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MARGIN Symposium 2019: Out of Place / Out of Time

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 2:37pm
Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Network (MARGIN)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 5, 2019

MARGIN Symposium 2019

“OUT OF PLACE / OUT OF TIME”

New York University

May 3, 2019

 

The Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Student Network (MARGIN) is proud to announce the third annual MARGIN Symposium on Friday, May 3, 2019. The theme of this year’s symposium is OUT OF PLACE / OUT OF TIME. We invite papers that participate in a larger discussion of temporalities and places.

Textual Transactions and the “Non-Fictional Turn”

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 10:04am
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
  • 250-word proposals due April 10, 2019
  • Essays of 2,000-3,000 words due July 1, 2019
  • Publication: Spring 2020

The guest editors of a special issue of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies seek proposals for essays that address non-fictional forms in relation to multiply mediated concepts of truth and reality.

NEW Chapters soliticited: Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2020 - 4:14pm
Jami Carlacio, Yale Divinity School
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Chapters are solicited for inclusion in an edited volume titled Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.

 

Please send inquiries to Jami.Carlacio@yale.edu to pitch your idea.

 

Bodies in Motion

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 10:54am
Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association (OSU)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2019

The Ohio State University’s Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association (MRGSA) is currently accepting abstracts for its sixth annual graduate student symposium. This symposium will take place on Friday, September 13th, 2019 at OSU in Columbus, Ohio. Prospective papers will be considered by those working in assorted subfields of Medieval and Renaissance studies, and particular attention will be paid to proposals that examine the specific theme of Bodies in Motion as outlined below.

 

BridgesAcrossCultures

updated: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 9:51am
BridgesAcrossCultures
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Bridges Across Cultures is an International Conference on the Arts and Humanities. Our 4th, biennial conference, is to be held in Maiori, Italy June 24th-28th, 2019. The “Bridges” conference provides an international venue and opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities-related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. This conference serves as a place for scholars and experts with cross-disciplinary interests related to arts and humanities to meet and interact with members within and outside of their own particular disciplines.

Call for Papers: Art, Activism, and the Pursuit of a Better Life

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 11:43am
Wendy Chase, Interdisciplinary Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Recently there has been a surge in art of dissent as creators and performers respond to the uptick of injustice, inequality, and authoritarianism around the world. In the wake of the Gezi Taksim protests, public performance and graffiti art exploded throughout Instanbul; Syrian artists have been documenting their pain and satirizing Assad’s brutal regime through digital art, posters, and graffiti since 2011; in Russia, Pussy Riot staged unsanctioned guerrilla concerts against the authoritarian practices of the Vladimir Putin; in China, Ai Weiwei and Jacob Applebaum stuffed panda bears with shredded NSA documents and embedded micro chips containing sensitive information, distributing some to institutions where they could be safely guarded as art objects.

The Language of the Visual and Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Vanguardisms

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 10:47am
SAMLA 90
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2019

This panel explores the power of image culture in shaping the visual identity of twentieth-century transatlantic vanguardisms. Since the inception of European experimentalism during the first decades of the twentieth century, a series of art movements engaged in radical art production that defied conventions. From the Cubist adoption of multiple viewpoints, through the Futurist celebration of technology and speed, the Expressionist distortion of form, to the Dadaist sense of provocation and the irrational juxtaposition of images in Surrealism, visual art has set precedents for literature on an international level of exchanges.

TREACHEROUS WORDS: FAKE NEWS, CENSORSHIP AND THE UNSAYABLE

updated: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 2:52pm
Prof Anthony Barker, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2019

International Conference

 

TREACHEROUS WORDS: FAKE NEWS, CENSORSHIP AND THE UNSAYABLE

 

Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures,

University of Aveiro, Portugal.

 

Date: 23-25 October, 2019