category: graduate conferences

*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

The Open I: Decoding Exposure (2/1; 4/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
contact email: 
bcgradconference@gmail.com

CALL for PAPERS: The Open I: Decoding Exposure
Sixth Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
April 13, 2013

MadLit 2013: Between Surface and Depth EXTENDED DEADLINE

full name / name of organization: 
University of Wisconsin-Madison
contact email: 
uwmadlit@gmail.com

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s ninth annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature (MadLit) will be held February 28–March 1, 2013.

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

[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

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Performing Theory, Theorizing Performance: Conceptualization, Execution, and Documentation, due January 22

full name / name of organization: 
A Graduate Student Conference with the Theatre and Drama Department at University of Wisconsin Madison
contact email: 
tdgso2013@gmail.com

March 16, 2013
With keynote speakers:
Chloe Johnston, Assistant Professor of Theater, Lake Forest College, writer and performer with the Neo-Futurists

[UPDATE] Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science, March 2013 (Deadline January 4, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign British Modernities Reading Group
contact email: 
modernities@gmail.com

Call for Papers and Posters:

“Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science”

British Modernities Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

March 8-9, 2013

[UPDATE] Marginalia: Life on the Edges, February 15 and 16, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
UNC MEMS, Duke MedRen, UNC Graduate School
contact email: 
nccolloquium2013@gmail.com

The 13th annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals that engage broadly with the notion of marginalia.

CFP Humanities in the 21st Century (March 2013; Oxford, England)

full name / name of organization: 
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
hum1@inter-disciplinary.net

CFP: HUMANITIES IN THE 21st CENTURY
Saturday 24th-Sunday 25th March 2013
Harris Manchester College, Oxford

CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND PARTICIPANTS

But is it art?

full name / name of organization: 
NYU French Dept.
contact email: 
butisitartconference@gmail.com

The Department of French at NYU
announces its annual Graduate Student Conference:

… but is it art?

March 8th and 9th, 2013

LSU Graduate Student Conference March 8th-9th

full name / name of organization: 
6th annual Louisiana State University Graduate Student Conference
contact email: 
pcynar1@lsu.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS:

LSU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference 2013
March 8 & 9, Louisiana State University

Submission deadline: January 20.

Global Research Project on Fan Communities and Fandom

full name / name of organization: 
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
contact email: 
fan1@inter-disciplinary.ney

CFP: Global Research Project on Fan Communities and Fandom
22nd-23rd March 2013
Harris Manchester College, Oxford

[UPDATE] WRITING INTO ART

full name / name of organization: 
David Kinloch, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
contact email: 
kinloch.david1@gmail.com

Only two weeks to go until the deadline (5 January, 2013) for call for papers for this international conference on ekphrasis. For full details please see http://writingintoart.wordpress.com

The 2nd International Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2013), to be held on June,

full name / name of organization: 
Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2013)
contact email: 
zhekova@uni-bremen.de

We invite you to submit a paper to The 2nd International Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2013: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae/2013), to be hel

Update: Online registration now open. Click here:http://www.shsu.edu/~hss001/medieval-conference/

full name / name of organization: 
Sam Houston State University's First International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Thought
contact email: 
Dr. Darci Hill, Conference Coordinator: dr.darci.hill@gmail.com

We are announcing today our fully-functioning website with convenient online registration and online payment.

Call for Papers: The Tangible, McGill University Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
McGill University Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Student Association
contact email: 
ahcsconference@gmail.com

The Tangible

McGill University

Department of Art History and Communication Studies

4th Annual Graduate Student Symposium

April 26th, 2013

[UPDATE] Renovation: A Regional Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, March 1-2, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Nevada, Reno
contact email: 
unr.grad.conference@gmail.com

At the turn of the 20th century, Ezra Pound declared the need to “make it new.” His call inspired numerous artists, creators, critics, and theorists to push the boundaries of their fields, to disc

[UPDATE] Humanities Education and Research Association Conference in Houston, Texas, March 21-23 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Humanities Education and Research Association [HERA]
contact email: 
mgreen@sfsu.edu

Sacred Sites, Secular Spaces: Scenes, Sounds, and Signs in Humanistic, Artistic, and Technological Culture

April 2013 Conference on Publishing in the 21st Century

full name / name of organization: 
University of Minnesota - Duluth
contact email: 
umd.egsa@gmail.com

The English Graduate Student Association of the University of Minnesota-Duluth is accepting papers for our Spring 2013 publishing conference.

[UPDATE] At the Mercy of the Masses? - Popular Culture and Academia (deadline extended)

full name / name of organization: 
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland
contact email: 
sllcgradconference@gmail.com

At the Mercy of the Masses? – Popular Culture and Academia
University of Maryland, College Park

April 12-13, 2013

Keynote Speaker: George Yúdice, University of Miami

[UPDATE] Keynote speakers: The Arts of Attention Conference, Budapest, Hungary (Feb. 28, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Károli Gáspár University
contact email: 
taoa2013@gmail.com

Attention is increasingly regarded by cognitive scientists and evolutionary anthropologists as a faculty whose development in human animals is constitutive of what it means to be human.

[UPDATE] Deadline extension: The Arts of Attention Conference, Budapest, Hungary (Feb. 28, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Károli Gáspár University
contact email: 
taoa2013@gmail.com

Attention is increasingly regarded by cognitive scientists and evolutionary anthropologists as a faculty whose development in human animals is constitutive of what it means to be human.

Postclassical Narratology – Cultural, Historical and Cognitive Aspects of Narrative Theory (06/23/2013 - 06/25/2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany (BUW)
contact email: 
l.preuss@uni-wuppertal.de; hostert@uni-wuppertal.de; leopold@uni-wuppertal.de

Postclassical Narratology – Cultural, Historical and Cognitive Aspects of Narrative Theory

PRRT 2013 : ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques (PRRT) 2013, 2013-05-05

full name / name of organization: 
PRRT 2013 : ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques (PRRT) 2013
contact email: 
hfardoun@kau.edu.sa

Call For Papers

Current Research in Speculative Fiction [CRSF] 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Current Research in Speculative Fiction [CRSF]
contact email: 
CRSF.team@gmail.com

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2013

Monday 17th June 2013 - University of Liverpool

Keynote Lectures from:
Pat Cadigan (Double Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Author)

Grad journal special issue: (Non-)Geographical Futures of Comp Lit MARCH 15 2013

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

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

LIES 2013: Michele Roberts and Postmodernism, Feminism and Medievalism in Literature in English

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
contact email: 
kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl; bbronkk@gmail.com

From the early feminists to postmodern protagonists her novels rewrite medieval saints and sinners, Victorian mediums and contemporary visionaries, offering us new perspectives on well known stories a

REMINDER - Feminism;Influence;Inheritance - Deadline 4 Jan '13

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

IDEE 2013 : Interaction Design in Educational Environments (IDEE) 2013 [July 3, 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
IDEE 2013 : Interaction Design in Educational Environments (IDEE) 2013
contact email: 
hfardoun@kau.edu.sa

Call For Papers

The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature (deadline extended)

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
contact email: 
osullivan@cuhk.edu.hk

The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature

April 19-21, 2013
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

[UPDATE] DEADLINE EXTENDED -- "alt/" Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference (March 16-17, 2013; abstracts due 1/15/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association
contact email: 
altconference2013@gmail.com

“Alt,” neither a word nor a prefix in the grammatical sense, has nevertheless been a generative concept in contemporary scholarly interrogations of non-normative ways of engaging with and inhabiti

'The Laboring Body' conference (UC Irvine, March 15, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
contact email: 
thelaboringbody@gmail.com

Keynote speaker: Nathan Brown (University of California, Davis)
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/ucicomplitgradconference/
CFP deadline: January 13, 2013

Please circulate widely.

Current Research in Speculative Fiction [CRSF] 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Current Research in Speculative Fiction [CRSF]
contact email: 
crsf.team@gmail.com

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2013

Monday 17th June 2013 - University of Liverpool

Keynote Lectures from:
Pat Cadigan (Double Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Author)

[UPDATE] CFP Deadline Extended: British Women Writers Conference (April 4-6, 2013; Abstracts now due Jan 1st)

full name / name of organization: 
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
contact email: 
BWWC2013@gmail.com

We have had requests to extend the deadline, so you (and all your friends and colleagues!) now have until January 1st to submit an abstract to the

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