category: general announcements

[UPDATE] CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR "OF HUMAN BONDAGE: LITERATURES OF CONSTRAINT" CONFERENCE MARCH 1-2, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Université de Montréal
contact email: 
egssconference@gmail.com

**DEADLINE EXTENDED: ABSTRACTS NOW DUE JANUARY 31 2013**

10th Annual Université de Montréal English Graduate Conference March 1-2, 2013

OF HUMAN BONDAGE: LITERATURES OF CONSTRAINT

2013 Mnemonics Graduate Summer School (Ghent, 9-11 September 2013; abstracts due 1 April 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies
contact email: 
mnemonics@ugent.be

Call for Papers for 2013 Mnemonics Graduate Summer School
“Memory Unbound: Transcultural, Transgenerational, Transmedial, and Transdisciplinary Dynamics of Memory” (Ghent, 9-11 September 2013)

http://www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/cfp-ghent/

Broadway Babies

full name / name of organization: 
MLA 2014 and MLA Executive Committee on Children's Literature; abstract 3-15-2013
contact email: 
donelle.ruwe@nau.edu

Call for Papers: MLA 2014 in Chicago

Broadway Babies

Representations of Moral Bankruptcy on Television (ASA 2013 panel)

full name / name of organization: 
Amy Parziale, University of Arizona
contact email: 
parziale@email.arizona.edu

This is a proposed panel for the 2013 American Studies Association annual meeting in Washington D.C. (November 21-24 at the Hilton Washington DC).

[UPDATE] gardens and utopia, call for papers

full name / name of organization: 
EARTH PERFECT? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden; University of Delaware
contact email: 
earthperfect@art-sci.udel.edu

EARTH PERFECT? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden

Symposium June 6-9, 2013

CFP for the second issue of Persian Literary Studies Journal

full name / name of organization: 
Farideh Pourgiv/ Shiraz University
contact email: 
fpourgiv@rose.shirazu.ac.ir

The editor is currently seeking scholarly articles for the spring-summer issue of Persian Literary Studies Journal, a joint publication of Shiraz University and Iran Academy of Literary Criticism.

MAR 1 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: LADYDRAWERS AWESOME UNNAMED EXHIBITION!!!!!

full name / name of organization: 
The Ladydrawers Comics Collective
contact email: 
TheLadydrawers@gmail.com

Exhibition Dates: June 27 – July 27, 2013


Artwork Due to gallery: June 19, 2013

CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
University of Glasgow
contact email: 
arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Professor Pierre Joris (SUNY at Albany)
Ruth Washbrook (Scottish Screen Archive/NLS)

Reorientations: East Asia in Recent Anglophone Fiction/Journalism

full name / name of organization: 
Mary Goodwin
contact email: 
profgood@hotmail.com

Increasingly important to the world economy as an engine of growth, the dynamic region of East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea) has for decades figured prominently in world media for its

The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space [UPDATE] Conference Date March 23, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
English Graduate Conference at Southern Methodist University
contact email: 
smugradconference@gmail.com

Describing Kokovoko, the mysterious island home of Queequeg in Melville's Moby Dick, Ishmael states, "It is not down in any map; true places never are." The idea of "place" has haunted and inspired th

London International Conference for Advanced Research in Business

full name / name of organization: 
Coordinator
contact email: 
info@intlafr.com

Website-http://www.intlafr.com/conferences.html

[UPDATE] CFP Extended Deadline--Pippi to Ripley: the Female Figure in Fantasy and Science Fiction

full name / name of organization: 
Katharine Kittredge
contact email: 
kkittredge@ithaca.edu

Pippi to Ripley: The Female Figure in Fantasy and Science Fiction
May 4-5, 2013
Ithaca College

Keynote speaker: Tamora Pierce

21st Century Pedagogies: MLA2014 Chicago (Jan 9-12)

full name / name of organization: 
Stacey Lee Donohue/Modern Language Association
contact email: 
sdonohue@cocc.edu

Title of session: "21st Century Pedagogies"

Submission requirements: 250 word abstracts

Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2013

[UPDATE] The Millennials on Film and Television: the Politics of Popular Culture - Deadline Extension

full name / name of organization: 
betty.kaklamanidou@gmail.com & Peggy.Tally@esc.edu
contact email: 
betty.kaklamanidou@gmail.com & Peggy.Tally@esc.edu

Deadline Extension

The Millennials on Film and Television: the Politics of Popular Culture

contact email:
betty.kaklamanidou@gmail.com & Peggy.Tally@esc.edu
Call for Papers

[UPDATE] REMINDER: Emerging Scholars in Performance, ATHE 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Performance Studies Focus Group of the Association for Theater in Higher Education
contact email: 
gty2104@columbia.edu

Call for Papers: PSFG/ATHE 2013 Emerging Scholars Panel

Excess: Special issue of The Comparatist

full name / name of organization: 
The Comparatist
contact email: 
zallouz@whitman.edu

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Excess
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

Collection on Transgressive Women in Global Speculative Fiction [2/28/2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Valerie Guyant/ University of Wisconsin & Elizabeth Bowman/ University of Guam
contact email: 
guyantvl@uwec.edu and ebowman@uguam.uog.edu

The interconnection of speculative fiction, transgressions against social norms, gender studies, and global perspectives is compelling because speculative fiction allows for a unique approach to socia

[REMINDER] Gendering the Book in the Long Eighteenth Century - Deadline 1st March 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Leeds
contact email: 
genderingthebook@gmail.com

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers for Gendering the Book, a one-day conference to be held at the University of Leeds.

