CFP: Stephen Crane Panels at ALA 2013

The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place, Boston, on May 23-26, 2013. All topics are welcome. Here, for example, are a few suggestions:
· Crane's depiction of war

· Crane and the arts (e. g., painting, photography, music)

· Crane's depiction of the city

· Crane's poetry

· Crane's journalism

· the Sullivan County tales and sketches

· the Western stories

· the Whilomville stories

· one of Crane's lesser-known novels (The Third Violet, Active Service, or The O'Ruddy)

· Crane's depiction of women

Seeking proposals pertaining to any aspect(s) of the topic Adolescence in Film and Television for presentation at the annual joint meeting of the national Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, to be held March 27-30, 2013 at the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, D.C.

The Occupy movement, mediated by what we refer to as the "virtual" spaces of the internet, began in earnest with the co-optation of a privately-owned public space in order to allow individuals to draw attention to disparities in how economic and political spaces of power are shared. The disruption of what we assume about the organization of a city, brought about by the prolonged presence of human bodies, thereby discloses the importance of space in 21st century as a cultural phenomenon.

This one-day symposium hosted by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London aims to bring together postgraduates and academics to explore how the issues of feminism, influence and inheritance animate or problematize their work and practice in the field of literary study. Through this conference we aim to begin a discussion about the challenges and anxieties, but also the significant rewards of engaging with our substantial feminist inheritance as scholars working in English Studies today. It will seek to consider how contemporary research relates to the rich, complex and extensive history of feminist research in the discipline and explore how new directions in literary study might be informed by the work of the past.

CFP – American Association of Italian Studies 2013 Annual Conference -University of Oregon, Eugene – April 11-14, 2013

Feminisms and Postfeminisms: Women's Films in Italy

This panel will explore Italian films by and for women from the late 1960s to the present. All theoretical approaches are welcome. Papers engaging with feminist theories of film and cultural studies are encouraged.

"Alt," neither a word nor a prefix in the grammatical sense, has nevertheless been a generative concept in contemporary scholarly interrogations of non-normative ways of engaging with and inhabiting the world. Various fields and disciplines have begun to investigate the meaning, value, and application of alt, inviting critical discourses around questions of alterities, alternations, and alternatives. From considering relations with others to shifting theoretical frameworks to imagining alternate realities, alt complicates periodizations, genres, identities, subjectivities, epistemologies, and discourses.

This three-day conference aims to canvass the breadth and depth of the issues of time and temporality in European modernist writing and classic avant-garde literature.