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Research Residency Fellowship with Provisions Library 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Provisions Library
contact email: 
provisionslibrary@gmail.com

Provisions Library--an art and social change agent in Washington DC and Fairfax, VA--is now accepting proposals for National and Capital Research Residency fellowships for September 2013-September 201

Energy in Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Paula Farca (Colorado School of Mines)
contact email: 
pfarca@mines.edu

June 15th, 2013, EDITED ANTHOLOGY

CFP - 2nd Annual Marginalised Mainstream Conference: Fading and Emerging, 12-13 September 2013 [Deadline 17 May 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Marginalised Mainstream 2013
contact email: 
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com

Keynote speakers include: Dr Kate Macdonald (Ghent University, Brussels) and Dr Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton, London)

Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the Nineteenth Century to Now - Deadline for Abstracts June 1st

full name / name of organization: 
University of Durham
contact email: 
literarydollsconference@gmail.com

Literary Dolls:The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now

University of Durham, International Women’s Day, 8th March 2014

Comparative American Ethnic Literatures—Special Session, PAMLA – submissions due April 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA--Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
melanieh@u.washington.edu

November 1-3, 2013, San Diego, CA

“FATHER LANDS, MOTHER COUNTRIES, AND WARDS OF THE (NATION) STATE”

[UPDATE] Science Fiction and the Social Construction of Science and Technology (Nottingham, July 22-23)

full name / name of organization: 
Science in Public conference, University of Nottingham
contact email: 
cleslie@poly.edu

The 2013 "Science in Public" conference at the University of Nottingham from July 22 to 23, 2013 aims to examine relations among science, publics, politics and publics.

“Mapping the Mediterranean: Space, Memory, and the Long Road to Modernity” 11-12 October 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Mediterranean Topographies, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
contact email: 
kashdan@umich.edu

Keynote Panel: “The Present and Future of Mediterranean Studies”
Yasser Ellhariry, Dartmouth College
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University

Collaboration

full name / name of organization: 
Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture, University of Virginia
contact email: 
jeffersonjournaluva@gmail.com

The Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation of the University of Virginia.

[UPDATE] Edith Wharton and The Custom of the Country: Centennial Reappraisals; Symposium 22/ 23 August 2013, Liverpool Hope Univ

full name / name of organization: 
William Blazek and Laura Rattray
contact email: 
custom@hope.ac.uk

Edith Wharton and The Custom of the Country: Centennial Reappraisals
Symposium: 22 and 23 August 2013, Liverpool Hope University, UK

[REMINDER] When “I” Means “We”: Poetry and Social Life

full name / name of organization: 
Princeton Comparative Poetry and Poetics Colloquium
contact email: 
comparativepoetics@gmail.com

REMINDER: Abstract submission deadline is April 10, 2013.

CALL FOR PAPERS

When “I” means “We”: Poetry and Social Life

Panel on Film Noir and Neo-Noir, Abstracts due April 15th

full name / name of organization: 
Panel on Film Noir and Neo-Noir, Abstracts due April 15th
contact email: 
crolens@ucsd.edu

Out of the Past, Into the Postmodern: From Film Noir to Neo-Noir

CFP 'Corporealities: Body Limits' for a special issue of Word and Text

full name / name of organization: 
Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics
contact email: 
wordandtext2011@gmail.com

Treatments of corporeality have piled high in literary and cultural studies, especially in the last twenty years or so, while questions of embodiment continue to proliferate in philosophical discussio

Albert Camus & Philosophy of Communication: Making Sense in an Age of Absurdity [October 17-18, 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Gannon University
contact email: 
sleasman001@gannon.edu

Call for Papers, Panels, and Proposals
“Albert Camus & Philosophy of Communication:
Making Sense in an Age of Absurdity”
www.gannon.edu/philcomm
Gannon University
October 17 – 18, 2013

UPDATE: Great Writing Creative Writing Conference (UK) 05/10/13: 06/29-13 - 06/30/13

full name / name of organization: 
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
contact email: 
conference@greatwriting.org.uk

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Dear Colleagues,

re: Great Writing
UK’s International Creative Writing Conference
Imperial College, London
Sat. June 29th – Sun. June 30th 2013

“Many straunge and horrible events” – Omens and Prophecies in Histories and Tragedies by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
yan.brailowsky@u-paris10.fr

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Shakespearean festivals and anniversaries in Cold War Europe 1947-1988

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
erica.sheen@york.ac.uk

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Legal Perspectives on Shakespearean Theatre

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
daniela.carpi@univr.it

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

‘In this distracted globe’?: Cognitive Shakespeare

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
wood@uni-mainz.de

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Global Shakespeare as Methodology

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
acyhuang05@gmail.com

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Shakespeare and the Visual

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
michele.marrapodi@unipa.it

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

Shakespeare on Screen: The Romances

full name / name of organization: 
Shakespeare 450
contact email: 
s_hatchuel@hotmail.com

(This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', the international week-long conference in Paris celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in April 21-27, 2014.)

