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[UPDATE - deadline extended] 5th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference, September 20-21, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Louisiana Folklife Center / Northwestern State University of Louisiana
contact email: 
rasmussens@nsula.edu

 

Ekphrasis in American Poetry, MMLA Convention, Milwaukee, WI, Nov 7-10, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
sandra.kleppe AT hihm.no

Ekphrasis in American Poetry

Popular and Current Art Submissions and Criticism Wanted: Open Deadline

full name / name of organization: 
Anna Faktorovich, Ph.D./ Anaphora Literary Press
contact email: 
director@anaphoraliterary.com

While great works of literature were written in the 19th century and prior, we live today in an age with major problems and solutions in the realm of art and communication that should be addressed by

World Congress on Education (WCE-2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Infonomics Society
contact email: 
info@worldconedu.org

The WCE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the
advancement of the theory and practices in education. The WCE
promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and

International Conference on Romanticism, September 26-29, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Robert Anderson/ ICR
contact email: 
r2anders@oakland.edu

2013 International Conference on Romanticism
"Romantic Relations"
September 26-29, 2013
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking (SAMLA: 11/8-10/13)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) 2013 Conference, Atlanta, GA
contact email: 
eslcare@aol.com or smyrna@nova.edu

We live in a world of people who seemingly cannot stop talking! Oft times it presents a competition of who is able to attract the most attention.

The Films of Robert Rodriguez

full name / name of organization: 
Christopher Gonzalez
contact email: 
Chris.Gonzalez@tamuc.edu

Call For Papers: The Films of Robert Rodriguez

POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities invites submissions for a special issue on the Films of Robert Rodriguez.

[UPDATE] SAMLA 2013: (Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean (due June 10)

full name / name of organization: 
Kristine A. Wilson
contact email: 
wilson67@purdue.edu



2013 SAMLA CONFERENCE, NOV 8-10, ATLANTA

SPECIAL SESSION: "(Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean"

Women Writing War Trauma (NeMLA 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
profkijowski@gmail.com

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” Theodor Adorno famously pronounced in 1949, indicating, among other things, that the Holocaust presents a radical problem of representation.

“Embodiments of Horror: William Blake’s Gothic Sensibility.”

full name / name of organization: 
A Special Issue of _Gothic Studies_
contact email: 
cbundock@gmail.com, eeffinge@uwo.ca

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of Gothic Studies: “Embodiments of Horror: William Blake’s Gothic Sensibility.”

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Apollon: eJournal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
contact email: 
apollonejournal@gmail.com

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

[UPDATE] Irish Gothic Conference 5-6 December, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Università degli Studi di Perugia / Università per Stranieri di Perugia
contact email: 
perugiairishgothic@gmail.com

Confirmed Speakers:

• Professor W. J. McCormack (Former Professor of Literary History at Goldsmiths College, University of London)

CFP: Aloha at Risk: Education in Hawaii (Edited Collection)

full name / name of organization: 
Interstitial Press
contact email: 
editors@interstitialjournal.com


Since the release of “A Nation At Risk” in 1983, public education has been subjected to increased scrutiny from political officials, parents, and concerned citizens.

Genre Films & Money; 2013 Film & History Conference; Nov. 20-24, 2013 (Madison)

full name / name of organization: 
Film & History
contact email: 
ahowe@lasierra.edu

Money & the Genre Film

An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen

November 20-24, 2013

(Re)thinking Global Connectedness: Critical Perspectives on Globalization

full name / name of organization: 
Texas A&M University at Qatar, Liberal Arts Program
contact email: 
LAIC2014@qatar.tamu.edu

Proposals Due: 15 September 2013
Conference Dates: 26-28 January 2014
Location: Doha, Qatar

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama [July 15, 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
contact email: 
breac.djis@gmail.com

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama

Memsahibs as Imagined and Imaged by Male Writers (Deadline: September 30, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Susmita Roye, Delaware State University
contact email: 
sroye@desu.edu

Session Title: MEMSAHIBS AS IMAGINED AND IMAGED BY MALE WRITERS

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

SAMLA Special Session on Creating or Expanding a BA Program in English During Uncertain Times (June 20th- Abstract Deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta
contact email: 
SOrtolano@edison.edu

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.

New Panel Added: GLBTQ Creative Writing at MAPACA - Atlantic City (Nov. 7th to 9th)

full name / name of organization: 
Mark John Isola / Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
contact email: 
markjohn@alumni.tufts.edu

John Preston’s print collection "Hot Living: Erotic Stories about Safer Sex," which was published in 1985, marks a significant use of narrative to explore the intersection of creative writing and th

Call for Papers - Patents for Humanity Special Issue - August 23 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Diana Vergara/ Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors
contact email: 
tijournal@research.usf.edu

In recognition of the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity program, Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, will be publishing a special issue highlighting influential

Creative Writing Programs in the University

full name / name of organization: 
Midwestern Modern Language Association
contact email: 
rwa7@case.edu

In The Program Era, Mark McGurl has argued the rise of creative writing programs in the university “stands as the the most important event in postwar American literary history” (ix): they have pro

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching: General Studies Learning Communities in a Post Humanities World; April 3-6, NeMLA

full name / name of organization: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University
contact email: 
Dotterman@Adelphi.edu

While the rising cost of college education, spiraling student debt, and a changing global job market have impelled university administrators to redefine and/or remodel the core curriculum in the inter

The Family Dynamic as Cultural Zeitgeist: Comparing the Novels of Jonathan Franzen and Jeffery Eugenides; Nov 8-10, SAMLA

full name / name of organization: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University
contact email: 
Dotterman@Adelphi.edu

While Jonathan Franzen has "persistently claimed natural descent from Don Delillo," readers have continually compared Franzen to Jeffery Eugenides on the basis of their mutual exploration of Midwester

Beyond Mad Men: Personal and Collective Nostalgia in British and American Period Dramas; SAMLA, Nov 8-10

full name / name of organization: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University
contact email: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University

In his article “The Forty Year Itch,” Adam Gopnik argues that the past “is not simply a good setting for a good story, but a good setting for you.” While Gopnik’s article focuses on nostalgi

International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (deadline September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Alyce von Rothkirch / Swansea University
contact email: 
ijwwe.editor@gmail.com

International Journal for Welsh Writing in English

Call for Papers

Re-Examining Opacity in the Caribbean Context

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA 2014 Conference
contact email: 
pastm@dickinson.edu

Call for Papers

Re-Examining Opacity in the Caribbean Context

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

The Samuel Beckett Summer School: 11- 16 August 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Samuel Beckett Summer School
contact email: 
info@beckettsummerschool.com

Country Lyricists: Media Consciousness in Country Music

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
contact email: 
holmest@mail.etsu.edu

COUNTRY LYRICISTS

Media Consciousness in Country Music

Invitation for Submission of Manuscripts - JMBT

full name / name of organization: 
Microbial & Biochemical Technology
contact email: 
editor.jbtbd@omicsonline.net

Dear Dr. Researchers,

Greetings from Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology

We are glad to get associated with eminent researchers.

REMINDER 'in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion' Postgraduate Conference (27th June 2013) DEADLINE 17.05.13

full name / name of organization: 
University of Birmingham, Centre for the Study of Cultural Modernity
contact email: 
pgculturalmodernity@contacts.bham.ac.uk

'in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion'

University of Birmingham, 27th June 2013

Keynote speaker – Dr Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London

Instrumental Reason/Constellational Form: The Frankfurt School Now

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (Atlanta, Nov. 8-10, 2013)
contact email: 
clavill@emory.edu, ebbisho@emory.edu

In “The Essay as Form,” Theodor Adorno writes that the essay (in Montaigne’s sense of an ‘attempt’) presupposes a reader who “does not think, but rather transforms himself into an arena of

Ode to Joy: The Career of Camden Joy (MMLA 11/7-11/10/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Samuel Cohen/Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
cohenss@missouri.edu

This approved special session will be devoted to the work of the conference’s keynote speaker, Tom Adelman, who under the name Camden Joy attained notoriety in the mid-nineties for his New York City

NeMLA 2014 Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers, Deadline 9/30/13

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA
contact email: 
almishou@gmail.com

Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

[REMINDER] Levinas and Early Modern Literature (collection, proposals by 6/15)

full name / name of organization: 
Kent Lehnhof
contact email: 
lehnhof@chapman.edu

Proposals sought for an edited collection exploring the relationship between the writings of Emmanuel Levinas and the writings of early modern authors.

GLBTQ Studies at MAPACA - Atlantic City (Nov. 7th to 9th)

full name / name of organization: 
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA)
contact email: 
markjohn@alumni.tufts.edu

The GLBTQ Studies Area of MAPACA welcomes proposals of relevance to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.

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