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category: popular culture[UPDATE] SAMLA 2013: (Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean (due June 10)full name / name of organization: Kristine A. Wilson contact email: wilson67@purdue.edu
SPECIAL SESSION: "(Con)Textual Networks and the Globalized Caribbean"
Women Writing War Trauma (NeMLA 2014)full name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association contact email: profkijowski@gmail.com “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” Theodor Adorno famously pronounced in 1949, indicating, among other things, that the Holocaust presents a radical problem of representation.
Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2013full name / name of organization: Apollon: eJournal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities contact email: apollonejournal@gmail.com Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
[UPDATE] Irish Gothic Conference 5-6 December, 2013full name / name of organization: Università degli Studi di Perugia / Università per Stranieri di Perugia contact email: perugiairishgothic@gmail.com Confirmed Speakers: • Professor W. J. McCormack (Former Professor of Literary History at Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Genre Films & Money; 2013 Film & History Conference; Nov. 20-24, 2013 (Madison)full name / name of organization: Film & History contact email: ahowe@lasierra.edu Money & the Genre Film An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013
(Re)thinking Global Connectedness: Critical Perspectives on Globalizationfull name / name of organization: Texas A&M University at Qatar, Liberal Arts Program contact email: LAIC2014@qatar.tamu.edu Proposals Due: 15 September 2013
Special Issue on Contemporary Drama [July 15, 2013]full name / name of organization: Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies contact email: breac.djis@gmail.com Special Issue on Contemporary Drama
SAMLA Special Session on Creating or Expanding a BA Program in English During Uncertain Times (June 20th- Abstract Deadline)full name / name of organization: SAMLA Special Session- November 8-10, Atlanta contact email: SOrtolano@edison.edu This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline.
Call for Papers - Patents for Humanity Special Issue - August 23 2013full name / name of organization: Diana Vergara/ Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors contact email: tijournal@research.usf.edu In recognition of the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity program, Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, will be publishing a special issue highlighting influential
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: Anthony Dotterman/Adelphi University 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 nostalgi
Country Lyricists: Media Consciousness in Country Musicfull name / name of organization: South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) contact email: holmest@mail.etsu.edu COUNTRY LYRICISTS Media Consciousness in Country Music
Ode to Joy: The Career of Camden Joy (MMLA 11/7-11/10/13)full name / name of organization: Samuel Cohen/Midwest Modern Language Association contact email: cohenss@missouri.edu This approved special session will be devoted to the work of the conference’s keynote speaker, Tom Adelman, who under the name Camden Joy attained notoriety in the mid-nineties for his New York City
NeMLA 2014 Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers, Deadline 9/30/13full name / name of organization: NeMLA contact email: almishou@gmail.com Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers 45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
GLBTQ Studies at MAPACA - Atlantic City (Nov. 7th to 9th)full name / name of organization: Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) contact email: markjohn@alumni.tufts.edu The GLBTQ Studies Area of MAPACA welcomes proposals of relevance to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.
Call for Creative Writing Articlesfull name / name of organization: Writing Commons -- a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students contact email: dianne@writingcommons.org Award-winning Writing Commons (http://writingcommons.org/), a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students invites the submission of creative writing articles intending to help
Cacophony and Communication in the Postmodern Novelfull name / name of organization: South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) contact email: mjameson@lander.edu Postmodern multivocality forefronts various attempts, and failures, to communicate; in the postmodern novel, television, radio, phones, print media, literature, works of art, and even graffiti simultaneously communicate and compete, harmonize and grate, as characters attempt to make meaning and make sense of their worlds.
UPDATE: Reinterpreting Carson McCullers (The 85th Annual SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013)full name / name of organization: Courtney George: The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University) contact email: george_courtney2@columbusstate.edu DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 1, 2013
Gender, Identity and Sexuality for NEPCA conference; deadline June 10, 2013; conference 10/25-26full name / name of organization: Northeast Popular Culture Association contact email: GagnonD@wcsu.edu Currently soliciting paper proposals for the upcoming NEPCA conference at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, October 25/26, 2013.
‘Is the Biographer an Artist?’: Tracing Authority within Collected Remembrance--NeMLA 2014 April 3-6full name / name of organization: Amanda Weldy Boyd contact email: weldy@usc.edu 45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
CFP: Travel and Tourism Area of MAP/ACA Conference, Nov. 7-9, 2013full name / name of organization: Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association contact email: travelandtourismmapaca@ymail.net Call for papers for the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference November 7-9 2013
[Update] Smallville: Essay Collectionfull name / name of organization: Nadine Farghaly and Margo Collins contact email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com, Nadine.Farghaly@gmx.net Articles are invited for an essay collection on Smallville. This collection will specifically focus on issues of gender, sex, and power in this retelling and expansion of the Superman universe(s).
[NeMLA 2014] Critical Feelings: Redefining Cultural Agency in Affect Theoryfull name / name of organization: Tyler Bradway contact email: tyler.bradway@gmail.com Conference: Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (2014)
[UPDATE] Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media & Mode - Abstracts due June 20thfull name / name of organization: LIM College contact email: proposals@limcollege.edu Call for Presentations - Fashion Now & Then: Meaning, Media, and Mode Proposal due date: June 10, 2013 Conference date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 to Saturday, October 5, 2013
NeMLA 2014: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Contextfull name / name of organization: NeMLA 2014 (Northeast Modern Language Association) contact email: tara.harney@uconn.edu NeMLA 2014 cfp Title: Irish and Indian-Anglophone Writing in a Transnational Feminism Context
[UPDATE]"Past Tense, Future Tensions" SCLA Conference Oct. 18-19, 2013 (abstract deadline extended)full name / name of organization: Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts contact email: sclaconference@guilford.edu DEADLINE EXTENDED: Abstracts due 6/1/13.
[UPDATE] Writing and Rhetoric in Popular Culture Area Deadline Extendedfull name / name of organization: Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association contact email: c.n.blankenship@gmail.com Call for Papers
ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticherfull name / name of organization: Edinburgh University Press contact email: Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com From Escape in the Fog (1945) to Ride Lonesome (1959), among many other titles, few filmmakers created as unique a body of work in the United States as Budd Boetticher (1916-2001), but few directors h
ReFocus: Announcing a New Series of Film/American Studies Anthologiesfull name / name of organization: Edinburgh University Press contact email: Dr. Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com ; Dr. Robert Singer, collegenowsinger@aol.com In 2015, the University of Edinburgh Press will launch a multivolume series of scholarly, refereed anthologies entitled ReFocus.
Transmedia Horrorfull name / name of organization: University of Melbourne contact email: Jessica.Balanzategui@unimelb.edu.au Special Issue: Transmedia Horror (Abstracts due 20th of June 2013)
Call for Submissions: Simondon and Disability Studiesfull name / name of organization: Wilson Kaiser contact email: wkaiser@ju.edu Call for Submissions: Simondon and Disability Studies
A conference on the counter culture and contemporary art practices November 6-8, 2013, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, Frfull name / name of organization: claude chastagner université montpellier 3, France contact email: claude.chastagner@univ-montp3.fr A conference on the counter culture and contemporary art practices November 6-8, 2013, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France.
conference CULTURE(S) AND RESISTANCE TODAY June 19-21, 2014, Nîmes University (France)full name / name of organization: claude chastagner, université Montpellier 3, France contact email: claude.chastagner@univ-montp3.fr 6th Cultural Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies International Conference in Languedoc-Roussillon (France) A joint production
A CONFERENCE ON LOVE AND ROCK MUSIC, April 16 & 17, 2014, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 (France),full name / name of organization: claude chastagner université montpellier 3, France contact email: claude.chastagner@univ-montp3.fr “STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART” A CONFERENCE ON LOVE AND ROCK MUSIC Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 (France) April 16 & 17, 2014
Contemporary American Creative Non-Fictionfull name / name of organization: Diana Eidson, South Atlantic Modern Language Association contact email: deidson@gsu.edu The genre of creative nonfiction—exemplified both by engaging, intellectual essays and by narratives with attention to literary style—has received increasing scholarly and public attention.
[Update] Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culturefull name / name of organization: Lan Dong contact email: ldong4@uis.edu Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture
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