category: ethnicity and national identity

UPDATE: Extended CFP Deadline PAMLA Conference (11/1-3, 2013, Bahia Resort, San Diego): Now May 12

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
svonkin@netzero.net

Forty approved sessions for the November 1-3, 2013 PAMLA Conference (at the Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California) have extended their paper proposal deadline until May 12.

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
sdyne1@gsu.edu

IRISH STUDIES at SAMLA- Nov. 8-10, 2013

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

SAMLA Conference 2013 (Nov. 8-10) Atlanta, GA- CFP: SLAVIC LITERATURE

full name / name of organization: 
Karen Rosneck / University of Wisconsin-Madison
contact email: 
krosneck@library.wisc.edu

Papers are welcome on any Slavic language, literature or culture, including film and comparative literature topics.

Circling Our Wagons: Reflections on Hip-Hop Landscape(s) Conference April 11-13 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Albany State University Department of English, Modern Languages, and Mass Communication.
contact email: 
andre.johnson@asurams.edu

In Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose argues that, “Hip Hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States.” Rose’s insight delves into the historical evolution of the genre

MELUS Conference (abstracts by Nov. 1, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the U.S.)
contact email: 
matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu

The 28th Annual MELUS Conference & The Ralph Ellison Centennial Symposium

March 6-9, 2014
Downtown Oklahoma City
Sponsored by Oklahoma City University

[UPDATE] PAMLA 2013: Deadline EXTENDED - Autobiography and Fiction in American Women's Writing

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA/SCSSAWW
contact email: 
lnicolesummers@gmail.com

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 12

Topic: Autobiography and Fiction in American Women’s Writing

[UPDATE] Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's Culture (New deadline 5/15/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Lisa Dusenberry, Children's Literature Discussion Circle, SAMLA
contact email: 
cldc.samla@gmail.com

Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's Culture

James Baldwin: Transatlantic Commuter Conference (Montpellier, France: June 5-7, 2014; abstracts due 9/15/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Universite Paul Valery
contact email: 
qmiller@suffolk.edu and claudine.raynaud@live.fr

James Baldwin, the most prominent African American author of the mid-twentieth century, left America in 1948 for Paris.

Early African American Children's Literature essay collection -- abstracts due 7/1/13

full name / name of organization: 
Katharine Capshaw Smith and Anna Mae Duane
contact email: 
capshaw@uconn.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Early African American Children’s Literature
An anthology of original essays

BARNOLIPI Interdisciplinary Online Journal

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

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

BARNOLIPI is an Interdisciplinary International Research Journal

Ethnicity, Femininity, and the History of Music

full name / name of organization: 
Garth Institute for Music Research and Performance
contact email: 
info@garthinstitute.org

The Garth Institute for Music Research and Performance will be hosting a seminar – Ethnicity, Femininity, and the History of Music – at the University of Michigan Hatcher Library Gallery September

[UPDATE] New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11in the Obama Era -- Proposals Due 5/31/2013

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Chairpersons
contact email: 
newessayson911@gmail.com

Chairpersons of the 2012-2014 SAMLA 9/11 and Literature special sessions seek high quality, previously unpublished submissions to supplement a strong collection of essays emerging from the 2012 and 20

Latin@ Studies in Transnational Contexts: Reading, Writing, and Living Lives on/in the Margins

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of American Studies in Turkey
contact email: 
jastlatina@gmail.com

Latin@ Studies in Transnational Contexts: Reading, Writing, and Living Lives on/in the Margins
Guest Editors: Christopher Rivera, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Debt: The Cultural and Material Logics of Owing/Owning

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Asian American Studies
contact email: 
jaasspecialissue@yahoo.com

Debt: The Cultural and Material Logics of Owing/Owning

Guest editors: Cynthia Wu and Kritika Agarwal

Special Forum--On Demand and Relevance: Transnational American Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (abstracts 5/30/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Transnational American Studies
contact email: 
demandandrelevance@gmail.com

Special Forum--"On Demand and Relevance: Transnational American Studies in the Middle East and North Africa"

Two- day Seminar on “Literature and Human Rights” on 7th & 8th August 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
contact email: 
drtmarx@gmail.com

Call for Submissions: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
contact email: 
renascence@marquette.edu

Renascence is a scholarly journal published by Marquette University.

Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World (Sweden, 2-4 April 2014; proposals due by 15 September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dalarna University, Sweden
contact email: 
transcult@du.se

Globalising processes have led, in recent decades, to critical re-evaluations of the ways in which ‘culture’ has traditionally been understood.

Poetry & Identity in Ethnic American Literature (Deadline for abstracts - May 31, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Sarah Chavez / Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA)
contact email: 
schavez@huskers.unl.edu

CFP: Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy

Topic: Poetry & Identity in Ethnic American Literature

Being Non/Human - abstract deadline: Friday 2nd August

full name / name of organization: 
King's College London
contact email: 
being.non.human@gmail.com

This is a call for papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers for a new interdisciplinary discussion group (starting in the upcoming academic year at King’s College London)

[UPDATE] PAMLA 2013 (Nov. 1-3) - World Literature in Theory and in Practice - Extended Deadline: May 12

full name / name of organization: 
William Arighi
contact email: 
warighi@uw.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED to May 12th

Alternative Visions in Media Conference (November 8-9, 2013; Proposals due July 19, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Dept. of Film, Television and Digital Media, TCU
contact email: 
k.hart@tcu.edu

We invite presentation proposals for the Alternative Visions in Media Conference, to be held at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas) November 8-9, 2013.

[UPDATE] New England ASA CFP Deadline extended one week (now 4/27)

full name / name of organization: 
New England American Studies Association
contact email: 
brailton@fitchburgstate.edu

Call for Papers
New England American Studies Association 2013 Conference
Mashantucket, Connecticut
Sept 27th – 28th

[UPDATE] CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conference

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

Contact and Connection: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium

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

“Contact and Connection”: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium
Thursday 27th June 2013, University of Warwick

Keynote speakers:

[UPDATE] Twentieth Century Studies Midwest PCA ACA St. Louis 11-13 October 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture American Culture Association
contact email: 
havenl@ohio.edu

Call for Papers
Twentieth-Century Studies
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference
2013

Friday – Sunday, October 11-13, 2013, St. Louis, MO

Call for Abstracts/Papers: Expanding the Criticism of Alice Walker's Short Fiction and Non-Fiction Works

full name / name of organization: 
Christopher Allen Varlack, Morgan State University
contact email: 
chvar1@morgan.edu

Most noted for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, Alice Walker has cemented her place in American literature, capturing the struggles and journeys of African-American men and women th

Uncommon Wealths: Riches and Realities - 15th Triennial Conference of EACLALS

full name / name of organization: 
Conference Convenor: Helga Ramsey-Kurz
contact email: 
uncommonwealths2014@gmail.com

UNCOMMON WEALTHS: RICHES AND REALITIES
Innsbruck, Austria: 14-18 April 2014

HOMEPAGE: www.uncommonwealthseaclals2014@gmail.com

Call for Papers 30th June 2013. Metatheatrical Dimensions of Ontological Memories

full name / name of organization: 
Aju Aravind/
contact email: 
aaravind13@gmail.com

Metatheatrical Dimensions of Ontological Memories

FILM HISTORY (journal) - ongoing submissions

full name / name of organization: 
Film History
contact email: 
filmhist@indiana.edu

Election is coming... To vote or not to vote?

full name / name of organization: 
Inter Alia / www.interaliaproject.com
contact email: 
epelections@interaliaproject.com

Election is coming... To vote or not to vote?

Extended Deadline: Reading Across and Between: Transnational and Trans-Indigenous Aesthetics

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA 2013 San Diego, November 1-3, 2013
contact email: 
gillis@berkeley.edu

Reading Across and Between: Transnational and Trans-Indigenous Aesthetics

Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire: Race, Place, Taste and the Colonial Context. 27-28 June, Brisbane, Australia, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
ATCH Research Centre, School of Architecture, University of Queensland
contact email: 
d.vanderplaat@uq.edu.au

Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire: Race, Place, Taste and the Colonial Context.
27-28 June, Brisbane, 2013.
Abstract Deadline: 10 May 2013

Blackness Without Race: Essays on the Subversion of Race by Way of Blackness in Literature, Media, and Culture (January 15, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Jennifer E. Henton, Hofstra University Department of English
contact email: 
Jennifer.Henton@hofstra.edu

Blackness Without Race: Essays on the Subversion of Race by Way of Blackness in Literature, Media, and Culture

Romantic Lacunae: Silences, Gaps, and Empty Spaces, 2 Aug 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Queen's University Belfast, UK
contact email: 
romanticlacunae@gmail.com

We invite paper and panel proposals on topics related to silences, disjunctions, and absences in Romantic-era texts, for a one-day conference hosted by the School of English and the Centre for Eightee

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