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category: americanLiterature and/in illness Bordeaux (France) December 19-20, 2013full 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-Fictionfull 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 Culturefull 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 Belfastfull 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 Gothicfull 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 1930sfull 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 LITERATUREfull 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, 2013full name / name of organization: Italian-American Identity Politics contact email: iasa2013conf@italianamericanstudies.net Italian American Studies Association Italian-American Identity Politics New Orleans Marriott
[UPDATE] MMLA 2013 Special Session: Irony and Authenticity in Contemporary Artistic Productionfull 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 Arcadefull 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, Torontofull 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, 2013full name / name of organization: Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference contact email: tuftsgradhumanitiesconference@gmail.com Call for Papers 3rd Annual Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference 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, PAfull name / name of organization: Temple University: Graduate English Association contact email: templegeaconf@gmail.com The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today
Digital Humanities and Poetry November 2013full name / name of organization: South Atlantic Modern Language Association contact email: trisha.kannan@sfcollege.edu We "dwell in Possibility": Digital Humanities and Poetry
‘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 10full name / name of organization: Lisa Ryan / LIM College contact email: lisa.ryan@limcollege.edu Call for Presentations Proposal Due Date: June 10th, 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, CAfull 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 Workfull 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 Lifefull 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 deadlinefull 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 Identityfull 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 DISEMPOWERMENTfull 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 Erafull 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. Louisfull 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
[UPDATE] Twentieth Century Studies Midwest PCA ACA St. Louis 11-13 October 2013full name / name of organization: Midwest Popular Culture American Culture Association contact email: havenl@ohio.edu Call for Papers Friday – Sunday, October 11-13, 2013, St. Louis, MO
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