category: cultural studies and historical approaches

[UPDATE] CFP: Urban Culture Area, MAPACA, 11/7-11/9/2013, Atlantic City, NJ (June 30th, 2013, deadline for proposals)

full name / name of organization: 
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
contact email: 
bmm202@nyu.edu

This year, we continue to explore various matters of the urban, but in particular, education and this city.

Critiquing Culture: The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference - submission extension to June 22, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee
contact email: 
critiquing.culture@gmail.com

Critiquing Culture: The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference (21/9/13) at George Mason University is now accepting paper proposals.

CFP: Making Meaning with the Work of N. Katherine Hayles, SAMLA, Nov. 8-10, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Lynn Page Whittaker/SAMLA Literary Criticism Discussion Circle
contact email: 
lynnpw@uga.edu

This panel seeks to explore a wide range of research that engages the writings of N. Katherine Hayles, SAMLA 85 Critical Plenary Speaker.

[UPDATE: DEADLINE APPROACHING]

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)

UPDATE: Immigration, Authenticity, and Artifice (Special Session of the M/MLA, Nov. 7-10, 2013; abstracts due 6/14/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
kepitt@uwm.edu

How do representations and discourses of immigration draw upon or undermine conceptions of authenticity and artifice?

Beat Literature in Europe - Oct. 15, 2013, Nov. 30, 2013, Feb. 28, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Harri Veivo, Petra James and Dorota Walczak-Delanois
contact email: 
beatliterature@ulb.ac.be

Call for contributions

I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “(DIS)MEMORY OF DISASTER” (18-19 October 2013 - Madeira, Portugal)

full name / name of organization: 
CECC-UCP; UMa
contact email: 
desmemoria_de_desastre_2013@sapo.pt

Within the context of the controversial risk society concept, which seems to have played a pivotal role in his thinking on the reflexive modernity, Ulrich Beck more recently drew attention to the impa

Rituparno Ghosh- Call for Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Sangeeta Datta, Rohit K Dasgupta, Kaustav Bakshi
contact email: 
rituparnovolume@gmail.com

Rituparno Ghosh-Call for Papers

PERSPECTIVES FROM ‘OTHER’ CULTURES TRANSLATING CULTURE

full name / name of organization: 
Joan Anim-Addo/ Goldsmiths, University of London
contact email: 
j.anim-addo@gold.ac.uk

PERSPECTIVES FROM ‘OTHER’ CULTURES TRANSLATING CULTURE

September 20-22, 2013
Goldsmiths, University of London

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: July 12, 2013

Deadline Approaching ** Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales in Popular Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Melissa Lenos
contact email: 
melissalenos@gmail.com

I invite submissions for an edited collection of essays on contemporary uses of fairy tales in popular culture.

SAMLA 85 in Atlanta: Contemporary American Creative Non-Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Diana Eidson, South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
deidson@gsu.edu

ADVANCED WRITING
Contemporary American Creative Nonfiction

Españolas protagonistas de la transición a la democracia, April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, (NeMLA)

full name / name of organization: 
Noelia Domínguez-Ramos
contact email: 
dominguezramosn@wcsu.edu

Este panel pretende analizar la labor de aquellas mujeres que desde distintas perspectivas (la de la editora, la política, la escritora, la periodista, la artista etc.) han contribuido en los último

12th Medieval English Studies Symposium: Between Nostalgia and Hope: The Waning of the Middle Ages

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English Literature, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
contact email: 
kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl; bbronkk@gmail.com

The 2013 Medieval English Studies Symposium (30th Nov - 1Dec) invites scholars and young researchers in the Middle Ages.

[DEADLINE APPROACHING] CFP Marginalised Mainstream 2013: Fading and Emerging [17 June]

full name / name of organization: 
Marginalised Mainstream 2013
contact email: 
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com

Senate House, University of London
12-13 September 2013

Plenary speakers include:

Cormac Mccarthy Conference in Sydney, Australia (July 24th-25th, 2014 / Abstracts due Oct 15th, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Writing and Society Research Center, University of Western Sydney, Australia
contact email: 
l.jillett@uws.edu.au.

Call for Papers: "Borders and Landscapes in the works of Cormac Mccarthy"

Conference dates: July 24th – 25th, 2014

Deadline for Abstracts: October 15th 2013

NeMLA Harrisburg, Apr. 3-6, 2014: Is There a Future for the Standard Edition?

full name / name of organization: 
Toni Bowers / U of Pennsylvania
contact email: 
Tbowers@english.upenn.edu

Is there a Future for the Standard Edition?
Session 14120, NeMLA 2014 Convention, Harrisburg PA, April 3-6, 2014

Civil Rights Discourse in Post-Stonewall LGBTQ Texts (NeMLA 2014, Deadline for Abstracts: September 30, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Laura Westengard
contact email: 
lwestengard@citytech.cuny.edu

Northeast Modern Language Association 2014 Convention
Harrisburg, PA
April 3-6, 2014

CFP: Urban Culture Area, MAPACA, 11/7-11/9/2013, Atlantic City, NJ (June 14th, 2013, deadline for proposals)

full name / name of organization: 
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
contact email: 
bmm202@nyu.edu

CFP: Urban Culture Area, MAPACA, 11/7-11/9/2013, Atlantic City, NJ (June 14th, 2013, deadline for proposals)

Late 20th Century Literary and Cinematic Representations of Slavery

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association: 45th Annual Convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
contact email: 
donavanramon@gmail.com

Quentin Tarantino’s movie *Django Unchained,* has been polarizing since its 2012 release.

