Call for Publications: #Ecocriticism, #Sustainability and the #Literature

In today's world, we bear witness to epidemics and pandemics, the global climate change caused by human actions, as well as ecological collapse marked by floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes. These events underscore the risks and challenges of a human-centered way of life. At the same time, they remind us of the need to reconsider our binary and hierarchical divisions between humans and the Earth, humans and animals, mind and body, nature and culture.

In the 1970s, William Rueckert's groundbreaking work 'Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism' (1978) delved into the relationships between humans and non-humans, the deep history of our planet, environmental transformations, and the changing micro and macro climates, all within the context of literature. Since then, these ideas have found a systematic place in the fields of cultural and literary studies and literary criticism.

Today, in the Anthropocene, we actively engage with post-human theories, ecofeminism, feminist new materialism, affect theory, actor-network theory, speculative realism, and sustainability.

'Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies' will center its 6th issue on the theme of 'Ecocriticism, Sustainability, and Literature,' set for April 2024. The issue welcomes essays that explore literary works, both fictional and non-fictional, from the early Ottoman period to contemporary Turkey. within an ecological perspectives, offering a comparative global literary outlook.

 

Possible topics:

• Environmental History
• Memory Studies
• Gender Studies, Feminism, and Sustainability
• Literary Theories
• Genre Studies
• Film Studies
• Video Games
• Graphic Novels
• Environmental Disasters, Epidemics, and Famine
• Post-humanism
• Critical Animal Studies
• Turkish and Ottoman Literature
• World Literature(s)
• Folklore / Fairy Tales
• Migration and Colonialism, Postcolonialism
• Travel Writing
• Translation

Contact Information

editor@nesirdergisi.com

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URL  http://nesirdergisi.com

#CFP: #Feminism and the Study of the European #Witch-Trials -Journal (Winter 2024).

Throughout most of Europe and its colonies, through the better part of three centuries, accusations of and executions for the crime of witchcraft primarily targeted women – a fact not lost on even the earliest feminist histories (e.g. Matilda Joslyn Gage, Women, Church, and State, 1893). But most early histories of witchcraft tended to downplay issues of gender (see Jan Machielsen, The War on Witchcraft, 2021), while the flowering of witchcraft historiography in the 1970s and 1980s was marred by condescending polemics against ahistorical martyrologies of second-wave feminism such as those of Andrea Dworkin and Starhawk. This changed in the 1990s and early 2000s, when a wave of archivally grounded, theoretically sophisticated, unabashedly feminist scholarship on the witch-trials appeared. Elizabeth Reiss explicated the policing of Damned Women in Puritan New England (1997); Sigrid Brauner depicted witches as the inverse of Protestant Fearless Wives (1995); Deborah Willis (Malevolent Nurture, 1995) and Lyndal Roper (Oedipus and the Devil, 1994) deployed psychoanalytic models to explain misogynist depictions of older women as witches.

Although some degree of gender analysis is now, rightly, standard in any treatment of early modern beliefs and practices related to witchcraft or witch trials, and although that gender analysis is foregrounded in many excellent recent monographs (Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic, 2013; Erika Gasser, Vexed with Devils, 2017; Laura Kounine, Imagining the Witch, 2018), explicitly feminist analysis has faded from the scholarly study of witchcraft. Popular feminist sensibility informs many mass-market books on witchcraft (Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists, 2017; Sarah Lyons, Revolutionary Witchcraft, 2019), and a feminist ethos remains central to Pagan Witchcraft and to scholarship about it (Laurel Zwissler, Religious, Feminist, Activist, 2018); but feminist engagement seems largely lacking from recent scholarly treatments of historical witchcraft trials or persecutions. Feminist scholars outside the narrow circle of witchcraft history have turned for insight to the writings of feminist scholars who have filled the vacuum thus created with ahistorical narratives that repeat long-debunked tropes and poorly serve the need for a serious feminist engagement with the witch trials (Silvia Federici, Calaban and the Witch, 2004, and Witches, Women-Hunting, and Women, 2018; Mona Chollett, In Defense of Witches, 2023). Let us Discuss!

The journal Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft invites submissions for a Discussion Forum aimed at reinvigorating the feminist historical study of witchcraft and witch trials, in Europe and by European colonizers, in the period of roughly 1400-1800. Contributions from junior scholars, and from scholars writing from and/or about historically marginalized communities, are especially welcome.

If interested, please send an abstract of about 100-150 words to MRW co-editor Michael Ostling by December 31, 2023, at michael.ostling@asu.edu . Or contact with questions.

Full drafts of those contributions accepted for inclusion in the Discussion Forum will be due April 30 2024. Anticipated publication in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft volume 19.3 (Winter 2024).

Discussion Forum pieces tend to be short (2000-4000 words) and conversational. While they may be theoretically sophisticated and grounded in detailed scholarship, they should also be accessible to audiences across a wide range of disciplines and positionalities. Please write accordingly.

Contact Information

Michael Ostling

Contact Email

michael.ostling@asu.edu

#CallForPublications: #Academics, #Activists, and "#Superstition" -February 28, 2024.

 

“Superstition.” Historians, folklorists, anthropologists, scholars of religion have long critiqued the term, and taught our students to do so as well. Always unavoidably ascriptive, it functions to divide: true religion from primitive magic, right reason from blind faith, “us” from “other.” Whether deployed by Stoic philosophers against the silly practices of the plebians, by medieval urban Catholics against rural “pagans,” by early modern Protestants against Catholics, by Victorian scholars against colonized and Indigenous peoples, or (across millennia) by men against the beliefs and practices of “old wives” and women more generally, the category of “superstition” is a weapon of domination and marginalization.

“Superstition.” Human rights activists, disability activists, advocates for the elderly or for children languishing in “witch camps” have recently deployed the term to great pragmatic effect. Organizations such as the #Maharashtra Blind Faith Eradication Committee in India and Advocacy for Alleged Witches in Nigeria shame the accusers of alleged witches as “superstitious.” By doing so, they forge alliances with international humanist movements, align themselves with the language of human rights organizations forged in the Enlightenment tradition, and effect policy changes to the benefit of the demonized. In a historical twist, the category of “superstition” can be a weapon of the marginalized against domination, violence, and dehumanization.

Contributions from junior scholars, and from scholars writing from and/or about historically marginalized communities, are especially welcome.

If interested, please send an abstract of about 100-150 words to MRW co-editor Michael Ostling by February 28, 2024, at michael.ostling@asu.edu, or contact us with questions.

Full drafts of those contributions accepted for inclusion in the Discussion Forum will be due June 30, 2024. Anticipated publication in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft volume 20.1 (Spring 2025).

Discussion Forum pieces tend to be short (2000-4000 words) and conversational. While they may be theoretically sophisticated and grounded in detailed scholarship, they should also be accessible to audiences across a wide range of disciplines and positionalities: historians and sociologists, philosophers and activists, policy actors and ethnographers. Please write accordingly.

Contact Information

Michael Ostling

Contact Email

michael.ostling@asu.edu

Call for Papers: #Gender #Studies Area of the #Popular #Culture #Association-March 27-30, 2024-#Chicago, #Illinois.

 The Gender Studies area of the Popular Culture Association explores a broad range of intersections between gender and popular culture, whether within popular culture texts or practices.

The Gender Studies area is now considering proposals for papers, panels, and/or roundtables for the 2024 annual conference. Deadline for proposals is November 30, 2023. Visit https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines for submission instructions. The conference will be March 27-30, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.

Topics could include, but are not limited to, the representation of gender identity and gender expression within popular culture; advertising appeals that go beyond the gender binary; the potential  of popular culture to educate audiences about diversity, equity, and inclusion; the role of gender in athletics; and popular culture responses to recently passed or proposed legislation related to reproductive rights, drag performances, and teaching about gender identity. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are welcome from disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.

Proposals for paper presentations require a 150-200 word abstract.

For a proposed panel (4 papers on a common theme or topic), individual presenters should submit an abstract of 150-200 words for their own paper, and the panel chair should contact Dr. O’Reilly to assemble the papers into a panel.

For a proposed roundtable (assembled conversation around a topic without formal, prepared presentations), please contact Dr. O’Reilly with your proposed topic.

Individuals must be current, paid members to submit to the conference.  

Contact Information

Julie D. O’Reilly

Heidelberg University

310 E. Market St.

Tiffin, OH 44883

419.448.2094

 

Contact Email

joreilly@heidelberg.edu

URL https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines

Call for abstracts: The Law and Humanities Roundtable 2024. Kafka's imprint on law and the arts, 100 years since The Trial.

