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[UPDATE] - Atlantic World Foodways CFP - Proposals now due November 1st

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Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 4:13pm
Atlantic World Research Network and Quaintance-Weaver

Atlantic World Foodways: The Carolina Lowcountry, Africa, Italy, and Spain
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference Featuring Scholars and Chefs
Presented by the Atlantic World Research Network and Quaintance-Weaver
With the Sponsorship of THE FRESH MARKET
http://www.uncg.edu/eng/awrn/

January 30-February 2, 2014
The Proximity and O.Henry Hotels, Greensboro, NC
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Elliott University Center

In/Tangibility: The Mystical, The Material and the Messy In-Between; March 6th 2014 DUE December 5th 2013

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Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 10:02am
Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference

In/Tangibility: The Mystical, The Material and the Messy In-Between

CALL FOR PAPERS DUE DECEMBER 5th, 2013

Submissions are welcomed for the
20th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference
To be held March 6th, 2014, Concordia University
Faculty Lounge, Hall Building H-765, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal.

Digitizing the Medieval Archive

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 1:11pm
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

There has been and continues to be considerable variation in the introduction, evaluation and continuation of digital storage. Digital technology has expanded and complicated the idea of the medieval archive. In bringing together the two concepts, digitization and archivization, we aim to address questions about the dissemination of and access to materials and research, but also such long-standing questions relating to the methodological and practical ways we carry out research and think about our material – thinking digitally about the Middle Ages.

Undoing Health: States of Body and Mind

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 6:10pm
Indiana University Dept. of English Graduate Student Conference with keynote Dr. Rachel Adams

Indiana University Graduate Conference: "Undoing Health: States of Body and Mind" with Keynote Dr. Rachel Adams

Energies: Through the Material, Theoretical & Textual

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 3:07pm
University of Southern California Association of English Graduate Students

ENERGIES: THROUGH THE MATERIAL, THEORETICAL & TEXTUAL

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

March 28-29, 2014

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2013

Keynote Speakers: Fiction writer and essayist Roxane Gay (Eastern Illinois University) is most recently the author of An Untamed State (Atlantic/Grove), and Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Critical keynote TBA.

International Conference "Youth and/in Literature & Society" (Lisbon, 9-11 July, 2014)

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 9:56am
CETAPS and CESNOVA, New University of Lisbon

Call for Papers

International Conference "Youth and/in Literature & Society"

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
New University of Lisbon

CESNOVA/CETAPS
Lisbon (Portugal)
9-11 July 2014
Venue: FCSH/NOVA (New University of Lisbon)

The Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) and the Centre for Sociological Studies (CESNOVA) of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon will organise the interdisciplinary International Conference Youth in/and Literature & Society, in Lisbon (9-11 July 2014).

Working languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish. No translation will be provided.

CFP: "Visions of Empire," 6th Annual Medievalist Graduate Student Conference, February 28, 2014

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Monday, October 14, 2013 - 4:31pm
Medievalists @ Penn, University of Pennsylvania

Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) is a graduate student organization at the University of Pennsylvania invested in developing a broad interdisciplinary understanding of the Middle Ages. We are pleased to announce our 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference, "Visions of Empire."

Keynote Speaker: Maud McInerney, Associate Professor of English, Haverford College; "Crooked Greek: Genealogy and Prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth and Aeneid VI"

[ACLA] Uncertain Understanding: Capital in Science and Medicine Before the 20th Century (March 20-23, 2014 at NYU)

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Monday, October 14, 2013 - 1:22pm
Christine Yao / Cornell University

In his influential work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn explains "the reception of a new paradigm often necessitates a redefinition of the corresponding science. Some old problems may be relegated to another science or declared entirely 'unscientific'." This process of drastic redefinition is exacerbated not only due to scientific discoveries and technological advances, but also the professionalization of the field, a process that not only consolidated knowledge, but created new social capital. Critics like Kuhn, Bruno Latour, and Michel Foucault, among others, demonstrate the inherent upheaval that such restructuring of scientific knowledge causes.

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 15 December 2013

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Monday, October 14, 2013 - 2:44am
8th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English April 16 -18, 2014, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Muğla, Turkey

The Conference will be jointly hosted by
The Department of English Language and Literature of
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, ELT Department of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University and
The English Language and Literature Research Association of Turkey (IDEA).

The Conference will address topics from the fields of,
"English literature"
"British and Comparative Cultural Studies"
"Translation Studies"
"Linguistisc and ELT"

Abstracts for proposed papers (maximum 250 words) should be submitted to:
idea2014@mu.edu.tr

Please include your name, affiliation, email address and a brief biography.
Add 5-6 keywords pertaining to your topic.

