category: general announcements

[UPDATE - deadline extended] 5th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference, September 20-21, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Louisiana Folklife Center / Northwestern State University of Louisiana
contact email: 
rasmussens@nsula.edu

 

Popular and Current Art Submissions and Criticism Wanted: Open Deadline

full name / name of organization: 
Anna Faktorovich, Ph.D./ Anaphora Literary Press
contact email: 
director@anaphoraliterary.com

While great works of literature were written in the 19th century and prior, we live today in an age with major problems and solutions in the realm of art and communication that should be addressed by

World Congress on Education (WCE-2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Infonomics Society
contact email: 
info@worldconedu.org

The WCE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the
advancement of the theory and practices in education. The WCE
promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and

QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking (SAMLA: 11/8-10/13)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) 2013 Conference, Atlanta, GA
contact email: 
eslcare@aol.com or smyrna@nova.edu

We live in a world of people who seemingly cannot stop talking! Oft times it presents a competition of who is able to attract the most attention.

The Films of Robert Rodriguez

full name / name of organization: 
Christopher Gonzalez
contact email: 
Chris.Gonzalez@tamuc.edu

Call For Papers: The Films of Robert Rodriguez

POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities invites submissions for a special issue on the Films of Robert Rodriguez.

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Apollon: eJournal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
contact email: 
apollonejournal@gmail.com

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

[UPDATE] Irish Gothic Conference 5-6 December, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Università degli Studi di Perugia / Università per Stranieri di Perugia
contact email: 
perugiairishgothic@gmail.com

Confirmed Speakers:

• Professor W. J. McCormack (Former Professor of Literary History at Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama [July 15, 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
contact email: 
breac.djis@gmail.com

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama

SAMLA Special Session on Creating or Expanding a BA Program in English During Uncertain Times (June 20th- Abstract Deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta
contact email: 
SOrtolano@edison.edu

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

New Panel Added: GLBTQ Creative Writing at MAPACA - Atlantic City (Nov. 7th to 9th)

full name / name of organization: 
Mark John Isola / Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
contact email: 
markjohn@alumni.tufts.edu

John Preston’s print collection "Hot Living: Erotic Stories about Safer Sex," which was published in 1985, marks a significant use of narrative to explore the intersection of creative writing and th

Call for Papers - Patents for Humanity Special Issue - August 23 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Diana Vergara/ Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors
contact email: 
tijournal@research.usf.edu

In recognition of the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity program, Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, will be publishing a special issue highlighting influential

International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (deadline September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Alyce von Rothkirch / Swansea University
contact email: 
ijwwe.editor@gmail.com

International Journal for Welsh Writing in English

Call for Papers

Invitation for Submission of Manuscripts - JMBT

full name / name of organization: 
Microbial & Biochemical Technology
contact email: 
editor.jbtbd@omicsonline.net

Dear Dr. Researchers,

Greetings from Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology

We are glad to get associated with eminent researchers.

Instrumental Reason/Constellational Form: The Frankfurt School Now

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (Atlanta, Nov. 8-10, 2013)
contact email: 
clavill@emory.edu, ebbisho@emory.edu

In “The Essay as Form,” Theodor Adorno writes that the essay (in Montaigne’s sense of an ‘attempt’) presupposes a reader who “does not think, but rather transforms himself into an arena of

GLBTQ Studies at MAPACA - Atlantic City (Nov. 7th to 9th)

full name / name of organization: 
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA)
contact email: 
markjohn@alumni.tufts.edu

The GLBTQ Studies Area of MAPACA welcomes proposals of relevance to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in John Dos Passos’s Writing

full name / name of organization: 
John Dos Passos Society
contact email: 
Victoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com; jdpsociety@gmail.com

Like his modernist contemporaries, John Dos Passos engages themes of gender and sexuality.

