cfp.english.upenn.edu

The 37th annual ACIS Midwest Regional Conference in Iowa City (October 10-12, 2013) welcomes proposals for papers on any and all topics related to Irish studies – from new and existing ACIS members,

CALL FOR PAPERS

"New Directions: African American Literature in the 21st Century"

A Special Issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
Edited by Tiffany Jo Werth

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.

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Current Trends in Present day Chinese Language Film.

Where:
Bader International Study Centre,
Queens University,
Herstmonceux Castle,
Hailsham, East Sussex, UK

Organisers: AVSA and HKU
Conference Dates: 10-12 July 2014
Abstract Deadline: 30 November 2013

CARIBBEAN VISTAS
CRITIQUES OF CARIBBEAN ARTS AND CULTURES
A Refereed Journal
Call for Submissions for Volume 1/Issue 2: Publication date - August/September 2013

Margaret Atwood Studies, the journal of The Margaret Atwood Society, invites submissions on a rolling basis from both members and nonmembers.

The "Disney Culture" session for the 2013 PAMLA Conference (Bahia Resort, San Diego, CA, November 1-3, 2013) is looking for paper proposals on various aspects of Disney culture:

Theme Parks

With this year’s MMLA conference theme of “Art & Artifice,” the new Permanent Section on Digital Humanities will explore issues of, experiments with, and provocations on design.

Suggested themes: Aesthetics of Repair, Technologies of Repair, Post-Colonial Reparations, Reparative Justice

Caribbean Vistas: Critiques of Caribbean Arts and Cultures
• Subject: Call for Submissions for Volume 1.2 (Summer 2013)

Announcing Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Issue 13.1 “How Did I Write That? Reflections on Singularity in the Creative Process”

edited by Alan Clinton and Angela Flury

Forty approved sessions for the November 1-3, 2013 PAMLA Conference (at the Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California) have extended their paper proposal deadline until May 12.

IRISH STUDIES at SAMLA- Nov. 8-10, 2013

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

Papers are welcome on any Slavic language, literature or culture, including film and comparative literature topics.

UPDATE: I have received many innovative proposals so far, but several key authors I would like to see included remain unclaimed, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, J.K. Rowling, Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, and Suzanne Collins, among a few others. Also please note that depending on the submissions, I may expand the “Pathfinders” section to include Victorian fantasy (i.e., George MacDonald, William Morris, etc.) as an additional precursor to modern fantasy. There is also a strong possibility I will add a new section for “Fantasy on Film.” If you have an interest in any of these categories, or those below (see full CFP), please contact me at the email address provided.

We are seeking papers that explore or analyze French cultural aesthetics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they relate to various interpretations of modernism.

International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia
Symposium: Grožnjan, Croatia, 22 June 2013

In Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose argues that, “Hip Hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States.” Rose’s insight delves into the historical evolution of the genre

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 12

Topic: Autobiography and Fiction in American Women’s Writing

Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's Culture

The New York Metro American Studies Association's Annual Conference provides a dynamic forum for area scholars, while attracting presenters nationally.

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Early African American Children’s Literature
An anthology of original essays

A half-day afternoon symposium to meet, discuss your own research and make connections with others interested in intimacy, its practices, representation and theorisation.

CALL FOR PAPERS - Thirteenth Issue of Online Journal BARNOLIPI (http://www.barnolipi.com).

BARNOLIPI is an Interdisciplinary International Research Journal

At a time in which social media is alternately praised as a driver of revolution and democracy and feared as a threat to genuine interpersonal communication and expression, this panel invites critical

Cited as an important influence to filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Gaspar Noé, Italian director Dario Argento occupies a curious position in film history.

‘Modern’ Indian theatre is fashioned by western as well as indigenous theatrical traditions.

THE CITY – HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
The growth of any urban situation has been majorly attributed to a few dynamics which almost

The Garth Institute for Music Research and Performance will be hosting a seminar – Ethnicity, Femininity, and the History of Music – at the University of Michigan Hatcher Library Gallery September

Chairpersons of the 2012-2014 SAMLA 9/11 and Literature special sessions seek high quality, previously unpublished submissions to supplement a strong collection of essays emerging from the 2012 and 20