category: travel writing

London Fantastic - Pre-1900 (LonCon, August 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
LonCon
contact email: 
londonfantastic@gmail.com

Fantastic London
LonCon, August 2014

Proposals are welcome on “Fantastic London” for the academic programme at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention.

[UPDATE] Deadline Extended - Crossing the Bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research

full name / name of organization: 
Keele University & University of Liverpool
contact email: 
j.e.taylor@keele.ac.uk, k.astbury@liverpool.ac.uk

Due to the number of people who've requested a slightly later deadline, we've extended the deadline to Wednesday April 10th 2013.

[UPDATE: REMINDER] The Art of Walking – Lyon (France) – 4/15/2013 & 10/10-12/2013

full name / name of organization: 
Klaus Benesch, LMU/University of Munich (Germany) & François Specq, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon/CNRS (France)
contact email: 
klaus.benesch@lmu.de / Francois.Specq@ens-lyon.fr

The Art of Walking: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Call for Papers

full name / name of organization: 
the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north
contact email: 
jbutler@ucn.ca

The quint’s nineteenth issue is issuing a call for theoretically informed and historically grounded submissions of scholarly interest—as well as creative writing, original art, interviews, and rev

Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity. Interdisciplinary symposium at Brown, 2/21/14

full name / name of organization: 
John Moreau, Brown University
contact email: 
john_moreau@brown.edu

Prisons of Stone, Word, and Flesh: Medieval and Early Modern Captivity. A One-Day Interdisciplinary Symposium at Brown University
February 21, 2014

CFP TRACES - Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference - Friday 14 June 2013 [Deadline: 30 April 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
GLITS - Goldsmiths College, University of London
contact email: 
traces2013@gold.ac.uk

Keynote Speaker: Professor Mark Currie (Queen Mary, University of London)

Oh you lost God! You endless trace!
Only because in the end hate divided you

American Fantasies and Dreams

full name / name of organization: 
American Studies Association of Turkey
contact email: 
asat2007@gmail.com

American Studies Association of Turkey
36th International Conference

American Fantasies and Dreams
May 14–16, 2014
Atatürk University
Erzurum Technical University
Erzurum, Turkey

“Secularity and Faith”; Literature and Religion Panel for PAMLA (Nov. 1-3, 2013); Deadline: April 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
haein.park@biola.edu

We are currently seeking proposals for the Literature and Religion panel at the 2013 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference in San Diego, California.

History of Critical Reception: Reception Study Society section at Midwest MLA Conference (Milwaukee, Nov. 7-10)

full name / name of organization: 
Matthew James Vechinski, Reception Study Society
contact email: 
mjvechin@uw.edu

History of Critical Reception

Topic: Open

[UPDATE] The Traveler’s Eye: Narrating Dis/Location in 20th Century Travel Literature, October 24th-26th 2013, Bucharest

full name / name of organization: 
CISCER, University of Bucharest, Romania
contact email: 
conference2013@litere.ro

The troubled 20th century has been labeled in many ways – one of which is “the century of migrations”.

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