Not a Dry Eye in the House: Tears in Performance – March 21, 2014 - Paris-Sorbonne

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Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 7:30pm
Denis Lagae-Devoldère and Marie Pecorari (Paris-Sorbonne)

Representing tears in the theatre hinges on the paradoxical performance of an absence: while the lacrimal flow can usually be explained, its physical manifestation mostly eludes visibility. Yet the presence of tears cannot easily be dismissed, as it is far from anecdotal. Portrayals of and discourses on tears indeed abound in theatre history: whether meant to affect the performers or the spectators, this emotional outburst can express a wide range of affects, from sorrow to joy, to laughter and awe.

We welcome contributions from scholars working in the fields of theatre, performance, literary, and cultural studies across cultures and time periods.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

ACLA CfP: Imagined Originals, Original Translations: Putting Pseudotranslation on the Map (March 20-23, 2014)

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Friday, October 11, 2013 - 3:12pm
Brigitte Rath

Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605/15), Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), MacPherson's Ossian (1761), Mérimée's La Guzla (1827), Louÿs's Chansons de Bilitis (1894), Raja Rao's Kanthapura (1938), many of Borges' short stories, Makine's La Fille d'un héros de l'Union soviétique (1990), and Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada (1997) are only some of the numerous – often canonized – original texts that invite the reader to read them as if they were translations, to imagine a preceding original produced in a different language and for a different audience.

Unmasking Masquerade: Exploring Disguise and Display Across the Humanities (14-16 Feb 2014)

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Friday, October 11, 2013 - 1:53pm
McGill University English Graduate Student Association

"'Masquerades, I have generally heard said, were more silly than wicked,'" declares one respectable character in Samuel Richardson's novel Sir Charles Grandison (1754), "'But they are now, I am convinced, the most profligate of all diversions.'" Richardson's disapproval of the bal masqué's vulgar dissipation represents just one incarnation of a rich and multivalent concept. In various guises masquerade capers and creeps through the humanities, eluding any single form or function: noun or verb? literal or figurative? sinister or celebratory? deceitful or mischievous? We are seeking papers, panels, and creative projects that are inspired by this panoply of meaning to address the idea of masquerade in any way – material and/or theoretical.

[Update] British Society for Literature and Science Conference 10-12 April 2014

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Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 2:54pm
University of Surrey

The ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on 10-12 April 2014. Keynote talks will be given by Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton). The conference will finish with an opportunity to visit Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, on the afternoon of Saturday 12 April.

Travel, Technology and War: Word and Image/Engagement and Denial. University of Dundee (Scotland), August 11-15, 2014

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Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 12:12pm
International Association of Word and Image Studies

Please consider submitting an abstract for consideration in the following session at the IAWIS/AIERTI international conference at the University of Dundee (Scotland), August 11-15, 2014. More information is available at the website: http://www.scottishwordimage.org/conferences/iawis2014

Submit abstracts via email to indicating the title of the session and supply full contact information. Deadline: Friday, 15 November 2013

Travel, Technology and War: Word and Image/Engagement and Denial

Call for Participants - Cannibal Modernisms Conference

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Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 12:03pm
King’s College London Programme in Comparative Literature

Cannibal Modernisms

King's College London Programme in Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference, 7th-8th November, 2013.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Xudong Zhang, Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University.

Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference - 24th-25th July 2014 - deadline for proposals 28th March 2014

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Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 9:24am
University of Exeter

Call for papers: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference

The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter will be holding an interdisciplinary medical humanities conference for postgraduate researchers on the 24th and 25th July 2014.

This conference aims to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines in a manner that reflects the broad scope of exciting research being carried out in the field of the medical humanities at present. As such we welcome abstracts on any aspect of the medical humanities from postgraduates working in all disciplines, including but not restricted to English Literature, History, Film, Classics and Art History.

2014 Graduate Student Conference on Byzantine Studies February 27-March 1, 2014

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 2:45pm
Brandie Ratliff / Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Michael G. and Anastasia Cantonis Chair of Byzantine Studies at Hellenic College invite proposals for the 2014 Graduate Student Conference on Byzantine Studies, which will be held at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA on February 27–March 1, 2014. Brookline is located just outside Boston and is easily reached from any metropolitan location.

CFP: BRISMES UK 2014

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 8:17am
May Hawas

Travelling Literature, World Literature:
The Eastern Journey from Local to Global.

Papers are invited to participate in a panel for the BRISMES (British Society for Middle East Studies) Conference due June 2014 in Sussex around the theme 'The Middle East in Global Perspective'.

