category: twentieth century and beyond

REMINDER - Transitions 4, 2 November 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

NeMLA 2014: The Loud Twentieth Century: Literature Sounds Off

full name / name of organization: 
NeMLA
contact email: 
solinger@rutgers.edu

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

[UPDATE] DEADLINE APPROACHING Performing Gender: cultural ideals, expectations, and representations of gender in American

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Conference
contact email: 
cthorndi@kent.edu

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

John Banville and His Precursors, 9-10 Nov. 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Michael Springer, University of York
contact email: 
banvilleandhisprecursors@gmail.com

Keynote speakers: Dr Elke D’hoker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), author of Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville (Rodopi, 2004)

CFP: Invisible Cities Grad Symposium - Kitchener ON, October 26

full name / name of organization: 
Critical Media Lab (in association with the Canadian Association of American Studies)
contact email: 
invisiblecities13@gmail.com

Call for participants Invisible Cities: Located Knowledge and Digital Design
Graduate Symposium and Expo
October 26, 2013
Critical Medial Lab, University of Waterloo, Kitchener Ontario

[UPDATE] MMLA 2013: Design and the Digital Humanities (deadline: June 7)

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
contact email: 
josh.honn@gmail.com and sullivan.rachael@gmail.com

DEADLINE EXTENDED

Understanding Atrocities Conference: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide February 19-21, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Tristan Smyth / Scott W. Murray Mount Royal University
contact email: 
understandingatrocities@mtroyal.ca

We use ‘genocide’ and ‘atrocity’– words that overlap and mix – as we reach for an understanding of the full horror of one people’s attempts to eliminate another.

[UPDATE] Keynote Announced and Deadline Extension: Stretching The Screen 15th Annual SFSU Cinema Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association
contact email: 
csgsa@mail.sfsu.edu

Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2013
Keynote Speaker: Kriss Ravetto, UC Davis, Cinema and Technocultural Studies
Submission Deadline: June 28, 2013

Beyond the Bedside: Nursing Narratives of World War I and World War II (NeMLA 2014)

full name / name of organization: 
Ravenel Richardson
contact email: 
ravenelrichardson@gmail.com

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
Contact: ravenelrichardson@gmail.com

[UPDATE]: CfP: The Common Denominator -- A Postgraduate Conference in British Cultural Studies, 20-22 MArch 2014

full name / name of organization: 
British Cultural Studies in the Institute for British Studies of Leipzig University
contact email: 
denominator@uni-leipzig.de

In ancient Greece, the Pythagoreans worshipped perfect numbers and turned them into musical scales.

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