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The Center for Sermon Studies at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia announces its second annual Conference on Sermon Studies, to be held October 11-14, 2018, in Montreal, Quebec.

The conference is multidisciplinary and interfaith. The organizers’ goal is to bring scholars, practitioners, and interested laypersons together to discuss sermon texts and the art of preaching from a variety of academic and religious perspectives.

The theme for 2018 is “Space, Place, Context.” Topics related to the theme might include

SUNY Council on Writing Conference (CoW) 2018

Call for Proposals

Theme: Why Writing Matters: Articulating the Value of Writing to Students, Administrators,

              and Faculty from Across the Disciplines

Dates: Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20, 2018

Location: Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY

Conference Website: https://sunycouncilonwriting.wordpress.com/2018-conference/

Contributions are sought for an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the Hallmark television channels to be published by McFarland & Co. We are interested in a sustained exploration of the television channel and brand as a cultural phenomenon. At the end of 2017, The Washington Postpublished an article entitled “We can’t take any more of 2017, so we’ve turned to the Hallmark Channel in desperation.” The article described men and women – but mostly women – engaging in a particular brand of escapism from the seemingly daily barrage of bad news: watching Hallmark Channel original movies.

"The First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Humanities"

Location: Seoul, South Korea (Chung-Ang University)

Date: August 16, 2018

Contact: aihumanities2018@gmail.com

Meeting URL: http://aihumanities.org/aih2018

The First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Humanities, jointly organized by Chung-Ang University Humanities Research Institute, The Korean Association of Speech Communication and The Korean Association for Posthuman Society, will be held at Chung-Ang University, Seoul campus, August 16, 2018.

Medical Humanities in the Middle East
Date: November 17, 2018 to November 18, 2018
Location: Doha, Qatar
Deadline for submission: June 1, 2018.