*CFP* "SHOWING THEORY TO KNOW THEORY: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE VIGNETTES", CATALOGUE E-CAMPUS ONTARIO

Funded by e-Campus Ontario, this collaborative, open educational resource (OER) will bring together a collection of 100+ short pedagogical pieces (500-1000 words) to help new learners understand complex theoretical concepts and disciplinary jargon from the critical social sciences. Each entry takes the form of an “illustrative vignette”—a short, evocative story, visual or infographic, poem, described photograph, or other audio-visual material. This OER will be of use across disciplines and community contexts, democratizing theory while linking it to practical, grounded experience. 

 

This FOLLOW-UP to our initial CFP is to gather submissions that address one of the remaining available terms in our catalogue. Please consult the online spreadsheet to select an available concept/term. Then email your Expression of Interest to the editors (contacts below), confirming the your selection AND the illustrative example that you would like to use. We will get back to you with any feedback. To create your vignette, follow the template attached to this CFP. Two sample vignettes are also included to provide examples of style, tone, and structure.

You may create your vignette as an expository text, story or narrative, illustration or infographic, poem, described photograph, or other audio-visual material.

*CFP* "PARALLELS AND TENSIONS: F. SCOTT FITZGERALD IN DIALOGUE", EDITED COLLECTION CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING

2020 marks the centennial celebration of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. Because a centennial is also a time to look back in order to reevaluate, reassess and then speculate on the future, we invite scholars to explore and analyze not only the lasting significance of Fitzgerald's oeuvre, but also the many possible parallels and/or tensions between his work and that of other writers and artists. Essays that turn to new perspectives and expand upon connections between Fitzgerald’s work and other literary and artistic expressions are also especially welcome.

Topics may include (but are not limited) to:

• F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Lost Generation (parallels, contrasts, tensions); 
• Adaptations and rewritings of Fitzgerald’s works into other artistic expressions (music, cinema, painting, poetry, dance, architecture and so on); 
• Fitzgerald, American and European modernism and counterculture; 
• Fitzgerald’s influence on international literature; 
• Fitzgerald’s influence on contemporary fiction; 

*CFP* "LITERARY AND ARTISTIC CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA AND THE US", BOOK CHAPTER

Vernon Press invites book chapters to be included in a forthcoming scholarly volume on Literary and Artistic Connections between Latin America and the US.

In spite of the often-unfavorable political relationship between Latin America and the US, artists and writers have always managed to transcend conflicts, establishing friendships and connections, as revealed in their works, cultural exchanges, and in associations such as international book fairs, multilingual poetry festivals, and the PEN Club. The intertextual dialogues of the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra and the poets of the Beat Generation, for instance, not only reflect what Harold Bloom called ‘the anxiety of influence’ but also a symbiotic sharing of historical perspectives, literary movements, techniques, and approaches.

This volume aims to examine the intertextual and interpersonal relationships between US and Latin American artists and poets and the commonalities reflected in their works.

Possible contributions include (but are not limited to):

*CFP* "REPRESENTATIONS OF HOME", FIRST ISSUE, ROAM CREATIVE JOURNAL

As a result of the pandemic, the RHOME 2020 Conference on Dislocation (22-23 October 2020) has been postponed. However, the good news is RHOME will launch the first issue of, its new creative journal, ROAM, later this year.

Now more than ever, in this time of social distancing and confinement, RHOME sees the need to continue its focus on the theme, the experience and the actuality of home, the place and abode that looms so large these days in the lives of everyone on the planet.

Our homes are being lived as never before, in different ways, as safe havens, sites of cosy domestic calm, or alternatively as places of containment, economic deprivation, even incarceration or violence. Many of us are separated from loved ones or deprived of our social gatherings and routines. We are also being challenged, being given time usually spent elsewhere to pass in our homes, to rediscover what our homes hold, explore new domestic skills, neglected hobbies, to sift and sort and to reassess our daily lives, what it is that makes up our selves, our values, and to recalibrate the interior and the exterior. This includes our broader social obligations, including to the less privileged and most threatened, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless in our home communities and abroad.  While social distancing has imposed severe economic challenges on communities, travel restrictions have created new opportunities, a breathing place for nature and the environment, and re-evaluation of its place in our lives.

*CFP* "MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED: PROJECTING LANGSTON HUGHES'S VISION DURING COVID-19", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE LANGSTON HUGHES REVIEW

Recently, in an epic #Verzuz battle organized by producer Swizz Beatz and rapper-producer Timbaland, the Grammy-Award winning singers Erykah Badu and Jill Scott appeared on Instagram live. Therein Scott invoked Langston Hughes as an inspirational artist, pointing to the poet’s continued popularity in the twenty-first century, especially during #Covid19. For countless African Americans, the death tolls from the virus, inadequate health care, unemployment, and white supremacist bigotry epitomize Hughes’s notion of the dream deferred. Video footage released May 26, 2020, showed officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department kneeling on Floyd’s neck for at least seven minutes in broad daylight. Floyd died afterward. CNN reports: “By the end of the video, he is seen motionless, with his eyes shut, lying on the pavement.”

