April is National Poetry Month and we’ll be celebrating it by featuring a collection of scholarship about poetry, poetics, and poets, as well as original poetry and poetry in translation on the homepage of the Commons. We accept articles, essays, poetry, presentations, visualizations, book chapters, monographs, you name it!

To participate, go to…[Read more]

Dear Friends,

Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.

Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities

Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Ecological Thought</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]

Posted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.

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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.

The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]

 CFP:  Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference – Visualizing Justice

Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Dale Barleben – dbarleben@jjay.cuny.edu

When: Friday, October 27 – Saturday, October 28, 2017
Where: John Jay College (CUNY) – (located on the upper-west side of Manhattan, near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)

This conference brings…[Read more]

Dear all,

The Law and the Humanities Forum will be sponsoring two panels at next year’s MLA convention in New York City (January 4-7, 2018).  We hope that you will consider submitting proposals for the following panels:

Law, Literature, and Emotion

How do imaginative texts explore intersections between law and emotion? Crimes of passion,…[Read more]

Please follow this link to access all three, or see below.

<b>SITE SPECIFICS</b>
How does place <i>matter</i> and <i>insist</i>, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? The main focus of this roundtable is upon its NYC environs (at any point in time, and widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts,…[Read more]

SITE SPECIFICS (a roundtable)

How place matters and insists, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference. Focus upon NYC environs (widely constructed: the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts, environmental justice) or “climate controlled” spaces especially welcome.

150 word abstracts by march 1 2018 to jjcohen@gwu.edu

For this roundtable session on “Legal Ecologies,” a collaboration between the MLA Law and Humanities forum and Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities forum, proposals are invited for short, 8-10 minute papers. Participants may consider a wide range questions, including, but not limited to, the following: how does the notion of <i cla…[Read more]

“SITUATING LYRIC”

First biannual conference of International Network for the Study of Lyric

To be held at Boston University June 7–11, 2017 (CFP extended deadline: February 17, 2017)

The general theory of lyric is a developing field of study. After a period of relative neglect, a breakthrough moment seems to have arrived with multiple new model…[Read more]

It is not too late to nominate a scholar of ecocriticism and environmental humanities for potential election to the forum’s executive committee! Please send your nominations as soon as possible to the current EC secretary Jeffrey Cohen (jjcohen@gwu.edu) or any other member of the executive committee (Stephanie LeMenager, Sharon O’Dair, Ron…[Read more]

CFP: American Documentary Poetics

American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MA

Call for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos and i…[Read more]

Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED (January 15, 2017)

The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies

Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South

Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)

Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): DE…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]

The Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month.  We hope that you can join us for these sessions:

Session 67.  “Object Lessons in Personhood”

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities

Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]