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Call for Papers: Joss Whedon’s Firefly
Michael Goodrum (Essex) and Philip Smith (Loughborough)

Baptism of Fire: The Birth of Modern British Fantasy in World War I
edited by Janet Brennan Croft (Mythlore@mythsoc.org)

Women in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
edited by Janet Brennan Croft (Mythlore@mythsoc.org) and Leslie Donovan (press@mythsoc.org)

This conference focuses on the influence of cultural ‘legacies’ within current humanities research.

University of Kent, 27-28 June 2013

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Concepts of, and related to, folklore and mythology are seemingly greater than ever, and as such we embrace a wide variety of takes on the panel's theme.

Interdisciplinary journal CASCA enables authors to publish papers in various areas of social sciences, culture and art.

Call for Papers
Art History and Visual Culture Area
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference

Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO

Ray Bradbury was writing science fiction during the infancy of the genre and gained mainstream popularity during the 1950s.

This preapproved panel for the 2013 Science in Public conference at the University of Nottingham from July 22 to 23 investigates the ways in which scientists and engineers have used science fiction as

Link to CFP: http://melancholyandpain.liv.ac.uk/?page_id=2

Keynotes:

- Dr Nick Davis, University of Liverpool
- Professor Chris Eccleston, University of Bath

Hotels and Inns in Britain and in the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

The American Humor Studies Association seeks papers for a panel, “Humor in the Digital Age,” for the 2013 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference at the Marriott Atlanta from

Working title: Our Whole Universe: Essays on Culture and The Big Bang Theory

Scriblerus Press, http://scribleruspress.com

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Excess
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

3.2 ‘Neither Here Nor There: The (Non-)Geographical Futures of Comparative Literature’

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

The election and presidency of Barack Obama have urged reconceptualization of the social position held by African Americans in contemporary society.

The recent popular success of “Downton Abbey” calls for a renewed examination of such earlier BBC/ITV/Masterpiece Theatre serialized period dramas as “Upstairs Downstairs,” “The Pallisers,

Media studies and information theory has long been concerned with the ways in which media transmits knowledge across time and space.

The last two decades have seen radical revisions to curricula at universities and colleges around the world. But have curricular changes been accompanied by pedagogical developments? When it comes to teaching, graduate students often learn by doing. By virtue of their experiments and their proximity to the undergraduate curriculum, they are among the most innovative educators on their campuses. The Medieval and Early Modern Students Association at UCLA and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies invite graduate students to share their experience at a conference on June 7 that deals with teaching Medieval and Early Modern material in the undergraduate classroom. We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be distinguished professor and Waldo W. Neikirk Chair for Innovative Undergraduate Education, Robert N. Watson.

This is a CFP for a proposed special session at the 2013 M/MLA Conference in Milwaukee, to be held Nov. 7-10.

Extended CfP deadline: April 8th, 2013

Confirmed Plenary speaker: Dr Nadia Davids (Queen Mary, University of London)

Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Abstracts of 300 words and a short biographical note (max 100 words) should be emailed to H.Cousins@staff.newman.ac.uk by Monday 15 April 2013.

First Call for Papers

CITY MARGINS, CITY MEMORIES

Date: Monday 7 April – Tuesday 8 April, 2014

Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies,

Neil Gaiman is considered one of the most popular authors of science fiction and fantasy alive today.

CfP: Time Travel in the Media

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.

South Central Modern Language Association is accepting 250-500 word abstract/proposals for its session on Native American Literature.

"The Bronte Sisters and Their Work" is the theme for this year’s METU British Novelists Conference organized by the Department of Foreign Language Education in Middle East Technical University.

We invite contributions to CINEPHILIA AND TEACHING, an edited collection of essays clustered around ideas of cinephilia and pedagogy.

The dust may have begun to settle in the blogosphere, but E. L.

Queens of the Marketplace: nineteenth-century women writers and the rise of the bestseller