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2011 Milwaukee, WI!

Conference: 127th Annual Modern Language Association Convention
Dates: January 5th to 8th 2012
Location: Seattle, Washington U.S.A.

Under the auspices of the Modernism Studies Centre in Australia, the School of English, Media, and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, will host the ‘Faulkner in the Media

Looking for any proposal on travel and literature, particularly papers dealing with the element of desire in the drive to travel.

[Note: This CFP is only aimed towards graduate students in the California State University system]

Call for Submissions

At century’s end and after, a dystopian mood - what Peter Fitting
calls "the sense of a threatened near future" - has been evident in

First Annual Studies in Gothic Fiction Conference
National University
San Diego, California
March 16-17, 2012

The MLA Committee for "Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography" is soliciting proposals for a panel on the topic of "Creative Nonfiction in a Global Frame."

Midwest Popular Culture Association/ Midwest American Culture Association Conference
October 14 – 16, 2010
Millwaukee, WI – Hilton Milwaukee City Center

The Cosmopolitan Lyceum:
Globalism and Lecture Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
www.cosmopolitanlyceum.com

The American Antiquarian Society 23-25 September 2011

Confirmed Speakers:

The Medieval and Renaissance Postgraduate Discussion Group at Durham University invites abstracts for its fifth annual conference on the 23rd and 24th of June 2011 addressing the theme of “Beauty”

Friday, May 13, 2011

Recently adaptation theorists have argued for a re-valuing of adaptations and of the dynamic between originary texts and their adaptation.

Tomorrow's Ideas, Now is an international interdisciplinary conference for undergraduate students working in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts.

Whodunit’, and how have they ‘dunit’? Investigating Agatha Christie’s works and their adaptations

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

We are happy to accept articles for the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary yearbook Jahrbuch immersiver Medien/Yearbook of Immersive Media.

There is no custom of hospitality here, we do not need guests.’
--Kafka The Castle

The Literature and Science session of the RMMLA invites interpretive
papers focusing on science and its intersection with written
methods of transmission. They might include the reuse of

This panel addresses the aesthetic and political implications of twentieth century multilingual literature, literary code-switching, polyglot punning.

Any approach to the recently-published archival text, including comparative, historical, psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, materialist, biographical; Monroe as icon, poet, performer; in celebrity cultu

Paper proposals sought for a special session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference to be held in Atlanta, 11/4-11/6/11.

University of Portsmouth, Centre for Studies in Literature
Annual Postgraduate Symposium

Friday June 17 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

Our conference program is filling up, but we do have a few spots open and thus continue to consider proposals.

New approaches, texts, and takes relating to work in any of the six Celtic languages/literatures.

Globalization and Literature: Feelings and Representations.

Travel and Truth: An International Research Conference
Wolfson College, Oxford - 16-18 September 2011

‘Travellers, poets and liars are three words all of one significance”

How does the literary sequel function in African literature? This panel will explore the connection between first and subsequent literary works.

The Aberystwyth University English and Creative Writing Postgraduate Conference in cooperation with the National Library of Wales has extended the deadline for abstracts for New Horizons: Crossing the

Call for Papers: Contemporary Historical Fiction and Historiographic Theory

‘A Self-Conscious Voice’ - an Exploration of Expatriation and Literature
A post-graduate conference at the University of Bristol on May 11th, 2011

Call for Papers

The 5th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions Presents

Cine-Excess V: Subverting the Senses: The Politics and Aesthetics of Excess

This panel will explore how moving images and the written word became interwoven as the cinema of attractions transformed into a medium capable of challenging the novel’s dominance of narrative.

5th Annual Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference
Honolulu, HI
May 27-28, 2011
Chaminade University of Honolulu

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 17, 2011

Form a session, submit an abstract: mark your calendar for NeMLA 2012!

Tartu Summer School of Semiotics 2011 is five-day event taking place from August 22 to 26 in a secluded Palmse manor in North Estonia.