From Cardboard to Keyboard and Back - International Board Game Studies Associaiton 21 - 24 May 2014 UK

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 7:53am
University Campus Suffolk

International Board Game Studies Association

XVIIth Annual Colloquium

Wednesday 21st - Saturday 24th May 2014

hosted by
UCS Ipswich

From Cardboard to Keyboard and back

Call for papers:

The seventeenth annual colloquium of the Board Game Studies Association will be hosted by Computer Games Design staff and students at UCS, Ipswich, in the UK, from Wednesday 21st May to Saturday 24th May 2014. Previous colloquia have been held in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and USA.

Call for Papers Deadline 15/12/13

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 6:09pm
the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north

the quint's twenty first issue is issuing a call for theoretically informed and historically grounded submissions of scholarly interest—as well as creative writing, original art, interviews, and reviews of books.  The deadline for this call is 15th December 2013—but please note that we accept manu/digi-scripts at any time.

quint guidelines

All contributions accompanied by a short biography will be forwarded to a member of the editorial board. Manuscripts must not be previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere while being reviewed by the quint's editors or outside readers.

The Pierian Call for Submissions--Deadline March 1, 2014

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 12:54pm
The Pierian Literary Journal/Albany State University

Currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2014 issue. Accepting unpublished poems (3 max), short stories (1500 word max), one-act plays, and essays (1000 word max). Journal only accepts electronic submissions. For more information, please email: thepierian@asurams.edu. This year's theme: Jazz and Blues in American Culture. Entries that reflect the theme will receive priority consideration.

Fifth Annual Literatures and Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium - March 29, 2014

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 12:42pm
Gordon College

The Department of English Language and Literature and the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Gordon College invite paper submissions for their fifth annual Literatures and Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium (LLUC) taking place on March 29, 2014. Undergraduate students from all colleges and universities are encouraged to submit 8-10 page papers in English on any linguistic or literary topic. Please provide a 100-200 word summary (abstract) of your essay in addition to your completed paper. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes.

Keynote Speaker: Sue Weaver Schopf, Harvard University
"The Vampire in Literature: A Very Strange Love Affair"

BREVITY - Graduate Student Conference at Western University (Canada), March 6 - 8, 2014

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 12:39pm
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Western University, Canada

Keynote speakers: Luca Somigli (University of Toronto); Mark McDayter (Western University).

"Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí" [When (s)he woke up, the dinosaur was still there]. This is the entirety of a 1959 short story by Augusto Monterroso. It could easily fit in a Twitter status update almost three times over.

Brevity can be interpreted in many different ways – from a sense of briefness and urgency to an economization of words. At times, brevity may be perceived as superficial or frivolous, except to those of Spartan sensibilities. To others, such as Polonius, "brevity is the soul of wit [/ And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, / I will be brief: your noble son is mad]" (II, ii).

Craft Critique Culture: (Mis)Leading (April 4-5, 2014: Iowa City, Iowa)

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 10:33am
Annmarie Steffes/Miriam Janechek (University of Iowa)

14th Annual Craft Critique Culture Graduate Student Conference: Mis(Leading)

Craft Critique Culture is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections among critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the academy. We invite the submission of critical, theoretical, and original creative work in a variety of media and across the humanities, sciences, and legal disciplines. In the past, submissions have included not only traditional scholarly papers but also film, video, music, writing, visual art and artists' books, and performance.

ACLA CFP: Queered by Capital: Rethinking Globalization and Temporality (March 20-23, 2014)

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 5:54am
Roopika Risam

Questions of temporality have preoccupied postcolonial studies, from how we periodize the "postcolonial" as Kwame Anthony Appiah raises, to how we perceive time in relationship to persistent colonial structures as Ann Laura Stoler proposes, to Dipesh Chakrabarty's prescription to reconsider the relationship between time and linear histories.

Building Connections: The Changing Face of Romance Studies, April 3-5, 2014, 20th Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures

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Monday, October 7, 2013 - 4:28pm
Department of Romance Languages, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Building Connections: The Changing Face of Romance Studies

The study of Romance literatures faces numerous opportunities and challenges in today's increasingly globalized world. The growing importance of interdisciplinarity invites literary scholars to think about the future of literature in the age of cultural studies. The prominent position of this academic field within Romance Studies departments both enables and requires us to reconsider the relationship between literature and its sociopolitical context.

Hospitality & Society Vol 3 issue 2

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Monday, October 7, 2013 - 4:05pm
Journal Hospitality & Society, published by Intellect

Hospitality & Society is an international multidisciplinary social sciences journal focusing on academic perspectives on hospitality and addresses all aspects of hospitality's connections with wider social and cultural processes and structures.

Aims and scope
To consider issues associated with hospitality leading to its advancement and understanding, including developing new approaches to the study of hospitality.
To serve as an multidisciplinary forum encouraging interdisciplinarity with contributors coming from a wide range of disciplinary bases
To be international in scope and inclusive in its coverage addressing hospitality from the macro to the micro level.

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