The 116th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, from Friday, November 9, to Sunday, November 11.

Conference Theme: "Producing an Enigma for the Ages"
November 8-11, 2018

Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ

You are cordially invited to submit abstracts and/or panel suggestions for an international scholarly conference devoted to the life, work, and influence of the Beatles, particularly in relation to their legendary album The Beatles (1968), popularized as The White Album. To submit an abstract, please go to https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BWAIS2018, and click on the abstract link. Abstracts should be 150-250 words in length to ensure full consideration.

Critical Theories of Education (CTE) 2018

Critical theories have traditionally problematized the current and past states of our educational institutions. For this year’s conference, however, we ask participants to explore the potential future(s) of educational theory and practice.

What can critical theories tell us about the future of education?

Papers, panels, and workshops addressing any of the following are welcome:

Critical pedagogy, history of education, education and social change, movement pedagogy, philosophy of education, critical theory, Marxist educational research, race and education, gender oppression, or other related themes.

Friday, 14 September 2018, 9.30am - 6.30pm, Gordon Room, Senate House

Keynote Speakers

Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere

A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures

Call for Papers Prospero XXIII (2018)

AIDS: Remains

Seeking essays for a future issue of New Centennial Review.

What is left of the AIDS crisis? What remains of the urgency with which critical discourses once contested dominant understandings of “AIDS”? In the first decades of the crisis, vital struggles over the meanings, definitions and representations of AIDS sought to unite cultural analysis with cultural activism. What remains now of such struggles? Has contestation become consensus?

The Center for Sermon Studies at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia announces its second annual Conference on Sermon Studies, to be held October 11-14, 2018, in Montreal, Quebec.

The conference is multidisciplinary and interfaith. The organizers’ goal is to bring scholars, practitioners, and interested laypersons together to discuss sermon texts and the art of preaching from a variety of academic and religious perspectives.

The theme for 2018 is “Space, Place, Context.” Topics related to the theme might include

Afrographics: Visual Cultures of Black Modernism (MSA Columbus)

CFP, 2018 Modernist Studies Association conference (“Graphic Modernisms”)

Panel proposal for MSA Columbus, November 8-11 2018

SUNY Council on Writing Conference (CoW) 2018

Call for Proposals

Theme: Why Writing Matters: Articulating the Value of Writing to Students, Administrators, and Faculty From Across the Disciplines

Dates: Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20, 2018

Location: Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2018

Public space, private space. Women (and) activism in French and Francophone literatures and art.

1. Memoir and Manifesto: Life Writing and/as Resistance

BOOM! #*@&! Splat: Comics and Violence

This special issue will focus on ideas of reuse and recombination. How were bits and scraps of materials, textual and otherwise, reassembled into new forms in the nineteenth century? To what ends? Essays might consider these issues in relation to images, fabrics, texts, and more. Possible topics could include scrapbooks, patchwork, quotation, citation, illustration, and any and all forms of recombination. Approaches from all disciplines, including literature, art history, history, music, and the history of science and the social sciences, are welcome, as are submissions that cross national boundaries and/or range across the nineteenth century.

Samford University invites paper proposals for its third biennial Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference: Teaching Dante, to be held in Birmingham on October 25-27, 2018. This conference is designed to encourage excellence in undergraduate teaching across the curriculum, with a particular emphasis on core curriculum and general education courses. Specialists and non-specialists are encouraged to submit proposals; however, all presentations should be designed with the non-specialist audience in mind and should directly address curricular and/or teaching strategies. Proposals that demonstrate interdisciplinary connections are strongly encouraged.