category: general announcements

CFP: Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference: Writing and Rhetoric Area

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: 
c.n.blankenship@gmail.com

The Writing and Rhetoric in Popular Culture area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association seeks panel and paper proposals for the annual Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Associat

[UPDATE] Balkan Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Music (MLA 2014; deadline March 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Mihaela P. Harper, Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University
contact email: 
mharper@bilkent.edu.tr

Is Balkan “always the other” (Zizek), and for whom? How have Balkan self-consciousness and/or image altered, if at all, since 2000? Please send an abstract of 250 words by March 15.

Transnational America(s)

full name / name of organization: 
Irish Association for American Studies
contact email: 
iaas.symposium@gmail.com

IAAS Postgraduate and Early Career Scholar Conference
May 18 2013
Trinity College, Dublin

Transnational America(s)

The Sublime Emotion and Cognitive Neuroscience

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
contact email: 
giles@ulm.edu

Papers exploring the sublime emotion and question of disinterestedness in context of cognitive neuroscience and affect theory. Abstracts of 250-500 words by 28 March 2013 to Dr. Jana Giles, Univ.

MLA 2014 Ecocriticsm and Children's Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Lynne Dickson Bruckner
contact email: 
lbruckner@chatham.edu

Ecocriticism and Children's Literature. Seeking Abstracts for papers and texts (primarily literary) for children and adolescents. This cfp is in response to the MLA 2013 theme--Vulnerable Times.

March 25, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Lynne Dickson Bruckner
contact email: 
lbruckner@chatham.edu

Ecocriticism and Children's Literature. Seeking Abstracts for papers and texts (primarily literary) for children and adolescents. This cfp is in response to the MLA 2013 theme--Vulnerable Times.

10th Latin American Robotic Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Universidad Católica de San Pablo - IEEE RAS Society
contact email: 
larslarc2013@gmail.com

LARS'2013 - 10th Latin American Robotic Symposium
October 21-27, 2013 - Arequipa, Perú
http://ucsp.edu.pe/lars2013

* INTRODUCTION

10th Latin American Robotic Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Universidad Católica de San Pablo - IEEE RAS Society
contact email: 
larslarc2013@gmail.com

LARS'2013 - 10th Latin American Robotic Symposium
October 21-27, 2013 - Arequipa, Perú
http://ucsp.edu.pe/lars2013

* INTRODUCTION

MFS Special Issue - Animal Worlds in Modern Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Fiction Studies
contact email: 
herman.145@gmail.com

Animal Worlds in Modern Fiction
Guest Editor: David Herman
Deadline for Submissions: October 1, 2013

[UPDATE] First Annual Fandom and Neomedia (FANS) Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association
contact email: 
FANSConference@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce a CFP for submissions to the First Annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference in Dallas, TX, on 1 and 2 June 2013.

International Summer School: Representations of Horror in Contemporary Media and Culture

full name / name of organization: 
LMU Munich
contact email: 
prolit@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

International Summer School for Postgraduate Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

“Representations of Horror in Contemporary Media and Culture”
August 4-10, 2013 in Munich, Germany.

It was one of the central concerns of the age of Enlightenment to expel all sorts of spectres, monsters, and vampires from our conception of reality. But the present boom of horror figures in various media conveys the impression that despite the long-lasting historical changes resulting from that rationalistic era, these seemingly irrational phenomena have not

Seeking Third Panelist for Midwest Conference on British Studies (MWCBS)

full name / name of organization: 
Emily VanBuren and Lisa Kelly
contact email: 
emilyvanburen2012@u.northwestern.edu

Seeking third panelist for Midwest Conference on British Studies (MWCBS)
DePaul University, Chicago
October 11-13, 2013
http://mwcbs.edublogs.org/2013/01/21/cfp-mwcbs-2013/

Crossing the Bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research

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

Crossing the bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research (http://humanitiesandpublicengagement.wordpress.com)

SUBMIT YOUR ARTWORK FOR PUBLICATION!

full name / name of organization: 
Pomona Valley Review
contact email: 
theeditors@pomonavalleyreview.com

Pomona Valley Review, Cal Poly Pomona's liberal arts journal, needs your art for our 7th issue in spring 2013. We encourage first-time, unpublished artists to submit.

MLA Chicago, January 9-12, 2014; Innovative Criticism

full name / name of organization: 
Robin Silbergleid & Kristina Quynn
contact email: 
silberg1@msu.edu & quynn@colostate.edu

We invite papers about the production and publication of innovative, experimental, affective, multi-genre, or performative criticism.

Somaesthetics Essay Prize 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Center for Body, Mind, and Culture (Florida Atlantic University)
contact email: 
bodymindculture@fau.edu

The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University is pleased to announce its second annual Somaesthetics Essay Prize competition. The award for the 2013 prize will be $500.

[UPDATE] The Sentimental Worlds of Ray Bradbury (MLA, 9-12 January 2014, Chicago), Deadline extended to 3/15/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Adam Lawrence and Andrea Krafft
contact email: 
BradburyMLA@gmail.com

Ray Bradbury was writing science fiction during the infancy of the genre and gained mainstream popularity during the 1950s.