[UPDATE] New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11 in the Obama Era--Proposal Due Date Extended to 7/10/2013

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Chairpersons
contact email: 
newessayson911@gmail.com

[UPDATE] New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11in the Obama Era -- Proposals Due 5/31/2013

full name / name of organization:

SAMLA Chairpersons

Living through the Interregnum: Democracy, the Polis and the Subject in Crisis

full name / name of organization: 
http://synthesis.enl.uoa.gr/ an Anglophone journal of comparative literary studies
contact email: 
margerma@enl.uoa.gr,akarav@enl.uoa.gr

Synthesis Journal
Volume VIII (2014)
Living through the Interregnum: Democracy, the Polis and the Subject in Crisis
Maro Germanou & Mina Karavanta
Special Issue Editors

Transcending Borders and Boundaries with Opera

full name / name of organization: 
NeMla April 3-6 2014, Harrisburg, PA
contact email: 
daniela.antonucci@gmail.com

This panel will explore the variety of choices made in opera production in order to reflect on its connection with historical events, cultural backgrounds, moral questions, literary contents, staging

Pirandello’s Six Characters: Theatrical Influence and Legacy (Roundtable)

full name / name of organization: 
NeMla April 3-6 2014, Harrisburg, PA
contact email: 
daniela.antonucci@gmail.com

Pirandello’s influence can be detected in the evolution of modern drama as shown in the works of Sartre, Ionesco, Beckett, Borges and O’Neill.

Italy in the 1970s

full name / name of organization: 
NeMla April 3-6 2014, Harrisburg, PA
contact email: 
daniela.antonucci@gmail.com

Notorious for frequent terrorist attacks for both political and criminal reasons, the 1970s was a turbulent time for Italy.

Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies (Oct. 15, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Christine Battista and Robert T. Tally Jr.
contact email: 
chrissiebattista@gmail.com and robert.tally@txstate.edu

[DEADLINE APPROACHING] CFP: "Containers" Graduate Student Conference in NYC, October 18th & 19th, Keynote by Jasbir Puar

full name / name of organization: 
Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University
contact email: 
catgradconf@gmail.com

Call for Papers
4th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Cultural Analysis and Theory Department

Stony Brook Manhattan

[UPDATE] trans* : Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference, Keynote José Muñoz, October 18, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
contact email: 
tuftsgradhumanitiesconference@gmail.com

DEADLINE EXTENDED to June 22!

3rd Annual Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
Tufts University
October 18, 2013
Keynote: José Muñoz

trans*

“Memories, Histories, Fantasies” January 29-February 2, 2014 Crown Plaza Richmond Downtown Richmond, Virginia

full name / name of organization: 
The Southern Humanities Council
contact email: 
shcouncil@gmail.com

Southern Humanities Council Conference
January 29-February 2, 2014 Crown Plaza Richmond Downtown Richmond, Virginia

“Memories, Histories, Fantasies”

La España africana: historias de dominio, de resistencia, y de migración, 15th-19th July 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
contact email: 
yaixela@imf.csic.es

El objetivo del curso es, por un lado, analizar los procesos de gestión de la diversidad cultural de la colonización española en Marruecos y Guinea Ecuatorial desde una perspectiva diacrónica que

Session on Canadian Literature - MMLA

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
najung@uwalumni.com

This permanent section invites papers on any aspect of Canadian Literature.

[UPDATE] June 25th Deadline Extension- Irish Studies Panel at SAMLA

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
sdyne1@gsu.edu

In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, we welcome papers that focus on the ways Irish identity, space, and memory are shaped through conventionally understood literary genres (poetry,

Rolling CFP: The Phoenix Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association
contact email: 
FANSConference@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce the rolling CFP for articles and reviews for our online peer-reviewed, open access journal, The Phoenix Papers (ISSN 2325-2316).

Marking and Re-marking: Tracing the Tattoo in Crime and Detective Narratives (edited collection of essays)

full name / name of organization: 
Katharine Cox and Kate Watson (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
contact email: 
kwatson@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Proposals of 250 words are sought for an upcoming collection: ‘Marking and Re-marking: Tracing the Tattoo in Crime and Detective Narratives’, edited by Katharine Cox (Cardiff Metropolitan Universi

NeMLA 2014 CFP - Vexing Gender in 19th-Century American Women’s Writing

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania cfp
contact email: 
maryiatrop@gmail.com

When existing conditions actively work to suppress women’s expression, how can the female subject assert herself?

[UPDATE] Smart, Sincere, and Quirky Auteurs – SAMLA (Atlanta, 11/8 to 11/10)

full name / name of organization: 
Pete Kunze (Louisiana State University)
contact email: 
pkunze@lsu.edu

I seek papers for a panel on auteurship in recent Hollywood cinema, especially films that have alternately been called the “New Sincerity” (Collins), “smart” (Sconce), “Mumblecore” (Masuna

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