category: theory

[UPDATE] New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11in the Obama Era -- Proposals Due 5/31/2013

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Chairpersons
contact email: 
newessayson911@gmail.com

Chairpersons of the 2012-2014 SAMLA 9/11 and Literature special sessions seek high quality, previously unpublished submissions to supplement a strong collection of essays emerging from the 2012 and 20

All Kinds of Music is Pouring Out of Me: Living Large and Feeling Big in Musical Theatre Performance and Reception

full name / name of organization: 
American Society for Theatre Research
contact email: 
katedney@hotmail.com; l.e.macdonald@gmail.com)

When the eponymous Sweet Charity (1966) realizes somebody loves her, not only does the scene shift from dialogue into song, but she, self-reflexively, acknowledges the largeness of her emotional respo

Latin@ Studies in Transnational Contexts: Reading, Writing, and Living Lives on/in the Margins

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of American Studies in Turkey
contact email: 
jastlatina@gmail.com

Latin@ Studies in Transnational Contexts: Reading, Writing, and Living Lives on/in the Margins
Guest Editors: Christopher Rivera, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

[UPDATE] Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age, 24-26 October, 2013, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, deadline: May 20th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
contact email: 
2013.rethinking.intermediality@gmail.com

Conference webpage: http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/rethinking-intermediality-in-the...

Call for Papers:

Transitions 4 Comica Symposium - CFP deadline 30 July 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Birkbeck, University of London
contact email: 
transitions.symposium@gmail.com

Transitions 4 is a one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinée and other forms of sequential art, now in its fourth year at

UPDATE: Engaging Student Learning in Non-Traditional Formats

full name / name of organization: 
Prudence Layne/Elon University
contact email: 
playne@elon.edu

**Please see the timeline update to this CFP since its initial positing.**

CFP: Abstracts for edited collection
Engaging Student Learning in Non-Traditional Formats
Deadline: May 15th, 2013

REMINDER: CFP: Edited Volume on Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Deadline, April 30)

full name / name of organization: 
Julien Simon and Isabel Jaen
contact email: 
jjsimon@iue.edu; jaen@pdx.edu

Cognitive literary studies is an expanding field of research that has generated a lot of interest among early modern Spanish literary scholars since Howard Mancing's pioneering work.

Call for Submissions: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature

full name / name of organization: 
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
contact email: 
renascence@marquette.edu

Renascence is a scholarly journal published by Marquette University.

Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World (Sweden, 2-4 April 2014; proposals due by 15 September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dalarna University, Sweden
contact email: 
transcult@du.se

Globalising processes have led, in recent decades, to critical re-evaluations of the ways in which ‘culture’ has traditionally been understood.

NEASECS 2013: Eighteenth-Century Biopolitics

full name / name of organization: 
Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
contact email: 
amallory-kani@albany.edu

Eighteenth-Century Biopolitics

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