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Categoria: CFPs
In the 20th century, the universalist paradigm was put in crisis by thinkers of the black
radical tradition such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, then by African-American feminists who were marginalized both from the women’s movement because of their skin color, and from the civil rights movement because of their gender. The epistemological crisis wrought by postcolonial studies beginning in the 1970s, and currently by decolonial studies, testifies to a deep disenchantment with the category of universality, sometimes understood as an unkept promise of equality that is actually quick to break into violence.
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Argument
After Stéphane Mallarmé transformed the page into “a poetic category” and made the poem itself into a “specific organization of silence” (Dessons 2001), Guillaume Apollinaire dreamed in L’Esprit nouveau et les poètes (1917) of a “synthesis of the arts, of music, painting and literature” (quoted in Bertrand 2002), of an ideal renewal of language incarnated in part in the lyrical ideogram. Does not visual poetry, which we can define as “poetry meant to be seen” (Bohn 1986, 2), respond to this invitation?
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We share the CFP for the 18th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English: “Recent Approaches to the Posthuman: Cultural Reflections on the (Post-)Human Condition,” to be held onsite at the University of Zaragoza on May 15-17, 2023.
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American Politics Group of the UK Political Studies Association 49th Annual Conference, 5th – 7th January 2023, University of Leicester
Call for Papers
The 49th annual conference of the American Politics Group of the UK Political Studies Association will be held at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom from Thursday 5th to Saturday 7th January 2023.
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Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
Over the past years the rapid technological improvements, innovations and use of digital applications have transformed us into living and working in virtual environments. We are now facing ‘oceans’ of big data, inaugurating what has been called the “Digital Anthropocene.”
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Call For Papers (Issue 7 Dec. 2023)
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media (Issue 7, Dec. 2023)
Special Issue Title: Trajectories from the Past: Modernist Futures and the Future of Modernism
Special Issue Guest Editors (Part I): Dr. Sara Dunton (sara.dunton@unb.ca) and Dr. Anna Fyta (annafyta@gmail.com)
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Women Scientists, Development and Environmental Citizenship: Scientific Transnational Organizations and Public Activism
University of Trieste – Department of Humanities April 20-21, 2023
The Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Trieste is organizing a conference on April 20-21, 2023 in Trieste, dedicated to women’s activism in science, development and environmental justice in the context of transnational organizations during the Cold War.
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