Deadline: 1/19/24
Contact: Matt Morgenstern, Purdue University
Email: litcopurdue@gmail.com
The Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization (LITCO) at Purdue University invites participants for our fourth annual symposium, “Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo.” We are interested in scholarly projects that discuss past, present, and future intersections of crisis and status quo, including readings that challenge or rearticulate crisis and status quo as conceptual categories. We conceptualize “crisis” broadly and welcome papers on personal, legal, environmental, professional, etc. crises. In addition to the approaches listed below, projects may investigate questions such as, “How are crisis and status quo interconnected in texts, institutions, cultures, theories, spaces, or places? How do theories or attitudes toward the status quo naturalize crisis? How can we address intersecting crises through literary and cultural studies?”
We encourage proposals that creatively interpret our theme. Possible approaches include:
–American studies
–Book studies material culture, and archives
–Crisis and status quo in the lives of academics
–Critical identity studies (including but not limited to Black, disability, and gender and sexuality)
–Digital humanities
–Environmental humanities
–Liminality and/or alterity
–Local, national, and/or global geographies
–Migration Studies, diaspora studies, and/or border studies
–Multilingual literatures
–Narrative form and/or storyworlds
–Pedagogy of crisis and/or teaching during crisis
–Performance studies
–Political and social policy
–Reception, adaptation, remediation, and/or fandom
–Game studies
–Film and media studies
This symposium will take place virtually through Zoom on Friday, March 1–Saturday, March 2, 2024. We accept proposals in the following formats:
–an individual paper presentation
–a pre-constituted panel of 3–4 papers
–a pre-constituted round table
–a workshop related to the conference theme
Although this symposium has been designed for emerging scholars, all are welcome to submit. To ensure that this event is accessible and welcoming for emerging scholars, there is no registration fee. All participants are also invited to the symposium’s virtual Keynote delivered by Dr. Vanessa Iacocca, Assistant Professor of English at Young Harris College.
Please send abstract proposals of up to 200 words as well as a brief bio (up to 100 words) to litcopurdue@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 19, 2024.
Posted on December 13, 2023
