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WORK, LABOR, CLASS, AND CULTURE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Assocation
contact email: 
ocantrell1@gsu.edu

In his 2002 essay “Work and Culture in American Studies,” Michael Denning argues for a theory of culture focusing on labor and labor processes, as opposed to focus on the analysis of the “means

The Spaces of Early Modern English Drama / RSA 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Lloyd Kermode / Renaissance Society of America
contact email: 
Lloyd.Kermode@csulb.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The Spaces of Early Modern English Drama

A session at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America,
4-6 April, San Diego, California.

Slayage Special Issue: Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

full name / name of organization: 
Slayage: The Journal of the Joss Whedon Studies Association
contact email: 
jasie.stokes@louisville.edu

Italian-American Identity Politics, New Orleans, Oct. 3-5, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Italian-American Identity Politics
contact email: 
iasa2013conf@italianamericanstudies.net

Italian American Studies Association
2013 Conference
Call for Papers

Italian-American Identity Politics

New Orleans Marriott
October 3-5, 2013

[UPDATE] MMLA 2013 Special Session: Irony and Authenticity in Contemporary Artistic Production

full name / name of organization: 
Janessa Toro/ University of Missouri/ New Deadline: June 1
contact email: 
jltz85@mail.missouri.edu

Is there room for earnestness and authenticity in contemporary media?

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations - Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

full name / name of organization: 
Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra
contact email: 
parichay.patra@gmail.com

Book Proposal

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations
Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra

Reconstruction 14.1 The Undead Arcade

full name / name of organization: 
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
contact email: 
reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com

Reconstruction 14.1: The Undead Arcade (to be published March 2014)

Edited by Carly A. Kocurek and Samuel Tobin

[UPDATE] L.M. Montgomery and War (26–29 June 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
L.M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island
contact email: 
ben@roomofbensown.net

Please note that the deadline for submissions is now 15 June 2013

Secular Shakespeares - 21-27 April 2014, Paris

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.

Webcomics: Coming of Age? (Deadline May 12, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA 2013 - San Diego November 1-3
contact email: 
c.kuipers@iup.edu

Are there webcomic classics and canons now? How have webcomics been reinvented since McCloud’s Reinventing Comics? What new frontiers of the infinite canvas—vlogging, crowdsourcing, fanon?

Translation and Transcendence conference: 25-26 October, 2013, Toronto

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Horizons journal
contact email: 
editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca

Modern Horizons CFP – Translation and Transcendence

THATCamp CHNM 2013, June 7-8, 2013, Fairfax, VA

full name / name of organization: 
The Humanities and Technology Camp at the Center for History and New Media
contact email: 
info@thatcamp.org

The Humanities and Technology Camp is an open unconference where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on t

The Medium, Before and After Modernism (EXTENDED: 13 May)

full name / name of organization: 
College Art Association annual meeting 2014 (Chicago)
contact email: 
roland.betancourt@yale.edu

The medium and its specificity have oriented the discourse on the arts throughout various historic and historiographic periods.

trans* : Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference, Keynote José Muñoz, October 18, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
contact email: 
tuftsgradhumanitiesconference@gmail.com

Call for Papers

3rd Annual Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
Tufts University
October 18, 2013
Keynote: José Muñoz

trans*

UPDATE: Academic Exchange Quarterly Special Issue on Leadership and Writing Programs

full name / name of organization: 
Academic Exchange Quarterly
contact email: 
cl830@nova.edu

Focus: This issue will examine effective leadership practices in college and university writing programs, including first-year composition, basic writing, and ELL/ESL writing programs; undergraduate a

Immigration, Authenticity, and Artifice (Special Session of the M/MLA, Nov. 7-10, 2013; abstracts due 6/14/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
kepitt@uwm.edu

How do representations and discourses of immigration draw upon or undermine conceptions of authenticity and artifice?

Retirement, Reappraisal, and Renewal in the Eighteenth Century, November 7-9, 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
contact email: 
Geoffrey Sill <sill@camden.rutgers.edu>, Peter Briggs <pbriggs@brynmawr.edu>, Doreen Saar <saarda@drexel.edu>

Retirement, often leading to reappraisal and renewal, was an important theme in areas as disparate as philosophy and politics, art history and literature, military affairs and country living.

UPDATE: Deadline extended. CFP: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe’s New Elite. CAA Chicago, February 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Emily Kelley and Vanessa Crosby
contact email: 
edkelley@svsu.edu and vanessacrosby2013@u.northwestern.edu

CFP: Memorials for Merchants: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe’s New Elite. CAA Chicago, February 2014

Gender, Culture, and Memory in the Digital Archive (SAMLA, November 8-10, 2013, Atlanta, GA)

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
contact email: 
kjackson@fgcu.edu

Abstracts are invited for a panel on “Gender, Culture, and Memory in the Digital Archive” at the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association at the Marriott Atlanta Buckhead H

cfp: symposium The Everyday Production of Presence (‏Deadline: 5/25/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Epp Annus/Nordic Summer University
contact email: 
epp.annus@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline 25 May, 2013):

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
sdyne1@gsu.edu

"Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place"

The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today, Keynote: Charles Altieri, Oct. 11-12, Philadelphia, PA

full name / name of organization: 
Temple University: Graduate English Association
contact email: 
templegeaconf@gmail.com

The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today
October 11th-12th, 2013
Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
Keynote: Charles Altieri (Berkeley)

Making Libraries Integral in the Lives of Baby Boomers

full name / name of organization: 
Carol Smallwood
contact email: 
smallwood@tm.net

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities

full name / name of organization: 
Carol Smallwood
contact email: 
smallwood@tm.net

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Creative Management of Small Public Libraries in the 21st Century

full name / name of organization: 
Carol Smallwood
contact email: 
smallwood@tm.net

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Writing After Retirement: Tips by Successful Retired Writers

full name / name of organization: 
Carol Smallwood
contact email: 
smallwood@tm.net

Book Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Digital Humanities and Poetry November 2013

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
trisha.kannan@sfcollege.edu

We "dwell in Possibility": Digital Humanities and Poetry
South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention
November 8-10th, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia
http://samla.memberclicks.net/conference

CFP: Post-medium Condition of Moving Image (June 29–30, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Association for Studies of Culture and Representation
contact email: 
conference@repre.org

CFP: Post-medium Condition of Moving Image

"Containers" Graduate Sudent Conference in NYC, October 18th & 19th

full name / name of organization: 
Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University
contact email: 
catgradconf@gmail.com

Call for Papers
4th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Cultural Analysis and Theory Department

Stony Brook Manhattan

‘Bibliography in the Digital Age’ conference: Sydney, Australia, 20–22 November 2013 [CFP deadline 26 July]

full name / name of organization: 
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ)
contact email: 
mpatton@sl.nsw.gov.au

The annual conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand will be held at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 20–22 November 2013 on the theme of ‘Bibliography

1st ULICES Conference on Translation Studies “Voice in Indirect Translation”, 10-11 July 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies - ULICES
contact email: 
jet1.ulices@gmail.com

Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Date 10-11 July 2013

Early Modern Women in Public and Private / RSA 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Renaissance Society of America
contact email: 
Martine.VanElk@csulb.edu

Early Modern Women in Public and Private

A session at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, 27-29 March 2014, New York City.

[Update] AEQ Winter 2013 Issue: Writing Center Theory and Practice Deadline August

full name / name of organization: 
Kellie Charron/ Academic Exchange Quarterly
contact email: 
kajr10@comcast.net

A reminder that the deadline for Academic Exchange Quarterly's Winter 2013 special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice is approaching!

Fairy Tales: articles for Topic: The W&J Review (deadline: 1 September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
TOPIC: The Washington & Jefferson College Review
contact email: 
topic @washjeff.edu

For the next issue of TOPIC, we are soliciting critical essays on fairy tales, either studies of classic tales or modern retellings, transformations, and refashionings (for adults or children, in poet

[UPDATE] Medieval and Early Modern Witchcraft Panel, PAMLA,Deadline extended to May 12, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
lgreene@ewu.edu

The deadline for this PAMLA session has been extended to May 12, 2013.

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