SLSA2021 "Energy": 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Eastern Daylight Time Zone (Ann Arbor/Detroit) The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, United States, September 30-October 3, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.litsciarts.org/slsa2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsa21 |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/SLSA2021/ |
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the SLSA21 conference will be virtual. It takes place from September 30 to October 3, 2021, virtually hosted by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Submission Guidelines
Theme: Energy.
Extended Deadline: June 15, 2021.
We seek submissions for panels, individual papers, roundtables, workshops, arts lounges, social networking events, and creative work that deal with topics related to the expanded notion of energy. Energy (etymologically meaning “in or at work, working”) connects us to the most pressing issues of the day: mental and physical vitality or fatigue (individual and collective, personal and political, creative and professional), including in the pandemic; the sources of energy (their extraction, depletion, abundance, and exhaustion; bitcoin mining and computational infrastructures; body energy, its flow, exploitation, alienation, and finitude); scientific theories and creative imagination around the relation between matter and energy (as in electromagnetic, particle, gravitational, acoustic forms of radiation; the living and the non-living, metamorphosis). Submissions are also invited that explore how energy is connected to power, science, and profit, history and war, flesh and labor. Building on previous SLSA topics “Out of Time” and “(Out of) Mind,” in Fall 2021 we also invite you to consider the meaning of having or being “out of energy.”
Due to the uncertain nature of the pandemic year, the conference is planned as fully virtual. Though our intention is to follow the format of previous SLSA conferences with synchronous live presentations (similar to the Modern Literature Association 2021 conference), chairs could decide with their individual panelists if a pre-recorded presentation is necessary due to time difference or other circumstances. To facilitate SLSA community gathering opportunities, in addition to individual papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and artwork submissions, this year we invite submissions for organized social networking events and arts lounges to discuss and share research interests and creative work in less formal settings.
Submissions for SLSA2021 will be accepted in these categories:
- Individual papers and pre-organized panels
- Workshops, roundtables, arts lounges, and social networking events
- A Poster Member Virtual Exhibition
– For individual papers, contributors should submit a 250-word abstract along with title and affiliation; this year we are particularly interested in pre-organized panels that might include three or four papers per panel and should include the chair/panel organizer name, the title of the panel, and an additional paragraph describing the panel topic. All panels are expected to run for a customary length of 1 hour 30 minutes. Thematic streams of panels are welcome and will be sequentially scheduled as much as possible.
– For workshops, roundtables, arts lounges, and social networking events submit up to 500 words of description, with participant names and affiliations where applicable; this year, we invite new submissions for arts lounges and social networking events. Arts lounges will serve as curated conversations around creative contributions responding to the topic of energy, such as visual arts, performing arts, and creative writing. Social networking events are meant to be virtual spaces for members to come together around their common interests, such as stream topics, ongoing conversations on new developing projects, new publication, and creative ideas. Workshops, roundtables, arts lounges, and social networking events will be provided a customary length of 1 hour 30 minutes. Thematic streams are welcome and will be sequentially scheduled as much as possible.
– For Poster Member Virtual Exhibition submissions, submit up to 500 words describing your artwork (the title of work; media; year created; URL to your website; image credit) and a file of up to 10 MB with at least one image; the image size should be at least 1500 pixels in length (horizontal orientation preferred). Format: .jpg.
Participants in SLSA2021 must be current members of SLSA. To become a member, go here: https://www.litsciarts.org.
For more information about the conference and general information, please visit the website for SLSA 2021
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2021.
Committees
Conference Chair: Irina Aristarkhova.
Contact
For questions and inquiries email: contactslsa21@gmail.com