CFP: special issue of Comparative Drama: "The Audience as Player: Interactive Theater over the Years" (deadline 9/1/2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Professor Sidney Homan, University of Florida, Guest Editor, Comparative Drama
contact email: 
shakes@ufl.edu

This special issue of Comparative Drama, “The Audience as Player: Interactive Theater Over the Years,” seeks essays that explore plays and productions in which members of the audience are not just

Call for Journal Articles: "The Writer's Experience" - Deadline: May 27, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The Journal of South Texas English Studies
contact email: 
southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Summer 2013 issue, themed “The Writer’s Experience.” Submission deadline: May 27 2012.

Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: the Eighteenth Century in the Present Day 28-29 June 2013 (deadline for proposals April 19)

full name / name of organization: 
University of York
contact email: 
encounters2013@gmail.com

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the complex webs of interconnection between the long eighteenth century and the ‘long’ twentieth century, from 1900 to the present.

Special Issue "Framing Lives"

full name / name of organization: 
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
contact email: 
Ricia.chansky@upr.edu

The editors of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, in collaboration with Guest Editor Paul Arthur of the Australian National University, invite submissions for a special illustrated issue that grows from the

PAMLA 2013 Conference: San Diego, CA (11/1-11/3): CFP Deadline April 15

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
svonkin@netzero.com

The 2013 PAMLA Conference will be held November 1-3, 2013, at the Bahia Resort Hotel on Mission Bay in San Diego, CA.

[UPDATE] ON WALKING

full name / name of organization: 
University of Sunderland
contact email: 
WALK@sunderland.ac.uk

UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND AND NORTHERN GALLERY FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART, 28-29 JUNE 2013

E-Dictionary of Portuguese Travel Writing (CETAPS)

full name / name of organization: 
CETAPS, FCSH - New University of Lisbon
contact email: 
rogerio_puga@hotmail.com

O Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) irá começar a publicar em meados de 2013 o E-Dicionário de Escrita de Viagens Portuguesa/E-Dictionary of Portuguese Travel Wr

Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2013)

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2013)
June 24-26, 2013
University of Toronto, Hart House, Toronto, Canada

Indigenous Studies Panels at 2013 MPCA/ACA Conference, October 11-13

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association
contact email: 
adahan@mnstate.edu

Call for Papers: Indigenous Studies
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013 St. Louis, MO

H.G. Wells Society Giles Hart Prize

full name / name of organization: 
H.G. Wells Society
contact email: 
s.j.james@durham.ac.uk

H.G. Wells Society Giles Hart Prize

CALL FOR PAPERS Social Fabrics: Utopias and Dystopias in relation to the Work of William Morris and H. G. Wells, Saturday 14 Se

full name / name of organization: 
A Conference Jointly Run by the H.G. Wells Society and the William Morris Society
contact email: 
emelynegodfrey@yahoo.com

Social Fabrics: Utopias and Dystopias in relation to the Work of William Morris and H. G. Wells

A Conference Jointly Run by the H.G. Wells Society and the William Morris Society

Beyond the Human: Monsters, Mutants and Lonely Machines (or What)?

full name / name of organization: 
Jawaharlal Nehru University
contact email: 
beyondthehuman2014@gmail.com

An International Conference
New Delhi
20-23 February 2014

http://beyondthehuman.com/

Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2013

Naturalist Gothic, edited collection(June 15, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Monika Elbert
contact email: 
elbertm@mail.montclair.edu

Haunting realities:
the Naturalist Gothic in American Literature

UPDATE: “Discursive Constructions of Autism: Boundaries and Borderlands”—2014 RSA Conference (May 22-26)

full name / name of organization: 
Adam M. Pacton
contact email: 
ampacton@uwm.edu

As autism receives increasing popular, political, medical, and rhetorical attention, it becomes increasingly difficult to achieve any sort of consensus on what “autism” actually is.

Religions in the Media: Multidisciplinary Approaches

full name / name of organization: 
Liverpool Hope University
contact email: 
alazams@hope.ac.uk

Symposium:
Religions in the Media: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Liverpool Hope University, 29 and 30 July 2013
Keynote Speaker: Professor Debra Mason

Medieval English Studies Symposium (30th November-1st December 2013): Between Nostalgia and Hope: The Waning of the Middle Ages

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English Literature, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
contact email: 
kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl; bbronkk@gmail.com

You are cordially invited to send paper proposals to the 12th Medieval English Studies Symposium, organised by the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, which will be held in Poznań from 30

Etudes Irlandaises/French Journal of Irish Studies Spring 2014 issue. Deadline for submission: June 30, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Etudes Irlandaises/French Journal of Irish Studies
contact email: 
alexandra.slaby@unicaen.fr

Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in English and French which explore all aspects of Irish literature, history, culture and arts from ancient times to the present.

[UPDATE] Transpacific Memory: Life Writing across the Western Divide

full name / name of organization: 
2014 Chicago MLA special session
contact email: 
Mary Goodwin at profgood@hotmail.com.
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