Golems, Faustus, zombies–what do fantasies and fears of unsouled bodies, medieval to modern, reveal about human remains and resurrections? CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Liam Corley (wccorley@cpp.edu).

What is created where religions meet? Explore borderlands (geographical, linguistic, identitarian), interplays syncretic to agonistic, medieval to modern, animistic to orthodox. CV and 300-word abstract by 15 March 2016; Adrienne Williams Boyarin (aboyarin@uvic.ca).

I draw your attention to this MLA 2017 special session CFP, which may be of interest to some:

Creative Mysticism
Practices of mystical writing and reading in any language, genre, or tradition. Possible topics: comparisons, commentarial traditions, modern re-creations of earlier works, other forms of art. 300-word abstract and CV by 15 March…[Read more]

The Travel Writing Committee welcomes proposals for the forum’s session at MLA 2017:
“Orientalism” Revisited: Travel Writing & Neo-Orientalism
Forum: GS Travel Writing
Reconsideration of Said’s theoretical framework for understanding aesthetic and political dimensions and implications of travel writing. 250 word abstract and c.v. to Ali Behdad b…[Read more]

Please support efforts to establish a Forum for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Literatures, Languages, and Cultures by signing the petition.

Anthropology and Literature Colleagues,

An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016.  Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore th…[Read more]

Call for Papers – MLA 2017 (January 5-8, Philadelphia USA)

“Antisemitism and Orientalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”

Heine’s works include many that are touchstones for discussions of anti-Semitism and Orientalism: Almansor, Der Rabbi von Bacherach, Hebräische Melodien, all evocative of the intersection of Christian, Jewish, and Musl…[Read more]

We invite proposals exploring the intersection of music and Japanese literature (broadly interpreted) from the Meiji period onwards.  Proposals may engage with a variety of critical approaches, including interrogations of the relationship of poetry and music as mutually contingent arts; music and literary form; musico-literary polyglossia or po…[Read more]

The Sonic Imagination of Modern Korean Literature

Viewing implied reader as situated listener, the panel examines the significance of voice, rhythm, and music in the literary production of modern Korea. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Jina Kim (<u>kimji@dickinson.edu</u>).

Literary modernization in Korea is seldom discussed…[Read more]

Translation and in-between Spaces in Korea and East Asia

Papers engaging postcolonial approaches to translation in Korea and East Asia. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Heekyoung Cho (hchohcho@uw.edu).

This panel seeks papers that consider in-between spaces where translation and cultural transference take place in Korea and…[Read more]

Foreign Bodies in Korean Literature

The panel addresses representation of bodies that do not respect borders, including those of foreign, non-human, migrant, spectral, infected, illegal or criminal nature. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Kelly Jeong (kelly.jeong@ucr.edu).

This panel seeks papers that address the representation…[Read more]

This will be of interest to many:

ANNOUNCEMENT: DEADLINE EXTENDED

The journal Religion and Literature is soliciting submissions for its second annual syllabus prize. Syllabi should address both religion and literature in a substantial manner, and should encourage reflection on the many possible relations between them.

To submit a syllabus for…[Read more]

<u>Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere</u>

How should we understand the aural dimensions of composing, performing, and appreciating Literary Sinitic texts in pre-modern East Asia? 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh (fraleigh@brandeis.edu) by 1 March 2016.

Longer abstract:

Several new forums of particular interest to scholars working in…[Read more]

The cfp for my panel “The Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia” is posted on the MLA website. I look forward to receiving your submisisons.

Monika Dix

Lovecraft’s relationship to modernism/modernity; Lovecraft and race; Lovecraft and science/technology; Lovecraft and modernist gothic; modernism and weird fiction. Abstracts, 200-300 words by 1 March 2016; Patrick Whitmarsh (pwhitmar@bu.edu).

Link: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_8647

The Japan to 1900 Division of the MLA invites you to submit paper proposals for either of the following panel, which we are planning for the January 2017 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Philadelphia.

Collaborative Session (with the East Asia forum):

Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere

How should we understand the…[Read more]