category: graduate conferences

MadLit 2013: Between Surface and Depth

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.

Thinking the Political: The Work of Ernesto Laclau

full name / name of organization: 
University of Brighton
contact email: 
is72@uni.brighton.ac.uk

For over 40 years Ernesto Laclau’s work has consistently, almost obstinately, sought to rethink the status of the political.

Feminism; Influence; Inheritance (23rd March 2013)

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

7th Annual Graduate Conference: "alt/" (March 16-17, 2013; abstracts due 12/15)

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

[UPDATE]: "Redefining Notions of Public and Private" Graduate Conference Feb 22

full name / name of organization: 
NC State Association of English Graduate Students
contact email: 
aegs.conference@gmail.com

– “I Live Here!: Redefining and Negotiating Notions of Public and Private”

North Carolina State University English Graduate Conference
Conference Dates: Feb 22-23, 2013

Early Modern Paratexts: A Work in Progress Seminar - Friday 25th July, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Bristol
contact email: 
earlymodernparatexts2013@gmail.com

This one-day event seeks to gather together scholars working on paratexts in early modern literature, to share and survey current research, to generate new lines of enquiry and to create opportunities

Citizenship and Its Discontents: Belonging in a Global World (March 30, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, English Graduate Organization
contact email: 
umassegoconference@gmail.com

Citizenship and Its Discontents: Belonging in a Global World
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Saturday, March 30, 2013

Roundtable Participants: Priscilla Wald (Duke University; Past President of ASA), Nick Bromell (UMass-Amherst), and Sut Jhally (UMass-Amherst)

Send proposals to umassegoconference@gmail.com by Friday, January 25, 2013.

[UPDATE] CFP SW/TX PCA Conference, Feb. 13-16,2013 AREA: Motor Culture & the Road, Deadline Nov. 16, 2012

full name / name of organization: 
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association & American Culture Associations
contact email: 
srusnak@ggc.edu

Motor Culture and the Road relates to a wide variety of areas of cultural significance in the global context.

ACLA Annual Meeting Seminar: "Fictions of Fallen Empires" (University of Toronto, April 4-7, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
American Comparative Literature Association
contact email: 
schihaya@berkeley.edu, jcrewe@berkeley.edu

"Fictions of Fallen Empires": Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar at the ACLA annual meeting, April 4-7, 2013, University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario)

Clash Zones: Identities in (R)Evolution - April 5-6, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
contact email: 
gcws@mit.edu

CLASH ZONES: IDENTITIES IN (R)EVOLUTION
an interdisciplinary graduate student conference
sponsored by the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies

Cornell Medieval Studies Student Colloqiuum February 23, 2012 (proposals by December 1)

full name / name of organization: 
Cornell Medieval Studies Student Colloqiuum
contact email: 
cmm429@cornell.edu

Medieval Studies Student Colloquium
Call for Papers

UPDATE: SW/TX PCA/ACA Children’s/Young Adult Literature and Culture Area (11/16/12; 2/13/13-2/16/12)

full name / name of organization: 
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference
contact email: 
gypsyscholar@rgv.rr.com

34th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference
February 13 – 16, 2013
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.swtxpca.org

[UPDATE] The Difference of Joyce The VI James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome - February 1-2 2013

full name / name of organization: 
James Joyce Italian Foundation
contact email: 
joycefoundation@uniroma3.it

Conference Date: February 1-2 2013
Abstracts due: December 9, 2012

[UPDATE] Being Undisciplined: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference- April 6, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Cincinnati English Composition Program
contact email: 
beingundisciplineduc@gmail.com

“New knowledge arises out of taking radically different conceptual blocs, rubbing them together and making revolutionary fire.”
-David Harvey

Being Undisciplined: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

full name / name of organization: 
University of Cincinnati English Composition Program
contact email: 
beingundisciplineduc@gmail.com

“New knowledge arises out of taking radically different conceptual blocs, rubbing them together and making revolutionary fire.”
-David Harvey

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

Arab American/Arab Immigrant -- special topics panel; LSU Mardi Gras Conference; Feb. 7th and 8th; Abstract deadline Dec. 1st

full name / name of organization: 
Louisiana State University English Graduate Student Association
contact email: 
arabimmigrant@gmail.com

For Louisiana State University’s upcoming graduate student conference on the theme of “In Momentum: Literature, Travel, and Alterity,” this panel seeks to explore the exciting field of Arab Amer

