category: cultural studies and historical approaches

CFP: Jewish Literature and Culture Session, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Nov 1-3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Amanda Sharick, PAMLA
contact email: 
amanda.sharick@email.ucr.edu

CFP: Jewish Literature and Culture Session, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) 2013

[UPDATE] Zora Neale Hurston: Art, Religion, and the History of the African Diaspora

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Regennia N. Williams / The Journal of Traditions and Belief
contact email: 
r.williams@csuohio.edu

The Initiative for the Study of Religion and Spirituality in the History of Africa and the Diaspora (RASHAD) is seeking contributions for a special issue of

The Journal of Traditions and Beliefs

Zora Neale Hurston: Art, Religion, and the History of the African Diaspora

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Regennia N. Williams / The Journal of Traditions and Belief
contact email: 
r.williams@csuohio.edu

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was an anthropologist, a novelist, a folklorist, a playwright, and a history maker in her own right.

"Dance Studies and Peace Studies" Abstracts due: April 4; Conference: November 14–17, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Brandon Shaw / Brown University
contact email: 
Brandon_Shaw@brown.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Decentering Dance Studies: Moving In New Global Orders

November 14–17, 2013

Special Joint conference with Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)

Modern Language Studies - Reviews

full name / name of organization: 
Randy Robertson / Susquehanna University
contact email: 
robertson@susqu.edu

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the summer 2013 issue.

Native North American Literatures (PAMLA 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA 2013 (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
smayvill@ucsd.edu

Native North American authors throughout colonial and U.S. histories present complex and distinct challenges to linear time.

Rougarou Literary Magazine- accepting submissions year round

full name / name of organization: 
Rougarou Literary Magazine
contact email: 
rougaroubookreviews@gmail.com

Book Reviews for Newly Published Creative Fiction & Poetry Works
full name / name of organization:
Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal
contact email:
rougaroubookreviews@gmail.com

Call for Papers, 12th Annual Student & Graduate Conference, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 7th-9th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Amerikanistik, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
contact email: 
ASGConference.Berlin@gmail.com

American Wars: Material & Ideological Battlegrounds

Adaptations- MPCA/MCAA (Oct 11-13, St. Louis)- Deadline, April 30

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
contact email: 
sbalcerzak@niu.edu

I am seeking original work in the area of ADAPTATIONS for the annual Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference in St. Louis, MO, Oct 11-13, 2013.

(Re)Presenting the Archive [Update - Registration OPEN]

full name / name of organization: 
University of Sheffield, UK
contact email: 
archive@sheffield.ac.uk

In a Higher Education context where originality in research is increasingly valorised, what place is there for explicitly re-presentational practices such as scholarly editing and curating?

Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

1st International Symposium:
Speed, Silence and Solitude

Part of the Research Program on:
Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self

International Network for Alternative Academia

Hope, Betrayal and Trust, 1st International Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

1st International Symposium:
Hope, Betrayal and Trust

Part of the Research Program on:
Lost Virtues, Found Vices

International Network for Alternative Academia

Reinventing Citizenship, 7th International Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

7th International Symposium:
Reinventing Citizenship

Part of the Research Program on:
Protest, Justice and Deliberative Power

International Network for Alternative Academia

"Post-colonial Creativity: Language, Politics and Aesthetics", Special ISSUE, Anglistica, abstracts by 15 April 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Bill Ahscroft (UNSW) and Katherine E. Russo (Unior)
contact email: 
kerusso@unior.it

"Post-colonial Creativity: Language, Politics and Aesthetics", Special ISSUE, Anglistica: An Interdisciplinary Journal, www.anglistica.unior.it, Ranking: A

Moved: On Atmospheres and Affects - 2013 Interstices Under Construction Symposium - Auckland (NZ) November 22-24

full name / name of organization: 
The University of Auckland and AUT University
contact email: 
andrew.douglas@aut.ac.nz

Keynote Speaker: Professor emeritus Gernot Böhme (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)

NeMLA Italian Studies - 2014 Special Issue: The Jewish Experience in Contemporary Italy

full name / name of organization: 
Philip Balma / University of Connecticut
contact email: 
philip.balma@uconn.edu

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.

