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Memory, Remembrance, Commemoration and the American West (8/15/13; 10/31/13-11/2/13)

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Saturday, July 6, 2013 - 6:02pm
John R. Milton Writers' Conference / The University of South Dakota

Please join us for the biennial John R. Milton Writers' Conference: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of South Dakota Review, held October 31-November 2, 2013, at The University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota.

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of South Dakota Review, we are seeking panel proposals, roundtable proposals, and scholarly papers related (either explicitly or implicitly) to the theme of Memory, Remembrance, Commemoration and the American West. Possible topics or approaches might include, but aren't limited to memory, (mis)remembering, remembrance, commemoration and:

Eugene O'Neill: Hunted, Haunted, Home. The 9th International Conference on Eugene O'Neill

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Friday, July 5, 2013 - 7:23pm
The Eugene O'Neill Society

Eugene O'Neill: Hunted, Haunted, Home
The 9th International Conference on Eugene O'Neill
New London, Connecticut
June 18-21, 2014
Sponsored by
The Eugene O'Neill Society

The summers of Eugene O'Neill's formative years were spent in the family's vacation home in New London, Connecticut—what is known today as the Monte Cristo Cottage. This conference will explore the significance of this National Historic Landmark and other venues that inspired the plays of O'Neill, America's only Nobel-Prize-winning playwright.

Journal of Feminist Scholarship (CFP)

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Friday, July 5, 2013 - 11:07am
Journal of Feminist Scholarship

Call for submissions for the Journal of Feminist Scholarship

The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.

The editors of JFS invite submissions on a rolling basis (for more information, please see the "Submissions" page on our website). The average time from submission to publication for accepted manuscripts has been less than a year, and our current acceptance rate stands at thirty five percent.

[UPDATE] Deadline Extension: The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today, Oct. 11-12, Philadelphia

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Thursday, July 4, 2013 - 7:23pm
The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today

The Phenomenology of Reading: Experiencing Literature Today
October 11th-12th, 2013
Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
Keynote: Charles Altieri (Berkeley)

Abstract Deadline Extension: July 21st, 2013
[Update: Scholars from varying stages in their academic careers are encouraged to apply. We've already received excellent submissions from graduate students as well as full-time professors and having representation from speakers at all levels can facilitate the kind of dialogue that makes a conference a productive experience.]

What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English / 14-17 July 2014 / Lincoln, UK / Deadline: 1st November 2013

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Thursday, July 4, 2013 - 8:44am
Martin Paul Eve, University of Lincoln

What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English
3rd Biennial International Conference
14-17 July 2014, University of Lincoln, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please email 200-300 word proposals for 20-minute papers and brief biographical notes of 50 words to the conference organisers: Dr Siân Adiseshiah, Dr Martin Eve, Dr Rupert Hildyard, and Dr Agnes Woolley: WHN@lincoln.ac.uk Panel proposals are also welcome.

Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2013

Pulp Magazine Studies PCA ACA 2014

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 8:30pm
Popular Culture Association

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Pulp Studies Area
Popular Culture/American Culture Association National Conference
Chicago, IL
April 16-19, 2014

CEA Conference "Horizons"

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 2:27pm
College English Association

College English Association
45th Annual Conference

Horizons

March 27-29

Hyatt Regency, 300 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21202.

Submission deadline: November 1, 2013 at www.cea-web.org

General Program
In addition to our conference theme, we also encourage a variety of proposals in any of the areas English and writing departments encompass, including:

Call for Images: The Power of Poetry in the Modern World (Special Issue)

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 1:49pm
South Atlantic Review

In keeping with SAMLA's 2011 special focus, "The Power of Poetry in the Modern World," the 77.1 special issue of South Atlantic Review seeks original images for proposed journal covers that address the ways in which poetry has derived, ceded, and wielded power in a modern world.

Emphasizing an expansive sense of both "modern" and "world," this special issue welcomes submissions (images not essays) that deal with any nationality and any period of print. Images not selected for this special issue will also be considered for forthcoming issues of South Atlantic Review. Photographers will receive a byline in and a copy of the journal for their contribution.

T. S. Eliot at the Louisville Conference, February 20–22, 2014

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 9:37am
T. S. Eliot Society

The T. S. Eliot Society will again sponsor a session at the annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, to be held at the University of Louisville, February 20–22, 2014. Abstracts on any subject reasonably related to Eliot are invited, but those concerned with Eliot as editor, editing Eliot, or any aspect of the compositional/editorial process are particularly welcome. For further information on the 2014 conference, please visit the website: www.thelouisvilleconference.com.

(Abstracts due Sept. 30) Calvino's Contexts: The Influences On and The Influences Of Italo Calvino (NeMLA Apr. 2014)

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 8:54am
Northeast Modern Language Association

This panel seeks papers for the upcoming NeMLA in April 2014. In the years since his death, the stature of Italo Calvino has only continued to grow. While his status as an Italian writer was never in doubt, the global range of his work is still being explored. This panel invites papers interested in pursuing this framework, political and historical, national and transnational, literary and philosophical. The influences on Calvino's fictions were immense, and the influence of his fictions have been equally immense. This panel seeks to better understand these influences. Please email abstracts by Sept. 30 tojackiec159@hotmail.com

[REMINDER] - CFP for edited collection on Arrested Development due July 31

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 8:51am
Kristin M. Barton

Over the course of its original three-year run on Fox, the television series Arrested Development quickly became a cult favorite and earned twenty-two Emmy nominations and six wins, including Outstanding Comedy Series in 2004. Unafraid to push boundaries, the series routinely satirized issues of race, sexuality, family, love, politics, and class, to name only a few. Combined with its sophisticated writing and its perfectly cast group of series regulars, the show became a layered and intricate look into modern society and one of the funniest sitcoms to emerge in the last decade. With this in mind, Dr. Kristin M.