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students in English
contact email: 
dagse.conference@gmail.com

On December 11th 2012, Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Northern Ontario declared a hunger strike to critique the federal government’s abuses of treaty rights and First Natio

Sirens - 10/10 - 10/13; deadline May 10

full name / name of organization: 
Cora Anderson / Narrate Conferences
contact email: 
programming at sirensconference.org

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Sirens
Stevenson, Washington
October 10–13, 2013
A conference on women in fantasy literature presented by Narrate Conferences, Inc.

April 15 Deadline -- PAMLA 2013 San Diego (Nov 1-3) -- Special Session: "Ew! Gross! Abjection, Affect, and Bodily Fluids"

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA - Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
sfrohlic@ucsd.edu

[UPDATE] PAMLA Standing Session on Autobiography. San Diego, CA, Nov 1-3, 2013. Deadline: Apr 15, 2013.

full name / name of organization: 
Tanya Heflin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
heflin@iup.edu

We are seeking exceptional papers on all aspects of autobiography, memoir, diary, and life-writing for the standing session on Autobiography at the 111th annual meeting of the PAMLA conference at Bahi

[UPDATE] Extended deadline (April 30, 2013) - CFC: Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Nadine Desrochers/Universite de Montreal
contact email: 
nadine.desrochers@umontreal.ca

Editors: Nadine Desrochers, Assistant Professor, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, and Daniel Apollon, Associate Professor in Digital Culture, U

It Was 50 Years Ago Today!: An International Beatles Celebration

full name / name of organization: 
Penn State University
contact email: 
womack@psu.edu

Organized by Penn State University, this international Beatles celebration will be held at Penn State’s Altoona College on February 7-9, 2014, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Beatles

Special 2014 MLA session: Literary-Mathematical Intersections: Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Methodology

full name / name of organization: 
MLA - special session
contact email: 
kolb.margaret@berkeley.edu

We're looking for one panelist to round out our panel on literary scholarship that deals with history and methodology of mathematics.

Literature and Cognitive Difference: SAMLA Convention, Nov. 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Mark Osteen / Society for Critical Exchange
contact email: 
mosteen@loyola.edu

SAMLA 2013

Literature and Cognitive Difference

Magical Realist Writing as Narrative Strategy in the Recovery of Historical Traumata - Abstracts by June 30, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Eugene Arva & Hubert Roland - Interférences littéraires / Literaire interferenties (e-journal)
contact email: 
genearva@aol.com

http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be/en

Magical Realist Writing as Narrative Strategy in the Recovery of Historical Traumata
- Call for Papers -

MMLA 2013 Special Session (Proposed): Irony and Authenticity in Contemporary Artistic Production (Milwaukee; Nov. 7-10, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Janessa Toro/ University of Missouri/ Deadline: May 25
contact email: 
jltz85@mail.missouri.edu

Is there room for earnestness and authenticity in contemporary media?

[UPDATE] Call for Papers: AULLA 2013: Worldmaking - Deadline Extension

full name / name of organization: 
Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA)
contact email: 
subscriptions@aulla.com.au

NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 31 May, 2013

The theme of the 37th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) is ‘Worldmaking’.

Space and Place in the Arts and Humanities

full name / name of organization: 
HARTS & Minds interdisciplinary postgraduate journal
contact email: 
editors@harts-minds.co.uk

DEADLINE 17th May for abstract and draft article along with an academic CV to editors@harts-minds.co.uk - Spread the Word!

Space and Place in the Humanities and Arts

June 15th, 2013, EDITED ANTHOLOGY, ENERGY IN LITERATURE

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Paula Farca
contact email: 
pfarca@mines.edu

June 15th, 2013, EDITED ANTHOLOGY
Energy in Literature: Essays on Energy and Its Social and Environmental Implications in Twentieth-Century Literary Texts (edited by Paula A. Farca)

London Fantastic - Pre-1900 (LonCon, August 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
LonCon
contact email: 
londonfantastic@gmail.com

Fantastic London
LonCon, August 2014

Proposals are welcome on “Fantastic London” for the academic programme at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention.

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