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"Django Unchained" is well on the way to becoming Quentin Tarantino’s commercially most successful film and is already his most controversial.

The juried journal of the South Asian Literary Association, invites

We are pleased to announce a CFP for submissions to the First Annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference in Dallas, TX, on 1 and 2 June 2013.

International Summer School for Postgraduate Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

“Representations of Horror in Contemporary Media and Culture”
August 4-10, 2013 in Munich, Germany.

It was one of the central concerns of the age of Enlightenment to expel all sorts of spectres, monsters, and vampires from our conception of reality. But the present boom of horror figures in various media conveys the impression that despite the long-lasting historical changes resulting from that rationalistic era, these seemingly irrational phenomena have not

Crossing the bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research (http://humanitiesandpublicengagement.wordpress.com)

International Conference on Comparative Literature, Taipei, Taiwan

Confirmed invited speakers (in alphabetical order):

We invite papers about the production and publication of innovative, experimental, affective, multi-genre, or performative criticism.

The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University is pleased to announce its second annual Somaesthetics Essay Prize competition. The award for the 2013 prize will be $500.

Ray Bradbury was writing science fiction during the infancy of the genre and gained mainstream popularity during the 1950s.

This special issue of Comparative Drama, “The Audience as Player: Interactive Theater Over the Years,” seeks essays that explore plays and productions in which members of the audience are not just

The diverse fields within English studies often create boundaries that few cross, but this proposal aims to bridge those established boundaries.

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the complex webs of interconnection between the long eighteenth century and the ‘long’ twentieth century, from 1900 to the present.

The 2013 PAMLA Conference will be held November 1-3, 2013, at the Bahia Resort Hotel on Mission Bay in San Diego, CA.

Missed Emancipations: State Fantasies and American Narratives of Failed Liberation

Religion, Philosophy and Myth in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry

Call for Papers

Plenary Speaker: Professor Valentine Cunningham
(Author of British Writers of the Thirties & Reading After Theory)

Call for Proposals
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature Biennial Conference
March 27-29, 2014
Arlington, Virginia

OTHER SOUTHS: APPROACHES, ALLIANCES, ANTAGONISMS

Papers on any aspect of postfeminism and popular culture requested for a panel I am organizing for the Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference to be held Oct.

Call for Papers: Indigenous Studies
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013 St. Louis, MO

Fiction narratives, films, documentaries and TV series dealing with Muslim issues have increased notably since the events of 9/11, most of them with reference to Islamist terrorism.

Haunting realities:
the Naturalist Gothic in American Literature

In the last year of his life, Nathaniel Hawthorne faced a variety of challenges on the personal, professional, and national fronts: with a nation embroiled in an unthinkably bloody Civil War and decre

Femspec, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, invites papers for a special issue of Femspec, Aging and Gender in Speculative Fiction, ex

Kanade, di Goldene Medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Kanade, di Goldene Medine? Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes

2-5 April 2014

Latin@ Studies in Transnational Contexts: Reading, Writing, and
Living Lives on/in the Margins

Guest Editors:
Christopher Rivera, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

For the 2013 conference we are seeking papers that consider Cooper’s contribution to maritime literature, naval history, and his influence on subsequent authors of sea adventure and sea travel.

The Flannery O'Connor Society seeks proposals for papers on any aspect of O'Connor's work. Final presentations should last no longer than 20 minutes.

October 31-November 2, 2013
Amerika-Haus Munich

CFP: Media Spaces of Gender and Sexuality
Media Fields Journal
University of California, Santa Barbara

CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday April 13th, 2013
Proposal Deadline: Friday March 29th, 2013

Colloquium

Sexual Futures: Versions of the Sexual Past, Visions of the Sexual Future

University of Exeter, UK

5-6 September 2013

This symposium is organized by the “Jeudi du Genre” group of the research team “Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes” (CAS EA 801).

University of Kent, 27-28 June 2013

Call for Papers

Vulnerable Readers