category: gender studies and sexuality

UPDATE/MAY 23RD 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Two-Year College Association - Northeast CONFERENCE
contact email: 
ibucchino@bergen.edu,

TYCA-NE 2013 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

October 3-5, 2013

Hyatt Morristown / Morristown, NJ

Program by Bergen Community College

UPDATE: New deadline June 15 for Rebecca West: Celebrity, Publicity, Memory

full name / name of organization: 
International Rebecca West Society
contact email: 
anorton@anselm.edu

Rebecca West: Celebrity, Publicity, Memory
New York University, September 21-22, 2013

Victorian Saints and Sinners NeMLA Apr. 3-6th, 2014 submission deadline Sept. 30, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: 
annabrecke@my.uri.edu

The figure of the prostitute is more than an emblem for mid Victorian religious, social, and sanitary reform; she is emblematic of challenges to the domestic narrative of a morally centered middle cla

[UPDATE] Shaping Indian Diaspora edited volume (Abstracts 15th June 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Cristina M. Gamez-Fernandez and Veena Dwivedi
contact email: 
cristina.gamez@uco.es, dwivediveena81@gmail.com

The Indian diaspora is the largest within the Asian diaspora as the Indian community scattered around the world is over 25 million.

Friendly Fire: Renaissance Humanists’ Critiques of Renaissance Humanism

full name / name of organization: 
RSA 2014, New York 27-29 March
contact email: 
klecky@astate.edu

The clarion call of “Humanities Under Attack!” is by now an academic commonplace.

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] The Marginalised Mainstream: Fading and Emerging NEW DEADLINE

full name / name of organization: 
Marginalised Mainstream
contact email: 
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com

Second Annual Marginalised Mainstream Conference: Fading and

Short Story at MMLA 2013

full name / name of organization: 
MMLA
contact email: 
katy.leedy@marquette.edu

This session welcomes critical papers on the short story for the annual MMLA convention. Proposals may be related to the conference theme of Art & Artifice, but it is not necessary.

Assimilation & Vice in American Literature, NeMLA Convention, Harrisburg, PA (April 3-6, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
Francisco.Delgado@stonybrook.edu

We typically think and speak of assimilation not only as a process that results in cultural hybridity but as a process accomplished through hard work and sacrifice.

Groundbreaking Approaches in Television (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 proposals pertaining to groundbreaking approaches in television, for presentation in a special series of panels at the Alternative Visions in Media Conference, to be held at Texas Christian

Intersections and Assemblages: Genders and Sexualities Across Cultures, April 4-5, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Associated Colleges of the South, and Furman University
contact email: 
wgsconf2014@furman.edu

Intersections and Assemblages: Genders and Sexualities Across Cultures
The 10th Biennial Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Women’s and Gender Studies Conference, April 4-5, 2014

Defining Stages in Women's Lives--Edited Volume

full name / name of organization: 
Florence R Jurney and Karen McPherson
contact email: 
fjurney@gettysburg.edu and ksmpher@uoregon.edu

Since the emergence of women’s studies in the late 1960s, many books, articles and edited volumes have addressed and analyzed literary depictions of women’s life experiences.

Reconsidering Sigourney: Essays on Lydia Sigourney (edited collection)

full name / name of organization: 
Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth Petrino
contact email: 
epetrino@fairfield.edu or mkete@uvm.edu

The co-editors seek essays that showcase the breadth and vigor of the new scholarship on Lydia Sigourney.

CFP: Arrested Development edited collection

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Kristin M. Barton
contact email: 
kmbarton@daltonstate.edu

Over the course of its original three-year run on Fox, the television series Arrested Development quickly became a cult favorite and earned twenty-two Emmy nominations and six wins, including Outstand

CFP - What's Queer about Musical Theatre? Due Sept 30 - Panel at NeMLA in Harrisburg 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Christopher Culp/Panel at NeMLA conference in Harrisburg 2014
contact email: 
cmculp@buffalo.edu

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

[UPDATE] “Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts” SAMLA Nov. 8-10 Abstracts by 6/7

full name / name of organization: 
Lynne M. Simpson, College English Association
contact email: 
lsimpson@presby.edu

SAMLA Convention 2013
November 8-10, 2012
Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia 2013

“Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts”

“Making Feminist Meanings Across Worlds: Print, Digital, and Networked Feminisms and Women’s Studies”

full name / name of organization: 
David Magill / SAMLA
contact email: 
magillde@longwood.edu

In keeping with the theme of this year’s conference, “Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds,” the Women’s Studies regular session invites p

From Science to Sensation: Art and Artifice in Wilkie Collins

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association (November 7-10 2013)
contact email: 
erika.behrisch.elce@rmc.ca

From Science to Sensation: Art and Artifice in Wilkie Collins (MMLA November 7-10 2013)

Trickster: (Re-)constructing the World from its Edges (NeMLA 2014, April 3-6)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Modern Language Association
contact email: 
madlochj@mail.montclair.edu

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

Re-Orienting Disability, Seminar at New Chaucer Society, 16-14 July 2014 (proposals due Jun 1)

full name / name of organization: 
New Chaucer Society
contact email: 
jhsy@gwu.edu

Here is the CFP for “Re-Orienting Disability” at next summer’s New Chaucer Society conference in Reykjavík, organized by Jonathan Hsy and Julie Orlemanski.

