CALL FOR PAPERS

BLEEDING JEWEL: ANGUISH AND ART IN THE
TEXTUAL UNIVERSE OF SAMUEL BECKETT

Special collection
Editions Degré Second
(2013)

Guest Editor
R.-L. ETIENNE BARNETT

DESCRIPTION

The Second World War opened channels for women in unprecedented ways: women journalists and photographers on the allied side were said to have an alibi to go everywhere and do everything. Other women found their way into less savoury work, including making propaganda for the Nazis or doing their dirty work in the camps. For an edited collection, we invite papers that discuss little examined aspects of women's work during the war. We particularly welcome considerations of life writing, documentation, or memory documents.

The Department of French Studies 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference

Francophonies: The Living and the Dead

March 18-19th 2011

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

The conference is a three-day event, comprising the presentation of papers, keynote speeches and panel discussions. The conference details about the conference including the bios of the keynote speakers can be viewed at http://engerom.ku.dk/clickonknowledge

Proposals are invited for a one-day postgraduate conference, which will take place at the University of Manchester on 1st February 2011. This event will bring together postgraduates and early-career researchers working on travel, tourism and leisure histories from a wide range of methodological perspectives. The conference seeks to highlight the volume of historical research currently being undertaken in these emerging areas, which are too often split between more established sub-fields such as transport history and sport history.

Suggestions for proposals include:

Anaphora Literary Press will be listed in the upcoming issue of the Writer's Market. We now accept submissions of book-length manuscripts from authors around the world. The submission should be in English, with MLA citations (if it is an academic book). Genres we hope to publish: academic and scholarly books, drama, novels and novellas, poetry, autobiography, biography, journals, conference proceedings, edited dissertations, and other genres. We have previously published 3 issues of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal. This year, PLJ is growing from two to three issues per year. Please email submissions directly to the Publisher, Anna Faktorovich, at pennsylvaniajournal@gmail.com.

In the nineteenth century, railways made distant locations ever more accessible, the Grand Tour became more and more a pastime of the middle classes and British imperial expansion brought exotic locales and non-Western cultures ever closer to home. New ways of thinking about and communicating experiences of travel and of interactions with other cultures held a significant influence in various areas of nineteenth-century culture. This period saw an enormous expansion in museums and popular exhibition culture, technological innovations such as photography and film, as well as the vast growth of a popular press that served to deliver these experiences, images and objects to an increasingly literate public.