LFA 2020: Work & Play (New Orleans, 11/5-11/7)
WORK & PLAY
2020 Literature/Film Association Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
November 5-November 7
Keynote: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
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WORK & PLAY
2020 Literature/Film Association Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
November 5-November 7
Keynote: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
Graduate students in the Literature, Theory, and Cultural Studies program at Purdue University invite participation in their first annual symposium, “Crossing Boundaries in Literature, Theory, and Culture.” Boundaries represent real or imagined limits within various cultures, and negotiation of these boundaries enables innovation, transgression, as well as social, ethical, or political implications. Literature and other cultural artifacts work to challenge, straddle, or even reinforce boundaries, from national borders to the artificial limits scholars construct between time periods or fields of study. This symposium will investigate and encourage boundary crossings in literature, culture, and language in the broadest sense.
THE URBAN QUESTION
Hosted by The Urban Humanities Working Group
Center for Cultural Analysis
Rutgers University
17 April 2020
Washington State University will be hosting its inaugural Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Social Justice on March 6th-7th, 2020 at WSU's Pullman, WA campus. Our theme for this year’s conference is Doing Social Justice: Reclaiming Space and Place. We seek proposals that look at the ways that space interacts and intersects with social justice action and activism. Please submit proposals to the following link: https://forms.gle/nfTfryABUFoSsTpo8. The submission deadline is January 24th, 2020. CFP Details:
DEADLINE EXTENDED for submissions: January 24, 2019
Contact email: disjunctions2020@gmail.com
Conference dates: April 16 and 17th, 2020
Location: University of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA
Keynote Speaker: Martin F. Manalansan, author of Queering the Middle: Race Region and a Queer Midwest (2014) and Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (2003)
“Always read good books...and bad people.”
TS Madison, trans activist and social media influencer
Futures of Sexual Difference: Rethinking Femininity and Queerness with Psychoanalysis
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.” - Victor Hugo
A Graduate Conference at Florida State University, Saturday April 4th.
Announcement: Submissions Deadline Extended to January 18
TRANSFORMATION
26-27 March, 2020
University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Conference
Keynote: Kandice Chuh (CUNY) - "The Humanities as a Racial (Trans)Formation"
Masterclass: Jahan Ramazani (UVA) - "Poetry, (Un)Translatability, and World Literature"
DH Masterclass: Brad Pasanek (UVA) and Brandon Walsh (UVA)
Call for Papers
Liminality in Literature and Language: Affect and Migration
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference April 10, 2020
Keynote Speakers: Junyoung Verónica Kim (University of Pittsburgh) / Rebeca Hey-Colón (Temple University)
New Submission Deadline: February 3, 2020
(Re)Mediations
Graduate English Conference
Graduate English Association, University of Toronto
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Conference on April 24, 2020 Proposals due January 24, 2020
“While modernity took us in the direction of textual interiority and disciplinary autonomy, we have to focus on ecological mediation and interdisciplinarity.”
- Suresh Canagarajah, “English Studies as Creole Scholarship: Reconfiguring the Discipline for Postcolonial Conditions”
Call for Papers
Liminality in Literature and Language: Affect and Migration
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference April 10, 2020
New Submission Deadline: February 3, 2020
Call for Papers
Liminality in Literature and Language: Affect and Migration
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference April 10, 2020
Keynote Speakers: Junyoung Verónica Kim (University of Pittsburgh) / Rebeca Hey-Colón (Temple University)
New Submission Deadline: February 3, 2020
TRANSFORMATION
26-27 March, 2020
University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Conference
Keynote: Kandice Chuh (CUNY) - "The Humanities as a Racial (Trans)Formation"
Masterclass: Jahan Ramazani (UVA) - "Poetry, (Un)Translatability, and World Literature"
DH Masterclass: Brad Pasanek (UVA) and Brandon Walsh (UVA)
(Re)Mediations
Graduate English Conference
Graduate English Association, University of Toronto
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Conference on April 24, 2020 Proposals due January 24, 2020
“While modernity took us in the direction of textual interiority and disciplinary autonomy, we have to focus on ecological mediation and interdisciplinarity.” - Suresh Canagarajah, “English Studies as Creole Scholarship: Reconfiguring the Discipline for Postcolonial Conditions”
Call for papers:
Early bird deadline January 22, 2020 (potentially eligible for funding)* EXTENDED from original posting.
Final deadline February 15, 2020Crucial to many social justice studies and critical pedagogies are the acknowledgement of settlement, place, and space. Locationality and positionality form the foundation of our worldviews and our social, cultural, and political experiences. We aim to explore the nuances and complexities of settlement, place, and space in the context of settler-colonial societies through an intersectional social justice framework, and how to challenge systems of injustice that become established through place and space.
