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Hwa Kang English Journal, Vol. 25 (July 2020)
“Narrating Lives” - International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography28-29 August 2020 - Malta
organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Life-history approach occupies the central place in conducting and producing (auto)biographical and (auto)ethnographic studies through the understanding of self, other, and culture. We construct and develop conceptions and practices by engaging with memory through narrative, in order to negotiate ambivalences and uncertainties of the world and to represent (often traumatic) experiences.
International Conference:Narratives of Temporality: Continuities, Discontinuities, Rupture25 July 2020 - Cambridge, UKorganised byLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
This conference will provide a deeper look into the dynamic and complex relation between construction, codes, language, expression, on one side and the crisis of representations, traumas, discontinuities and tensions in discourses, on the other. This will be conducted according to three research areas:
Panel submissions for the East Texas Writing Festival may be creative writing or craft-related essays. Work should be submitted as an attachment on the registration form. Visit www.letu.edu/writingfest for more information on the festival. Guidelines are provided below for each genre:
All submissions should include your name and email address located on the first page.
The Art of Encounter in Teaching and Learning
The 26th annual summer conference of The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
of the National Council of Teachers of English
www.aepl.org; aeplconf2020@gmail.com
June 25-28, 2020, YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO
The Paper Shell Review, the University of Maryland's only undergraduate journal of essays on literary topics, is now accepting submissions. The introductions to our past journals have been written by notable faculty members, including Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic, and Michael Olmert, a three-time Primetime Emmy winner.
Call for Proposals
Southeastern Liberal Arts Research Conference (SELARC) 2020
The English Graduate Association at Auburn University
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 7–10 January 2021
Full name of organization: Association for Business Communication
Contact email: wbrown@midland.edu
Due date for abstracts: 07 March 2020
Call for papers/abstracts:
The CEA Critic : The Official Journal of the College English Association (rolling deadline)
General Editor: Jeraldine Kraver / University of Northern Colorado
Managing Editor: Molly Desjardins / University of Northern Colorado
Editorial Assistant: Winsome Lewis / University of Northern Colorado
Journal contact email: CRITICUNCO@gmail.com
As was widely acknowledged in discussions sparked by and at the 2019 MSA Conference, modernism is decreasingly a hiring field within English departments, and those trained in modernist studies often take positions with teaching focuses in other areas.
This roundtable will focus on scholars’ experience using modernist training/modernist texts in the writing/rhetoric/composition classroom. Please submit 200-300 word abstracts describing a specific example of your use of a modernist text and/or concept in the writing classroom. Please email abstract and a short bio to Nissa Cannon ncannon@bu.edu by 3/5/20.
MLA 2021, Toronto, January 7-10: CFP -- Prison Voices: Literature from Inside the Walls
Call for Proposals: 13th Annual Graduate English Organization Conference
Radical Visions: Abolition as Praxis in Literature, Rhetoric, and Culture
Department of English
University of Maryland
February 28-29, 2020
We are pleased to announce the 14th annual NFEAP summer conference, which will take place on Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th of June 2020 at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo, Norway.
The theme for the 2020 conference is Stages.
Theme: Building Diverse Communities through Writing
University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | May 22-23, 2020
Website: https://dornsife.usc.edu/the-writing-program/ccccs-at-usc/
Extended Deadline: February 9, 2020, 11:59 p.m.
The Writing Program at the University of Southern California invites proposals for Building Diverse Communities through Writing, a CCCC Summer Conference to be hosted on the USC campus. Please consider proposing a panel, a roundtable, a teaching forum, or an individual presentation.
For a lot of complicated reasons, the main queer Mormon stories people hear are those of cis gay men. We would like to make available the other stories.
We are seeking narrative essays from queer Mormons, no longer practicing Mormons, and Mormon-adjacent people. We are interested in the stories of queer women, trans and nonbinary people, intersex people, asexual people, and queer polyamorous women.
The four subject areas we are looking at are the following:
1) Identity
2) Relationships
3) Shame/Suicide/The Closet
Call for Proposals
Professionalizing Multimodal Composition: Faculty and Institutional Initiatives
International Conference on Myths, Archetypes and Symbols:“Models and Alternatives” 26 September 2020 – London, UK
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
WVTESOL 23rd Annual Conference
Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV
March 20th and 21st, 2020
Conference website: https://www.tesolwv.org/
The 2020 WVTESOL Conference Committee welcomes and encourages you to submit a proposal to our 23rd Annual Conference to be held in Fairmont, WV, on March 21st with pre-conference activities on March 20th. Proposals for papers, panel discussions, workshops, resource sharing, posters/exhibits and teaching ideas are expected to address the conference theme: Culture and Identity in the English Language Classroom.
Important Dates
Academic Writing WorkshopsSaturday 13th June 2020 - Getting Published Workshop – what do academic journals look for?
The workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers who would like to improve their academic writing skills in order to succeed in studies and in career.
It is organised to provide maximum hands-on practice for participants. Each session will include explanations, examples, exercises, and texts to help the participants develop techniques for working productively at different stages of the scholarly writing process.
Academic Writing WorkshopsSaturday 25th April 2020 - Conference Presentation and Lecturing Workshop
The workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers who would like to improve their academic writing skills in order to succeed in studies and in career.
It is organised to provide maximum hands-on practice for participants. Each session will include explanations, examples, exercises, and texts to help the participants develop techniques for working productively at different stages of the scholarly writing process.
Academic Writing Workshops
Saturday 15th February 2020 – Reading Skills, Note-taking, Paraphrasing, Plagiarism
The workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers who would like to improve their academic writing skills in order to succeed in studies and in career.
It is organised to provide maximum hands-on practice for participants. Each session will include explanations, examples, exercises, and texts to help the participants develop techniques for working productively at different stages of the scholarly writing process.
Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity--I am my language. Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself.
FREE EXCHANGE INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE CONFERENCEHOSTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYCALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA (TREATY 7 TERRITORY)FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 1, 2020
EXTENDED CFP Deadline: January 15, 2020.
Sometimes, when you look into the Abyss, the Abyss looks back and says Hello!
So, hello!
The University of Calgary, English Department Graduate Association’s Free-Exchange Committee cordially invites you to join Free Exchange, our annual interdisciplinary graduate conference.
This year, our topic is Space, Place, and Abyss.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Writing Across Communities: From Poetry to Praxis
Deadline for Submissions:
February 1st
Red River Graduate Student Conference / North Dakota State University
Contact Email:
17th Annual Red River Graduate Student Conference | February 28-29
North Dakota State University
CFP for NJCEA Annual Conference on March 21, 2020 at Seton Hall University
Joyce Carol Oates famously asked, "Where are you Going? Where have you Been?" As the English profession continues to evolve, our conference will explore these questions.
We are particularly interested in proposals for full traditional panels including at least four presenters, roundtables of six to eight speakers, workshops, individual papers, posters, and presentations that consider these questions for the profession, for the discipline, for our areas of specialization, and for the larger society. What is our role as scholars, researchers, teachers and community members during a time of worldwide transition?
Keynote Speaker:
Submissions for Young Scholars in Writing Volume 18 will be open from December 2019 through April 8, 2020. Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric is an international peer-reviewed journal (https://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/index). It publishes research and theoretical articles by undergraduates of all majors and years on the subjects of rhetoric, writing, writers, discourse, language, and related topics.
For this volume, we are accepting the following types of submissions.
The Florida College English Association invites paper proposals dealing with this year’s theme, “The Roaring ’20s: A Hundred Years of Modernity,” as well as papers that focus on topics related to the humanities and higher education including literature, history, cultural studies, composition, pedagogy, and allied disciplines. Panels and roundtable session proposals are welcome. When: October 15-17, 2020
Where: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel at SeaWorld, 10100 International Drive, Orlando, Florida, 32821, USA
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
Saturday July 11 – Sunday July 12, 2020
Imperial College, London
Second (and likely final) call. Proposals are invited for presentations at the 23rd Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, to be held Saturday July 11 – Sunday July 12, 2020 at Imperial College, London, UK.
The COMELA 2020 invites academics in the fields of Linguistics, Anthropology, Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, and Ethnology, pertinent to The Mediterranean and Europe, to discuss work, and engage in scholarly collaborations, thus strengthening global academic networks in the field.
Location
American College of Greece
Athens, Greece
Partners
- Taylor and Francis Global Publishers (Official Publishing Partner)
- 120 major academic institutions globally
- Scientific Committee of over 120 academics
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Papers: 30th Annual Mardi Gras Graduate Student Conference
The Magic of Carnival: Manifesting and Interrogating Identity Through Narratives
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Christopher E. Bell
February 19-21, 2020.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: ABSTRACTS DUE JANUARY 5, 2020.