category: ethnicity and national identity

UPDATE: Edith Wharton & Cosmopolitanism, ALA Boston May 2013, deadline extended to 24 January

full name / name of organization: 
Emily Orlando / Fairfield University
contact email: 
eorlando@fairfield.edu

Call for Papers, American Literature Association (ALA)
Boston, Massachusetts
May 23-26, 2013
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Ways of Being / Modes of Existence: Human, animal, machine

full name / name of organization: 
Louisiana State University Department of French Studies
contact email: 
lsufrenchconference@gmail.com

Keynote Speakers:
Dominique Lestel, Ecole Normale Supérieure-Paris
Verena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State University

[UPDATE] ASA 2013, Washington DC: "Transatlantic Approaches to African American Women's Literature"; January 20, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Kristin Allukian
contact email: 
kallukian@ufl.edu

CFP for a Panel Proposal for ASA 2013, Washington DC:
"Transatlantic Approaches to African American Women's Literature"

Exploring the Portuguese Diaspora in InterDISCIPLINARY and Comparative Perspectives: An International Conference July 25-27)

full name / name of organization: 
Anderson Unversity, Brock University, Univ of Lisbon, UMass Amherst
contact email: 
ics@brocku.ca

http://ocs.sfu.ca/pds/index.php/pdaip/2013

July 25-27, 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana

"Neoliberalism With a Difference: Multiculturalism Versus the Welfare State"

full name / name of organization: 
Eric Strand / American Studies Association
contact email: 
ericstrand@uct.ac.za

500-word abstracts for our panel on "Neoliberalism With a Difference" for the 2013 ASA conference in Washington, DC (Nov. 21-24).

"Images of Violence in Contemporary Southern Film" Panel at SAMLA 2013 (8-10 November)

full name / name of organization: 
Southerns in Contemporary Film
contact email: 
akking at olemiss.edu

This panel invites papers that examine depictions of the U. S. South and southerners in contemporary film.

RSA 14: "Border Rhetorics" (San Antonio) - Submissions Due July 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
contact email: 
kphillip@syr.edu

San Antonio is an ideal city for thinking about borders.

2013 Annual SAMLA Conference: Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
contact email: 
samla@gsu.edu

2013 Annual SAMLA Conference-Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds

Call for Papers: Wounds, Torture, and the Grotesque

full name / name of organization: 
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
contact email: 
hortulus@hortulus-journal.com

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past.

Universality and Its Limits

full name / name of organization: 
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, University of Chicago
contact email: 
weissbourd13@gmail.com

Universality and Its Limits

The 2013 Weissbourd Annual Conference
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
The University of Chicago
Franke Institute for the Humanities
April 19–20, 2013

Supernatural Studies Journal CFP

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

Supernatural Studies (ISSN 2325-4866), a new, peer-reviewed journal welcomes article and book review submissions for its first two issues (Spring and Fall 2013).

[UPDATE] Deadline Extended to 1/30 CfP: "The Campus Novel as Equipment for Living" Session, May 22-25 Ghent, Belgium

full name / name of organization: 
Marta J. Lysik/Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin
contact email: 
marta.lysik.1@staff.hu-berlin.de

I am inviting 300-word (maximum) abstracts for a session titled "The Campus Novel as Equipment for Living." The sessionl will be organized within the framework of an international conference on “Rhe

CFP: Schuylkill Graduate Journal: (Re)Constituting Publics Book Reviews [UPDATE]

full name / name of organization: 
The Schuylkill Graduate Journal
contact email: 
skook@temple.edu

Call for Book Reviews for Schuylkill Graduate Journal: (Re)constituting Publics -- Special Issue

Schuylkill Graduate Journal, Temple University
Contact email: skook@temple.edu

CFP: 2013 International Conference: Migrants and Their Memories

full name / name of organization: 
Research Center for Humanities / National Sun Yat-sen University
contact email: 
chsc705@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

Scientists recently found that migration was a main factor that shaped human behavior (Don Jones, Nature News).

[UPDATE] International Conference on Contemporary English Studies: Society, Culture and Language March 6-8, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, Assam University & Forum for English Studies, Assam University
contact email: 
dipenduds@yahoo.co.in

Introduction:

Terrorism and Temporality (Abstracts due 15 March 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Todd Kuchta
contact email: 
todd.kuchta@wmich.edu

I invite proposals on the relation between terrorism and temporality for a special session at the 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago.

CFP: The 4th International Workshop on Wireless Networks and Multimedia (WNM-2013), Melbourne, Australia, 16-18 July, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Yulei Wu
contact email: 
wnm.melbourne.2013@gmail.com

Appologies if you received multiple copies of this WNM-2013 CFP.
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Renaissance of Roland Barthes April 25th-26th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Claire Sommers/CUNY Graduate Center
contact email: 
csommers@gc.cuny.edu

Speakers: Jonathan Culler, Diana Knight, Rosalind Krauss, D.A. Miller, and Lucy O’Meara

Retold, Resold, Transformed? Crime Fiction in the Global Era

full name / name of organization: 
University of Leeds’ Faculty of Arts and the Crime Studies Network
contact email: 
c.gregoriou@leeds.ac.uk

Retold, Resold, Transformed? Crime Fiction in the Global Era

Faculty of Arts, Leeds University, U.K.

17-18 September 2013

PLEASE NOTE THE REVISED DATE

UPDATE: edited collection: BUST CULTURE: THE GREAT RECESSION IN FICTION, FILM, AND TELEVISION (SEEKING REPLACEMENT ESSAY)

full name / name of organization: 
Kirk Boyle (UNC Asheville) and Daniel Mrozowski (Trinity College)
contact email: 
bustculture@gmail.com

Abstracts due Feb 4, 2013 (250-300 words; include contact info and short bio)
Final essay due in March 2013 (4,000-8,000 words)

Visualising the Rural (4th & 5th July2013)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Cumbria
contact email: 
katrin.joost@cumbria.ac.uk

Organised by staff of the photography department this conference aims to bring together theory and practice in rethinking rural space.

http://visualising-the-rural.blogspot.co.uk/

UPDATE: LURE Journal Deadline Extended to 2/1

full name / name of organization: 
Literary Undergraduate Research in English
contact email: 
lcrafton@westga.edu

LURe: Literary Undergraduate Research (A New Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship)
full name / name of organization:
LURe: Literary Undergraduate Research
contact email:
jblack6@my.westga.edu

[UPDATE] Shifting Boundaries/Crossing Cultures: the Politics, Process, and Performance of Collaboration, April 5 and 6, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The Graduate Theatre Syndicate and The Performance/Politics Humanities Institute Working Group, Co-Conveners Harmony Bench (Dance), Ryan Skinner (Ethnomusicology and AAAS), and Jennifer Schlueter (Theatre) at The Ohio State University
contact email: 
wilson.2428@osu.edu

The Graduate Theatre Syndicate and The Performance/Politics Humanities Institute Working Group, Co-Conveners Harmony Bench (Dance), Ryan Skinner (Ethnomusicology and AAAS), and Jennifer Schlueter (The

AVANCA | CINEMA 2013 - International Conference Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication - Deadline submission - 27 February

full name / name of organization: 
AVANCA | CINEMA 2013 - International Conference Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication
contact email: 
conferencia.avanca@gmail.com

AVANCA | CINEMA 2013
International Conference Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication

Date: 24 to 28 July, 2013
Place: Avanca – Portugal

Violence and Black Youth in Post-Civil Rights U.S. (Edited Collection)

full name / name of organization: 
Jennifer Griffiths/New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus
contact email: 
jgriff02@nyit.edu

Violence and Black Youth in Post-Civil Rights U.S.

[UPDATE] The Male Body in Medicine and Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Essay Collection ed. by Greta Depledge and Andrew Mangham
contact email: 
a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk

[UPDATE] Call for Papers: The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (ed. by Greta Depledge and Andrew Mangham)

Abstracts by 1 June 2013.

[Update] Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literary Regionalism EXTENDED DEADLINE

full name / name of organization: 
Robert Murray
contact email: 
rmurray@stac.edu

This panel, proposed for the 2013 American Literature Association convention in Boston, seeks papers that investigate the intersections between contemporary literary criticism about place and region a

Diasporic Subjectivity, Intimacy and Memory

full name / name of organization: 
Thomas Lacroix/Migrinter, University of Poitiers
contact email: 
thomas.lacroix@univ-poitiers.fr

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference
TITLE: “Diasporic Subjectivity, Intimacy and Memory”
CONFERENCE DATES: June 30-July 2, 2013
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: February 15, 2013

EAST-WEST CULTURAL PASSAGE CONFERENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL FAULKNER Sibiu, 31 May – 1 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
LUCIAN BLAGA UNIVERSITY of SIBIU, ROMANIA, THE DEPARTMENT OF ANGLO-AMERICAN AND GERMAN STUDIES and C. PETER MAGRATH RESEARCH CENTRE FOR CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
contact email: 
moni_cojocaru@yahoo.com

Half a century after William Faulkner’s demise, his inciting works and artistic example still continue to challenge misconceptions and misappropriations.

[UPDATE] Word Hoard, Issue 2, Final Reminder, Jan 15 Deadline

full name / name of organization: 
The Word Hoard
contact email: 
wordhoard.editors@gmail.com

The Word Hoard, Issue 2

Call for Papers: The Unrecyclable

Final Reminder, January 15 submission deadline.

[UPDATE] CFP Extended Deadline - Endnotes 2013: ANONYMITY - UBC English Graduate Conference in Vancouver

full name / name of organization: 
Endnotes 2013 - University of British Columbia English Graduate Conference
contact email: 
endnotesconference@gmail.com

ENDNOTES 2013: Anonymity
UBC English Graduate Conference
Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
May 10 - 12, 2013

Keynotes: Larissa Lai (UBC) and Sneja Gunew (UBC)

ASA 2013 Panel: Slavery, Trafficking, and Criminalization; abstract deadline Jan. 19

full name / name of organization: 
Lyndsey Beutin / American Studies Assoc.
contact email: 
Lbeutin@asc.upenn.edu

ASA Panel, CFP: Slavery, Trafficking, and Criminalization

American Studies Annual Meeting, "Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent"
November 21-24, 2013, Washington, DC

Truer West: Western American Authenticity Ten Years On

full name / name of organization: 
Andrew Husband / Western Literature Association
contact email: 
andrew.husband@ttu.edu

Ten years after the publication of Nathaniel Lewis’ Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship, western, post-western, and critical regional studies still grapple with the problem of

[UPDATE]: Monstrous Spaces in Literature and Pedagogy -- March 9, 2013 (deadline extended)

full name / name of organization: 
St. John's University Graduate English Conference
contact email: 
STJ.EnglishConference.2013@gmail.com

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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Sicari

Geographies of Asian America (ALA May 23-26, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Circle for Asian American Literary Studies
contact email: 
jeehyun.lim@gmail.com

The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies invites submissions for two panels that reflect on the development and state of Asian American literature through the “geographies” of Asian America

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