category: american

10th Global Conference: Making Sense of:Dying and Death (November 2013: Athens, Greece)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
dd10@inter-disciplinary.net

10th Global Conference
Making Sense of:Dying and Death

Thursday 7th November 2013 – Saturday 9th November 2013
Athens, Greece

Call for Presentations

2nd Global Conference: The Citizen in the 21st Century (November 2013: Athens, Greece)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
citizen2@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
The Citizen in the 21st Century

Thursday 7th November 2013 – Saturday 9th November 2013
Athens, Greece

Call for Presentations

2nd Global Conference: Making Sense of: Food (November 2013: Athens, Greece)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
food2@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
Making Sense of: Food

Monday 4th November 2013 – Wednesday 6th November 2013
Athens, Greece

Call for Presentations

1st Global Conference: Shapeshifters: Transformations, Hybridity and Identity

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
shape1@inter-disciplinary.net

1st Global Conference
Shapeshifters: Transformations, Hybridity and Identity

Friday 1st November 2013 – Sunday 3rd November 2013
Athens, Greece

Call for Presentations

[UPDATE] “Refashioning America: Critiques, Narratives and Aesthetics of Transculturation,” November 1-2, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The American Studies Association of Korea
contact email: 
asakorea2013@gmail.com

(Proposal submission due extended to April 15)
The American Studies Association of Korea
The 48th International Conference

Place: Seoul, South Korea
Date: November 1-2, 2013

2nd Global Conference: Body Horror: Contagion, Mutation, Transformation (November 2013: Athens, Grrece)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
bh2@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
Body Horror: Contagion, Mutation, Transformation

Friday 1st November 2013 – Sunday 3rd November 2013
Athens, Greece

Call for Presentations

Native American Literature Session at the South Central MLA Conference New Orleans 10/3/2013 - 10/5/2013

full name / name of organization: 
South Central MLA - submission deadline: March 31, 2013
contact email: 
jkorsmo1@gsu.edu

South Central Modern Language Association is accepting 250-500 word abstract/proposals for its session on Native American Literature.

THOUGHT CATALOG SEEKS EBOOK PROPOSALS -- DEADLINE MAY 17TH 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Thought Catalog
contact email: 
madison.moore@aya.yale.edu

Thought Catalog, a New York City-based media brand, welcomes

Lost Boys and Girls: Children in/and War; November 1-3, 2013; San Diego, CA

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA
contact email: 
bsanfil@ucsc.edu

In war, children are both passive victims of violence and forced active killers. This panel seeks papers that examine children in war in fiction, non-fiction, and film.

2nd Global Conference: Sport (November 2013: Athens, Greece)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
sport2@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
Sport

Friday 1st November 2013 – Sunday 3rd November 2013
Athens, Greece

Call for Presentations

2013 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Micro versus Macro Literatures in English" Seoul, Korea (Nov. 7-9, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
ELLAK (The English Language and Literature Association of Korea)
contact email: 
conference@ellak.or.kr

2013 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Micro versus Macro Literatures in English: Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics of Distant Reading in Literatures, Cultures, Languages, and the Humanities”

UPDATE Crossing the Bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research

full name / name of organization: 
Jo Taylor, Keele University
contact email: 
j.e.taylor@keele.ac.uk, k.astbury@liverpool.ac.uk

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Call for Papers: AULLA 2013: Worldmaking

full name / name of organization: 
Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA)
contact email: 
subscriptions@aulla.com.au

The theme of the 37th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) is ‘Worldmaking’.

[UPDATE] Washington Irving: The Fantastic in the Time of Nations

full name / name of organization: 
Scott Sprenger / Arnaud Huftier / Otrante: journal of fantastic art and literature
contact email: 
sprengers23@yahoo.com

Washington Irving: The Fantastic in the Time of Nations
full name / name of organization:
Scott Sprenger / Arnaud Huftier / Otrante: journal of fantastic art and literature
contact email:

[UPDATE] Cognitive Approaches to Literature – PAMLA special session – Nov. 1-3 2013

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

Futures of Cognitive Approaches to Literature – PAMLA special session – Nov. 1-3 2013

Gender, Sexuality, and Power Student Research Conference (UPDATE)

full name / name of organization: 
Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities/ California State University, Los Angeles
contact email: 
rbatema@calstatela.edu

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES

Note: Abstract deadline extended to April 3rd!