As graduate students we often find ourselves in the in-between spaces. No longer just students but not part of the faculty – working to professionalize but not recognized as professionals yet. Our experiences in this liminal space create the unique experience that crafts us into the scholars that we are working to become. This conference theme is focused on the concept of liminality both in scholarship and within our professional, classroom, and political spaces.
When: April 3 & 4, 2020
Where: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Keynote speakers: Dr. Sherryl Vint & Dr. Rei Terada
Proposal: 250 words
Contact: Heidi Wallace and Sarah Wilhoit; arizonanewdirections@gmail.com
Idyll and Utopia
Graduate Conference Call for Papers
Princeton University, German Department
April 17-18, 2020
Keynote: Dr. Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London)
Graduate Conference: OCAD University, Toronto ON
Economies of Dispossession, March 13-14, 2020
FREE EXCHANGE INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE CONFERENCEHOSTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYCALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA (TREATY 7 TERRITORY)FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 1, 2020
EXTENDED CFP Deadline: January 15, 2020.
Sometimes, when you look into the Abyss, the Abyss looks back and says Hello!
So, hello!
The University of Calgary, English Department Graduate Association’s Free-Exchange Committee cordially invites you to join Free Exchange, our annual interdisciplinary graduate conference.
This year, our topic is Space, Place, and Abyss.
Conference Date: April 4, 2020
Liu Institute for Global Studies
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Chandan Reddy
Associate Professor, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
University of Washington
Race is not only about identity or skin colour. Capitalism has been racialized from its origins, and has produced a modern world system that derives economic value from the commodification of racial identities through slavery, imperialism, and genocide. Furthermore, racial capitalism has been accompanied by biopolitical technologies that regulate sexuality and enforce heteronormativity making it also a gendered process.
One Mighty Sepulchre: Scales of Death in Literature, Environment, and Culture Brandeis University March 20, 2020 Keynote Speaker: Melinda Hunt
Guest Editors: Matt Crofts and Layla Hendow, University of Hull.
The CinemArts: Film and Art History SIG of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies seeks submissions for its Graduate Student Essay Prize, with the winner to be announced at the 2020 conference. This award is meant to recognize outstanding scholarship from students currently enrolled in a recognized graduate program and working at the intersection of film, art and visual culture. Applicants must be current SCMS and CinemArts members (but not necessarily presenting at the 2020 conference). Submissions may include revised seminar papers, dissertation excerpts, or any essay published in 2019-2020. Submissions are limited to one per applicant, should not exceed 8,500 words (excluding notes), and must use a standard citation format. If the winning essay
Call for Papers
Media History Study Day 2020 is an opportunity for postgraduate students (PGRs) and early career researchers (ECRs) working on any aspect of media studies to share and discuss their work in a collegial, multidisciplinary environment. ECRs/PGRs working on media from any time period, social/cultural context, or perspective are invited to participate, including, but not limited to, those examining book history, broadcast media, electronic media, ephemera, film, journalism, media theory, newspapers, periodicals, or print culture.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Writing Across Communities: From Poetry to Praxis
Deadline for Submissions:
February 1st
Red River Graduate Student Conference / North Dakota State University
Contact Email:
17th Annual Red River Graduate Student Conference | February 28-29
North Dakota State University
Exploring Alterity: Self, Identity and the Social
Contemporary politics is rife with questions of identity, making one implicitly familiar with notions of “alterity.” Alterity can be defined as “otherness” or “being otherwise” and at times, is used simply to mean “difference.” This conference intends to unpack varied notions of "alterity" as a conceptual category, broadly understood as "difference" or "variation" within disciplines such as Sociology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Literature, and Economics.
Childhoods and Religion - Columbia University Religion Graduate Student Conference 2020
https://columbiareligion.weebly.com/cfp.html
Camp/camp: the collision of style and biopolitics
“The more we study art, the less we care for nature.” Oscar Wilde
The Department of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University invite abstracts for the 22nd annual Graduate Student Conference on “Camp/camp,” which will be taking place March 26-28, 2020.
Reminder: "Chat with an Editor" at the MLA is back!
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) is pleased to announce an excellent mentoring opportunity at this year’s MLA Convention in Seattle. Interested participants can sign up for 20-minute, one-on-one meetings with editors from top scholarly journals to learn about every aspect of the publication process, from initial submission to Revise & Resubmit, from turning a dissertation chapter into an article to managing readers’ reports, etc. Graduate students and early-career scholars are especially welcome!