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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, November 7th-9th, 2012.
WESTERN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES
2012 Meeting
Las Vegas, NV
CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15 April, 2012
The 2012 meeting of the WCBS will take place 20-23 September, 2012 in Las Vegas, NV at the 'off-the-strip' SpringHill Suites.
CFP: MOB/RIOT CULTURE & PUBLIC PROTEST IN THE 21st CENT.
New technologies, new ways of communication, and, in some cases, new approaches to old problems and debates have emerged with the new millennium. With these changes, old tensions resurface and new conflicts arise. The past decade, and more recently in these past months, we have witnessed how these tensions create a variety of public protests and riots. This proposed collection aims to examine these acts: how and why they were initiated; how they have impacted their respective local, national, or even global communities; and how individual citizens, various groups and organizations, and even governments have responded to these acts.
8th Annual Religion, Literature, and the Arts Conference at the University of Iowa
Futures and Illusions: Hope and the Longing for Utopia
24-26 August 2012
Confirmed Keynotes:
Marilynne Robinson (University of Iowa)
Thomas A. Carlson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Deadline for Submissions April 30
I am seeking additional book reviewers for Catholic Library World (CLW). CLW reviews books and media, including children's titles, young adult titles, and nonfiction for adults. We have very strong coverage of religious studies, theology, and spirituality titles, as well as library science, and selective coverage of other topics.
Book reviews in CLW are about 300 words long and serve the purpose of advising librarians about potential books and media to purchase.
Please email me with your qualifications, and areas of interest, if you would like to be considered as a reviewer for Catholic Library World.
CFP: The child image in film, media, art
Red Feather Journal (www.redfeatherjournal.org), an online, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal of the child image, seeks submissions for the Spring 2012 issue (deadline Feb 1, 2012).
The Fourth Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Association
(Wo)Man and the Body
11-13 July 2012
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Trans-Scripts, an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine
Volume II: 2012, "Queer Interventions and Intersections"
Journal Publication Date: April 15, 2012
**DEADLINE EXTENDED** for submissions: February 1, 2012
Trans-Scripts – a new interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences based at the University of California, Irvine – invites graduate students to submit their work for publication. The theme of the second volume will be "Queer Interventions and Intersections."
The International Harold Pinter Society welcomes 350-to-500 word abstracts for papers to be presented at the 2012 Midwest Modern Language Convention Pinter Society panels on any of work by, about, or related to Harold Pinter. This year's theme—Possessions, Repossessions, Dispossessions--seeks to focus scholarly attention on the way Pinter's work and the Pinteresque more generally engages with loss and reclamation and on sites of contested authority, space, history, and ownership. Topics may range widely, literal or spiritual possession, ownership or occupancy, eviction and absence, and financial credit or individual acknowledgment. Please send abstracts as electronic attachments to Craig N.
Cinematic Diasporas: New Media Cultures and Experiences
University of Chicago: Department of Cinema and Media Studies
Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference
Conference Date: April 13-14, 2012
The deadline for abstracts (300-400 words) is JANUARY 15, 2012. Please email all abstracts with "Conference Abstract" in the subject heading to: cinematicdiasporas@gmail.com. Submissions should include a title, institutional affiliation, and contact information.
Issue 2 will present articles from an international pool of postgraduates on the concept of metamorphosis. The issue seeks to consider varying aspects of this theme; submissions might address (although need not to be limited to):
Re-conceptualizing Cartography: Space-Time Compression and Narrative Mapping
University of South Florida Graduate Conference
Tampa, FL
13–14 April 2012
Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world. Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years. It is is motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the literature they produce.
We are looking for book reviewers interested in writing about fiction, poetry, non-fiction and graphic novels. We have a list of titles that you could choose from or you could suggest a relevant work published within a year from now and we will consider it.
[b]Further Studies in Jewish Comics[/b]
The scholarship surrounding comics and graphic novels has proliferated over the past several years, as has studies focusing on particular comics themes or visual texts created by certain ethnic communities. In light of these convergent fields of inquiry, I am pulling together a diverse edited collection of essays devoted to comics and Jewishness. The scope of this book will take in the theoretical, literary, and socio-historical contexts of comics and its links to Jewish identity, history, and discourse. This will be an expansion of the "Jewish Comics" special issue of [i]Shofar[/i] that was published in Winter 2011 (vol. 29, no. 2).