cfp.english.upenn.edu

This seminar will consider the figure of the child as a means to focalize and narrativize personal or collective catastrophe.

From Jacques de Vaucanson’s eighteenth-century defecating duck to robots to weaponized military drones, automation has long been a significant site of fascination and fear.

Post-Mao China has witnessed drastic transformation in the political, economic and cultural realms.

Although often viewed as a site for literary works with little value and short shelf lives, pulp fiction continues to be instrumental in shaping the literary landscape of Anglophone cultures.

Whether one is a participant, a casual spectator, a die-hard fan, or a critic, sport, in all its varieties and forms, plays a significant role in the lives of most people throughout the world.

Neo-Victorianism has become a major trend in contemporary literature and culture.

Created through the generous support of former Texas Tech University Regent James Sowell, the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World houses the personal papers of the

The Festivals & Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions for the 2012 PCA/ACA conference in Boston, MA (April 11-14, 2011) on any festival or faire—modern or historical.

Call for Papers: New Orleans Foodie Lit

This seminar, a session to be held at ACLA 2012 Conference at Brown University, March 29h -April 1st, invites papers that present new interdisciplinary perspectives to explore “traveling” sexualit

The Animation Area of the Popular Culture Association seeks individual-papers and panel proposals for presentation at the National Conference of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture As

The “Adaptation” Section of the 2012 National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Conference

Wednesday, April 11, through Saturday, April 14

Early literary centuries— Literatures from the early 20th and 21st centuries and their links with the previous centuries
full name / name of organization:
Journal "Textes et contextes"

Mother/Nature Conference

March 16-18, 2012
Thad Cochran Center
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
Extended Deadline: November 15, 2011

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. BARBARA GATES

If you would like to discuss your submission please e-mail d.robison@bradford.ac.uk

The Pedestal and its Mediations

Department of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal

Lacan and Horror Book – Collection

The focus of this issue revolves around the ideas of racism, colonialism and law, considered together.

We are pleased to announce the first international issue of KNJIŽNICA (LIBRARY), journal of library and information science.

Call for Papers: The Corpse and Catastrophe
ACLA 2011: Collapse/Catastrophe/Change
Providence, RI | 29 March-1 April 2012

Zombies seem to everywhere these days, and now they’re banging on the gates of the Academy . . .

Spiritual conversion is truly one of the most radical changes one can experience or live through.

Call for Papers: Open Issue, Vol 3, No 4

This session at the French American Studies Association's 2012 Colloquium (centering on the theme of Heritage) investigates the ways in which the relation between the land and its occupants has to be

Call for Papers: Pedagogies and the Profession

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association
February 8-11, 2012
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.swtxpca.org

THE FUTURE OF PHILOLOGY

11th Annual Graduate Student Conference 2012

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University February 24-25, 2012

Conference Title: Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders(3rd Annual)

Theme: “Re-Imagining the New World(s)”

Dates: April 20th & 21st, 2012

Location: Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY

The first step in is penetration. One frame out and two bodies present themselves.

Ars Lyrica, the journal of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, seeks articles on area of word-music relationships. Articles of any length will be considered.

The American Comparative Literature Association's 2012 Annual Meeting will be held at Brown University from March 29 to April 1.

Seminar Theme: The Modernist Self and its Discontents

The link between the affective disorders (depression and bipolar illness) and writing creativity goes back to Aristotle, who famously asked, “Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philo

The editors are currently seeking proposals for a collection of original essays investigating intercultural mediation in the humanities.

CFP: The London-Irish in the Long Eighteenth Century (1680-1830) University of Warwick, 13-14 April 2012

Over the past two years, political uprisings and revolts have proliferated throughout the Arab world; more recently, protesters in New York have taken to the streets with calls for revolution.