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[Update]: Panel on Postfeminism and Popular Culture @ Midwest Popular Culture Conference, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 11-13, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Melissa Miles McCarter
contact email: 
melissa_miles@yahoo.com

Papers on any aspect of postfeminism and popular culture requested for a panel at the Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference to be held Oct. 11-13, 2013 in St.

Edited collection of essays on Flora Annie Steel

full name / name of organization: 
Susmita Roye, Delaware State University
contact email: 
sroye@desu.edu

‘The Star of India’: A Critical Anthology on Flora Annie Steel

Secular Shakespears - Shakespeare 450 (April 21 - 27 2014 Paris, France)

full name / name of organization: 
Société française Shakespeare
contact email: 
ens310@lehigh.edu

The last decade has seen a return to religion in early modern studies.

[UPDATE] New Mappings of the Avant-gardes

full name / name of organization: 
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
contact email: 
montevideana2013@fhuce.edu.uy

Montevideana VIII: New Mappings of the Avant-gardes. Views from (or towards) Latin America.

Deadline for submissions: April 26th, 2013.

[UPDATE] Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at SCMLA

full name / name of organization: 
South Central Modern Language Association
contact email: 
davisc@tamug.edu

We invite proposals on the topic of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities for presentation at the 70th annual South Central Modern Language Association conference at the Hotel Monteleone in New

Cracking the Ivory Tower, Abstract deadline: May 1

full name / name of organization: 
University of Pittsburgh
contact email: 
klp68@pitt.edu

The editors seek abstracts for essays sharing advice, unique stories or sage wisdom for graduate students at all levels.

CFP: Shakespeare PCAS Savannah Oct 3-5, 2013 Deadline--May 31, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
American/Popular Culture Association of the South
contact email: 
millerep@vmi.edu

CFP: Shakespeare

Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South Conference
October 3-5, 2013 Savannah, Georgia

Deadline: May 31, 2013

[Reminder] Disability and the American Counterculture special journal issue

full name / name of organization: 
University of Kent
contact email: 
S.Bolaki@kent.ac.uk

Disability and the American Counterculture

Special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, guest edited by Stella Bolaki and Chris Gair

New book series established: Shakespeare and the Stage

full name / name of organization: 
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
contact email: 
fdupress@fdu.edu

New Book Series: Shakespeare and the Stage

Science and Fiction: Literary Darwinism MMLA Conference November 7-10, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
swafford@bradley.edu

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

CFP: 9/11 Popular Culture (Panels for MPCA,Oct 11-13, 2013); April 30 deadline

full name / name of organization: 
Paul Petrovic / Midwest Popular Culture Association
contact email: 
pauldpetrovic@gmail.com

The Midwest Popular Association / American Culture Association conference will be held at the St. Louis Union Station in St. Louis, MO, this October 11-13, 2013.

Generic Orwell: Between Fiction and Nonfiction--SAMLA 2013 (Atlanta, November 8-10)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA--South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
douglash@usca.edu

Generic Orwell: Between Fiction and Nonfiction

[UPDATE] Submission Deadline Extended to May 1st. ‘Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars’: Exploring the Virtues in Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Holly Ordway / Houston Baptist University
contact email: 
hordway@hbu.edu

From the classical period to today, the virtues have served as a means of self-examination, a guide for self-reflection, a pattern for living a good life, and an inspiration for literary composition.

American Work: American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academics

full name / name of organization: 
University of Oxford
contact email: 
americanworksymposium@gmail.com

American Work

American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academics

18 May 2013
Rothermere American Institute
University of Oxford

Allegory Studies? (7 November 2013; proposals 31 May)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Warwick
contact email: 
v.brljak@warwick.ac.uk

“TECHNOLOGISMS” in the novels of Chetan Bhagat – a linguo cultural analysis

full name / name of organization: 
Veena Venugopal,Research Scholar, University of Calicut
contact email: 
veenz20@gmail.com

As the fast rising technology has invaded our lives together with the vast social networking, there have been several new words which have been commonly used.

Northern Renaissance Seminar: Writing the Renaissance North, 22 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Sheffield Hallam University
contact email: 
renaissancenorth@yahoo.co.uk

This one-day symposium will focus on the ways in which the idea of the north was understood, imagined and represented in the writing of the early modern period.

SAMLA: Queered Africa

full name / name of organization: 
Matthew Durkin/ Duquesne University
contact email: 
durkinm@duq.edu

Sylvia Tamale's recent anthology "African Sexualities: A Reader" encompasses various critical and creative attitudes towards and questions regarding non-normative sexualities throughout Africa.

