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category: ecocriticism and environmental studiesMedieval Weather and the Natural Order - New Chaucer Society, Portland OR July 23-26, 2012full name / name of organization: Robert Stanton contact email: stantoro@bc.edu Paul Dutton has written that "'weather' is properly historical and stubbornly subjective, since it involves humans in time thinking about it and how it affects their lives." How were meteorological ph
"Spiritus Loci": Indiana College English Association 2011 Conference, Anderson, INfull name / name of organization: Indiana College English Association contact email: elimafuji@anderson.edu Indiana College English Association 2011 Conference Keynote Speaker: Scott Russell Sanders
[UPDATE] Science Fiction Literature and Film deadline EXTENDED: April 15th (RMMLA)full name / name of organization: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association contact email: hqrq@iup.edu The paper proposal deadline for RMMLA has passed, but one more presenter is needed for the Science Fiction Literature and Film panel. Consider the following topics:
Our Sea of Islands 2: Insular Spaces: Deadline June 1, 2011 (NCS, Portland, Oregon, Portland, July 23-26, 2012)full name / name of organization: New Chaucer Society contact email: mgoldie@rider.edu, S.I.Sobecki@rug.nl The second of these related sessions focuses on ideas about insularity in late-medieval texts and artworks, including Chaucerian ones.
Our Sea of Islands 1: Aquatic Spaces: Deadline June 1, 2011 (NCS, Portland, Oregon, Portland, July 23-26, 2012)full name / name of organization: The New Chaucer Society contact email: mgoldie@rider.edu, S.I.Sobecki@rug.nl The main title of these two related session refers to the influential twentieth-century ideas of Epeli Hau-ofa, who reimagined the Pacific in terms of plentitude, networks, and routes.
Hospitality & Society: Call for Papersfull name / name of organization: Paul Lynch, Co-Editor of Hospitality & Society, an Intellect Journal contact email: hospitalityandsociety@googlemail.com Hospitality & Society Journal: Call for Papers
UPDATE: HAIKU AESTHETICS; Anthologyfull name / name of organization: Anthology Editor contact email: editorial.2008@indiatimes.com
MAPACA: Travel & Tourism Panels; Philadelphia, PA, 11/03/11-11/05/11 (Submissions Due 6/15/11)full name / name of organization: Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association contact email: jesweda@pobox.upenn.edu (Jennifer Erica Sweda) Travel and Tourism Studies continues to gain popularity as an academic field, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature.
CFP - NeoAmericanist Journalfull name / name of organization: NeoAmericanist: AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY ONLINE JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICA contact email: neoamericanist@uwo.ca NeoAmericanist, an online multi-disciplinary journal for the study of America, is issuing a CALL FOR PAPERS to interested Undergraduate and Graduate students.
[UPDATE] 2nd International Aksit Göktürk Conference: "Myths Revisited" 28-29 November 2011full name / name of organization: Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Lanuage and Literature - Istanbul, Turkey contact email: iagc@istanbul.edu.tr Keynote Speakers:
Expressions of Interest: Fully-funded Special Issue of the Journal of New Zealand Literature for 2012full name / name of organization: The Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL) contact email: sshieff@waikato.ac.nz The Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL) is calling for expressions of interest in a fully-funded Special Issue for 2012.
[UPDATE] Deadline Extension: "Shakespeare and the Material World" (April 1, 2011)full name / name of organization: Early English Studies Journal contact email: altigner@gmail.com Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval a
Aesthetics / Class / Worlds (October 14-15, 2011)full name / name of organization: Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota contact email: UMCSCLconference@gmail.com Aesthetics / Class / Worlds
"Cultivating Human-Animal Relations Through Poetic Form" (SAMLA, Nov 4-6, 2011)full name / name of organization: South Atlantic Modern Language Association contact email: miglesia@mail.usf.edu The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. –Alice Walker
"Cultivating Human-Animal Relations Through Poetic Form" (SAMLA, Nov 4-6, 2011)full name / name of organization: South Atlantic Modern Language Association contact email: miglesias@mail.usf.edu The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. –Alice Walker
READING NATURE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. MADRID, SPAIN (DEC. 14-16, 2011)full name / name of organization: Department of English Philology II (UCM) - Friends of Thoreau (Franklin Institute UAH) contact email: readingnature.ucm@gmail.com Environmental disciplines have recently gained prominence due to the potentially devastating consequences of climate change: increasing natural disasters, the greenhouse effect, temperature variations
"Cancer and the Pharmakon" / SLSA September 22-25, 2011full name / name of organization: Shiloh Krupar and Nadine Ehlers / Georgetown University contact email: cancerpharmakon@gmail.com This panel is concerned with the ways cancer treatment regimes and medico-discursive protocols trouble the distinctions between “to kill” and “to cure”, and the supposedly separate realms of l
UPDATE -- Textus: Gothic Frontiers. Abstracts by 1 June, 2011full name / name of organization: Francesca Saggini and Glennis Byron contact email: fsaggini@unitus.it and glennis.byron@stir.ac.uk Textus: English Studies in Italy No. 3 – 2012: Gothic Frontiers
Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Journal) - articles by 6/15/11full name / name of organization: Dr. Susan Alice Fischer, Co-Editor contact email: safischer@mac.com The editors seek articles concerned with English language, literacy and literature teaching worldwide as well as essays on literature and culture that do not specifically address teaching.
