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"Past Tense, Future Tensions" SCLA Conference Oct. 18-19, 2013 (abstract deadline 5/10/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
contact email: 
sclaconference@guilford.edu

39th Annual Conference of the SCLA to be held October 18-19, 2013
at Guilford College (Greensboro, NC).

Contemporary Studies: Midwest PCA/ACA

full name / name of organization: 
Jasara Hines
contact email: 
jhines7@knights.ucf.edu

Call for Papers:
Contemporary Studies
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel, A Doubletree by Hilton

[UPDATE] Kennesaw State University's Second World Literature and Film Conference / April 5 - 7, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Larrie Dudenhoeffer/Kennesaw State University
contact email: 
ldudenho@kennesaw.edu

Deadline for proposals has been extended to March 2, 2013.

Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum Tbilisi, Georgia 24-26, October 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum Tbilisi, Georgia 24-26, October 2013,European Scientific Institute and the University Grigol Robakidze,
contact email: 
contact@emforum.eu

http://www.emforum.eu/
Eurasian Multidisciplinary Forum
Tbilisi, Georgia 24-26, October 2013

Update Representing social classes in films on television and in cinema in English-speaking countries

full name / name of organization: 
Rennes 2 University, France
contact email: 
nicole.cloarec@univ-rennes1.fr ; Delphine.Letort@univ-lemans.fr ; david_haigron@yahoo.fr ; renee.dickason@orange.fr

Call for papers-
University of Rennes 2, France – 10-11 October 2013

[UPDATE] Transpacific Memory: Life Writing across the Western Divide

full name / name of organization: 
2014 Chicago MLA special session
contact email: 
Mary Goodwin at profgood@hotmail.com.

While Transpacific Studies often focus on Asian diasporic writing, this panel seeks essays on life writing emerging from travel across the Pacific in all directions, East-West, West-East, North-South.

“Age, Identity, and Culture in Global Diasporas.” PAMLA Nov 1-3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Weihsin Gui
contact email: 
weihsin.gui@ucr.edu

This special session has been approved for the 2013 Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) Conference in San Diego, California on November 1-3, 2013.

[UPDATE] At Face Value: Re-thinking Surfaces, Friends of English Southland Graduate Conference at UCLA

full name / name of organization: 
University of California, Los Angeles
contact email: 
surfaces2013@gmail.com

CFP: Friends of English Southland Graduate Conference at UCLA

At Face Value: Re-thinking Surfaces

Friday, May 31, 2013 at UCLA

Keynote speakers:
Professor Rachel Lee (UCLA)

Call For Papers -- DISCOURSES OF MADNESS / DISCOURS DE LA FOLIE (Neohelicon, 43, 2016 / Guest Editor: R.-L. Etienne Barnett)

full name / name of organization: 
Neohelicon (Guest-Editor: R.-L. Etienne Barnett)
contact email: 
RL_Barnett@msn.com (primary) / RLEBarnett@editionsdegresecond.be (secondary)

 

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6-26-2013 Thirteenth International Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Thirteenth International Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations Conference
contact email: 
conferencedirector@home.commongroundpublishing.com

Call for Papers

Servant

full name / name of organization: 
38th Macromarketing Conference, University of York, Toronto, 7-9 June 2013
contact email: 
norah.campbell@tcd.ie

38th Annual Macromarketing Conference June 5– June 7, 2013

Paper track on servants, servitude and the philosophy of service

Third Annual Gender and Sexuality Postgraduate Research Conference, Birmingham, May 10 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Roles Gender and Sexuality Forum, University of Birmingham
contact email: 
hpp209@

Roles: A Gender and Sexuality Forum

Third Annual Gender and Sexuality Conference

University of Birmingham,
10th May 2013

Key Note Speaker: Dr. Nadine Muller

Is It All About the Text? Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizing--April 20, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Southern Connecticut State University English Department
contact email: 
neverowv1@southernct.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS

Is It All About the Text?
Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizing

The Annual Graduate English Conference at
Southern Connecticut State University

Queer Relations: Revising the Victorian Family (proposal deadline: 1 April. 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Duc Dau, University of Western Australia and Dr Shale Preston, Macquarie University
contact email: 
duc.dau@uwa.edu.au and shale.preston@mq.edu.au

We invite contributions for an upcoming volume of essays which examine the Victorian family through a queer lens.

[UPDATE] Giving Voice to the Dead: Haunted Histories and Living Landscapes in Literature

full name / name of organization: 
PCEA
contact email: 
penncea@gmail.com

[UPDATE] The Pennsylvania College English Assoc. has extended the submission deadline for our 2013 conference. We will accept individual and panel submissions until Feb. 15, 2013.

Time and the Sublime around 1800

full name / name of organization: 
MLA 2014 (Special Session Proposal)
contact email: 
arvietto@eiu.edu

For a special session proposal for MLA 2014 (Chicago, Jan. 9-12).

