In the epilogue to the second edition of The Politics of Postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon heralds the closure of the very period she helped to define: "Let's just say it," she admits, "it's over" (2002: 165-166). This view has in recent years been echoed by an increasing number of cultural critics, who cite the failure of the postmodern aesthetic—developed in the 1970s and characterized by fragmentation, self-reflexivity, and irony—to embody the very real ethical and political concerns of twenty-first century citizens (cf. Eshelman, 2008; Kirby, 2009; Toth, 2010; Vermeulen and van den Akker, 2010; Abrahamson, 2013).

ASLE conference website: http://www.aslebiennialconference.com/

The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts(SLSA) is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming ASLE Biennial conference on this general subject. Approaches may be critical or creative (or a continuum of both) and could include -- but are not limited to -- the following topics:

Science and the poetics of process and/as place

Science and Poetics as intersecting processes and/or onto-epistemologies

Fluid ontologies and hard realities (in scientific outcomes, ecological limits, etc.)

MAYDAY Magazine welcomes submissions for its Winter 2015, LGBTQ-themed edition to be guest edited by Amy King and Chase Dimock. We are looking for work from established and emerging voices in LGBTQ literature, including book reviews, interviews, lyric essays, short stories, flash fiction, memoir, reportage, scholarly articles, travel writing, and all forms and styles of poetry. This edition is especially interested in showcasing literature that engages with contemporary LGBTQ issues, politics, and philosophy from innovative and diverse perspectives. For our non-fiction articles, we seek essays that critically investigate concepts in LGBTQ Studies through prose that can speak to a broad literary audience without becoming mired in academic lingo.

CALL FOR PAPERS
African American Literature and Culture Society
American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than 300 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the ALA (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/calls/annual-conference/). Please note that we can only accept proposals for individual papers and will not be able to accept proposals for entire panels.

CALL FOR PAPERS
African American Literature and Culture Society
American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than 300 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the ALA (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/calls/annual-conference/). Please note that we can only accept proposals for individual papers and will not be able to accept proposals for entire panels.

So-called waste': Forms of Excess in Post-1960 Art, Film, and Literature

Friday 13 February, 2015

University of York

Deadline for abstracts: 12 December, 2014

Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France - 16 October 2015

Deadline for proposals: 31 December 2014