category: cultural studies and historical approaches

Transgressing the Limit: Borders and Liminality in Philosophy and Literature. Proposals for essays due 30 June 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
Dylan Winchock & Jessica Mayock
contact email: 
borderprojectabstracts@gmail.com

Borders are more than lines cutting across maps; rather, they are wide swaths of ambiguity and reversibility where identities are broken down and reassembled.

MLA 2014: "The Victorian Photographic Imaginary"

full name / name of organization: 
Jesse Hoffman, Rutgers University
contact email: 
jessehoffman@gmail.com

CFP: "The Victorian Photographic Imaginary"
Special Session
MLA 2014 Chicago
January 9-12

European Film Cultures: An International Conference 8-9 November 2013, Lund University, Sweden

full name / name of organization: 
Lund University, Sweden & ECREA Film Studies Section
contact email: 
kannik@ruc.dk

Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
ISCH Cost action 1101, Durham University, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale
contact email: 
kerusso@unior.it

Announcement/Call for Papers

Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement

18-19 June 2013
Durham University

Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
ISCH Cost action 1101, Durham University, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale
contact email: 
kerusso@unior.it

Announcement/Call for Papers

Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement

18-19 June 2013
Durham University

Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Charlie Wesley
contact email: 
cwesley@daemen.edu

How do we assess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his previous output and changing political beliefs? 200 word abstracts or more by 15 March 2013. Contact Dr.

CALL FOR INVITED PAPERS (FROM EXPERT ONLY)- 2ND ISSUE- MAY, 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (IJMESS) ISSN 2304-1366
contact email: 
editor.ijmess@gmail.com

CALL FOR INVITED PAPERS- 2ND ISSUE- MAY, 2013.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (IJMESS) ISSN 2304-1366

PROMINENT FEATURES OF IJMESS:

Dialects of English Worldwide: Issues in English Language Studies at MLA, January 2014

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Present-Day English Language Discussion Group
contact email: 
canon_eb@yahoo.com

The position of English as a worldwide lingua franca has never been more secure than it is today.

Sensationalims and the Genealogy of Modernity

full name / name of organization: 
Alberto Gabriele
contact email: 
alberto.gabriele.tau@gmail.com

Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity

A Two-Day International Workshop

Tel Aviv University, December, 18-19, 2013

*Final Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum
contact email: 
gurleyja@lemoyne.edu

*Final Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013; 20-minute Paper Proposals Due March 1, 2013
full name / name of organization:
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum

[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)

full name / name of organization: 
Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University
contact email: 
M-Cole@wiu.edu

What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies journal - Special Issue

full name / name of organization: 
Elizabeth Kelley Bowman / Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State)
contact email: 
ebowman@uguam.uog.edu

We invite essays from interdisciplinary perspectives that address contemporary adaptations of Renaissance literature or art, particularly Jacobean, in film.

Queering Age (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013 in San Diego)

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA, Emily Mattingly
contact email: 
emily.mattingly@email.ucr.edu

Queering Age

[UPDATE] The Human journal NOW accepts submissions for June 2013 issue

full name / name of organization: 
The Human, a journal of humanities, social sciences, and arts
contact email: 
human@humanjournal.org

Call for Papers – The Human journal NOW accepts submissions

[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)

full name / name of organization: 
Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University
contact email: 
M-Cole@wiu.edu

What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?

[UPDATE] MLA 2014: "Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writing" (Jan 9-12, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Ruben Quesada
contact email: 
rmquesada@eiu.edu

The proposed session seeks writers and scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and sociopolitical import of Jürgen Habermas’s The Theory of Communicative Action .

[UDATE] Supernatural Studies Journal - Inaugural Issue

full name / name of organization: 
Supernatural Studies Association
contact email: 
SupernaturalStudies@gmail.com

Supernatural Studies, a new, peer-edited e-journal welcomes submissions for its inaugural issue, Spring 2013, through March 1.

Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writing

full name / name of organization: 
Ruben Quesada
contact email: 
rmquesada@eiu.edu

The proposed session seeks writers and scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and sociopolitical import of Jürgen Habermas’s book, The Theory of Communicative Action .

Marxism..."That is the Question"

full name / name of organization: 
Marxist Literary Group/South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013
contact email: 
acooke2@emory.edu

Taking a cue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this panel focuses on a critical examination of the act or state of calling one’s self a Marxist, that is to say, it asks the question, “What does it mean

Dreiser and Money, MLA 2014; 3/18/13

full name / name of organization: 
Gary Totten
contact email: 
gary.totten@ndsu.edu; jude.davies@winchester.ac.uk

Dreiser and Money (MLA 2014). Financial systems and their epistemologies in Theodore Dreiser’s work, including the "Trilogy of Desire" and other fiction and nonfiction.

