12th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous (July 2014: Oxford, United Kingdom)
12th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous
Friday 25th July – Sunday 27th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
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12th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous
Friday 25th July – Sunday 27th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Recent work by Ted Underwood, Franco Moretti, Amanda Anderson, and W. Lawrence Hogue, among others, has challenged traditional taxonomies of literature by exploring them as historical phenomena, as in Underwood's Why Literary Periods Mattered and Anderson's The Way We Argue Now, by challenging the centering dynamics of normative discourses, as in Hogue's Postmodern American Literature and Its Other, and by offering new frameworks, as in Moretti's Graphs Maps Trees. This panel is designed to interrogate the implications of existing organizing principles such as history, race, aesthetics, and nation, and to consider alternative approaches to understanding American literature from a macro perspective.
1st Global Conference: Making Sense of: The Animal and Human Bond
Sunday 13th July – Tuesday 15th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
4th Global Conference: Images of Whiteness
Monday 21st July – Wednesday 23rd July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
1st Global Conference: Deception
Thursday 17th July – Saturday 19th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations
We have entered a 'post-truth era', in which, Daniel J. Boorstin notes, 'believability' has become an acceptable substitute for 'truth', and 'manifold deceptions of our culture' are difficult to separate from 'its few enduring truths'. In this era, communities and individuals may feel routinely duped, cheated or betrayed. Though truth may be considered intrinsically valuable, deception may sometimes be useful or necessary. Sometimes there is pleasure in the spectacle of deception.
7th Global Conference: Diasporas
Saturday 5th July – Monday 7th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Our contemporary world is often characterized in terms of the full-fledged emergence of global or transnational capitalism and its deployment of cybernetic and digital technology. In theorizing the genealogy of global or transnational capital, it is also noteworthy that the postwar restructuring of capitalism that is underpinned by the digital revolution goes in tandem with the rise of the Asia-Pacific. As can be seen in the ascendance of the United States, Japan, the so-called Four Little Tigers, and China as foremost capitalist economies, the Asia-Pacific has arisen as one of the most vibrant sites of economic, social, and cultural production since the Second World War.
ENERGIES: THROUGH THE MATERIAL, THEORETICAL & TEXTUAL
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
March 28-29, 2014
Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2013
Keynote Speakers:
Fiction writer and essayist Roxane Gay (Eastern Illinois University) is the author most recently of An Untamed State (Atlantic/Grove) and Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial).
Scholar Ursula K. Heise (UCLA) is the author most recently of Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford University Press).
Call For Papers
Intersections 2014: Thinking|Feeling
March 14-15, 2014, York & Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Keynote by Jasbir K. Puar
Submissions Deadline: December 21, 2013
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
It is difficult to believe that it has been almost 25 years since the award-winning Northern Exposure made its television debut. Known for its cutting edge approach and social commentary, NX has demonstrated the ability to remain current in the eyes of scholars and a new audience in recent years. Papers are welcomed for an edited collection concerning NX in myriad contexts including, but not limited to: concepts of community and/or family, race relations, LGBT studies, ethics, tolerance, the indigenous people of Alaska, myth and legend, and pedagogy.
Abstract submission deadline: January 1, 2014
The Ellen Glasgow Society seeks paper proposals for two sessions at the 25th Annual American Literature Association Conference.
Session I: The Political Ellen Glasgow
The ninth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will convene at the Waycross Campus of South Georgia State College on the South Georgia Parkway (U.S. Highway 82) in Waycross, Georgia, on Friday, May 16, 2014. We invite proposals for session topics, panel discussion topics, and scholarly papers in English on any subjects relating to American, British, French, Hispanic, Russian, German, or Slavic literature or language, as well as composition, philosophy, history, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy. Reading times for individual paper presentations will be strictly limited to 15 minutes (approximately eight double-spaced typed pages).
Online registrations are now open.
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Conference:
Intimate Archives - Photography and Life-Writing
29 November 2013 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
"Intimate Archives" is a one-day interdisciplinary conference that seeks to explore the intersection of photography and life-writing. Online registrations are now open.
Confirmed keynote speaker: Dr. Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London)
All welcome; registration fee £30. Further information, including a list of speakers and a link to the online registration page can be found on the conference website:
Volume V, Number 3, 2013
The next issue (Vol V, No 3) of Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935) is going be an OPEN one. We welcome submission of critical articles and book reviews on any area of the humanities. We also invite submission of poems for the creative section. Send critical articles and book reviews to chiefeditor@rupkatha.com and editor@rupkatha.com. Send 5 poems to support1@rupkatha.org and support2@rupkatha.org.
13th Global Conference: Environmental Justice and Citizenship
Sunday 13th July – Tuesday 15th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United kingdom
Call for Presentations:
The Environmental Justice and Citizenship conference provides a forum for inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study of the role of environmental thinking in the context of communities, justice, rights and citizenship. 'Environmental justice' is conceived broadly to consider not only human communities but also other species, ecosystems, habitats, landscapes, succeeding generations and the environment as a whole. 'Citizenship' is understood as an awareness of an individual's responsibilities in the global context.
9th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
Sunday 13th July – Tuesday 15th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations:
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore what it is to be human and the nature of human community in cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction. In particular, the project will explore the possibilities offered by these contexts for creative thinking about persons and the challenges posed to the nature and future of national, international, and global communities.
Proposals, presentations, papers, and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes;
1st Global Conference: Sacred Journeys: Pilgrimage and Beyond
Wednesday 9th July – Friday 11th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
7th Global Conference: Forgiveness
Wednesday 9th July – Friday 11th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
3rd Global Conference: Apocalypse: Imagining the End
Saturday 5th July – Monday 7th July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
The 2014 meeting of the SCSECS will take place on Galveston Island on February 13-15. The overall theme for the meeting is "Energy." Spirits could be said to fuel the life and literature of the age. This panel invites papers which address any aspect of this topic, including but not limited to papers that examine 18th-century brews, brewing, or distilling; the representation of "spirits" in literature, art, or music; the relationship between "spirits" and economy; the role of "spirits" in commerce, piracy, war, medicine, etc.; uses of "spirits;" or the role or development of the public house in providing a location for any of the above.
Call for monographs, single-author or multiple-author projects
Profils américains online, a new online journal, will be launched shortly by the Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée (P.U.L.M.) of the University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III.
Started as Profils américains in 1991 by Professors Michel Bandry, Yves Carlet and Paul Carmignani, the printed series of the journal published 21 multiple-author monographs on American writers.
(Further details are available at:
Eros, Philia, Agape: for nearly three thousand years, these three Greek terms have been used in the West to triangulate the shifting concept called "romantic love," not just in philosophy and theology, but also in popular culture. In other parts of the globe, love gets framed quite differently—by 'ishq and hub and their cognates, by shringara and bhakti and prem, by the shifting codes of qing and aiqing—but no matter the language, debates about what love is, how it should feel, and how a lover should behave cross the great divides that separate high art and intellectual discourse from kitsch, journalism, and popular culture.
Paper proposals are sought for a panel on "The Plays of Don DeLillo" at the Comparative Drama Conference, 3-5 April 2014, at the Pier V Hotel in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Proposals dealing with any aspect of DeLillo's individual plays, his dramatic sensibilities or influences, or comparative approaches between his plays and better known fiction will be considered. Panels at the CDC consist of three 15-minute papers.
"Literary Journalism and World War I"
Saturday, 19 April 2014
Université de Lorraine (Nancy campus)
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2014
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Dandelion editors seek submissions on the theme of VIOLENCE for their forthcoming issue. Deadline: 13th January 2014.
The concept of violence continues to return as a site of struggle in contemporary discourse. At times of popular discontent and international conflict, the way the meaning of violence is constructed as a cultural phenomenon becomes a pressing concern. What routes are open to the arts and humanities for critical engagement with violence and its innumerable impacts?
3rd Global Conference: Celebrity and Fandom
Monday 21st July – Wednesday 23rd July 2014, Mansfield College, Oxford, United kingdom
Despite its conservative emphasis on stability, "tradition" has been conceptually uprooted by twentieth and twenty-first century literature and theory. Recent critical attention to tradition has begun to demonstrate its fragile foundations, politically and metaphysically, by suggesting that the unequivocal solidity traditionalism seeks in a nostalgic past ultimately relies on the unpredictable future into which each inheritor carries tradition's legacy. Such structural unmooring at the heart of tradition, its constitutive exposure to differentiation and its genealogical precariousness, thus accounts for the possibility of comparatism and translation, as well as appropriation, re-contextualization, revisionism, homage, and betrayal.
6th Global Conference
Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment
Thursday 17th July – Saturday 19th July 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations:
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the mass use of computers and videogames for human entertainment and focus on the impact of innovative videogame titles and interfaces for human communication and ludic culture. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts within which videogames flourish.
4th Global Conference
Childhood
Thursday 17th July – Saturday 19th July 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Presentations:
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to investigate and explore all aspects of childhood. The nature of childhood and its significance as a separate phase of life is viewed quite differently in different cultures and in different historical eras. This conference will look at all aspects of the experience of childhood as well as the social, cultural, historical and psychological perceptions of children and childhood. We encourage submissions on any theme to do with the nature of childhood, including, but not limited to the ones listed below.
Asian Cuisine Restaurants in the United States
Edited by Bruce Makoto Arnold, Tanfer Emin Tunc, and Raymond Chong.
We invite proposal submissions for a forthcoming edited collection that addresses Asian cuisine restaurants in the United States. This volume welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives from fields including, but not limited to, history, anthropology, critical and cultural theory, American Studies, Asian American Studies, and foodways.
Some possible topics could include: