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category: interdisciplinary[UPDATE] Renaissance of Roland Barthes Deadline 3/1/13full name / name of organization: CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Literature and English Departments contact email: csommers@gc.cuny.edu The Renaissance of Roland Barthes
The Spatial Imaginary in Contemporary British Literature and the Arts - 18-19 October 2013, a SEAC Conferencefull name / name of organization: Université de Nantes, France contact email: georges.letissier@univ-nantes.fr ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DES ÉTUDES BRITANNIQUES CONTEMPORAINES
Oscar Wilde: Celebrity or Notoriety? A symposium; July 25-27, 2013full name / name of organization: Chad Thomas / The Santa Fe Opera contact email: Chad.Thomas@uah.edu The Santa Fe Opera seeks proposals for its first (of three proposed annual) New Works Symposium. The symposium will take place July 25-27, 2013, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Transgressing the Limit: Borders and Liminality in Philosophy and Literature. Proposals for essays due 30 June 2013.full name / name of organization: Dylan Winchock & Jessica Mayock contact email: borderprojectabstracts@gmail.com Borders are more than lines cutting across maps; rather, they are wide swaths of ambiguity and reversibility where identities are broken down and reassembled.
MLA 2014: "The Victorian Photographic Imaginary"full name / name of organization: Jesse Hoffman, Rutgers University contact email: jessehoffman@gmail.com CFP: "The Victorian Photographic Imaginary"
Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013full name / name of organization: ISCH Cost action 1101, Durham University, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale contact email: kerusso@unior.it Announcement/Call for Papers Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013
Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013full name / name of organization: ISCH Cost action 1101, Durham University, Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale contact email: kerusso@unior.it Announcement/Call for Papers Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013
Salman Rushdie in the 21st Centuryfull name / name of organization: Dr. Charlie Wesley contact email: cwesley@daemen.edu How do we assess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his previous output and changing political beliefs? 200 word abstracts or more by 15 March 2013. Contact Dr.
Dialects of English Worldwide: Issues in English Language Studies at MLA, January 2014full name / name of organization: MLA Present-Day English Language Discussion Group contact email: canon_eb@yahoo.com The position of English as a worldwide lingua franca has never been more secure than it is today.
Sensationalims and the Genealogy of Modernityfull name / name of organization: Alberto Gabriele contact email: alberto.gabriele.tau@gmail.com Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity A Two-Day International Workshop Tel Aviv University, December, 18-19, 2013
Oulipo : Avant-garde Language, MLA 2014; title/abstract due March 22, 2013full name / name of organization: MLA Division of Linguistic Approaches to Literature contact email: Claudia Becker (cbecker@nccu.edu); Jean-Jacques Thomas (jt96@buffalo.edu) MLA 2014 (Division of Linguistic Approaches to Literature) session on "Oulipo : Avant-garde Language" fits theme “Vulnerable Worlds." Oulipo, the last international avant-garde (1961)
History of Style: Language’s Impact on Literature, 2014 MLA session, abstracts by March 22, 2013full name / name of organization: Modern Language Association; Division of Linguistic Approaches to Literature contact email: Don Hardy donhardy@unr.edu; Claudia Becker cbecker@NCCU.EDU MLA 2014 session (Division of Linguistic Approaches to Literature) on history of style (language's impact on literature) fits topic of “Vulnerable Discourses: Linguistic Manipulation of Literature,
*Final Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013full name / name of organization: Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum contact email: gurleyja@lemoyne.edu *Final Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013; 20-minute Paper Proposals Due March 1, 2013
[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)full name / name of organization: Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University contact email: M-Cole@wiu.edu What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?
MLA 2014, Chicago: Everyday Unrecognized Sexual Violence in South Asiafull name / name of organization: Namrata Mitra/ South Asian Languages and Literatures contact email: nmitra@jcu.edu We invite critiques on representations of sexual violence against marginalized groups in South Asian literature, film, and/ or media.
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies journal - Special Issuefull name / name of organization: Elizabeth Kelley Bowman / Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State) contact email: ebowman@uguam.uog.edu We invite essays from interdisciplinary perspectives that address contemporary adaptations of Renaissance literature or art, particularly Jacobean, in film.
The Sacred and the Sexual in South Asian Literature , South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group, MLA Chicago 2014full name / name of organization: Indrani Mitra/ Mount St. Mary's University contact email: mitra@msmary.edu This Modern Language Association panel invites papers that interrogate gender and the constructions of sexuality in relation to one or more of the religious traditions of South Asia, and their local,
Queering Age (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013 in San Diego)full name / name of organization: PAMLA, Emily Mattingly contact email: emily.mattingly@email.ucr.edu Queering Age
[UPDATE] The Human journal NOW accepts submissions for June 2013 issuefull name / name of organization: The Human, a journal of humanities, social sciences, and arts contact email: human@humanjournal.org Call for Papers – The Human journal NOW accepts submissions
[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)full name / name of organization: Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University contact email: M-Cole@wiu.edu What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?
[UDATE] Supernatural Studies Journal - Inaugural Issuefull name / name of organization: Supernatural Studies Association contact email: SupernaturalStudies@gmail.com Supernatural Studies, a new, peer-edited e-journal welcomes submissions for its inaugural issue, Spring 2013, through March 1.
Jürgen Habermas’s Communicative Action & Writingfull name / name of organization: Ruben Quesada contact email: rmquesada@eiu.edu The proposed session seeks writers and scholars to reassess the literary, cultural, and sociopolitical import of Jürgen Habermas’s book, The Theory of Communicative Action .
Writing the Farm: Ecocritical Perspectives on Literature and Agriculturefull name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association contact email: awallis@whittier.edu CFP "Writing the Farm: Ecocritical Perspectives on Literature and Agriculture" at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference--San Diego, CA, November 1-3, 2013.
Marxism..."That is the Question"full name / name of organization: Marxist Literary Group/South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013 contact email: acooke2@emory.edu Taking a cue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this panel focuses on a critical examination of the act or state of calling one’s self a Marxist, that is to say, it asks the question, “What does it mean
Dreiser and Money, MLA 2014; 3/18/13full name / name of organization: Gary Totten contact email: gary.totten@ndsu.edu; jude.davies@winchester.ac.uk Dreiser and Money (MLA 2014). Financial systems and their epistemologies in Theodore Dreiser’s work, including the "Trilogy of Desire" and other fiction and nonfiction.
Edited Collection: After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Centuryfull name / name of organization: Prof Karl Leydecker and Dr Jenny DiPlacidi/ University of Kent contact email: k.leydecker@kent.ac.uk and j.diplacidi@kent.ac.uk We invite contributions for an edited collection that examines the period of ‘after marriage’ in the long eighteenth century.
Queer Youthfull name / name of organization: Modern Language Association Annual Convention 2014 contact email: kproehl@clemson.edu Modern Language Association Annual Convention, January 2014 Queer Youth
Special Themed Issue on The Spectral Southfull name / name of organization: Special Issue of The South Carolina Review: The Spectral South contact email: slauro@clemson.edu & kmangan@clemson.edu Essay proposals are invited for a special themed issue of The South Carolina Review that examines the images of zombies, vampires, and other undead in the American South.
Call for Papers for volume 7, n° 1(13)/ 2014 ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies www.essachess.com Environment andfull name / name of organization: ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies contact email: mihaela.tudor.com@gmail.com Call for Papers for volume 7, n° 1(13)/ 2014 ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies Environment and communication Coordinators:
Balkan Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature, Film, and Music (MLA 2014; deadline March 15)full name / name of organization: Mihaela P. Harper, Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University contact email: mharper@bilkent.edu.tr Is Balkan “always the other” (Zizek), and for whom? How have Balkan self-consciousness and/or image altered, if at all, since 2000? Please send an abstract of 250 words by March 15.
Vulnerable Times and the Rise of Fascism: Radical Writers on the Front of the Spanish Civil War (MLA Chicago, Jan 9-12 2014)full name / name of organization: Ashley Foster (CUNY-Graduate Center) and Evelyn Scaramella (Manhattan College) contact email: jashfoster@yahoo.com, evelyn.scaramella@manhattan.edu This panel explores testimonies of writers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; J.
MLA 2014 Special Session: Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literaturefull name / name of organization: Kristine A. Wilson contact email: wilson67@purdue.edu For this proposed special session, I welcome paper proposals that address the presidential theme, Vulnerable Times, as it relates to Caribbean literature.
UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre; Summer 2013; Deadline 6/24/13full name / name of organization: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; St. Mary's College; Rivendale Press contact email: hgurfin@siue.edu; michelle.paull@smuc.ac.uk UPSTAGE, a peer-reviewed online publication dedicated to research in turn-of-the-century (1880-1914) dramatic literature, theatre, and theatrical culture, is seeking submissions for its Summer 2013 is
Teaching Less Commonly Taught Languages and Literatures panelfull name / name of organization: RMMLA contact email: MMikolchak@stcloudstate.edu Please consider submitting a proposal to the following panel at the upcoming RMMLA convention in Vancouver, WA in October 2013:
[UPDATE} Panel on "The Modernist Room,"* 29 Aug - 1 Sept, Brighton UK -- MSA conferencefull name / name of organization: Modernist Studies Association contact email: stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com According to Frederic Jameson, the Modernist novel abandoned the panoramic cityscapes of the 19th century realist novel and devised "strategies of inwardness." As Brigitte Munier suggests, the early-2
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