Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia

Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture

Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]

 The Medieval Iberian Forum of the MLA announces the following calls for papers for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, Jan 4-7). Please note that presenters must be members of the MLA before registering for the conference (but not in order to submit an abstract).

New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) The LLC Medieval I…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.

The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).

This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]

[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Teaching Beyond University

In its effort to recognize other spaces for postgraduate careers beyond 4-year institutions, the Teaching as a Profession Forum is inviting submissions for a virtual roundtable focused on teaching beyond a traditional university department. We are…[Read more]

[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Ungrading as Liberatory Practice 

As a pedagogical practice, ungrading decenters grade-based assessment and focuses instead on student learning. It is based on the philosophical premise that grades are not an accurate assessment of learning, and institutionalized grading…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’d like to call your attention to three CFPs for the 2024 MLA convention that may interest you.

• The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success: As the nature of contingency evolves with non-tenure track faculty assuming increased responsibilities within the academy, what models or strategies can help to a…

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The CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.

“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

See attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.

“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores trans…[Read more]

Here are the CFPs for the Middle English Forum’s two sessions, along with a third that’s a collaborative session with the Chaucer Forum.

Adapting Middle English Literature

Organizers: Susan Nakley and Ruen-chuan Ma

This session invites us to consider how contemporary adaptations of Middle English literature contribute to the projects of…[Read more]

The current members of the Executive Council for the CLCS Nordic Forum are seeking nominations and/or self-nominations for a 2024 Executive Council appointee. Rather than holding elections as in the past, the Executive Council is responsible for nominating a new member whose term will begin Monday, 8 January 2024. Executive Council members serve…[Read more]