Category: Call for submissions

This is our new CFP for the July-August 2016 issue on Critiquing Humanism:

http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/announcement/view/3

Prospective papers addressing the issue should be sent to editors@sanglap-journal.in by April 15, 2016. The decisions will be communicated to the authors by June 15, 2016. The issue will be published in late July, 2016. The papers should be between 4000 and 7000 words in length including notes and references, sent along with an abstract not exceeding 200 words and five or six keywords.

Affective Ecologies of the Modernist Body: Call for Proposals (Edited Collection)

We seek to complete an edited collection on the modernist body with high quality proposals for chapters. The collection aims to examine ecologies of bodies’ relations to their surrounds in early twentieth-century modernism. From artist Hans Bellmer’s distorted dolls, to Rupert Brooke’s “dust” in a “corner of a foreign field,” to Virginia Woolf’s “orts, scraps, and fragments,” concepts of early twentieth century bodies – textual, phenomenological, cultural, political, and physical – fall to pieces, and we seek to ask how these pieces may aid us in reconceptualizing the modernist body in light of its new affective and ecological surrounds.

We welcome all approaches to the question of the modernist body’s conceptualization or re-/de-conceptualization, specifically those that span disciplinary and geographical bounds. Accepted chapters thus far address bodies in motion through dance, bodily thermality, erotics, decomposition, and bodily remainders in writers including W.B. Yeats, H.D., Lynd Ward, E.M. Forster, and Evelyn Waugh. We solicit proposals that may address topics that supplement or challenge these ideas, including:

·      “greened” or “queered” bodies

·      robotic, wounded or prosthetic bodies

·      negotiations of embodiment or permeability

·      affective landscapes and the body

·      environments of affect

·      colonial or non-Western modernist bodies

·      bodies at war in WWI or WWII landscapes

·      excesses of affect or disaffection on the homefront

·      suffrage, force-feeding, body activism

·      bodies’ publicness (or “publicity”) and urbanization

The book proposal will be sent out to publishers in January 2016, and chapters must be completed by June 2016. Abstracts of 300-400 words and a brief 2-page CV must be submitted to editors Molly Hall molly_hall@my.uri.edu and Kara Watts kara_watts@my.uri.edu by December 1^st. Please address your abstracts to both editors.

From Practice to Theory: A Forum on the Future of Modernism and Digital Humanities

We are seeking argumentative position papers for “>From Practice to Theory: A Forum on the Future of Digital Humanities and Modernist Studies,” a prospective peer-reviewed cluster for the Modernism/modernity Print-Plus Platform.

From digital archives (The Modernist Journals Project, Modernist Magazines Project, Modernist Versions Project, the Modernism Lab) to digital production platforms (Modernist Commons); from experimental reading practices (Infinite Ulysses, The Hypertext Waste Land) to recovery projects (Orlando, The Modernist Archives Publishing Project), scholarship in modernism has been at the forefront of digital humanities practice. As the twentieth anniversary of the Modernist Journals Project approaches, such scholarship is ceasing to be a novelty, and it appears that a distinctive digital humanities particularly of and for modernism could emerge. Given that this is a moment of transition in modes of scholarly research, what could this modernist digital humanities look like?

This cluster will theorize emergent or possible relationships between modernism and the digital humanities and seeks to consider recent digital projects and/or scholarship in order to distil original theses about “the modernist digital humanities.” Why does it seem so productive to use digital humanities methods to explore modernism? Are the digital humanities reinventing or rebooting a kind of modernism? What new models of modernism could emerge out of our engagement with digital tools?

Papers might address:

·       Definitions of digital humanities tailored for modernism

·       Definitions of modernism as seen through the lens of digital humanities

·       New genres or types of modernist digital humanities scholarship

·       The modernist roots of contemporary digital cultures

·       The limits of digital humanities for understanding modernism

·       Barriers or threats to digital scholarship, especially those specific to modernist studies

·       The political affordances—or blindnesses—of digital humanities in addressing questions of gender, sexuality, race, empire, class, religion, etc

·       The economic or vocational contexts of digital scholarship, including literal costs and the question of professionalization in a difficult job market

·       The relationship between modernist digital scholarship and pedagogy

Preference will be given to polemical essays that reflect upon the position of digital humanities within modernist scholarship. Readings or examples from modernist art and literature should primarily be used in the service of this larger thesis, not as ends in and of themselves.

Please submit abstracts of 400 words Shawna Ross (shawnaross@tamu.edu) by December 15, 2015. The Print Plus Platform is an online environment, and we welcome and encourage electronic supplements to your writing (data, images, film, code, demo). Full essays of 3,000 words are due by March 1, 2016.

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Dear fellow modernists,

I am writing to invite papers for two collective volumes on Ezra Pound now being prepared:

1. A Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts. Edited by Michael Coyle and Roxana Preda.

2. A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Economic Thought. Ed. by Ralf Lufter and Roxana Preda.

The recruiting process for both volumes is well under way and if you would like to contribute, please email Roxana.Preda@ED.AC.UK to make further enquiries, discuss your ideas, and/or submit an abstract for consideration.