Atwood's Apocalyptic Visions (8/1/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Karma Waltonen
contact email: 
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu

Cambridge Scholars Publishing has expressed interest in a collection on Margaret Atwood and the theme of the apocalypse (though the collection is not yet under contract).

Arrested Development (7/15/13 for PCA/ACA, Chicago, April 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Karma Waltonen
contact email: 
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu

I am seeking panelists for a proposed session on Arrested Development at the 2014 PCA/ACA Conference in Chicago (April 16-19). Final approval for the panel will come from the TV area chair.

Special Issue: Feminisms, Academia, Austerity

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Gender Studies
contact email: 
helen.davies@tees.ac.uk

JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES
Special Issue 2014: Call for Papers

‘Feminisms, Academia, Austerity’
Guest Editors: Helen Davies and Claire O’Callaghan
(JGS Editor: Blu Tirohl)

[UPDATE: Deadline Approaching]

full name / name of organization: 
Lindsay Palmer/ UC Santa Barbara
contact email: 
submissions@mediafieldsjournal.org

CFP: Media Spaces of Gender and Sexuality
Media Fields Journal
University of California, Santa Barbara

New Beginnings: Empowering Teen Girls, Deadline for Submissions is July 10th

full name / name of organization: 
MissHeard Magazine
contact email: 
submissions@missheardmagazine.com

MissHeard Magazine is a online magazine geared towards empowering teen girls. This is a start-up submission based publication, so there is a great need for writing from both adults and young women.

Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium November 17-20 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Holli Levitsky and Ezra Cappell, co-organizers
contact email: 
hlevitsk@lmu.edu, ecappell@utep.edu

Call for Papers
2013 American Literature Association's Jewish American & Holocaust Literature Symposium

Adoption: Crossing Boundaries, March 27-30 (due July 15); Florida State Univ.

full name / name of organization: 
Eric Walker/ Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
contact email: 
asac2014@fsu.edu or ewalker@fsu.edu

Call for Proposals

Common Ground, Conference Date October 25,2013, Proposals due October 5, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Michigan College English Association
contact email: 
edemerly@aol.com

http://www.michcea.com
Call for Papers: MCEA Conference, Friday, October 25, 2013
Theme: Common Ground

Luncheon Speakers: Artist David Small & Writer Sarah Stewart

Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: NEMLA 2014, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; April 3-6

full name / name of organization: 
Kathleen Alves/CUNY
contact email: 
kalves@qcc.cuny.edu

Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century

Re-Imagining Communities and Civil Society Conference [UPDATE: Deadline Extended]

full name / name of organization: 
University of Guelph
contact email: 
gyovanov@uoguelph.ca

The aim of this conference is to explore what role social movements, artists, intellectuals, writers, cultural institutions and others play in shaping our ideas of community, civil society and the con

[UPDATE] Keynote Speaker Jasbir Puar - 'Containers' Graduate Student Conference, 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

C21 Literature Journal: Twenty First Century Genre

full name / name of organization: 
C21 Literature (international peer reviewed journal)
contact email: 
K.Shaw@brighton.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS
C21 LITERATURE: ISSUE THREE AUTUMN 2014: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GENRE

[REMINDER] Allegory Studies? (abstracts deadline 31 May)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Warwick
contact email: 
v.brljak@warwick.ac.uk

LiNQ Special Journal Issue "Capture" calls for papers and writing, closing July 31, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
LiNQ Literature and Literary Studies Journal
contact email: 
ariella.vanluyn@jcu.edu.au

www.linq.org.au

Smart, Sincere, and Quirky Auteurs – SAMLA (Atlanta, 11/8 to 11/10)

full name / name of organization: 
Pete Kunze (Louisiana State University)
contact email: 
pkunze@lsu.edu

I seek papers for a panel on auteurship in recent Hollywood cinema, especially films that have alternately been called the “New Sincerity” (Collins), “smart” (Sconce), “Mumblecore” (Masuna

*Pride and Prejudice* at 200

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA
contact email: 
lnklap@gmail.com

Call for Papers

"*Pride and Prejudice* at 200"

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

April 3-6, 2014

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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