposal form.

The deadline for abstracts is Friday 16 June 2023.

Society members registration fee (online or in-person participation) - 20 GBP

Standard registration fee (online participation) – 45 GBP

Standard registration fee (in-person participation) – 90 GBP

For further information about The Society for Pirandello Studies, including membership and Pirandello Studies (the annual journal), please visit our website at http://www.ucd.ie/pirsoc/ and Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SocietyForPirandelloStudies.

CALL FOR PAPERS :A Three-Day International YOUNG RESEARCHERS’ CONFERENCE (Hybrid Mode) On NEW RESEARCH IN ENGLISH STUDIES_EFL University Hyderabad

 CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of English Literature

organises

A Three-Day International YOUNG RESEARCHERS’ CONFERENCE

through the Hybrid Mode

On

NEW RESEARCH IN ENGLISH STUDIES

Conference Dates: 26- 28 April, 2023

Eminent Speakers:

Prof. Bill Ashcroft, Emeritus Professor in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.

Prof. K. Narayana Chandran, Department of English, University of Hyderabad

Prof. Kathryn Hummel, MIT World Peace University, Pune.

Prof. Luise Von Flotow, School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa,Canada.

Prof. Ajanta Sircar, Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Vellore.

Prof. Swarnavel Eswaran, Department of English and the Department of Media and Information, Michigan State University, USA.

Dr. Shilpaa Anand, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad.

Concept Note

The three-day international young researchers’ conference on New Research in English Studies from 26 to 28 April, 2023 (Hybrid Mode) intends to stimulate the cross-pollination of ideas in the spirit of NEP, 2020. 

This Conference will 

a) provide research scholars a forum to present their research ideas b)help them receive feedback on the choice of research paradigm, hypothesis, andmethodology, from experts 

c) facilitate discussion on recent trends in English Studies and 

d)help create peer-group network on new directions in English Studies. Selected papers will becompiled and published as conference proceedings.

We invite abstracts related to English Studies from research scholars enrolled in PhD programmes in universities across the world. The emphasis of the conference is on emerging paradigms and new explorations, so preference will be given to research papers on

new themes, orientations, and methods of inquiry. The broad themes and sub-themes are listed below:

1. New Humanities

a) Digital Humanities

b) Spatial Humanities

c) Medical Humanities

d) Critical Post-Humanities

2. Vulnerability Studies

a) Vulnerability as a Research Method

b) Assessing and Measuring Vulnerability

c) Vulnerability and Resistance

3. Identity: Representation, Culture and Politics

a) Theories of Representation: Intersectionality and Beyond

b) Media and Representation

c) Representation in Post-Truth Society

4. Visuality and Image Studies

a) Images, Circulation and Practices

b) Visuality and the New Media

c) Everyday Imaging, and Critical Thinking

d) The Flaneur and the City

5. Minority Discourses: New Approaches

a) New Frontiers in Dalit Literary Studies

b) Globalization and Diaspora Literary Studies

c) Alternative Literature Studies

6. Narrating and Theorising Nature-Human Connections

a) Ecocriticism and Geo-Criticism in Perspective

b) Literatures of the Anthropocene

c) Ecofeminism

d) Animal Studies

e) Blue Humanities

7. Oral and Performance Cultures

a) Theorising Orality

b) The Ritual Revisited

c) Issues in Performance Ethnography

d) Performance and Public Spaces

8. Graphic Narratives

a) Interpreting/Understanding Sequential Arts

b) Graphic Narratives: The Politics of Reception

c) Interart Poetics: Extant and Emerging Trends

9. Gender Studies

a) Disciplinarity and Gender Studies

b) Feminist Praxis

c) Gender Responsive Pedagogy:Issues in Ideology and Methodology

10. Fantasy, Myth and Folklore

a) Theorizing Fantasy and Science Fiction

b) Folkloristics and Modern Narratives

c) Retelling Myths: Critique, Ideology, Aesthetics

11. Translation/Transcreation

a) Literature as Translation /Translation as Literature

b) Translation and Gender

c) The Politics of Translation

12. Literatures of the Global South

a) South Asian Literature

b) Indian Art and Aesthetics

c) Postcolonial Diaspora Art

d) Refugee Literature

13. Narrative and the Self

a) Memory, Trauma and Literature

b) Life Writing

c) Auto/biography Studies

d) Food and Culinary Memoirs

14. Children’s and Young Adult Literature

a) Childhood and its Representations

b) The Body in YAL

c) Comparative Children’s Literature Studies

Abstract details: Email your abstract, of about 250 words, with a title, your name, institutional affiliation, email Id and mobile number. 

