category: graduate conferences

Upcoming Deadline 1/25: CFP Citizenship and Its Discontents: Belonging in a Global World, interdisciplinary graduate conference

full name / name of organization: 
UMass Amherst English Graduate Organization
contact email: 
nqadir@english.umass.edu

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

Compromising, Negotiating: Being a Graduate Student

full name / name of organization: 
Graduate Student Caucus of the MLA
contact email: 
lbourdeau@ucdavis.edu

The Graduate Student Caucus, an affiliate organization of the MLA, invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2014 MLA annual meeting (Chicago, Jan. 9-12, 2014). Please send abstracts (ca.

Coastal Plains Graduate Conference: April 5-6, 2013 [UPDATE]

full name / name of organization: 
Coastal Plains Graduate Conference / University of Houston Graduate English Society
contact email: 
houstonlit@gmail.com

[UPDATE]
*PROPOSALS NOW DUE FEBRUARY 1st, 2013

Join us for our 3rd Annual Conference
Friday and Saturday April 5-6, 2013
at the University of Houston

With Keynote Speakers:

[UPDATE] NEMSC Graduate Student Conference, March 16, 2013 [Due 2/1/13]

full name / name of organization: 
New England Medieval Studies Consortium
contact email: 
uconn.nemsc@gmail.com

30th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference
"Collaborations"

Saturday, March 16, 2013
University of Connecticut

[UPDATE] CFP EXTENDED DEADLINE The World We Have Imagined: Literature, Nature, and the Environment Conference - April 4-6, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Southwestern College - Winfield, KS
contact email: 
alice.bendinelli@sckans.edu; john.scaggs@sckans.edu

We are seeking proposals for a conference on the relationship between Literature, Nature, and the Environment, which will focus on the idea of the environmental imagination, imaginary worlds, and imag

International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (26-28 July 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand)

full name / name of organization: 
Higher Education Forum
contact email: 
icepas@icepas.org

The 2013 International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (ICEAS) will be held on July 26-28, 2013, in Bangkok, Thailand.

April 18-20, 2013, Humanities Symposium, U of Puerto Rico, Keynote Giannina Braschi

full name / name of organization: 
University of Puerto Rico, School of the Humanties
contact email: 
dagifh.rrp@upr.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS:

NWSA 2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality

full name / name of organization: 
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
contact email: 
wrightrm@indiana.edu, karlic@stanford.edu, aasha.foster@nyu.edu, przybylo@yorku.ca, kgupta2@emory.edu

2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
November 7-10, 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Debrupa Bal Memorial National Students’ Seminar on "Aesthetics, Poetics in/and Indian Literary Cultures", March 13-14, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
contact email: 
dbmssju@gmail.com

[UPDATE] CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR "OF HUMAN BONDAGE: LITERATURES OF CONSTRAINT" CONFERENCE MARCH 1-2, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Université de Montréal
contact email: 
egssconference@gmail.com

**DEADLINE EXTENDED: ABSTRACTS NOW DUE JANUARY 31 2013**

10th Annual Université de Montréal English Graduate Conference March 1-2, 2013

OF HUMAN BONDAGE: LITERATURES OF CONSTRAINT

2013 Mnemonics Graduate Summer School (Ghent, 9-11 September 2013; abstracts due 1 April 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies
contact email: 
mnemonics@ugent.be

Call for Papers for 2013 Mnemonics Graduate Summer School
“Memory Unbound: Transcultural, Transgenerational, Transmedial, and Transdisciplinary Dynamics of Memory” (Ghent, 9-11 September 2013)

http://www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/cfp-ghent/

FINAL EXTENSION: IU Grad Student Conference: "Consent: Terms of Agreement"

full name / name of organization: 
Indiana University English Department Graduate Student Advisory Committee
contact email: 
iugradconference@gmail.com

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and creative submissions for an international, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, entitled “Consent: Terms of Agreement,” to be held a

International Workshop on Agent Technology for Ambient Intelligence AgTAmI 2013 Bucharest, Romania 29-31 May 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Romanian Association for Artificial Intelligence
contact email: 
info@aimas.cs.pub.ro

The International Workshop on Agent Technology for Ambient Intelligence
AgTAmI 2013
Bucharest, Romania
29-31 May 2013
http://aimas.cs.pub.ro/agtami2013

CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
University of Glasgow
contact email: 
arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Professor Pierre Joris (SUNY at Albany)
Ruth Washbrook (Scottish Screen Archive/NLS)

The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space [UPDATE] Conference Date March 23, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
English Graduate Conference at Southern Methodist University
contact email: 
smugradconference@gmail.com

Describing Kokovoko, the mysterious island home of Queequeg in Melville's Moby Dick, Ishmael states, "It is not down in any map; true places never are." The idea of "place" has haunted and inspired th

[UPDATE] Re/Invention 2013: Hysteria - Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
California State University, Long Beach
contact email: 
egsa.csulb@gmail.com

Re/Inventions 2013: Hysteria
2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
California State University, Long Beach
Tentative Date: Thursday, 11 April 2013
Abstracts Due: Friday, 15 February 2013

London International Conference for Advanced Research in Business

full name / name of organization: 
Coordinator
contact email: 
info@intlafr.com

Website-http://www.intlafr.com/conferences.html

Gender, Sexuality, and Power

full name / name of organization: 
Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities/ California State University, Los Angeles
contact email: 
rbatema@calstatela.edu

Keynote Speaker: Jose Muñoz, Professor of Performance Studies, New York University

[UPDATE] REMINDER: Emerging Scholars in Performance, ATHE 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Performance Studies Focus Group of the Association for Theater in Higher Education
contact email: 
gty2104@columbia.edu

Call for Papers: PSFG/ATHE 2013 Emerging Scholars Panel

Dreaming Dangerously: Imagining the Utopian, the Nostalgic, the Possible

full name / name of organization: 
Simon Fraser University, English Department Graduate Conference
contact email: 
gradconf@sfu.ca

Nostalgia itself has a utopian dimension, only it is no longer directed toward the future. Sometimes nostalgia is not directed towards the past either, but rather sideways.

