Inquire invites interdisciplinary articles (from graduate students only) that trace and/or describe print artifacts (books, chapbooks, newspapers, magazines, letters, pamphlets, etc.), past or present, as material, social, economic, and political works embedded in transnational networks. Articles may involve book history, bibliography, literary criticism, or cultural theory. Possible topics include literacy and reading practices, the creation, production, dissemination, and reception of text-based, illustrated, or mixed works, relations among publishers, printers, editors, authors, and readers, media production technology, copyright and international trade, popular, proletarian, educational, commercial, scientific, and political literatures, etc.

Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association
Call for Papers:

RAW MATERIAL

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ann Laura Stoler, The New School

Faculty Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Britt, Northeastern University

March 19-20, 2011

The OED has to give some three pages to defining the word ROMANCE that, with all of its rich history, is at the centre of this Mosaic call for papers. We invite innovative interdisciplinary literary and critical submissions for a special issue we are planning on this theme. For this issue, our interests include, but are not limited to, the following: "the Romantics," who have undergone a renascence of late; the French novel, the roman; romantic fiction; Romanticism; the state of the love story in literature and/or film; and the figure of the "romantic."

The CRILA short story research group (JE2536) of the Université d'Angers, France, will be hosting an international conference in collaboration with Edge Hill University, U.K. on "The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in English," 8-9 April 2011 at La Maison des Sciences Humaines, Université d'Angers, France.

Plenary speaker: Charles E. May, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Long Beach.

• A one-day conference at Sheffield Hallam University on June 24th 2011

The Department of French at New York University
announces its annual Graduate Conference:
La Bête Noire : Loving to hate
March 25th & 26th, 2011

Even as global financial and political institutions reel from the effects of the recent crisis, Brazil continues to gain media attention for its impressive record of economic growth and institutional development, and for the internationalist and independent-minded foreign policy it has adopted under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Concurrently, the first decade of the 21st century has seen Brazil enter (or reenter) the vanguard of global culture, with films like City of God gaining a broad international audience, and signs of brasilidade (Brazilianness) as varied as Paulho Coelho's esoteric novels, Brazilian steakhouses, capoeira, açaí, and havaiana flip-flops becoming fixtures of pop culture around the world.