Revelry and Reverance
Revelry and Reverence
Baton Rouge Marriott, Baton Rouge, LA, January 30-Feb 1, 2020
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Revelry and Reverence
Baton Rouge Marriott, Baton Rouge, LA, January 30-Feb 1, 2020
WHAT IS INFORMATION? '
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON PORTLAND • APRIL 30–MAY 2, 2020
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What is Information? (2020) will investigate conceptualizations and implementations of information via material, representational, and hybrid frames. The conference-experience will consider information and its transformational æffects—from documents to data; from facts and fictions to pattern recognition; from physical information to differential equations; and from volatility, uncertainty, and ambiguity to collective intelligence and wisdom.
Horror films have long held a place in cinematic history as an expression of the monstrous, the un-nameable, and the unknown. They are a powerful point of catharsis in which viewers see their deepest fears played out onscreen, whether the threat is fully embodied or less concretely defined. As a result, grief and loss have always figured heavily in this genre.
Work and Leisure, Noise and Silence
The English Graduate Organization (EGO) and Composition and TESOL Association (CTA), in collaboration with the Department of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is proud to announce their 2020 Interdisciplinary Conference, “Work and Leisure, Noise and Silence,” to be held April 3-4, 2020 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). The due date for proposals is January 24, 2020.
CFP: Louisa May Alcott Society
American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2020
For over a century, Louisa May Alcott’s writings have been adapted in many ways—for stage, radio, television, and film. As scholars such as Beverly Lyon Clark, Elizabeth Keyser, Elise Hooper, and others have documented, Alcott’s work remains timely and continues to inspire adaptations and spinoffs for diverse audiences. The best known, of course, are the numerous film adaptations of Little Women. Each new production of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel both represents and reinterprets the lives of the four March sisters for a new audience.
Revolutions in Reading: Literary Practice in Transition
Law is the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game. Through law, individuals are characterised, subject-object relations are constructed and enforced, and concepts of worth and identity are founded. Playing Law seeks to showcase the power of play and the boundless potential of the video game as a medium capable of facilitating experiences which unlock the next level of jurisprudential evolution. This is not only true of games which require players to act as legal characters, but is true of all games which involve the player-avatar – a subject confined in a codified space. This edited collection seeks to explore the intersection between the coded realm of the video game and the equally codified space of law.
Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television
Two day International conference at De Montfort Unibversity, Leicester, UK, organised jointly by Cinem and Television History Research Institute (CATHI), DMU, and Sheffield Hallam University.
Keynote speakers: Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow.
The Ancient Novel and Material Culture
CFP: Louisa May Alcott Society
American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 21-24, 2020
In college-level American literature anthologies, Louisa May Alcott enjoys an eclectic reputation. Her writings may appear in context with those of other Civil War or Realist writers or be catalogued as Transcendentalist works. Alternately, they can be regarded as Local Color or Regional writings, or considered in connection with the Gothic or with American Romanticism.
Proposals are invited for papers at Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television, a two day international conference, 16 – 17 September 2020, at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Keynote speakers: Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow.
CFP for a session at the CCLA/ACLC conference at Congress 2020
May 31-June 2, University of Western Ontario
https://complit.ca/2019/10/07/cfp-sessional-proposal-congress-2020/
Post-Magical Realist Worlds: Contemporary Postcolonial Storytelling Modes, Critiques, and Perspectives
Adoption in Popular Culture
Guest Editor: Martha Satz
Adoption & Culture publishes essays on any aspect of adoption’s intersection with culture, including but not limited to scholarly examinations of adoption practice, law, art, literature, ethics, science, life experiences, film, or any other popular or academic representation of adoption. Adoption & Culture accepts submissions of previously unpublished essays for review.