[UPDATE] POPS IN POP CULTURE: FATHERHOOD, PARENTING, AND THE MODERN FAMILY

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 7:48am
Edited Book Collection

I am looking for papers for a proposed scholarly collection of essays on fathers within and across diverse forms of late twentieth- and early-twenty-first century popular cultures. The collection will focus on representations of fathers, fathering, and fatherhood in areas such as the following: TV shows, including family dramas, sitcoms, reality shows, and cartoons; blogs and online communities; film; magazines; parenting books; and best-selling literatures.

musics of non-Anglo communities in the USA, February 2014

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 3:55am
claude chastagner université paul-valéry, montpellier 3, France

The Musics of the Non-Anglo Communities in the USA in the 21st Century: Technology, Economy, Identity

The forthcoming special issue of the on-line journal InMedia will be devoted to the musics of the non-Anglo communities in the USA in the 21st century, focusing on identity, technological, and economic issues.

Boundary-Pushing Film and Media Offerings (November 8-9, 2013; Proposals due July 19, 2013)

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 9:29pm
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Dept. of Film, Television and Digital Media, TCU

We invite proposals pertaining to boundary-pushing film and media offerings, from any historical era, for presentation in a special series of panels at the Alternative Visions in Media Conference, to be held at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas) November 8-9, 2013.

[UPDATE] Deadline 7/4: War Beyond the Battlefield: 21st-Century Conflicts (War & Am Lit Symp, New Orleans, Oct 10-12, 2013)

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 6:11pm
Society for Contemporary Literature

The Society for Contemporary Literature, a group dedicated to the study of literature of the last 25 years, invites 300-word abstracts for presentations at the War & American Literature Symposium of the American Literature Assoc. We encourage scholars to think broadly about contemporary conflicts and their influence on literature and Americans' sense of identity.

Cannibal Modernisms

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 10:47am
King’s College London Programme in Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference

Friday, November 8th, 2013.

Call For Papers Deadline: August 10th, 2013

Keynote Speaker: Professor Xudong Zhang, Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University.

[UPDATE] CFP: On the Eve of War

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 10:13am
School of Human Sciences - Catholic University of Portugal

ON THE EVE OF WAR
V International CECC Conference on Culture and Conflict
December 5-6, 2013

EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 7th

The V CECC International Conference on Culture and Conflict "On the Eve of War" aims to examine periods that anticipate wars and conflicts from various perspectives. Before the current world crisis, which threatens a future of peace; at the dawn of the new millennium, born in the shadow of a new type of war, the war on terror; and keeping in mind the proximity of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, it is urgent to investigate (i) if there are any anticipated or predicted wars; (ii) how they are emplotted; and (iii) (re)configured.

NeMLA 2014: Pennsylvania German Pow Wow: Braucherei and Hexerei

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 9:34am
Northeast Modern Language Association

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

This panel seeks papers that explore the Pennsylvania German folk-healing practice known as pow wow, or braucherei, and/or its dark double, hexerei, or black magic. Papers may focus on written texts and/or oral histories of pow wow practices as well as on related PA German cultural artifacts, including hex signs and himmelsbriefs. Papers that examine the cultural exchange of folk-healing practices among Germans, Gypsies, and Native Americans are particularly welcome. Please send 250-300 word abstracts to Anne DeLong at delong@kutztown.edu.

BLACK QUEER URBANITY @ PRINCETON U., ABSTRACTS DUE 8/31

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 5:29am
BLACK QUEER SEXUALITY STUDIES COLLECTIVE

The Black Queer Sexuality Studies Collective Presents

Queer Urbanity: A Black Queer Sexuality Studies Graduate Student Conference

With Keynote Speaker Professor Shane Vogel, Indiana University

Location: Princeton University

Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013

Abstract Submission Deadline: August 31, 2013

Conference CFP: 'Translation and Transcendence' -- REVISED DEADLINE: 15 JULY, 2013

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Monday, July 1, 2013 - 5:54pm
Modern Horizons Journal

Modern Horizons conference CFP – Translation and Transcendence

REVISED ABSTRACT DUE DATE: 15 July, 2013.

For the third annual Modern Horizons conference—to be held October 24th and 25th, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario—we invite proposals for 20 minutes presentations, in English or French, on 'Translation and Transcendence.'

Intimate Archives: Photography and Life-Writing, University of Oxford, 29 November 2013

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Monday, July 1, 2013 - 4:50pm
Lee-Von Kim and Christine Fouirnaies, University of Oxford

Intimate Archives is a one-day interdisciplinary conference that seeks to explore the intersection of photography and life-writing. Photography has come to play an increasingly self-conscious role in life narratives, raising questions about truth, fictionality, authenticity and the limits of referentiality. What role does photography have in the construction of life narratives? How are intimate and affective relations negotiated and represented in photographic life narratives? Furthermore, what is at stake when intimate records of familial and private lives are published or exhibited? This conference seeks to engage with these issues.

Anti-Communism: Culture, Literature, Propaganda (28 August 2013; Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Univ. of London)

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Monday, July 1, 2013 - 3:53pm
Dr Benjamin Kohlmann (Columbia University/Freiburg University) and Dr Matthew Taunton (UEA)

Some two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, this symposium will explore the complex literary and cultural legacies of one of the twentieth century's most influential and under-theorised political philosophies. Anti-communism had a shaping influence on the development of twentieth-century Western liberalism and social democracy as well as providing intellectual justifications for McCarthyism and the jingoism of the Cold War Right. It was a key element of Nazism, but also of twentieth-century anarchism. Its relation to literary and artistic culture was equally complicated.

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