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category: postcolonial[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)full name / name of organization: Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University contact email: M-Cole@wiu.edu What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?
MLA 2014, Chicago: Everyday Unrecognized Sexual Violence in South Asiafull name / name of organization: Namrata Mitra/ South Asian Languages and Literatures contact email: nmitra@jcu.edu We invite critiques on representations of sexual violence against marginalized groups in South Asian literature, film, and/ or media.
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies journal - Special Issuefull name / name of organization: Elizabeth Kelley Bowman / Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Penn State) contact email: ebowman@uguam.uog.edu We invite essays from interdisciplinary perspectives that address contemporary adaptations of Renaissance literature or art, particularly Jacobean, in film.
The Sacred and the Sexual in South Asian Literature , South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group, MLA Chicago 2014full name / name of organization: Indrani Mitra/ Mount St. Mary's University contact email: mitra@msmary.edu This Modern Language Association panel invites papers that interrogate gender and the constructions of sexuality in relation to one or more of the religious traditions of South Asia, and their local,
Queering Age (PAMLA, November 1-3, 2013 in San Diego)full name / name of organization: PAMLA, Emily Mattingly contact email: emily.mattingly@email.ucr.edu Queering Age
[UPDATE] The Human journal NOW accepts submissions for June 2013 issuefull name / name of organization: The Human, a journal of humanities, social sciences, and arts contact email: human@humanjournal.org Call for Papers – The Human journal NOW accepts submissions
[UPDATE] The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)full name / name of organization: Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University contact email: M-Cole@wiu.edu What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics?
[UDATE] Supernatural Studies Journal - Inaugural Issuefull name / name of organization: Supernatural Studies Association contact email: SupernaturalStudies@gmail.com Supernatural Studies, a new, peer-edited e-journal welcomes submissions for its inaugural issue, Spring 2013, through March 1.
Marxism..."That is the Question"full name / name of organization: Marxist Literary Group/South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013 contact email: acooke2@emory.edu Taking a cue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this panel focuses on a critical examination of the act or state of calling one’s self a Marxist, that is to say, it asks the question, “What does it mean
Haunting Whiteness: Rhetorics of Whiteness in a ‘Post-Racial’ Erafull name / name of organization: Tammie M Kennedy, Joyce Middleton, and Kris Ratcliffee contact email: tmkenendy@unomaha.edu The editors invite chapter proposals that work with the collection’s title, Haunting Whiteness: Rhetorics of Whiteness in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era.
Space and Everyday Life in Contemporary Fiction - Journal Issue - deadline for proposals 30/03/2013full name / name of organization: Interférences Littéraires/ Literaire Interferenties: A Multilingual e-Journal in Literary Studies contact email: Liesbeth.Francois@arts.kuleuven.be Space and Everyday Life
Vulnerable Times and the Rise of Fascism: Radical Writers on the Front of the Spanish Civil War (MLA Chicago, Jan 9-12 2014)full name / name of organization: Ashley Foster (CUNY-Graduate Center) and Evelyn Scaramella (Manhattan College) contact email: jashfoster@yahoo.com, evelyn.scaramella@manhattan.edu This panel explores testimonies of writers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2013; J.
MLA 2014 Special Session: Vulnerability, Dependence, and Risk in Caribbean Literaturefull name / name of organization: Kristine A. Wilson contact email: wilson67@purdue.edu For this proposed special session, I welcome paper proposals that address the presidential theme, Vulnerable Times, as it relates to Caribbean literature.
Creative submissions are invited to upcoming issue of Yellow Medicine Review devoted to the Fairy-talefull name / name of organization: Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought contact email: editor@yellowmedicinereview.com Yellow Medicine Review is accepting poetry, fiction, and creative essays for its upcoming issue devoted to modern writers working in the myth/folktale genre.
UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre; Summer 2013; Deadline 6/24/13full name / name of organization: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; St. Mary's College; Rivendale Press contact email: hgurfin@siue.edu; michelle.paull@smuc.ac.uk UPSTAGE, a peer-reviewed online publication dedicated to research in turn-of-the-century (1880-1914) dramatic literature, theatre, and theatrical culture, is seeking submissions for its Summer 2013 is
[UPDATE} Panel on "The Modernist Room,"* 29 Aug - 1 Sept, Brighton UK -- MSA conferencefull name / name of organization: Modernist Studies Association contact email: stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com According to Frederic Jameson, the Modernist novel abandoned the panoramic cityscapes of the 19th century realist novel and devised "strategies of inwardness." As Brigitte Munier suggests, the early-2
What's Material about Vulnerability? MLA, Chicago, Jan 9-12, 2014 (deadline: March 15)full name / name of organization: Joanna Fax and Kimberly Macellaro/Rice University contact email: jmf4@rice.edu, kam5@rice.edu 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
Newer New or Coming After? Americanist Literary Criticism at the Present Moment (MLA)full name / name of organization: Jed Dobson contact email: james.e.dobson@dartmouth.edu This special session panel seeks papers that reflect on the work of the New Americanists. Abstracts (300-500 words) and brief cv by 15 March 2013; Jed Dobson (james.e.dobson@dartmouth.edu).
“Feminism and Nationalism”: The Case of South Asian Womenfull name / name of organization: MLA (Modern Language Association) 2014 Convention, Chicago contact email: ummeal-wazedi@augustana.edu, imohf@aol.com Do women and men have equal opportunities for agency within nationalist movements? Seeking proposals for a roundtable on the creation of the nation-state and the role of women in South Asia.
Postcolonial Studies in the Public Sphere, 17th May 2013.full name / name of organization: Postcolonial-Public contact email: postcolonial.public@gmail.com An AHRC funded project in association with Durham University & Queen’s University Belfast
[Deadline Extended] Worlds Between: Exploring the Borders, Boundaries, and Gaps that Divide and Bindfull name / name of organization: Sigma Tau Delta, Iota Chi Chapter / California State University, Northridge contact email: sigmataudeltaiotachi@gmail.com "Worlds Between: Exploring the Borders, Boundaries, and Gaps that Divide and Bind" Saturday, April 27, 2013
Call for articlesfull name / name of organization: International Journal of Communication and Health contact email: communicationandhealth@gmail.com The International Journal of Communication and Health is an on-line peer-reviewed journal interested in any aspect related to health communication.
MLA 2014 Special Session: Why Rancière is important? (Abstract deadline March 15, 2013)full name / name of organization: Haythem Guesmi contact email: h.guesmi@umontreal.ca This special session seeks submissions that discuss themes of vulnerability, resistance and social change in Jacques Rancière’s work.
Panel on Princesses in Popular Culture, 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013 [UPDATE]full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) contact email: michelle.stonis@csulb.edu And they lived happily ever after, or did they?
Corporeality Panel - PAMLA 2013 San Diegofull name / name of organization: Sören Fröhlich / University of California, San Diego contact email: sfrohlic@ucsd.edu Special Session: Ew! Gross! Abjection, Affect, and Bodily Fluids Deadline: April 15, 2013
Text and Context—An Interdisciplinary Symposiumfull name / name of organization: Michael Sollars/Texas Southern University contact email: sollars_md@tsu.edu Introductions: Text and Context—An Interdisciplinary Symposium Spring 2013 – 15th Annual McCleary Interdisciplinary Symposium
Short-Term Research Fellowships, NYPL, 2013-2014full name / name of organization: New York Public Library contact email: thomaslannon@nypl.org, elizabethdenlinger@nypl.org I am glad to be able to announce the NYPL Short-Term Research Fellowships, though sorry that again they are only for people who can legally work in the US.
[UPDATE] CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conferencefull name / name of organization: University of Glasgow contact email: arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk CFP DEADLINE APPROACHING, Friday 1st March 2013 Keynote Speakers:
Irish Gothic Conference, 5-6 December 2013full name / name of organization: Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Università degli Studi di Perugia contact email: perugiairishgothic@gmail.com "
Call for papers from 20th Feb.2013 to end of April 2013full name / name of organization: The Department of English and Literatures of English Expression of the Higher Teacher Training College of the University of Maroua in Cameroon invites papers for the inaugural issue of Springs to be published in June 2013 contact email: pangmeshi@gmail.com, arundie@yahoo.com Springs is an international peer-reviewed journal.
Comparative American Ethnic Literatures—Special Session, PAMLA – submissions due April 15, 2013full name / name of organization: PAMLA—Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association contact email: melanieh@u.washington.edu “FATHER LANDS, MOTHER COUNTRIES, AND WARDS OF THE (NATION) STATE”
Panel on Princesses in Popular Culture, 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) contact email: michelle.stonis@csulb.edu Panel -- Once Upon a Time: The Impact of Princess Culture on Girls And they lived happily ever after, or did they?
Diaspora in Middle Eastern Literaturesfull name / name of organization: MLA (Modern Language Association) 2014 Convention, Chicago contact email: eda.dedebas@gmail.com Proposals that focus on diaspora in Anglophone Middle Eastern Literatures and discuss broader issues such as gender, ethnicity, language and narrative.
[UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space ($125 award for the best essay)full name / name of organization: Southern Methodist University's English Department (Graduate Students) contact email: smugradconference@gmail.com
Transitions and Transactions: Literature and Creative Writing Pedagogies in Community Colleges Conferencefull name / name of organization: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Department of English contact email: mbarrow@bmcc.cuny.edu or msteinkoler@bmcc.cuny.edu Pedagogy as an essential part of the learning and teaching culture has an ever more important place in community colleges where we continually rethink and revise our practices for our often non-tradit
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