Please Follow the Format below:

Name:

Institutional Affiliation:

Details of Research Programme:

Email address:

Phone number:

Title of the paper:

Abstract with five keywords:

Paper presenters: Each presenter shall get 15 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

Participation details: Accommodation will be provided to out-station participants in the EFL University Hostel /Guest House (for paper presenters only). Travel expenses will be reimbursed to the extent of return sleeper-class railway fare for out-station participants. Food

will be arranged for all the presenters on Conference days. A paper presentation certificate will be issued to all the presenters.

Important Dates:

Submission of Abstract: April 6, 2023

Acceptance of Abstract: April 10, 2023

Registration: April 13, 2023

Registration Fee (MA students and PhD scholars): Rs 200/

For Faculty Members from other Universities and Institutions: Rs 500/

Submission of Full Paper: April 15, 2023

Email your abstract to: yrceflu2023@gmail.com

We look forward to your participation. For further details, contact:

Dr. Eligedi Rajkumar, Conference Coordinator, Department of English Literature, School of Literary Studies, EFL-University, Hyderabad. 

Email id: rajkumar@efluniversity.ac.in

Call for Proposals: Outcasts, Pariahs, and Criminals: Midwest World History Association 2023 Conference's

Outcasts, Pariahs, and Criminals: Histories of Others and Othering

Call for Proposals

The Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Midwest World History Association

September 22-23, 2023

Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)

Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2023

The Midwest World History Association is pleased to announce a call for paper, poster, panel, roundtable, and workshop proposals for its annual conference to be held at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois on September 22-23, 2022. The conference theme is “Outcasts, Pariahs, and Criminals: Histories of Others and Othering.” This theme builds off of last year’s “Difficult Histories” by highlighting the histories of and by those who have been othered. As many political leaders move to “shield people from feeling ‘discomfort’ over historic actions by their race, nationality or gender,” this theme is intended to invite presentations and discussions on how world historians at all levels – high school, community college, or university - can best create spaces within which to explore, share, teach and learn about contested topics. This year’s theme is also a recognition of the change in federal law that once again makes incarcerated citizens eligible for Pell grants and the hopeful increase of educational opportunities for those most impacted by the carceral state. As always, while designed to spark discussion, the conference theme is not intended to limit possibilities: paper and panel proposals on any theme and time period in world history are welcome. Similarly, proposals that focus on teaching and those that showcase research are equally encouraged. The MWWHA seeks to bring together college and K-12 faculty, and welcomes proposals from K-12 teachers, college faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, high school students, and public historians, as well as scholars and teachers working in allied fields.

This conference will be held in person at Roosevelt University in Chicago’s South Loop.

Please submit a 250-word proposal abstract and short CV to http://www.mwwha.org by May 15, 2023.

Questions about the conference can be directed to MWWHA's public discussion forum on its site, or you can email the conference chair at chair@mwwha.org. Where a complete panel of papers, roundtable, or workshop is proposed, the convener should also include a 250-word abstract of the panel theme. Individual paper presentations should be planned to last no longer than 20 minutes.

The MWWHA will offer up to three competitive Graduate Student Awards to help offset travel costs. Graduate students interested in applying should include a letter with their conference proposal explaining how the conference helps them with their studies, teaching, and/or future career plans as well as how their paper fits with the conference theme and the mission of the MWWHA.

We also invite accepted papers to be submitted to our journal, The Middle Ground Journal, for potential publication: http://themiddlegroundjournal.org/. Extra consideration will be given to papers for a special issue of the journal based on the conference theme.

Further information about the MWWHA, including membership and conference registration (when it becomes available), can be found at http://www.mwwha.org.

04th International Conference on Music, Drama, Visual & Performing Arts- 11th & 12th March 2023 Paris La Villette, Paris, France

Call for Papers

As a Scientific Research Conference Organizers, The Global Academic Research Institute proudly organized 04 th International Conference on Music, Drama, Visual & Performing Arts (ICMDVPA 2023) under the theme of “Art in Mind”. We welcome proposals for papers and invitations for abstract submissions are now open for both Oral and Poster presentations covering current research and new processes.All contributions should be of high quality. During the review period, Papers will be reviewed by eminent scholars in the respective areas. Two types of submissions are invited:

01. Full papers reporting on original and unpublished research.

02. Work-in-progress papers or Abstract.

The aim of Conference is to provide a platform for academics, researchers, professionals, administrators, educational leaders, policy makers, industry representatives, advanced students, and anyone in the domain of interest from around the world to discuss Music, Drama, Visual & Performing Arts.Please note that speakers are encouraged to submit a full paper before the conference. In addition, all the submitted full papers will be review by journal editorial board and few high-end papers will be published in international GARI e-Journal having ISSN and All Selected papers will be published conference printed proceedings & DVD having ISBN as well as conference library page.

For abstract submission fill in the online submission form or contact helpdesk@gariteam.com. Presentation time allocated 20 mins (15 min presentation 05 min questions)

Print & Online proceedings Book will include "EXTENDED ABSTRACTS";

Extended abstracts should be at least three pages, but not more than five pages in length including the references. The word limit is 1000 - 1200 words.

GARI International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research

NOTE : Special for Overseas Delegates (Due COVID-19 a pandemic) If you unable to Travel

Virtual Delegate Presentation (via ZOOM platform) is available at the conference & All the presentations LIVE STREAM on Facebook. After the event, We post the Print Certificate & Proceeding

Conference Scope

SCOPE

History and Theory of Art

Multimedia Arts

Multi-Disciplinary Design

Painting

Printmaking

Sculpture

Textile and Wearable Arts

Visual Communication Design

Ceramics

Dance, Oriental Ballet & Modern Dance

History and Theory of Dance & Drama

Indian & Asian Dance

Sri Lankan Dance: Kandyan, Low-Country Dance, Percussion Music & Sabaragamuwa Dance

Applied Music & Mass Communication

Ethnomusicology

Musicology

North Indian Classical Music

South Indian Music

Western Music

Rock / Stone Art

Visual, Performing & Technological Arts

Music, Drama & Literature

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline

15th February 2023

Notification of acceptance

Within 03 Days

Full Paper submission deadline

25th February 2023

Registration Deadline

20th February 2023

Submission Guideline

SUBMISSION

Guidelines for Extended Abstract

Download

Full Paper

Download

Abstract Submission Template

Download

Every presentation give 20min allocated (15min presentation & 05min questions)

https://performingartsconference.globalacademicresearchinstitute.com/main/paris

CFP for "The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium"

CFP for "The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium"
by E Lev Feinman

The Department of Childhood Studies and the Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University- Camden invite proposals for “The Girl in Theory,” a virtual symposium to be held March 29-31, 2023.

This symposium invites exploration of what it means to theorize through and with the girl and the category of girlhood. Well beyond the boundaries of “girlhood studies,” the girl often lurks where she is not an explicit subject of inquiry. As a figure enmeshed in processes of racial capitalism, colonialism, and carcerality, how might the girl inform visions of, and struggles for, transformation and liberation? In joining ongoing critical conversations in the field of Black girlhood studies and beyond, the symposium seeks to position critical girlhood studies as a viable field that has much to offer contemporary modes of thought and inquiry.

This symposium centers critical conversations on the generative tensions and future possibilities of scholarship on girls and girlhoods. What does it mean to invoke “the girl” as the central subject of research and inquiry? In an ever-shifting landscape of gender politics that push beyond binary categories and narrow identities, what does the category of “the girl” have to offer critical research? How are scholars attending to shifting definitions of “the girl” and “girlhood”? And how might these generative tensions push the field of girlhood studies in new, critical directions? These are the questions “The Girl in Theory” will explore.

Some themes this symposium seeks to investigate:

(Re)defining the “girl” / challenging the bounds of girlhood

Racializing, queering, transing, and cripping girlhoods

Possibilities of indigenous and transnational girlhoods beyond the legacies of colonialism

Semiotics, affect, and aesthetics of girlhood (appropriative, sexualized, or otherwise)

Girlhood as it (dis)appears in history, media, literature, or art

Girlhood in public institutions (carceral, educational, governmental) and processes

Futures of Girlhood Studies as a field or discipline

This inaugural Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium will also serve as the launch for the Girlhood Studies Collective, a new scholarly community for further research and collaboration on girls and girlhood.

The symposium will be held virtually on March 29-31, 2023. We especially welcome interdisciplinary proposals from emerging scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students. The deadline for submissions is February 5, 2023.

Paper submissions should be for 10-15 minute presentations. Submissions should include a paper title and a 250-300 word abstract, along with the presenter’s name, university affiliation, email address, and a short bio (3-5 sentences). Academic paper presentations on any current or recent research, side projects, or possible future projects, unfinished, and work-in-progress papers are

welcome. We also welcome roundtable or panel proposals, and ask that you include information for all panelists in one submission.

Please submit required materials at girlhoodstudiescollective.com by February 5, 2023. All future symposium information, schedules, and announcements will be posted at that site.

Please send any questions to girlhoodstudiescollective@gmail.com. Notifications of acceptance and preliminary schedule are expected to be sent by February 26th. The conference is free of charge but does require advance registration. Registration will open in winter 2023. A finalized schedule will be sent out in March 2023.

Contact Email: girlhoodstudiescollective@gmail.com

URL: https://www.girlhoodstudiescollective.com/