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Transitions 4 is a one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art, now in its fourth year at

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

With over 1000 creative writing programs offered nationwide, the standard workshop model is a relatively fixed and unquestioned paradigm.

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

Keynote speakers: Dr Elke D’hoker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), author of Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville (Rodopi, 2004)

Call for participants Invisible Cities: Located Knowledge and Digital Design
Graduate Symposium and Expo
October 26, 2013
Critical Medial Lab, University of Waterloo, Kitchener Ontario

*ODBASE 2013: 12th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases and Applications of Semantics: *

Bullying has been a hot topic in recent years in terms of education, social media, and garnering awareness and protection of all persons from bullying.

DEADLINE EXTENDED

UNIVERSITE DE TUNIS I
L’ÉOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE & AMERICANA

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Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED:
American Women Writers of Color Conference
Nov. 1 – Nov. 3, 2013 Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel,
Ocean City, MD

Panel on "The Nineteenth-Century Unconscious," C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Third Biennial Conference, March 13-16, 2014, UNC-Chapel Hill

We use ‘genocide’ and ‘atrocity’– words that overlap and mix – as we reach for an understanding of the full horror of one people’s attempts to eliminate another.

Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2013
Keynote Speaker: Kriss Ravetto, UC Davis, Cinema and Technocultural Studies
Submission Deadline: June 28, 2013

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
Contact: ravenelrichardson@gmail.com

In ancient Greece, the Pythagoreans worshipped perfect numbers and turned them into musical scales.

Abstract deadline: July 14, 2013

A SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO A NEW FIELD
SCHOLARS & ACTIVISTS: CALL FOR PAPERS, ART, VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, AND NARRATIVES

“Eco-Ability: The Intersection of Earth, Animal, and Dis-Ability”

“Contact and Connections”: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium
Thursday 27th June 2013, University of Warwick
Wolfson Research Exchange Seminar Rooms

Keynote speakers:

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

Session 14120, NeMLA 2014 Convention, Harrisburg PA, 

When Roland Barthes suggests that "the ideal drink would be rich in metonymies of all kinds," he might well have been speaking of cocktails and the drinking cultures they have helped to create.

Motherhood and childbirth have been constructed as symbols of faith, sites of suspicion, protectors of social morality, and the wages of original sin.

Transatlantic Encounters: Redefining Temporality in the Nineteenth Century

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

Featured Author: Jerry Spinelli
Saturday, September 20, 2014
University of Pennsylvania

Object Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Conference (October 4-5, 2013, Berkeley, CA)

Call for Special Issue on MAD

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

Deadline extended till 15 June, 2013 for the Special Issue on Performance Studies

We seek presentations and papers on a range of topics that apply a historical lens to media literacy as a field, a movement, or a set of educational practices.

June 27th – 28th 2013, Cardiff University, Wales UK

Keynote Speakers
Dr Eileen Brennan (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University)
Dr Elizabeth Wren-Owens (Cardiff University)

The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life is a proposed volume in the new book series, Critical Approaches to Comics Artists, at the University Press of Mississippi.

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

From Beverley Hills 90210 to Gossip Girl and Glee, the genre of the teen drama series has added a unique and multi-faceted dynamic to the American television landscape.