african-american

Isms: An Exploration into the Invisible Barriers of Classification
Saturday, March 22th, 2014
California State University, Northridge

Ism: A distinctive doctrine, system, or theory.

The conference hopes to broaden the scope of American literature, opening it to more complex geographies, and to a variety of genres and media. Part of the impetus comes from a survey of what is currently in the field: it is impossible to read the work of Junot Diaz and Edwidge Danticat, Robert Hass and Jorie Graham, Dave Eggers and Jhumpa Lahiri without seeing that, for all these authors, the reference frame is no longer simply the United States, but a larger, looser, more contextually varied set of coordinates, populated by laboring bodies, migrating faiths, generational sagas, memories of war, as well as the accents of unforgotten tongues, the taste and smell of beloved foods and spices.

Any topic related to the use/depiction/influence of religion in ethnic U.S. literature (including pop culture) is welcome.

Please submit a 1-page abstract to Dr. J. Stephen Pearson; include a working title, your campus, and any A/V needs.

Submissions welcome through Sunday, 26 October; notifications will be sent out that same week.

Panel Proposal
Imagining Diaspora in the Shadow of U.S. Empire
African Diasporas: Old and New Conference April 3-6, 2014
University of Texas at Austin

Keynote speaker: PAUL GILROY
With a reading from AMIRI BARAKA

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 'CONTEMPORARY POETRY-AN ANTHOLOGY OF BEST PRESENT DAY POEMS'

1 Author's may submit up to five (5) poems of up to 100 lines each.

2. ANTHOLOGY SEEKS honest, thoughtful, well-written poetry.

3. Poems must be submitted in the body of email. SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO themuseindia@gmail.com

4. While submitting your poems write subject line of email as "POETRY ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSION".

5 No royalty will be paid to the contributors. No contributor's copy will be sent.

6. There is no reading fee but if selected you will be required to pay INR 500 (for contributors from India) and $10 (for all other countries)for getting your work published in the anthology.

2nd Global Conference:Transmedia: Storytelling and Beyond

Wednesday 14th May – Friday 16th May 2014
Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Presentations:

The Minetta Review is a literary and arts publication managed by undergraduate students at New York University: Washington Square. Established in 1974, it is the university's oldest literary publication. Print editions are made available free of charge to the student body and to bookshops in Greenwich Village. Recent selections are also viewable on the Minetta WordPress, on which the Spring 2013 edition is now accessible free-of-charge.

Call for Paper

Submission
American Fiction (the main publication of the American Fiction Association of Korea) welcomes essays which examines all areas of American literature. American Fiction is published three times a year: February 28, July 31, and November 30 and accepts manuscripts written in English and in Korean. Submissions to American Fiction are accepted throughout the year, but the following deadlines apply:

February edition: December 31
July edition: May 30
November edition: September 30
(DEADLINE: extended to October 15)

On November 15-16, the English Department at St. Bonaventure University will hold a graduate conference concerned with concepts of identity. The various understandings of identity held by critics, theorists, readers, and writers are embedded in the history of literature and guide its trajectory. Concepts of identity also impact the ways individuals think about selfhood and inform scholarship on critical thinking, composition, and rhetoric. This conference seeks to draw upon a wealth of perspectives from graduate students engaged in the humanities — especially English language and literature and Composition/Rhetoric.

ACLA 2014 (New York, NY): March 20-23, 2014

Seminar: (Re)conceptualizing Global "Capitals" in Modernist Studies

Seminar Leader: Adam Meehan (The University of Arizona)

Deadline for proposals: November 1, 2013

Conference Website: http://acla.org/acla2014/

Note: You must submit your papers through the ACLA website submission form; you will select the name of this seminar from the drop down menu:

http://www.acla.org/submit/

There is no doubt that cultural beliefs and attitudes toward disability and representations of disability have changed significantly over time, and we live in a particularly interesting moment, with people collaborating over the internet to design do-it-yourself prosthetics that can be printed with 3-D printers and assembled by the average person. Technology will radically affect the treatment of disability, both in pragmatic and cultural terms, but it is also responsible for a greater number of people having to cope with disabilities that may not historically have had to (for example, military and medical advances that allow the severely injured to survive).

CALL FOR PAPERS

ReFocus: The Films of Delmar Daves

From Destination Tokyo (1943) to Youngblood Hawke (1964), among many other titles, few filmmakers created as unique a body of work in the United States as Delmar Daves (1904-1977), but few filmmakers have been as critically overlooked in existing scholarly literature. Daves is often regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-War Hollywood, which helps explain his relative neglect by film critics and scholars. In the words of Kent Jones, in an essay for the recent Criterion Collection release of 3:10 to Yuma (1957), Daves was a "casualty of auteurism."

Religion and the Image is a special-topics panel to be held at the 2nd Annual Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference at Dartmouth College, February 28 – March 2, 2014

This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between religion or religious practice and the hand-drawn image in all of its forms, from comics and illustrations in children's literature to animated films.

In addition to papers on individual texts or artists whose work merits consideration given the topic, we are also interested in papers responsive to the following questions: