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Science and Fiction: Literary Darwinism

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association, November 7-10, 2013
contact email: 
swafford@bradley.edu

The 55th Annual Convention will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center from November 7-10, 2013.

Topic: Literary Darwinism

Translatio--Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Conference at The Ohio State University

full name / name of organization: 
Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association
contact email: 
mrgsaosu@gmail.com

October 4-5, 2013

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in John Dos Passos’s Writing

full name / name of organization: 
John Dos Passos Society
contact email: 
Victoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com; jdpsociety@gmail.com

Like his modernist contemporaries, John Dos Passos engages themes of gender and sexuality.

Call for Creative Writing Articles

full name / name of organization: 
Writing Commons -- a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students
contact email: 
dianne@writingcommons.org

Award-winning Writing Commons (http://writingcommons.org/), a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students invites the submission of creative writing articles intending to help

"The Senses of Humour," submissions due 1 July 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, McMaster University
contact email: 
ecf@mcmaster.ca

This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal will explore the relationships among various meanings of the term "humour" in the long eighteenth century, from humoral theories of the body to

Poetics of Resistance: Women between Aesthetics and Politics

full name / name of organization: 
Nevine EL Nossery, University of Wisconsin, Madison
contact email: 
elnossery@wisc.edu

Call for Papers

Poetics of Resistance: Women between Aesthetics and Politics

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

Cacophony and Communication in the Postmodern Novel

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
contact email: 
mjameson@lander.edu

Postmodern multivocality forefronts various attempts, and failures, to communicate; in the postmodern novel, television, radio, phones, print media, literature, works of art, and even graffiti simultaneously communicate and compete, harmonize and grate, as characters attempt to make meaning and make sense of their worlds.

UPDATE: Reinterpreting Carson McCullers (The 85th Annual SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Courtney George: The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University)
contact email: 
george_courtney2@columbusstate.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 1, 2013

Power and Solidarity: Representing Immigrants’ Speech in Hispanic literature, April 4-6, 2014, NeMLA Harrisburg

full name / name of organization: 
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino
contact email: 
galorenz@temple.edu

The session seeks to bring together interdisciplinary research across various disciplines including, but not limited to, anthropological, sociological, and discourse approaches to the literary text.

Gender, Identity and Sexuality for NEPCA conference; deadline June 10, 2013; conference 10/25-26

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Popular Culture Association
contact email: 
GagnonD@wcsu.edu

Currently soliciting paper proposals for the upcoming NEPCA conference at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, October 25/26, 2013.

Comparative Innovations Workshop- Call for Participants- May 24th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
King's College London /AHRC Forms of Innovation Project
contact email: 
comparativeinnovations@formsofinnovation.com

Comparative literature, by its multidisciplinary nature, may be well matched to innovation in the digital humanities.

International Conference ICT for Language Learning

full name / name of organization: 
Pixel
contact email: 
michele@pixel-online.net

International Conference ICT for Language Learning

The 6th edition of the “ICT for Language Learning” Conference will take place in Florence, (Italy), on 14 – 15 November 2013.

The Monstrous

full name / name of organization: 
Arena Romanistica - Journal of Romance Studies
contact email: 
arenaromanistica@uib.no

ARENA ROMANISTICA.

‘Is the Biographer an Artist?’: Tracing Authority within Collected Remembrance--NeMLA 2014 April 3-6

full name / name of organization: 
Amanda Weldy Boyd
contact email: 
weldy@usc.edu

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

Partition Literature - Papers invited for Journal - Global Journal of English Language and Literature - India

full name / name of organization: 
Global Journal of English Language and Literature
contact email: 
globaljournalell@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

Jazz and Cinema

full name / name of organization: 
Cardiff University
contact email: 
jazzandcinema@gmail.com

The conference will gather academic scholars and others with an interest in the relationship between jazz and cinema from across a range of disciplines.