All the very best,

Roxana Preda

U of Edinburgh

The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945

                      Special Issue Call for Essays

International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact

When former head of the MI5 Stella Rimington compared literary critics to the KGB, she might have extended the analogy to include the cultures, histories, and theories of espionage. Her elision highlights the growing interest in the genre and its international reach, as it calls into question divisions between nation states and ideologies and suggests new ways of thinking about relations between gender, race, citizenship, nationhood, refugee, agency, and subjectivity.

Strikingly, John le Carré has called international intrigue and its opportunities for interpretation — neverending

From legendary stories of Lawrence in Arabia and Mata Hari in the 1920s, to Borges’ parody of the genre, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” to Rebecca West’s 1949 study of fascist treachery, and onwards to retrospective films of WWII and Cold War espionage, the proliferation of spy fictions, reportage, biographies, and histories provides a mobile set of metaphors for artists working through conditions of belonging, exile, and outsider.  While Stevie Smith’s 1938 novel Over the Frontier poses life itself as “living in enemy territory,” Vladimir Nabokov’s 1930 novel Sogliadata (trans. ‘the spy’) explores the émigré as suspect.

Fictions of state surveillance and secret intelligence also bleed into real politics, as with George Orwell, who helped underground translators and publishers devise ever more ingenious ways of smuggling his political dystopia 1984 into Poland, and the 2007 release of MI5 files that exposed the widespread practice of spying on writers.

This special issue of The Space Between brings together new work and approaches to literary, film, TV, and interdisciplinary media studies of espionage and international intrigue from 1914-1945, including retrospective representations of the period.  Suggested topics include:

— The genre’s intervention in literary history and theory, including modernism,

intermodernism, the middlebrow, popular culture, and pulp fiction.

— The genre’s challenges to boundaries between history, fiction, memoir, reportage.

— The roles of propaganda, polemics, and/or parody in narratives of international espionage.

— Tropes of spying, surveillance, voyeurism and pastiche as they inflect literary technique.

— Philosophical and theoretical implications of espionage

Please submit inquiries and Essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation style, to the editors by December 31, 2016. 

Clare Hanson: c.hanson@soton.ac.uk

Phyllis Lassner: phyllisl@northwestern.edu

Will May: w.may@soton.ac.uk

Intellect books will launch its Mediated Cities book series April 01-03, 2016 with three books.

Digital Futures and the City of Today:  New Technologies and Physical Spaces. ISBN: 978-1-78320-560-8
Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices & Social Criticism Through the Lens. ISBN: 978-1-78320-554-7
Imaging the City: Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations. ISBN: 978-1-78320-557-8

This is a call for chapter contributions for the following book in the series from the perspective of all disciplines that engage with issues of the city, its design, mediation, representation and experience.

Contributions are welcome from urban design, planning, cultural studies, digital art, emerging technologies, social media, film, photography  etc.

The next book in the series will be drawn from the conference: Digital-Cultural Ecology and the Medium-Sized City.

For details: http://architecturemps.com/bristol-uk/

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15th NOVEMBER, 2015

This conference is organised by the journal Architecture_MPS, Intellect Books, the University of the West of England and the Centre for Moving Image Research. The publication series is a joint AMPS / Intellect Books initiative. See:
http://architecturemps.com/publications-2/

The Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, publishes a journal of communication (in French and English): Cultures de la Communication/Cultures of Communication.
The editorial team invites you to join them. Please send your intent to join the editorial team at: bhmors.popescu@yahoo.com
Please send your papers to Constantin Popescu, associate professor, PhD at: bhmors.popescu@yahoo.com.

Cultures de la Communication/ Cultures of communication is therefore interested in publishing studies, chapters from doctoral theses, reviews, etc. coming from different cultures of the world having elaborated different cultures of communication; according to the journal, teaching is continually mutual.

Manuscripts will have 10 to 15 pages (no pagenumbers), in TNR 12, 0 pt spacing, single line
spacing.
Left aligned, title (lower case, TNR 16, bold) will not exceed two lines. Paper size: 11.69″ x 8.27″ (29,7 cm x 21 cm) (A4). Margins have 0.79″ (2 cm). Author’s first name will be in lowercase, his / her last name – in uppercase. His / her full name (TNR 12) will be right aligned. Under author’s name: institutional affiliation and e-mail (TNR 12). Author’s name is separated from title by two blank lines (TNR 12).
Articles can have three authors, their names written one under another. Term Abstract is TNR 12, lowercase, bold; text of abstract (in English): about 200 words, TNR 11, lowercase, italics, 0 pt spacing, single line spacing. Between text of abstract and term Keywords, a blank line (TNR 12). Term Keywords is TNR 12, lowercase, bold; the words, in English (4-6) – TNR 11, lowercase, italics, separated by commas. Between keywords and first line of text, two blank lines (TNR 12)
Examples of references:
-books
BRUNE, François, 1981, Le bonheur conforme, Paris, Gallimard
-articles
BARTHES, Roland, 1964, “Rhétorique de l’image”, Communications, 4, p.40-51
-chapters in books, papers in anthologies, articles in edited volumes…
GREIMAS, A.J., 1973, “Les actants, les acteurs et les figures”, in CHABROL, Claude (ed.), Sémiotique narrative et textuelle, Paris, Larousse, p.161-176
Please send your papers to Constantin Popescu, associate professor, PhD at: bhmors.popescu@yahoo.com.
The deadline is December, 1, 2015.