The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The international Academic Forum (IAFOR)
contact email: 
filmasia@iafor.org

The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce the Second Annual Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2013, to be held in Osaka, Japan, from 8-10

The Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The international Academic Forum (IAFOR)
contact email: 
mediasia@iafor.org

The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2013, to be held in Osaka, Japan, f

UPDATE: Call for Journal Articles: "The Writer's Experience" - Deadline: May 27, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of South Texas English Studies
contact email: 
southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Summer 2013 issue, themed “The Writer’s Experience.” Submission deadline: May 27 2013.

Art-related scientific studies; nonfiction papers about the intersection of science and art

full name / name of organization: 
[Slippage] Magazine
contact email: 
slippagelitmag@gmail.com

www.slippagelitmag.co.nr.

"Linguistic Criticism and Literary Studies: Theory and Practice" June 30, 2013 - Book

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Prashant Mishra and Dr. Susanta Kumar Bardhan
contact email: 
bardhansk@g.mail.com

Linguistic Criticism and Literary Studies: Theory and Practice

[Reminder] Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
smacdon8@kent.edu

This panel is designed to examine ideas of childhood based on the life writing of working class people.

GLOBAL RESEARCH JOURNAL ON HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE,V1,N1

full name / name of organization: 
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE
contact email: 
domonikr@gmail.com

Global Research Journal On Humanities And Social Science is an international peer-reviewed academic research journal, which has a interdisciplinary approaches.

Best Practices: Designing the Capstone Course for Undergraduate English Majors

full name / name of organization: 
Special Session: South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November 8-10, 2013, Atlanta, GA
contact email: 
tomm@usca.edu

This special session will feature presentations that outline practical models for supervising the undergraduate capstone project in English studies; these models should reflect a proven track record o

Wordsworth Summer Conference 5-15 August 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Wordsworth Conference Foundation
contact email: 
wordsworthsummerconference@gmail.com

The 42nd Wordsworth Summer Conference
Monday 5 August to Thursday 15 August 2013
Rydal Hall, Rydal, Cumbria, England
Keynote Lecturers
Part 1: 5–10 August

SAMLA 2013: (Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean (due May 31)

full name / name of organization: 
Kristine A. Wilson
contact email: 
wilson67@hotmail.com

2013 SAMLA CONFERENCE, NOV 8-10, ATLANTA

SPECIAL SESSION: "(Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean"

CFP: Bicycles / Bicycling in Literature and Culture, edited collection (proposals 8/1/13, essays 2/1/14)

full name / name of organization: 
Jeremy Withers and Daniel Shea, Editors of Collection on Bicycles in Literature and Culture
contact email: 
shead@apsu.edu and withers@iastate.edu

The American author Charles Morley once said: “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” As Morley’s quote suggests, many people have perceived an in

Beyond Mad Men: Personal and Collective Nostalgia in British and American Period Dramas; SAMLA, Nov 8-10

full name / name of organization: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University
contact email: 
Dotterman@Adelphi.edu

In his article “The Forty Year Itch,” Adam Gopnik argues that the past “is not simply a good setting for a good story, but a good setting for you.” While Gopnik’s article focuses on nostal

The Family Dynamic as Cultural Zeitgeist: Comparing the Novels of Jonathan Franzen and Jeffery Eugenides; Nov 8-10, SAMLA

full name / name of organization: 
Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University
contact email: 
Dotterman@Adelphi.edu

While Jonathan Franzen has "persistently claimed natural descent from Don Delillo," readers have continually compared Franzen to Jeffery Eugenides on the basis of their mutual exploration of Midwester

Exploring the Dynamics of Media and Communication Education & Research

full name / name of organization: 
Media Watch communication journal
contact email: 
mediawatchjournal@gmail.com

Globally media education and research is in its dynamic flux after the emergence of new/social media. The traditional models/process of communications is redefined.

Exploring the Dynamics of Media Education

full name / name of organization: 
Media Watch communication journal
contact email: 
mediawatchjournal@gmail.com

Globally media education and research is in its dynamic flux after the emergence of new/social media. The traditional models/process of communications is redefined.

[UPDATE} FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition [SCMLA New Orleans 10/3/13-10/5/13]

full name / name of organization: 
Thomas W. Reynolds, Jr., Northwestern State University
contact email: 
reynoldst@nsula.edu

FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition

South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 70th Annual Convention

The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genres

full name / name of organization: 
Birkbeck & Institute of English Studies / University of London
contact email: 
theweirdconference@gmail.com

Friday 8 November 2013
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London

(+ Thursday 7 November: evening event / weird fiction reading: details tbc)

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