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Jacques’ proclamation that ‘all the world’s a stage’ has proved prophetic in ways he could not have foreseen.

This conference focuses on the influence of cultural ‘legacies’ within current humanities research.

Exploring British Film and Television Stardom Conference
Saturday, 2 November 2013 at Queen Mary, University of London
Supported by Living British Cinema

In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Ohio University School of Interdisciplinary will hold an international conference on the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary arts.

This call for papers invites submissions on the subject of ‘Death and Decay’ for the third edition of HARTS & Minds, an online postgraduate journal for students of the Humanities and Arts, which i

Is there room for earnestness and authenticity in contemporary media?

The San Joaquin Valley Journal is seeking articles for its fourth issue.

The Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television seeks article-length manuscripts for a planned special issue on Science Fiction (and) Anime.
 

Digital America is a new online journal venture from the University of Richmond that seeks to publish exceptional student work.

2013 Call for Papers

Fifth Annual State of Black Writers Symposium
Activism in the 21st Century

Open Issues

Contact: Reconstruction Submissions Editor

We are continually accepting submissions for upcoming Open Issues, and can promise a prompt reply.

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

Bullying has been a hot topic in recent years in terms of education, social media, and garnering awareness and protection of all persons from bullying.

We use ‘genocide’ and ‘atrocity’– words that overlap and mix – as we reach for an understanding of the full horror of one people’s attempts to eliminate another.

Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2013
Keynote Speaker: Kriss Ravetto, UC Davis, Cinema and Technocultural Studies
Submission Deadline: June 28, 2013

In ancient Greece, the Pythagoreans worshipped perfect numbers and turned them into musical scales.

A SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO A NEW FIELD
SCHOLARS & ACTIVISTS: CALL FOR PAPERS, ART, VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, AND NARRATIVES

“Eco-Ability: The Intersection of Earth, Animal, and Dis-Ability”

When Roland Barthes suggests that "the ideal drink would be rich in metonymies of all kinds," he might well have been speaking of cocktails and the drinking cultures they have helped to create.

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

Deadline extended till 15 June, 2013 for the Special Issue on Performance Studies

We seek presentations and papers on a range of topics that apply a historical lens to media literacy as a field, a movement, or a set of educational practices.

From Beverley Hills 90210 to Gossip Girl and Glee, the genre of the teen drama series has added a unique and multi-faceted dynamic to the American television landscape.

Bodies in Place: Disability and the Environment in American Literature

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

The American Literature II panel (permanent section) seeks papers on representations of advertising, marketing, and/or public relations in American novels, plays, poems, or films from 1870-present.

April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Proposed Panel for the American Literature Association Symposium “War and American Literature” October 10-12, 2013, New Orleans, LA

How does Shakespeare’s cultural capital influence the discourses of girlhood?

During the last years, Gothic Literature has just begun to be accepted as a literary field worth of study among Mexican scholars.

Call for papers:

First International Conference in Film Studies

Tbilisi, Georgia, November 1-3, 2013

How is blackness performed or appropriated in literature, film or theater in the twenty-first century? Is blackness being redefined? How so?

The past two decades have witnessed a large increase in academic interest in all visual phenomena, including those strictly visual – from painting and film to experimental video and multimedia insta

Invisible Circus
An International Conference on the work of Jennifer Egan
21st and 22nd March 2014
School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London
Sponsored by the Centre of Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck, University of London

Response and Q&A: Jennifer Egan
Keynote speaker: Dr Stephen J Burn (Northern Michigan University)
Q&A chair: Professor Sarah Churchwell (UEA)

Papers are invited for the first academic conference dedicated to the writing of Jennifer Egan.

Keynote Speakers :
Prof. Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University of Notre-Dame)
Prof. Harry White (University College Dublin)
Prof. Luke Gibbons (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

FRAGILE FUTURES

A Special Issue of The English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, Issue 31.2, October 2014
Guest editor, Marc Botha (Durham and Pretoria)

The function of the eye that spies on us all apparently has never been benevolent, be it a tangible eye, an intangible, or a technological one.