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No End: Twenty Years into Krzysztof Kieslowski's Second Life
University of Southern California
October 13-14, 2016
REMINDER: ACLA 2017: Sites of Memory: Graveyards, Monuments, Ruins deadline for submissions: September 23, 2016 full name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Association contact email: jonathan.pimentel.chacon@una.cr
Annual ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Conference
Date: Utrecht, Netherlands, July 6-9, 2017
Call for contributions to the seminar:
Sites of Memory: Graveyards, Monuments, Ruins
Please find below a seminar proposal for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)
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13th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association
Gothic Traditions and Departures
Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Cholula, Mexico
18 – 21 July 2017
Call for Papers
Call for Proposals:
And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python
Editors: Kate Egan, Aberystwyth University, Wales
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University USA
***Deadline for 250-word proposals and CVs: Oct. 20th, 2016
Submissions to: kte@aber.ac.uk and Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu
The Anthropocene: Fiction and the End(s) of Human Ecologies
Guest Editor: Robert P. Marzec
Deadline for Submissions: 1 March 2017
CEA 48th Annual Conference
March 30-April 1, 2017 | Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 29928
Theme: Islands
Major and Minor Works in World Literature--a roundtable at the annual NeMLA convention
March 23-26, 2017, Baltimore
This roundtable is organized by NeMLA world literature working group as a yearly forum for discussing theoretical and historical issues, pedagogy and curriculum, and new directions in the field of world literature. We invite world literature scholars and practitioners to take part in the meaningful dialogue on the term "world literature" and its relation to the fields of postcolonial and comparative literature, as well as to share their approaches to teaching specific courses or curriculum building. This year's theme is "major and minor works in world literature," but proposals on other topics are welcome as well.
Narrative has always had the power to help people feel and, one hopes, ultimately understand important personal and historic events. Representations of war in literature and film are important tools in understanding and creating a social memory of it. This roundtable welcomes papers that explore American literature and film that grapple with the war on terror. Please send 250-word abstracts to the NeMLA CFP website.
Moving Bodies, Moving Ideologies
Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies
March 30-April 1, 2017
Anchorage, Alaska
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Call for Papers: Winter 2017 Issue
Submission Deadline: 14 January 2017
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous essays of literary criticism written by undergraduate and masters students. For its Winter 2017 issue, Criterion anticipates reserving space for multiple essays that respond to Professor Scott Peeples’s Forum prompt “What Can Poe Do for You?” If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email us at byucriterion@gmail.com.
Ethics and Aesthetics in the Anthropocene: Writing the Environment
ACCUTE Conference Panel, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences
27-30 May 2017, Ryerson University, Toronto Ontario
During the turn of the 20th century, in 1910, a mass destruction of stray dogs took place in Istanbul. Tens of thousands of dogs were put on boats and left on the uninhabited island of Sivriada, one of the Princes Islands on the Marmara Sea. The dogs have died slow and painful deaths; they starved so much so that they started eating each other and their cries were audible from the shores of Istanbul. Fast-forward 100 years, in October of 2013, locals of the Northern part of Istanbul were shocked to find wild hogs swimming in the Bosphorus. Not only were they unaware that these hogs existed, they also could not understand why they would swim in choppy streams of the Bosphorus.
This panel seeks papers that explore the representation and function of sensory experience in the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on strange, unstable or unreliable sensory episodes and their larger literary and cultural significance. Rather than subordinating body to mind, how do nineteenth-century texts reveal an emergent cultural interest in the material body and its physiological particularities? We are especially interested in papers that investigate the role of sensory representations across disciplines and explore bodily matters at the intersection of nineteenth-century literature, science, philosophy or visual art.