cfp.english.upenn.edu

Video games are a space in which encounters are enacted on many different levels. There are encounters within the game’s narrative space; encounters at the interface of player and narrative; and encounters within the external gaming space (think two-player games). These encounters can also be broken down into player-computer and player-player encounters. This panel invites papers that explore these different spaces of encounter in video games.

When we encounter dolls as grown-ups, what is it that we are encountering? What might personal and cultural doll-identifications betray about relationships with the past, with gender and sexuality, with play, with tenderness and with terror? This panel invites submissions which reflect upon the sociocultural meaning of the doll as text, as artifact, or, more traditionally, as an enduring literary and filmic obsession.

This year’s (dis)junctions conference invites papers for a panel exploring the concept of “encountering” as it relates to issues of embodiment and sensory perception.

This year’s (dis)junctions conference at UCR invites papers that contribute to conversations around notions of “encountering,” with particular focus given to the operation of texts, understood a

The Journal of Victorian Culture is pleased to announce the 2013 JVC Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition.

How do writers represent the work of being women—where “work” is defined broadly to encompass not only paid labor inside and outside the home, but also the work of performing femininity and dome

Euroacademia cordially invites you to
The Euroacademia International Conference
‘Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities’ to be held in Zagreb, Croatia

Euroacademia cordially invites you to
The Third Global Conference
‘Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeaness Exposed to Plural Observers’ to be held in Prague, Czech Republic

The Public Heritage Institute (PHI) at Regis College invites proposals for papers and panels that address the topic of “Women, Religion, and Empowerment.” The conference will be held on the campu

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

ROUNDTABLE Participants SEARCH: Scholarship Blogging: What? How? Why???

SACRPH, The Society for American City and Regional Planning History
National Conference, Toronto, Ontario

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.

On January 31st 2013, we start the CFP for the tenth issue of 452ºF Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, to be published in January 2014.

This conference is part of a larger research project, focusing on societies, exchanges and power in the Americas and the Asia / Pacific region, as well as questions of identity representation on an in

PUBLISHER
Anti-Oedipus Press (anti-oedipuspress.blogspot.com)

EDITORS
D. Harlan Wilson
Bill Ectric

CONTACT EMAIL
billectric@aol.com

Recent approaches to African contemporary art often celebrate the advent of a global contemporary art scene in which they see an abolition of the provincialist and historicist concepts that were impos

Recent approaches to African contemporary art often celebrate the advent of a global contemporary art scene in which they see an abolition of the provincialist and historicist concepts that were impos

The University of Alberta Humanities Computing Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for its annual conference:

We are soliciting abstracts for essays that consider in one way or another representations of the city in steampunk.

Proposals are invited for the conference 'The Short Story and Short Story Collection in the Modernist Period: Between Theory and Practice', organised by the universities of Leuven, Gent and Perugia at

In her recent work on human-animal encounter, Donna Haraway asks us to consider ‘who “we” will become when species meet’.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Trans-(media): A graduate research conference June 6-7, 2013

The Cinema and Media Graduate Student Association of the Department of

The Qouch, an online publication of The Queer Psychoanalysis Society, is looking for short articles and digital media projects for an on-going series on “The Screen”.

We invite contributions for an upcoming volume of essays which examine the Victorian family through a queer lens.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION: IRFD South-South Exchange
// A Parallel Event to the 57th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and Online Virtual Forum //

Proposed Special Session for the SCMLA Conference in New Orleans, October 3-5, 2013.

Second call for papers:

I invite proposals for a special session at the 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago (January 9-12, 2014).

Disrobing the Law in American Culture: A Graduate Conference

Keynote: Laura Edwards (Duke University)
Keynote: Sally Gordon (University of Pennsylvania)

May 2-3, 2013 at University College Dublin in association with the UCD English Graduate Society and Humanities Institute

Essays on Poe's work, life, and influence from all perspectives as well as original work influenced by Poe are welcome.

Project Overview:

The verb ‘capture’ implies both acts of preservation and of restraint.

The 10th Annual Miami University English Graduate Student and Adjunct Association (MEGAA) Symposium
In Conversation with the 2012-13 Altman Program:
The Human and the Non-Human