Franz Kafka’s writings left a lasting imprint, and continue to provoke fascination, debate, and deep scholarly analysis more than 100 years after the first publication of his early stories in 1908. Kafka’s engagement with topics related to law acutely resonate with contemporary reflections on the nature of law, its functions, its forms. At the same time, Kafka’s works provide fruitful avenues for humanities scholarship on law and law-related topics such as power, the state and the individual, legal procedure and administration, guilt and shame, the role and behaviour of lawyers, to name just a few. The approaching 100^th anniversary of the first publication of The Trial (1925) is an opportunity to reassess the value of Kafka’s work as well as reasons for its continuing relevance for law and the arts. This is the theme for the sixth annual Law and Humanities Roundtable workshop (early July 2024, date tbc), to be followed by a special issue of the journal (2025).

We invite submission of abstracts for paper presentations on themes and topics coalescing around the question of how Kafka’s writings – including the novels and short stories – have shaped, influenced, and impacted humanities scholarship on law.  We welcome submissions on a broad range of topics and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including interdisciplinary contributions. Papers may focus on the texts themselves, their translation, performance, and adaptation in other arts formats, including the visual arts and media, theatre, and film. Abstracts can be submitted by email to David Gurnham (d.gurnham@soton.ac.uk).

Submission Instructions

Deadline for submission of abstracts for paper presentations: Tue 2^nd January 2024

Decisions on selection of abstracts: Tue 30^th January 2024

Roundtable workshop (‘Kafka’s imprint on Law and the Arts’): University of Southampton, July 2024

Please note that submissions can also be considered for the special issue celebrating the 100^th anniversary of The Trial’s first publication (contributions to which will include, but will not be limited to, articles on that novel). Please indicate whether you wish your paper to be considered for the special issue. A separate call for the special issue will be issued with its own schedule for the submission of written-up articles following the Roundtable. Full articles submitted for the special issue will be rigorously peer-reviewed before making any offer of publication.

Contact Information

David Gurnham (Editor in Chief, Law and Humanities and Roundtable co-convenor): d.gurnham@soton.ac.uk

Ekaterina Yahyaoui (Guest editor of the special issue and Roundtable co-convenor): ekaterina.yahyaoui@universityofgalway.ie

URL

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/law-humanities-abstracts/

CFP: #Crises, #Challenges and #Post-Pandemic #Prospects in #Teaching #Languages for Specific and #Academic #Purposes-Special Issue 4/2024 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia

Special issue information: 

This special issue focuses on Languages for Specific Purposes and welcomes papers taking a research, pedagogical or theoretical perspective on the topic.  

Language for specific purposes (LSP) is an approach to language education based on identifying the specific language features, discourse practices, and communicative skills of target academic groups, and which recognizes the subject-matter needs and expertise of learners.  It sees itself as sensitive to contexts of discourse and action and seeks to develop research-based pedagogies to assist study, research or publication in English.  It requires teachers to identify the diversity of disciplinary languages used in the workplace or academy and encourage students to engage analytically with target discourses and develop a critical understanding of the contexts in which they are used. This is probably the most widely adopted approach to language instruction in higher education today, involving thousands of teachers and students across the world.  

Students now take a broader and more heterogeneous mix of academic subjects, some of which involve modular or joint degrees and emergent ‘practice-based’ courses such as nursing, management and social work. Further, they now have to deal with a broad range of modalities and presentational forms beyond written texts, and must learn to negotiate a complex web of disciplinary specific text-types, assessment tasks and presentational modes in order first to graduate, and then to operate effectively in the workplace.  

 

This special issue of Studia addresses research on LSP or the application of understandings from it in the classroom. We are not only interested in empirical research but also classroom practices, and theoretical discussions. A point of central importance is that each chapter is directly about specific language instruction, either using English or another language. We are aware that LSP instruction occurs in a wide range of settings, is aimed at learners with various backgrounds (immigrant, foreign language, 3rd language, etc.), operates in various contexts (e.g., genre-based pedagogy, teaching for general or specific academic/occupational purposes), focuses on different modalities (print-based, digital, multimodal, oral), and encompasses a host of teacher activities (e.g., syllabus design, materials development, instructional delivery, provision of feedback, assessment). We are interested in papers covering any topical aspects in these diverse academic contexts.  

