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The Cine-Files seeks scholarly essays for issue 5-- open issue

full name / name of organization: 
The Cine-Files www.thecine-files.com
contact email: 
cinemastudies@scad.edu

The Cine-Files seeks submissions for issue 5, an open issue which will be published in fall. We will consider submissions about any aspect of film history, criticism, or theory.

War Beyond the Battlefield: 21st-Century Conflicts (ALA War & Lit Symp, New Orleans, Oct 10-12, 2013); due July 4

full name / name of organization: 
Society for Contemporary Literature
contact email: 
kweekes@psu.edu

The Society for Contemporary Literature, a group dedicated to the study of literature of the last 25 years, invites 300-word abstracts for presentations at the War & American Literature Symposium of t

[Update] American Shame: Stigma and the Body Politic, Edited Collection [7/15/2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Myra Mendible, Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University
contact email: 
mendible@fgcu.edu

This interdisciplinary collection explores how American identity is culturally and historically bound to its distinctive emotional landscape, and in particular, how public shaming practices express an

Sri Lankan Literature [Essay Collection] Deadline 7/15/13

full name / name of organization: 
G R Taneja
contact email: 
grtaneja47@hotmail.com

A proposed collection of critical articles needs additional contributions. The anthology focuses on Sri Lankan Literature written in English. All literary genres will be covered.

Imagining the World’s End: Apocalyptic Representations in American Literature NeMLA 2014 April 3rd- April 6th

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language
contact email: 
Brittany_Hirth@my.uri.edu

Imagining the World’s End: Apocalyptic Representations in American Literature

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

Postmodern Madness & The Reconstruction of Subjectivities, 1st International Symposium (Angers, France: 5th-7th September, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

International Network for Alternative Academia - Extends a general invitation to participate

1st International Symposium: Postmodern Madness and The Reconstruction of Subjectivities

Love, Lust & Longing: Rethinking Intimacy, 4th International Symposium (Angers, France: 2nd - 4th of September, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

International Network for Alternative Academia - Extends a general invitation to participate

4th International Symposium: Love, Lust and Longing: Rethinking Intimacy

Risk, Dignity & Fragility: Searching for a New Ethics, 1st International Symposium (Angers, France: 29th - 31st of August, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

International Network for Alternative Academia - Extends a general invitation to participate

1st International Symposium: Risk, Dignity and Fragility: Searching for a New Ethics

July 20th 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Royal Commonwealth Society, Uni Yao 1
contact email: 
vveyu@yahoo.com

We are looking for complete papers to complete an ongoing edited volume of a collection of articles on the following theme:

LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY FAULT-LINES

Sri Lankan Literature [Essay Collection] Deadline 6/15/13

full name / name of organization: 
G R Taneja
contact email: 
grtaneja47@hotmail.com

A proposed collection of critical articles needs additional contributions. The anthology focuses on Sri Lankan Literature written in English. All literary genres will be covered.

[UPDATE] Forms of Reading, Forms of Life (SAMLA Nov. 8-10, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Benjamin Mangrum / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill AND Benjamin Sammons / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
contact email: 
bmangrum@email.unc.edu

Observing a national decline in literary reading, in 2006 the National Endowment for the Arts instituted the Big Read Program to revivify what it deemed an indispensable, but endangered, civic activit

Kaleidoscope Volume 5, Issue 2 (2013): "Time" (Deadline 30 June 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Kaleidoscope (ISSN 1756-8137)
contact email: 
editor.kaleidoscope@durham.ac.uk

Call for Papers

Volume 5, Issue 2 (2013): "Time"

Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945, 8th March 2014 (deadline 31st Oct 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Warwick
contact email: 
devouring2014@gmail.com

Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945

Saturday 8th March 2014, University of Warwick

Keynote speakers:
Professor Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton)

Inter-Cultural Dialogues, 3rd International Symposium (Angers, France: Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th of August, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

International Network for Alternative Academia - Extends a general invitation to participate

3rd International Symposium: Inter-Cultural Dialogues

Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border (cfp deadline: 1 Nov 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Culture and the Canada-US Border
contact email: 
ccusborder@kent.ac.uk

Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border

Second international Culture and the Canada-US Border conference

Registration open for 'in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion' Postgraduate Conference (27th June 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Birmingham, Centre for the Study of Cultural Modernity
contact email: 
pgculturalmodernity@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Registration now open

'in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion' Postgraduate Conference
27th June 2013
University of Birmingham

Keynote speaker: Dr Matthew Rubery

Situating Gender, Filming Place (SCMS, Seattle, March 19-24, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
contact email: 
gellertl@grinnell.edu; Pamela.Wojcik.5@nd.edu

This panel seeks a diverse range of papers that address the many intersections and problematics of gender, place, and space in film and television.