Picking Through the Trash - May 10th and 11th, 2013 - DEADLINE MARCH 15th

full name / name of organization: 
York University Graduate Conference
contact email: 
tanya81@yorku.ca and jvandor@yorku.ca

Picking Through the Trash
English Graduate Students’ Association Conference at York University, Toronto
May 10th and 11th, 2013

New Directions in Critical Theory Graduate Conference 2013: “Uncovering the Sublime: The Infinite, the Material, and the Beyond”

full name / name of organization: 
University of Arizona: Department of English
contact email: 
newdirectionsconference@gmail.com

Friday, April 5--Saturday, April 6
University of Arizona

A matter of lifedeath

full name / name of organization: 
Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
contact email: 
mosaconf@ad.umanitoba.ca

A matter of lifedeath
October 1-4, 2014

The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

[UPDATE] DEADLINE EXTENDED - A Comic Of Her Own - 10th Annual UF Comics Conference - March 15-17, 2013 - Gainesville, FL

full name / name of organization: 
ImageTexT
contact email: 
imagetext@english.ufl.edu

Keynote Speaker: Trina Robbins
Guest Artist: Leela Corman
Guest Artist: Megan Kelso

The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space

full name / name of organization: 
English Graduate Conference at Southern Methodist University
contact email: 
smugradconference@gmail.com

English Graduate Conference at Southern Methodist University

Sherlock Holmes, Past and Present, 21 and 22 June 2013 [EXTENSION]

full name / name of organization: 
Senate House, London
contact email: 
J.L.Cranfield@ljmu.ac.uk AND ue_tom@hotmail.com

Many thanks to those who have already submitted their proposals. We will be extending our deadline until 20 January 2013. Here’s the original CFP:

Ways of Being / Modes of Existence: Human, animal, machine

full name / name of organization: 
Louisiana State University Department of French Studies
contact email: 
lsufrenchconference@gmail.com

Keynote Speakers:
Dominique Lestel, Ecole Normale Supérieure-Paris
Verena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State University

2013 Annual SAMLA Conference: Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
contact email: 
samla@gsu.edu

2013 Annual SAMLA Conference-Cultures, Contexts, Images, and Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds

Call for Presenters: Best Teaching Practices Workshop

full name / name of organization: 
Forrest C. Helvie / Plymouth State University Medieval & Renaissance Forum
contact email: 
forrest.helvie@att.net

“Travel, Contact, Exchange” Call for Papers and Submissions
34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH, USA
Friday and Saturday April 19-20, 2013

Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con International, July 18-21 (Proposals Due March 1)

full name / name of organization: 
Comics Arts Conference
contact email: 
comicsartsconference@gmail.com

The Comics Arts Conference is accepting 100-200 word proposals for papers, presentations, panels and posters taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a

CFP: The 4th International Workshop on Wireless Networks and Multimedia (WNM-2013), Melbourne, Australia, 16-18 July, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Yulei Wu
contact email: 
wnm.melbourne.2013@gmail.com

Appologies if you received multiple copies of this WNM-2013 CFP.
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Renaissance of Roland Barthes April 25th-26th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Claire Sommers/CUNY Graduate Center
contact email: 
csommers@gc.cuny.edu

Speakers: Jonathan Culler, Diana Knight, Rosalind Krauss, D.A. Miller, and Lucy O’Meara

UPDATE_Extended Deadline_April 2013 American Studies Graduate Sypmposium CFP

full name / name of organization: 
M. Lilly Marsh/ American Studies Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
contact email: 
marsh0@pudue.edu

Extended Deadline, January 20, 2013
Academics IRL: Taking Scholarship out of the Ivory Tower
38th Annual American Studies Symposium
Purdue University, April 17-19, 2013

[UPDATE] Shifting Boundaries/Crossing Cultures: the Politics, Process, and Performance of Collaboration, April 5 and 6, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The Graduate Theatre Syndicate and The Performance/Politics Humanities Institute Working Group, Co-Conveners Harmony Bench (Dance), Ryan Skinner (Ethnomusicology and AAAS), and Jennifer Schlueter (Theatre) at The Ohio State University
contact email: 
wilson.2428@osu.edu

The Graduate Theatre Syndicate and The Performance/Politics Humanities Institute Working Group, Co-Conveners Harmony Bench (Dance), Ryan Skinner (Ethnomusicology and AAAS), and Jennifer Schlueter (The

AVANCA | CINEMA 2013 - International Conference Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication - Deadline submission - 27 February

full name / name of organization: 
AVANCA | CINEMA 2013 - International Conference Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication
contact email: 
conferencia.avanca@gmail.com

AVANCA | CINEMA 2013
International Conference Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication

Date: 24 to 28 July, 2013
Place: Avanca – Portugal

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