category: general announcements

Medieval and Early Modern Witchcraft Panel, PAMLA, Nov 1-3, 2013; abstract deadline April 15, 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
lgreene@ewu.edu

Proposals are invited for a panel on Medieval and Early Modern Witchcraft for the 2013 conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA).

"21st Century Englishes"

full name / name of organization: 
English Studies Conference Committee (Bowling Green State University)
contact email: 
bgsucon@gmail.com

Graduate Student Conference: “21st Century Englishes” on Oct. 19, 2013
Location: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Contact email: bgsucon@gmail.com

Materiality & Corporeality: The Body in Popular Fiction & Visual Culture, Postgraduate Conference, 6th June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Portsmouth
contact email: 
alexandra.messem@port.ac.uk

Materiality & Corporeality: The Body in Popular Fiction and Visual Culture

Postgraduate Conference, University of Portsmouth
Thursday 6th June 2013

Call for Editors and Submissions: Revelations: Postgraduate Research in Mansfield Studies

full name / name of organization: 
Jessica Gildersleeve /Katherine Mansfield Society
contact email: 
jessica.gildersleeve@usq.edu.au

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce the launch of its new blog, Revelations: Postgraduate Research in Mansfield Studies.

The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Rachel Douglas
contact email: 
Rachel.Douglas@glasgow.ac.uk

The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History
International conference to be held at the International Slavery Museum and the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, 27–28 October 2013

[UPDATE] Monsters in the Margins: The Horrors of Image/Text

full name / name of organization: 
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
contact email: 
imagetext@gmail.com

NEW DEADLINE: March 15, 2013

Edited by Don Ault and Will Walter

Xenophile calls for undergraduate/graduate comparative literature papers - deadline: March 15th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Xenophile: A Journal of Comparative Literature
contact email: 
xeno@uga.edu

The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia is launching a new journal of comparative literature, Xenophile.

Poems Invited for June 2013 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 23rd Issue

full name / name of organization: 
Cyberwit.net
contact email: 
info@tajmahalreview.com

Taj Mahal Review is published in June and December annually.

SAMLA Convention--Marriott Atlanta--November 8-10, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Dan Marshall / Georgia State University
contact email: 
dmarshall7@gsu.edu

This year's conference theme is: Images, Illuminations, Maps, and Marginalia in Medieval Texts.

[UPDATE] Deadline extension: The Arts of Attention Conference, Budapest, Hungary (Mar. 31, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Károli Gáspár University
contact email: 
taoa2013@gmail.com; taoa2013@kre.hu

Attention is increasingly regarded by cognitive scientists and evolutionary anthropologists as a faculty whose development in human animals is constitutive of what it means to be human.

Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Studies

full name / name of organization: 
UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association & UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
contact email: 
memsa.ucla@gmail.com

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Robert N. Watson

[UPDATE] CFP Deadline Extended: PG Conference 'ReVision: Editing Across Disciplines'

full name / name of organization: 
FORUM Postgraduate Journal, The University of Edinburgh
contact email: 
editors@forumjournal.org

Interdisciplinary Conference - Call for Papers

FORUM Postgraduate Journal, The University of Edinburgh, 15-16 July 2013

[UPDATE] Renaissance of Roland Barthes Deadline 3/1/13

full name / name of organization: 
CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Literature and English Departments
contact email: 
csommers@gc.cuny.edu

The Renaissance of Roland Barthes
Speakers: Jonathan Culler, Diana Knight, Rosalind Krauss, D.A. Miller, and Lucy O'Meara

Oscar Wilde: Celebrity or Notoriety? A symposium; July 25-27, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Chad Thomas / The Santa Fe Opera
contact email: 
Chad.Thomas@uah.edu

The Santa Fe Opera seeks proposals for its first (of three proposed annual) New Works Symposium. The symposium will take place July 25-27, 2013, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Charlie Wesley
contact email: 
cwesley@daemen.edu

How do we assess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his previous output and changing political beliefs? 200 word abstracts or more by 15 March 2013. Contact Dr.

Dialects of English Worldwide: Issues in English Language Studies at MLA, January 2014

full name / name of organization: 
MLA Present-Day English Language Discussion Group
contact email: 
canon_eb@yahoo.com

The position of English as a worldwide lingua franca has never been more secure than it is today.

*Final Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum
contact email: 
gurleyja@lemoyne.edu

*Final Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013; 20-minute Paper Proposals Due March 1, 2013
full name / name of organization:
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies journal - Special Issue

full name / name of organization: 
Elizabeth Kelley Bowman / Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State)
contact email: 
ebowman@uguam.uog.edu

We invite essays from interdisciplinary perspectives that address contemporary adaptations of Renaissance literature or art, particularly Jacobean, in film.

Talking About Pauline Kael

full name / name of organization: 
Scarecrow Press, Stephen Ryan, Senior Editor, Arts and Literature
contact email: 
waynes@uca.edu

Talking About Pauline Kael(Scarecrow Press essay collection; deadline for abstracts is June 1, 2013; accepted essays due October 15, 2013)

Queering Age (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013 in San Diego)

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA, Emily Mattingly
contact email: 
emily.mattingly@email.ucr.edu

Queering Age

[UPDATE] The Human journal NOW accepts submissions for June 2013 issue

full name / name of organization: 
The Human, a journal of humanities, social sciences, and arts
contact email: 
human@humanjournal.org

Call for Papers – The Human journal NOW accepts submissions

[UDATE] Supernatural Studies Journal - Inaugural Issue

full name / name of organization: 
Supernatural Studies Association
contact email: 
SupernaturalStudies@gmail.com

Supernatural Studies, a new, peer-edited e-journal welcomes submissions for its inaugural issue, Spring 2013, through March 1.

Special Themed Issue on The Spectral South

full name / name of organization: 
Special Issue of The South Carolina Review: The Spectral South
contact email: 
slauro@clemson.edu & kmangan@clemson.edu

Essay proposals are invited for a special themed issue of The South Carolina Review that examines the images of zombies, vampires, and other undead in the American South.

Call for Papers for volume 7, n° 1(13)/ 2014 ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies www.essachess.com Environment and

full name / name of organization: 
ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies
contact email: 
mihaela.tudor.com@gmail.com

Call for Papers for volume 7, n° 1(13)/ 2014

ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies
www.essachess.com

Environment and communication

Coordinators:

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.

Creative submissions are invited to upcoming issue of Yellow Medicine Review devoted to the Fairy-tale

full name / name of organization: 
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought
contact email: 
editor@yellowmedicinereview.com

Yellow Medicine Review is accepting poetry, fiction, and creative essays for its upcoming issue devoted to modern writers working in the myth/folktale genre.

UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre; Summer 2013; Deadline 6/24/13

full name / name of organization: 
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; St. Mary's College; Rivendale Press
contact email: 
hgurfin@siue.edu; michelle.paull@smuc.ac.uk

UPSTAGE, a peer-reviewed online publication dedicated to research in turn-of-the-century (1880-1914) dramatic literature, theatre, and theatrical culture, is seeking submissions for its Summer 2013 is

Sustainability and Border Rhetorics for RSA 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Shannon Madden / University of Oklahoma
contact email: 
s.madden@ou.edu

Environmental sustainability, as a set of issues primarily addressed by environmental scientists but which impact peoples and cultures regardless of geographical region, is at once borderless and boun

Studia Europaea: Ethics of International Relations

full name / name of organization: 
Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University
contact email: 
apantea@euro.ubbcluj.ro

Academic journal Studia Europaea is pleased to invite submissions for upcoming issue: Ethics of International Relations.
Deadline for Submission: 1st of May 2013

Call for Participants: German Film Learning Initiative (GFLI)

full name / name of organization: 
Hannah O'Connor (Cardiff University)
contact email: 
oconnorhl@cardiff.ac.uk

As part of the AHRC Collaborative Skills Development award, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new postgraduate project, The German Film Learning Initiative (GFLI).

Call for articles

full name / name of organization: 
International Journal of Communication and Health
contact email: 
communicationandhealth@gmail.com

The International Journal of Communication and Health is an on-line peer-reviewed journal interested in any aspect related to health communication.

MLA 2014 Special Session: Why Rancière is important? (Abstract deadline March 15, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Haythem Guesmi
contact email: 
h.guesmi@umontreal.ca

This special session seeks submissions that discuss themes of vulnerability, resistance and social change in Jacques Rancière’s work.

MLA 2014 Special Session: Beyond the Proto-Monograph: New Models for the Dissertation (

full name / name of organization: 
Daniel Powell
contact email: 
djpowell@uvic.ca

Focus on how the dissertation should/is changing in response to the digital turn, doctoral reform, or various 'crises.'

Essay Collection: Teen Wolf (June 1)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Kamille Stone Stanton
contact email: 
supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com

Articles are invited for an essay collection on the new MTV serial remake of Teen Wolf.

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

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

And they lived happily ever after, or did they?

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