Dear colleagues,

Please see below the call for papers for the graduate student conference hosted by Princeton University's French and Italian Department.

This panel explores the theme of "literature and the other arts" through the unique dynamic of word-image interaction situated in the poet-artist collaboration. Paper proposals addressing poet-artist collaborations from any time period found in ekphrasis, illustrated books, book arts, children's books, broadside printings, digital projects, and museum/site-specific installations and exhibits are welcome. By May 30, 2015, please submit a 300-word abstract, brief bio, and A/V requirements to Anne Keefe, University of North Texas, at anne.keefe@unt.edu.

Lit Fest Press is soliciting for works questioning or praising the Writing Workshop. Papers may include: theoretical work, personal narratives, rants, creative works, manifestoes, interviews with yourself or others, artwork, or any combination of those and more. All works should be engaging from start to finish. Selected works will be published by Lit Fest Press by February 2016 in a print anthology. Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the anthology and a significant discount on an unlimited number of additional copies.

To submit: email festivaloflanguage@gmail.com with "Yourlastname Writing Workshop" as the subject line.

Deadline: April 30, 2015.

The organizers of the 2015 Northeast Historic Film (NHF) Summer Symposium invite proposals featuring studies of amateur, educational, industrial, and non-theatrical films that examine war and peace. Training and battlefield films, footage from ordnance and gun cameras, medical films, coming home reportage, peace movement films—from the beginning of moving image technology through the present, citizen-soldier-filmmakers and homefront amateurs have recorded alternate, complementary, and personal images of war and peace.

Fifteen years in, our twenty-first century literary traditions are beginning to take shape, and, indeed, it may be time to bring the poorly-named "contemporary" period to a close after its 70-year reign. Questions remain, however. Have we noticeably shifted into a new literary period? Or, is the defining crisis that will launch a new literary period just on the horizon? The 9-11 Attacks, globalization/neoliberalism, the Anthropocene, the collapse of a post-Cold War détente with the resultant repolarization of world powers and many other cultural shifts may serve as useful markers of an incipient yet-to-be-labeled era.

ISSO is a six days school which provides an unique insight into the contemporary debate on ontology. Six leading philosophers will address this classical philosophical question from different perspectives.

SEMINAR LEADERS:

Giorgio Agamben
Francesco Berto
Ray Brassier
François Laruelle
Paul M. Livingston
Davide Tarizzo

For more information and registration please visit: http://issogrado.com/

or write us at: info@issogrado.com

Marco Piasentier and Andrea Soardo