“The Russian Boom Was On”: The Inter-Cultural Work of Translation (Nov. 8-10, Atlanta Georgia)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA 2013 conference
contact email: 
msmith@fivecolleges.edu

Constance Garnett’s 1912 translation of Dostoevsky is credited with sparking the “Russian Fever” in Great Britain, while Russia’s entry into the Great War as an ally set off the “Russian Boo

Arguing Religion in Early Modern England (MLA 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Melissa M. Caldwell
contact email: 
mcaldwell@eiu.edu

This panel will focus on the creative uses of various types of religious argument—satire, polemic, animadversion—their innovations, interplay, and relationship to humanism and print culture.

Edited Collection: After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century

full name / name of organization: 
Prof Karl Leydecker and Dr Jenny DiPlacidi/ University of Kent
contact email: 
k.leydecker@kent.ac.uk and j.diplacidi@kent.ac.uk

We invite contributions for an edited collection that examines the period of ‘after marriage’ in the long eighteenth century.

Queer Youth

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Language Association Annual Convention 2014
contact email: 
kproehl@clemson.edu

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 2014

Queer Youth

Space and Everyday Life in Contemporary Fiction - Journal Issue - deadline for proposals 30/03/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Interférences Littéraires/ Literaire Interferenties: A Multilingual e-Journal in Literary Studies
contact email: 
Liesbeth.Francois@arts.kuleuven.be

Space and Everyday Life
in Contemporary Fiction
Eds. Liesbeth François (KU Leuven) & María Paz Oliver (KU Leuven)
Interférences littéraires / Literaire interferenties, n° 13, june 2014

Special Themed Issue on The Spectral South

full name / name of organization: 
Special Issue of The South Carolina Review: The Spectral South
contact email: 
slauro@clemson.edu & kmangan@clemson.edu

Essay proposals are invited for a special themed issue of The South Carolina Review that examines the images of zombies, vampires, and other undead in the American South.

Balkan Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Music (MLA 2014; deadline March 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Mihaela P. Harper, Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University
contact email: 
mharper@bilkent.edu.tr

Is Balkan “always the other” (Zizek), and for whom? How have Balkan self-consciousness and/or image altered, if at all, since 2000? Please send an abstract of 250 words by March 15.

Vulnerable Times and the Rise of Fascism: Radical Writers on the Front of the Spanish Civil War (MLA Chicago, Jan 9-12 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Ashley Foster (CUNY-Graduate Center) and Evelyn Scaramella (Manhattan College)
contact email: 
jashfoster@yahoo.com, evelyn.scaramella@manhattan.edu

This panel explores testimonies of writers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; J.

MLA 2014 Special Session: Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Kristine A. Wilson
contact email: 
wilson67@purdue.edu

For this proposed special session, I welcome paper proposals that address the presidential theme, Vulnerable Times, as it relates to Caribbean literature.

UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre; Summer 2013; Deadline 6/24/13

full name / name of organization: 
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; St. Mary's College; Rivendale Press
contact email: 
hgurfin@siue.edu; michelle.paull@smuc.ac.uk

UPSTAGE, a peer-reviewed online publication dedicated to research in turn-of-the-century (1880-1914) dramatic literature, theatre, and theatrical culture, is seeking submissions for its Summer 2013 is

Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages and Literatures panel

full name / name of organization: 
RMMLA
contact email: 
MMikolchak@stcloudstate.edu

Please consider submitting a proposal to the following panel at the upcoming RMMLA convention in Vancouver, WA in October 2013:
Group: SPECIAL TOPICS

[UPDATE} Panel on "The Modernist Room,"* 29 Aug - 1 Sept, Brighton UK -- MSA conference

full name / name of organization: 
Modernist Studies Association
contact email: 
stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com

According to Frederic Jameson, the Modernist novel abandoned the panoramic cityscapes of the 19th century realist novel and devised "strategies of inwardness." As Brigitte Munier suggests, the early-2

What's Material about Vulnerability? MLA, Chicago, Jan 9-12, 2014 (deadline: March 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Joanna Fax and Kimberly Macellaro/Rice University
contact email: 
jmf4@rice.edu, kam5@rice.edu

Seeking new perspectives on the place of materialist theory in the study of vulnerability in American culture, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; racial, economic, sexual vulnerabi

Makurdi Journal of Communication Research (MJCR)

full name / name of organization: 
Communication Research Circle (CRC), Makurdi, Nigeria
contact email: 
makurdi_journal@yahoo.com

The Makurdi Journal of Communication Research (MJCR) is a refereed biannual International Journal (located in Makurdi, Nigeria in the department of Mass Communication, Benue State University) that pub

[UPDATE] Deadline February 28: Textual Overtures: Texts, Technologies, and Remediations

full name / name of organization: 
Washington State University English Graduate Organization
contact email: 
textualovertures@gmail.com

Textual Overtures is a graduate-level peer-reviewed open-access journal published online that offers a space in which rhetoric, composition, and literature can coexist and create a harmony of textual

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