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The 28th Annual MELUS Conference & The Ralph Ellison Centennial Symposium

March 6-9, 2014
Downtown Oklahoma City
Sponsored by Oklahoma City University

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 12

Topic: Autobiography and Fiction in American Women’s Writing

Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's Culture

James Baldwin, the most prominent African American author of the mid-twentieth century, left America in 1948 for Paris.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Early African American Children’s Literature
An anthology of original essays

Chairpersons of the 2012-2014 SAMLA 9/11 and Literature special sessions seek high quality, previously unpublished submissions to supplement a strong collection of essays emerging from the 2012 and 20

Renascence is a scholarly journal published by Marquette University.

Globalising processes have led, in recent decades, to critical re-evaluations of the ways in which ‘culture’ has traditionally been understood.

This is a call for papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers for a new interdisciplinary discussion group (starting in the upcoming academic year at King’s College London)

We invite presentation proposals for the Alternative Visions in Media Conference, to be held at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas) November 8-9, 2013.

Call for Papers
New England American Studies Association 2013 Conference
Mashantucket, Connecticut
Sept 27th – 28th

Proposals for papers are invited for a collection entitled Captivity / Writing / Unbound.

Call for Submissions for a Book of New and Collected Essays on
Clarence Major (fiction and/or poetry and/or painting)

Charles Johnson is writing the foreword.

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

Call for Papers
Twentieth-Century Studies
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference
2013

Friday – Sunday, October 11-13, 2013, St. Louis, MO

Most noted for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, Alice Walker has cemented her place in American literature, capturing the struggles and journeys of African-American men and women th

Metatheatrical Dimensions of Ontological Memories

Blackness Without Race: Essays on the Subversion of Race by Way of Blackness in Literature, Media, and Culture

University of Pittsburgh, October 18-19, 2013
Hosted by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization (FSGSO)
Deadline: June 14, 2013

If obsolescence is both a condition and consequence of media culture, how can we approach and articulate the relationship between oldness and newness, obsolescence and innovation, with regard to changes in cinematic form, technology, and scholarship? This conference reconsiders obsolescence as a strategic anachronism, focusing not only on technological formats but also on genres, critical approaches, and texts. To address the allure of the “now” which pervades approaches to everything from Blu-ray technology to Speculative Realism, we affirm the need to turn back in order to imagine what lies ahead.

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E-rea (Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone) is seeking papers for a special volume to appear in the autumn of 2014.

“Global Shakespeare” is a trendy topic in early modern scholarship, but how can we best translate it into effective teaching?

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

Monday 17 June 2013, University of Oxford

Transforming Postgraduate Research: Engaging with the Digital World

The event will include keynote addresses by:

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2013 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Micro versus Macro Literatures in English:

The international conference “Except Asia: Agamben’s Work in Transcultural Perspective,” to be held at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-27, 2013, is now open for regist

"Freedom and Utopia"
38th Annual Meeting
Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina
November 14-17, 2013

The idea of Liberation Theology continues to exert profound challenges - theological, ontological and theoretical - to the Catholic Church, long after the first context of its emergence and reception

DH SoCal is a network dedicated to building community and collaboration amongst digital humanists in Southern California.

From The Book of Kells to the seaside ditty in Ulysses to the Abbey Theatre’s Countess Cathleen, Ireland boasts a history replete with visual and performing arts.

American Work

American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academics

18 May 2013
Rothermere American Institute
University of Oxford

This session welcomes critical papers on the short story for the annual MMLA convention. Proposals may be related to the conference theme of Art & Artifice, but it is not necessary.