“Refashioning America: Critiques, Narratives and Aesthetics of Transculturation,” November 1-2, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The American Studies Association of Korea
contact email: 
asakorea2013@gmail.com

The American Studies Association of Korea
The 48th International Conference

Place: Seoul, South Korea
Date: November 1-2, 2013

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

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

Many thanks to those who have already submitted their proposals. We will be extending our deadline until 20 January 2013. Here’s the original CFP:

Ways of Being / Modes of Existence: Human, animal, machine

full name / name of organization: 
Louisiana State University Department of French Studies
contact email: 
lsufrenchconference@gmail.com

Keynote Speakers:
Dominique Lestel, Ecole Normale Supérieure-Paris
Verena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State University

[UPDATE] ASA 2013, Washington DC: "Transatlantic Approaches to African American Women's Literature"; January 20, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Kristin Allukian
contact email: 
kallukian@ufl.edu

CFP for a Panel Proposal for ASA 2013, Washington DC:
"Transatlantic Approaches to African American Women's Literature"

CFP: ON WALKING 28-29 June 2013

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

The last decade seen an upsurge in the study of walking across many disciplines; many walking-related events and research groups have been established in the arts and within academia.

Exploring the Portuguese Diaspora in InterDISCIPLINARY and Comparative Perspectives: An International Conference July 25-27)

full name / name of organization: 
Anderson Unversity, Brock University, Univ of Lisbon, UMass Amherst
contact email: 
ics@brocku.ca

http://ocs.sfu.ca/pds/index.php/pdaip/2013

July 25-27, 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana

This Rough Magic - Teaching Medieval and Renaissance Lit. – 5/21/13

full name / name of organization: 
This Rough Magic (www.thisroughmagic.org)
contact email: 
boechem@sunysuffolk.edu

This Rough Magic (www.thisroughmagic.org) is a journal dedicated to the art of teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

2013 Annual SAMLA Conference: Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
contact email: 
samla@gsu.edu

2013 Annual SAMLA Conference-Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds

Call for Presenters: Best Teaching Practices Workshop

full name / name of organization: 
Forrest C. Helvie / Plymouth State University Medieval & Renaissance Forum
contact email: 
forrest.helvie@att.net

“Travel, Contact, Exchange” Call for Papers and Submissions
34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday April 19-20, 2013

Call for Papers: Wounds, Torture, and the Grotesque

full name / name of organization: 
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
contact email: 
hortulus@hortulus-journal.com

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past.

Universality and Its Limits

full name / name of organization: 
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, University of Chicago
contact email: 
weissbourd13@gmail.com

Universality and Its Limits

The 2013 Weissbourd Annual Conference
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
The University of Chicago
Franke Institute for the Humanities
April 19–20, 2013

Supernatural Studies Journal CFP

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

Supernatural Studies (ISSN 2325-4866), a new, peer-reviewed journal welcomes article and book review submissions for its first two issues (Spring and Fall 2013).

Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con International, July 18-21 (Proposals Due March 1)

full name / name of organization: 
Comics Arts Conference
contact email: 
comicsartsconference@gmail.com

The Comics Arts Conference is accepting 100-200 word proposals for papers, presentations, panels and posters taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a

CFP: 2013 International Conference: Migrants and Their Memories

full name / name of organization: 
Research Center for Humanities / National Sun Yat-sen University
contact email: 
chsc705@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

Scientists recently found that migration was a main factor that shaped human behavior (Don Jones, Nature News).

Terrorism and Temporality (Abstracts due 15 March 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Todd Kuchta
contact email: 
todd.kuchta@wmich.edu

I invite proposals on the relation between terrorism and temporality for a special session at the 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago.

The Art of English - London - Friday 21st June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Queen Mary, University of London
contact email: 
artofenglishconference@gmail.com

The Art of English
Queen Mary, University of London
Friday 21st June 2013.

CFP: The 4th International Workshop on Wireless Networks and Multimedia (WNM-2013), Melbourne, Australia, 16-18 July, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Yulei Wu
contact email: 
wnm.melbourne.2013@gmail.com

Appologies if you received multiple copies of this WNM-2013 CFP.
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