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Free Exchange Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
February 28th - March 1st, 2020
Hosted at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
https://uofcfreeexchange.wordpress.com/
Extended Deadline: January 15, 2020.
Sometimes, when you look into the Abyss, the Abyss looks back and says Hello!
So, hello!
What do we want? A better world? A cleaner world? At this point, many of us might merely settle for a world that isn’t barrelling towards inevitable environmental destruction. So, what do we want? Climate Action! What does climate action look like in the academy? It looks like the expansion of digital resources and the cultivation of better disposal and recycling habits on university campuses. It also looks like the cultivation of eco-critical theory and research. Earth is our home. It is the only habitable planet for us. Unfortunately, while it shows evidence of the brilliance of humanity, the state of the Earth also represents our greed and short-sightedness.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Papers: 30th Annual Mardi Gras Graduate Student Conference
The Magic of Carnival: Manifesting and Interrogating Identity Through Narratives
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Christopher E. Bell
February 19-21, 2020.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: ABSTRACTS DUE JANUARY 5, 2020.
Human Matters: Engaging Publics in the Humanities
July 8-11, 2020
University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
Call for Papers
Deadline for paper and session proposals: January 15, 2020
Intersections and Intertexts
Call for Papers, Chimères 2020 Conference
University of Kansas, April 11, 2020
Net-Works: Mapping Labor in Theatre and Performance
April 23, 2020
The Graduate Center,
The City University of New York (CUNY)
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
Email: networksconference2020@gmail.com
Deadline: January 21, 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Devouring Men:
Food, Masculinity & Power
DATES: 24-25 July 2020
VENUE: School of English, University of St Andrews
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr Emma Bond (Modern Languages, University of St Andrews)
Dr Sam Goodman (English & Communication, University of Bournemouth)
The Medieval at Home: Domesticity in the Middle Ages
The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University is pleased to announce its thirtieth annual graduate student colloquium, which will take place on the 15th of February 2020 at the A.D. White House on Cornell’s Ithaca, NY campus.
The Arts & Humanities Graduate Student Association of the University of Texas at Dallas will hold its eleventh annual graduate symposium on February 22, 2020 at the UTD campus in Richardson, Texas. The RAW: Research, Art, and Writing Conference is organized by and for students and offers an opportunity for scholars to share their work and ideas with peers across the humanities disciplines.
As interdisciplinary scholars, what is our role in the representation of origins and legacies?
February 29, 2020
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Location TBD
1-5 pm
The DVMA invites 250-word abstracts for 20-minute talks or 5-minute flash presentations by graduate students in any discipline and on any topic that pertains to medieval studies. Global medieval submissions are welcome and encouraged!
Cornell EGSO 2020 Conference: ProximityMarch 6th - 7th, 2020Call for Proposals:
As knowledge travels through time and space, proximity emerges as an increasingly important category for critical inquiry. How does our understanding of proximity change our intellectual landscape? What issues seem distant from us? Which objects, texts, or historical moments feel more proximate in the present? How does the idea of proximity shape our understanding of political, economic, ecological, and social issues? Whether addressing the position of the humanities with regard to geopolitical conflicts or the ways in which history becomes entangled with the present, matters of closeness and distance must be considered urgent intellectual problems.
“Do We Have a Future?”: Cognition, Speculation, and (Dis)Connection
Department of English Graduate Conference
Carleton University
24-25 April 2020
“Since the world is ending [. . .] why not let the children touch the paintings?”
- Ben Lerner
DHARTI Twitter Conference: Innovating for DH in India
contact email: dhallianceindia@gmail.com
Innovating for DH in India, the first DHARTI Twitter Conference, will take place January 19th, 2020.
DHARTI is an initiative to bring together scholars engaged in digital practices in the arts and humanities with India being a point of reference. In its earlier avatar DHARTI was the Digital Humanities Alliance of India (DHAI). The first Digital Humanities Conference of India, organised jointly by IIM Indore and IIT Indore and was held at IIM Indore in 2018.
Graduate Center for Literary Research Annual Conference Call for Papers
Climate Fictions
April 18-19, 2020
McCune Conference Room, HSSB
As climate change has become a central topic of discussion, laced with the uncertainty of tomorrow, the UCSB Graduate Center for Literary Research invites scholars from a variety of disciplines to reframe their conversations with a focus on this ubiquitous topic as it has been interpreted in literary fiction, as well as within the arts.
Conference Dates: April 10-11 at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, AL)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Heather Houser (University of Texas at Austin)
Stony Brook University
32nd Annual English Graduate Conference
February 28, 2020
CFP: 2019 Siegel McDaniel Award for Graduate Research on Philip Roth
The annual Siegel/McDaniel Award, sponsored by the Philip Roth Society, recognizes high-quality graduate student papers written within the past year on any aspect of Philip Roth’s work.
We recommend that faculty encourage their students to submit papers, and we welcome submissions from Roth Society members and non-members alike.
Eligible graduate students should submit a clean copy of their 10-15 page essay, double-spaced, in 12 point Times New Roman font to Maggie McKinley, the Philip Roth Society Program Director, at mmckinle@harpercollege.edu.
