african-american

Call for Papers: 

SLAVERY PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: 3rd Global Meeting

Indiana University Europe Gateway, Berlin, Germany
 July 10 & 11, 2018

Throughout history, slavery (the purchase and sale of human beings as chattel), enslavement (through conquest, and exploitation of indebtedness, among other vulnerabilities), and similar extreme forms of exploitation and control have been an intrinsic part of human societies. 

Is slavery an inevitable part of the human condition?

Special Theme Issue
Pursuing Democratic Community Change in the Time of Trump

Issue Topic:

Announcing  

The 2018 First Book Institute

June 3-9, 2018

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

CALL FOR PAPERS

African American Literature and Culture Society

American Literature Association

28th Annual Conference

May 24-27, 2018

Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than

250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature

Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited

18th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference

April 6-7, 2018

Reckoning with Appetite

University of Iowa

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for this year's Craft Critique Culture Conference, to be held on April 6-7, 2018. Our theme is "Reckoning with Appetite," and we welcome papers with any interpretation of our theme. If you'd like to participate, please submit 300-word abstracts by January 5, 2018 to studorg-c3conf@uiowa.edu. See below for details.