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Call for Papers
Faulkner and Hurston
A Conference Sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
October 23-25, 2014

This "Faulkner and Hurston" conference invites proposals for twenty-minute papers on any topic related to William Faulkner and/or Zora Neale Hurston. All critical approaches, including theoretical and pedagogical, are welcomed. We are particularly interested in inter-textual approaches and papers treating such topics as race, gender, class, history, politics, religion, environment, myth, humor, and technique. Proposals for organized panels are also encouraged.

CALL FOR PAPERS

PAN-AFRICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS ITS SECOND BI-ANNUAL

AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL ATLANTIC WORLD CONFERENCE

"Revisiting Black History, Identities, Sexualities, and Popular Culture"

APRIL 11-12, 2014
OSCAR RITCHIE HALL

The Early Modern Colloquium at the University of Michigan invites abstracts for papers for their interdisciplinary graduate student conference "Representations of Race in the Early Modern Period" at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 21-22, 2014.

Conference keynotes will be given by Professor Arthur Little (Department of English, University of California- Los Angeles)and Professor Peter Erickson (Department of Theater, Northwestern University).

American Literature and Culture Society
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference

May 22-25, 2014

Hyatt Regency Washington
on Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Avenue NW
Washington DC 20001

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than 300 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the ALA (http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/index.html). Please note that we can only accept proposals for individual papers and will not be able to accept proposals for entire

DEADLINE for submissions EXTENDED to NOV 21st –
59th Annual Conference for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). 10-13 April, 2014, University of Birmingham

Please note the deadline to submit a proposal for the 59th Annual Conference for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). 10-13 April, 2014, University of Birmingham has been extended to Thursday November 21st.

There is no overarching theme for the conference; we welcome papers and panel proposals on any subject related to American Studies. We are also very keen to encourage panel proposals from associations linked to BAAS, such as the APG, BGEAH, BrANCH, and HOTCUS as well as proposals for roundtable discussions and innovative panel presentations.

Focusing on the literary and historical representation of irrational emotions or phobias, Fear and Loathing seeks papers on topics and authors from any period, which aim to demonstrate the extent to which literary-historical study offers us unique insight into the cultural politics of emotions. Given the growth of both affect studies and historical enquiry into emotions over the past decade, Humanities scholarship has generated a rich and varied body of work on the representations and histories of emotions, sentiments, feelings and affects. This two-day international conference seeks to build upon this research and to reflect upon the relationship between the Humanities and the study of emotions more generally.

CALL FOR ENTRIES (RESEARCH PAPER ABSTRACTS AND POETRY)

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (International Journal of Travel Writing)
ISSN 2278-9642
E-ISSN 2278-9650
www.coldnoon.com

Postcolonial Environments
A Symposium, University of Manchester

Call for Papers

Postcolonial Environments will bring together scholars and postgraduates interested in the role of environments in colonial and postcolonial encounters and the relations that they engender. The symposium will consider how articulations of home, migration, displacement and imperialism must involve examining connections with place as well as between people. Such connections are not restricted to discussions of kinship, but are relevant to the affective dimension of global geographies and political power.

Extended Deadline: we are now accepting proposals through November 20, 2013.

Comics scholars lament the problematic association of comics and fiction. Many of the most celebrated "graphic novels" are not novels at all but autobiographies. These "graphic narratives" make use of fictive literary devices, to be sure, but they also employ other devices of storytelling that are distinct from fiction. And yet, even that argument fails to address whether long-form comics can ever convey literary meaning without narrative.

What gets lost in some of the genre-squabbling over graphic novels is the extent to which comics can be poetry. This panel probes the possibilities of a lyric comics mode, a comics form that has more in line with poetry than narrative.

Illustrating the Child and the Adolescence of Illustration is a special-topics panel to be held at the 2nd Annual Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference at Dartmouth College, February 28 – March 2, 2014.

This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between childhood or adolescence and the hand-drawn image in all of its forms, from comics and illustrations in children's literature to animated films.

Two primary question this panel asks are:
1) How does the child continue to configure comics, illustrated books, and/or animation even when particular texts in those media are not geared for children?

New Voices is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference hosted by Georgia State University's English department and sponsored by the department's Graduate English Association. The conference is designed to provide emerging and experienced graduate scholars in the humanities with a forum for sharing their latest research. While the conference has a different suggested theme each year, adherence to the suggested theme is not at all necessary to be considered for inclusion in the conference. New Voices invites papers on all topics and themes related not only to English studies, but all other humanities disciplines as well as the social sciences and political science.

The New Union (www.new-union.co.uk), an online literary magazine, requires articles for online publication.

We welcome articles on any and all subjects and genres, and from any period in history.

We also invite articles that look at current news, events, politics, etc and connect them with literary topics past and present.

Articles should be approximately 1,000-2,000 words in length.

The only stipulation is that every article must be interesting and unique. No dull, academically formal articles required! We want funny, irreverent, and witty articles (unless your specialist subject is death, in which case you are excused!).

Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
35th Annual Conference
February 19-22, 2014
http://southwestpca.org/
Submission Deadline: 11/15/13
Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505-842-1234