category: ecocriticism and environmental studies

Pastoral Artifice - MMLA/November, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
plmonacell@ccis.edu

Understanding Atrocities Conference: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide February 19-21, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Tristan Smyth / Scott W. Murray Mount Royal University
contact email: 
understandingatrocities@mtroyal.ca

We use ‘genocide’ and ‘atrocity’– words that overlap and mix – as we reach for an understanding of the full horror of one people’s attempts to eliminate another.

Eco-Ability Call for Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Joe Leeson-Schatz (Institute of Critical Animal Studies)
contact email: 
ecoability@gmail.com

A SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO A NEW FIELD
SCHOLARS & ACTIVISTS: CALL FOR PAPERS, ART, VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, AND NARRATIVES

“Eco-Ability: The Intersection of Earth, Animal, and Dis-Ability”

[Update] Contact and Connection: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium - Registration open

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

“Contact and Connections”: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium
Thursday 27th June 2013, University of Warwick
Wolfson Research Exchange Seminar Rooms

Keynote speakers:

Transatlantic Encounters: Redefining Temporality in the Nineteenth Century

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
jmjewusiak@valdosta.edu; mdrizou@gmail.com

Transatlantic Encounters: Redefining Temporality in the Nineteenth Century

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Object Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Conference (October 4-5, 2013, Berkeley, CA)

full name / name of organization: 
Padma Maitland (UCB Architecture, SSEAS); Christopher P. Miller (UCB English); Marta Figlerowicz (Harvard Society of Fellows)
contact email: 
padmamaitland@berkeley.edu

Object Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Conference (October 4-5, 2013, Berkeley, CA)

NeMLA 2014 cfp: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Context

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania cfp
contact email: 
tara.harney@uconn.edu

Call for Papers
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania cfp

Bodies in Place: Disability and the Environment in American Literature (NEMLA, April 3-6)

full name / name of organization: 
NEMLA
contact email: 
mjcella@ship.edu

Bodies in Place: Disability and the Environment in American Literature

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

NEW ACADEMIA: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory ISSN 2277-3967 (PRINT)

full name / name of organization: 
INTERACTIONS FORUM PUNE, INDIA
contact email: 
newacademia.if@gmail.com

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
INTERACTIONS FORUM’S
NEW ACADEMIA - (ISSN 2277-3967) (PRINT)
AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND LITERARY THEORY
Vol.II Issue III: JULY 2013

Making Art In/About/For Cities in Crisis

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
mickelsonjn@yahoo.com

April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

[UPDATE] New Crops, Old Fields - (Re)Imagining Irish Folklore

full name / name of organization: 
Queen's University Belfast
contact email: 
newcrops@qub.ac.uk

Keynote Speakers :
Prof. Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University of Notre-Dame)
Prof. Harry White (University College Dublin)
Prof. Luke Gibbons (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

2013 SAMLA Women's Studies Panel

full name / name of organization: 
Robin Brooks
contact email: 
rbrooks@ufl.edu

The 2013 SAMLA Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia on November 8-10, 2013. The Women's Studies Panel is entitled "Contemporary American Women Writers: Confronting Changing
Times."

Fragile Futures - A Special Issue of the English Academy Review (Routledge/Unisa) - SUBMISSIONS BY 31 MARCH 2014

full name / name of organization: 
English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies
contact email: 
englishacademy@societies.wits.ac.za

FRAGILE FUTURES

A Special Issue of The English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, Issue 31.2, October 2014
Guest editor, Marc Botha (Durham and Pretoria)

Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Religion and Popular Culture area
contact email: 
see the area's page on the MAPACA website

Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
2013 Conference, Nov. 7 – 9, 2013, Atlantic City, NJ
Religion and Popular Culture Area
Submission deadline: June 14, 2013

2013 Northeast Regional Meeting: “Literature of Luther: The Individual, Freedom, and Grace” (November 8-9, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
contact email: 
NECCL@sfc.edu

It has been almost 500 years since Martin Luther penned his Ninety-Five Theses.

UPDATE/MAY 23RD 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Two-Year College Association - Northeast CONFERENCE
contact email: 
ibucchino@bergen.edu,

TYCA-NE 2013 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

October 3-5, 2013

Hyatt Morristown / Morristown, NJ

Program by Bergen Community College

[UPDATE] Shaping Indian Diaspora edited volume (Abstracts 15th June 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Cristina M. Gamez-Fernandez and Veena Dwivedi
contact email: 
cristina.gamez@uco.es, dwivediveena81@gmail.com

The Indian diaspora is the largest within the Asian diaspora as the Indian community scattered around the world is over 25 million.

