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CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 MMLA CONVENTION “CONSUMING CULTURES” ENGLISH II: ENGLISH LITERATURE 1800-1900

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Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 4:55pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 5, 2018

In keeping with this year’s MMLA theme, “Consuming Cultures,” I welcome papers that address issues of consumption in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Possible topics include, but are certainly not limited to: print culture and readership; leisure activities; studies in food, medicine, plants, agriculture, and animals; consumption vs. production; consuming identities and bodies; and the intersections between postcolonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief bio. by April 5th, 2018 to Bailey Shaw at bshaw@siu.edu. 

MWASECS 2018 Conference - "Eighteenth-Century Frontiers"

updated: 
Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 10:37am
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 15, 2018

The Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2018 Annual Meeting

“Eighteenth-Century Frontiers”

Testing Limits • Crossing Boundaries • Claiming Spaces

October 12 & 13, 2018

Holiday Inn Sioux Falls – City Centre, Sioux Falls, SD

 

THE CONFERENCE

The 2018 meeting of MWASECS, the Midwestern affiliate of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, will be held in Sioux Falls, SD, on October 12 and 13, 2018. The conference hotel and venue will be the Holiday Inn Sioux Falls – City Centre, located within walking distance of a wide assortment of restaurants, shops, and entertainment in downtown Sioux Falls.

 

THE THEME

CFP (30 March 2018): Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts (under contract with Routledge)

updated: 
Monday, March 5, 2018 - 11:18am
Shun-liang Chao
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 30, 2018

We’d like to invite an art historian, comparatist, or interdisciplinary literary scholar in the field of the environmental humanities to contribute to our edited volume Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts, to be published in the Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature series in 2019. The volume comprises two major national groupings: first, the major Romantic traditions that developed in Germany, Britain, France, and the US; and second, the influence and cross-pollination of these traditions in Russia, China, India, and Japan.

Romantic Exchanges, 1760–1840

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2018 - 10:08am
British Association for Romantic Studies Postgraduate and Early Career Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 9, 2018

Romantic Exchanges, 1760-1840

 British Association for Romantic Studies Early Career and Postgraduate Conference

University of Glasgow, 15–16 June 2018

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Gerard Carruthers (University of Glasgow)

Dr Susan Manly (University of St Andrews)

Lyrical Letters, or Missives with Melodies -- MLA 2019

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2018 - 9:59am
Lyrica Society for Word/Music Relations
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 20, 2108

A session to be held at Modern Language conference in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019.  Sponsored by the Lyrica Society for Word/Music Relations.
Analysis and appreciation of the artistic functions and contributions of sung letters in musical plays and operas.   In these days of e mail, Twitter, etc., it can be hard to remember that, at one time, correspondence was done more slowly by letter, and that the reading and/or writing of letters was often an important part of theatrical events.  You are invited to submit proposals that explore this phenomenon.  250 word abstracts by 20 March 2018; Mail abstracts to Shoshana Knapp (dashiell@vt.edu).

Romanticism in the Age of World Wars

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Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 9:11am
Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp), Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven), Tom Toremans (KU Leuven), Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven), and the doctoral students Ana Ashraf (KU Leuven), Laura Cernat (KU Leuven), and Kahn Faassen (KU Leuven).
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

CFP “Romanticism in the Age of World Wars” (Leuven, 11-13 November 2018)

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Santanu Das (King’s College London)

Marc Redfield (Brown University)

Paul K. Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania)

 

Confirmed Panel Conveners:

Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Jan Mieszkowski (Reed College)

Debjani Ganguly (University of Virginia)

 

 

MLA 2019 MWTVF@25: The Legacy of Susan Stryker’s “My Words To Victor Frankenstein…”

updated: 
Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 9:01am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Seeking paper abstracts for the special session “MWTVF@25: The Legacy of Susan Stryker’s “My Words To Victor Frankenstein…” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019. Reflections on Susan Stryker’s narrating of trans embodiment. Topics may include:  trans monstrosities; autoethnography; transgothic; somatechnics; diffraction; trans science/fiction. Abstracts 250-300 words and brief CV by 15 March 2018. Jolene Zigarovich (jzigarov@gmail.com)

Mimesis and Mutation

updated: 
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 4:50pm
Berkeley-Stanford English Graduate Conference 2018
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 12, 2018

Date: April 20th, UC Berkeley

Please submit abstracts of 200­-300 words, with a short bio, to berkeleystanford2018@gmail.com by MARCH 12th, 2018

Keynote 1: Steven Goldsmith, Professor (UC Berkeley, English)
Keynote 2: TBA (Stanford, English)

Call for Papers -- Romantic Regenerations

updated: 
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 4:49pm
Kaz Oishi (Romantic Regenerations Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Call for Papers

Romantic Regenerations
An International Conference

Date: 6-8 July 2018

Venue: The University of Tokyo (Komaba Campus) & Sophia University (Yotsuya Campus)

Plenary Lecturers:
Prof. Seamus Perry (Oxford University)
Prof. Alan Bewell (Toronto University)
Prof. Tim Barringer (Yale University)

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