victorian

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association
CFP: Victorian Treasures and Trash

6th Annual Conference, 8-10 July 2014
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathon Shears (Keele), '"[...] battered [...] soiled [...] broken [...] empty [...] half-smoked [...] stale": The Hangover in Victorian Popular Fiction'.

Guest Speaker: Judith Flanders, 'Painting Reality: Home vs. Home-ness'

Senate Library Special Collections Talk and 'hands-on' mini-exhibition: Dr Karen Attar, 'Trash, Treasure or Trashy Treasure at the Institutional Library'.

Association of Welsh Writing in English - Annual Conference 2014
In/dependent Wales
Gregynog Hall, Nr Newtown, Powys
11-13 April 2014

One of the decade's more contentious theories concerning the reformulation of capital in (post)industrial America was the denomination of the so-called "creative class." United by a tendency toward transient "gigs," labor that blurs the line between art and technology, and innovation, its members traffic in intellectual property and abstract skill sets while seeking venues that grant them legibility. Though much debate surrounds the validity of the term, this coinage proves useful for thinking about the dialogic relationship between capitalism and creativity.

The English Department of UMass Boston is pleased to announce our new annual event, Beacon: A Graduate Conference in the Humanities. For our inaugural conference, we are asking for papers that focus on the topics of interpretation and appropriation, and, in particular, how these terms intersect and interact with one another. How can we interpret appropriation? What constitutes appropriate interpretation?

In/Tangibility: The Mystical, The Material and the Messy In-Between

CALL FOR PAPERS DUE DECEMBER 5th, 2013

Submissions are welcomed for the
20th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference
To be held March 6th, 2014, Concordia University
Faculty Lounge, Hall Building H-765, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal.