Boston University’s American and New England Studies Program is proud to announce a call for papers for its upcoming Graduate Student Conference to be held on April 13, 2019 in Boston, MA.

This conference’s theme, “Framing Narratives,” asks people to think through the establishment, circulation, and contestation of the stories that "frame" American life. What stories give shape to, constrain, border, bolster, or animate American visions of selfhood and community? These might be literal stories (or literal frames!), but could also be some of the unspoken, but demonstrably real narratives that shore up national identity.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot closed his 1995 Silencing the Past by reminding us that “History doesn’t belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it in their own hands.” This is nowhere more true than in two historical periods seldom in conversation - the medieval phenomenon called the “Crusades,” and the 19th-century American Civil War. Scholars here seek to clarify these periods among themselves, while popular audiences voraciously consume these and other retellings of the past, and others on the political left and right “take it in their own hands” by toppling monuments or explicitly evoking these periods as direct predecessors of their own.

Dear Colleagues,

Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies - Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, which is the official publication of Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Western Languages and Literatures, is an open access, peer-reviewed, multilingual, scholarly and international journal published two times a year in June and December. The journal is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION SPONSORED SESSION, MLA 2020  

“Bodies, Borders, and Boundaries: Embodiments of Multicultural and Transnational Children”

 January 9-12 at Seattle, Washington

In the “Preface by the Translator” that Margaret Fuller penned for her translation of Goethe’s Tasso, she states: “There are difficulties attending the translation of German works into English which might baffle one much more skillful in the use of the latter than myself. A great variety of compound words enable the German writer to give a degree of precision and delicacy of shading to his expressions nearly impracticable with the terse, the dignified, but by no means flexible English idiom” (Art, Literature and the Drama, p. 355).

Seeking Contributions for excommunicated (the newsletter of the International Society for Heresy Studies), Vol. 4, No. 2, 

Every heretic sooner or later faces issues of freedom of speech (or its opposite: censorship). While there may be mute heresies of a ritual nature, most of the time, heresy expresses itself in language, and it would not be termed heresy if this dissenting discourse were not in tension with normative ways of talking about faith, doctrine, and values.

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Literature and the Problem of Evil”

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics No. 56 (1/2020)

Editors:

Fiona Ellis (University of Roehampton, London)

Marek Drwięga (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)

Adriana Warmbier (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)

Submission deadline: August 31, 2019

IABA Asia-Pacific International Conference 2019

“Life Writing and Asia-Pacific Cultures”

Call for Chapters: Reclaiming the Tomboy: Posthumanism, Gender Representation, and Intersectionality

Deadline for Submissions:                  July 31, 2019

Full name / Name of Organization:     Dr. Jen Harrison, East Stroudsburg University, USA

                                                            Dr. Holly Wells, East Stroudsburg University, USA

                                                            Dr. Erica Joan Dymond, East Stroudsburg University, USA

Contact email:                                     reclaimingthetomboy@gmail.com

Special Edition: ‘Horrific Bodies: surveillance, screens and screams’

Edited by Susan Flynn, University of the Arts, London

and Antonia Mackay, Oxford Brookes University

Northern Lights Film and Media Studies Yearbook

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/nl/2018/00000016/00000001

Call for Presenters

African & African American Studies’ Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference

April 11-12, 2019

Stanford University

An Illness of Her Own: Women and Their Writing Processes and Products

Attachment and Affect

March 22-23, 2019

The University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Conference

Keynote by Lisa Ruddick (UChicago)

Master class with Rita Felski (UVA/SDU)

Why does the study of literature matter? What is the relationship between reader and text? How can affective responses to texts inform criticism? This conference seeks to take seriously our aesthetic and affective attachments, the attachments at work within and among literary texts, and the ways attachments form and function.

Central Illinois Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2019

Call for Papers:

At the Intersection: Bridging Theory and Praxis through Media and Mediums

The Third Annual Central Illinois Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference is currently accepting presentation proposals. This year’s conference theme is “At the Intersection: Bridging Theory and Praxis through Media and Mediums.”

Undergraduate students are welcome to apply and registration fees are waived for all participants.