category: gender studies and sexuality

[UPDATE] “Refashioning America: Critiques, Narratives and Aesthetics of Transculturation,” November 1-2, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The American Studies Association of Korea
contact email: 
asakorea2013@gmail.com

(Proposal submission due extended to April 15)
The American Studies Association of Korea
The 48th International Conference

Place: Seoul, South Korea
Date: November 1-2, 2013

2nd Global Conference: Body Horror: Contagion, Mutation, Transformation (November 2013: Athens, Grrece)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
bh2@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
Body Horror: Contagion, Mutation, Transformation

Friday 1st November 2013 – Sunday 3rd November 2013
Athens, Greece

Call for Presentations

Native American Literature Session at the South Central MLA Conference New Orleans 10/3/2013 - 10/5/2013

full name / name of organization: 
South Central MLA - submission deadline: March 31, 2013
contact email: 
jkorsmo1@gsu.edu

South Central Modern Language Association is accepting 250-500 word abstract/proposals for its session on Native American Literature.

Echi Oltremare: Italy and the Mediterranean... Interactions and Intersections, (June 14-15, 2013 Rome, ITALY)

full name / name of organization: 
New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies
contact email: 
gspani@holycross.edu

Comparative and interdisciplinary analyses pertinent to Italian and Diasporic Studies are welcome and may encompass literature, film studies, Italian-American studies, history, art history, philosophy

THOUGHT CATALOG SEEKS EBOOK PROPOSALS -- DEADLINE MAY 17TH 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Thought Catalog
contact email: 
madison.moore@aya.yale.edu

Thought Catalog, a New York City-based media brand, welcomes

2nd Global Conference: Sport (November 2013: Athens, Greece)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
sport2@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
Sport

Friday 1st November 2013 – Sunday 3rd November 2013
Athens, Greece

Call for Presentations

Katherine Mansfield Society - Essay Prize 2013: Katherine Mansfield and World War One

full name / name of organization: 
Katherine Mansfield Society
contact email: 
kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its essay prize competition for 2013, open to all, on the subject of

Katherine Mansfield and World War One

Katherine Mansfield Studies: Katherine Mansfield and World War One

full name / name of organization: 
Katherine Mansfield Society
contact email: 
kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 6 OF

Katherine Mansfield Studies

(THE PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY)

on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and World War One

2013 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Micro versus Macro Literatures in English" Seoul, Korea (Nov. 7-9, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
ELLAK (The English Language and Literature Association of Korea)
contact email: 
conference@ellak.or.kr

2013 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Micro versus Macro Literatures in English: Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics of Distant Reading in Literatures, Cultures, Languages, and the Humanities”

UPDATE Crossing the Bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research

full name / name of organization: 
Jo Taylor, Keele University
contact email: 
j.e.taylor@keele.ac.uk, k.astbury@liverpool.ac.uk

*Apologies for cross-posting*

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “H.D. AND MODERNITY” Paris, France, 5-7 December 2013

full name / name of organization: 
ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE, Paris, France
contact email: 
clement.oudart@univ-tlse2.fr

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“H.D. AND MODERNITY”
Paris, France
5-7 December 2013

Organized by

Université Paris-Diderot,
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre,

Call for Papers: AULLA 2013: Worldmaking

full name / name of organization: 
Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA)
contact email: 
subscriptions@aulla.com.au

The theme of the 37th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) is ‘Worldmaking’.

FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE OF AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (2013 RMMLA- EXTENDED DEADLINE)

full name / name of organization: 
Marie Noussi/ RMMLA
contact email: 
mnoussi@linfield.edu

Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (2013 RMMLA Convention)

[UPDATE] Cognitive Approaches to Literature – PAMLA special session – Nov. 1-3 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
trueambe@msu.edu

Futures of Cognitive Approaches to Literature – PAMLA special session – Nov. 1-3 2013

Gender, Sexuality, and Power Student Research Conference (UPDATE)

full name / name of organization: 
Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities/ California State University, Los Angeles
contact email: 
rbatema@calstatela.edu

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES

Note: Abstract deadline extended to April 3rd!

Transnationalizing the Digital

full name / name of organization: 
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
contact email: 
banerjeesuchi@gmail.com

Digital media has created a counterspace in transnational feminism by creating virtual communities where solidarity can be forged and resisted.

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference Oct 10-12, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association--RMMLA
contact email: 
rmmla@rmmla.org

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association - RMMLA
Call for Papers Extended to APRIL 15, 2013!
Vancouver, Washington USA (Fly into Portland)
Convention Dates: October 10-12, 2013
www.rmmla.org

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: 
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

PAMLA in San Diego, 1-3 Nov 2013/"The Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d”

full name / name of organization: 
Alejandro Lee/Central Washington University
contact email: 
leealejandro@gmail.com

"The Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d”

Idle/Stasis: Call for Prose, Poetry, Art--due June 1

full name / name of organization: 
Transverse: A Comparative Studies Journal, Issue 13, University of Toronto
contact email: 
transversejournal@gmail.com

The twinned concepts of idle and stasis have recently been brought to the forefront of political conversations in Canada because of the Idle No More grassroots movement, which is one of the many manif

2nd Global Conference: Time, Space and the Body (September 2013: Oxford, United Kingdom)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
punish3@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
Time, Space and the Body

Sunday 1st September – Tuesday 3rd September 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Presentations

[Update]: Panel on Postfeminism and Popular Culture @ Midwest Popular Culture Conference, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 11-13, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Melissa Miles McCarter
contact email: 
melissa_miles@yahoo.com

Papers on any aspect of postfeminism and popular culture requested for a panel at the Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference to be held Oct. 11-13, 2013 in St.

Edited collection of essays on Flora Annie Steel

full name / name of organization: 
Susmita Roye, Delaware State University
contact email: 
sroye@desu.edu

‘The Star of India’: A Critical Anthology on Flora Annie Steel

[UPDATE] Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at SCMLA

full name / name of organization: 
South Central Modern Language Association
contact email: 
davisc@tamug.edu

We invite proposals on the topic of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities for presentation at the 70th annual South Central Modern Language Association conference at the Hotel Monteleone in New

Cracking the Ivory Tower, Abstract deadline: May 1

full name / name of organization: 
University of Pittsburgh
contact email: 
klp68@pitt.edu

The editors seek abstracts for essays sharing advice, unique stories or sage wisdom for graduate students at all levels.

Allegory Studies? (7 November 2013; proposals 31 May)

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

SAMLA: Queered Africa

full name / name of organization: 
Matthew Durkin/ Duquesne University
contact email: 
durkinm@duq.edu

Sylvia Tamale's recent anthology "African Sexualities: A Reader" encompasses various critical and creative attitudes towards and questions regarding non-normative sexualities throughout Africa.

The Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The international Academic Forum (IAFOR)
contact email: 
mediasia@iafor.org

The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2013, to be held in Osaka, Japan, f

[Reminder] Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2

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.

SAMLA 2013: (Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean (due May 31)

full name / name of organization: 
Kristine A. Wilson
contact email: 
wilson67@hotmail.com

2013 SAMLA CONFERENCE, NOV 8-10, ATLANTA

SPECIAL SESSION: "(Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean"

CFP: Bicycles / Bicycling in Literature and Culture, edited collection (proposals 8/1/13, essays 2/1/14)

full name / name of organization: 
Jeremy Withers and Daniel Shea, Editors of Collection on Bicycles in Literature and Culture
contact email: 
shead@apsu.edu and withers@iastate.edu

The American author Charles Morley once said: “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” As Morley’s quote suggests, many people have perceived an in

[UPDATE} 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

FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition

South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 70th Annual Convention

The Gothic Compass: New Directions in Scholarship and Inquiry. Abstracts due on 23 April.

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Professor Donna Lee Brien, Editors
contact email: 
lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz

The editors warmly seek abstracts for essays exploring ‘new directions’ in Gothic scholarship. Selected essays will appear in a collection to be published by an international academic publisher.

CFP: "Food Studies in the Hispanic World" PAMLA 2013 (Nov. 1-3)

full name / name of organization: 
Rebecca Ingram / University of San Diego
contact email: 
rei@sandiego.edu

This interdisciplinary panel explores the newly developing subfield of food studies within Peninsular and Latin American cultural studies.

CFP: Jewish Literature and Culture Session, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Nov 1-3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Amanda Sharick, PAMLA
contact email: 
amanda.sharick@email.ucr.edu

CFP: Jewish Literature and Culture Session, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) 2013

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