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‘There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.’ -Diane Arbus
The Southwest Conference on Christianity and
Literature will be held at at the University of Dallas this year.
The theme of this year's conference is The Christian Storyteller, and
the keynote speaker is Barbara Nicolosi Harrington. We wlcome papers on all
aspects of narrative, including film, which is a particular interest
of Dr. Harrington's. Please submit abstracts of 150-200 words to Dr.
Bernadette Waterman Ward (bward@udallas.edu) by May 30.
The African American Studies Department at The Pennsylvania State University is pleased to announce a conference titled, "Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance," to take place on October 10-12, 2019 at the Penn Stater in State College, PA.
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society invites paper proposals for a special session panel on the theme "Nabokov and the Risks of Being Human" for the MLA 2020 Meeting in Seattle next January.
CALL FOR PAPERS
CoSMo – Comparative Studies in Modernism
Human Transitions, Global Change
People, images, forms, symbols and stories in global flows
No. 15 (December 2019)
In the global era, the transformation of humanity is intrinsically connected to the intensification of transit of people on the surface of the earth — flows of migrants, tourists, professional and educational flows etc. — and simultaneously to transit of cultural elements — flows of images, forms, symbols, stories, codes, formats etc. — occurring in media culture.
CALL FOR ARTICLES ON RADICALISM
JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism—an academic journal published by Michigan State University Press—announces a call for articles and reviews for our fourteenth year of issues.
We are particularly interested in articles that address the process of radicalization in relation to terrorism and radical violence in historical context.
Collectivity In Crisis (MLA 2020 session) This panel solicits papers on forms of contemporary collective narration, especially scholarship that pertains to corporate voice, refusals of collaboration or participation, failed "we" narratives, and narrating at the scale of class or population. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Paper8786.html Please email a short abstract of your proposed talk by Saturday, 23 March 2019. Claire Grossman, Stanford (cog@stanford.edu); Joan Lubin, Cornell (jlubin@cornell.edu )
Breaking Down Bars: Perspectives on Hip Hop Poetics
CallforSubmissions
JournalofSino-AmericanHumanityStudies
2020 MLA Convention, 9-12 January in Seattle; https://www.mla.org/Convention Soliciting papers that draw on recent work in Black Geographies to discuss African American literature from the mid-20th century to the present. Work addressing urban space particularly desired. 500-word abstracts to Dorothy Stringer (dorothy@temple.edu) by March 23. Queries also welcome. Thanks a lot, and I'll talk to you tomorrow!