[UPDATE] 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

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

Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University--Saturday, April 20, 2013

Time & Temporality Workship

full name / name of organization: 
University of Portsmouth
contact email: 
Ben.Davies@port.ac.uk

Participants:

Professor Mark Currie (Queen Mary, University of London)

Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter)

Michael O’Rourke (Independent College Dublin)

[UPDATE] CFP Deadline Approaching: Neo-Victorian Villainy Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, UK
contact email: 
benjamin.poore@york.ac.uk

Neo-Victorian Villainy:
Adaptation and Reinvention on Page, Stage and Screen
25th May 2013

Submission deadline: 24th March 2013

Edith Wharton at MLA 2014 (9-12 January)--Deadline Extended!

full name / name of organization: 
Edith Wharton Society
contact email: 
mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu

Queer Wharton. A panel organized by the Edith Wharton Society at the 2014 MLA (9-12 January).

Edith Wharton Essay Prize-- Deadline Extended!

full name / name of organization: 
Edith Wharton Society
contact email: 
mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu

Instituted in the fall of 2005, the Edith Wharton Essay Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on Edith Wharton by a beginning scholar.

[UPDATE] Deadline extended for WSQ CFP: DEBT Issue

full name / name of organization: 
WSQ at the Feminist Press
contact email: 
wsqeditorial@gmail.com

ISSUE OF WSQ , SPRING 2014 – DEBT
Guest Editors – Meena Alexander and Rosalind Petchesky

CALL FOR PAPERS

American Women Writers of Color Conference Nov. 1 – Nov. 3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Salisbury University
contact email: 
AWWOC@salisbury.edu

Call for Papers:
American Women Writers of Color Conference
Nov. 1 – Nov. 3, 2013 Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel,
Ocean City, MD

Keynote Speaker:
Daphne Books

Firefly

full name / name of organization: 
Scarecrow Press
contact email: 
mgoodr@essex.ac.uk

Call for Papers: Joss Whedon’s Firefly
Michael Goodrum (Essex) and Philip Smith (Loughborough)

[UPDATE] "Architecture and Literature: Reading the Room" (1-3 November, San Diego); Proposal Deadline: 15 April

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com

Dante and Milton – National Visionaries and Visionary Nationalists, 1. & 2. November 2013, Senate House, University London

full name / name of organization: 
Universität Paderborn, Universität Regensburg, at the Senate House, University of London
contact email: 
csinger@mail.uni-paderborn, christoph.lehner@daad-alumni.de

1.& 2. November 2013, Sentate House, University of London

[UPDATE] Legacy: Mythology and Authenticity in the Humanities, 28 June 2013 [CFP Submission Deadline 16 April 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Centre for Adaptations and Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University
contact email: 
dmulegacyconference@gmail.com

This conference focuses on the influence of cultural ‘legacies’ within current humanities research.

CFP: "Literature and American Exceptionalism" Special Issue, September 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
contact email: 
litjourn@yahoo.com

In what ways does literature reinforce, contest, and amend the discourse of American exceptionalism?

(UPDATE) Artscapes: Urban Art and the Public – An Interdisciplinary Conference on Art and Urban Spaces

full name / name of organization: 
Artscapes Group - University of Kent
contact email: 
artscapesgroup@gmail.com

University of Kent, 27-28 June 2013

Call for Papers

ESSHC 2014; CFP Cultural Mobility of Sexual Liberation - deadline abstracts 15 May 2013

full name / name of organization: 
European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Sexuality Network
contact email: 
a.andeweg@maastrichtuniversity.nl

I am putting together a panel on the Cultural Mobility of Sexual Liberation for the Sexuality Network of the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in Vienna, 23-26 April 2014.

Call for Papers - Hwa Kang English Journal, Vol. 19 (September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Hwa Kang English Journal
contact email: 
eng_jour@pccu.edu.tw

Call for Papers

PAMLA 2013 (Nov. 1-3)-World Literature in Theory and in Practice

full name / name of organization: 
William Arighi
contact email: 
warighi@uw.edu

Scholarly interest in world literature is on the rise, yet this endeavor has more often taken place in academic writing and colloquia than in teaching.

“CASCA” – Journal of Social Science, Culture and Arts (Deadline September 1st 2013.)

full name / name of organization: 
Centre for Alternative Social and Cultural Activities, Belgrade
contact email: 
journal@casca.org.rs. or cascajournal@gmail.com

Interdisciplinary journal CASCA enables authors to publish papers in various areas of social sciences, culture and art.

Midwest Popular Culture Association 2013, CFP for area of Art History and Visual Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: 
cortneybarko@gmail.com

Call for Papers
Art History and Visual Culture Area
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference

Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO

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