cultural studies and historical approaches

Attachment and Affect

March 22-23, 2019

The University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Conference

Keynote by Lisa Ruddick (UChicago)

Master class with Rita Felski (UVA/SDU)

Why does the study of literature matter? What is the relationship between reader and text? How can affective responses to texts inform criticism? This conference seeks to take seriously our aesthetic and affective attachments, the attachments at work within and among literary texts, and the ways attachments form and function.

I seek participants for a panel at the MLA International Symposium in Lisbon (July 2019) focusing on transpacific imaginaries between Latin America and Asia. In response to this year’s theme, “Remembering Voices Lost,” this panel examines South-South transpacific imaginaries as a potential space to reveal voices that have been doubly unheard or lost. I invite papers that focus on the late 20thand 21stcenturies and consider any aspect of transpacific imaginaries between Asia and Latin America, Asian Latin American cultural production, Latin American representations of Asia/Asians, theoretical considerations of Latin American orientalisms, hemispheric Asian American studies, self-exoticism, etc. 

OBSCENITY: “I Know It when I See It”

Call for papers for the Subcultures panel at the 10th Anniversary of the Annual International PopCAANZ Conference to be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 3 - 5 July, 2019.

The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ), in association with RMIT University, is marking a decade (2010-2019) devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures.

The Association is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life, as a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies.

The University of Alabama Languages ConferenceFebruary 8 – 9, 2019

The organizing committee of the ninth annual University of Alabama Languages Conference is pleased to welcome abstract submissions for this year’s conference entitled “The Words that Shape Us: Language, Culture and Identity” to be held February 8-9, 2019, at Hotel Capstone.

Strands

We invite abstracts about all languages and all areas of Literature and Linguistics, including, but not limited to: