cfp.english.upenn.edu

October 31-November 2, 2013
Amerika-Haus Munich

“What we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that is has a future.” George Wald, 1969.

The power of things
inheres in the memories
they gather up inside them,
and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination,
and our memory - of this there is no doubt.

CFP: Media Spaces of Gender and Sexuality
Media Fields Journal
University of California, Santa Barbara

CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday April 13th, 2013
Proposal Deadline: Friday March 29th, 2013

Colloquium

Sexual Futures: Versions of the Sexual Past, Visions of the Sexual Future

University of Exeter, UK

5-6 September 2013

This symposium is organized by the “Jeudi du Genre” group of the research team “Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes” (CAS EA 801).

University of Kent, 27-28 June 2013

Call for Papers

Scientists recently found that migration was a main factor that shaped human behavior (Don Jones, Nature News).

Papers addressing the pioneering HBO show, attendant discussions and controversies, and/or related media exploring twenty-first century feminisms.

This special session seeks submissions that employ and/or consider cognitive approaches to literature.

The manifesto has served many purposes in its history, and this session will bring together scholars with an interest in non-fiction to reflect on those purposes.

This is a proposed special session for the 2014 MLA Convention, which will be held from January 9-12, 2014 in Chicago, IL.

The Creative Industries Journal (CIJ), an international, peer-reviewed academic journal published by Intellect Press, seeks innovative, previously unpublished scholarship on the broad set of cultural,

Translation Studies and Literatures in English:
an interdisciplinary/international Postgraduate Conference
13-14 May 2013
Cankaya University Ankara/Turkey
www.elts.cankaya.edu.tr

Contemporary Old English is a web source for Old English and Anglo-Saxon culture presented in a modern aesthetic.

This roundtable invites paper proposals that will explore the re-emergence of the veil and its literary and cultural representations.

Call For Papers: Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences International Conference, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant
November 21-23, 2013

Deadline extended to March 15th!

[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation invites submissions for the upcoming 7th issue. We accept:

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
„Contemporary Television Series: Narrative Structures and Audience Perception”

Overview of the Book:

The Renaissance of Roland Barthes
Speakers: Jonathan Culler, Diana Knight, Rosalind Krauss, D.A. Miller, and Lucy O’Meara

Seeking new perspectives on the place of materialist theory in the study of vulnerability in American culture, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; racial, economic, sexual vulnerabi

Neo-Victorianism and Globalisation:
Transnational Dissemination of Nineteenth-Century Cultural Texts

2014 Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies
(http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/)

I am putting together a panel for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood conference that discusses the relationship between emerging adulthood and American popular culture.

In this session, papers will look at the different ways place can determine one’s identity.

How can digital methods and scholarship help us to capitalize on the everyday genre that is twentieth-century correspondence?

Reminder CFP: Spectral Spaces and Hauntings (anthology)
Edited by Christina Lee

Call for Papers:
OTAKU STUDIES
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel, A Doubletree by Hilton

This symposium will be held at St Peter’s College, Oxford, on 15
June, 2013, with a view to opening up and exploring connections
between poetry and the dictionary. Proposals for papers on any

Call for Papers

Sunday 12 May
University of York, UK

Music, Technology and Imagination

About the Festival

**Deadline extended to March 11, 2013**

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies (4th Annual)

Videogames and Mental Health

15-minute presentations are invited for a special session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Chicago IL., 9-12 January 2014.