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“I am all for putting new wine in old
bottles, especially if the pressure of the new one
makes the old bottles explode”
Angela Carter
“Notes from the Front Line”
24, 25 & 26 June 2020 (Le Mans University, France)
WAR MEMORIES (2020)
Sharing War Memories – From the Military to the Civilian
International Conference initiated by Professor Renée Dickason (Université Rennes 2), Professor Stéphanie Bélanger (Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario) and Professor Delphine Letort (Le Mans Université)
https://warmem2020.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/CFP_warmem_2020_EN.pdf
This is a one-time special area for the 2020 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference.
Conference is in Albquerque, New Mexico, February 19-22, 2020.
The Area Chair for Good Omens welcomes and considers any and all proposals related to the book, the series, or both. Proposals are especially encouraged on the following topics:
This panel examines the teaching of college writing, rhetoric, and composition in the digital age by exploring rhetorical situations, genres, and technologies in both the professional and academic realms, with particular attention to digital rhetoric, pedagogy, information and media literacy, and literary and cultural studies. This panel engages deeply with NeMLA’s conference theme of “shared spaces and places” online and in the classroom, and focuses on the cutting-edge of “shaping languages and cultures” in the digital sphere.
ACCUTE 2020 (May 30-June 2) - Member Organized Panel
“This Book is Trash!”: Genres and Forms of Disposability, Ephemerality, and Disintegration
Panel Organizer: Kelly McDevitt (kelly.mcdevitt@queensu.ca)
We are honored to announce the 9th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture and Crossroads III Conference. This combined conference is organized jointly by the University of Białystok (Poland) and Çankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) on June 4-5, 2020 in Białystok, Poland, and the topical theme of the conference will be “Risk and Safety” in different areas of human sciences.
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Gerd Bayer, Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg
Dr. Anna Barcz, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich
ACCUTE Member-Organized Panel: Fangs, Claws, and Pariahs: Victorians vs. the Creature
Panel Organizers: Alicia Alves (16apa@queensu.ca), Lin Young (l.young@queensu.ca), and Alyce Soulodre (17as43@queensu.ca)
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, May 30-June 5, 2020
Biofiction (literature that takes a real biography as its point of departure) is powered by what Colm Tóibín has recently called “the anchored imagination”, which grants the fictional narrative a certain ambiguous (almost duplicitous) credibility. But what do biographical novels mean as world-making vehicles? Is the recent boom in stories that rely on the real past, yet project contemporary visions upon it, only a sign that we are trying to build a coherent world-image of centuries past, or is it also an attempt to bring into being a new way of seeing and/or being in the present?
This panel will broach the topic of shaping a poetic identity through the prism of a traumatic experience of displacement. How does the poet present a disturbing personal history on the page? Coming from one place and being forcibly moved to another also involves confronting a different language and culture: how is such an occurrence translated to the page? Is poetry a space where cultures and languages clash with one another, or does the expression effect a reconciliation? How does this potential blend of languages and cultural references (including code-switching and code-mixing) inscribe a troubled identity, trying to reconstitute oneself via a poetic text?
Masculinity—that hard to define notion of “being a man” or “acting like a man”—is largely understood through cultural expectations and images of masculine performance. Masculinity can seem nebulous, but literary and popular cultural representations of the idea help to solidify it both as a concept and as an identity. Westerns, noir, thrillers, war narratives, working class narratives, and even apocalyptic films and novels have shaped our definitions not only of what it means to be a man, or to be masculine, but indeed what it means to be American.