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The Two Canaries of Climate Change -
Island and Polar Places
Call for Papers
South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference
14th - 16th February 2018
UNE FutureCampus, Parramatta, NSW
Following the lead of the 2016 Slavic Studies Conference held in Padua and Venice, we propose to further the discussion of Slavic Studies among young scholars by hosting a new meeting at the University of Genoa. This second edition of the conference, directed at doctoral students and recent PhDs (whose degrees have been completed within the last 4 years), will be devoted to the topic of ostranenie.
The editors of MFS seek essays that engage with the concept of inter-imperiality, as developed in the recent PMLA “Theories and Methodologies” cluster (March 2015) and elsewhere. The global turn in literary and cultural studies, although productive, sometimes elides the post/colonial, economic, and other historical or geopolitical conditions of literary-cultural production. We solicit essays that offset this tendency by reading literary-cultural texts within an inter-imperial framework.
The Lincoln Humanities Journal is requesting submissions for its 5th special issue, to be published in December 2017, on the topic of Strangers, Foreigners and Aliens. Contributors are invited to examine (a) the issue of otherness as a philosophical and existential condition; (b) the reality and representations of immigrants and foreigners in the political discourse, the arts, the humanities, the media and the social sciences; (c) the ethical, cultural, political, and social ambivalence toward immigrants; and (d) the legal processes (local, national, international) by which people are made to feel outsiders / insiders.
Eleventh Annual Ozarks Studies Symposium, 2017
Call for Proposals
The Ozarks Studies Committee of Missouri State University-West Plains seeks proposals for its 11th annual symposium to be held in the West Plains Civic Center on September 22 and 23, 2017.
the International Laurence Sterne Foundation
and
the Department of English, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland
invite paper proposals for The Second International Laurence Sterne Foundation Conference
on the theme of
Adaptation in the Age of Sterne Although the primary concern of the conference will be the work of Laurence Sterne and its afterlife, we are also interested in papers shedding light on the broader context of the Age of Sterne.
A.K. Ramanujan in a poem entitled “Small-scale Reflections on a Great House” had mused, “Sometimes I think that nothing/that ever comes into this house/goes out. Things come in every day/to lose themselves among other things/lost long ago among/other things lost long ago”. The description may seem oddly apt for the field of postcolonial studies which continues to search for new shores even as some of the concerns of the past begin to fade with inevitable processes of history. Even as the field remains committed to a quest for emancipation from violence and discrimination and deprivation, caused by the forces of race, class, gender, sexuality and a number of other factors, the modalities continue to change and the boundaries begin to blur.
Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Philology
University of Montenegro
CALL FOR PAPERS
The XIII International Conference on Anglo-American Literary Studies
Destination(s)
CFP Extended Deadline: April 23, 2017
The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its 64th Annual Meeting will be hosted by Webster University in St. Louis, MO, September 29-Oct 1, 2017. The keynote speaker will be Tammy Proctor of Utah State University, and the plenary address will be given by Jonathan Sawday from Saint Louis University.
Women in Literature MMLA 2017—“Literatures from the Lockdown”
Thinking about this year’s MMLA theme, “Art and Activism,” led us to consider the ways in which women’s art and women’s activism have been “locked down.” Sometimes women’s art and women’s activism locks itself down; after all, Audre Lorde once proclaimed at an MLA conference, “What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow perimeters of change are possible and allowable.” How, then, do we escape the lockdown? How do we empower even as we resist?
We announce a call for proposals for the Dickens Society panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association convention to be held in Cincinnati, November 9-12, 2017.
The topic is "Itinerant Dickens: travel and travelers in Dickens's life and works."
Proposals (250 words) should be emailed to the panel organizer Jerome Meckier at jmeckier@outlook.com by April 5, 2017.
Registrations are now open for the conference 'Space, Place and Image in Early Modern English Literature", taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 11-13 May 2017. Please note that the deadline for registration is March 31, 2017.
You will find an updated program, as well as further information about registration, meals and accommodation on the conference website: http://wp.unil.ch/johndonne-space/2017-conference/
For any further information, please contact Kader N. Hegedüs, University of Lausanne, at the address provided above.
In her poem, "The Lost Land," Eavan Boland declares that
. . . memory itself
has become an emigrant
wandering in a place
where love dissembles itself as landscape.
From Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to Colm Toibin's Brooklyn, Irish literature has always been especially concerned with travel, migration, and the fluidity of national boundaries. This panel seeks papers that examine migration, immigration, diaspora, and displacement in Irish texts.
21st International James Fenimore Cooper & Susan Fenimore Cooper Conference
September 27 – 30, 2017
SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, NY
Watershed:
1. A region that drains into a river system
2. A critical point that marks a change of course
Free University of Berlin, 27–28 October 2017
Confirmed speakers: Carl Thompson (St Mary’s University), Churnjeet Mahn (University of Strathclyde), Dúnlaith Bird (Université Paris 13)
Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2017
THE APHRA BEHN SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS 1660-1830
2017 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
THE BURNEY SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA 2017 CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS
"WOMEN AND THE CITY" AND "PLACING THE BURNEYS" NOVEMBER 2-3, 2017, PITTSBURGH, PA
http://www.aphrabehnconference2017.org/home.html
Inspired by Aphra Behn's legacy as a female professional in London, and Pittsburgh's urban culture and history, we invite papers that explore the topic of "Women and the City."
THE BURNEY SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA 2017 CONFERENCECALL FOR PAPERS "PLACING THE BURNEYS" NOVEMBER 2-3, 2017, PITTSBURGH, PA
The Burney family is strongly associated with various cities such as King's Lynn, London, Bath, Brighton, Paris. The family's many talents flourished in urban settings.
Geographical place mattered to the Burney family. But so did other placements: social, political, and class. Moreover, critical placement in Frances's time and in our own has been essential to crafting different versions of Burney.
Inspired by the Burney's ties to geography, the Burney Society of North America presents "Placing the Burneys."
Documents play roles in all aspects of human life. Recognizing this, the Document Academy seeks to celebrate and explore documents beyond traditional and formal academic research publications. We take inspiration from works such as Pablo Neruda's odes to common things and memoir essays telling the stories of particular documents, such as “The Money,” by Junot Diaz. Such approaches have the capacity to illuminate aspects of reality that are overlooked by traditional academic research.
Global Fantastika: Special Edition
Fantastika Journal
“Fantastika”, coined by John Clute, is an umbrella term which incorporates the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, but can also include alternative histories, steampunk, young adult fiction, or any other imaginative space.
English and I: Literary and Cultural Encounters
Fourth ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies
organized in collaboration with the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali”
8-10 June 2017
Vlore, Albania
Call for papers
Tentative Title: Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women’s Writing
Editor: Dr. S Daithota
Anticipatory Materialisms Conference
Lancaster University 24th March 2017
Keynote Speaker
Eileen John, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick
'So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery' (Hamlet II.ii.295).
I invite submissions to a book collection entitled Morbid Fascination: Dark Tourism in the American West.
Editor: Dr. Jennifer Dawes Adkison, Associate Professor of English, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, adkisoj@hsu.edu<mailto:adkisoj@hsu.edu>
Overview:
Call for book chapters: Reading the Road in Shakespeare’s Britain
Edited collection.
Publisher TBC.
Editors: Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus
Contact emails:
Deadline for submissions:
Deadline for submitting chapter proposals (400 words): April 28th, 2017.
Notification of acceptance: 19 May 2017
Deadline for final submissions (6000-8000 words): 29 September 2017
‘Go hie thee presently, post to the road’ (CE 3.2.906)
Call for Papers
Literature and the Sea: Maritime Literary Currents
Abstracts are invited for a proposed collection of essays on literature and the sea, broadly defined. Proposed papers may focus on the literature of any country and any literary period, but please keep in mind that the language for the volume will be English. Cambridge Scholars Publishing has already expressed interest in publishing this collection.
Topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:
Department of English
University of Delhi
Delhi – 110007, India
International Conference
On
Modes, Motives, Motifs, and Conditions
in Intra-Asian Travel
March 20-21, 2017
Call for Papers
CFP: Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence (Huntington Library, California, July 19-20, 2017)
Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield – Literary Connections, Friendships and Influence Conference: 19 & 20 July 2017 at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Conference web site: EvAandKM2017.org
Keynote Speakers:Professor Emerita Bonnie Kime Scott
(San Diego State University)
Professor Christine Froula
(Northwestern University)
Following the South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 89th Conference’s theme of “High Art/ Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture,” abstracts are invited for the Pre-1900 American Literature Panel, titled
“Scribbling Americans: Appropriation and Subversion in Literary Arts High and Low”
As we head toward the 150th anniversary of Catharine Sedgwick's death and the 20th anniversary of the CMS Society in 2017, we invite proposals for the following panel for ALA 2017:
Session #1: TIME, MEMORIALS AND ANNIVERSARIES (3 or 4 15 to 20-minute papers):
This proposed panel will attempt to collect perspectives about literary tourism, particularly regarding immigrant and ethnic communities from the nineteenth century to the present. The late 1830s and early 1840s marked the beginning of the tourist industry in North America, particularly in the Northeast United States. Representing the scores of European travelers upon his tour of the United States in 1842, Charles Dickens wrote about the visual splendor of Boston’s private houses, the State House, the Boston Common, and its immigrant populations. New York City, meanwhile, welcomed nearly 70,000 tourists annually by the mid 1830s, as travelers visited Manhattan’s noted parks and churches as well as its hidden slums.
