category: ethnicity and national identity

Re-Examining Opacity in the Caribbean Context

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA 2014 Conference
contact email: 
pastm@dickinson.edu

Call for Papers

Re-Examining Opacity in the Caribbean Context

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in John Dos Passos’s Writing

full name / name of organization: 
John Dos Passos Society
contact email: 
Victoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com; jdpsociety@gmail.com

Like his modernist contemporaries, John Dos Passos engages themes of gender and sexuality.

UPDATE: Reinterpreting Carson McCullers (The 85th Annual SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Courtney George: The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University)
contact email: 
george_courtney2@columbusstate.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 1, 2013

Power and Solidarity: Representing Immigrants’ Speech in Hispanic literature, April 4-6, 2014, NeMLA Harrisburg

full name / name of organization: 
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino
contact email: 
galorenz@temple.edu

The session seeks to bring together interdisciplinary research across various disciplines including, but not limited to, anthropological, sociological, and discourse approaches to the literary text.

Gender, Identity and Sexuality for NEPCA conference; deadline June 10, 2013; conference 10/25-26

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Popular Culture Association
contact email: 
GagnonD@wcsu.edu

Currently soliciting paper proposals for the upcoming NEPCA conference at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, October 25/26, 2013.

SAMLA 85 Call for Papers. Deadline June 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
contact email: 
banerjeesuchi@gmail.com

Transnationalizing the Digital

[NeMLA 2014] Critical Feelings: Redefining Cultural Agency in Affect Theory

full name / name of organization: 
Tyler Bradway
contact email: 
tyler.bradway@gmail.com

Conference: Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (2014)
Date: April 3-6, 2014
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013 ( LLL 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
International Center for Research and Development
contact email: 
info@theicrd.org

Language plays an important role in the modern society and represent diverse aspirations and needs ,cultures, traditions, and practices.

NeMLA 2014: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Context

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA 2014 (Northeast Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
tara.harney@uconn.edu

NeMLA 2014 cfp

Title: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Context

Culture Identity Diversity: The Challenge of Multicultural Classes

full name / name of organization: 
Daniela D'Eugenio - Graduate Center (CUNY)
contact email: 
ddeugenio@gc.cuny.edu

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
Deadline: September 30, 2013

[UPDATE]"Past Tense, Future Tensions" SCLA Conference Oct. 18-19, 2013 (abstract deadline extended)

full name / name of organization: 
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
contact email: 
sclaconference@guilford.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Abstracts due 6/1/13.

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

full name / name of organization: 
Edinburgh University Press
contact email: 
Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com

From Escape in the Fog (1945) to Ride Lonesome (1959), among many other titles, few filmmakers created as unique a body of work in the United States as Budd Boetticher (1916-2001), but few directors h

ReFocus: Announcing a New Series of Film/American Studies Anthologies

full name / name of organization: 
Edinburgh University Press
contact email: 
Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com ; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com

In 2015, the University of Edinburgh Press will launch a multivolume series of scholarly, refereed anthologies entitled ReFocus.

International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013

full name / name of organization: 
International Center for Research and Development
contact email: 
info@theicrd.org

Language plays an important role in the modern society and represent diverse aspirations and needs ,cultures, traditions, and practices.

Positively Papist: Catholic Culture and Renaissance England

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA 85 Conference: Cultures, Contexts, Texts, Images: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds
contact email: 
c_romane@uncg.edu

Pamphleteers, clergymen, and political officials demonized recusant Catholics in Renaissance England, but early modern English culture is inextricable from the influences of the medieval Catholicism f

[UPDATE] CFP Four Nations Fiction: Women and the Novel 1780-1830 - Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
contact email: 
e.edwards@wales.ac.uk

In Blackwood’s Magazine in September 1819, John Wilson reflected on the towering fame of three contemporary women poets in the following terms: ‘Scotland has her Baillie – Ireland her Tighe –

[Update] Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Lan Dong
contact email: 
ldong4@uis.edu

Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture

Intersecting Gender - 22nd - 23rd November 2013, Queen's University Belfast

full name / name of organization: 
Sibéal Postgraduate Gender and Feminist Studies Network
contact email: 
sibealbelfast@gmail.com

The idea of intersectionality in the field of feminist and gender studies has increasingly been used to facilitate deeper understandings of contemporary gendered identity and experience.

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

full name / name of organization: 
University of Sheffield
contact email: 
john.miller@sheffield.ac.uk

Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

Edited by Robert McKay & John Miller (University of Sheffield, UK)

Call for Abstracts/Book:"A Practical Guide to Prepare Graduate Students of Color for their First Job in Academia"

full name / name of organization: 
Dwayne Mack and Elwood Watson
contact email: 
dwayne_mack@berea.edu

[May 12th Deadline] Constructing a "New" America: The United States in the 1930s

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA Special Session (Nov 1-3) in San Diego
contact email: 
p6gonzal@ucsd.edu

Constructing a "New" America: The United States in the 1930s seeks proposals that examine constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and/or space in the literary or visual vulture of the inter-war yea

Italian-American Identity Politics, New Orleans, Oct. 3-5, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Italian-American Identity Politics
contact email: 
iasa2013conf@italianamericanstudies.net

Italian American Studies Association
2013 Conference
Call for Papers

Italian-American Identity Politics

New Orleans Marriott
October 3-5, 2013

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations - Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

full name / name of organization: 
Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra
contact email: 
parichay.patra@gmail.com

Book Proposal

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations
Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra

[UPDATE] L.M. Montgomery and War (26–29 June 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
L.M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island
contact email: 
ben@roomofbensown.net

Please note that the deadline for submissions is now 15 June 2013

Translation and Transcendence conference: 25-26 October, 2013, Toronto

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Horizons journal
contact email: 
editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca

Modern Horizons CFP – Translation and Transcendence

trans* : Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference, Keynote José Muñoz, October 18, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
contact email: 
tuftsgradhumanitiesconference@gmail.com

Call for Papers

3rd Annual Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
Tufts University
October 18, 2013
Keynote: José Muñoz

trans*

Immigration, Authenticity, and Artifice (Special Session of the M/MLA, Nov. 7-10, 2013; abstracts due 6/14/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
kepitt@uwm.edu

How do representations and discourses of immigration draw upon or undermine conceptions of authenticity and artifice?

cfp: symposium The Everyday Production of Presence (‏Deadline: 5/25/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Epp Annus/Nordic Summer University
contact email: 
epp.annus@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline 25 May, 2013):

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

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

"Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place"

"Containers" Graduate Sudent Conference in NYC, October 18th & 19th

full name / name of organization: 
Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University
contact email: 
catgradconf@gmail.com

Call for Papers
4th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Cultural Analysis and Theory Department

Stony Brook Manhattan

‘Bibliography in the Digital Age’ conference: Sydney, Australia, 20–22 November 2013 [CFP deadline 26 July]

full name / name of organization: 
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ)
contact email: 
mpatton@sl.nsw.gov.au

The annual conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand will be held at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 20–22 November 2013 on the theme of ‘Bibliography

The Shakespearean Performance Research Group of the American Society for Theatre Research, deadline June 3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The Shakespearean Performance Research Group of the American Society for Theatre Research
contact email: 
astr.sprg@gmail.com

Call For Papers, Deadline: Monday, June 3rd, 2013

The Shakespearean Performance Research Group
of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

Midwestern Culture Area - MPCA/ACA (Oct. 11-13)

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture and Midwest American Culture Association
contact email: 
bonnielmiller1980@gmail.com

Call for Papers

[Update] Native North American Literatures (PAMLA 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA 2013 (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
smayvill@ucsd.edu

EXTENED DEADLINE--MAY 12!!!

Black Sun: The Undercurrents of (Un)Popular Music [Call for Chapters]

full name / name of organization: 
Scott Wilson: Unitec Institute of Technology
contact email: 
swilson2@unitec.ac.nz

Black Metal / Neo-Folk / Industrial and Martial Industrial Music

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