category: cultural studies and historical approaches

Orphans, Disciplines, and the Institutions of Cinema: Placing Orphan Films (September 26, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group
contact email: 
martin.johnson@nyu.edu

Call for Papers

Orphans, Disciplines, and the Institutions of Cinema: Placing Orphan Films
Indiana University Bloomington
September 26, 2013

All Kinds of Music is Pouring Out of Me: Living Large and Feeling Big in Musical Theatre Performance and Reception

full name / name of organization: 
American Society for Theatre Research
contact email: 
katedney@hotmail.com; l.e.macdonald@gmail.com)

When the eponymous Sweet Charity (1966) realizes somebody loves her, not only does the scene shift from dialogue into song, but she, self-reflexively, acknowledges the largeness of her emotional respo

Representations of the global economic crisis - October 30th 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Journal Culture, Language and Representation, ISSN: 1697-7750
contact email: 
prado@ang.uji.es

Given that representation conditions our responses and interpretations of events, at present, the attempts to control the symbolic space of discourses about the crisis is dominated by the struggle bet

[UPDATE] Edith Wharton Symposium: cfp deadline 27 May

full name / name of organization: 
William Blazek and Laura Rattray
contact email: 
custom@hope.ac.uk

Edith Wharton Symposium: 22 and 23 August 2013, Liverpool Hope University, UK

[UPDATE] Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age, 24-26 October, 2013, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, deadline: May 20th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
contact email: 
2013.rethinking.intermediality@gmail.com

Conference webpage: http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/rethinking-intermediality-in-the...

Call for Papers:

Debt: The Cultural and Material Logics of Owing/Owning

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Asian American Studies
contact email: 
jaasspecialissue@yahoo.com

Debt: The Cultural and Material Logics of Owing/Owning

Guest editors: Cynthia Wu and Kritika Agarwal

Transitions 4 Comica Symposium - CFP deadline 30 July 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Birkbeck, University of London
contact email: 
transitions.symposium@gmail.com

Transitions 4 is a one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art, now in its fourth year at

UPDATE--APPROACHING CFP DEADLINE, 5TH OF MAY for Translations: Exchange of Ideas

full name / name of organization: 
University Graduate College, Cardiff, UK
contact email: 
TranslationsConference@cf.ac.uk

Translations: Exchange of Ideas
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
June 27th – 28th 2013
Cardiff University, Wales UK
Keynote Speakers

Expression of Interest Marie Curie Action Fellowships – CIDEHUS (Portugal)

full name / name of organization: 
Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas, Sociedades of the University of Evora
contact email: 
mfo@uevora.pt

Expression of Interest
Marie Curie Action Fellowships – CIDEHUS (Portugal)

CFP: Listening to Literature, 1900-1950 (12-14 March, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Leuven, MDRN
contact email: 
ltlconference@arts.kuleuven.be

CALL FOR PAPERS [DEADLINE: 1 JULY]

Listening to Literature, 1900-1950

12-14 March 2014 - University of Leuven, Belgium

Keynote
Julian Murphet (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

Two- day Seminar on “Literature and Human Rights” on 7th & 8th August 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
contact email: 
drtmarx@gmail.com

Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media & Mode - Abstracts due June 20th

full name / name of organization: 
LIM College
contact email: 
proposals@limcollege.edu

Call for Presentations - Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media, and Mode

Proposal due date: June 10, 2013
Conference date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 to Saturday, October 5, 2013

COLLECTION: Shakespeare: Institutional Discourse, Decadence, and Decorum.

full name / name of organization: 
Jeffrey Kahan/University of La Verne
contact email: 
Shakespearecenter@laverne.edu

Whether dealing with Shakespearean chotchkies, comic books, adult films, alte

Call for Submissions: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
contact email: 
renascence@marquette.edu

Renascence is a scholarly journal published by Marquette University.

Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World (Sweden, 2-4 April 2014; proposals due by 15 September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dalarna University, Sweden
contact email: 
transcult@du.se

Globalising processes have led, in recent decades, to critical re-evaluations of the ways in which ‘culture’ has traditionally been understood.

