category: gender studies and sexuality

NEPCA Conference - Comics & Graphic Novels Area

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
contact email: 
lance.eaton@gmail.com

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is pleased to issue a call for papers for its fall conference.

GENDER AND PEACE EDUCATION 30 TH MAY 2013

full name / name of organization: 
DR.LOKANATH MISHRA
contact email: 
peacemunu@gmail.com

For an Edited Book

Gender and Peace Education

Dear Sir/Madam,

MODERN POETRY AND BEYOND

full name / name of organization: 
Dr SUMAN JANA/ SCHOLARS’ CO_OPERATIVE
contact email: 
sumsum.2006@gmail.com

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

MODERN POETRY AND BEYOND
GUEST EDITORS :
Dr Amzed Hossain, Head, Dept of English, ALIAH UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA.

Fairy Tales Retold due 5/20/13

full name / name of organization: 
Christine Garbett
contact email: 
cnfairytales@gmail.com

The new millennium has born witness to a multitude of reinventions. Fairy tales also have been recreated in an ever increasing number in recent years.

Producing Public Memory: Museums, Memorials, and Archives as Sites for Teaching “Writing”

full name / name of organization: 
Jane Greer and Laurie Grobman, editors
contact email: 
leg8@psu.edu

We invite proposals from teachers, scholars, and researchers in composition, literacy, and rhetorical studies for an edited collection that investigates museums, memorials (permanent, temporary, and s

UPDATE - The Hockliffe Conference: Conflict in Children's and Young Adult Fiction - 6th September 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Clare Walsh and Nicola Darwood / University of Bedfordshire
contact email: 
hockliffe@beds.ac.uk

All children face conflict at some time in their lives and this conference explores the way in which this is represented in children's and young adult fiction.

Call For Papers - Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Cameroon English Language and Literature Association
contact email: 
journal@cella-cameroon.org

JELLiC: Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture is currently accepting manuscripts for publication in its next issue – July 2013.

Jacket2 Feature: Leslie Scalapino (deadline June 15, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Jacket2
contact email: 
etg@litmuspress.org, goldman.judith@gmail.com, cohenalicia@gmail.com

JACKET2 FEATURE: LESLIE SCALAPINO

Edited by Alicia Cohen, Judith Goldman & E. Tracy Grinnell

OPEN CALL

UPDATE: Contemporary Studies Area

full name / name of organization: 
MPCA/ACA
contact email: 
jhines7@knights.ucf.edu

Call for Papers:
Contemporary Studies
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel, A Doubletree by Hilton

Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements (cfp deadline June 17, 2013; Conference is March 27-29, 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
The Arcus Foundation and Emory University.
contact email: 
Whose.beloved.community@emory.edu

Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements
An international conference at Emory University, March 27-29, 2014

ACIS Midwest Regional Conference (Deadline: August 1, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
The American Conference for Irish Studies
contact email: 
acismidwest@gmail.com

The 37th annual ACIS Midwest Regional Conference in Iowa City (October 10-12, 2013) welcomes proposals for papers on any and all topics related to Irish studies – from new and existing ACIS members,

New Directions: African American Literature in the 21st Century

full name / name of organization: 
Wendy Rountree / North Carolina Central University
contact email: 
wrountree@nccu.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

"New Directions: African American Literature in the 21st Century"

UPDATE for 2013 MPCA/ACA Conference: Animation and Anime (May 15, 2013 deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
contact email: 
mgellis@kettering.edu

Call for Papers.

Literature and Physical Culture, April 10-11 2014

full name / name of organization: 
International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University
contact email: 
literatureandsport@hotmail.co.uk

Critical Information Graduate Student Conference, December 1, 2013- Proposals due 6/30/13

full name / name of organization: 
MFA program in Art Criticism & Writing at the School of Visual Arts, New York City
contact email: 
critical.information.sva@gmail.com

http://criticalinformationsva.com

Call for Submissions - Refereed Journal - Caribbean Vistas: Critiques of Caribbean Arts and Cultures

full name / name of organization: 
Caribbean Vistas: Critiques of Caribbean Arts and Cultures
contact email: 
akilahw@msn.com

CARIBBEAN VISTAS
CRITIQUES OF CARIBBEAN ARTS AND CULTURES
A Refereed Journal
Call for Submissions for Volume 1/Issue 2: Publication date - August/September 2013

Margaret Atwood Studies

full name / name of organization: 
The Margaret Atwood Society
contact email: 
kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu

Margaret Atwood Studies, the journal of The Margaret Atwood Society, invites submissions on a rolling basis from both members and nonmembers.

