graduate conferences

"Movement through Arthurian Legend" 

Medievalism Transformed 2020 explores all historical and literary ideas relating to the theme of movement in the medieval world. How are texts re-invented across time? What role do texts play as cultural objects in their historical moment and beyond? How does a text engage with moving times, cultures, and space?

We invite papers relating to movement through Arthurian legend crossing all periods, borders, and historical and literary disciplines including but not limited to:

CALL FOR PAPERS
2020 MMLA Conference’s MVSA-Affiliated Panel

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

November 5-8, 2020

“Cultures of Collectivity”

In keeping with the MMLA conference theme, “Cultures of Collectivity,” the Midwest Victorian Studies Association panel welcomes proposals that explore myriad examples of cultural collectivity in 19th century Britain.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

The First Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, April 25 and 26, 2020

Performing Labor: (Re)Evaluations within the Humanities

THE 1ST UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES INSTITUTEGRADUATE CONFERENCE: SPEAKING TO POWER: FEMINIST THEORIES AND PRAXES

Conference Date: April 24-25, 2020

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: March 7th, 2020

Notice of Acceptance: March 16th, 2020

Call for Papers:

Sego Graduate Student Language and Culture Conference
Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah
Closer Together-Further Apart: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Academia

April 10-11, 2020

Changing Tides and Hemispheric Connections in

Caribbean and Latin American Studies

18th Annual Tri-University CLAS Conference | March 27, 2020

Call for Abstracts - EXTENDED

This conference is organized by students in the Humanities PhD Program at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

Conference Dates: April 24-25, 2020

EXTENDED Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2020

Contested Imaginaries

Thirteenth Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference

 Date: Saturday, May 2nd

Keynote Speaker: TBD

The 16th Annual GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND POWER Student Research and Creative Arts Conference at California State University, Los Angeles

CONFERENCE DATE: APRIL 9-10, 2020 • 9AM-4PM

KEYNOTE: JACK HALBERSTAM, APRIL 9, 2020 • 6PM

SUBMIT PROPOSALS BY MARCH 9, 2020 • 5PM

PLEASE SEND RESEARCH AND/OR CREATIVE ABSTRACTS OF 250 WORDS THAT PERTAIN TO THE CONFERENCE'S ANNUAL THEME OF GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND POWER. INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFO: NAME, EMAIL, MAJOR OR FIELD OF STUDY, PROJECT TITLE, THREE KEYWORDS, AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION.

SEND SUBMISSIONS OR QUESTIONS TO CSGS@CALSTATELA.EDU. NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE WILL BE SENT BY MARCH 15, 2020.

Panel submissions for the East Texas Writing Festival may be creative writing or craft-related essays. Work should be submitted as an attachment on the registration form. Visit www.letu.edu/writingfest for more information on the festival. Guidelines are provided below for each genre:

• Fiction/Nonfiction – Submissions are not to exceed 2500 words in total and should be submitted in a single document.
• Poetry – Submit up to five poems in a single document.

All submissions should include your name and email address located on the first page.

Craft Critique Culture Conference 2020: Justice Framed

Call for Papers

The University of Iowa English Department invites proposals for its 2020 Annual Conference, Craft Critique Culture, to be held on the campus of The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

Event date: Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18, 2020

Abstract deadline: Friday, February 28th, 2020

Categories: interdisciplinary, humanities, arts, literature, language, politics, law, social justice, criminal justice, race, gender, LGBTQ+, resistance

Re/Inventions is an annual conference organized by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) of California State University, Long Beach. Our goal is to provide a forum in which graduate students and advanced undergraduates may present their academic research in a conference setting. Re/Inventions promotes interdisciplinary collaberation and engagement among students from Southern California and around the Globe.

The conference will be held at the Karl Anatol Center on the campus of CSU Long Beach on April 16th, 2020.

This year's theme is : "Identity"

Potential topics include, but aren't limited to, the following:

- Narrator Identity

- Rhetoric of Identity

- Rhetorical Identity

Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Conference

University of Warwick, 7-8 July 2020

Whilst proposals on all eighteenth-century topics are welcome, we particularly encourage those that address any aspect of our light theme ‘Opposites and Oppositions’ throughout the long eighteenth century. We invite proposals for individual papers, for fully formed panels of three or four papers, for roundtable sessions, and for workshops and innovative formats.

Some suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

-       Party politics and oppositions (e.g. Whigs and Tories, Hanover and Stuart claims)

-       Town and country

-       Cosmopolitanism and nationalism

“Sense and Consensus”

Berkeley-Stanford English Graduate Conference 2020

April 25th, 2020

300 Wheeler Hall

University of California, Berkeley

Keynote: Colleen Lye, University of California, Berkeley