world literatures and indigenous studies

CFP for Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association Graduate Conference 2019

Theme: Centering the Margins
Sponsored by the Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association
Conference Date: April 6, 2019
Proposal Due Date: January 10, 2019
Location: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Contact: northeasternEGSA@gmail.com

Keynote:
Dr. James Chase Sanchez
Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Middlebury College

The Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University invites applications for its annual graduate conference. The general theme of the upcoming conference is “Comparative Approaches to Turkish Literature.”

This two-day conference aims to offer a forum for young scholars interested in looking at Turkish literature(s) broadly defined through new and comparative perspectives, in positioning Turkish literature authors and texts within the framework of world literature, and in discussing relations between Turkish literature and other literatures.

Possible topics may include:

In 1974, in the shadow of the Vietnam War and amidst the economic and political retrenchments of post-1968, Ursula K. Le Guin published The Dispossessed. The novel’s radical innovation of the narrative utopia, with its unblinking acknowledgment of the form’s conceptual as well as practical limits, paradoxically revitalized and reactivated utopia’s uncompromising social vocation for an emphatically anti-utopian era.

2nd Singapore Literature Conference

Deadline for submissions:

Monday, December 31, 2018

Organized by Poetry Festival Singapore, this conference is slated to take place on Saturday July 27, 2019. The tentative venue is the National Library. Conference participants may also attend events at Poetry Festival Singapore, which will take place from July 26 to 28.

Seeking papers or presentations of scholarly argument and projects/teaching strategies that bring Shakespeare into an Indigenous context or an Indigenous context to the study of Shakespeare.  Panel will be proposed for the 2019 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference, to be held in Hamilton, New Zealand at the University of Waikato campus, 26-29 June 2019.

Please send 250 word abstract of 15-20 minute presentation, including argument or context, any specific Shakespeare plays or texts included in your work, and a one-page abbreviated c.v. that focuses on relevant qualifications as well as academic position (or equivalent), current institution, and degrees and/or other relevant information.