cfp.english.upenn.edu

Red Feather Journal (www.redfeatherjournal.org), an online, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal of children's visual culture, is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2013 is

CONFIRMED KEYNOTES:

Alan Bewell (Toronto), Paul Giles (Sydney), Peter Kitson (Dundee), Liam McIlvanney (Otago)

Spreading the Light: Mapping the Vernacular Elucidarium in Medieval England
15th-17th November 2013

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Ninth Religion, Literature, and the Arts Conference
Sacrifice, Terror, and the Good
September 26-28, 2013
University of Iowa, Iowa City IA

The VSAO executive invites proposals for 20-minute papers to be presented at the Association's 46th annual conference on 27 April 2013.

For quite some time, I have been interested in/incensed by the scholarly publication system; the exclusions, iniquities and absurdities of it can be clearly seen from only a brief survey of the econom

The 13th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
"Into the Void"
March 29-30, 2012
University of Iowa

***DEADLINE EXTENDED to February 8, 2013***

‘Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars’: Exploring the Virtues in Literature
Southwest Region Conference on Christianity and Literature
Where:
Houston Baptist University, Houston TX

The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World will organize two sessions at the annual conference of the American Literature Association.

Beyond the familiar metrics of ‘blood and treasure,’ what does war cost? Contemporary American militarism is dominated by a fiduciary logic.

November 1-2, 2013
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

The German Historical Institutes in London and Washington, D.C., are pleased to announce the eighth Medieval History Seminar, to be held in London, from October 10 to 13, 2013.

Peer English (ISSN 1746-5621) is a refereed, open-access online journal produced by members of the School of English.

Religion and Pop Culture

This panel invites papers that explore textual encounter and interaction within religion.

New York University
April 4-5, 2013
Keynote by Asa Mittman (California State University, Chico) on April 4
Conference on April 5

Humans/Animals/Things

**DEADLINE EXTENDED: ABSTRACTS NOW DUE JANUARY 25TH, 2013**

Translation Studies and Literatures in English:
An interdisciplinary/international postgraduate conference
13-14 May 2013
Cankaya University Ankara

Religious approaches to literature have been dominated by apologetics and by the confessional tendencies advocated by T.S. Eliot.

DEADLINE EXTENDED

(dis)junctions 2013: Encounters With(in) Texts
20th Annual Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Conference at the University of California, Riverside April 5-6 2013

This interdisciplinary graduate conference invites scholars to turn their attention to transformations, crises, and anxieties crashing at our (real and metaphorical) shores.

The Early Medieval Interdisciplinary Conference Series (EMICS) is pleased to present ‘Stasis in the Medieval World’, to be held at University College London on 13th-14th April 2013. Continuing the discussion begun by the University of York’s ‘Transition in the Medieval World’ conferences in 2012, this conference will seek to establish the extent to which aspects of medieval life and culture remained static during this period.

Re/Inventions 2013: Hysteria
2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
California State University, Long Beach
Tentative Date: Thursday, 11 April 2013
Abstracts Due: Friday, 1 February 2013

30th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference
"Collaborations"

Saturday, March 16, 2013
University of Connecticut

This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes.

We are currently inviting submissions for a special issue of College Literature on “The Poetics of Surplus,” guest-edited by Ranjan Ghosh.

Duquesne University
SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION: January 18, 2013.

“Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.” – Simone Weil

“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.” – William Faulkner

Illusion is commonly defined as a false idea or belief, often the product of misperception or deception, intentional or otherwise.

Call for Proposals: “Consent: Terms of Agreement”
Featuring Keynote Speaker: Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
Submission Deadline EXTENSION: Jan. 15th

Thomas Pynchon has codified himself in the Postmodern cannon as one of the most prolific and inspirational authors alive.

Joss In June is a one-day multidisciplinary conference focusing on the works of Joss Whedon, including: Dollhouse, Dr.