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MIGC 2020: Rendition
The 15th Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Keynote: Dr. Ingrid E. Castro, Massachusetts Liberal Arts College
February 21-22, 2020
Call for Submissions
DEADLINE: December 1st, 2019
The Rebecca Harding Davis Society welcomes proposals for two sessions at the next meeting of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 21-24, 2020 in San Diego, CA.
New Directions in Davis Scholarship (2 panels)
We are interested in proposals that engage in any aspect of Davis’s work. We particularly encourage proposals that address some of Davis’s lesser known works, and we also welcome new readings of the canonical “Life in the Iron-Mills.”
Please send a 200-250 word abstract to Aaron Rovan (ajrovan@mix.wvu.edu) by January 17, 2020.
This non-guaranteed session sponsored by the Children’s Literature Association names and reflects on a recent shift in the fields of Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies toward questions of ethics regarding children and the effects of categories of age, both present and historical. At its heart, this is a shift away from the exclusive focus on cultural ideas about the child in the work of scholars like Jacqueline Rose and Karín Lesnik-Obserstein toward scholarly work that also considers the lives, texts, and matter of actual children.
Border Walls
San Diego State University, English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO)
Annual Symposium, April 17, 2020
San Diego State University
San Diego, California
Proposal submission deadline: January 10, 2020
Headlining Speakers: TBA
CFP: University of Sussex Contemporary Directors Symposium: Céline Sciamma
School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex
Keynote Speaker: Professor Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge
May 6th 2020
2020 Call for Papers / Proposals
The Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) invites submissions for our 13th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 4-7, 2020.
CPAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media, comic books, manga, graphic novels, anime, gaming, etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of CPAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage the engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of comics and other popular arts. CPAC presentations are peer reviewed, based in scholarly research.
Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations
Beyond the Anglocentric Fantastic
28th – 29th May 2020
In 2018 Duke University Press reissued James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man: A Record of Childhood. In “A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life,” New York Times writer Alexandra Alter notes that in 1976 Little Man received lukewarm reviews: “critics didn’t know what to make of an experimental, enigmatic picture book that straddled the line between children’s and adult literature.” Alter posits that because of a changed social and political climate, Baldwin’s book will now have an easier time finding an audience.
Folklore, Learning and Literacies
The Annual Conference of the Folklore Society
Friday 24 to Sunday 26 April 2020, London
Lore is learning: folklore is a body of knowledge and a means of transmission. Vernacular knowledge, and vernacular transmission, each rooted in language.
Twitter: @horrifyingbook
Email: HorrifyingChildrenBook@outlook.com
There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children’s television and literature of the late C20th. In particular, the 1970s and 1980s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of our contemporary cultural landscape. Television of this period dominated the world of childhood entertainment, drawing freely upon literature and popular culture, and much of it continues to resonate powerfully with the generation of cultural producers (fiction writers, screenwriters, directors, musicians and artists) that grew up watching the weird, the eerie and the horrific.