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The Secret Life of Crowds: Gender, Sexuality, and the Masses
Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature
April 5-7, 2018
Keynote speaker: Professor Klaus Theweleit
Modernist Studies Association Conference, Columbus, OH, Nov. 8-11, 2018
CFP: Suicidal Modernisms
In Andrew Bennett’s recently published Suicide Century (2017), the author writes that suicide “streams like a poison through the tainted life blood of the modernist literary canon.” And yet work on modernism and suicide is scarce; in fact, work on “literary suicidology” more generally has not matched the subject’s importance to our field. This panel would like to build on the work of Bennett and a few others (Al Alvarez, Jeffrey Berman) and examine the representation and non-representation of suicide in modernist texts.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History
8-10 November 2018
University of Rouen
ERIAC (http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr)
With the collaboration of the University of Picardie - Jules Verne
https://www.u-picardie.fr/unites-de-recherche/corpus/presentation/
And the Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes
Paper Topics:
Significations Graduate Student Conference theme for 2018 is “Inventing Otherness, Dissent, and Controversy.” This conference invites submissions that question the essence of individuality, the process of “otherness” and contextualization of dissent and controversial topics. We also accept submissions that go beyond the conference theme. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, we welcome all fields of study. Some fields of interest include: Critical Theory, Philosophy, History, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Pan-African American Studies, Native American Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and anything including the Natural and Social Sciences.
Night and Day at 100:This panel invites papers examining Woolf’s Night and Day in the centennial year of its publication. What is the twenty-first century legacy of Woolf’s “nineteenth-century” novel?
Please send a 250-word abstract by March 12, 2018, to Mary Wilson at <mwilson4_at_umassd.edu>.
The University of North Georgia Press, in conjunction with The Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, is issuing a Call for Papers for a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the life and work of the English writer Graham Greene (1904 – 1991). University academics, independent researchers, and doctoral, post-graduate, undergraduate, and graduate students are invited to submit papers. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Book and film reviews and other feature articles will also be considered.
“Ezra Pound and his Palpable Poetics of Environment in The Cantos: The Making Visible of Ideas”
Ezra Pound Society, American Literary Association (ALA) conference in San Francisco, May 24-27, 2018.
This panel will consider how twentieth century American plays define, operationalize, register, and/or critique ethical discourse. Is there an “ethics” of the twentieth century play? What people, places, and things are left out of this ethical discourse? For example, in asking ethical questions, some projects may wish to consider how American drama resists, and/or encodes, power relations. Research here may also be mindful of how specific American plays, masters, and movements help us to ask difficult questions rather than seek easier answers.
Stranger Things:
The Weird, the Paranormal, and the Problem of Belief
British Modernities Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
20–21 April 2018, Urbana, IL
Keynote Presentation: “Listening to the Dead: W. B. Yeats’s Communication with Spirits”
By Dr. Catherine E. Paul, Professor Emerita, Clemson University
Additional speakers TBA
The E. E. Cummings Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2018 ALA. We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Cummings' life or work. Proposals that touch upon the following topics will be especially welcome:
Submit 250-400 word abstracts to Michael Webster (websterm@gvsu.edu) by January 27, 2018.