[Update: 30 April] Contemporary Trends in Poetry in English/Translationfull name / name of organization: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities contact email: editor@rupkatha.com Call for Papers for Volume 3, Number 2 Contemporary Trends in Poetry in English/translations
[Akademeia] Multidisciplinary Peer-Reviewed Journal - Call for papers (Submit for next issue by 05/31/11)full name / name of organization: Akademeia contact email: info@akademeia.ca Akademeia is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that publishes outstanding work from a wide range of disciplines and from scholars of all training levels.
[DEADLINE EXTENDED] "The Immaterial 18th Century"--NEW DEADLINE April 12full name / name of organization: Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/ Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Aphra Behn Society contact email: immat18@mcmaster.ca or walmsley@mcmaster.ca Call for Papers "The Immaterial Eighteenth Century"
Community Connectivities/Temporal Belongings Workshop 20-21 June apps due 20 Aprilfull name / name of organization: Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester contact email: michelle.bastian@manchester.ac.uk Community Connectivities/Temporal Belongings is a two day interdisciplinary workshop seeking to explore the interconnections between time and community, broadly conceived.
[DEADLINE EXTENDED]'A Self-Conscious Voice'- an Exploration of Expatriation and Literature. May 11th 2011full name / name of organization: University of Bristol Department of English contact email: expatlitconference@gmail.com ‘A Self-Conscious Voice’ - an Exploration of Expatriation and Literature
Technology & Modernity at MSA 2011full name / name of organization: Irene Gammel (Ryerson) and John Wrighton (Ryerson and Brighton) contact email: gammel@english.ryerson.ca and john.wrighton@mlc.ryerson.ca
CFP for MSA Panel Organized and Chaired by Irene Gammel (Ryerson) and John Wrighton (Ryerson and Brighton)
[UPDATE] Collection: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile (abstracts, 5.1.11)full name / name of organization: Karen Elizabeth Bishop contact email: kebishop@fas.harvard.edu Seeking several articles to round out work-in-progress on: THE CARTOGRAPHICAL NECESSITY OF EXILE
3rd annual Louisiana Studies Conference, September 23-24, 2011full name / name of organization: Northwestern State University of Louisiana contact email: rasmussens@nsula.edu The 3rd annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 23-24, 2011 at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
SCMLA - Oct. 27-29, 2011 - Computer Applications in English and Foreign Languages: OPEN TOPIC - Due: March 28, 2010full name / name of organization: SCMLA - Oct. 27-29, 2011 - Computer Applications in English and Foreign Languages: OPEN TOPIC contact email: reynoldst@nsula.edu Computer Applications in English and Foreign Languages: OPEN TOPIC
2011 PAMLA Religion and Literature Panel: Suffering and Religious Identity, Scripps College, CA, Proposal deadline 3/25full name / name of organization: PAMLA (Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association) 11/5-11/6, 2011 contact email: hapark1@gmail.com The Literature and Religion panel at 2011 PAMLA Conference (November 5-6, 2011; Scripps College, Claremont, CA) seeks papers that address how questions of faith have shaped literary works and cultural
HAIKU AESTHETICS; 31 July 2011full name / name of organization: Anthology contact email: editorial.2008@indiatimes.com Scholarly essays are invited for an anthology of critical essays on Aesthetics of Haiku Poetry to be published by a reputed publisher from India.
Facing Present, Past and Future. 4th International BAAHE Conference from 1 to 3 December 2011full name / name of organization: University College Brussels & BAAHE contact email: baahe2011@hubrussel.be FACING PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE 4TH INTERNATIONAL BAAHE CONFERENCE 1-3 December 2011 University College Brussels, Belgium
The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Vol. II, eds. Paul Cefalu, Gary Kuchar, and Bryan Reynoldsfull name / name of organization: Paul Cefalu, English Department, Lafayette College contact email: cefalup@lafayette.edu
[UPDATE] Deadline Extension: "Shakespeare and the Material World" (April 1, 2011)full name / name of organization: Early English Studies Journal contact email: altigner@gmail.com Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval a
Anthology on Nature's World - fiction - Deadline 1 September 2011full name / name of organization: Editions Bibliotekos contact email: publisher@ebibliotekos.com We are ready to do another anthology, which would be our fourth. The theme is “nature’s world.” (The book has not yet been titled).
[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Composing Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 5/13/11full name / name of organization: University of Cincinnati, Department of English & Comparative Literature contact email: ComposingSpaces@gmail.com Friday, May 13, 2011
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