Call for Creative Writing Articles

full name / name of organization: 
Writing Commons -- a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students
contact email: 
dianne@writingcommons.org

Award-winning Writing Commons (http://writingcommons.org/), a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students invites the submission of creative writing articles intending to help

UPDATE: Reinterpreting Carson McCullers (The 85th Annual SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Courtney George: The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University)
contact email: 
george_courtney2@columbusstate.edu

DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 1, 2013

Gender, Identity and Sexuality for NEPCA conference; deadline June 10, 2013; conference 10/25-26

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Popular Culture Association
contact email: 
GagnonD@wcsu.edu

Currently soliciting paper proposals for the upcoming NEPCA conference at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, October 25/26, 2013.

Partition Literature - Papers invited for Journal - Global Journal of English Language and Literature - India

full name / name of organization: 
Global Journal of English Language and Literature
contact email: 
globaljournalell@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

SAMLA 85 Call for Papers. Deadline June 1, 2013

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

Transnationalizing the Digital

[UPDATE] Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media & Mode - Abstracts due June 20th

full name / name of organization: 
LIM College
contact email: 
proposals@limcollege.edu

Call for Presentations - Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media, and Mode

Proposal due date: June 10, 2013
Conference date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 to Saturday, October 5, 2013

International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013 ( LLL 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
International Center for Research and Development
contact email: 
info@theicrd.org

Language plays an important role in the modern society and represent diverse aspirations and needs ,cultures, traditions, and practices.

THATCamp Wisconsin: "Big Ideas for Small Campuses" (Aug. 9, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Carroll University
contact email: 
jgarriso@carrollu.edu

THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” It is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sess

ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

full name / name of organization: 
Edinburgh University Press
contact email: 
Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com

From Escape in the Fog (1945) to Ride Lonesome (1959), among many other titles, few filmmakers created as unique a body of work in the United States as Budd Boetticher (1916-2001), but few directors h

ReFocus: Announcing a New Series of Film/American Studies Anthologies

full name / name of organization: 
Edinburgh University Press
contact email: 
Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com ; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com

In 2015, the University of Edinburgh Press will launch a multivolume series of scholarly, refereed anthologies entitled ReFocus.

International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013

full name / name of organization: 
International Center for Research and Development
contact email: 
info@theicrd.org

Language plays an important role in the modern society and represent diverse aspirations and needs ,cultures, traditions, and practices.

[UPDATE] CFP Four Nations Fiction: Women and the Novel 1780-1830 - Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
contact email: 
e.edwards@wales.ac.uk

In Blackwood’s Magazine in September 1819, John Wilson reflected on the towering fame of three contemporary women poets in the following terms: ‘Scotland has her Baillie – Ireland her Tighe –

Contemporary American Creative Non-Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Diana Eidson, South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
deidson@gsu.edu

The genre of creative nonfiction—exemplified both by engaging, intellectual essays and by narratives with attention to literary style—has received increasing scholarly and public attention.

Intersecting Gender - 22nd - 23rd November 2013, Queen's University Belfast

full name / name of organization: 
Sibéal Postgraduate Gender and Feminist Studies Network
contact email: 
sibealbelfast@gmail.com

The idea of intersectionality in the field of feminist and gender studies has increasingly been used to facilitate deeper understandings of contemporary gendered identity and experience.

Call for Abstracts/Book:"A Practical Guide to Prepare Graduate Students of Color for their First Job in Academia"

full name / name of organization: 
Dwayne Mack and Elwood Watson
contact email: 
dwayne_mack@berea.edu

Italian-American Identity Politics, New Orleans, Oct. 3-5, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Italian-American Identity Politics
contact email: 
iasa2013conf@italianamericanstudies.net

Italian American Studies Association
2013 Conference
Call for Papers

Italian-American Identity Politics

New Orleans Marriott
October 3-5, 2013

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations - Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

full name / name of organization: 
Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra
contact email: 
parichay.patra@gmail.com

Book Proposal

Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations
Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema

Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra

Reconstruction 14.1 The Undead Arcade

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

Reconstruction 14.1: The Undead Arcade (to be published March 2014)

Edited by Carly A. Kocurek and Samuel Tobin

Secular Shakespeares - 21-27 April 2014, Paris

full name / name of organization: 
Société française Shakespeare
contact email: 
ens310@lehigh.edu

The last decade has seen a return to religion in early modern studies.

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