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category: cultural studies and historical approachesTransgressing 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"
European Film Cultures: An International Conference 8-9 November 2013, Lund University, Swedenfull 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 2013full 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
Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013full 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
Salman Rushdie in the 21st Centuryfull 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. PROMINENT FEATURES OF IJMESS:
Dialects of English Worldwide: Issues in English Language Studies at MLA, January 2014full 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 Modernityfull 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, 2013full 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
[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 Issuefull 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 issuefull 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 Issuefull 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 & Writingfull 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; 3/18/13full 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 Centuryfull 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 Youthfull 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 30/03/2013full 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
Special Themed Issue on The Spectral Southfull 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 Literaturefull 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 6/24/13full 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 panelfull 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:
[UPDATE} Panel on "The Modernist Room,"* 29 Aug - 1 Sept, Brighton UK -- MSA conferencefull 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 Remediationsfull 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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