category: science and culture

Call for Papers - Patents for Humanity Special Issue - August 23 2013

full 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

International Journal of Welsh Writing in English (deadline September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Alyce von Rothkirch / Swansea University
contact email: 
ijwwe.editor@gmail.com

International Journal for Welsh Writing in English

Call for Papers

Instrumental Reason/Constellational Form: The Frankfurt School Now

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (Atlanta, Nov. 8-10, 2013)
contact email: 
clavill@emory.edu, ebbisho@emory.edu

In “The Essay as Form,” Theodor Adorno writes that the essay (in Montaigne’s sense of an ‘attempt’) presupposes a reader who “does not think, but rather transforms himself into an arena of

NeMLA 2014 Monstrous Maternity: Mothering Monsters, and Monsters as Mothers, Deadline 9/30/13

full 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)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Science and Fiction: Literary Darwinism

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association, November 7-10, 2013
contact email: 
swafford@bradley.edu

The 55th Annual Convention will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center from November 7-10, 2013.

Topic: Literary Darwinism

"The Senses of Humour," submissions due 1 July 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, McMaster University
contact email: 
ecf@mcmaster.ca

This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal will explore the relationships among various meanings of the term "humour" in the long eighteenth century, from humoral theories of the body to

Comparative Innovations Workshop- Call for Participants- May 24th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
King's College London /AHRC Forms of Innovation Project
contact email: 
comparativeinnovations@formsofinnovation.com

Comparative literature, by its multidisciplinary nature, may be well matched to innovation in the digital humanities.

International Conference ICT for Language Learning

full name / name of organization: 
Pixel
contact email: 
michele@pixel-online.net

International Conference ICT for Language Learning

The 6th edition of the “ICT for Language Learning” Conference will take place in Florence, (Italy), on 14 – 15 November 2013.

Instability and the Modern Family: Family Systems Theory and the Contemporary Novel

full name / name of organization: 
Jenna Marquardt/ University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
contact email: 
marquj48@uwosh.edu

This paper explores the possibilites of family systems theory as literary criticism.

[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.

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