category: general announcements

Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire: Race, Place, Taste and the Colonial Context. 27-28 June, Brisbane, Australia, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
ATCH Research Centre, School of Architecture, University of Queensland
contact email: 
d.vanderplaat@uq.edu.au

Architecture at the Ragged Edge of Empire: Race, Place, Taste and the Colonial Context.
27-28 June, Brisbane, 2013.
Abstract Deadline: 10 May 2013

CFP: Special Issue on the Pictorial Tradition of Bengal (from ancient times to the present)

full name / name of organization: 
Chitrolekha International Magazine on Art and Design
contact email: 
chitrolekhamagazine@gmail.com

Chitrolekha International Magazine on Art and Design

ISSN 2231-4822 www.chitrolekha.com

Classroom Challenges: Enabling the Disabled When Our Own Hands are Tied

full name / name of organization: 
The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices/ Ivy Tech Community College Northwest
contact email: 
nriecken@ivytech.edu

The Atrium seeks your own stories of current challenges with students who are themselves challenged by physical, mental, and economic disablements.

2013 World Picture Conference on "Willing"

full name / name of organization: 
World Picture/University of Toronto
contact email: 
brian.price@utoronto.ca

World Picture Conference
November 8-9, 2013
University of Toronto

“Willing”

With keynote addresses by:

Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago)
&
Davide Panagia (Trent University)

[UPDATE] Writing and Rhetoric in Popular Culture 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

The Eighteenth-Century Gothick Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Peter N Lindfield
contact email: 
pnl@st-and.ac.uk

Call for Papers
The Gothick Revival in eighteenth-century Britain is a multi-faceted phenomenon, simultaneously liminal and mainstream, historical and modern, whimsical and serious.

Folger Institute Announces Program for 2013-2014

full name / name of organization: 
Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library
contact email: 
institute@folger.edu

The Folger Institute is a center for advanced study in the early modern humanities. Its programs gather university faculty and graduate students for scholarly investigation of designated topics.

The International Conference on Managing the Asian Century 2013, Singapore July 11th-13th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
James Cook University, Australia (Singapore Campus)
contact email: 
Professor Purnendu Mandal; purnendu.mandal@jcu.edu.au

International Conference on Managing the Asian Century 2013
Where: Singapore
When: 11-13 July 2013
Hosted By: JCU Singapore - a campus of James Cook University Australia

CONFERENCE THEME

Teaching Global Shakespeares -- SAMLA 2013 Special Session

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
bhilb@emory.edu

“Global Shakespeare” is a trendy topic in early modern scholarship, but how can we best translate it into effective teaching?

Building the Degree: The Potential and Pitfalls of Establishing a B.A. Program in English During Uncertain Times

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta
contact email: 
SOrtolano@Edison.edu

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.

Semiotic Society of America 38th Annual Conference, 10/24/13-10/27/13

full name / name of organization: 
Semiotic Society of America
contact email: 
semioticsocietyofamerica@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Why Semiotics”

The Semiotic Society of America
invites the submission of abstracts for presentation at its
38th Annual Meeting, to be held

Public Engaging using the Digital - A Postgraduate Training Event for Arts/Humanities Students

full name / name of organization: 
The C21 Scholar
contact email: 
oxford@thec21scholar.com

Monday 17 June 2013, University of Oxford

Transforming Postgraduate Research: Engaging with the Digital World

The event will include keynote addresses by:

UPDATE: New Media in India. Deadline Today

full name / name of organization: 
Hrishikesh Ingle, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
contact email: 
hrishikeshingle@gmail.com

Deadline: 15 April 2013

Adaptation and Film (Popular Culture Session I) November 8-10th

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Conference /Shane Trayers
contact email: 
trayers.shane@gmail.com

Adaptation and Film (Popular Culture Session I
SAMLA Conference
November 8-10, 2013

Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research -- Wayne State University

full name / name of organization: 
Caroline Maun
contact email: 
caroline.maun@wayne.edu

Please consider participating in and attending the WSU Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research. All are welcome, and all events are free and open to the public.

"Except Asia: Agamben's Work in Transcultural Perspective" conference open for registration

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University
contact email: 
conference2013@gmail.com

The international conference “Except Asia: Agamben’s Work in Transcultural Perspective,” to be held at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-27, 2013, is now open for regist

[UPDATE]French Feminism: Contexts and Connotations

full name / name of organization: 
Dr R. P. Singh Associate Professor of English Department of English and Modern European Languages University of Lucknow Lucknow - 226007, U P, INDIA Cell : +91 94151 59137 Email : rpsingh.lu@gmail.com
contact email: 
rpsingh.lu@gmail.com

French Feminism: Contexts and Connotations
Update
Contact Email: rpsingh.lu@gmail.com

[UPDATE]GENDER ROLES IN POSTMODERN WORLD

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Alka Singh/Assistant Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Other Studies Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow LDA Scheme, Kanpur Road, Lucknow, UP, India Pin- 226012 blueeyemini@gmail.com
contact email: 
blueeyemini@gmail.com

Early societies had rigid roles for men and women with attributes, labeled as being masculine and feminine.