[UPDATE] Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century: Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteries

full name / name of organization: 
Ileana Baird, University of Virginia
contact email: 
ifp4a@virginia.edu

The editor of this collection commissioned by Cambridge Scholars Publishing invites proposals for a volume of essays tentatively called Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century: Clubs, Literary

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference Oct 10-12, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association--RMMLA
contact email: 
rmmla@rmmla.org

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association - RMMLA
Call for Papers Extended to APRIL 15, 2013!
Vancouver, Washington USA (Fly into Portland)
Convention Dates: October 10-12, 2013
www.rmmla.org

Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements (cfp deadline June 17, 2013; Conference is March 27-29, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Emory University
contact email: 
whose.beloved.community@emory.edu

Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements
An international conference at Emory University, March 27-29, 2014

PAMLA in San Diego, 1-3 Nov 2013/"The Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d”

full name / name of organization: 
Alejandro Lee/Central Washington University
contact email: 
leealejandro@gmail.com

"The Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d”

[UPDATE: REMINDER] Actualité du transcendantalisme / Transcendentalism Revisited - 3/31/2013 & 11/15/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Thomas Constantinesco, Université Paris 7 & François Specq, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
contact email: 
thomas.constantinesco@gmail.com / francois.specq@ens-lyon.fr

Idle/Stasis: Call for Prose, Poetry, Art--due June 1

full name / name of organization: 
Transverse: A Comparative Studies Journal, Issue 13, University of Toronto
contact email: 
transversejournal@gmail.com

The twinned concepts of idle and stasis have recently been brought to the forefront of political conversations in Canada because of the Idle No More grassroots movement, which is one of the many manif

2nd Global Conference: Time, Space and the Body (September 2013: Oxford, United Kingdom)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
punish3@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
Time, Space and the Body

Sunday 1st September – Tuesday 3rd September 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Presentations

[Update]: Panel on Postfeminism and Popular Culture @ Midwest Popular Culture Conference, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 11-13, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Melissa Miles McCarter
contact email: 
melissa_miles@yahoo.com

Papers on any aspect of postfeminism and popular culture requested for a panel at the Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference to be held Oct. 11-13, 2013 in St.

[UPDATE] New Mappings of the Avant-gardes

full name / name of organization: 
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
contact email: 
montevideana2013@fhuce.edu.uy

Montevideana VIII: New Mappings of the Avant-gardes. Views from (or towards) Latin America.

Deadline for submissions: April 26th, 2013.

[UPDATE] Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at SCMLA

full name / name of organization: 
South Central Modern Language Association
contact email: 
davisc@tamug.edu

We invite proposals on the topic of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities for presentation at the 70th annual South Central Modern Language Association conference at the Hotel Monteleone in New

Cracking the Ivory Tower, Abstract deadline: May 1

full name / name of organization: 
University of Pittsburgh
contact email: 
klp68@pitt.edu

The editors seek abstracts for essays sharing advice, unique stories or sage wisdom for graduate students at all levels.

[Reminder] Disability and the American Counterculture special journal issue

full name / name of organization: 
University of Kent
contact email: 
S.Bolaki@kent.ac.uk

Disability and the American Counterculture

Special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, guest edited by Stella Bolaki and Chris Gair

Science and Fiction: Literary Darwinism MMLA Conference November 7-10, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
swafford@bradley.edu

The 55th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center from November 7-10, 2013.

CFP: 9/11 Popular Culture (Panels for MPCA,Oct 11-13, 2013); April 30 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.

American Work: American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academics

full name / name of organization: 
University of Oxford
contact email: 
americanworksymposium@gmail.com

American Work

American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academics

18 May 2013
Rothermere American Institute
University of Oxford

Allegory Studies? (7 November 2013; proposals 31 May)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Warwick
contact email: 
v.brljak@warwick.ac.uk

[Reminder] Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
smacdon8@kent.edu

This panel is designed to examine ideas of childhood based on the life writing of working class people.

SAMLA 2013: (Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean (due May 31)

full name / name of organization: 
Kristine A. Wilson
contact email: 
wilson67@hotmail.com

2013 SAMLA CONFERENCE, NOV 8-10, ATLANTA

SPECIAL SESSION: "(Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean"

CFP: Bicycles / Bicycling in Literature and Culture, edited collection (proposals 8/1/13, essays 2/1/14)

full name / name of organization: 
Jeremy Withers and Daniel Shea, Editors of Collection on Bicycles in Literature and Culture
contact email: 
shead@apsu.edu and withers@iastate.edu

The American author Charles Morley once said: “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” As Morley’s quote suggests, many people have perceived an in

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