Floyd’s horrific death occurred only a few weeks after video footage revealed two white men, Gregory and Travis McMichael, killing Ahmaud Arberry in broad daylight also. In yet another incident two months ago, officers of the Louisville Police Department killed Breonna Taylor, a twenty-six year-old black woman, after bursting into her home while she was sleeping in bed. As Hughes himself might argue, these events exemplify real-life versions of “Nightmare Boogie,” which appears in his book-length poem, Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951). Published nearly seventy years ago, Hughes’s groundbreaking work continues to speak to our conditions during the crisis of Covid-19. Recently, Elliot Cosgrove, a rabbi at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Synagogue, quoted the opening line from “Harlem” in his article on students’ disappointments about cancelled job offers and graduation ceremonies. He asked: “What happens to a dream deferred?”

*CFP* SPECIAL ISSUE, TINAKORI: CRITICAL JOURNAL OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY

Love and all its passions, pains, and ambiguities is a key theme of Mansfield’s short fiction. This special issue of Tinakori looks to explore Mansfield’s creative treatment of love in all its various forms: between lovers, friends, family members, parents and children. How do Mansfield’s Modernist literary strategies represent the emotions and experiences of love including the pain of separation and the dark shadow that is jealousy? Anne Carson suggests that the experience of eros is a study in the ambiguities of time. Lovers are always waiting. They hate to wait; they love to wait. Wedged between these two feelings, lovers come to think a great deal about time, and to understand it very well, in their perverse way’. How do Mansfield’s stories represent beginnings and endings and separations and reunions – topics that have autobiographical resonance for the writer? What is the significance of time and waiting for love? Do her lovers invent new worlds? In what ways can these be more imagined than real? Can love be ecstatic? Or demonic? This issue seeks to focus on the varied ways that Mansfield explored love as both pain and pleasure.

*CFP* "DE BACANTES A AQUELARRES. EL CONCEPTO DE BRUJERÍA. ORIGEN, TRANSFORMACIÓN Y LEGADO", II JORNADAS SOBRE MITOLOGÍA

II Jornadas sobre Mitología:

“de bacantes a aquelarres. El concepto de brujería. Origen, transformación y legado”

Grupo HISLA

Universidad de León (España)

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Campus de Vegazana, s/n. 24007, León (España)

Viernes, 13 marzo, 2020

El grupo HISLA, desde la Universidad de León, invita a participar en este congreso que se celebra del 27 al 29 de abril de 2020 en León (España). El plazo para el envío de propuestas expira el 13 de marzo de 2020.

Se abordará la figura de la bruja, conocida desde la antigüedad más remota, así como la evolución del concepto y la progresiva transformación del imaginario que la rodea, hasta sobrevivir y adaptarse a los nuevos medios y las nuevas estéticas propias de la cultura contemporánea. También se busca estudiar un fenómeno transversal global como es la práctica de la brujería para comprender la herencia social que ha dejado: un compendio de estudios y análisis en el que confluyen disciplinas, y que contribuye a desestigmatizar y comprender la visión peyorativa de la brujería en la tradición cultural occidental.

*CFP* II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE LA RED INTERNACIONAL DE UNIVERSIDADES LECTORAS 2020

II Congreso Internacional de la Red Internacional de Universidades Lectoras

Red Internacional de Universidades Lectoras

Universitat de Lleida

Facultad de Educación, Psicología y Trabajo Social

Avinguda de l'Estudi General, 4, 25001 Lérida (España)

16 y 17 de abril de 2020

La Red Internacional de Universidades Lectoras y la Universitat de Lleida celebran este congreso (en la modalidad presencial y en línea)  del 16 al 17de abril de 2020 en Lleida (España). Si se opta por la modalidad virtual, deberán seguir las indicaciones, que se señalarán en la web y en una segunda circular, y subir a la plataforma del congreso, que se habilitará para tal efecto, un archivo de Power Point con voz, de no más de 15 minutos. Además, deberán participar en el fórum en el que esté adscrita su comunicación.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES

The international journal, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) solicits papers on “Translation, Rewriting and Adaptation” for a special issue in 2021. HJEAS is available world-wide on ProQuest and archived on JSTOR. 

Scholarly essays are welcome on a wide range of related topics, such as novels adapted to film, drama productions based on films, free translations of classic drama for the Anglophone stages, continuation of novels or novels rewritten for a new kind of readership (e. g., Foe by Coetzee, The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, etc.) poetry and poetry sequences adapted for stage or performance. 

