|
a service provided by www.english.upenn.edu |
FAQ changelog |
NWSA--National Women's Studies Association Conference in Atlanta, GA Nov. 8-11 2018
Edwidge Danticat Society Panel at SAMLA 90 Conference
SAMLA 90: Fighters from the Margins: Socio-Political Activists and Their Allies
November 2–4, 2018 ◆ Sheraton Birmingham ◆ Birmingham, Alabama
Contact email: maia.butler@edwidgedanticatsociety.org
Edwidge Danticat’s Activist and Cultural Work
If “eating is a means of performing identity” and if “the way southerners eat is a text,” as critics David Davis and Tara Powell assert in their introduction to Writing in the Kitchen: Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways, then how do we think, talk, and write about culinary “textual transactions?”
CFP: SPRING 2018 EDITION OF GLOSSOLALIA
Glossolalia, Yale Divinity School’s peer-reviewed journal of religion, is pleased to announce a call for papers for inclusion in the Spring 2018 edition, on the theme of “Humor and Satire.”
Inscription: Tracing Place
The journal issue Inscription: Tracing Place focuses on the role of history and memory in literary and architectural practice.
Call for Papers
Commonwealth Essays and Studies
Topical issue: Unsettling Oceania
41.1 (Autumn 2018)
In the Shadows:
Illuminating Monstrosity in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
Call for Paper Proposals
Deadline for submission: February 28th, 2018
A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture
University of British Columbia - Friday May 11th - Saturday May 12th, 2018
The Popularity of Words and Music
22-24 November 2018
Haus der Universität at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany
The Native American panel at the 75th Annual South Central MLA conference is looking for your abstracts. The conference theme is “Crossroads of Culture“. This theme fits well with many aspects of Indigenous studies. We are looking for proposals that explore the diverse ways in which Indigenous studies and literature intersects with other fields and cultures. Proposal topics could include, but are not limited to theory, pedagogy, rhetoric, culture, and/or experience. Abstracts should be 250-500 words.
SCMLA will be held from October 11-14 in San Antonio, TX.
Please send abstracts and a brief CV to;
Chair
Kimberly Allen kimberly.allen@okstate.edu
Travel Writing / Writing Travel Permanent Session, Midwest Modern Language Association
Kansas City, Missouri 15-18 November 2018
Conference Theme: “Consuming Cultures”
The Midwest Modern Language Association’s Permanent Session of Travel Writing / Writing Travel is soliciting proposals for 20-minute papers. The conference this year is 15-18 November 2018 in gorgeous, historical Kansas City, Missouri.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 11 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
AND ELIZABETH VON ARNIM
Guest Editor Isobel Maddison
Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
Katherine Mansfield to Elizabeth von Arnim 1922:
‘I would like to write one story really good enough to offer you one day’;
‘please let all the pride be mine that you are my cousin’.
*******
This panel welcomes papers analyzing representations of any type of human trafficking in postcolonial/transnational literature or film to be presented at the 2018 SAMLA Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, November 2-4, 2018. Paper proposals addressing human trafficking or forced migration within the context of vulnerabilty, precarity and globalization are especially welcome. By May 29th, please submit a 300-word abstract, brief bio, and A/V requirements to Laura Barberan Reinares, Bronx CC (CUNY), at m_laura.barberan@bcc.cuny.edu.
Conference: Modern Language Association, January 2019, Chicago, IL
Sponsored by: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Deadline: March 2, 2018
Organizers: Christy Tidwell (christy.tidwell@gmail.com) and Carter Soles (csoles@brockport.edu)
Visualizing Theory
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Theory
Keynote Speakers: Anne Carson & Kaja Silverman
The Critical Theory Certificate Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York presents the seventh annual interdisciplinary conference on Critical Theory to be held May 10-11, 2018. This year’s conference will be devoted to the role of the visual imagination.
Romanticism and Time
Conference of the French Society for the Study of English Romanticism (SERA)
co-organized by the Université de Lille and the Université de Lorraine,
with the support of the Institut Universitaire de France and of the SERA
to be held at the Université de Lille on 8-10 November 2018
https://romanticismandtime.univ-lille3.fr/
Keynote Speakers
Kevis Goodman, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary, University of London