category: american

Literature and/in illness Bordeaux (France) December 19-20, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Bordeaux (EA CLIMAS-CLARE-ERCIF)
contact email: 
Pascale Antolin pascale.antolin@u-bordeaux3.fr

Appel à communications

19-20 décembre 2013

Contemporary American Creative Non-Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Diana Eidson, South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
deidson@gsu.edu

The genre of creative nonfiction—exemplified both by engaging, intellectual essays and by narratives with attention to literary style—has received increasing scholarly and public attention.

[Update] Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Lan Dong
contact email: 
ldong4@uis.edu

Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture

Intersecting Gender - 22nd - 23rd November 2013, Queen's University Belfast

full name / name of organization: 
Sibéal Postgraduate Gender and Feminist Studies Network
contact email: 
sibealbelfast@gmail.com

The idea of intersectionality in the field of feminist and gender studies has increasingly been used to facilitate deeper understandings of contemporary gendered identity and experience.

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

full name / name of organization: 
University of Sheffield
contact email: 
john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK)

[May 12th Deadline] Constructing a "New" America: The United States in the 1930s

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA Special Session (Nov 1-3) in San Diego
contact email: 
p6gonzal@ucsd.edu

Constructing a "New" America: The United States in the 1930s seeks proposals that examine constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and/or space in the literary or visual vulture of the inter-war yea

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

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?

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

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

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*

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.

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)

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

‘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

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] 2012 Fashion: Now & Then symposium - proposals due June 10

full name / name of organization: 
Lisa Ryan / LIM College
contact email: 
lisa.ryan@limcollege.edu

Call for Presentations

Proposal Due Date: June 10th, 2012
FASHION: Now & Then
LIM College, New York, NY
Friday, October 19th 2012 to Sunday, October 21st 2012

Alternative, Experimental and Independent Cinemas (November 8-9, 2013; Proposals due July 19, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Dept. of Film, Television and Digital Media, TCU
contact email: 
k.hart@tcu.edu

We invite proposals pertaining to alternative, experimental and/or independent cinemas, for presentation in a special series of panels at the Alternative Visions in Media Conference, to be held at Tex

Satire and Humor -- November 1-3, 2013, San Diego, CA

full name / name of organization: 
Craig Sirles/Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association
contact email: 
csirles@depaul.edu

Satire and Humor

Call For Ecologically-minded Creative and Scholarly Work

full name / name of organization: 
Kudzu Review
contact email: 
editor@kudzureview.com

Kudzu Review is seeking work for its Winter Solstice Issue 3.1 as well as for its very first themed issue, "Apocalypse & Renewal." We define ecologically-minded very broadly, and our interest is in a

Forms of Reading, Forms of Life

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

Forms of Reading, Forms of Life

Midwestern Culture Area - MPCA/ACA (Oct. 11-13)

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American Culture Association
contact email: 
bonnielmiller1980@gmail.com

Call for Papers

SAMLA Session on American Literature (Pre-1900): The Intersections of Meaning in Pre-1900 American Texts (abstracts by 6/8/13)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA
contact email: 
ekhoulih@uncg.edu

In keeping with this year's SAMLA Conference focus, "Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds," scholars are invited to submit proposals for twenty

Corporate Tools: Commercial Performance in Theory and Practice (ASTR Working Group)

full name / name of organization: 
David Calder and Eero Laine / American Society for Theatre Research
contact email: 
ccalder@u.northwestern.edu and elaine@gc.cuny.edu

Corporate Tools: Commercial Performance in Theory and Practice

American Society for Theatre Research Conference 2013

[Update] Native North American Literatures (PAMLA 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA 2013 (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
smayvill@ucsd.edu

EXTENED DEADLINE--MAY 12!!!

UPDATE: CFP: 9/11 Popular Culture (Panels for MPCA,Oct 11-13, 2013); May 15 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.

UPDATE: 10 Years After Katrina: Critical Perspectives of the Storm’s Effect on American Culture and Identity

full name / name of organization: 
Mary Ruth Marotte and Glenn Jellenik, University of Central Arkansas
contact email: 
mrmarotte@uca.edu

Seeking critical essays (20-30 pages in length) on texts that examine the storm's effect on American culture and identity.

CREATING MYTHS AS NARRATIVES OF EMPOWERMENT AND DISEMPOWERMENT

full name / name of organization: 
LDC of the High Institute of Human Sciences of Jendouba, University of Jendouba, Tunisia and the Institut de Recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes, ILLE of the University of Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
contact email: 
myth.creation2014@gmail.com

Call for Papers: CREATING MYTHS AS NARRATIVES OF EMPOWERMENT AND DISEMPOWERMENT from 10 to 12 March 2014.

“CASCA” – Journal of Social Science, Culture and Arts (Deadline September 1st 2013.)

full name / name of organization: 
Centre for Alternative Social and Cultural Activities, Belgrade
contact email: 
journal@casca.org.rs. or cascajournal@gmail.com

Interdisciplinary journal CASCA enables authors to publish papers in various areas of social sciences, culture and art.

[UPDATE - deadline extended] The African American Experience in the Post Civil Rights Era

full name / name of organization: 
University of Hull (American Studies & WISE)
contact email: 
j.metcalf@hull.ac.uk

Call for Conference Papers: “The African American Experience Since 1992”, to be held 20th September 2013.

T. S. Eliot Society (9/27 - 9/29/13), St. Louis

full name / name of organization: 
T. S. Eliot Society
contact email: 
mcoyle@colgate.edu

Keynote speaker: Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia

[UPDATE] PERSPECTIVES, 2013 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline 31st May)

full name / name of organization: 
PoP2013 Organising Committee, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics
contact email: 
perspectivesonprogress2013@gmail.com

PERSPECTIVES ON PROGRESS 2013
An interdisciplinary postgraduate and early career researcher conference.
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. November 27-29, 2013.

[UPDATE] Twentieth Century Studies Midwest PCA ACA St. Louis 11-13 October 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture American Culture Association
contact email: 
havenl@ohio.edu

Call for Papers
Twentieth-Century Studies
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference
2013

Friday – Sunday, October 11-13, 2013, St. Louis, MO

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