Misreadings, Misunderstandings, and Other Mis(sed) Communications 10/11/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Indiana College English Association (ICEA)
contact email: 
hoeness@usi.edu

Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for individual papers, panels, and creative readings on the conference theme or on related topics both within English and the humanities

Journal of Jesuit Studies: Artistic Discourses of Liberation Theology (themed edition)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Salford, Greater Manchester
contact email: 
b.halligan@salford.ac.uk

The idea of Liberation Theology continues to exert profound challenges - theological, ontological and theoretical - to the Catholic Church, long after the first context of its emergence and reception

CFP: Growing LCTLs: A Forum for the Less Commonly Taught Languages at CUNY

full name / name of organization: 
The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC)
contact email: 
iletc@gc.cuny.edu

The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) invites you to participate in Growing LCTLs: A Forum for the Less Commonly Taught Languages at CUNY on May 3rd at the Graduate Cen

[UPDATE] CFP: Ada Lovelace Achievements and Legacies Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey)
contact email: 
rhammerm@stevens.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS
Celebrating the Achievements and Legacies of Ada Lovelace
18 October 2013
Stevens Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Letters

Artistic Ireland, M/MLA, Nov 7-10, Milwaukee, WI

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA)
contact email: 
sophiadawn.christman-lavin@stonybrook.edu

From The Book of Kells to the seaside ditty in Ulysses to the Abbey Theatre’s Countess Cathleen, Ireland boasts a history replete with visual and performing arts.

Artistic Bodies in Literature, M/MLA, Nov 7-10, 2013, Milwaukee, WI

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA)
contact email: 
sophiadawn.christman-lavin@stonybrook.edu

In what ways do artistic constructions of the body appear in literature?

CFP: Growing LCTLs: A Forum for the Less Commonly Taught Languages at CUNY (MAY 3, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC)
contact email: 
iletc@gc.cuny.edu

The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) invites you to participate in Growing LCTLs: A Forum for the Less Commonly Taught Languages at CUNY on May 3rd at the Graduate Cen

[UPDATE] Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countries

full name / name of organization: 
Black Camera
contact email: 
delphine.letort@univ-lemans.fr

Black Camera invites submissions for a Close-Up devoted to a critical assessment of Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countries to be published Fall 2014.

Humor in the Digital Age -- SAMLA (11/8 - 11/10)

full name / name of organization: 
Pete Kunze (Louisiana State University)
contact email: 
pkunze@lsu.edu

The American Humor Studies Association seeks papers for a panel, “Humor in the Digital Age,” for the 2013 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference at the Marriott Atlanta from

CfP: Beyond the Cut-Up: William S. Burroughs and the Image

full name / name of organization: 
The Photographers' Gallery
contact email: 
cherylplatt2@gmail.com

BEYOND THE CUT-UP: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE IMAGE Conference

The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Saturday 15 February 2014

Confirmed plenary speakers:

CFP on Performance Studies

full name / name of organization: 
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
contact email: 
rupkathajournal@gmail.com

We are going to publish a Special Issue (Vol V, No 2) from Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (www.rupkatha.com) on the broad area of Performance Studies.

Interdisciplinary Popular Culture and Pedagogy (deadline August 31, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
contact email: 
DialogueTheJournal@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, a peer-reviewed publication of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Associa

Reading Indigenous North American Literatures: New Voices in the Field

full name / name of organization: 
Carrie Louise Sheffield University of Tennessee, Knoxville
contact email: 
carrielouisesheffield@gmail.com

Philament 2013 [UPDATE] Deadline extended May 31st 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Philament: The University of Sydney Journal of the Arts
contact email: 
philament.usyd@gmail.com

Issue 19: Surface/Depth

‘There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.’
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories edited collection

full name / name of organization: 
Editors: Amy L. Stone, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University Jaime Cantrell, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, Louisiana State University
contact email: 
outinthearchives@gmail.com

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
Call for Proposals, due May 1

Editors:
Amy L. Stone, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University

[UPDATE] Solo Performances On and Off the Page (PAMLA Conference, 11/1-3, 2013) Deadline: April 15, 2013

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

This panel examines how solo performances (on the page, stage, internet, etc.) examine Judith Butler's notion of precarious lives, that is the shared vulnerability, fear and insecurity of contemporar

Research Residency Fellowship with Provisions Library 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Provisions Library
contact email: 
provisionslibrary@gmail.com

Provisions Library--an art and social change agent in Washington DC and Fairfax, VA--is now accepting proposals for National and Capital Research Residency fellowships for September 2013-September 201

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