category: general announcements

[UPDATE] Is It All About the Text? Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizing

full name / name of organization: 
Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University
contact email: 
neverowv1@southernct.edu

Is It All About the Text? Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizing

Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University--Saturday, April 20, 2013

Blending Boundaries: Creative Writing and Rhetoric

full name / name of organization: 
Jessica Jorgenson---SAMLA Conference
contact email: 
Jessica.R.Jorgenson@my.ndsu.edu

The diverse fields within English studies often create boundaries that few cross, but this proposal aims to bridge those established boundaries.

Call for Papers - Hwa Kang English Journal, Vol. 19 (September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Hwa Kang English Journal
contact email: 
eng_jour@pccu.edu.tw

Call for Papers

PAMLA 2013 (Nov. 1-3)-World Literature in Theory and in Practice

full name / name of organization: 
William Arighi
contact email: 
warighi@uw.edu

Scholarly interest in world literature is on the rise, yet this endeavor has more often taken place in academic writing and colloquia than in teaching.

SAMLA Creative Nonfiction Panel November 8-10, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
contact email: 
meganoteri@gmail.com

SAMLA’s 2013 conference theme, “Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds,” speaks deeply to the mission of creative nonfiction.

Cognitive Poetics -- May 1st 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Enthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature
contact email: 
stefano.ballerio@gmail.com

Initiated in English speaking countries, in the last few years studies in cognitive poetics have increased and spread significantly.

[UPDATE] The Sentimental Worlds of Ray Bradbury (MLA, 9-12 January 2014, Chicago), Final extension to 3/23/2013

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.

CFP: Hotel in 19th-Century Literature and Culture, edited collection

full name / name of organization: 
Monika Elbert
contact email: 
elbertm@mail.montclair.edu

Hotels and Inns in Britain and in the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Humor in the Digital Age -- SAMLA (Atlanta, 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

International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Infonomics Society
contact email: 
info@i-society.eu

The i-Society 2013 is Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Toronto Section. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry.

[UPDATE] 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)

[UPDATE] Anemoi, Undergraduate Pre-Modern Journal - SUBMISSIONS DUE: MARCH 18

full name / name of organization: 
New College of Florida
contact email: 
info@anemoijournal.com

Anemoi is a new peer-reviewed undergraduate journal of pre-modern studies being published by students at New College of Florida in Sarasota. We are looking for submissions and team members.

[Deadline Extended] Literature, Space and Geography

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

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

SAMLA 2013 Special Session: Performing Gender (abstracts due June 7, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Conference
contact email: 
cthorndi@kent.edu

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

Psychoanalysis, African Americans and Inequality

full name / name of organization: 
Special Issue of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
contact email: 
Annie Stopford and Sheldon George at inequality.pcs@gmail.com

The election and presidency of Barack Obama have urged reconceptualization of the social position held by African Americans in contemporary society.

Contemporary Experimental Women's Writing (12 October 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Manchester, UK
contact email: 
kaye.mitchell@manchester.ac.uk

Contemporary Experimental Women’s Writing

12th October 2013, University of Manchester, UK

Keynote lecture: Dr. Rachel Carroll (University of Teesside)

Special guest speaker: Ali Smith

CFP: Upstairs and Downstairs: The British Historical Costume Drama on TV (from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey)

full name / name of organization: 
Julie Anne Taddeo
contact email: 
taddeo@umd.edu

The recent popular success of “Downton Abbey” calls for a renewed examination of such earlier BBC/ITV/Masterpiece Theatre serialized period dramas as “Upstairs Downstairs,” “The Pallisers,

DEADLINE 3/15 Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Studies w/ Keynote by Robert N. Watson

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

The last two decades have seen radical revisions to curricula at universities and colleges around the world. But have curricular changes been accompanied by pedagogical developments? When it comes to teaching, graduate students often learn by doing. By virtue of their experiments and their proximity to the undergraduate curriculum, they are among the most innovative educators on their campuses. The Medieval and Early Modern Students Association at UCLA and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies invite graduate students to share their experience at a conference on June 7 that deals with teaching Medieval and Early Modern material in the undergraduate classroom. We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be distinguished professor and Waldo W. Neikirk Chair for Innovative Undergraduate Education, Robert N. Watson.

City Margins, City Memories. Deadline for Proposals: 7 June 2013

full name / name of organization: 
School of Modern Languages & School of Philosophy & Religion, Bangor University & Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
contact email: 
cityconference@bangor.ac.uk

First Call for Papers

CITY MARGINS, CITY MEMORIES

Date: Monday 7 April – Tuesday 8 April, 2014

Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies,

[UPDATE] Child Labor and American Modernism (1890-1930)

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

We invite papers for a special session on “Child Labor and American Modernism (1890-1930)” at the 111th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) to be held

CFP: Teaching Language, Teaching Literature: State of a Union

full name / name of organization: 
QUEENS CONSORTIUM ON LOTE and INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN TRANSCULTURAL CONTEXT (ILETC)
contact email: 
LOTEproposals@qc.cuny.edu

Teaching Language, Teaching Literature: State of a Union
May 6th, 2013
The Graduate School and University Center (CUNY)

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

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

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

The Alice Munro Symposium, 9-11 May 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, University of Ottawa
contact email: 
glynch80@rogers.com, fiamengo@uottawa.ca

THE ALICE MUNRO SYMPOSIUM
University of Ottawa, May 9-11, 2014
Call For Papers

[UPDATE] (Deadline: March 15; MLA 2014) Balkan Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Music

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.

The 21st METU British Novelists Conference: The Bronte Sisters and Their Work 12-13 December 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
contact email: 
nkorkut@metu.edu.tr

"The Bronte Sisters and Their Work" is the theme for this year’s METU British Novelists Conference organized by the Department of Foreign Language Education in Middle East Technical University.

CFP for a Special Edition of Women's Writing on Victorian Bestsellers

full name / name of organization: 
Clare Clarke, Trinity College Dublin and Clare Gill, University of Southampton
contact email: 
clarkc11@tcd.ie and C.Gill@Soton.ac.uk

Queens of the Marketplace: nineteenth-century women writers and the rise of the bestseller

Integrating Ecocriticism in New and Established Curricula - MLA 2014 Special Session (January 2014, Chicago)

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Language Association
contact email: 
pichugin@sas.upenn.edu

We invite papers on theory and best practices of introducing ecological themes and/or ecocritical discourse into literature and content-based language curricula.

Gay and Lesbian Studies, PAMLA Conference 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
mark.bundy@ucr.edu

Seeking abstracts/proposals ASAP on various topics in the area of LGBTQ Studies in any academic discipline for the 2013 PAMLA Conference: Friday November 1-Sunday November 3, 2013 at the Bahia Resort

City-Wide: Beyond the Institution: Theatre, Performance, and the University, October 31 to November 3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
A collaboration of graduate students in theatre and performance studies departments from: Columbia University, The City University of New York, New York University, Princeton University, and The Yale School of Drama
contact email: 
citywideconf@gmail.com

CITYWIDE 2013 CONFERENCE
Call For Proposals
Deadline April 19, 2013
http://opencuny.org/citywide/

Beyond the Institution: Theatre, Performance, and the University

War Memories: Commemoration, Re-enactment, Writings of War in the English-speaking World- 17, 18, 19 June 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Université Européenne de Bretagne – Rennes 2, France
contact email: 
renee.dickason@orange.fr

The wars of the past have not left the same imprint on collective memory. Wars of conquest or liberation have marked the history of the British Empire and its colonies in different ways.

Call for Participants: Humanities, Copyright and New Technologies workshop

full name / name of organization: 
Forms of Innovation
contact email: 
info@formsofinnovation.com

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
FORMS OF INNOVATION
WORKSHOP 1: HUMANITIES, COPYRIGHT AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Saturday, 27th April 2013
Durham University, Durham, UK

Call for panelists: Choreographing Shakespeare for April 2014 French Shakespeare Society Conference in Paris

full name / name of organization: 
French Shakespeare Society
contact email: 
marisa@videodansebourgogne.com

Call for Panelists Moving Shakespeare: Approaches to Choreographing the Works of William Shakespeare in Dance Performance
DEADLINE June 8, 2013

Journal THE PROBLEMS OF LITERARY GENRES Volume 56 (2013) CALL FOR PAPERS

full name / name of organization: 
Journal THE PROBLEMS OF LITERARY GENRES (Zagadnienia Rodzajow Literackich)
contact email: 
jarrek@uni.lodz.pl; wrooble@wp.pl

CALL FOR PAPERS

REMINDER (Deadline: March 15): MLA 2014 -- Cognitive Approaches to Literature Division -- Call for Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Julien J. Simon
contact email: 
jjsimon@iue.edu

Call for Papers -- MLA 2014, Chicago
Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature
(Guaranteed sessions)

PANEL 1
Cognitive Approaches to Film
Theory; new interpretations; unexpected angles. We invite papers at the intersection of cognitive studies and the moving image. Send 300-word abstract and CV by March 15th; Julien Simon (jjsimon@iue.edu) and Lisa Zunshine (lisa.zunshine@gmail.com).

PANEL 2
Cognitive Historicist Approaches to Literature
Papers examining literary works (across cultural traditions) in relation to the ideas about the mind circulating when the works were produced. Send 300-word abstract and CV by March 15th; Julien Simon (jjsimon@iue.edu).

Congress -- 100th anniversary of Russian formalism (1913-2013), August 25-29 2013, MOSCOW

full name / name of organization: 
100th anniversary of Russian formalism (1913-2013)
contact email: 
ru.formalism@rggu.ru

Hosted by:
National Research University -- Higher School of Economics
Russian State University for the Humanities

Organized by:
National Research University -- Higher School of Economics

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