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Roland Barthes at 100 (30-31 March 2015)

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 3:59am
Cardiff University, UK

To mark the centenary of Roland Barthes in 2015, the School of English, Communication & Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK, will host a conference entitled Roland Barthes at 100 on 30 and 31 March 2015.

Keynote speakers: Diana Knight (Nottingham University), Jürgen Pieters (University of Ghent), Michael Wood (Princeton University).

Proposals for papers in English on any aspect of the work or legacy of Roland Barthes are invited. Proposals should be no more than 200 words long and should be sent by 30 June 2014 to BarthesConference@Cardiff.ac.uk

Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland 17th Biennial Conference: SPACE AND BOUNDARIES (9-11 May 2014)

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 1:11am
ACSI and School of Humanities at National University of Ireland, Galway

This conference will address the notion of boundaries and space in all areas of Canadian Studies: literal, metaphorical, metaphysical. Possible topics might include:

• language and immigration/emigration
• cultural/historical spaces
• artistic crossings
• islands and bridges
• inner and outer boundaries
• transgressing borders/boundaries

Confirmed speakers include:
- Professor Godfrey Baldacchino, Professor of Sociology, University of Malta; Island Studies Teaching Fellow at the University of Prince Edward Island; Canada Research Chair in Island Studies (2003-2013), UPEI

Call for papers- Auto/Fiction: 2:1

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 12:40am
Auto/Fiction

CALL FOR PAPERS - Auto/Fiction – 2:1

Theme: "Gender and Autofiction"

The issue is open to all kinds of applied and theoretical papers on gender and autofiction. Contributions may be written in English and may vary in length from 3000 to 12000 words. Reviews should not be more than 1000 words. In addition to scholarly papers we invite contributions in the form of book reviews, calls for papers, announcements of conferences etc. All contributions must adhere to the MLA style sheet (7th Edition) with an abstract and key words.

Deadline for proposals: Dec 31, 2013
Deadline for full-length texts: Feb 28, 2014

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