Great Incompletes: Italy's Unfinished Endeavors
Great Incompletes: Italy’s Unfinished Endeavors
3-4 FEBRUARY 2017
Keynote speaker: Professor Thomas Harrison (UCLA)
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Great Incompletes: Italy’s Unfinished Endeavors
3-4 FEBRUARY 2017
Keynote speaker: Professor Thomas Harrison (UCLA)
Most often, borders are thought of as spaces of division that, according to Gloria Anzaldúa, “distinguish us from them.” However, borders also create their own spaces, as “two worlds merging to form a third country — a border culture [where] duality is transcended.” The presence of multiple languages and dialects in border contexts and the language experiences of linguistically diverse writers provides teachers and students with opportunities and challenges as they engage writing in personal, social, educational, professional, and community situations where audience, purpose, and language vary.
MOBILITIES, LITERATURE, CULTURE:
Inaugural Conference of Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
21st – 22nd April 2017, Lancaster University, UK
Plenary speakers
Marian Aguiar (English, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Kat Jungnickel (Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Film screening and Q&A with Director Andrew Kötting
The Fifth Euroacademia International Conference
‘Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities’
Centro Congressi – Piazza di Spagna
Rome, Italy
9 – 10 December 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 1st of November 2016
Conference description:
Call for Papers
“The Radical Midwest”
Sponsored by The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
American Literature Association Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017
Boston, MA
Academic literary critics have long eyed book reviewers, their public counterparts, with suspicion. For example, in The Armed Vision, a 1948 study of the methods of modern literary criticism, Stanley Edgar Hyman makes the following heavily weighted distinction, "the reviewer, more or less, is interested in books as commodities; the critic in books as literature." However, the past 15 years have seen a proliferation of forms and forums for online writing about books that combine the literary and the commodity in complex and interesting ways, deconstructing and reevaluating the distinctions between these terms.
The Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE PAINE COLLEGE
AUGUSTA, GA
NOVEMBER 2-4, 2016
The Department of Humanities at Paine College is requesting proposals for the 20th Annual Conference on the Harlem Renaissance to be held on the campus of historic Paine College. The theme for 2016 is “Precursors, Periods, and Postscripts: Critical Thought, Beliefs, Productions, and Activism before, during, and after the Harlem Renaissance.” The focus for presentations will center on the literature, history, philosophy, art, and music, as well as inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches from the social and political sciences, economics, and STEM.
CFP: Thom Gunn: Transient and Resident
A symposium organised by Prof. Dr Stefania Michelucci (University of Genoa, Italy)
and Dr Michael Nott (University College Cork, Ireland)
Friday 2nd December 2016
Department of English, Hearst Field Annex, University of California, Berkeley
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Enchanted, Stereotyped, Civilized: Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film
(essay collection)
Gardens have been a crucial part in mythology and literature. Throughout English
literature for example, the idea of a garden is a recurrent image; these images largely
stem from the story of the Garden of Eden which is found in the Genesis, the first book of
the Bible. Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature – the garden can
be seen as civilized and ‘shaped’ and therefore domesticated nature –, in the vast library
of garden literature few books focus on what the garden means – on the ecology of
garden as idea, place, and action. Our volume will discuss the topic of the garden in
In the ancient Greek education there was a focus on art education such as musical education and drama education. This primary art education is the rudiment of aesthetic education. It aims at leading students to be self-regulated and be able to get rid of all faults. Plato believes that students would get the habit to love the beautiful thing and integrate it with their mind unknowingly and prevent the influence from the evil, the debauchery, the contemptibility, and the obscenity. Plato thinks that the best education is music education, for music is to look for the beauty and the good in heart and the person with good music education is smart to find out which the ugly is and which the beautiful is.
27th Annual Mardi Gras Conference
Where: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
When: February 22-24, 2017
Abstracts due: December 16, 2016
Theme:
Gumbo & Zydeco: Interdisciplinary Magic
Taking Flight speaks to Deleuze and Guattari’s petition to leave bounded territories and to connect and to create and to “establish a logic of the AND.” Privileging intense and transformative encounters with others, they ask us not to cling to the state apparatus that reinforces the normative or the binary machines which rigidify us (man-woman, adult-child, straight-queer etc.), but to invent more supple and fluid connections, which, in turn, create new concepts, new thought, and new experiences. This invitation for anomalous creations and diversifications across and beyond disciplines ruptures genealogies, totalities, and unifications.
CALL FOR PAPERS
AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
MAY 25-28 2017
BOSTON, MA
Cormac McCarthy Society
Cormac McCarthy and Ron Rash
In Ron Rash’s Serena (Pen/Faulkner Finalist 2009), one of the choric lumberjacks named Ballard makes an off-hand comment about a girl he sees in Tennessee. Nearly lost in a welter of logger jokes and putdowns, readers of McCarthy’s Child of God would have not missed Rash’s darkly humorous intertextual nod. McCarthy’s influence on the generations of writers who have followed in his wake has been immense. This panel will consider one of two important aspects of the relations between McCarthy’s and Rash’s works.
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of digital humanities. This includes, but is not limited to: