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category: gender studies and sexualityMapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives (deadline for abstracts: May 31st)full name / name of organization: American Studies Center, University of Bucharest contact email: mihaela.precup@americanstudies.ro, dmihailes@yahoo.com This is a CFP for a volume to be published by Dr. Roxana Oltean, Dr. Mihaela Precup, Dr.
Transitions and Transactions: Literature and Creative Writing Pedagogies in Community Colleges Conferencefull name / name of organization: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Department of English contact email: mbarrow@bmcc.cuny.edu or msteinkoler@bmcc.cuny.edu Pedagogy as an essential part of the learning and teaching culture has an ever more important place in community colleges where we continually rethink and revise our practices for our often non-tradit
Children's Literature Panel (PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA, November 1-3, 2013)full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association contact email: laurenbenard@hotmail.com The academic interest in children's literature has been growing in popularity. Why do these stories interest a young audience as well as adults? Why are new versions of old stories still interesting?
ATHE Theatre History Focus Group Debut Panelfull name / name of organization: American Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Theatre History Focus Group) contact email: charlotte.mcivor@nuigalway.ie ATHE Theatre History Focus Group
MLA 2014 -- Cognitive Approaches to Literature Division -- Call for Papersfull name / name of organization: Julien J. Simon contact email: jjsimon@iue.edu Call for Papers -- MLA 2014, Chicago PANEL 1
MPCA 11/11-13, Southern Lit. and Culturefull name / name of organization: Midwest Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association contact email: anne.canavan@gmail.com Call for Papers
[UPDATE]: "Deathless Love"full name / name of organization: Association of Carolina Emerging Scholars contact email: cescon@mailbox.sc.edu *Please note that the abstract deadline has been extended to March 15.*
Critiquing Culture: The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference at George Mason University 9/21/2013full name / name of organization: Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee contact email: critiquing.culture@gmail.com The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) at George Mason University invites paper proposals for our 8th annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference.
CFP: FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition [SCMLA New Orleans 10/3/13-10/5/13]full name / name of organization: Thomas W. Reynolds, Jr., Northwestern State University contact email: reynoldst@nsula.edu CFP: FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 70th Annual Convention
[UPDATE] Sound-Effects: The Object Voice in Fictionfull name / name of organization: Jorge Sacido contact email: jorge.sacido@usc.es CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2013)full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association contact email: smacdon8@kent.edu This panel is designed to examine ideas of childhood based on the life writing of working class people. How is child labor/schooling discussed in life writing from working class individuals?
[UPDATE] Emerging Perspectives graduate conference. May 2-3, 2013.full name / name of organization: UCD English Graduate Society contact email: enggrad@ucdconnect.ie May 2-3, 2013 at University College Dublin, Rep. of Ireland, in association with the UCD English Graduate Society and Humanities Institute
Panel on Film Noir and Neo-Noir, Abstracts due April 15thfull name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, 2013 Conference, Nov. 1-3 contact email: crolens@ucsd.edu Out of the Past, Into the Postmodern: From Film Noir to Neo-Noir
“Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts” [SAMLA Nov. 8-10] Abstracts by 6/7full name / name of organization: Lynne M. Simpson / College English Association contact email: lsimpson@presby.edu SAMLA 2013 Conference
Saints and Sinners: Postmodernism, Feminism and Medievalism in Literature in English [UPDATE]full name / name of organization: Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland contact email: kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl; bbronkk@gmail.com For LIES 2013, we still welcome papers about topics related but not limited to feminism, sainthood and medievalism in both contemporary and earlier literature in English as the wonderful SARAH SALIH w
Designing and Teaching Interdisciplinary Courses - RMMLA Conferencefull name / name of organization: RMMLA Conference, Vancouver, Washington, October 10-12, 2013 contact email: pichugin@sas.upenn.edu We invite presentations on any aspect of interdisciplinary teaching with focus on strategies for integrating multiple perspectives and approaches into a course while maintaining an overall sense of co
The Long Twentieth Century (1885-2008): Literature, Politics, Aestheticsfull name / name of organization: Goldsmiths, University of London contact email: c.sweeneyecl@gold.ac.uk The Long Twentieth Century(1885-2008):Literature,Politics, Aesthetics Department of English and Comparative Literature Goldsmiths, University of London
A Re-examination of Private Military and Security Companies - Abstracts due: April 1, 2013 - Papers due: July 8, 2013full name / name of organization: STAIR, Oxford University contact email: STAIRjournalPMSC@gmail.com CFP - A Re-examination of Private Military and Security Companies - STAIR - OXFORD UNIVERSITY Abstracts due: April 1, 2013
SUBURBS before the railway & the automobile - deadline 15 March 2013full name / name of organization: Kate Scarth, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick contact email: K.A.Scarth@warwick.ac.uk SUBURBS Keynote Speakers:
Solo Performances On and Off the Page (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013; Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA)full name / name of organization: Cathy Irwin/University of La Verne contact email: tirwin@laverne.edu This panel examines how the voice in solo performance (on the page, stage, internet, etc.) mediate what Judith Butler calls a shared vulnerability or precarity between self and other.
