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Auburn University College of Liberal Arts will host the biennial joint meeting of the Aphra Behn and Frances Burney Societies November 5-9, 2019 at the
Universities often separate into departments based on geographic regions as seen in the designations of “English” and “French.” Yet for medieval studies, these two regions were not completely separate entities, but deeply entwined with culture, land, and even leadership frequently changing hands or uniting them together. Based on the 2018 conference of the same name, this panel aims to bring together scholars of English and French—as well as other disciplines—to show how their work necessarily crosses the boundaries between these two fields.
Conference Theme: “Upheaval and Reconstruction”
Tracing the origins of what he calls the “Myth of the [Great] War,” Samuel Hynes has argued that soldier-poets and memoirists gave this narrative of the conflict its “fullest definition” in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and that it “can be reduced to two terse propositions: the old betray the young; the past is remote and useless” (A War Imagined x). “No generation since then has questioned its validity,” Hynes continues; rather, the soldier-poets’ account is “repeated in texts written by authors who did not experience the war, but who inherited its myth.”
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will convene at the Middle Georgia State University Conference Center at 100 University Parkway, Macon, Georgia on Friday, May 17, 2019.
Anime Expo Academic Symposium
Anime Chronotopes: Nostalgia in Japanese Animation and Comics
Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
July 4-7, 2019
Deadline for Paper Proposals: April 7, 2019
A Special Session for the 2020 meeting of the Modern Language Association (Seattle, January 9-12, 2020):Empirical and theoretical papers on seriality, broadly conceived, to include work on print-culture, narratology, rhetoric, writing and reading practices, socialization, identity politics, and more. No restrictions regarding period or region.
300-word proposals with c.v. due Friday, March 15, 2019 to: cavitch@english.upenn.edu and clooby@humnet.ucla.edu.
Inquiries welcome.
October 10-12, 2019
Hotel Paso del Norte, El Paso, Texas
Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2019
Old English, the language of the Germanic inhabitants of England dating from the time of their settlement in the 5th century to the end of the 11th century, has three dialects: West Saxon, Kentish, and Anglian; West Saxon was the language of Alfred the Great (871-901) and therefore achieved the greatest prominence. This panel welcomes individual paper proposals dealing with any aspect of the Old English language, its dialects, and literature, which could include but is not limited to the following:
Language and voice
This is a Call for Papers for a proposed panel to be held as part of the 22nd General Congress of ICLA, which will take place from July 29 to Aug 2, 2019 at the University of Macau, themed: Literature of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature.
The panel is sponsored by the ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative
Organisers: Stefan Buchenberger, Hiraishi Noriko, Lea Pao, Anna-Sophie Juergens
The deadline for paper submission is February 27, 2019.
“It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.” (Sun Tzu, The Art of War)
Seeking paper abstracts for a special panel session on the theme of "the human" at the MLA conference in Seattle, WA on January 9-12, 2020. Each panelist will present a 15- to 20-minute paper that helps to theorize and contextualize current debates about the name, length, and roles of the human and the plantation in the formation of the present epoch. Open to any topic, especially papers on 19th-21st c. plantation literature from South Asia, Latin America, and Africa (but open to other regions and a broad interpretation of plantations as well). Please send a 250-word abstract, CV, and any queries to Dr. Isadora Wagner, West Point (isadora.wagner@westpoint.edu) and Dr.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a cell phone will sext. One study notes that, “of 870 U.S. adults aged 18-72 … 88% had sexted in their lifetime.” This special call for papers seeks to explore the ways that sexting has affected our ideas of romance and intimacy. How has sexting influenced the popular romance novel, the chick flick, or the soap opera? How has sexting changed how we think about romance and love? We welcome papers that engage with these topics, and encourage interdisciplinary approaches.
This special call for papers understands sexting quite broadly, ranging from the flirtatious email sent to a partner at home through to the unsolicited dick pic sent over Tinder.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will convene at the Middle Georgia State University Conference Center at 100 University Parkway, Macon, Georgia on Friday, May 17, 2019. We invite proposals for session topics, panel discussions, and scholarly papers in English on any subjects relating to American, British, French, Hispanic, Russian, German, or Slavic literature or language, as well as composition, philosophy, history, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy. Reading times for individual paper presentations are limited to 15 minutes.
"Race: Embodying Academia"
University at Albany’s 17th annual English Graduate Student Organization Conference
Date: April 5-6, 2019
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2019
Racialization is not a "biological or cultural descriptor but a conglomerate of sociopolitical relations that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans . . ."
—Alexander Weheliye, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing welcomes submissions for Volume 7. For more information, please visit the journal site: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.
CUNY Graduate Center English Student Association Conference
BLACK LIVES
SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Conference date: Friday, April 12, 2019
CUNY Graduate Center
New York, NY
KEYNOTES BY:
Michelle Wright, Emory University
Rafael Walker, Baruch College
Political Paralysis: The Global Contemporary
The Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group
Keynote speakers: George Ciccariello-Maher and Andrew Ross
21-23 March 2019
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
I hear it every day on the radio
Somebody shoots a guy he don't even know…
--“Turn on the News,” Hüsker Dü, Zen Arcade, 1984
One-Day Conference, 30th April 2019, Bath Spa University, England
Call for Papers:
ICAIH 2019: The Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Humanities
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
August 14, 2019
“The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human and Society"
CALL FOR PAPERS
For a special issue of Open Theology: “Existential Conceptions of the Relationship between Philosophy and Theology”
Edited by:
Nikolaas Deketelaere (BalliolCollege, University of Oxford)
Dr. Steven DeLay (Wake Forest University)
Elizabeth Li (Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
Invited contributors: Dr. Kate Kirkpatrick (author of Sartre and Theology, Sartre on Sinand The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought)
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MLA 2020 ASLE Co-Sponsored Roundtable: Indigenizing the Future: (Re)Imagining the Future of the Environment
International transdisciplinary symposium organized by HCTI (EA 4249) November 21-23, 2019 at the Université Bretagne Sud in Lorient, South Brittany, France.
“The Desert and the USA”
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will convene at the Middle Georgia State University Conference Center at 100 University Parkway, Macon, Georgia on Friday, May 17, 2019. We invite proposals for session topics, panel discussions, and scholarly papers in English on any subjects relating to American, British, French, Hispanic, Russian, German, or Slavic literature or language, as well as composition, philosophy, history, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy. Reading times for individual paper presentations are limited to 15 minutes.
“Nourishment: Sustaining Resistance” is an inter- and trans-disciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati focusing on ways that texts or writing practices nourish and sustain us through times of upheaval and uncertainty. Nourishing can take many forms—from eating a good meal to reading an apt sentence—but all acts of nourishment engage our senses and encourage us to continue working, either as opposers to troubling trends or supporters of positive change.
While historical and literary archives have long been integral to the study of the humanities, they are more than simple repositories for historical artifacts. They don’t just preserve works and fragments to be studied, they help us, as scholars, to actively engage in the public sphere. As Randall C. Jimerson notes “Archivists can use the power of archives to promote accountability, open government, diversity, and social justice.” In doing so, archivists can democratize information and open up new avenues of knowing by employing ethical and objective—but not neutral—strategies. This can be especially important for subjugated communities, who’s histories and cultures have been bound and kept distinct.
Venue: Gdansk, Poland
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2019
Contact email address:
Organizers/ Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk (Poland)
Professor Paulo Endo – University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
InMind Support (Poland)
CFP: Postcolonialism, Postcommunism and Postmodernism
CFP: Screening #TimesUp: Exploring Rape Culture in Hollywood Film
Editors: Dr. Lisa Funnell (University of Oklahoma) and Dr. Ralph Beliveau (University of Oklahoma)
CFP MLA 2020
Sponsored Open-Call Session for Sixteenth-Century English Literature LLC
Spenser, Ecology, and the Dream of a Legible Environment
Devils and Daemons: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
“But what could Love be?” I said. “A mortal?
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“He is a great spirit [Daimon], Socrates. Everything classed as a spirit falls between god and human”
The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue on archetypes and/or stereotypes. The theme issue is edited by Dan Nicolae Popescu (University of Suceava, Romania).
CALL FOR AREA PROPOSALS
Designing Culture and Character: Technology in Film, Television, and New Media
2019 Film & History Conference
November 13-17
Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)