FINAL CALL - “Did anyone say Power?” - Abstract Deadline 30 April

full name / name of organization: 
Bangor University, Wales, UK
contact email: 
s.baumgarten@bangor.ac.uk

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 30 APRIL 2013

“Did anyone say Power?”: Rethinking Domination and Hegemony in Translation

CFP: Seeing Perspectives Crossways / RSA 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Michael Saenger and Sergio Costola, Southwestern University
contact email: 
saengerm@southwestern.edu, costolas@southwestern.edu

Seeing Perspective Crossways

A Proposed Panel for the Renaissance Society of America 27-29 March, 2014 in New York City

Being Non/Human - abstract deadline: Friday 2nd August

full name / name of organization: 
King's College London
contact email: 
being.non.human@gmail.com

This is a call for papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers for a new interdisciplinary discussion group (starting in the upcoming academic year at King’s College London)

[UPDATE] PAMLA 2013 (Nov. 1-3) - World Literature in Theory and in Practice - Extended Deadline: May 12

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

DEADLINE EXTENDED to May 12th

Alternative Visions in Media Conference (November 8-9, 2013; Proposals due July 19, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Dept. of Film, Television and Digital Media, TCU
contact email: 
k.hart@tcu.edu

We invite presentation proposals for the Alternative Visions in Media Conference, to be held at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas) November 8-9, 2013.

Chaucer and Related Topics (Extended Deadline, May 12th)

full name / name of organization: 
Cristina Pangilinan, Willamette University
contact email: 
cpangili@willamette.edu

This panel is a standing session at PAMLA and invites critical papers on Chaucer and related topics.

The Phoenix Papers

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

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

[UPDATE] Otaku Studies Area: Midwest Popular Culture Association

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

Call for Papers:
OTAKU STUDIES
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel, A Doubletree by Hilton

[UPDATE] Call for Papers for Collection: Captivity / Writing / Unbound

full name / name of organization: 
Pat Cesarini and Becky McLaughlin / University of South Alabama
contact email: 
pcesarini@usouthal.edu and bmclaugh@southalabama.edu

Proposals for papers are invited for a collection entitled Captivity / Writing / Unbound.

[UPDATE] CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
University of Glasgow
contact email: 
arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk

[Update] Essays on Clarence Major for Proposed Book (7/1/2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Gregory Leon Miller
contact email: 
gmiller9@csub.edu

Call for Submissions for a Book of New and Collected Essays on
Clarence Major (fiction and/or poetry and/or painting)

Charles Johnson is writing the foreword.

[UPDATE]Performing Gender: cultural ideals, expectations, and representations of gender in American

full name / name of organization: 
Colleen Thorndike
contact email: 
cthorndi@kent.edu

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

Contact and Connection: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
University of Warwick, Institute of Advanced Study
contact email: 
c.e.mathieson@warwick.ac.uk

“Contact and Connection”: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium
Thursday 27th June 2013, University of Warwick

Keynote speakers:

The Other Western

full name / name of organization: 
Transformations
contact email: 
Grayson.Cooke@scu.edu.au; w.mules@bigpond.com

This issue of Transformations seeks submissions from scholars in film and related fields concerning the ‘other’ Western.

MAP/ACA War Studies Area (11/7 to 11/9/2013; Proposals Due 6/14/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
contact email: 
redmanx999@gmail.com



Call for Papers 2013 Conference of   Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture
Association (MAP/ACA)

MAP/ACA War Studies Area

Postpartum: Motherhood, Maternity, and Pregnancy as Performance

full name / name of organization: 
American Society for Theatre Research
contact email: 
abcorts@uga.edu

Motherhood and childbirth have been constructed as symbols of faith, sites of suspicion, protectors of social morality, and the wages of original sin.

Colloquium Forms of Diplomacy, June 2014 (Deadline: 25 October 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Nathalie Rivere de Carles & Nathalie Duclos, University of Toulouse Le Mirail, France
contact email: 
diplofab@gmail.com

International Colloquium, « Form(s) of Diplomacy », 12-13 June 2014, Toulouse 2 Le Mirail University, France.

[UPDATE] Twentieth Century Studies Midwest PCA ACA St. Louis 11-13 October 2013

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

Call for Papers
Twentieth-Century Studies
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference
2013

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

Uncommon Wealths: Riches and Realities - 15th Triennial Conference of EACLALS

full name / name of organization: 
Conference Convenor: Helga Ramsey-Kurz
contact email: 
uncommonwealths2014@gmail.com

UNCOMMON WEALTHS: RICHES AND REALITIES
Innsbruck, Austria: 14-18 April 2014

HOMEPAGE: www.uncommonwealthseaclals2014@gmail.com

Call for Papers 30th June 2013. Metatheatrical Dimensions of Ontological Memories

full name / name of organization: 
Aju Aravind/
contact email: 
aaravind13@gmail.com

Metatheatrical Dimensions of Ontological Memories

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