professional topics

Questions about political and economic contexts of placement, transfer, dual credit. Explorations of college "readiness" or examinations of specific state reactions to the developmental education "crisis". 500-word abstracts by 18 March 2016

Abstract Submission Deadline has been EXTENDED to May 1, 2016

The European Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy 2016 (ECERP2016)

ecerp.iafor.org

We invite you to submit a proposal to this event or to attend as an audience member.

The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its international partners, invites you to participate in this international, intercultural and interdisciplinary conference in Brighton, UK. IAFOR expects this conference to draw educators, researchers, professionals, and members of international offices to discuss the future of Ethics, Religion & Philosophy.

The 2016 conference theme is "Justice".

Shepherding Language: Restoring Faith in Words

Call for Papers

Recent headlines abound decrying the death of academic disciplines traditionally concerned with the care and tending of language. Has a loving and lyrical approach to language become an antiquated notion? Everything from research studies on the relationship between literature and empathy to informal conversations about the power of a good story attest to language's enduring capacity to incite wonder, motivate compassion, or provoke reflection. Words, indeed, serve as the means through which restorative faith is expressed to, explored with, and embraced by the reader.

The times they are a changing. Students have questions. Do we have answers? Does academic freedom give us the right to .... ? Academic voices can often create divergence, difficulties, disputes, and unending digressions within disciplines, but what real differences do our voices make to our students and our colleagues and our world?

The Atrium invites you to submit innovative, creative and critical narrative essays, research-based articles across the disciplines, poetry, and book/website reviews. We share best practices with colleagues with the aim of making a difference in the lives of students and fellow faculty at colleges and universities around the world.

International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies 2356-5926
a Thomson Reuters Journal invites all researchers to submit their paper for the upcoming issue March-June 2016
submit you paper on:
the website

http://jrsdjournal.wix.com/ijhcs

or by e-mail

editor@journals-of-scientifcs-rd.com

A conference session on teaching gossip, scandal, history, secrets and lies in the 18th century. Proposal deadline March 13

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (International Journal of Travel Writing) invites writings (prose/nonfiction/reserach/opinions/poetry/travelogues) on travel. For the month of March we will start receiving submissions from March 1, 2016, ending on March 14, 2016.

Selected writings, published in Diaries and Dialogues will qualify for publication in the journal, both online and print (EISSN 2278-9650; ISSN 2278-9642)

Special Session for the MLA Convention in Philadelphia, Jan. 5-8, 2017

The American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) is accepting submissions for special sessions, oral and poster abstracts, and student posters to be presented at LCA XVI at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, SC September 27 – 29, 2016.

Deadline for special session submission deadline: May 3, 2016
Deadline for abstract submission: May 17, 2016
Deadline for student poster* submission: May 17, 2016

For more information, please visit www.lcacenter.org or contact dsteckel@aclca.org

What new digital challenges does Shakespearean pedagogy face? How do you respond? Share interactive/digital approaches through this "teaching panel" for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia. Abstract (300/wrds), CV with teaching experience by 11 March 2016; Kyle Vitale (kvitale@folger.edu).

Issue 4.1: Black Lives Matter

albeit, an innovative, MLA-indexed online journal of scholarship and pedagogy, invites scholarly articles, detailed lesson plans, book reviews, creative pieces, and nonfiction essays exploring the theme of "Black Lives Matter."

Topics for this issue can include, but are not limited to:

DEADLINE EXTENDED

Please consider submitting to Originality in a Digital Culture, a special issue of NANO: New American Notes Online.

Originality as an ideal has occupied an august position in American cultural history, from Emerson's injunction to "[N]ever imitate" to Apple's "Think different" campaign. Yet the very proliferation of coffee mugs, bumper stickers, fridge magnets, and tablet cases bearing Emerson's words and Apple's slogan shows that not only objects but even the ideas they bear can be disseminated en masse. And in a digital culture in which information can be shared more quickly, easily, and cheaply every day, how do we—scholars, teachers, critics, readers—conceive of originality and theorize its value?

CFP: Academic Cover Versions

Intermezzo, a digital longform publication - http://intermezzo.enculturation.net/ - seeks submissions that deal with the topic of of academic cover versions.

What comprises "visual and/or media studies" exactly?

"Visual media studies"-- if that is what we are going to call it -- sits in a deep well under layer upon layer of literary theory. "Visual and media studies" may as well be re-named "literary theory with a nod to the visual". So film studies, it appears, has fallen back as literature, culture, visuality and/or media have ensconced it entirely, and we forget to ask why.