2013
/01
/26

displaying 1 - 10 of 10

[UPDATE] The Aesthetics of Austerity - Extended Deadline, February 1, 2013

updated: 
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 8:03pm
University of California, Irvine - PhD Program in Visual Studies

The PhD program in Visual Studies at UC, Irvine invites submissions for its annual graduate student conference: The Aesthetics of Austerity.

Conference Date: April 5, 2013
Website: https://www.facebook.com/vsconference2013
Deadline: Abstracts of no more than 350 words are due February 1, 2013 at 5:00 pm to vsconference2013@gmail.com. Presentations are to be 20 minutes in length. Please include a one-page CV that demonstrates your research interests.

"Discursive Constructions of Autism: Boundaries and Borderlands"—2014 RSA Conference (May 22-26)

updated: 
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 3:44pm
Adam Pacton (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

As autism receives increasing popular, political, medical, and rhetorical attention, it becomes increasingly difficult to achieve any sort of consensus on what "autism" actually is. Is it a purely medical or psychological designator? Is it an impairment, a disability, both, neither? Is it simply another way of being-in-the-world that though different is not deficient?

These questions and ones like them locate autism at the confluence of multiple, often competing, discourses. The purpose of this panel is to explore, trace, and problematize the discursive borders that seek to define and delimit "autism" and try to understand in some small way what we can learn about how and why these discourses crash together in sometimes explosive ways.

MA Programs At Work

updated: 
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 3:19pm
Margaret M. Strain

MA Programs at Work
Call for Contributions

For those seeking a Ph.D., the Masters of Arts degree is a necessary stepping stone. Stand alone M.A. programs, often referred to as "terminal," can suggest a premature endpoint or confer second-class status upon this form of advanced study. Recently, scholars have begun to recognize the value of a degree which serves widely diverse audiences with equally diverse career goals, working within and beyond the academy.

Panel: "Finding the Hidden Adult in Victorian Children's Literature"

updated: 
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 2:55pm
NAVSA 2013 (Oct 23-27, 2013)

The Victorian era embraced the notion that childhood should be set aside as a time of unbridled play and fantasy, separate from the adult world of work. Yet the worlds of childhood and adulthood were constantly blurring within and alongside books for both kinds of audiences: Catherine Robson notes the presence of men in Wonderland, and Claudia Nelson has recently shown that "precocious children" and "childish adults" populate Victorian literature.

Pleasure, Pain & Perversion: Embodied Violence & Eroticism in Cultural Representations (April 12-13, 2013)

updated: 
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 12:24pm
Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

April 12-13, 2013

Pleasure, Pain & Perversion: Embodied Violence & Eroticism in Cultural Representations

Key note lecture to be delivered by: Dr. Liz Constable, UC Davis

Humor in the Digital Age -- SAMLA (Atlanta, 11/8-11/10)

updated: 
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 11:56am
Pete Kunze (Louisiana State University)

The American Humor Studies Association seeks papers for a panel, "Humor in the Digital Age," for the 2013 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference at the Marriott Atlanta from November 8-10. This panel will examine how the rise of new media (including social media, Web 2.0, and blogs) has created new contexts for the production, distribution, and exhibition of American humor. We welcome papers on humor and comedy as they are employed in viral videos, blogs or vlogs, web series, webisodes, parodies, participatory culture online, memes, or remixes.

CFP: Ada Lovelace Conference Special Session

updated: 
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 11:09am
Stevens Inst. of Tech.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
SPECIAL SESSION ON STEAMPUNK LITERATURE AND _THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE_ (William Gibson and Bruce Sterling)

An Interdisciplinary Conference
Celebrating Ada Lovelace

18 October 2013
Stevens Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Letters

CFP: Romantic Origins Conference for PG and ECRs (5 April 2013, HRI, University of Sheffield)

updated: 
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 8:15am
Romantic Heirs Research Network / University of Sheffield / AHRC

CFP: Romantic Origins Conference

5 April 2013, 10:00-18:00

Humanities Research Institute Building, University of Sheffield

http://romanticheirs.org.uk

The AHRC-sponsored Romantic Heirs research network is pleased to announce the date of its inaugural conference on the theme of Romantic origins. The conference, to be held at the University of Sheffield on 5 April 2013, is free to attend and includes lunchtime refreshments (gratis) and a post-conference dinner. The day's events include: