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CLCWeb Call for Papers: A Return to the Bad Old Times To understand the forces that shape the present, the old adage that capitalism is a constantly revolutionizing force still holds true. Indeed, one of the most arresting results of this process is the ways in which the new sometimes unexpectedly manifests itself as a…
CLCWeb Call for Papers: After Neoliberalism Everyone hates neoliberalism. This was not always the case: not too long ago, the hegemonic consensus demanded that we recognize economic neoliberalism and the political form of liberal democracy as the happy end of history, despite counter-hegemonic analyses from Marxist critics such as Giovanni Arrighi or David Harvey. Now,…
Comics and Popular Arts Conference CfP deadline for submissions: January 7, 2020 The Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) invites submissions for our 13th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 4-7, 2020. CPAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and…
CFPs | Retrospective Modernism Retrospective Modernism The Third Annual International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 14-16 May 2020 | Fudan University, Shanghai Keynote Speakers: Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers) | Simon During (Melbourne) | Matthew Hart (Columbia) Modernism is often characterized by an acute sense of a break between the past and the…
VERGE: STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS – ISSUE 7.1:OPEN ISSUE deadline for submissions: November 1, 2019 Essays (between 6,000-10,000 words) should be prepared according to the author-date + bibliography format as outlined in section 2.38 of the University of Minnesota Press style guide, and submitted electronically to verge@psu.edu. Authors’ names should not appear on manuscripts; instead,…
Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes (PCA/ACA 2020 4/15-4/18) PROPOSAL DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2019 In a hyper-mediated global culture, disaster events reach us with great speed and digital detail, and we begin forming, interpreting, and historicizing catastrophes simultaneously with people worldwide. Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of…
H-Asia: Discussions | H-Net Materiality, Infrastructure, and Circulation in Comparative and World Literature. The Eighth Sino-American Comparative and World Literature Symposium 26-28 September 2019 …Participants in the symposium will receive lodging for Thursday (9/26), Friday (9/27), and Saturday (9/28), and most of their meals to be included in the conference registration of $100. Please submit…