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Call for papers

“Information Technologies and Transfer in Russia, 1450-1850”
A symposium to be held at Darwin College, Cambridge – Sept 5-6, 2014

John N.

Deadline for Abstracts: 14 February 2014

Hosted by New York University in London and Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing

This session proposes to explore and discuss science fiction by French and Francophone women authors, through all issues present in texts (novels or short stories): hybrid bodies, network connection

The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education.

How has the web provided an alternative space for women in comics that is both similar to and different from the space provided by graphic narratives in print form?

3rd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group
16-18 October 2014
University of California, Santa Barbara

The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness

The “selfie,” with its many outlets and ironic iterations, has provoked critical and popular conversation celebrating the form as empowering or decrying it as narcissistic.

Life through the Lens: The British Biopic in Focus
31st May 2014 at Watershed, Bristol
Keynote speaker: Belén Vidal, King’s College London

A colleague and I are trying to put together a panel for the AHA meeting in New York next year based around our mutual research interests.

Science and Political Discourse, 18th-21st Century
International conference
CEMRA EA3016 & ILCEA EA 613
November 13th & 14th, 2014, Université Stendhal – Grenoble III

The confessional division within the Church in the early modern period was accompanied by fervent activity in the field of polemical theology.

We invite submissions of full-length research papers, shorter analytical essays, reflective photo-essays, ethnographic and auto-ethnographic reports or reviews on the widely conceived theme of “Patt

For this MLA Special Session we invite papers exploring the discourses and practices that surrounded emerging media forms and technologies between 1450 and 1700.

The Place of Spenser / Spenser’s Places

http://merwinstudies.com/call-for-papers/

Merwin Studies seeks submissions for its second issue. Submissions are due by Spring of 2014.

Despite Dieter Leisegang’s rich oeuvre, the poet rarely sought to have his works published.

Call for Papers: Modern Languages Open

VENUE: Kwa Maritane Lodge (Pilanesberg Game Reserve and Heritage Site), North-West Province, South Africa

Michael Clune begins his book, Writing Against Time (2013), with a question: “Is art different from life?” He observes that “according to an emerging consensus, our experience of a description o

Iris, a quarterly literary magazine publishing short fiction and poetry on LGBTQ themes for young adults, invites submissions for its second issue on the theme of histories. Iris features writing and artwork that challenge and captivate young adult readers between the ages of 14 - 17.

The Special Session examines immigrant transitions between the familiar and the unfamiliar in literature and film.

"It will soon be apparent that even though we gather together and look in the same directions at the same instant, we will not – we cannot – see the same landscape” (Meinig 33). D.W. Meinig’s explanation of landscape perceptions demonstrates that a single interpretation of a landscape or environment fails to accommodate the subjective experiences of any group,

Call for Papers

The Story of Memory Conference: Exploring New Perspectives on the Relationship between Storytelling and Memory in the Twenty-First Century

This panel invites proposals for the Caribbean Literature and the Diaspora session for the 2014 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention.

The editor of this collection, per the feedback of the interested university press, solicits several more essays that tackle the subject of queerness in the Roald Dahl canon.

Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, "Confluence and Division"
Nov. 6-9, 2014, Pittsburgh, PA

The 20th Annual PTO Conference asks us to review, reflect and reimagine.

Impression and Object
A Conference on Critical Theory

Keynote Speaker:
Joshua Landy (Stanford University)

Update: Deadline for Proposals Extended to Feb. 21

Great Excursions: Travel and the Antebellum Literary Imagination

A symposium sponsored by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society