Essays should be 7-10,000 words, double spaced with parenthetical citations using Works Cited following the MLA Handbook 7th edition.

*CFP* "CRISIS PREDICAMENT AND POTENTIAL", SPECIAL ISSUE, AIGNE JOURNAL

Crisis is a concept which often has strong negative connotations, particularly in a world experiencing a series of economic, political, and social crises within various contexts, territories, and vocations. While crisis and predicament seem to have an intuitive connection, crisis is also a catalyst for invention and innovation: for potential. Crisis encourages us to experiment with both reshaped and unprecedented paradigms, even in uncertain or turbulent scenarios which could appear transgressive at the time presented. It is important to value and understand, in the context of new emerging mind-sets, the potential of these transformations and the impact they could have for the world we live in.

Aigne is seeking creative submissions (max. 4,000 words) which engage with this issue’s theme of Crisis: Predicament and Potential. We invite creative submissions in a variety of formats, including:

• Poetry 
• Short Stories 
• Flash Fiction 
• Photography

*CFP*, CALL FOR PAPERS, AUTUMN 2019, CEREBRATION: LITERARY JOURNAL OF ARTS AND CULTURE

Cerebration.org, a trans-cultural literary journal is seeking submissions for poetry, columns, fiction and articles for the Autumn 2019 issue. The is peer reviewed and is bi-annual. This call is for a non-themed open issue. 

Cerebration.org welcomes submissions from across the globe. Our goal is to create a trans-cultural space for critical thought and creative work. Submissions may cover a wide variety of topics and issues ranging from Politics, Culture and Literature to Science, Art, Music, Films and so on.

Contact: Amrita Ghosh -amrita.ghosh@lnu.se

Please send submissions in the various categories with a bio by October 31, 2019.

Cerebration is edited by Smita Maitra and Amrita Ghosh

*CFP* "TEORÍA Y TRANSVERSALIDAD EN EL ÁMBITO HISPÁNICO", PASAVENTO, REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPÁNICOS

'Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos' toma el nombre de la novela del escritor barcelonés Enrique Vila-Matas, Doctor Pasavento, cuyo protagonista viaja a Suiza tras las huellas de su admirado Robert Walser hasta desprenderse de cualquier atisbo de su propia personalidad y asumir las voces ajenas como si fueran suyas, convirtiéndose de este modo en metáfora y símbolo de la creación literaria. 

Desde esta concepción multiforme y plural del proceso artístico, el objetivo ha sido crear una revista de estudios hispánicos dirigida al lector e investigador especializado, y abierta a las diversas manifestaciones artísticas (narrativa, poesía, teatro, cine, cómic) que se han producido en España e Hispanoamérica a partir de 1975. 

El formato de publicación es digital, ofreciendo un acceso libre y gratuito a los contenidos de la revista. Se publican dos números al año (uno en febrero y otro en agosto), que incluyen cuatro secciones diferenciadas: dossier monográfico, apartado misceláneo, entrevista a un autor o autora y sección de reseñas científicas.

*CFP* "ESCRIBIR ÍTACA: LITERATURA Y EXILIO", V CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE JÓVENES HISPANISTAS, TEÓRICOS Y COMPARATISTAS

V Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Hispanistas, Teóricos y Comparatistas. 

«Escribir Ítaca: literatura y exilio»

23 al 25 de octubre de 2019

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Valladolid

Plaza del Campus s/n, 47011, Valladolid (España).

El personal investigador del Departamento de Literatura Española, Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada de la Universidad de Valladolid en colaboración con la SEMINCI (Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid) y GEXEL (Grupo de Estudios del Exilio Literario) organiza la quinta edición del Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Hispanistas, Teóricos y Comparatistas de la Literatura que se celebrará en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Valladolid los días 23, 24 y 25 de octubre de 2019 y que llevará por título "Escribir Ítaca: literatura y exilio". 

*CFP* "KIN", SPECIAL ISSUE 2019, COMPARATIVE WOMAN JOURNAL

Comparative Woman’s 2019 issue is looking for academic essays, poetry, art, interviews, and book reviews on our theme of “Kin.”

Theme: What is “kinship”? Is it merely biological or is it something that we choose? What are the bonds that we form? How do we form them? Why do we need these bonds? Why do these bonds matter? From Moms to Drag Mothers, covens to close-knit communities and cults, and siblings to fraternities: how do we recognize and establish “kin”?

MIssion Statement: Comparative Woman is an online journal with the aim to create an environment that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic engagement from a multitude of perspectives. We seek to give artists a platform for reflecting on their thoughts and experiences according to each issue’s theme to present our readers with unique, diverse, and thought-provoking art while also exposing our readers to scholarly work on art and other forms created by women and the LGBTQ+ community or about women and the LGBTQ+ community in mediums both in and outside of the Western Literary Canon.