category: general announcements

Film Panel -- SCMLA, New Orleans, LA - Oct. 3-5, 2013: “Masking and Unmasking the Subject.”

full name / name of organization: 
Kristopher Mecholsky
contact email: 
kmecho1@lsu.edu

We invite presentation abstracts on all aspects of film that relate to the 2013 South Central Modern Language Association conference theme “Masking and Unmasking the Subject." Please send abstracts

Time and Temporality in European Modernism

full name / name of organization: 
MDRN/KULeuven
contact email: 
time.mdrn@gmail.com

****DEADLINE EXTENDED (15 March 2013)****

Time and Temporality in European Modernism and the Avant-Gardes (1900-1950), 16-18 September 2013
full name / name of organization:
MDRN/KULeuven

Call for Submissions (deadline May 31, 2013): Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art

full name / name of organization: 
Writer's Bloc Literary Magazine
contact email: 
writersbloclitmag@hotmail.com

Submission deadline: May 31, 2013

Food Writing On the Rise: Turning Student Loaves Into Gourmet Rolls, Revised 1st Edition

full name / name of organization: 
Lyndsey Lefebvre, Adjunct Professor
contact email: 
lyndseylefebvre@gmail.com

Food Writing On The Rise: Turning Student Loaves Into Gourmet Rolls is an activity based textbook that focuses on learning to write for academia using the lens of food to construct essays.

CFP: Food Panel @ PAMLA 2013 With Pens And Forks: A Frank Look At American Food Writing

full name / name of organization: 
Lyndsey Lefebvre - Pacific And Ancient Modern Language Association
contact email: 
lyndseylefebvre@gmail.com

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association – November 1-3rd at Bahia Resort Hotel, in San Diego, California.

CfP(3): Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg, 4-6 August 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Bernhard Fisseni / Universität Hamburg
contact email: 
bernhard.fisseni@uni-hamburg.de

THIRD AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013)
4-6 August 2013
Universitaet Hamburg, Germany

Cyberlearning: Transforming Academic Communities with Emerging Technology (6/30/13)

full name / name of organization: 
The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal
contact email: 
editor.researcher@jsums.edu

The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal

CALL FOR PAPERS for a SPECIAL ISSUE on

Cyberlearning: Transforming Academic Communities with Emerging Technology

2013 MPCA/ACA Conference: Animation and Anime

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

Call for Papers.

WUNDERKINO 3: VISIONS OF TRAVEL AND MOBILITY/14th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium/July 25-27 2013 Bucksport, M

full name / name of organization: 
Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium
contact email: 
symposium@wunderkino.org

Wunderkino (“wonder-cinema”) are moving images that ignite our curiosity and engagement and help us to rethink questions of creativity, complexity, rarity and the multiple uses and understandings

Panel on Princesses in Popular Culture, 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
michelle.stonis@csulb.edu

Panel -- Once Upon a Time: The Impact of Princess Culture on Girls

And they lived happily ever after, or did they?

“Papers, Please”: Knowledge at the Borders of Disciplinarity - Graduate Student Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Graduate Program in Humanities/ York University
contact email: 
paperspleaseconference@gmail.com

“Papers, Please”: Knowledge at the Borders
of Disciplinarity

Friday, April 26 & Saturday, April 27, 2013
Graduate Program in Humanities, York University, Toronto, Ontario

CFP: Articles for Laraña 4: Graphic Novel.

full name / name of organization: 
Revista Laraña
contact email: 
laranadesevilla@gmail.com

"A comic book intended for an adult audience which tells a unique story in book format, created by one author (rarely is a choral work) in which some claim to be looking for great literature and predo

[UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space ($125 award for the best essay)

full name / name of organization: 
Southern Methodist University's English Department (Graduate Students)
contact email: 
smugradconference@gmail.com

The Sentimental Worlds of Ray Bradbury (MLA, 9-12 January 2014, Chicago), Deadline 3/8/2013

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.

Transitions and Transactions: Literature and Creative Writing Pedagogies in Community Colleges Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Borough of Manhattan Community College, Department of English
contact email: 
mbarrow@bmcc.cuny.edu or msteinkoler@bmcc.cuny.edu

Pedagogy as an essential part of the learning and teaching culture has an ever more important place in community colleges where we continually rethink and revise our practices for our often non-tradit

Gypsies in American Cultural Imagination

full name / name of organization: 
David Shane Wallace/American University in Bulgaria
contact email: 
dshanew@gmail.com

This panel seeks essays from any historical period on Literature, Music, Film, and/or Television for a proposed special session at the MLA Convention in Chicago (Jan.

