category: cultural studies and historical approaches

[UPDATE] National Seminar on “Modernity and Indian Theatre”, September 27 & 28, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, Gauhati University
contact email: 
ashaakc@gmail.com; aparnabhattacharyya12@gmail.com

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

THE CITY – HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

full name / name of organization: 
Sagar Desai
contact email: 
sagardesai80887@yahoo.com

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

Ethnicity, Femininity, and the History of Music

full name / name of organization: 
Garth Institute for Music Research and Performance
contact email: 
info@garthinstitute.org

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

[UPDATE] New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11in the Obama Era -- Proposals Due 5/31/2013

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Chairpersons
contact email: 
newessayson911@gmail.com

Chairpersons of the 2012-2014 SAMLA 9/11 and Literature special sessions seek high quality, previously unpublished submissions to supplement a strong collection of essays emerging from the 2012 and 20

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.

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