 

Manuscript submission information: 

You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline.  

In this Special Issue we are interested in publishing both full-length articles (6000-7000 words including references) and shorter reports on teaching or classroom practices (2500 -3000 words). All submissions should be in English and relate to the topic of the Special Issue. 

Please include the following with your submission: 

● Name(s) of author(s), institutional affiliation and bionote  

• Type of submission 

● Working title  

For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact octaviazglobiu@ubbcluj.ro 

Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript. 

Submission deadline: 15 February 2024 

 

Contact Information

Guest editors

Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia, UK K.Hyland@uea.ac.uk

Dr. Octavia Raluca Zglobiu-Sandu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania octavia.zglobiu@ubbcluj.ro

Dr. Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania andrada.pintilescu@ubbcluj.ro

Contact Email

philologia.studia@ubbcluj.ro

URL

http://studia.ubbcluj.ro/serii/philologia/pdf/CFP_4_2024.pdf

No Publication Charges_Call for Book Chapters/Research Papers for Edited Book -#Cultural #context and #English #language #teaching in #India - IIP International #Publishers, #USA & #India

Aim & Scope: 

The aim of this book is to explore the intricate relationship between cultural context and English language teaching in India, shedding light on how cultural factors influence language acquisition and pedagogical practices. This comprehensive work seeks to provide educators, researchers, and policymakers with insights and strategies to navigate the dynamic interplay between culture and language teaching in the Indian context. The scope of this book is wide-ranging, covering both theoretical and practical aspects of cultural context and English language teaching in India. It delves into the sociocultural, historical, and linguistic dimensions that shape language acquisition, classroom dynamics, and curriculum development. The book will also examine the challenges and opportunities of incorporating local cultural elements into English language education. 

LIST OF TOPICS: 

1. Understanding Cultural Context in Language Teaching

 2. Impact of Cultural Factors on Language Learning 

3. Sociocultural Influences on English Language Teaching 

4. Multilingualism and Language Identity in Indian Education 

5. Cultural Diversity in English Language Classrooms 

6. Integrating Local Culture into Language Curricula 

7. Addressing Cultural Bias in Language Assessment

 8. Developing Intercultural Competence in Language Educators

 9. Technology and Cultural Enrichment in Language Learning 

10. Policies for Culturally Inclusive Language Education 

11. Case Studies: Successful Integration of Culture in Language Teaching 

12. Challenges and Future Prospects in Culturally Sensitive Language Education 

The proposed book will provide a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between cultural context and English language teaching in the Indian context. By examining theoretical underpinnings, practical strategies, and case studies, this book aims to be an essential resource for educators, researchers, and policymakers committed to fostering effective and culturally sensitive English language education in India

Chapter Submission Procedure: 

Step 1: Go to IIP website www.iipseries.org 

Step 2: Register in the portal by clicking on Signup

 Step 3: You can submit chapter at your dashboard or directly through IIP website after you login 

Step 4: Click on submit chapters 

Step 5: Select the book series title along with Book Series ID to which you wish to submit 

Step 6: Upload all necessary details along with your chapter in word file format. 

Refer IIP Chapter format at download in IIP Website 

Author Benifits: 

1. Selected chapters (not all) will be indexed in RSquareL and other indexing platforms including Amazon, Google Books etc. 

2. Publication of chapter in book series with ISBN/ISSN 

3. Publishing in IIP Proceedings Digital Library with DOI

 4. Open access mode of publication in IIP Digital library 

5. Optimized searching options to increase the visibility of the work to readers and other researchers which helps in citations. 

6. Unique dashboard to Author 

7. Easy paper/chapter management system with transparency of the process including peer review 

8. Adds points to API as per NAAC & NBA (India) and other accreditation bodies from abroad 

9. One complimentary copy per chapter 10. Certificate to all authors who contributed chapter(s) 

Important Dates: 

Chapter/paper submission starts on: 1,SEP 2023

Last date for chapter 30 Nov 2023

Paper submission: 31 

Acceptance notificatijon: Jan 31 2024 

Last date for registration: Feb 28 2024

Support from IIP to the Editors & Authors 

*Reviewing support from IIP Reviewers 

*Plagiarism checking service through Turnitin 

*Submission management 

*Registration management 

*Individual dashboard 

For any queries Contact:8309147264 

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