The intensifying intimacy between humans and technology generates “de-naturalized” relations of body, cognition and time. This bodily experience of alienation is not solely technological, but also social. While we can try to escape denaturalization and alienation, we can also consider them as autonomous processes of production and reproduction.
Today, predictive processing determines how control is produced and reproduced technically, whether in drone warfare, high-speed trading, computerized borders, or facial recognition technologies. As attention-management, statistical parameters and machine learning emerge as nonlinear instruments, biology is no longer describable under the strict terms of biopower.
Disability has functioned historically to justify inequality for disabled people themselves, but it has also done so for women and [other] minority groups. That is, not only has it been considered justifiable to treat disabled people unequally, but the concept of disability has been used to justify discrimination against other groups by attributing disability to them.
- Douglas C. Baynton, Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History
Abstract:
Dear Colleagues,
We are extending the deadline for our Call for Papers for the Comics in Community Conference until January 10th, 2020. Thank you to everyone who has submitted an abstract so far, and we look forward to reading them all. We are also very pleased to announce that Dr. André Carrington will be our first keynote speaker. Do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions, and please see below for our full CFP.
17th Annual UF GCO Conference: "Comics In Community"
Updated Deadline for Submissions: 1/10/2020
Hosted by: Graduate Comics Organization at the University of Florida
Call for Papers
Excavations
McGill University’s 26th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 14-15, 2020 Montréal, Québec, Canada
Cesare Pavese left an unforgettable mark on Twentieth century Italian culture. His multifaceted intellectual personality took many shapes. He was a poet, a translator, a member of the Einaudi publishing house, a novelist: in short, he was a complete intellectual. His literary production was characterized by an extraordinary open-mindedness: he was the first to translate into Italian the American authors who influenced him; with "Dialoghi con Leucò" he reinterpreted classical mythology; he was interested in cinema. Seventy years after his death, what methodologies can we employ to study his work? How can we interpret his open-mindedness, based on the cultural context of the first half of the Twentieth century and looking at the present time?
Call for Papers
12th Annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
April 10-11, 2020
Beyond Reality: Post-Intellectualism and the Re/Emergence of Subjective Truths
Keynote lecture to be delivered by: Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, University of South Carolina
UC San Diego’s Department of Literature is excited to announce their second annual graduate conference. This year’s theme, “Movement,” embraces the complexities of the potential for, and results of, movement. The term “movement” has been at the center of aesthetics, literary history, and philosophy for centuries. From a movement like the Young Hegelians, that criticized the political establishment and capitalist modes of production, to the Aesthetic Movement, that created “art for art’s sake,” movements have shaped critical thinking in a variety of fields. In the social sciences, social, horizontal, vertical, and spatial mobility have been analyzed for decades.
Theme: The Body Displaced
Sponsored by the Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association
Conference Date: March 21, 2020
Proposal Due Date: December 15, 2019
Location: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Contact: northeasternEGSA@gmail.com
The 9th annual Women’s Center Symposium on Gender and Culture will take place on February 21, 2020, and we plan to explore how we access sexuality and information about sex. Given the many barriers to access, from geography to ability to class and race, who is allowed to explore or express their sexuality and who is limited? And how do we break down these barriers?
How to Do Things with Worlds
Department of English, Indiana University Bloomington
Conference Dates: April 10 & 11, 2020
Submission Deadline: December 16, 2019 [UPDATED]
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Vanessa Plumly
Assistant Professor of German, Lawrence University
“A ‘world’ need not be a construction of a whole society. It may be a construction of a tiny portion of a particular society. It may be inhabited by just a few people. Some ‘worlds’ are bigger than others.”
- Maria Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception” (1987)
56th Allerton English Articulation Conference - Call for Papers
Call for Proposals and Participation
20/20: Taking the Long View
56th Allerton English Articulation Conference
April 15-16, 2020
In cooperation with Northern Illinois University Continuing and Professional Education and the statewide Allerton Planning Committee, NIU’s Department of English is pleased to announce the 56th Allerton English Articulation Conference, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 15-16, 2020.
2020 PEAKS Interdisciplinary Conference
Thresholds and Threshold Concepts
Saturday, February 29, 2019
Call for Papers:
In a physical sense, a threshold is the bottom of a doorway that must be crossed to enter into a room. Kathleen Blake Yancey views threshold concepts as the “articulation of shared beliefs” that leads to the “modification, extension, and boundary marking” of spaces in social, professional, academic and other communities. Threshold concepts are entry points of knowledge that impact ideas and participants in discourse communities.
GCfE 14th Annual ConferenceVoices of Change: Presents, Pasts and Futures of Activism and Protest in Europe21-22 May 2020, University of BirminghamCall for papers
In recent years, Europe has witnessed the rise of various protest movements: Extinction Rebellion, the Yellow Vests in France, “Stop the Coup” protest in the UK, to name but a few. These protests were fuelled by the deterioration of the social, political and environmental situation in Europe and the rest of the world, as well as by citizens’ increasing demands for social, political and environmental justice.