religion

Fault Lines of Modernity:
New Contexts for Religion, Ethics, and Literature
Conference dates: June 2, 3, 4, 2014
Location: San Francisco, CA
Abstract due date: 11/20/13

MadLit 2013: Texts and Violence

Keynote speaker: Hillary Chute, author of Graphic Women and Associate Editor of MetaMaus

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's tenth annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature will take place February 20-22, 2014. This year's conference, "Texts and Violence" engages the intersections between literature, culture, philosophy, and politics.

The quint's twentieth issue is issuing a call for theoretically informed and historically grounded submissions of scholarly interest—as well as creative writing, original art, interviews, and reviews of books. The deadline for this call is 15th December 2013—but please note that we accept manu/digi-scripts at any time.

All contributions accompanied by a short biography will be forwarded to a member of the editorial board. Manuscripts must not be previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere while being reviewed by the quint's editors or outside readers.

The Arachneed Journal invites scholarly papers, commentaries, book reviews, interviews, multimedia presentation (audio visual) for its upcoming issue.
This issue focuses on "Freedom" as the broad theme. Thus contributions are invited from scholars, activists, professionals engaged in diverse streams of humanities and social sciences and allied arts.
We strongly encourage young and emerging scholars to submit their manuscripts for review, focusing on the above mentioned theme or an allied area.

Challenger Unbound
Department of English, UCL
9 December 2013

A century has passed since the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. This one-day symposium offers an ideal opportunity to take stock of the Professor Challenger narratives and to reassess what these three novels and two short stories can offer to new generations of scholars, students, and enthusiasts.

Introduction:

Professor John Sutherland
Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature
Department of English Language and Literature
UCL

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Ian Duncan
Professor and Florence Green Bixby Chair in English
Department of English
University of California, Berkeley

Please email 200-300 word proposals for 20-minute papers and brief biographical notes of 50 words to the conference organisers: Dr Siân Adiseshiah, Dr Martin Eve, Dr Rupert Hildyard, and Dr Agnes Woolley: WHN@lincoln.ac.uk Panel proposals are also welcome.

Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2013

Conference website: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/event...

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CFP: Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture
50th Anniversary Conference
Columbia University
April 4-5, 2014

"The Study of Eighteenth-Century European Culture: Past, Present and Future"

Conference Chairs:
Al Coppola, Department of English, John Jay College, CUNY
Nicole Horejsi, Department of English, Columbia University

We are happy to begin accepting proposals for special sessions at this year's 21st annual (dis)junctions conference, on April 11-12, 2014. (dis)junctions is the interdisciplinary conference hosted by the English graduate students at UC Riverside, and is designed as a friendly forum for graduate students of all levels to introduce their latest work. Annually, we bring together graduate student scholars from across disciplines, schools, states, and countries---last year we had 29 panels, with 97 presenters from 3 countries and 20 different stats.

Trials, Transgressions, and Taboos

"Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us." – Henry Miller

The eighth annual AEGIS (Association of English Graduate Instructors and Students) graduate conference invites paper proposals on interdisciplinary topics treating trials, transgressions, and taboos in literature, cinema, the writing process, and popular culture and art.

Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, states that reciprocal exchange is the glue which holds society together, saying "The very existence of the state depends on proportionate reciprocity…failing which no exchange takes place, and it is exchange that binds them together…it is a duty not only to repay a service done one, but another time to take the initiative in doing a service oneself" (NE V.v.7).

The University of Oregon Department of the History of Art and Architecture invites papers for its 10th Annual Graduate Student Symposium. This cross-cultural, interdisciplinary symposium will explore the theme of "the copy," interpreted in the broadest sense to include any form of replication, reproduction, or forgery across all time periods, media and geographic regions. While both the art market and the art historical discipline have tended to prioritize the value of the original art object over its copy, an increasingly globalized society saturated with easily available reproductions in a variety of media requires us to reconsider the complex relationship between the copy and its original.

Any topic related to the use/depiction/influence of religion in ethnic U.S. literature (including pop culture) is welcome.

The MELUS conference will be held March 6-9 in Oklahoma City.

Please submit a 1-page abstract to Dr. J. Stephen Pearson; include a working title, your campus, and any A/V needs.

Submissions welcome through Sunday, 27 October; notifications will be sent out that same week. Papers not accepted can still be submitted to the general pool.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the reconfiguration of women's roles in both the domestic and the social spheres in countries across the globe. Women's vital roles as mothers and educators to the future citizens of the nation/world were capitalized upon by female writers and activists who called for the improvement of women's social rights and their inclusion in the workplace. The discourses of motherhood and domesticity as gendered cultural capital(s) have thus long been engaged, reconfigured, and deployed in transnational women's movements.

In 1965, Nancy Larrick wrote an article for the Saturday Review entitled "the All-White World of Children's Books." Though Larrick was certainly not the first to draw attention to the lack of diversity in books for children, the empirical evidence that she offered from her three-year study of the new books in the genre clearly illustrated the extent of the problem; publishers recognized that it was time for a change. The children's books circulating today are no longer "all-white," but they still fall far short of reflecting the diversity of the U.S. population.