WCW Society at MLA 14: "New Directions in Williams Studies"full name / name of organization: Daniel E. Burke / William Carlos Williams Society contact email: daniel.e.burke@marquette.edu The Society is especially seeking contemporary approaches to the work of William Carlos Williams.
"Architecture and Literature: Reading the Room" (1-3 November, San Diego); Proposal Deadline: 15 Aprilfull name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) contact email: stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com Most literary works take place within the context of some sort of constructed space, e.g. a house, an office, a transit node, a place of worship, a place of performance.
Panel on "The Modernist Room," 29 Aug - 1 Sept, Brighton UK -- MSA conferencefull name / name of organization: Modernist Studies Association contact email: stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com According to Frederic Jameson, the Modernist novel abandoned the panoramic cityscapes of the 19th century realist novel and devised "strategies of inwardness." As Brigitte Munier suggests, the early-2
Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countriesfull name / name of organization: Black Camera contact email: delphine.letort@univ-lemans.fr Call for Papers: Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countries
Unity/Disunity: An Interdisciplinary Conferencefull name / name of organization: UCL (University College London) contact email: thoughtsforward@gmail.com Unity/Disunity: An Interdisciplinary Conference 27-28 June 2013 at UCL UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) “In union there is strength.” Aesop The conference organisers invite proposals for papers relating to the connected themes of unity and disunity from scholars across a wide spectrum of disciplines. We welcome papers dealing with historical as well as contemporary sources from Europe and beyond, from any disciplinary or inter- disciplinary perspective. Proposals for panel discussions, performances, artistic installations and workshops are also welcome. The aim of the conference is to interrogate the concepts of unity and disunity from a variety of perspectives. These perspectives might encompass the following, though other interpretations are of course gladly received:
Ozarks Studies Symposium September 19-21, 2013full name / name of organization: Leigh Adams / Missouri State University--West Plains contact email: leighadams@missouristate.edu The Ozarks Studies Committee of Missouri State University-West Plains seeks proposals for its seventh annual symposium.
Panel on "The Walking Dead," 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association contact email: ahowe@lasierra.edu "The Walking Dead" and the Reinvigoration of the Zombie Apocalypse
Gender and Early Modern Drama Panelfull name / name of organization: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association contact email: clarkeal@ucalgary.ca This session seeks papers relating to aspects of gender in early modern dramatic works.
[UPDATE] Violent Sympathiesfull name / name of organization: Rebeccah Bechtold contact email: rebeccah.bechtold@unco.edu In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith reminds us that sympathy for another must emerge from an act of imagination.
ENLIGHTENMENT CONSTELLATIONSfull name / name of organization: Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference contact email: contact@csecs-scedhs2013.ca dian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS)
[Update] Contemporary Rhetorical Theory - RMMLA 2013full name / name of organization: Rocky Mountain MLA contact email: thubbs2@lsu.edu This session seeks papers on any aspect of contemporary rhetorical theory.
[UPDATE] Atwood's Latest Work Roundtable (MLA, CHICAGO, Jan. 2014)full name / name of organization: The Margaret Atwood Society contact email: kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu The ORYX AND CRAKE trilogy will be completed in October. We're proposing a roundtable discussion of the final book.
[UPDATE] Coming Home: Stony Brook University's 25th Annual English Department Graduate Conference--Rescheduled Date: March 16full name / name of organization: Graduate English Society, Stony Brook University, NY contact email: stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com Due to the weather in the northeast last week, 'Coming Home' has been rescheduled and will now be held on Saturday, March 16.
Modernism and the Queer Ordinary (MSA 15)full name / name of organization: Mary Wilson / Christopher Newport University contact email: mary.wilson[@]cnu.edu “Queer” has become a familiar modifier of “modernism,” to the point that Heather Love could argue in PMLA that “of all the forms of marginal modernism that have surfaced in the past couple o
CFP: 30th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association (June 26-29, 2013)full name / name of organization: The Sport Literature Association contact email: jlarance@westliberty.edu SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS SPORT LITERATURE ASSOCIATION June 26-29, 2013
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