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] The Marginalised Mainstream: Fading and Emerging NEW DEADLINE

full name / name of organization: 
Marginalised Mainstream
contact email: 
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com

Second Annual Marginalised Mainstream Conference: Fading and

Short Story at MMLA 2013

full name / name of organization: 
MMLA
contact email: 
katy.leedy@marquette.edu

This session welcomes critical papers on the short story for the annual MMLA convention. Proposals may be related to the conference theme of Art & Artifice, but it is not necessary.

Lingering Apparitions in Pennsylvania Fiction--Sept. 30 deadline

full name / name of organization: 
NEMLA 2014
contact email: 
bentzmin@bloomu.edu

Lingering Apparitions in Pennsylvania Fiction

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

[UPDATE] “Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts” SAMLA Nov. 8-10 Abstracts by 6/7

full name / name of organization: 
Lynne M. Simpson, College English Association
contact email: 
lsimpson@presby.edu

SAMLA Convention 2013
November 8-10, 2012
Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia 2013

“Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts”

[UPDATE] Energy in Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Paula Farca
contact email: 
pfarca@mines.edu

June 15th, 2013, EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations - Call for Papers!

full name / name of organization: 
Humboldt State University
contact email: 
hjsr@humboldt.edu

The State of the State of Jefferson

Atwood's Apocalyptic Visions (8/1/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Karma Waltonen
contact email: 
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu

Cambridge Scholars Publishing has expressed interest in a collection on Margaret Atwood and the theme of the apocalypse (though the collection is not yet under contract).

Arrested Development (7/15/13 for PCA/ACA, Chicago, April 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Karma Waltonen
contact email: 
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu

I am seeking panelists for a proposed session on Arrested Development at the 2014 PCA/ACA Conference in Chicago (April 16-19). Final approval for the panel will come from the TV area chair.

Special Issue: Feminisms, Academia, Austerity

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Gender Studies
contact email: 
helen.davies@tees.ac.uk

JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES
Special Issue 2014: Call for Papers

‘Feminisms, Academia, Austerity’
Guest Editors: Helen Davies and Claire O’Callaghan
(JGS Editor: Blu Tirohl)

[UPDATE: Deadline Approaching]

full name / name of organization: 
Lindsay Palmer/ UC Santa Barbara
contact email: 
submissions@mediafieldsjournal.org

CFP: Media Spaces of Gender and Sexuality
Media Fields Journal
University of California, Santa Barbara

Epistemologies of Spaces and Places (Theory of Science thematic section) - abstracts due June 20

full name / name of organization: 
Radim Hladik / Theory of Science
contact email: 
radim.hladik@fulbrightmail.org

/// Epistemologies of Spaces and Places ///

The Literary Legacy of Revelations

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
williams@kutztown.edu

The Literary Legacy of Revelations

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Tenth Native American Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
contact email: 
mspencer@se.edu

Tenth Native American Symposium
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs

Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma
November 14-15, 2013

[UPDATE] ASEBL Journal (ethical behavior/evolution/literature). Sept. 2013 deadline

full name / name of organization: 
ASEBL Journal, St. Francis College
contact email: 
publisher@ebibliotekos.com

The editors of ASEBL Journal invite queries for the January 2014 issue. Deadline for articles is 1 September 2013 (early submissions are encouraged). Issues are housed on the St.

Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: NEMLA 2014, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; April 3-6

full name / name of organization: 
Kathleen Alves/CUNY
contact email: 
kalves@qcc.cuny.edu

Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century

Re-Imagining Communities and Civil Society Conference [UPDATE: Deadline Extended]

full name / name of organization: 
University of Guelph
contact email: 
gyovanov@uoguelph.ca

The aim of this conference is to explore what role social movements, artists, intellectuals, writers, cultural institutions and others play in shaping our ideas of community, civil society and the con

Virtual Wildernesses: Ecocritical Explorations of Wildness in Digital Spaces (Edited Collection, 8/16/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Ben S. Bunting, Jr. / Washington State University
contact email: 
locke456@gmail.com

Virtual Wildernesses: Ecocritical Explorations of Wildness in Digital Spaces

Ecology and the Environmental Humanities

full name / name of organization: 
Rice University English Department
contact email: 
rice.symposium@gmail.com

Rice University English Symposium

September 13-14, 2013
Ecology and the Environmental Humanities
Keynotes: Prof. Claire Colebrook, Penn State University
Prof. Timothy Morton, Rice University

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