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International Conference Literature (&), (In)tangible Heritage

updated: 
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 4:58pm
CEntre for English, Translation and Anglo-Potuguese Studies, NOVA-FCSH
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 15, 2018

International Conference Literature (&), (In)tangible Heritage

FCSH, NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal)

11-12 October 2018

 

 

Throughout 2018, we are celebrating diverse cultural heritage across Europe. The aim of the European Year of Cultural Heritage is to encourage more people to discover and engage with Europe’s cultural heritage, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space. The slogan for the year is: “Our heritage: where the past meets the future”.

 

Writing Renaissance Experience - Experiencing Renaissance Writing

updated: 
Monday, March 12, 2018 - 9:38am
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 15, 2018

WRITING RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE – EXPERIENCING RENAISSANCE WRITING

Johannes Gutenberg University

Mainz, Germany

5-6 July 2018

 

Organised by

Patrick Gill (Mainz)

Anja Müller-Wood (Mainz)

Tymon Adamczewski (Bydgoszcz)

 

Literary Fantasy and its Discontents

updated: 
Friday, April 13, 2018 - 2:38am
Taipei Tech (National Taipei University of Technology)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 31, 2018

In her still influential Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature (1984), Kathryn Hume defines the literary fantastic as any departure from consensus reality, believing that it holds an equally significant position in literary history as mimesis. Rather than being a recent and sometimes academically marginalized genre, fantasy, for Hume, is integral to almost all literature.

Film as Film Today: On the Criticism and Theory of V. F. Perkins - EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Monday, March 12, 2018 - 9:29am
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 9, 2018

 

 

Due to the ungoing strike action in the UK higher education sector, the deadline for proposals has been extended to 9 April, 2018.

 

Confirmed keynotes: Adrian Martin, Laura Mulvey, George Toles

 

Symposium dates: 4-5 September 2018

 

DIKES OF COURAGE: MARTIN LUTHER KING, THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE AESTHETICS OF PROTEST

updated: 
Monday, March 12, 2018 - 9:28am
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Fifty year after the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is frequently memorialized as a moment of almost inevitable national redemption, when a call to the better angels of American consciousness brought the country together to overcome injustices that no longer plague the present. As  historian Jeanne Theoharis argues in A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (2018, this interpretative frame has frequently constructed a self-congratulatory discourse that whitewashes the immense obstacles and violence faced by the Civil Rights movement and its leaders, rather than soberly remember the “dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear” that, in Dr.

*Deadline Extended* CFP "Hermeneutic Forms" at SEP-FEP 2018

updated: 
Monday, March 12, 2018 - 9:20am
2018 SEP-FEP Joint Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Deadline Extended: 3/20/2018

We invite participants for a curated panel entitled "Hermeneutic Forms" to be held at the joint Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy Conference in Colchester, England from June 18th to June 20th.

East Europe as a Multi-Cultural Space

updated: 
Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 5:57am
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 1, 2018

October 5-6, 2018

Batumi, Georgia

 

Conference organized by  

 

BATUMI SHOTA RUSTAVELI STATE UNIVERSITY

Co-organizer

 

BATUMI ART TEACHING STATE UNIVERSITY

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Yeats Kyoto Symposium 2018

updated: 
Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 10:37am
International Yeats Society / Yeats Society of Japan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Yeats Kyoto Symposium 2018

2018 International Yeats Society Symposium, Kyoto

The 54th Annual Conference of the Yeats Society of Japan

 

Dates: December 15ｰ16, 2018 

Venues: Clock Tower Centennial Hall of Kyoto University and Kashokaku Noh Theatre 

Themes:  Any topic on Yeats is welcome, but the following theme is particularly encouraged:

“Yeats and Laughter”

   Topics may include:

-thematic concerns on laughter in Yeats poems/plays

-cultural considerations on Yeatsean humor and Modernism

-laughter in post-Yeats poets/writers

-Yeats and Kyogen

-laughter in Irish folklore and mythology

 

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