category: ethnicity and national identity

Postcolonial/Postmodern Indian Poetry in English

full name / name of organization: 
University BT & Evening College, a Constituent College of NBU. in collaboration with Kaveri Books, New Delhi
contact email: 
jaydipsarkarnbu@yahoo.co.in/ srsendu@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS for a proposed anthology on POSTCOLONIAL/POSTMODERN INDIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH

Special Session: Culture, Texts and Technology at the SAMLA 2013 Conference

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA
contact email: 
jasara.hines@ucf.edu

SAMLA Conference 2013 Conference
November 8-10, 2013
Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30326

Special Session Call for Papers

CFP for "Feminist Theory and Pop Culture"

full name / name of organization: 
Adrienne Trier-Bieniek
contact email: 
adrienne.mtb@gmail.com

Call For Papers for Feminist Theory and Pop Culture, Forthcoming in 2015 from Sense Publishers
Contact: Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Ph.D., Editor. adrienne.mtb@gmail.com

eSharp Issue 20: New Horizons

full name / name of organization: 
University of Glasgow
contact email: 
submissions@esharp.org.uk

Have you found yourself thinking beyond the boundaries of current viewpoints?

How has the framework of your field of research or interest changed?

The Congolese Diaspora in Belgium : Imaginaries and postcolonial relations in the artistic field. October 2013 Brussels.

full name / name of organization: 
Organization : Véronique Bragard, Sarah Demart, Sarah Gilsoul, Bénédicte Ledent, Fatima Zibouh, Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo, Jean Bofane, Monique Phoba. With the collaboration of la Maison du Livre et le Centre culturel Jacques Franck.
contact email: 
congolesediasporaconference@gmail.com

In 2010, Belgium (via its institutions, the media and civil society) celebrated the 50th anniversary of Congolese independence with a certain glorification of Belgo-Congolese relations.

Childhood and Hybridity in the Literature and Film of Indian Diaspora (Deadline 15/04/2013)

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA 2013 (November 1-3 at Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego)
contact email: 
11sg28@queensu.ca

This panel will explore issues of childhood and hybridity in the fiction and film of Indian diaspora, looking at how childhood is represented and/or constructed at the moment of cross-cultural encount

Woolf and London's Colonial Writers (MLA 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Elizabeth Evans
contact email: 
elizabeth.evans@nd.edu

This proposed panel investigates literary, political, social, and spatial connections between Virginia Woolf and contemporaneous London-affiliated writers from the British colonies.

Child Labor and American Modernism (1890-1930)

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
trandell@sandiego.edu

We invite papers for a special session on “Child Labor and American Modernism (1890-1930)” at the 111th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) to be held

CFP: Rediscovering Morocco

full name / name of organization: 
Society for the History of Discoveries, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2013
contact email: 
lbeck@mta.ca

Session Proposal: “Rediscovering Morocco”

1930s American Activist Literature

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Special Session, Chicago (Jan. 9-12, 2014)
contact email: 
msullivan@mercyhurst.edu

Depression-era writers responded to the vulnerabilities exposed by economic crisis, social unrest, and environmental catastrophe with artistry motivated by activism.

"21st Century Englishes"

full name / name of organization: 
English Studies Conference Committee (Bowling Green State University)
contact email: 
bgsucon@gmail.com

Graduate Student Conference: “21st Century Englishes” on Oct. 19, 2013
Location: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Contact email: bgsucon@gmail.com

[UPDATE] Interrogating the Human: Literary and Epistemological Interchange - July 9-11 2013 Annual AUETSA Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Association of University English Teachers of South Africa / Rhodes University
contact email: 
conference@ru.ac.za

Materiality & Corporeality: The Body in Popular Fiction & Visual Culture, Postgraduate Conference, 6th June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Portsmouth
contact email: 
alexandra.messem@port.ac.uk

Materiality & Corporeality: The Body in Popular Fiction and Visual Culture

Postgraduate Conference, University of Portsmouth
Thursday 6th June 2013

The Other Detective

full name / name of organization: 
Shannon Takeuchi, California State University, Fullerton
contact email: 
stakeuchi@fullerton.edu

PAMLA 2013 Conference (Nov. 1-3): The Other Detective (deadline April 15)

LIMINA JOURNAL 2013 CONFERENCE - "Exclusivity: Boundaries of Difference", June 14th 2013 @ The University of Western Australia

full name / name of organization: 
Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, at The University of Western Australia
contact email: 
liminajournal@gmail.com

LIMINA CONFERENCE 2013

Exclusivity: Boundaries of Difference

Jewish Monsters (MLA Chicago, January 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Jewish Cultural Studies & Jewish-American Lit Discussion Groups
contact email: 
gbe2@nyu.edu

Notions of monstrosity or the monstrous in Jewish tradition and in representations of Jews.

