category: cultural studies and historical approaches

UPDATE -- 2013 MMLA Convention: Is the Artist Present? (Confirmed Special Session)

full name / name of organization: 
W Brett Wiley (MVNU)
contact email: 
bwiley1@mvnu.edu

In 2010, performance artist Marina Abramović presented a retrospective show at MOMA entitled Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present that included one new performance.

Victorian Saints and Sinners NeMLA Apr. 3-6th, 2014 submission deadline Sept. 30, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
annabrecke@my.uri.edu

The figure of the prostitute is more than an emblem for mid Victorian religious, social, and sanitary reform; she is emblematic of challenges to the domestic narrative of a morally centered middle cla

[UPDATE] Shaping Indian Diaspora edited volume (Abstracts 15th June 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Cristina M. Gamez-Fernandez and Veena Dwivedi
contact email: 
cristina.gamez@uco.es, dwivediveena81@gmail.com

The Indian diaspora is the largest within the Asian diaspora as the Indian community scattered around the world is over 25 million.

Friendly Fire: Renaissance Humanists’ Critiques of Renaissance Humanism

full name / name of organization: 
RSA 2014, New York 27-29 March
contact email: 
klecky@astate.edu

The clarion call of “Humanities Under Attack!” is by now an academic commonplace.

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] The Marginalised Mainstream: Fading and Emerging NEW DEADLINE

full name / name of organization: 
Marginalised Mainstream
contact email: 
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com

Second Annual Marginalised Mainstream Conference: Fading and Emerging, 12-13 September 2013 NEW DEADLINE: 17 June 2013

Short Story at MMLA 2013

full name / name of organization: 
MMLA
contact email: 
katy.leedy@marquette.edu

This session welcomes critical papers on the short story for the annual MMLA convention. Proposals may be related to the conference theme of Art & Artifice, but it is not necessary.

Lingering Apparitions in Pennsylvania Fiction--Sept. 30 deadline

full name / name of organization: 
NEMLA 2014
contact email: 
bentzmin@bloomu.edu

Lingering Apparitions in Pennsylvania Fiction

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Assimilation & Vice in American Literature, NeMLA Convention, Harrisburg, PA (April 3-6, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
Francisco.Delgado@stonybrook.edu

We typically think and speak of assimilation not only as a process that results in cultural hybridity but as a process accomplished through hard work and sacrifice.

GAMES OF LATE MODERNITY; Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens: 75 Years Later (January 15-17, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Tilburg School of Humanities, Tilburg University
contact email: 
info@gamesoflatemodernity.org


GAMES OF LATE MODERNITY
Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens: 75 Years Later (January 15-17, 2014)

[UPDATE] Early Modern Paratexts 26th July - Programme ready

full name / name of organization: 
Early Modern Paratexts 2013, University of Bristol
contact email: 
earlymodernparatexts2013@gmail.com

Playbooks, women's collections of poetry, music manuals, playing cards, Shakespeare, Spenser, Caxton and Ovid are just some of the topics that will be discussed at Early Modern Paratexts 2013.

Groundbreaking Approaches in Television (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 groundbreaking approaches in television, for presentation in a special series of panels at the Alternative Visions in Media Conference, to be held at Texas Christian

Intersections and Assemblages: Genders and Sexualities Across Cultures, April 4-5, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Associated Colleges of the South, and Furman University
contact email: 
wgsconf2014@furman.edu

Intersections and Assemblages: Genders and Sexualities Across Cultures
The 10th Biennial Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Women’s and Gender Studies Conference, April 4-5, 2014

Film Sound & Money; 2013 Film & History Conference; Nov. 20-24, 2013 (Madison)

full name / name of organization: 
Film & History
contact email: 
FilmHistorySoundArea@gmail.com

“Money Talks:” The Economics of Film Sound
An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on
Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013

[UPDATE] “Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts” SAMLA Nov. 8-10 Abstracts by 6/7

full name / name of organization: 
Lynne M. Simpson, College English Association
contact email: 
lsimpson@presby.edu

SAMLA Convention 2013
November 8-10, 2012
Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia 2013

“Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts”

Divine Adaptations: New Perspectives on Dante’s Influence in Popular Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (Aril 3-6, 2014)
contact email: 
carmgalati@gmail.com

From Science to Sensation: Art and Artifice in Wilkie Collins

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association (November 7-10 2013)
contact email: 
erika.behrisch.elce@rmc.ca

From Science to Sensation: Art and Artifice in Wilkie Collins (MMLA November 7-10 2013)

CFP--2014 EAAS Conference Workshop: Food on the Home Front, Food on the Warfront: Conflict and the American Diet

full name / name of organization: 
European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
contact email: 
tanfer.emin@gmail.com

Food has been an inextricable part of American warfare since the inception of the nation.

[UPDATE] Energy in Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Paula Farca
contact email: 
pfarca@mines.edu

June 15th, 2013, EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Trickster: (Re-)constructing the World from its Edges (NeMLA 2014, April 3-6)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
madlochj@mail.montclair.edu

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Re-Orienting Disability, Seminar at New Chaucer Society, 16-14 July 2014 (proposals due Jun 1)

full name / name of organization: 
New Chaucer Society
contact email: 
jhsy@gwu.edu

Here is the CFP for “Re-Orienting Disability” at next summer’s New Chaucer Society conference in Reykjavík, organized by Jonathan Hsy and Julie Orlemanski.

Atwood's Apocalyptic Visions (8/1/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Karma Waltonen
contact email: 
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu

Cambridge Scholars Publishing has expressed interest in a collection on Margaret Atwood and the theme of the apocalypse (though the collection is not yet under contract).

Arrested Development (7/15/13 for PCA/ACA, Chicago, April 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Karma Waltonen
contact email: 
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu

I am seeking panelists for a proposed session on Arrested Development at the 2014 PCA/ACA Conference in Chicago (April 16-19). Final approval for the panel will come from the TV area chair.

Special Issue: Feminisms, Academia, Austerity

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Gender Studies
contact email: 
helen.davies@tees.ac.uk

JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES
Special Issue 2014: Call for Papers

‘Feminisms, Academia, Austerity’
Guest Editors: Helen Davies and Claire O’Callaghan
(JGS Editor: Blu Tirohl)

[UPDATE: Deadline Approaching]

full name / name of organization: 
Lindsay Palmer/ UC Santa Barbara
contact email: 
submissions@mediafieldsjournal.org

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

Epistemologies of Spaces and Places (Theory of Science thematic section) - abstracts due June 20

full name / name of organization: 
Radim Hladik / Theory of Science
contact email: 
radim.hladik@fulbrightmail.org

/// Epistemologies of Spaces and Places ///

Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium November 17-20 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Holli Levitsky and Ezra Cappell, co-organizers
contact email: 
hlevitsk@lmu.edu, ecappell@utep.edu

Call for Papers
2013 American Literature Association's Jewish American & Holocaust Literature Symposium

Anaphora Looking for New Journal and Press Board Members

full name / name of organization: 
Anaphora Literary Press
contact email: 
director@anaphoraliterary.com

If you have a strong publication record, and if you are tenured in your academic or publishing job, please send a note of interest in participating as a Board Member of the Anaphora Literary Press, an

Adoption: Crossing Boundaries, March 27-30 (due July 15); Florida State Univ.

full name / name of organization: 
Eric Walker/ Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
contact email: 
asac2014@fsu.edu or ewalker@fsu.edu

Call for Proposals

Update- M/MLA 2013 American Lit. Permanent Section- "The Education-Industrial Complex"

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Lanuage Association
contact email: 
mschiebe@qcc.cuny.edu

American Literature II: Literature After 1870

Topic: The Education-Industrial Complex

The Literary Legacy of Revelations

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
williams@kutztown.edu

The Literary Legacy of Revelations

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Tenth Native American Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
contact email: 
mspencer@se.edu

Tenth Native American Symposium
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs

Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma
November 14-15, 2013

Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: NEMLA 2014, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; April 3-6

full name / name of organization: 
Kathleen Alves/CUNY
contact email: 
kalves@qcc.cuny.edu

Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century

"The Controversy over Attribution of De Doctrina Christiana to Milton." [Revised CFP] Collection of Essays by 15 October 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Hugh F. Wilson
contact email: 
wilsonh@gram.edu

The manuscript of _De Doctrina Christiana_ was found in the State Paper Office and attributed to Milton in 1823; it was subsequently published by order of King George IV.

Re-Imagining Communities and Civil Society Conference [UPDATE: Deadline Extended]

full name / name of organization: 
University of Guelph
contact email: 
gyovanov@uoguelph.ca

The aim of this conference is to explore what role social movements, artists, intellectuals, writers, cultural institutions and others play in shaping our ideas of community, civil society and the con

1st East & West Conference on Translation Studies - Translation History Matters, 26-27 Sept 2013

full name / name of organization: 
School of International Studies, Sun Yat‐sen University | SYSU, China Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon | FLUL, Portugal
contact email: 
east.west.conference2013@gmail.com

Call for Papers
1st East & West Conference on Translation Studies - Translation History Matters

Organization:

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