Possible themes could include:

CFP: Travel and Tourism Area of MAP/ACA Conference, Nov. 7-9, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
contact email: 
travelandtourismmapaca@ymail.net

Call for papers for the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference

November 7-9 2013

Littérature et anachronisme, NeMLA, Harrisburg, PE, April 3-6, 2014 (deadline September 30)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
maxime.philippe@mail.mcgill.ca

Littérature et anachronisme

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

SAMLA 85 Call for Papers. Deadline June 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
contact email: 
banerjeesuchi@gmail.com

Transnationalizing the Digital

[Update] Smallville: Essay Collection

full name / name of organization: 
Nadine Farghaly and Margo Collins
contact email: 
supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com, Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net

Articles are invited for an essay collection on Smallville. This collection will specifically focus on issues of gender, sex, and power in this retelling and expansion of the Superman universe(s).

Instability and the Modern Family: Family Systems Theory and the Contemporary Novel

full name / name of organization: 
Jenna Marquardt/ University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
contact email: 
marquj48@uwosh.edu

This paper explores the possibilites of family systems theory as literary criticism.

Andrew Marvell Society at the South-Central Renaissance Conference, 3-5 April 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Andrew Marvell Society
contact email: 
andrewmarvellsociety@gmail.com

Call for Papers

Andrew Marvell Society at the South-Central Renaissance Conference
3-5 April 2014, Tucson, Arizona

Deadline: 15 December 2013

[NeMLA 2014] Critical Feelings: Redefining Cultural Agency in Affect Theory

full name / name of organization: 
Tyler Bradway
contact email: 
tyler.bradway@gmail.com

Conference: Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (2014)
Date: April 3-6, 2014
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

[UPDATE] Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media & Mode - Abstracts due June 20th

full name / name of organization: 
LIM College
contact email: 
proposals@limcollege.edu

Call for Presentations - Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media, and Mode

Proposal due date: June 10, 2013
Conference date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 to Saturday, October 5, 2013

CFP: Special Issue of The CEA Critic, Spring 2014: Digital Humanities Pedagogy

full name / name of organization: 
Leigh Bonds and Luke Iantorno, Texas Tech University
contact email: 
digitalhumanities@ttu.edu

As “digital humanities” becomes more prevalent in English course syllabi, faculty and instructors are seeking new ways to teach undergraduates to consider the decisions editors and other scholars

Call for Papers - The Journal of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

full name / name of organization: 
Frederick Alex / The Blue Water Institute
contact email: 
falex@thebluewaterinstitute.com

Call for Papers

International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013 ( LLL 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
International Center for Research and Development
contact email: 
info@theicrd.org

Language plays an important role in the modern society and represent diverse aspirations and needs ,cultures, traditions, and practices.

Hamilton Prize

full name / name of organization: 
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
contact email: 
kguest@unbc.ca

Hamilton Prize

NeMLA 2014: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Context

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA 2014 (Northeast Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
tara.harney@uconn.edu

NeMLA 2014 cfp

Title: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Context

Culture Identity Diversity: The Challenge of Multicultural Classes

full name / name of organization: 
Daniela D'Eugenio - Graduate Center (CUNY)
contact email: 
ddeugenio@gc.cuny.edu

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
Deadline: September 30, 2013

CFP SAMLA 8-10 Novembre 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Maristella Cantini Ph.D. Madison College
contact email: 
scantini@hotmail.com

Could you please circulate this CFP?
Thank you,

Maristella Cantini

THATCamp Wisconsin: "Big Ideas for Small Campuses" (Aug. 9, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Carroll University
contact email: 
jgarriso@carrollu.edu

THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” It is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sess

[UPDATE]"Past Tense, Future Tensions" SCLA Conference Oct. 18-19, 2013 (abstract deadline extended)

full name / name of organization: 
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
contact email: 
sclaconference@guilford.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Abstracts due 6/1/13.

[UPDATE] Writing and Rhetoric in Popular Culture Area Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: 
c.n.blankenship@gmail.com

Call for Papers

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

full name / name of organization: 
Edinburgh University Press
contact email: 
Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com

From Escape in the Fog (1945) to Ride Lonesome (1959), among many other titles, few filmmakers created as unique a body of work in the United States as Budd Boetticher (1916-2001), but few directors h

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