The Center for the Study of Inequality and Social Justice at Stony Brook University is pleased to announce they will be hosting the 2018 Working-Class Studies Association conference on the campus of Stony Brook University from June 6-9, 2018.

Call for Papers

A Changing Landscape: Shifting Borders and Slippery States

Graduate Conference in English and the Humanities

Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

March 23-24, 2018

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“The test of life is not whether we can remember what we learn in school, but whether we are prepared for change.”—Andreas Schleicher

CFP: "THE VESEY CONSPIRACY at 200: BLACK ANTISLAVERY and the ATLANTIC WORLD" 

In preparation for a volume of essays to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Denmark Vesey conspiracy of 1822, the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW) at the College of Charleston will hold a small conference on enslaved and free black anti-slavery, February 8-10, 2019. 

The expansion of bilingual and multilingual education in an increasingly globalised world involves a series of intrinsic challenges to which both teachers and students respond with changes and innovations – technological, methodological or procedural – with respect to the traditional model of learning-teaching. In parallel with this, it also offers an interesting field of study to undertake research into the learning of a language in all its domains – linguistic,  social, or cultural –  not only from theoretical approaches, but also in order to uncover areas of improvement and good practice. 

This special 10th anniversary issue of Transformative Works and Cultures seeks to explore the future of fandom while looking back to its past. How might scholarship on fandom's past and present invite speculation about its future? And what might the possible futures invoked by technological, ecological, and political discourses mean for fandom's communities and practices? Science fiction in particular--the field whose strategies spawned fandom, and the genre in which much fan activity occurs--has used imagined futures to shed new light on the present and the past. In turn, studying where we are and where we have been allows us to imagine where we may be heading.

Black Love: Celebrating Their Eyes Were Watching God after 80 Years: A Special Issue of The Langston Hughes Review

 Guest-edited by

Ayesha K. Hardison and Randal Maurice Jelks 

Abstract deadline: February 1, 2018 

Entering its twenty-fifth year of publication, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture seeks to promote the study of all historical aspects of baseball and centers on the social and cultural implications of the game wherever in the world baseball is played.  NINE is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Nebraska Press and distributed electronically via Project Muse.  NINE publishes articles, essays, book reviews, biographies, interviews, oral history, short fiction, and poetry.