general announcements

Revista Liberia also is accepting submissions for its regular issue, which will published in spring 2018. This edition invites papers which take an interdisciplinary approach to studies of contemporary Hispanic literature, visual culture and history. In addition to critical essays, we are seeking interviews, creative pieces and book reviews.  Please send to ketz@lasalle.edu or jmgomez@iona.edu.

The Editorial Board of Acta Iassyensia Comparationis,an interdisciplinary biannual e-journal published by the Department of Comparative Literature of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, invites you to publish in AIC 21 (1/2018), devoted to the CREDINŢĂ ŞI TRĂDARE  / FAITH AND TREASON / FOI ET TRAHISONtheme. Our invitation addresses first and foremost the (world & comparative) literature specialists, but we also welcome contributions dealing with the announced theme signed by professionals from other humanistic fields.

The deadline for the submission of articles and book reviews is December 15, 2017.

SETC Theatre Symposium Volume 27

“Theatre and Embodiment”

DATES: April 13-15, 2018

LOCATION: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

At the heart of the theatrical act is the simultaneous live presence of the actor and the audience. Given primacy of bodies in and to the theatrical act, how do we understand those bodies as communicating meaning? How do bodies understand themselves as operating within the theatrical or performative context? The 2018 Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Theatre Symposium will focus on the interplay between theatre and embodiment. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

This panel reflects on the place of confusion in British and American modernism. Confusion has not been traditionally considered a proper scholarly response to textual analysis; critics are supposed to interpret a text rather than allow themselves to experience its uncertainties. What happens when we explore the confusion we feel when reading not as something to be worked through, but as something to be worked with? Building on affect theorists’ work on how our feelings can influence the way we read, such as Eve Sedgwick’s reparative reading and Rita Felski’s reflective and post-critical reading, how can considering confusion change both our experience of reading and our critical practices?

Encounters with Globalization in the 19th Century Seminar, Northeast MLA Annual ConventionApril 12-15, Pittsburgh, PA

Application Deadline: September 30, 2017

Conference Theme: "Global Spaces, Local Landscapes, and Imagined Worlds"

Seminar Description:

The 19th century saw the watershed expansion of political, economic, and cultural networks beyond national borders. The literature of this period strives to be both globalized and radically localized, revealing the fraught relationship between modern cosmopolitanism and the emergence of the modern nation-state.