MPCA 11/11-13, Southern Lit. and Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association
contact email: 
anne.canavan@gmail.com

Call for Papers

[UPDATE]: "Deathless Love"

full name / name of organization: 
Association of Carolina Emerging Scholars
contact email: 
cescon@mailbox.sc.edu

*Please note that the abstract deadline has been extended to March 15.*

The Adjunct Verses (Collection/Performance/Multimedia)

full name / name of organization: 
N1Academy
contact email: 
rcbatp@gmail.com

Calling all contingent faculty and allies. . . .

http://migrantintellectual.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/the-adjunct-verses/

Project Title: THE ADJUNCT VERSES

CFP: 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

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

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

CFP: 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013)
contact email: 
critis2013@gmail.com

8th International Workshop on
Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

September 16-18, 2013

http://www.critis2013.nl

[UPDATE] Sound-Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Jorge Sacido
contact email: 
jorge.sacido@usc.es

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2013)

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. How is child labor/schooling discussed in life writing from working class individuals?

Diversity and Language Change (MLA, Chicago, 9-12 Jan 2014; abstract deadline 15 March)

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Division on Language Change
contact email: 
cpalme20@kennesaw.edu

What role does “diversity” play in understanding language change? Papers will explore perspectives on linguistic diversity, e.g.

Language Change and Literature (MLA, Chicago, 9-12 Jan 2014; abstract deadline 15 March)

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Division on Language Change
contact email: 
cpalme20@kennesaw.edu

How does language change matter to literature (and vice versa)?

“Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts” [SAMLA Nov. 8-10] Abstracts by 6/7

full name / name of organization: 
Lynne M. Simpson / College English Association
contact email: 
lsimpson@presby.edu

SAMLA 2013 Conference
Conference Theme: "Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds"
November 8-10, 2013

MLA 2014: Failed Hispanic Commemorations

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Language Association
contact email: 
dsolas@bard.edu

This session invites papers on 19th- to 21st- century cultural celebrations that were unsuccessful in commemorating events of national significance in Spain or Latin America, specially centenaries.

Saints and Sinners: Postmodernism, Feminism and Medievalism in Literature in English [UPDATE]

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

For LIES 2013, we still welcome papers about topics related but not limited to feminism, sainthood and medievalism in both contemporary and earlier literature in English as the wonderful SARAH SALIH w

Designing and Teaching Interdisciplinary Courses - RMMLA Conference

full name / name of organization: 
RMMLA Conference, Vancouver, Washington, October 10-12, 2013
contact email: 
pichugin@sas.upenn.edu

We invite presentations on any aspect of interdisciplinary teaching with focus on strategies for integrating multiple perspectives and approaches into a course while maintaining an overall sense of co

Academic Exchange Quarterly Special Issue: Leadership and Writing Programs Aug. 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Academic Exchange Quarterly
contact email: 
cl830@nova.edu

Focus: This issue will examine effective leadership practices in college and university writing programs, including first-year composition, basic writing, and ELL/ESL writing programs; undergraduate a

[UPDATE] The Art of English - London - 21st June

full name / name of organization: 
The Art of English
contact email: 
artofenglishconference@gmail.com

REMINDER: DEADLINE: 28th FEBRUARY 2013

The Art of English
Queen Mary, University of London
Friday 21st June 2013.
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/artofenglish
@artofenglish13

A Re-examination of Private Military and Security Companies - Abstracts due: April 1, 2013 - Papers due: July 8, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
STAIR, Oxford University
contact email: 
STAIRjournalPMSC@gmail.com

CFP - A Re-examination of Private Military and Security Companies - STAIR - OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Abstracts due: April 1, 2013
Papers due: July 8, 2013
Maximum length of articles: 6000 words

The Future of Education International Conference - Extended Deadline for Abstracts' Submission

full name / name of organization: 
Pixel
contact email: 
foe@pixel-online.net

Extended Deadline for Abstracts Submission – 28 February 2013

Solo Performances On and Off the Page (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013; Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA)

full name / name of organization: 
Cathy Irwin/University of La Verne
contact email: 
tirwin@laverne.edu

This panel examines how the voice in solo performance (on the page, stage, internet, etc.) mediate what Judith Butler calls a shared vulnerability or precarity between self and other.

SAMLA 2013 Charles W. Chesnutt Panel Discussion - "Chesnutt’s Gothic Psychology of the Future American"

full name / name of organization: 
Charles W. Chesnutt Association - SAMLA
contact email: 
rlsmith5@memphis.edu or djelzie@memphis.edu

This discussion will focus on how works like Mandy Oxendine utilize the elements of gothic psychology to confound binary racial concepts and to create the mixed-race identity matrix at the foundation

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