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“Jim Crow Crumbles, Too”: Socio-Political Activism in the Works of Langston Hughes and His Contemporaries
Prisons, prisoners, and crime are attracting unprecedented levels of interest from both predictable sources (tabloid media) to more unexpected (such as the prison setting of Paddington 2).
Globally, but especially in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, the real life prison population is rising dramatically. The fictional presentations of prison, which may be prurient and sexploitative, high minded or fantastical, is matched by the barely factual and highly sensationalized prison of reality television. Orange is the New Black is only the latest example of the compulsion media of all types have to look inside the prison.
Friday, November 9, 2018 to Sunday, November 11, 2018, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
This panel seeks contributions interested in exploring the cultural and material conditions that have motivated the “affective turn” within contemporary literary production and critique. How are contemporary novelists creating works that imagine artistic spaces “beyond postmodernism,” and what is the role of feeling within our understanding of these spaces?
Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies: “Complicity in Post-1945 Literature: Theory, Aesthetics, Politics”
CALL FOR PAPERS
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
Friday, November 9, 2018 to Sunday, November 11, 2018, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Conference theme: “Acting, Roles, and Stages”
Session: Film Studies
Presiding Officer: Dawn Dietrich, Western Washington University
Proposal Due Date: May 30, 2018 - submit via PAMLA website, http://pamla.org/2018/topic-areas
Panel description:
The DC Universe
Edited by Douglas Brode, Alicia M. Goodman, and Robert G. Weiner
The editors of a forthcoming volume are seeking concise essays of around 5,000 words related to any aspect of the DC Universe. We are seeking pieces that are academically sound, but accessible to the general reader. We want a unique collection of original and interpretive essays about the DC Universe that give original insights about all sorts of aspects related to the Universe DC has built since the 1930s. We are also doing a companion volume looking at the Marvel Universe.
The Marvel Universe
Edited by Douglas Brode, Alicia M. Goodman, and Robert G. Weiner
The editors of a forthcoming volume are seeking concise essays of around 5,000 words related to any aspect of the Marvel Universe. We are seeking pieces that are academically sound, but accessible to the general reader. We want a unique collection of original and interpretive essays about the Marvel Universe that give original insights about all sorts of aspects related to the Universe Marvel has built since the 1930s. We are also doing a companion volume looking at the DC Universe.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
Friday, November 9, 2018 to Sunday, November 11, 2018, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Conference theme: “Acting, Roles, and Stages”
Session: Religion in American Literature
Presiding Officer: Martin W. Kevorkian, University of Texas, Austin, mkevorkian@utexas.edu
Proposal Due Date: May 30, 2018 - submit via PAMLA website, http://pamla.org/2018/topic-areas
Panel description:
Show & Prove 2018 Hip Hop Studies Conference
December 7-9, 2018 | Riverside, CA
Keywords: hustling, response/ability
CALL FOR PAPERS/ PANELS/ PERFORMANCES/ WORkSHOPS**DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO MAY 30TH, 2018**
**Deadline Extended** John R. Milton Writers' Conference: This Lonely Frontier: Exploring Boundaries of Space, Identity, and Genre deadline for submissions: June 1, 2018 full name / name of organization: Leah McCormack / The University of South Dakota contact email: Milton.Conference@usd.edu