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Women and Work in Literature

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Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 2:47pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association: PAMLA

How do writers represent the work of being women—where "work" is defined broadly to encompass not only paid labor inside and outside the home, but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity? How do writers address social assumptions about who should be performing work, and for what purpose? Proposals of 250-500 words should be submitted via PAMLA's online system (visit www.pamla.org) by March 31, 2013.

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics invites works in poetry, creative non fiction, art/book/fil review & research papers on "travel"

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Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 4:33am
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (www.coldnoon.com)

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics [(www.coldnoon.com)_ISSN: 2278-9650] invites writers and researchers to submit their works in original poetry, creative non-fiction, art/book/film reviews or research papers on "travel" for publication in Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, Mar '13, Issue VI (online). The works published in the forthcoming issue will be republished in Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, Summer 2013 (print_ISSN – 2278-9642), along with the previous online issue, Nov '12, Issue V, in April-May, 2013. The last date of sending submissions is 17th February, 2013.

Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities

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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 3:33pm
Euroacademia

Euroacademia cordially invites you to
The Euroacademia International Conference
'Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities' to be held in Zagreb, Croatia
Esplanade Zagreb
18 – 20 April 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 1st of March 2013

Conference description:

Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeaness Exposed to Plural Observers

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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 3:30pm
Euroacademia

Euroacademia cordially invites you to
The Third Global Conference
'Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeaness Exposed to Plural Observers' to be held in Prague, Czech Republic
Grand Majestic Plaza

THE DATES: 15 – 16 of March 2013
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 25 January 2013

Description and aims

San Joaquin Valley Journal Submission Deadline Extension -- May 1, 2013

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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 2:43pm
Andrew Dorsey / San Joaquin Valley Journal

The San Joaquin Valley Journal is seeking articles for its fourth issue. SJVJ is an online, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Department of English at California State University, Stanislaus. The annual journal offers a forum for the discussion of literature, critical theory, rhetoric and composition, pedagogy, and issues relevant to teaching in academe. SJVJ is particularly interested in scholarly essays that engage issues and ideas in connection with the literature and culture of the San Joaquin Valley. In view of its regional emphasis, SJVJ also welcomes profiles on San Joaquin Valley writers, creative nonfiction, book reviews, faculty interviews, and commentaries related to the southern portion of California's Central Valley.

ROUNDTABLE SEARCH: Scholarship Blogging: What? How? Why???

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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 1:08pm
Kirin Makker/hobart william smith colleges

ROUNDTABLE Participants SEARCH: Scholarship Blogging: What? How? Why???

SACRPH, The Society for American City and Regional Planning History
National Conference, Toronto, Ontario
October 3-6, 2013

Digging the Digital 2013: Graduate Research in Digital Humanities - Saturday, April 6, 2013

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Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 12:33pm
University of Alberta Humanities Computing Graduate Student Association

The University of Alberta Humanities Computing Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for its annual conference:

"Digging the Digital 2013: Graduate Research in Digital Humanities,"

Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013
Location: Alumni House, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB
Website: http://diggingdigital2013.wordpress.com
Keynote Speakers: TBA.

Richard Crashaw: Poetics, Devotion, Music

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Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 5:43am
Little St Mary's Church, Cambridge, UK - Saturday 13 April 2013

Proposals are invited for contributions to a one-day conference commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Richard Crashaw, poet and divine. Crashaw is renowned as a unique voice in seventeenth-century English poetry, and a central figure in the Anglican Counter-reformation of the 1620s and 30s. His life and verse have lately enjoyed renewed scholarly attention: through his acquaintance with the community at Little Gidding, for instance, and the history of his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

[UPDATE] History, Postcolonialism and Tradition 09/12-13/2013 (04/15/2013)

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 4:44pm
Kingston University/Postcolonial Studies Association

Second call for papers:

The organisers of the 2013 Postcolonial Studies Association would like to invite proposals for papers on this year's theme: 'History, Postcolonialism and Tradition'. The theme is designed to facilitate the opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue, particularly (but not exclusively) between the spheres of literature, cultural studies, anthropology, the visual arts, the performative arts, folklore, history, politics, and the social sciences.

Emerging Perspectives graduate conference. May 2-3, 2013.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 9:56am
UCD English Graduate Society

May 2-3, 2013 at University College Dublin in association with the UCD English Graduate Society and Humanities Institute

The UCD English Graduate Society warmly invites MA and PhD students of all levels to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words which engage with the theme 'Emerging Perspectives' for the 2013 EGS Postgraduate Symposium.

Since 2010 the UCD English Graduate Society has provided early stage scholars in universities across Ireland with the opportunity to share their research in a supportive environment. Selections from conferences and seminars have been published annually in the postgraduate journal Emerging Perspectives.

Reanimating Playbooks: Editing for Performance, Performance for Editing - May 10

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 6:37am
The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

A one-day symposium to engage in the conversation between performance and text. We wish to provide a space to explore editorial practices on both sides of publication (from preparation to practice) and to explore how we use, compose, and conceptualise critical editions of Renaissance plays. The day will include a plenary panel of editors and theatre practitioners and two practical workshops.

[UPDATE] 10th Annual MEGAA Symposium: "The Human and the Non-Human" DEADLINE EXTENDED

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 5:35pm
Miami English Graduate and Adjunct Association (MEGAA)

The 10th Annual Miami University English Graduate Student and Adjunct Association (MEGAA) Symposium
In Conversation with the 2012-13 Altman Program:
The Human and the Non-Human

March 22nd, 2013 -- Oxford, OH

"Beyond the edge of the so-called human, beyond it but by no means on a single opposing side, rather than "The Animal" or "Animal Life" there is already a heterogeneous multiplicity of the living or more precisely...a multiplicity of organizations of relations between living and dead" - Jacques Derrida

At Face Value: Re-thinking Surfaces, Friends of English Graduate Student Conference at UCLA

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 1:20pm
University of California, Los Angeles

Call for Papers, At Face Value: Re-thinking Surfaces
Friends of English Graduate Student Conference, UCLA
Friday, May 31, 2013 at UCLA

Keynote speakers: Professor Rachel Lee (UCLA), Professor Daniel Tiffany (USC)

Sir Peter: Aye, ever improving himself!--Mr. Surface, Mr. Surface...Well, well, that's proper; and you make even your screen a source of knowledge...
Joseph Surface: Oh, yes, I find great use in that screen.
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal (IV.3)

Literary London 2013

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 10:21am
Literary London Society

Literary London 2013
Representations of London in Literature
An Interdisciplinary Conference

Hosted by: the Institute of English Studies, University of London
Organised by: The Literary London Society
17–19 July 2013

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Vic Gatrell (Cambridge); Matthew Rubery (QMUL)

MLA 2014: Deletion, Erasure, Cancellation

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 9:29am
Paul Benzon

How might we theorize the aesthetics and poetics of practices such as deletion and erasure? All periods, genres, media welcome. Inquiries and abstracts with short biographies to pbenzon at temple dot edu by March 1.

Full CFP:

University of North Texas - Critical Voices Conference - Friday, March 22

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Monday, January 28, 2013 - 9:44pm
University of North Texas Graduate Students in English Association

The University of North Texas Graduate Students in English Association (GSEA) invites submissions for its annual graduate student conference, to be held Friday, March 22nd. This year's theme is "The Literary and the Critical: Poetics and the Politics of Writing in the 21st Century." The GSEA welcomes submissions on a variety of topics related to literary criticism, theory, material criticism, cultural studies, composition and rhetoric, pedagogy, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Papers/readings should last no more than 15 minutes.

Authors may submit individual paper proposals, but they are also encouraged to submit proposals for panels of 3-4 related presentations.

South Central MLA Biography/Autobiography/Memoir panel

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Monday, January 28, 2013 - 5:04pm
South Central Modern Language Association

The 2012 South Central MLA Conference is accepting paper proposals for its Biography/Autobiography/Memoir panel. Literary paper proposals on any aspect of biography, autobiography, and memoir are welcome. Please submit a 200-word abstract by 4/1/13 to mge1108@gmail.com.

The SCMLA conference will be held in New Orleans, LA from October 3-5, 2013.

BritGrad Call For Papers 6-8 June 2013

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Monday, January 28, 2013 - 11:39am
The British Graduate Conference, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-Upon-Avon

Dear All,

Registration is now open for the Fifteenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, June 6-8 2013. We welcome abstracts from graduate students on any topic in the field of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies. Undergraduate students in their final two years of study are also invited to attend the conference as auditors.

LUVAH: Journal of the Creative Imagination Spring/Summer Issue Now Accepting Papers and Abstracts

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Monday, January 28, 2013 - 8:34am
Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination

Luvah ( http://luvah.org ) is an international, inter-disciplinary journal of religion, philosophy, and politics. We are interested in papers that transgress traditional boundaries inherent in the current compartmentalization of knowledge. We are looking for articles, poems, and short stories that fit into the theme of our journal, which is the critical examination of modernity and postmodernity from the perspectives of traditionalism, critical theory, and primitivism. Articles analyzing Ancient thought, eco-criticism, and creative pieces are also welcome. We accept acticles from students and independent artists and thinkers as well as more established scholars.

Special issue of Utopian Studies on Architecture and Utopia -- Guest Editor, Dr Nahtaniel Coleman

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Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 6:27am
Dr Nathaniel Coleman, Newcastle University

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The Problematic of Architecture and Utopia

Special issue of Utopian Studies (25:1, Spring 2014) on Architecture and Utopia

Call for Papers – Deadline: 01 May 2013

Guest Editor: Dr Nathaniel Coleman, Newcastle University nathaniel.coleman@ncl.ac.uk

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Papers are invited for publication in a forthcoming issue of Utopian Studies on the topic of Architecture and Utopia. In this instance, architecture is construed as including interiors and gardens in one direction, and cities and landscapes in the other, with individual buildings, or assemblages of them, in the middle.

