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category: popular cultureUPDATE Crossing the Bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Researchfull name / name of organization: Jo Taylor, Keele University contact email: j.e.taylor@keele.ac.uk, k.astbury@liverpool.ac.uk *Apologies for cross-posting*
Call for Papers: AULLA 2013: Worldmakingfull name / name of organization: Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) contact email: subscriptions@aulla.com.au The theme of the 37th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) is ‘Worldmaking’.
FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE OF AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (2013 RMMLA- EXTENDED DEADLINE)full name / name of organization: Marie Noussi/ RMMLA contact email: mnoussi@linfield.edu Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean (2013 RMMLA Convention)
[UPDATE] Cognitive Approaches to Literature – PAMLA special session – Nov. 1-3 2013full name / name of organization: Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) contact email: trueambe@msu.edu Futures of Cognitive Approaches to Literature – PAMLA special session – Nov. 1-3 2013
Gender, Sexuality, and Power Student Research Conference (UPDATE)full name / name of organization: Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities/ California State University, Los Angeles contact email: rbatema@calstatela.edu CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES Note: Abstract deadline extended to April 3rd!
[UPDATE] Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century: Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteriesfull name / name of organization: Ileana Baird, University of Virginia contact email: ifp4a@virginia.edu The editor of this collection commissioned by Cambridge Scholars Publishing invites proposals for a volume of essays tentatively called Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century: Clubs, Literary
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference Oct 10-12, 2013full name / name of organization: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association--RMMLA contact email: rmmla@rmmla.org Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association - RMMLA
CFP World Literature (NEPCA) (6/01/13; Colchester, VT 10/25/13-10/26/13)full name / name of organization: Lindsey Hanlon/ Northeast Popular/American Culture Association, World Literature area contact email: lmhanlon16@gmail.com The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of World Literature for its fall conference to be held at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Ve
Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements (cfp deadline June 17, 2013; Conference is March 27-29, 2014)full name / name of organization: Emory University contact email: whose.beloved.community@emory.edu Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Movements
PAMLA in San Diego, 1-3 Nov 2013/"The Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d”full name / name of organization: Alejandro Lee/Central Washington University contact email: leealejandro@gmail.com "The Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d”
Idle/Stasis: Call for Prose, Poetry, Art--due June 1full name / name of organization: Transverse: A Comparative Studies Journal, Issue 13, University of Toronto contact email: transversejournal@gmail.com The twinned concepts of idle and stasis have recently been brought to the forefront of political conversations in Canada because of the Idle No More grassroots movement, which is one of the many manif
2nd Global Conference: Time, Space and the Body (September 2013: Oxford, United Kingdom)full name / name of organization: Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net contact email: punish3@inter-disciplinary.net 2nd Global Conference Sunday 1st September – Tuesday 3rd September 2013 Call for Presentations
[Update]: Panel on Postfeminism and Popular Culture @ Midwest Popular Culture Conference, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 11-13, 2013full name / name of organization: Melissa Miles McCarter contact email: melissa_miles@yahoo.com Papers on any aspect of postfeminism and popular culture requested for a panel at the Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference to be held Oct. 11-13, 2013 in St.
[UPDATE] Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at SCMLAfull name / name of organization: South Central Modern Language Association contact email: davisc@tamug.edu We invite proposals on the topic of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities for presentation at the 70th annual South Central Modern Language Association conference at the Hotel Monteleone in New
Science and Fiction: Literary Darwinism MMLA Conference November 7-10, 2013full name / name of organization: Midwest Modern Language Association contact email: swafford@bradley.edu The 55th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center from November 7-10, 2013.
CFP: 9/11 Popular Culture (Panels for MPCA,Oct 11-13, 2013); April 30 deadlinefull name / name of organization: Paul Petrovic / Midwest Popular Culture Association contact email: pauldpetrovic@gmail.com The Midwest Popular Association / American Culture Association conference will be held at the St. Louis Union Station in St. Louis, MO, this October 11-13, 2013.
Generic Orwell: Between Fiction and Nonfiction--SAMLA 2013 (Atlanta, November 8-10)full name / name of organization: SAMLA--South Atlantic Modern Language Association contact email: douglash@usca.edu Generic Orwell: Between Fiction and Nonfiction
American Work: American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academicsfull name / name of organization: University of Oxford contact email: americanworksymposium@gmail.com American Work American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academics 18 May 2013
Allegory Studies? (7 November 2013; proposals 31 May)full name / name of organization: University of Warwick contact email: v.brljak@warwick.ac.uk
“TECHNOLOGISMS” in the novels of Chetan Bhagat – a linguo cultural analysisfull name / name of organization: Veena Venugopal,Research Scholar, University of Calicut contact email: veenz20@gmail.com As the fast rising technology has invaded our lives together with the vast social networking, there have been several new words which have been commonly used.
The Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2013full name / name of organization: The international Academic Forum (IAFOR) contact email: filmasia@iafor.org The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce the Second Annual Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2013, to be held in Osaka, Japan, from 8-10
The Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2013full name / name of organization: The international Academic Forum (IAFOR) contact email: mediasia@iafor.org The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2013, to be held in Osaka, Japan, f
GLOBAL RESEARCH JOURNAL ON HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE,V1,N1full name / name of organization: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE contact email: domonikr@gmail.com Global Research Journal On Humanities And Social Science is an international peer-reviewed academic research journal, which has a interdisciplinary approaches.
SAMLA 2013: (Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean (due May 31)full name / name of organization: Kristine A. Wilson contact email: wilson67@hotmail.com 2013 SAMLA CONFERENCE, NOV 8-10, ATLANTA SPECIAL SESSION: "(Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean"
CFP: Bicycles / Bicycling in Literature and Culture, edited collection (proposals 8/1/13, essays 2/1/14)full name / name of organization: Jeremy Withers and Daniel Shea, Editors of Collection on Bicycles in Literature and Culture contact email: shead@apsu.edu and withers@iastate.edu The American author Charles Morley once said: “The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” As Morley’s quote suggests, many people have perceived an in
Beyond Mad Men: Personal and Collective Nostalgia in British and American Period Dramas; SAMLA, Nov 8-10full name / name of organization: Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University contact email: Dotterman@Adelphi.edu In his article “The Forty Year Itch,” Adam Gopnik argues that the past “is not simply a good setting for a good story, but a good setting for you.” While Gopnik’s article focuses on nostal
The Family Dynamic as Cultural Zeitgeist: Comparing the Novels of Jonathan Franzen and Jeffery Eugenides; Nov 8-10, SAMLAfull name / name of organization: Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University contact email: Dotterman@Adelphi.edu While Jonathan Franzen has "persistently claimed natural descent from Don Delillo," readers have continually compared Franzen to Jeffery Eugenides on the basis of their mutual exploration of Midwester
[UPDATE} FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition [SCMLA New Orleans 10/3/13-10/5/13]full name / name of organization: Thomas W. Reynolds, Jr., Northwestern State University contact email: reynoldst@nsula.edu FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION: The Subject in/of First-Year Composition South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 70th Annual Convention
The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genresfull name / name of organization: Birkbeck & Institute of English Studies / University of London contact email: theweirdconference@gmail.com Friday 8 November 2013 (+ Thursday 7 November: evening event / weird fiction reading: details tbc)
The Gothic Compass: New Directions in Scholarship and Inquiry. Abstracts due on 23 April.full name / name of organization: Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Professor Donna Lee Brien, Editors contact email: lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz The editors warmly seek abstracts for essays exploring ‘new directions’ in Gothic scholarship. Selected essays will appear in a collection to be published by an international academic publisher.
CFP: "Food Studies in the Hispanic World" PAMLA 2013 (Nov. 1-3)full name / name of organization: Rebecca Ingram / University of San Diego contact email: rei@sandiego.edu This interdisciplinary panel explores the newly developing subfield of food studies within Peninsular and Latin American cultural studies.
"Dance Studies and Peace Studies" Abstracts due: April 4; Conference: November 14–17, 2013full name / name of organization: Brandon Shaw / Brown University contact email: Brandon_Shaw@brown.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Decentering Dance Studies: Moving In New Global Orders November 14–17, 2013 Special Joint conference with Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)
Rougarou Literary Magazine- accepting submissions year roundfull name / name of organization: Rougarou Literary Magazine contact email: rougaroubookreviews@gmail.com Book Reviews for Newly Published Creative Fiction & Poetry Works
Call for Papers, 12th Annual Student & Graduate Conference, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 7th-9th, 2013full name / name of organization: Amerikanistik, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin contact email: ASGConference.Berlin@gmail.com American Wars: Material & Ideological Battlegrounds
(Re)Presenting the Archive [Update - Registration OPEN]full name / name of organization: University of Sheffield, UK contact email: archive@sheffield.ac.uk In a Higher Education context where originality in research is increasingly valorised, what place is there for explicitly re-presentational practices such as scholarly editing and curating?
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