Health, Mental Health, and Literature - March 9th

full name / name of organization: 
Boston College English Graduate Conference
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] CFP American Studies SW TX PCA/ACA Albuquerque Feb. 13-16, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Southwest Texas Popular Culture American Culture Association
contact email: 
havenl@ohio.edu

Call for Papers: American Studies Area

The Seventh Century: Continuity or Discontinuity? The 2013 Edinburgh University Seventh Century Colloquium 28 – 29 May 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium
contact email: 
edinburgh7th@gmail.com

The Seventh Century: Continuity or Discontinuity?
The 2013 Edinburgh University Seventh Century Colloquium
28 – 29 May 2013
Call for papers

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies (Apr 19-20, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Binghamton University - English Department
contact email: 
shiftingborders@gmail.com

Conference Title: Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies (4th Annual)

At the Mercy of the Masses? - Popular Culture and Academia (Deadline 12/20/2012)

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

Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics: The Production of Knowledge and the Future of the Universi

full name / name of organization: 
The Sixth Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference Binghamton University (SUNY)
contact email: 
thefutureuniversity@gmail.com

Neoliberal policies have restructured the university, disciplinary knowledge, and the disciplines themselves.

4th annual University of Louisville Graduate Conference in Humanities

full name / name of organization: 
PhD in Humanities and Association of Humanities Academics at the University of Louisville
contact email: 
ahalouisville@gmail.com

The PhD in Humanities and the Association of Humanities Academics at the University of Louisville announce the 4th annual University of Louisville Graduate Conference in Humanities on Friday, March 22

CSUF Acacia Conference 2012: Mediated Selves, March 1-2, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The Acacia Group
contact email: 
theacaciagroup.csuf@gmail.com

Conference dates: March 1-2, 2013
Abstracts due: December 15, 2012

[UPDATE] Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues and Communities

full name / name of organization: 
Nathan Waddell and Louise Kane / Institute of English Studies / Wyndham Lewis Society
contact email: 
wyndhamlewis2012@hotmail.co.uk

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS NOW OPENED.

To register for the conference please go here:

http://wl2012.weebly.com/registration.html

UPDATE: Philological Association of the Carolinas Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Gary Ettari/Philological Association of the Carolinas
contact email: 
gettari@unca.edu, KKiely@fmarion.edu

* Note new deadline*

Call for Papers and Panels
37th Annual PAC Conference
21 - 23 March 2013
University of North Carolina at Asheville

Trans-Scripts CFP: "Thinking Activism" (Deadline: Jan. 1, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Trans-Scripts, an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine
contact email: 
transscriptsjournal@gmail.com

Trans-Scripts – an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine – invites graduate students to submit their work for publication.

Of Human Bondage: Literatures of Constraint - March 1-2, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
University of Montreal
contact email: 
egssconference@gmail.com

9th Annual Université de Montréal English Graduate Conference
March 1 and 2, 2013

OF HUMAN BONDAGE: LITERATURES OF CONSTRAINT

Keynote Speaker: Sherry Simon (Concordia University)

[UPDATE] In Momentum: Literature, Travel, and Alterity; LSU Mardi Gras Conference: Feb. 7-8, 2013; Submissions Due: Dec. 1, 2012

full name / name of organization: 
Louisiana State University English Graduate Student Association
contact email: 
mardigrasconference2013@gmail.com

In Momentum: Literature, Travel, and Alterity
The 23rd Annual Graduate Student Mardi Gras Conference
Louisiana State University
February 7th and 8th, 2013

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Annual Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Anna Lillios / University of Central Florida
contact email: 
Anna@ucf.edu

26th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference

Florida House Inn, Amelia Island, Florida
April 26-27, 2013

Sponsored by the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Award for Excellence in Writing

full name / name of organization: 
Anna Lillios / University of Central Florida
contact email: 
Anna@ucf.edu

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society is sponsoring a writing contest for currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students.

(Re)formulations of Blackness in 21st-century France (ACLA 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Mame Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jean-Baptiste Meunier (University of Pittsburgh)
contact email: 
mniang@andrew.cmu.edu

This is a call for papers for the annual American Comparative Literature Conference which will be held in Toronto, Canada, April 4 - 7, 2013.

Minding the Body: Dualism and Its Discontents

full name / name of organization: 
The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, English Student Association
contact email: 
mindingthebodyconference@gmail.com

“The BRAIN—is wider than the sky—”

-Emily Dickinson

9th Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
contact email: 
nyuassc@gmail.com

New York University
April 4-5, 2012
Keynote by Asa Mittman (California State University, Chico) on April 4

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