[UPDATE] The Aesthetics of Austerity - Extended Deadline, February 1, 2013

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Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 8:03pm
University of California, Irvine - PhD Program in Visual Studies

The PhD program in Visual Studies at UC, Irvine invites submissions for its annual graduate student conference: The Aesthetics of Austerity.

Conference Date: April 5, 2013
Website: https://www.facebook.com/vsconference2013
Deadline: Abstracts of no more than 350 words are due February 1, 2013 at 5:00 pm to vsconference2013@gmail.com. Presentations are to be 20 minutes in length. Please include a one-page CV that demonstrates your research interests.

[UPDATE] Craft Critique Culture: Into the Void, March 29-30, 2013

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Friday, January 25, 2013 - 5:08pm
University of Iowa



The 13th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
"Into the Void"
March 29-30, 2012
University of Iowa

***DEADLINE EXTENDED to February 8, 2013***

See our new website at http://uiowa.orgsync.com/org/ccc/home

But in the midst of the long row there hangs a canvas which differs from the others. . . . on this one plate no name is inscribed, and the linen within the frame is snow-white from corner to corner, a blank page.
— Isak Dinesen, "The Blank Page"

South Central MLA Autobiography/Biography/Memoir panel

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Friday, January 25, 2013 - 4:07pm
South Central Modern Language Association

The 2013 South Central MLA Conference is accepting paper proposals for its Autobiography/Biography/Memoir panel. Literary paper proposals on any aspect of biography, autobiography, and memoir are welcome. Please submit a 200-word abstract by 3/21/12 to mge1108@gmail.com.

Marvelous Bodies: Corporeality in Literature. May 24-25, 2013

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Friday, January 25, 2013 - 9:09am
Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus

Marvelous Bodies: Corporeality in Literature
Eleventh Annual Academic Conference
The Department of English
Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain
24-25 May, 2013
Submission Deadline 15 March, 2013
slumadridconference@gmail.com

Keynote Speaker: Michael Davidson, Vice Chair of the Department of
Literature, University of California, San Diego

[Reminder] Worlds Between: Exploring the Borders, Boundaries, and Gaps that Divide and Bind

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Friday, January 25, 2013 - 12:23am
Sigma Tau Delta, Iota Chi Chapter / California State University, Northridge

"Worlds Between: Exploring the Borders, Boundaries, and Gaps that Divide and Bind"

Saturday, April 27, 2013
California State University, Northridge
Graduate Conference
"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge." – Lord Byron

This conference is interested in exploring the concept of the spaces between – genres, cultures, times, people, movements, nations – the possibilities are endless. How do these spaces confine? How do they enable? What moves between? What exists within?

Technologies and Locales of Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Exploring Discourse, Meaning, and Power

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 8:39pm
Uuniversity of Texas San Antonio English Graduate Symposium

2013 UTSA English Graduate Symposium Celebrating Women's History Month: "Technologies and Locales of Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Exploring Discourse, Meaning, and Power"

Sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Women's Studies Institute/Consortium for Social Transformation, the Inclusion and Community Engagement Center, Dr. Sonja Lanehart, and Dr. Joycelyn Moody

March 30, 2013 at The University of Texas San Antonio in San Antonio, TX

Keynote Speaker: Julia Serano, Transgendered writer, musician and spoken word artist and activist, author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

CFP: From Monadism to Nomadism: A Hybrid Approach to Cultural Productions. Proposals Due February 10

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 6:01pm
The Annual Center for Research in the Humanities & Arts Graduate Students conference will be held at the campus of the University of California, Merced on April 12-13, 2013.

The Annual Center for Research in the Humanities & Arts Graduate Students conference will be held at the campus of the University of California, Merced on April 12-13, 2013. From Monadism to Nomadism: A Hybrid Approach to Cultural Productions will focus on the intersection and interplay of cultural studies, the social sciences, and the humanities, encouraging the exploration of various theoretical frameworks, case studies and fieldwork, and research.

CFP: Philologist, Journal of Language, Literary and Cultural Studies

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 8:51am
University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philology

We are calling for papers dealing with contemporary literary, cultural, and language theories and/or their applications to particular works for the seventh issue of our journal. We would also welcome papers dealing with meta-theories and their significance for the human and social sciences, as well as reviews of the most recent books in the field of cultural, language and literary theories and criticism.

Papers should be a maximum of 7.000 words, and use the New Harvard Citation System. Papers must include abstracts and key words. Authors should also provide a short bio (up to 20 lines).

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