Zionisms Past, Present, and Future (MLA Chicago, January 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Jewish Cultural Studies Discussion Group
contact email: 
gbe2@nyu.edu

The Zionist imagination in global literatures and cultures. Potential topics: pre- or proto-Zionist texts, Christian Zionism, post-Zionism, Israel and its others.

CFP Haunting Whiteness: Rhetorics of Whiteness in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era

full name / name of organization: 
Krista Ratcliffe, Joyce Middleton, and Tammie Kennedy
contact email: 
krista.ratcliffe@marquette.edu

The editors invite chapter proposals that work with the collection’s title, Haunting Whiteness: Rhetorics of Whiteness in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era.

CALL FOR PAPERS - BARNOLIPI Interdisciplinary Online Journal

full name / name of organization: 
Reflection Mentoring Services
contact email: 
reflection.edu@gmail.com

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

BARNOLIPI is an interdisciplinary international research journal

Dynamics of Exemption : 'Gang' Ethos in Literature and Film

full name / name of organization: 
University of Durham
contact email: 
claudia.nitschke@durham.ac.uk

International Conference, Durham University, UK

26/27 September 2013

Dynamics of Exemption: 'Gang' ethos in Literature and Film

[UPDATE] Deadline extension: The Arts of Attention Conference, Budapest, Hungary (Mar. 31, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Károli Gáspár University
contact email: 
taoa2013@gmail.com; taoa2013@kre.hu

Attention is increasingly regarded by cognitive scientists and evolutionary anthropologists as a faculty whose development in human animals is constitutive of what it means to be human.

“Vestigial Human Nature in Modernist Literature” MSA 15 Sussex (Aug. 29-Sep. 1, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
contact email: 
acyerkes@ntu.edu.sg

This panel for the 2013 Modernist Studies Association Conference seeks to analyze and interpret instances of vestigial essentialism in literary modernism.

Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students in English
contact email: 
dagse@dal.ca

Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Department of English
Graduate Student Conference Dalhousie University
Halifax, N.S.

[UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space (deadline extended until Mar. 7)

full name / name of organization: 
Southern Methodist University English Department (Graduate)
contact email: 
smugradconference@gmail.com

[UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space ($125 award for the best essay)
full name / name of organization:

Innovative Teaching for Social Justice

full name / name of organization: 
Stretch-Accelerated Composition
contact email: 
pccstretch@gmail.com

Website: pccstretch.wordpress.com

Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Studies

full name / name of organization: 
UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association & UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
contact email: 
memsa.ucla@gmail.com

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Robert N. Watson

[UPDATE] Renaissance of Roland Barthes Deadline 3/1/13

full name / name of organization: 
CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Literature and English Departments
contact email: 
csommers@gc.cuny.edu

The Renaissance of Roland Barthes
Speakers: Jonathan Culler, Diana Knight, Rosalind Krauss, D.A. Miller, and Lucy O'Meara

The Spatial Imaginary in Contemporary British Literature and the Arts - 18-19 October 2013, a SEAC Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Université de Nantes, France
contact email: 
georges.letissier@univ-nantes.fr

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DES ÉTUDES BRITANNIQUES CONTEMPORAINES
The Spatial Imaginary in Contemporary British Literature and the Arts

Transgressing the Limit: Borders and Liminality in Philosophy and Literature. Proposals for essays due 30 June 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
Dylan Winchock & Jessica Mayock
contact email: 
borderprojectabstracts@gmail.com

Borders are more than lines cutting across maps; rather, they are wide swaths of ambiguity and reversibility where identities are broken down and reassembled.

Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
ISCH Cost action 1101, Durham University, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale
contact email: 
kerusso@unior.it

Announcement/Call for Papers

Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement

18-19 June 2013
Durham University

Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
ISCH Cost action 1101, Durham University, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale
contact email: 
kerusso@unior.it

Announcement/Call for Papers

Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement

18-19 June 2013
Durham University

Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Charlie Wesley
contact email: 
cwesley@daemen.edu

How do we assess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his previous output and changing political beliefs? 200 word abstracts or more by 15 March 2013. Contact Dr.

Dialects of English Worldwide: Issues in English Language Studies at MLA, January 2014

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Present-Day English Language Discussion Group
contact email: 
canon_eb@yahoo.com

The position of English as a worldwide lingua franca has never been more secure than it is today.

Sensationalims and the Genealogy of Modernity

full name / name of organization: 
Alberto Gabriele
contact email: 
alberto.gabriele.tau@gmail.com

Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity

A Two-Day International Workshop

Tel Aviv University, December, 18-19, 2013

[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)

full name / name of organization: 
Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University
contact email: 
M-Cole@wiu.edu

What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?

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