cfp.english.upenn.edu

Proposals for papers are invited for a collection entitled Captivity / Writing / Unbound.

Due to interest in expanding the topic of our previously proposed collection, Doctor Who and the Written Word, we have decided to make the collection more inclusive.

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

Time travel as a plot device has been used frequently in television for a variety of reasons.

Extended Deadline: May 12th.

This panel welcomes papers on all things Woody Allen. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

1) Allen as Auteur: Artist versus Hollywood

This issue of Transformations seeks submissions from scholars in film and related fields concerning the ‘other’ Western.

Call for Papers 2013 Conference of   Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture
Association (MAP/ACA)

MAP/ACA War Studies Area

International Colloquium, « Form(s) of Diplomacy », 12-13 June 2014, Toulouse 2 Le Mirail University, France.

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

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

Metatheatrical Dimensions of Ontological Memories

The following CFP is for a panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association annual conference in San Diego on Nov 1-3rd, 2013.

An American Abroad: Woody Allen in Europe

As part of the International Beatles Conference taking place at Penn State Altoona campus, on February 7, 8, 9, 2014, proposals are invited for a panel exploring the cover art and record sleeve illust

Wunderkino (“wonder-cinema”) are moving images that ignite our curiosity and engagement and help us to rethink questions of creativity, complexity, rarity and the multiple uses and understandings

International Symposium at the University of Zurich,
29 November – 1 December 2013

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

Call for Papers - Symposium: Masculine and Feminine: Unsteady definitions - September 20, 2013
University of Toulouse – II Le Mirail, France

Essay Collection on the Films of Robert Downey Jr. UPDATE

Call for submissions: Essays for an edited collection on culture and The Big Bang Theory

World Picture Conference
November 8-9, 2013
University of Toronto

“Willing”

With keynote addresses by:

Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago)
&
Davide Panagia (Trent University)

University of Pittsburgh, October 18-19, 2013
Hosted by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization (FSGSO)
Deadline: June 14, 2013

If obsolescence is both a condition and consequence of media culture, how can we approach and articulate the relationship between oldness and newness, obsolescence and innovation, with regard to changes in cinematic form, technology, and scholarship? This conference reconsiders obsolescence as a strategic anachronism, focusing not only on technological formats but also on genres, critical approaches, and texts. To address the allure of the “now” which pervades approaches to everything from Blu-ray technology to Speculative Realism, we affirm the need to turn back in order to imagine what lies ahead.

The Society for Phenomenology and Media invites proposals for individual conference papers and three-person panels for its 16th Annual International Conference.

Call for Papers: A Collection of Essays on Christopher Nolan

Project Overview:

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E-rea (Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone) is seeking papers for a special volume to appear in the autumn of 2014.

“Global Shakespeare” is a trendy topic in early modern scholarship, but how can we best translate it into effective teaching?

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Why Semiotics”

The Semiotic Society of America
invites the submission of abstracts for presentation at its
38th Annual Meeting, to be held

Monday 17 June 2013, University of Oxford

Transforming Postgraduate Research: Engaging with the Digital World

The event will include keynote addresses by:

Deadline: 15 April 2013

Adaptation and Film (Popular Culture Session I
SAMLA Conference
November 8-10, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS
2013 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Micro versus Macro Literatures in English:

The international conference “Except Asia: Agamben’s Work in Transcultural Perspective,” to be held at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-27, 2013, is now open for regist