Duality, Doubles and Doppelgängers
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“Duality, Doubles and Doppelgängers”
November 14-17, 2019
Chicago at the Hilton Chicago
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Call for Papers
Permanent Section: Italian
“Duality, Doubles and Doppelgängers”
November 14-17, 2019
Chicago at the Hilton Chicago
As recent events in Virginia demonstrated, blackface minstrelsy is far from being a thing of the past. Despite its taboo status and overtly racist underpinnings, blackface continues to happen. In his seminal work on the phenomenon, Eric Lott argued that early blackface minstrelsy emerged out of the “intersection of slave culture and earlier blackface stage characters such as the…clown of English pantomime and the clown of the American circus.” What might this lineage tell us about the ongoing prevalence and relevance of blackface? This session invites proposals that consider and examine modern and past manifestations of blackface minstrelsy, its legacies, and its influence.
Call for Papers for Special Issue of English Language Notes:
Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille
Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell, co-editors
University of Colorado, Boulder
'Comparative Cinema' N15 (Fall 2020): Feminine desires in film. Theories, methods, case studies.
Conference Description
The conference will focus on the dynamics of culture and its representations in the fields of Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation. It aims to emphasize cultural intersections and explore ways in which such intersections could be conceptualized, critiqued or disrupted and ultimately reconstructed. We invite contributions on the theoretical and analytical frameworks that examine cultural intersections, as well as those which explore the practical and pedagogical implications of such intersections.
Confirmed Plenary Speakers
Prof. (Emeritus) Alister Cumming (University of Toronto, Canada) - Language
Humour and Satire in British Romanticism - Hatfield College, Durham University, UK - 13-14 September 2019
This two-day conference will explore the role of humour and satire in the Romantic period (as well as its influences and legacies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), focusing on everything from literary and graphic satire, to scientific conceptions of humour, to witty table talk.
International Conference: Renaissance Man: Re-Appraisal and Re-Invention
Organizer: The Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Dates: 14–16 November 2019
Keynote Speakers: Professor Michelangelo Zaccarello, University of Pisa
Professor Martin Dzelzainis, University of Leicester