category: general announcements

Rhetoric Matters 3rd Edition

full name / name of organization: 
University of South Florida
contact email: 
bssulli2@mail.usf.edu

Rhetoric Matters is designed for use as an online textbook in first-year college and university composition programs.

Voices of the Unseen: Revolt and the Building of Radical Transnationalism CFP for essay collection

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Autumn Quezada-Grant & Dr. John Maerhofer, Roger Williams University
contact email: 
aquezada-grant@rwu.edu & jmaerhofer@rwu.edu

Call for Papers

Voices of the Unseen: Revolt and the Building of Radical Transnationalism

We are sending out a CFP for a proposed edited volume entitled:

[UPDATE] Open CFP for Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture
contact email: 
editors@shiftjournal.org

Shift welcomes academic papers, exhibition and book reviews, as well as discussions concerning other art-related events from current graduate students.

[UPDATE] Postgraduate Conference on English Literature and Translation Studies 17-18 May 2012

full name / name of organization: 
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies and Dept. of English Language and Literature at Cankaya University in Ankara, Turkey
contact email: 
eltsconferences@gmail.com

Translation Studies and Literatures in English:
An interdisciplinary/international postgraduate conference
13-14 May 2013
Cankaya University Ankara

Call for Articles; Teaching History

full name / name of organization: 
Academic Exchange Quarterly
contact email: 
academicexchange@yahoo.com

Texts on Curating and Exhibitions

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Curatorial Studies
contact email: 
jim@displaycult.com / jefish@yorku.ca

The editors of the Journal of Curatorial Studies invite proposals for original research articles on the subject of curating, exhibitions and display culture.

Founding a Society for Heresy Studies

full name / name of organization: 
Bernard Schweizer
contact email: 
schweizerb@yahoo.com

Religious approaches to literature have been dominated by apologetics and by the confessional tendencies advocated by T.S. Eliot.

EXTENDED DEADLINE 20th Jan - Feminism; Influence; Inheritance

full name / name of organization: 
School of English and Drama - Queen Mary, University of London
contact email: 
feminism.influence.inheritance@gmail.com

This one-day symposium hosted by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London aims to bring together postgraduates and academics to explore how the issues of feminism, influence

Stasis in the Medieval World, 13th-14th April 2013: REGISTRATION OPEN

full name / name of organization: 
University College London
contact email: 
victoria.symons@ucl.ac.uk

The Early Medieval Interdisciplinary Conference Series (EMICS) is pleased to present ‘Stasis in the Medieval World’, to be held at University College London on 13th-14th April 2013. Continuing the discussion begun by the University of York’s ‘Transition in the Medieval World’ conferences in 2012, this conference will seek to establish the extent to which aspects of medieval life and culture remained static during this period.

[UPDATE] NEMSC Graduate Student Conference, March 16, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
New England Medieval Studies Consortium
contact email: 
uconn.nemsc@gmail.com

30th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference
"Collaborations"

Saturday, March 16, 2013
University of Connecticut

Sherlock Holmes, Past and Present, 21 and 22 June 2013 [Update]

full name / name of organization: 
Senate House, London
contact email: 
J.L.Cranfield@ljmu.ac.uk AND ue_tom@hotmail.com

This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes.

[UPDATE] GENDERED PERSPECTIVES IN DESIGN / Turkish and Global Context

full name / name of organization: 
5T - 2013 - An International Conference - GENDERED PERSPECTIVES IN DESIGN / Turkish and Global Context
contact email: 
bahar.emgin@yasar.edu.tr

DATE
May 9-10, 2012

VENUE
Yaşar University, İzmir

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Hilde Heynen – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

BACKGROUND

ASA 2013, Washington D.C., LIFE AND DEBT: RACE, THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, AND RACE-BASED MEDICINE, January 19

full name / name of organization: 
Leslie Hinkson and Nadine Ehlers
contact email: 
lrh27@georgetown.edu

As the cost of health care increases in the U.S., individuals and entire communities are faced with how to deal with the often crushing debt that comes with lack of access to quality preventive care,

Convocatoria / Call for Papers Textos Híbridos: Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana

full name / name of organization: 
Textos Híbridos: Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana
contact email: 
aworkman@spanport.ucsb.edu

Textos Híbridos, la revista electrónica dedicada al estudio de la crónica latinoamericana desde la Conquista hasta el presente invita a la presentación de estudios críticos sobre la crónica para

Extended Deadline: " “The Art of Reading: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy”

full name / name of organization: 
Eden Wales Freedman, Co-President of English Graduate Organization, UNH
contact email: 
eef25@wildcats.unh.edu

Deadline Extended!

Please submit abstracts to UNH's English Graduate Organization's Biennial Conference: “The Art of Reading: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy”

From Wall Street to Main Street: The Regional Politics of Occupying (an edited collection, Feb. 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Drs. Comer and Crook
contact email: 
occupydefiance@gmail.com

While our collection on the local manifestations of Occupy Wall Street currently boasts fourteen excellent essays, we would like to consider a few more proposals focused on the politics of the local a

"These Strains of Continuity”: The Influence of Invisible Man, Sixty Years Later -- DUE JANUARY 18

full name / name of organization: 
New Jersey College English Association
contact email: 
donavanramon@gmail.com

In 1953, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man won the National Book Award for Fiction—the first text in African American Literature to do so.

[UPDATE] (anti)foundations: An Interdisciplinary Conference March 15-16, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Duquesne University English Graduate Organization
contact email: 
afoundconference@gmail.com

Duquesne University
SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION: January 18, 2013.

Ishaan Literary Review - Submissions for Issue 3 (ends February 28, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Ishaan Literary Review (an online journal of poetry and short fiction)
contact email: 
ishaanlitreview@gmail.com

Spring 2013 Call for Submissions

The submission period for Issue #3, Spring 2013 ends February 28, 2013 (extended from December 2012).

[UPDATE] PURITY: A Call For Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Excursions Journal
contact email: 
purity-submissions@excursions-journal.org.uk

“Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.” – Simone Weil

“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.” – William Faulkner

CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED: "Consent: Terms of Agreement," IU Grad Conference 2013 (feat. keynote Lauren Berlant)

full name / name of organization: 
Indiana University Graduate Conference (Hosted by Dept. of English GSAC)
contact email: 
iugradconference@gmail.com

Call for Proposals: “Consent: Terms of Agreement”
Featuring Keynote Speaker: Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
Submission Deadline EXTENSION: Jan. 15th

Call for Articles - Crisicism: The Cultural Discourse of Crisis - February 28 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Diffractions - Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture
contact email: 
info@diffractions.net

Deadline for submissions: February 28 2013

‘Neither Here Nor There: The (Non-)Geographical Futures of Comparative Literature’

full name / name of organization: 
Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature
contact email: 
inquire@ualberta.ca.

Call for Papers
Issue 3.2 (Summer 2013) ‘Neither Here Nor There: The (Non-)Geographical Futures of Comparative Literature’

TRANSNATIONAL CANONS: MARCH 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
7th Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, University of Alberta
contact email: 
clconf@ualberta.ca

TRANSNATIONAL CANONS: MARCH 15, 2013
7th Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, University of Alberta
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Jay, Loyola University Chicago

Call for Submissions: Interstices #14 "Immaterial Materialities"

full name / name of organization: 
Sandra Karina Loschke/ UTS
contact email: 
sandra.loschke@uts.edu.au

Interstices Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, Issue 14

Immaterial Materialities: Materiality and Interactivity in Art and Architecture

Call for Submissions: Turkish Poetry Today, May 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Turkish Poetry Today
contact email: 
turkishpoetrytoday@gmail.com

We are looking for outstanding Modern Turkish Poetry translated into English for Turkish Poetry Today, published annually in England and edited by poet-translator George Messo.

[UPDATE] CFP Submission Deadline Extended to January 10, 2013 for CEA -Caribbean Chapter Annual Conference 2013

full name / name of organization: 
College English Association- Caribbean Chapter
contact email: 
cea.cc.conference@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 10, 2013.

*One Week to Deadline* - ‘Making it Work: US Thought and Culture between Practice and Paralysis’, April 5th-6th 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
University of Michigan US Literatures and Cultures Consortium.
contact email: 
usistconference2013@hotmail.com

Keynotes:
Paul Taylor (Philosophy / African American and Diaspora Studies, Penn State): author of Race: A Philosophical Introduction

CFP: Un/Natural Histories Issue 16 FORUM

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

Although European thought has traditionally placed ‘nature’ in opposition to ‘culture’, as the title UN/NATURAL HISTORIES suggests, the world in which we find ourselves and the narratives we t

[UPDATE] Invention vs. Mimesis

full name / name of organization: 
The Rat's Mouth Review - Florida Atlantic University Graduate Journal
contact email: 
jwilso53@fau.edu

DEADLINE: January 15th, 2013

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice Series DUE February 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Southern Spaces
contact email: 
seditor@emory.edu

Southern Spaces invites essays, photo essays, video productions, and digital projects which explore the relationships between social justice and real and imagined spaces and places of the U.S. South and their global connections.

MadLit 2013: Deadline January 1

full name / name of organization: 
UW-Madison English Graduate Student Association
contact email: 
uwmadlit@gmail.com

MadLit 2013 Call for Papers

CFP: Queer Parents in Cultural Production

full name / name of organization: 
Ed Chamberlain, Ph.D.
contact email: 
ec10@uw.edu

Conference: Cultural Studies Association at Chicago, IL

Conference Dates: Thursday May 23rd to Sunday the 26th 2013

Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, February 1 2013

[UPDATE] Health, Mental Health and Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Boston College
contact email: 
dailym@bc.edu

The Boston College English Graduate Conference seeks abstracts for papers that consider the intersection between health, mental health, and literature.

[UPDATE] PURITY: A Call For Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Excursions Journal
contact email: 
purity-submissions@excursions-journal.org.uk

“Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.” – Simone Weil

“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.” – William Faulkner

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