Call for Papers: “Setting”

Prospective cluster for the Modernism/modernity Print Plus platform

Edited by Hannah Freed-Thall and Dora Zhang

Proposed titles/abstracts: October 31, 2016

Brief essays due March 15, 2017

     The failures of traditional periodization are nowhere more evident than when Western scholars approach non-Western cultures, religions, and/or political formations under the rubric of “middleness.” Even as projects such as the “Global Middle Ages” seek to broaden the geographic scope of medieval studies, which has for too long ignored the cultural production of non-European, non-Western societies, such endeavors import assumptions about modernization and enlightenment that may obscure as much as they reveal about the peoples and places they study.

Deadline for proposal submissions is November 1, 2016.

Southwest Popular Culture Association, 38th Annual Conference, February 15-18, 2017.

Combining disability and modernist studies, this panel engages in current discourses on disability in modernist texts. The modernist moment, marked by war trauma, advances in psychology, and eugenics, is a rich area of inquiry for disability theory. Recent disability theory argues that representing disability is an effort to engage with the unknowable, which we also see in the modernist preoccupation with connection. Papers may address representations of disability in modernist texts and/ or how authors negotiated their disabilities.

For a full description and to submit an abstract, please visit https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16375.

3rd Annual Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts

On Friendship

Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts

University of Dallas, Irving, TX

January 28, 2017

Keynote Speaker: TBA

Trans/forming the Machine: Feminist Interventions in Digital Poetics

Call for papers

The Dark Sides of the Law in Common Law Countries

International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Paris (France), June 15-17, 2017

The Panthéon-Assas University “Law and Humanities” research centre (a part of CERSA) is pleased to announce its first international conference to be held in Paris (France) on June 15-17, 2017. As an interdisciplinary group working on the connections between law and politics, economics, and literature, we are seeking papers exploring the dark sides of the law from a wide range of perspectives in the United Kingdom, the United States and Commonwealth countries.