category: general announcements

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference Oct 10-12, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association--RMMLA
contact email: 
rmmla@rmmla.org

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association - RMMLA
Call for Papers Extended to APRIL 15, 2013!
Vancouver, Washington USA (Fly into Portland)
Convention Dates: October 10-12, 2013
www.rmmla.org

Idle/Stasis: Call for Prose, Poetry, Art--due June 1

full name / name of organization: 
Transverse: A Comparative Studies Journal, Issue 13, University of Toronto
contact email: 
transversejournal@gmail.com

The twinned concepts of idle and stasis have recently been brought to the forefront of political conversations in Canada because of the Idle No More grassroots movement, which is one of the many manif

2nd Global Conference: Time, Space and the Body (September 2013: Oxford, United Kingdom)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
punish3@inter-disciplinary.net

2nd Global Conference
Time, Space and the Body

Sunday 1st September – Tuesday 3rd September 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Presentations

Cracking the Ivory Tower, Abstract deadline: May 1

full name / name of organization: 
University of Pittsburgh
contact email: 
klp68@pitt.edu

The editors seek abstracts for essays sharing advice, unique stories or sage wisdom for graduate students at all levels.

CFP: 9/11 Popular Culture (Panels for MPCA,Oct 11-13, 2013); April 30 deadline

full name / name of organization: 
Paul Petrovic / Midwest Popular Culture Association
contact email: 
pauldpetrovic@gmail.com

The Midwest Popular Association / American Culture Association conference will be held at the St. Louis Union Station in St. Louis, MO, this October 11-13, 2013.

Allegory Studies? (7 November 2013; proposals 31 May)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Warwick
contact email: 
v.brljak@warwick.ac.uk

UPDATE: Call for Journal Articles: "The Writer's Experience" - Deadline: May 27, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of South Texas English Studies
contact email: 
southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Summer 2013 issue, themed “The Writer’s Experience.” Submission deadline: May 27 2013.

[Reminder] Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing (PAMLA, San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
smacdon8@kent.edu

This panel is designed to examine ideas of childhood based on the life writing of working class people.

Best Practices: Designing the Capstone Course for Undergraduate English Majors

full name / name of organization: 
Special Session: South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November 8-10, 2013, Atlanta, GA
contact email: 
tomm@usca.edu

This special session will feature presentations that outline practical models for supervising the undergraduate capstone project in English studies; these models should reflect a proven track record o

CFP: Bicycles / Bicycling in Literature and Culture, edited collection (proposals 8/1/13, essays 2/1/14)

full name / name of organization: 
Jeremy Withers and Daniel Shea, Editors of Collection on Bicycles in Literature and Culture
contact email: 
shead@apsu.edu and withers@iastate.edu

The American author Charles Morley once said: “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” As Morley’s quote suggests, many people have perceived an in

Exploring the Dynamics of Media and Communication Education & Research

full name / name of organization: 
Media Watch communication journal
contact email: 
mediawatchjournal@gmail.com

Globally media education and research is in its dynamic flux after the emergence of new/social media. The traditional models/process of communications is redefined.

[UPDATE} FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition [SCMLA New Orleans 10/3/13-10/5/13]

full name / name of organization: 
Thomas W. Reynolds, Jr., Northwestern State University
contact email: 
reynoldst@nsula.edu

FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition

South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 70th Annual Convention

The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genres

full name / name of organization: 
Birkbeck & Institute of English Studies / University of London
contact email: 
theweirdconference@gmail.com

Friday 8 November 2013
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London

(+ Thursday 7 November: evening event / weird fiction reading: details tbc)

The Gothic Compass: New Directions in Scholarship and Inquiry. Abstracts due on 23 April.

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Professor Donna Lee Brien, Editors
contact email: 
lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz

The editors warmly seek abstracts for essays exploring ‘new directions’ in Gothic scholarship. Selected essays will appear in a collection to be published by an international academic publisher.

"Dance Studies and Peace Studies" Abstracts due: April 4; Conference: November 14–17, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Brandon Shaw / Brown University
contact email: 
Brandon_Shaw@brown.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Decentering Dance Studies: Moving In New Global Orders

November 14–17, 2013

Special Joint conference with Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)

(Re)Presenting the Archive [Update - Registration OPEN]

full name / name of organization: 
University of Sheffield, UK
contact email: 
archive@sheffield.ac.uk

In a Higher Education context where originality in research is increasingly valorised, what place is there for explicitly re-presentational practices such as scholarly editing and curating?

Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

1st International Symposium:
Speed, Silence and Solitude

Part of the Research Program on:
Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self

International Network for Alternative Academia

Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self, 1st International Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

1st International Symposium:
Creating Characters, Inventing Lives: The Art of the Self

Part of the Research Program on:
Aesthetic Lives, Artistic Selves

Hope, Betrayal and Trust, 1st International Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

1st International Symposium:
Hope, Betrayal and Trust

Part of the Research Program on:
Lost Virtues, Found Vices

International Network for Alternative Academia

Reinventing Citizenship, 7th International Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson, General Coordinator, International Network for Alternative Academia
contact email: 
acc@alternative-academia.net

7th International Symposium:
Reinventing Citizenship

Part of the Research Program on:
Protest, Justice and Deliberative Power

International Network for Alternative Academia

Invitation to CFP - Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense (Submission date - April 10, 2013))

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense
contact email: 
editor.jbtbd@omicsonline.org

The Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense includes a wide range of fields in its discipline to create a platform for the authors to make their contribution towards the journal and the editorial office

PAMLA 2013 Conference (Nov. 1-3): The Body on the Extreme (deadline April 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
cruizvelasco@fullerton.edu

Literary and cinematic representations of the body and identifying the implications of those representations remain crucial topics of inquiry for feminist, gender, disability, race, class studies.

Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales in Popular Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Melissa Lenos
contact email: 
melissalenos@gmail.com

I invite submissions for an edited collection of essays on contemporary uses of fairy tales in popular culture.

[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.

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