Disney Culture CFP: PAMLA Conference, Bahia Resort, San Diego, November 1-3, 2013 (May 12 proposal deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
svonkin@netzero.net

The "Disney Culture" session for the 2013 PAMLA Conference (Bahia Resort, San Diego, CA, November 1-3, 2013) is looking for paper proposals on various aspects of Disney culture:

Theme Parks

Imagining Alternatives: A Graduate Symposium on Speculative Fictions Oct 18-19, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Imagining Alternatives: A Graduate Symposium on Speculative Fictions
contact email: 
imaginingalternatives@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

Imagining Alternatives: A Graduate Symposium on Speculative Fictions

October 18-19, 2013

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Submission Deadline: August 23, 2013

Dr. Sarojini Sahoo: Trendsetter of Feminism

full name / name of organization: 
Authors Press, Delhi, India
contact email: 
prof.kvdominic@gmail.com

CALL FOR Submission
(Deadline: July 31, 2013)
Name of Book
Dr. Sarojini Sahoo: Trendsetter of Feminism
Edited by
K. V. Dominic
Published by
Authorspress, New Delhi

Caribbean Vistas Journal - Submissions to Volume 1.2 - Due June 30, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Caribbean Vistas Journal
contact email: 
akilahw@msn.com

Caribbean Vistas: Critiques of Caribbean Arts and Cultures
• Subject: Call for Submissions for Volume 1.2 (Summer 2013)

Reconstruction 13.1, How Did I Write That?

full name / name of organization: 
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
contact email: 
reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com

Announcing Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Issue 13.1 “How Did I Write That? Reflections on Singularity in the Creative Process”

edited by Alan Clinton and Angela Flury

Affection in Contemporary British Literature

full name / name of organization: 
David Tenenbaum/ Shaw University
contact email: 
dtenenbaum@shawu.edu

MLA Session topic "Affection in Martin Amis's Fiction" changed to "Affection in Contemporary British Literature." Issues may include the posthumanism, commodity fetishism and the social impact of mil

UPDATE: Extended CFP Deadline PAMLA Conference (11/1-3, 2013, Bahia Resort, San Diego): Now May 12

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
svonkin@netzero.net

Forty approved sessions for the November 1-3, 2013 PAMLA Conference (at the Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California) have extended their paper proposal deadline until May 12.

Female Reputation: Historical Recovery and Restitution

full name / name of organization: 
Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Helen Gaillet
contact email: 
lgaillet@gmail.com, hgaillet@gmail.com

Call for Essay Proposals

Book Proposal: Female Reputation: Historical Recovery and Restitution
Editors: Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Helen Gaillet

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

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

IRISH STUDIES at SAMLA- Nov. 8-10, 2013

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

SAMLA Conference 2013 (Nov. 8-10) Atlanta, GA- CFP: SLAVIC LITERATURE

full name / name of organization: 
Karen Rosneck / University of Wisconsin-Madison
contact email: 
krosneck@library.wisc.edu

Papers are welcome on any Slavic language, literature or culture, including film and comparative literature topics.

UPDATE: The Female Hero in Modern Fantasy Edited Collection -- Call for Chapters

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Lori Campbell/University of Pittsburgh
contact email: 
camenglish@verizon.net

UPDATE: I have received many innovative proposals so far, but several key authors I would like to see included remain unclaimed, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, J.K. Rowling, Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, and Suzanne Collins, among a few others. Also please note that depending on the submissions, I may expand the “Pathfinders” section to include Victorian fantasy (i.e., George MacDonald, William Morris, etc.) as an additional precursor to modern fantasy. There is also a strong possibility I will add a new section for “Fantasy on Film.” If you have an interest in any of these categories, or those below (see full CFP), please contact me at the email address provided.

Leonard Cohen Conference/Collection

full name / name of organization: 
Dr John Baker / University of Westminster
contact email: 
bakerj@westminster.ac.uk

Proposed presentations are sought for a one-day conference (and subsequent collection) on the art of Leonard Cohen at the University of Westminster in London, U.K. in December 2013.

Circling Our Wagons: Reflections on Hip-Hop Landscape(s) Conference April 11-13 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Albany State University Department of English, Modern Languages, and Mass Communication.
contact email: 
andre.johnson@asurams.edu

In Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose argues that, “Hip Hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States.” Rose’s insight delves into the historical evolution of the genre

[UPDATE] Shattering Releases: The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Erotic Fiction (Edited Collection)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Kristen Phillips, Claire Trevenen, Curtin University (Bentley, Western Australia)
contact email: 
k.phillips@curtin.edu.au; Claire.Trevenen@curtin.edu.au

[UPDATE] PAMLA 2013: Deadline EXTENDED - Autobiography and Fiction in American Women's Writing

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA/SCSSAWW
contact email: 
lnicolesummers@gmail.com

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 12

Topic: Autobiography and Fiction in American Women’s Writing

[UPDATE] Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's Culture (New deadline 5/15/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Lisa Dusenberry, Children's Literature Discussion Circle, SAMLA
contact email: 
cldc.samla@gmail.com

Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's Culture

AMERICAN MASCULINITIES - DUE JUNE 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The New York Metro American Studies Association
contact email: 
nymasamasculinities@gmail.com

The New York Metro American Studies Association's Annual Conference provides a dynamic forum for area scholars, while attracting presenters nationally.

James Baldwin: Transatlantic Commuter Conference (Montpellier, France: June 5-7, 2014; abstracts due 9/15/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Universite Paul Valery
contact email: 
qmiller@suffolk.edu and claudine.raynaud@live.fr

James Baldwin, the most prominent African American author of the mid-twentieth century, left America in 1948 for Paris.

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