Special Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu).

This panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric  perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]

Please support efforts to establish an LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition.

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

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[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]

<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

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]

Feasting, Fasting, Famine: Representations of Hunger in South Asian Literatures and Culture

South Asia and South Asian Diasporic Forum of the MLA invites proposals on theorizing the politics, aesthetics, ethics, affect, of figurations of hunger in South Asian literatures and cultures. Presentations may focus on hunger in a range of contexts…[Read more]

“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability

The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016)

Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in associ…[Read more]

Soundscapes in Premodern Japan (guaranteed panel) CFP

How do sound imaginaries in literature (the racket of the street and the warbling of birds) represent space? Who hears, listens in, or overhears, and what power do they enjoy in this sonic culture? What constitutes a sacred sound or its profane or transgressive counterpart? What role is…[Read more]

Dear Forum Members,

Please check out our CFP for the sponsored Forum for 2017!!! The topic, “Ecomedia,” reflects your requests from last year.

Looking forward to seeing your abstracts!