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category: african-americanFashion Panels at 2013 MPCA/ACA Conference, October 11-13full name / name of organization: Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association contact email: kobrien1@memphis.edu Call for Papers:
Panel on Princesses in Popular Culture, 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) contact email: michelle.stonis@csulb.edu Panel -- Once Upon a Time: The Impact of Princess Culture on Girls And they lived happily ever after, or did they?
[UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space ($125 award for the best essay)full name / name of organization: Southern Methodist University's English Department (Graduate Students) contact email: smugradconference@gmail.com
Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives (deadline for abstracts: May 31st)full name / name of organization: American Studies Center, University of Bucharest contact email: mihaela.precup@americanstudies.ro, dmihailes@yahoo.com This is a CFP for a volume to be published by Dr. Roxana Oltean, Dr. Mihaela Precup, Dr.
Transitions and Transactions: Literature and Creative Writing Pedagogies in Community Colleges Conferencefull name / name of organization: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Department of English contact email: mbarrow@bmcc.cuny.edu or msteinkoler@bmcc.cuny.edu Pedagogy as an essential part of the learning and teaching culture has an ever more important place in community colleges where we continually rethink and revise our practices for our often non-tradit
ATHE Theatre History Focus Group Debut Panelfull name / name of organization: American Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Theatre History Focus Group) contact email: charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie ATHE Theatre History Focus Group
MLA 2014 -- Cognitive Approaches to Literature Division -- Call for Papersfull name / name of organization: Julien J. Simon contact email: jjsimon@iue.edu Call for Papers -- MLA 2014, Chicago PANEL 1
MPCA 11/11-13, Southern Lit. and Culturefull name / name of organization: Midwest Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association contact email: anne.canavan@gmail.com Call for Papers
Writing Wrongs: Literature and Human Rights in the 18th Century (ASECS-sponsored session; MLA 2014, Chicago)full name / name of organization: Ramesh Mallipeddi contact email: ramesh.mallipeddi@hunter.cuny.edu
Critiquing Culture: The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference at George Mason University 9/21/2013full name / name of organization: Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee contact email: critiquing.culture@gmail.com The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) at George Mason University invites paper proposals for our 8th annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference.
Essay Collection: Movies in the Age of Obamafull name / name of organization: David garrett Izzo contact email: davidizzo@hotmail.com This collection is inspired by an article in The New York Times, which, in part is quoted below. The Upside in film:
The Adjunct Verses (Collection/Performance/Multimedia)full name / name of organization: N1Academy contact email: rcbatp@gmail.com Calling all contingent faculty and allies. . . . http://migrantintellectual.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/the-adjunct-verses/ Project Title: THE ADJUNCT VERSES
CFP: FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition [SCMLA New Orleans 10/3/13-10/5/13]full name / name of organization: Thomas W. Reynolds, Jr., Northwestern State University contact email: reynoldst@nsula.edu CFP: FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 70th Annual Convention
Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2013)full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association contact email: smacdon8@kent.edu This panel is designed to examine ideas of childhood based on the life writing of working class people. How is child labor/schooling discussed in life writing from working class individuals?
[UPDATE] Emerging Perspectives graduate conference. May 2-3, 2013.full name / name of organization: UCD English Graduate Society contact email: enggrad@ucdconnect.ie May 2-3, 2013 at University College Dublin, Rep. of Ireland, in association with the UCD English Graduate Society and Humanities Institute
[UPDATE] DEADLINE EXTENDED “Age, Identity, and Culture in Global Diasporas.” PAMLA Nov 1-3, 2013full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association contact email: weihsin.gui@ucr.edu *Deadline extended to April 15, 2013*
Panel on Film Noir and Neo-Noir, Abstracts due April 15thfull name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, 2013 Conference, Nov. 1-3 contact email: crolens@ucsd.edu Out of the Past, Into the Postmodern: From Film Noir to Neo-Noir
Diversity and Language Change (MLA, Chicago, 9-12 Jan 2014; abstract deadline 15 March)full name / name of organization: MLA Division on Language Change contact email: cpalme20@kennesaw.edu What role does “diversity” play in understanding language change? Papers will explore perspectives on linguistic diversity, e.g.
Language Change and Literature (MLA, Chicago, 9-12 Jan 2014; abstract deadline 15 March)full name / name of organization: MLA Division on Language Change contact email: cpalme20@kennesaw.edu How does language change matter to literature (and vice versa)?
“Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts” [SAMLA Nov. 8-10] Abstracts by 6/7full name / name of organization: Lynne M. Simpson / College English Association contact email: lsimpson@presby.edu SAMLA 2013 Conference
Representing African American Adolescence (2014 MLA Special Session Proposal)full name / name of organization: Jennifer Griffiths/New York Institute of Technology contact email: jgriff02@nyit.edu This panel seeks papers that address the literary representation of African American adolescence, particularly from the perspective of Black youth narrators, in the post-Civil Rights period.
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of DuBois’ Death and the 110th Anniversary of The Souls of Black Folkfull name / name of organization: SAMLA--African American Literature Regular Session contact email: srtaylo4@uncg.edu African American Literature Regular Session: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of DuBois’ Death and the 110th Anniversary of The Souls of Black Folk SAMLA November 8-10, 2012
Designing and Teaching Interdisciplinary Courses - RMMLA Conferencefull name / name of organization: RMMLA Conference, Vancouver, Washington, October 10-12, 2013 contact email: pichugin@sas.upenn.edu We invite presentations on any aspect of interdisciplinary teaching with focus on strategies for integrating multiple perspectives and approaches into a course while maintaining an overall sense of co
The Long Twentieth Century (1885-2008): Literature, Politics, Aestheticsfull name / name of organization: Goldsmiths, University of London contact email: c.sweeneyecl@gold.ac.uk The Long Twentieth Century(1885-2008):Literature,Politics, Aesthetics Department of English and Comparative Literature Goldsmiths, University of London
A Re-examination of Private Military and Security Companies - Abstracts due: April 1, 2013 - Papers due: July 8, 2013full name / name of organization: STAIR, Oxford University contact email: STAIRjournalPMSC@gmail.com CFP - A Re-examination of Private Military and Security Companies - STAIR - OXFORD UNIVERSITY Abstracts due: April 1, 2013
Solo Performances On and Off the Page (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013; Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA)full name / name of organization: Cathy Irwin/University of La Verne contact email: tirwin@laverne.edu This panel examines how the voice in solo performance (on the page, stage, internet, etc.) mediate what Judith Butler calls a shared vulnerability or precarity between self and other.
SAMLA 2013 Charles W. Chesnutt Panel Discussion - "Chesnutt’s Gothic Psychology of the Future American"full name / name of organization: Charles W. Chesnutt Association - SAMLA contact email: rlsmith5@memphis.edu or djelzie@memphis.edu This discussion will focus on how works like Mandy Oxendine utilize the elements of gothic psychology to confound binary racial concepts and to create the mixed-race identity matrix at the foundation
"Architecture and Literature: Reading the Room" (1-3 November, San Diego); Proposal Deadline: 15 Aprilfull name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) contact email: stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com Most literary works take place within the context of some sort of constructed space, e.g. a house, an office, a transit node, a place of worship, a place of performance.
Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countriesfull name / name of organization: Black Camera contact email: delphine.letort@univ-lemans.fr Call for Papers: Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countries
Ozarks Studies Symposium September 19-21, 2013full name / name of organization: Leigh Adams / Missouri State University--West Plains contact email: leighadams@missouristate.edu The Ozarks Studies Committee of Missouri State University-West Plains seeks proposals for its seventh annual symposium.
[UPDATE] Violent Sympathiesfull name / name of organization: Rebeccah Bechtold contact email: rebeccah.bechtold@unco.edu In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith reminds us that sympathy for another must emerge from an act of imagination.
[UPDATE] Coming Home: Stony Brook University's 25th Annual English Department Graduate Conference--Rescheduled Date: March 16full name / name of organization: Graduate English Society, Stony Brook University, NY contact email: stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com Due to the weather in the northeast last week, 'Coming Home' has been rescheduled and will now be held on Saturday, March 16.
Modernism and the Queer Ordinary (MSA 15)full name / name of organization: Mary Wilson / Christopher Newport University contact email: mary.wilson[@]cnu.edu “Queer” has become a familiar modifier of “modernism,” to the point that Heather Love could argue in PMLA that “of all the forms of marginal modernism that have surfaced in the past couple o
[UPDATE] Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies (Apr 19-20, 2013)full name / name of organization: Binghamton University - English Department contact email: shiftingborders@gmail.com Conference Title: Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies (4th Annual) Theme: “Historicizing Difference in Globalized Subjectivities”
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Issue 12.4full name / name of organization: Alan Clinton contact email: reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com Introducing
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