category: ethnicity and national identity

MLA 2014, Chicago: Everyday Unrecognized Sexual Violence in South Asia

full name / name of organization: 
Namrata Mitra/ South Asian Languages and Literatures
contact email: 
nmitra@jcu.edu

We invite critiques on representations of sexual violence against marginalized groups in South Asian literature, film, and/ or media.

The Sacred and the Sexual in South Asian Literature , South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group, MLA Chicago 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Indrani Mitra/ Mount St. Mary's University
contact email: 
mitra@msmary.edu

This Modern Language Association panel invites papers that interrogate gender and the constructions of sexuality in relation to one or more of the religious traditions of South Asia, and their local,

Queering Age (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013 in San Diego)

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA, Emily Mattingly
contact email: 
emily.mattingly@email.ucr.edu

Queering Age

[UPDATE] The Human journal NOW accepts submissions for June 2013 issue

full name / name of organization: 
The Human, a journal of humanities, social sciences, and arts
contact email: 
human@humanjournal.org

Call for Papers – The Human journal NOW accepts submissions

[UPDATE] MLA 2014: "Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writing" (Jan 9-12, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Ruben Quesada
contact email: 
rmquesada@eiu.edu

The proposed session seeks writers and scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and sociopolitical import of Jürgen Habermas’s The Theory of Communicative Action .

[UDATE] Supernatural Studies Journal - Inaugural Issue

full name / name of organization: 
Supernatural Studies Association
contact email: 
SupernaturalStudies@gmail.com

Supernatural Studies, a new, peer-edited e-journal welcomes submissions for its inaugural issue, Spring 2013, through March 1.

Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writing

full name / name of organization: 
Ruben Quesada
contact email: 
rmquesada@eiu.edu

The proposed session seeks writers and scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and sociopolitical import of Jürgen Habermas’s book, The Theory of Communicative Action .

Marxism..."That is the Question"

full name / name of organization: 
Marxist Literary Group/South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013
contact email: 
acooke2@emory.edu

Taking a cue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this panel focuses on a critical examination of the act or state of calling one’s self a Marxist, that is to say, it asks the question, “What does it mean

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

full name / name of organization: 
Tammie M Kennedy, Joyce Middleton, and Kris Ratcliffee
contact email: 
tmkenendy@unomaha.edu

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

"English Renaissance Literature," 2013 Meeting of the RMMLA, Vancouver, WA, USA, October 10-12, 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
contact email: 
respinosa2@utep.edu

Twenty-minute papers that address any theme pertaining to English Renaissance Literature. Topics of interest include gender, religious, and race studies in early modern literature.

Special Themed Issue on The Spectral South

full name / name of organization: 
Special Issue of The South Carolina Review: The Spectral South
contact email: 
slauro@clemson.edu & kmangan@clemson.edu

Essay proposals are invited for a special themed issue of The South Carolina Review that examines the images of zombies, vampires, and other undead in the American South.

Balkan Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Music (MLA 2014; deadline March 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Mihaela P. Harper, Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University
contact email: 
mharper@bilkent.edu.tr

Is Balkan “always the other” (Zizek), and for whom? How have Balkan self-consciousness and/or image altered, if at all, since 2000? Please send an abstract of 250 words by March 15.

Vulnerable Times and the Rise of Fascism: Radical Writers on the Front of the Spanish Civil War (MLA Chicago, Jan 9-12 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Ashley Foster (CUNY-Graduate Center) and Evelyn Scaramella (Manhattan College)
contact email: 
jashfoster@yahoo.com, evelyn.scaramella@manhattan.edu

This panel explores testimonies of writers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; J.

MLA 2014 Special Session: Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Kristine A. Wilson
contact email: 
wilson67@purdue.edu

For this proposed special session, I welcome paper proposals that address the presidential theme, Vulnerable Times, as it relates to Caribbean literature.

Creative submissions are invited to upcoming issue of Yellow Medicine Review devoted to the Fairy-tale

full name / name of organization: 
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought
contact email: 
editor@yellowmedicinereview.com

Yellow Medicine Review is accepting poetry, fiction, and creative essays for its upcoming issue devoted to modern writers working in the myth/folktale genre.

[UPDATE} Panel on "The Modernist Room,"* 29 Aug - 1 Sept, Brighton UK -- MSA conference

full name / name of organization: 
Modernist Studies Association
contact email: 
stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com

According to Frederic Jameson, the Modernist novel abandoned the panoramic cityscapes of the 19th century realist novel and devised "strategies of inwardness." As Brigitte Munier suggests, the early-2

What's Material about Vulnerability? MLA, Chicago, Jan 9-12, 2014 (deadline: March 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Joanna Fax and Kimberly Macellaro/Rice University
contact email: 
jmf4@rice.edu, kam5@rice.edu

Seeking new perspectives on the place of materialist theory in the study of vulnerability in American culture, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; racial, economic, sexual vulnerabi

Makurdi Journal of Communication Research (MJCR)

full name / name of organization: 
Communication Research Circle (CRC), Makurdi, Nigeria
contact email: 
makurdi_journal@yahoo.com

The Makurdi Journal of Communication Research (MJCR) is a refereed biannual International Journal (located in Makurdi, Nigeria in the department of Mass Communication, Benue State University) that pub

“Feminism and Nationalism”: The Case of South Asian Women

full name / name of organization: 
MLA (Modern Language Association) 2014 Convention, Chicago
contact email: 
ummeal-wazedi@augustana.edu, imohf@aol.com

Do women and men have equal opportunities for agency within nationalist movements? Seeking proposals for a roundtable on the creation of the nation-state and the role of women in South Asia.

Studia Europaea: Ethics of International Relations

full name / name of organization: 
Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University
contact email: 
apantea@euro.ubbcluj.ro

Academic journal Studia Europaea is pleased to invite submissions for upcoming issue: Ethics of International Relations.
Deadline for Submission: 1st of May 2013

Call for Participants: German Film Learning Initiative (GFLI)

full name / name of organization: 
Hannah O'Connor (Cardiff University)
contact email: 
oconnorhl@cardiff.ac.uk

As part of the AHRC Collaborative Skills Development award, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new postgraduate project, The German Film Learning Initiative (GFLI).

Postcolonial Studies in the Public Sphere, 17th May 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
Postcolonial-Public
contact email: 
postcolonial.public@gmail.com

An AHRC funded project in association with Durham University & Queen’s University Belfast

[Deadline Extended] Worlds Between: Exploring the Borders, Boundaries, and Gaps that Divide and Bind

full name / name of organization: 
Sigma Tau Delta, Iota Chi Chapter / California State University, Northridge
contact email: 
sigmataudeltaiotachi@gmail.com

"Worlds Between: Exploring the Borders, Boundaries, and Gaps that Divide and Bind"

Saturday, April 27, 2013
California State University, Northridge
Graduate Conference

Call for articles

full name / name of organization: 
International Journal of Communication and Health
contact email: 
communicationandhealth@gmail.com

The International Journal of Communication and Health is an on-line peer-reviewed journal interested in any aspect related to health communication.

MLA 2014 Special Session: Why Rancière is important? (Abstract deadline March 15, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Haythem Guesmi
contact email: 
h.guesmi@umontreal.ca

This special session seeks submissions that discuss themes of vulnerability, resistance and social change in Jacques Rancière’s work.

Essay Collection: Teen Wolf (June 1)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Kamille Stone Stanton
contact email: 
supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com

Articles are invited for an essay collection on the new MTV serial remake of Teen Wolf.

Panel on Princesses in Popular Culture, 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013 [UPDATE]

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
michelle.stonis@csulb.edu

And they lived happily ever after, or did they?

"Educators in East Asian Literature.” PAMLA Special Session, Nov 1-3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
dawe@gse.upenn.edu

For centuries, literature from East Asia has reflected the respect traditionally afforded educators.

Corporeality Panel - PAMLA 2013 San Diego

full name / name of organization: 
Sören Fröhlich / University of California, San Diego
contact email: 
sfrohlic@ucsd.edu

Special Session: Ew! Gross! Abjection, Affect, and Bodily Fluids

Deadline: April 15, 2013

MLA 2014: Harriet Monroe, Poetry Magazine, and Chicago Modernism (Jan 9-12, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Erin Kappeler, Sarah Ehlers
contact email: 
erin.kappeler@tufts.edu

We invite papers on the central role Harriet Monroe, Poetry magazine, and the Chicago literary scene played in shaping poetic modernism. 250-word abstracts by 4 March 2013; Erin J.

Text and Context—An Interdisciplinary Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Michael Sollars/Texas Southern University
contact email: 
sollars_md@tsu.edu

Introductions: Text and Context—An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Spring 2013 – 15th Annual McCleary Interdisciplinary Symposium

Short-Term Research Fellowships, NYPL, 2013-2014

full name / name of organization: 
New York Public Library
contact email: 
thomaslannon@nypl.org, elizabethdenlinger@nypl.org

I am glad to be able to announce the NYPL Short-Term Research Fellowships, though sorry that again they are only for people who can legally work in the US.

[UPDATE] CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conference

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

CFP DEADLINE APPROACHING, Friday 1st March 2013

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Professor Pierre Joris (SUNY at Albany)

Irish Gothic Conference, 5-6 December 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Università degli Studi di Perugia
contact email: 
perugiairishgothic@gmail.com

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Techne: Women’s Art and Artifice in Early Modern Iberia and the New World. GEMELA session at the M/MLA 11/7-11/11/2013.

full name / name of organization: 
GEMELA
contact email: 
allanm@lawrence.edu

As wives, mothers, servants, and slaves, women were responsible for such essential domestic tasks as food preparation and family medicine in early modern Spain and the New World.

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