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Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Organization Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh
No More Room in Hell: A Half-Century of Undead Media | September 28-29, 2018
In his introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, Tom Shippey argues that “The Lord of the Rings has established itself as a lasting classic, without the help and against the active hostility of the professionals of taste; and has furthermore largely created the expectations and established the conventions of a new and flourishing genre.” The impact Tolkien has made on not only high fantasy, but also on the importance of language and mythology studies is undeniable. The influences of World War I, modern industrialization, and more are evident in his works as socio-political commentary, despite his personal dislike of allegory. Tolkien studies reflects a thriving culture in and outside the university.
The UW Madison Theatre and Drama Graduate Student Organization Invites Submissions for our Spring 2018 Conference
Materiality and Invisibility in Theatre and Performance Studies
April 14th, 2018
Date: 11 July 2018
Venue: Senate House, London
Keynote: Melissa Bissonette, St. John Fisher College, NY
Conference Fees: £15 salaried, £10 student/unwaged
THE PARADOX OF THE OTHER: DIFFICULTIES IN CLASSIFICATION
Eleventh Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
Saturday, May 5, 2018
“If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other,” wrote Emmanuel Levinas. The paradox Levinas identifies is at the heart of this conference’s concerns. Despite our definitions – the unknown, the demonic, and the withdrawn, for example – the “other,” by definition, must elude our grasp. Given this un-givenness, why do scholars continue to pursue questions of otherness? What is it about otherness that provokes or induces scholarly interest?
Borders, Place, and Translations
The 53rd Annual Comparative World Literature Conference
Presented by the Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics
Dates: April 25th-26th, 2018
Location: Anatol Center, California State University, Long Beach
From Starbucks’ retail-branding as a “third place” between home and work to Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, the places of our lives are simultaneously locations and conceptions. To be in a place is to do the representational work of defining that space’s affective and pragmatic borders.
June 14-15, 2018 | The University of Sydney, Australia
CFA: Critical Theories: Adorno & Foucault
DePaul University Graduate Student Workshop
April 20-1, 2018
Call for Abstracts Deadline: February 16, 2018
Theme: Critical Theories: Adorno & Foucault
Mixed Messages: Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice in the Digital Age
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Julio Capo, Ph.D.
The 19th Annual Feminist Graduate Student Association Symposium co-sponsored by the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
April 18th, 2018 | 9am – 4pm
The University of North Alabama English Department
Announces the 9th Annual Alabama Regional Inter-Disciplinary Graduate Conference
March 8-10th, 2018
Our Dying Earth: A Journey through Ecocriticism
“Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas