This survey panel aims to establish dialogues between experts in early literatures. The confluence of epochs facilitates cross-historical discussion and provides a means for thinking about ways to teach early survey courses in university or college classrooms. This panel focuses on identities (racial, gendered, sexual, or mediatized, etc.). In recent years, scholars have labelled efforts to locate early forms of contemporary identity in early literature as presentist, an approach that tends to overlook differences between historical eras by prioritizing current concerns. However, are presentist methods actually flawed? And does any effort to trace earlier forms of current interests automatically constitute presentism?

Intersectional Apocalypse is a student-made, student-run, and student-edited online journal which makes centring marginalised voices and experiences a priority.

Religion and Theatre Focus Group Call for Papers 

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference

Orlando, Florida

August 7-11, 2019

Scene Changes: Performing, Teaching, and Working through the Transitions

16th Annual Tolkien at the UVM Conference: Tolkien and Horror

Saturday, April 6th 2019

Our theme this year is Tolkien and Horror. Consider submitting an abstract on this theme or on any subject. We encourage single papers or an organized session.

We are pleased to announce that our Keynote Speaker this coming year will be Professor Yvette Kisor (Ramapo College). Please consider submitting abstracts today to Christopher Vaccaro (cvaccaro@uvm.edu)! The deadline is January 15, 2019.

College English Association - Middle Atlantic Group

61st ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2019

Call for Papers

“The Post-Disciplinary Academy”

9 March 2019

Keynote Panel: “Navigating the Meaning of (Post-)Disciplinarity in the Academy”

Panelists: TBA 

Location: Bowie State University

As threat, as abject, as subject, and as a combination of all three, the figure of the migrant and the figure of the refugee loom large in the ethical imagination. The recent surge in desperate efforts of people to leave their homelands for other places, the Syrian refugee crisis, the mass displacement of the Rohingya, the “caravan” of Central American migrants seeking to cross the US-Mexico border, and of course the surge in anti-immigrant, and anti-migrant discourses all speak to the moral urgency of collective responses to these figures. It is one of the most pressing concerns of our current moment.

Papers are invited for a volume on Transnational Romanticism. I have contract with Peter Lang Publishing and I still need a few papers to complete the book. Please send a 400-word abstract by September 30. If accepted the final paper will be due by December 20.

The possible topics include, but are not limited to 

- exile and displacement

- literary responses to various historical or cultural moments of transition or crisis

- translation as a movement of texts across cultural and national boundaries

- Goethe’s concept of Weltliteraturand its modern reinterpretations

- Romantic philosophy and nationalism

- Romantic imagination and the modern world

Call for Chapters: “Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” (edited collection)

Shakespeare and Tourism

Call FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS

Deadline for Submission: November 15, 2018

Editors: Robert Ormsby and Valerie Clayman Pye

The editors of the essay collection, Shakespeare and Tourism, are seeking two further contributions for the volume, which is under contract with Routledge.

CALL FOR PAPERS:24th Annual Dickens Society SymposiumJuly 26-28, 2019Salt Lake City, UT  The 24th Annual Dickens Society Symposium will be held in Salt Lake City,Utah, co-sponsored by the Dickens Society and Utah Valley University.Proposals from scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students onany topic related to Dickens¹s life or work are welcome. One-page (250-300word) abstracts for papers deliverable in 20 minutes, plus 150-word bios,may be sent by November 15 2018 to dickenssymposium2019@gmail.com.  Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah, nestled in a high-desert valleybetween two mountain ranges, a gateway to some of the most spectaculargeological formations on the planet.

Queen City Writers is a refereed journal that publishes essays and multimedia work by undergraduate students affiliated with any post-secondary institution. We are currently seeking submissions for upcoming issues; we operate on a rolling deadline basis and will consider students’ works as we receive them.

CALL FOR PAPERS

American Association of Geographers Meeting

Washington, DC, April 3-7, 2019

Session organizers: Brittany Meché and Emma Shaw Crane

The Long Wars: Mapping Liberal Empire through the War on Drugs and the War on Terror

Panel: The Black Atlantic in Popular Culture

Call For Papers – DEADLINE APPROACHING

DEADLINE APPROACHING:

Abstracts due 9/30/18

Many fine proposals already received, and still seeking a few more for potential inclusion

ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader