category: theory

CFP: Postgraduate English, Issue 27 (Deadline: 15 August 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English Studies, Durham University
contact email: 
pgeng.submissions@durham.ac.uk

POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH (ISSN 1756-9761). The University of Durham’s Online Literature Journal: a peer-reviewed Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English.

CFP - Lacan and Early Modern Literature - SAMLA 2013, Atlanta, GA

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email: 
StephenMills@clayton.edu

Southeast Renaissance Conference - SAMLA Affiliate
SAMLA, Atlanta, GA
November 8-10, 2013

( Update)Two- day Seminar on “Literature and Human Rights” on 7th & 8th August 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
contact email: 
drtmarx@gmail.com

A Two- day National Seminar has been planned by the Department of English on 7th & 8th August 2013. It will have its focus on “Literature and Human Rights”.

MMLA 2013 - Session on Canadian Literature (New Deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
najung@uwalumni.com

This permanent section invites papers on any aspect of Canadian Literature.

Conference: Locating the Gothic, October 22-25, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Limerick School of Art and Design and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
contact email: 
mariabeville@gmail.com and tracy.fahey@lit.ie

The Gothic is a mode that is intimately connected to location.

Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory [London 10/11 July 2014 - deadline 30 November 2013]]

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Nathalie Wourm / Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community
contact email: 
brakc@bbk.ac.uk

Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory

10 and 11 July 2014, Birkbeck (University of London)

Call for Papers:

Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions, Oct. 2-3, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Claflin University Department of English and Foreign Languages
contact email: 
mwong@claflin.edu

Theme: Reading and Writing across the Curriculum

Keynote Speaker: Ms. Nahid Rachlin, renowned fiction writer and memoirist, also teaches at the New School University, New York City

[Extended Deadline] THE WORD MADE TEXT (SAMLA, Nov. 8-10, Atlanta)

full name / name of organization: 
J. Stephen Pearson
contact email: 
stpears11@gmail.com

Religion and Literature: This panel explores the ways religious print texts—scriptures, devotional texts, prayer books, hymnals, etc.—are presented in other literary texts, such as fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction.

NEMLA 2014 CFP: Narrative, Capital, and the Biosocial (Abstracts due 9/30/2013)

full name / name of organization: 
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
contact email: 
biosocialquestionsatNEMLA@gmail.com

From Arendt to Agamben, theorists of biopolitics have argued that shifts in the ways bodies are understood and regulated emerge from the hegemonic form of sovereignty.

CDE Conference 2014 – CFP: “Theatre and History: Cultural Transformations”

full name / name of organization: 
The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
contact email: 
ute.berns@uni-hamburg.de

23rd Annual CDE Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 19 June - 22 June 2014

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