Call for AbstractsTwo-Day Interdisciplinary International Seminar onHeritage, Culture & Identity:Re-Negotiating Spaces of Memory in a Time of Rapid Urbanisationto be Organised by Sarat Centenary College on 20 & 21 January 2020
You Didn’t Write, You Rewrote: Reading Revisions in American Poetry
We invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary collection of essays that is oriented around the sheer diversity of Environmental Humanities (EH) work in the long eighteenth century. Our interdisciplinary focus seeks to honor connections and conversations within, around, and between disciplines. This collection evaluates how the emergence and necessity of EH scholarship is germane to conversations in the eighteenth century, and endeavors to weigh how EH might function as a discipline, theoretic, methodology, and/or pedagogical tool--as well as how the eighteenth century might legitimate, make blurry, or problematize these functions.
CEAMAG Journal, the peer-reviewed journal of the College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group, appears once a year and publishes studies based on writing research, discussions of pedagogy, literary criticism, cultural criticism, and personal essays concerned with the teaching of English. We will also consider for publication book reviews and poems and short fiction related to literature or teaching.
French Association for American Studies
AFEA 2020 Conference
Lille University, France
May 26-29, 2020
Michel Feith (Nantes University)
Delphine Letort (Le Mans University)
Marie-Christine Michaud (Université of South Britany, Lorient)
Post-America
The conference will focus on linguistic fragmentation as a means of cultural inclusion. In the passage from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, a number of written translations in various vernaculars and dialects already appear – suffice it to think of the first attempts at translating the Bible, of the effect of Carolingian culture, or of King Alfred’s cultural policy, aimed at making vernaculars the vehicle of faith and knowledge. As we move towards the late Middle Ages, translation becomes an essential instrument for the transmission of literature, religion and science. The proliferation of translations, through the linguistic fragmentation represented by target languages, allowed the transferral of texts to an ever-wider audience.
College English Association - Middle Atlantic Group
62nd ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2020
Call for Papers
“Tides and Surges”
7 March 2020
Keynote Panelists: Charlie Ewers (Salisbury University),
Phil Hesser (Salisbury University),
and Clayton Railey (Prince George’s Community College)
Location: Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD
Historicizing Slashers
PCA/ACA National Conference
April 15-18, 2020
Philadelphia, PA, USA
On the eve of Friday the 13th celebrating its 40th anniversary, the concept of the “slasher” and the “slasher film” remains a topic of debate and discourse among horror scholars and fear film aficionados.
Though theorized and analyzed consistently for the past 30 years, slasher films possess a complex history, one that contains controversy (such as graphic violence, misogyny and the promotion of seemingly socially conservative “morals”), a labyrinthine origin and genealogy as well as alternating and shifting periods of popularity.
The Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Aveiro is very pleased to announce the 41st Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, which will take place between 26 and 28 March 2020.
Proposals for papers, panels and roundtables are welcome on a wide range of topics that fall within the field of English Studies (literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, performance, film and theatre studies, gender and sexuality studies, translation studies, linguistics, language teaching and methodology).
“I want to be a machine” Andy Warhol
Call for Papers
“Celebrating 50 Years of Studying Midwestern Literature”
Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
American Literature Association Annual Conference
San Diego, California
May 21-24, 2020
Join us in Chicago in May 14-16, 2020, as we celebrate 50 years of The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature SSML. Founded in 1971, the vision of the society was to "encourage and assist the study of Midwestern literature in whatever directions the insight, imagination, and curiosity of its members may lead." We are honored to be celebrating 50 years of that curiosity and insight by holding our 50th anniversary sympsisum at the prestigious Newberry Library.
“Documentary Poetry, Popular Protest and Activism: An International Poetry and Poetics Seminar”
The American University of Paris.
Co-Directors: Geoff Gilbert and William Dow.
June 11-13, 2020.
The American University of Paris announces a call for papers for a documentary poetry conference to be held 11-13 June 2020 at the American University of Paris.
We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection on the writing of Bonnie Jo Campbell. Campbell is the author of three short-story collections—Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (2015), Women & Other Animals (1999), and American Salvage (2008), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics’ Circle Award. She has also published two novels—Q Road (2002) and Once Upon a River (2011), which was recently adapted into a feature film.
“I HAVE BEEN HER KIND.” HOW TO WRITE A WOMAN’S LIFE. THE ITALIAN PERSPECTIVE
Chiasma #7: “Ethics”