Writing from Below CFP Due July 22, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Writing from Below: a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary, gender, sexuality and diversity studies journal
contact email: 
k.quinn@latrobe.edu.au

Writing from Below provides a forum for new research on gender and sexuality and the array of intersecting issues that shape their social expression.

journal issue on "Medieval Translation: Theory and Practice" (by late August 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Florilegium, the journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes
contact email: 
Canitz@unb.ca

CALL for SUBMISSIONS

Longfellow Revisited: A Re-Appraisal, 9/30/13; 4/3-4/6/14

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
jhotz@esu.edu

Longfellow Revisited: Towards a Scholarly Re-Appraisal

The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction Issue #2

full name / name of organization: 
The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction
contact email: 
eatonjournal@gmail.com

The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction
Deadline for inclusion in our second issue: August 1st, 2013.

Technology, Rhetoric and Cultural Change: Walter S. Ong, S.J. in the Age of Google, Facebook, and Twitter

full name / name of organization: 
Walter Ong Conference, Gonzaga University
contact email: 
walterongconference@gmail.com, depalma@gonzaga.edu

Walter Ong was among the foremost theorists of rhetoric and culture in the 20th century.

postmedieval -- oct 15, 2013 -- contemporary poetics and the medieval muse

full name / name of organization: 
postmedieval
contact email: 
hendecasyllable@gmail.com, dhadbawnik@gmail.com

CFP for Upcoming Issue of postmedieval—
Contemporary Poetics and the Medieval Muse

Call for Abstracts: Beyond Indian Cinema's Centenary

full name / name of organization: 
Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies
contact email: 
editor.synoptique@gmail.com

In the spring of 1913, Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian feature-length film was screened.

Giacomo Leopardi In and On Translation April 3-6, 2014, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
contact email: 
cfederici@brocku.ca

Session Organizer: Corrado Federici cfederici@brocku.ca
Sessio Title: Giacomo leopardi In and On Translation
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2013

Modernism and the (Im)Possible “Time of the Now” (NeMLA, April 3-6, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
matthew.scully@tufts.edu, wassersn@bc.edu

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

2nd INTERNATIONAL ISAR SYMPOSIUM with a Special Focus on State: Between Tradition and Future, December 21-22, 2013, Istanbul

full name / name of organization: 
Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education
contact email: 
symposium@isar.org.tr

2nd INTERNATIONAL ISAR SYMPOSIUM
with a Special Focus on State: Between Tradition and Future

December 21-22, 2013
Istanbul

Girls After the Apocalypse (NeMLA, April 3-6, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Julie Cary Nerad, Morgan State University
contact email: 
Julie.Nerad@morgan.edu

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

Girls After the Apocalypse

Self-Education and the Long Nineteenth Century

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
akotch@eden.rutgers.edu

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

Self-Education and the Long Nineteenth Century

Cinema and Migration at NeMLA April 3-6

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
maria.catrickes@yale.edu

Cinema and Migration

Scary Stuff: Pedagogy of Horror (edited collection of essays on teaching the horror genre) 7/15/13

full name / name of organization: 
Frances Auld and Douglas Ford
contact email: 
frances.auld@uwc.edu

Scary Stuff: Pedagogy of Horror is a collection of essays exploring both pedagogical theories and practices of teaching the horror genre.

[UPDATE] Idle/Stasis: Call for Prose, Poetry, Art--deadline extended to June 15

full name / name of organization: 
Transverse: A Comparative Studies Journal, Issue 13, University of Toronto
contact email: 
transversejournal@gmail.com

The twinned concepts of idle and stasis have recently been brought to the forefront of political conversations in Canada because of the Idle No More grassroots movement, which is one of the many manif

Why Not Comics? Challenging the Graphic Novel Canon in the University (4/3 - 4/6/2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
ksammond@fdu.edu

This panel seeks papers to examine why mainstream comic books are often excluded from classroom instruction and scholarly discussions about comics and graphic novels.

Tender Buttons at 100: Stein's Transatlantic Modernism (NeMLA 2014, Apri 3-6)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
wal209@lehigh.edu

Call for Papers:
Tender Buttons at 100: Stein's Transatlantic Modernism

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

The Adolescent Girl in Early 20th Century American Women’s Writing (NeMLA 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Leslie Allison
contact email: 
leslie.allison@temple.edu

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

Contact: leslie.allison@temple.edu

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