HBO’s Girls - Edited Collection

full name / name of organization: 
Peggy Tally & betty.kaklamanidou
contact email: 
Peggy.Tally@esc.edu & betty.kaklamanidou@gmail.com

HBO’s Girls - Edited Collection

We are inviting submissions for an edited collection on the HBO show Girls (2011-present).

Betrayal: Race, Class and Conscience in the Study of Folklore -- Essay Collection

full name / name of organization: 
Shelley Ingram, Todd Richardson, and Willow Mullins
contact email: 
singram@louisiana.edu

The editors of the collection “Betrayal: Race, Class and Conscience in the Study of Folklore” are soliciting additional proposals for articles and essays that betray conventional notions about pro

Essay Collection: Smallville

full name / name of organization: 
Nadine Farghaly and Margo Collins
contact email: 
supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com

Articles are invited for an essay collection on Smallville.

[UPDATED] Watermark Journal — Submission Deadline Extended: 3/1/2013

full name / name of organization: 
California State University, Long Beach
contact email: 
editor@watermarkjournal.com

Watermark, an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking papers for our seventh volume to be publis

Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media Fiction 4/5/2013

full name / name of organization: 
David Banash / Western Illinois University
contact email: 
d-banash@wiu.edu

This edited collection will investigate critical approaches to Steve Tomasula’s innovative contemporary fiction, non-fiction, criticism, and multimedia art.

CFP: NEASA 2013 Spring Colloquium, "American Studies: What, How, and Why" (5/4/2013)

full name / name of organization: 
New England American Studies Association
contact email: 
brailton@fitchburgstate.edu

2013 New England American Studies Association Spring Colloquium
American Studies: What, How, and Why
Saturday May 4th, 10am-1pm
Suffolk University Poetry Center
Boston, MA

CFP: New England ASA 2013 Conference, "Repression, Rebellion, and Representation" (9/27-28/2013)

full name / name of organization: 
New England American Studies Association
contact email: 
brailton@fitchburgstate.edu

Call for Papers
New England American Studies Association 2013 Conference
Mashantucket, Connecticut
Sept 27th – 28th

Writing (Beyond) Regionalisms in Northeastern North America, Special Session, MLA Chicago, January 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Rachel Bryant
contact email: 
rachel.bryant@unb.ca

Seeking papers that consider or challenge the ways in which Atlantic Canadian/New England literatures have been used to reinforce the Canada/U.S. border.

[UPDATE] Final Deadline Extension - The Millennials on Film and Television: the Politics of Popular Culture (edited collection)

full name / name of organization: 
betty.kaklamanidou@gmail.com & Peggy.Tally@esc.edu
contact email: 
betty.kaklamanidou@gmail.com

Call for Papers

Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance - Essay Collection

full name / name of organization: 
Nadine Farghaly and Margo Collins
contact email: 
paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com

Articles about urban fantasy and romance novels are invited for a new, multi-contributor collection.

The Metaphysical Thriller, 26-27 September 2013, deadline for proposals 16 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Université de Liège, CIPA, Belspo
contact email: 
adechene@ulg.ac.be mdelville@ulg.ac.be

The Metaphysical Thriller
Bilingual Conference (English / French)
Université de Liège, CIPA, Belspo
Liège, Belgique – 26-27 September 2013
Deadline for proposals 16 June 2013

CFP: 2013 International Conference: Migrants and Their Memories

full name / name of organization: 
Research Center for Humanities / National Sun Yat-sen University
contact email: 
chsc705@mail.nsysu.edu.tw;

Scientists recently found that migration was a main factor that shaped human behavior (Don Jones, Nature News).

"The Cultural History of Langston Hughes: an Omni-media Investigation" (SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
The Langston Hughes Society
contact email: 
sharon.jones@wright.edu

2013 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention (Atlanta, Georgia)
November 8-10, 2013

"Langston Hughes's Poetry in Vulnerable Times" ( MLA Convention, Chicago, Illinois, January 9-12, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
The Langston Hughes Society
contact email: 
sharon.jones@wright.edu

Abstracts examining the theme of "vulnerable times" in Hughes's texts. Presenters must join the Modern Language Association and Langston Hughes Society.

[UPDATE] Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction Deadline Extended to Feb. 15th

full name / name of organization: 
Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction
contact email: 
eatonjournal@gmail.com

Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction
Deadline Extended for inclusion in our first issue: February 15th, 2013.

MLA Panel: Animal and Artistic Life

full name / name of organization: 
MLA 2014
contact email: 
gvarner@purdue.edu

Animal and Artistic Life

Call for Papers Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 10-12, 2013, Vancouver, WA

full name / name of organization: 
American Humor Session of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Assn. Annual Conference
contact email: 
Judy.Sneller@sdsmt.edu

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Thinking Verse volume III: Scansion

full name / name of organization: 
Thinking Verse - www.thinkingverse.com
contact email: 
thinkingverse@gmail.com

Call for Contributions, Thinking Verse vol. III, ‘Scansion’.

Is It All About the Text? Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizing

full name / name of organization: 
Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University
contact email: 
neverowv1@southernct.edu

The Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT

April 21, 2012
9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
English Department

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