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Re-imagining Communities and Civil Society (October 25-27, 2013)

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 9:35pm
University of Guelph

University of Guelph International Conference:
Re-imagining Communities and Civil Society
Conference Dates: October 25, 26, and 27, 2013

Languages of the conference: English, French and Spanish

Papers will be considered for publication.

Guelph is 80 km from Toronto, 50 km from the Toronto airport.
Keynote Speakers: James F. English, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English and Director of the Penn Humanities Forum, Judith Adler Hellman, Professor, Coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, York University, Philip Oxhorn, Professor, Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University

Alan Gross, Rhetorical Theory and the Rhetoric of Science

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 8:48pm
A Special Issue of POROI, the Journal of the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry

The rhetoric of science, as a field, has established itself as a subfield of communication studies, a sister field of technical communication studies, and a partner to science and technology studies. It is, in other words, thoroughly embedded in the American university context. While it would be fair to say that the field was built by a polyphony of voices (John Angus Campbell, Lawrence Prelli, Charles Bazerman, Jeanne Fahnestock, William Keith), for this special issue of POROI, we drawn one of those voices to the fore: Alan G. Gross, on the 25th anniversary of the publication of his monograph, The Rhetoric of Science.

Adaptation and Film (Popular Culture Session I) November 8-10th

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 5:26pm
SAMLA Conference /Shane Trayers

Adaptation and Film (Popular Culture Session I
SAMLA Conference
November 8-10, 2013

So many recent films are adaptations. This is a general call for papers considering the adaptations of works into film (such as Hunger Games, Wizard of Oz, World War Z, The Perks of Being a Wall Flower, The Host, etc.) or from one culture to another (such as Being Human, Life on Mars, etc.). This panel is open to the discussion and analysis of the process of adaptation, the way in which works are changed meaning gained and lost, and other aspects of adapting works into film or discussion of that process to make a particular film.

Literary Identities: Kingdoms, Nations, Villages, Conference 3rd June 2013

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 4:09pm
King's College, London

This year, we are taking the theme of Kingdoms, Nations and Villages to explore how literature has represented, interpreted and subverted identities. Recent research at Kings (such as the Leverhulme funded Commodities and Culture Network as well as comparative literary scholarship in the Menzies Centre) has suggested that this theme would provoke a timely inter-Collegiate, inter-period critical discussion and conversation.

Micro vs Macro Literatures in English: Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics of Distant Reading in Literatures, Cultures, Humanities

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 3:34pm
English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)

CALL FOR PAPERS
2013 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

"Micro versus Macro Literatures in English:
Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics of Distant Reading in Literatures, Cultures, Languages, and the Humanities"

Sookmyung Women's University
Seoul, Korea
November 7-9, 2013

For the details of the conference schedule and program, please refer to the website:
http://www.ellak.or.kr

Conference Theme:

Memorials for Merchants: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe's New Elite. CAA Chicago, February 2014

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 1:36pm
Emily Kelley and Vanessa Crosby

During the late Middle Ages, the rise of urban centers and long-distance trade brought the emergence of wealthy mercantile elites who spent lavishly on funerary monuments. In contrast to royal and aristocratic tombs, these monuments have received comparatively little attention from scholars outside the Italian context. In order to reach a more thorough understanding of this increasingly influential strata of late medieval society, this session seeks papers exploring the role mercantile mentalities and practices played in shaping artistic patronage and reception of tombs. How did merchants construct memory and identity through the medium of the tomb? What role did fraternities and trade networks play in shaping iconographic choices?

Memorials for Merchants: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe's New Elite. CAA Chicago, February 2014

updated: 
Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 1:36pm
Emily Kelley and Vanessa Crosby

During the late Middle Ages, the rise of urban centers and long-distance trade brought the emergence of wealthy mercantile elites who spent lavishly on funerary monuments. In contrast to royal and aristocratic tombs, these monuments have received comparatively little attention from scholars outside the Italian context. In order to reach a more thorough understanding of this increasingly influential strata of late medieval society, this session seeks papers exploring the role mercantile mentalities and practices played in shaping artistic patronage and reception of tombs. How did merchants construct memory and identity through the medium of the tomb? What role did fraternities and trade networks play in shaping iconographic choices?

"Except Asia: Agamben's Work in Transcultural Perspective" conference open for registration

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 7:17am
Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University

The international conference "Except Asia: Agamben's Work in Transcultural Perspective," to be held at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-27, 2013, is now open for registration. Please register at the conference website:

http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/AgambenConference/index.html.

The last day for registration is May 25, 2013.

The conference program and other information can also be found at the website.

Call for Papers: A Collection of Essays on Christopher Nolan: Proposals by 28th June 2013

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 4:57am
Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy/Southampton Solent University

Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become one of the most commercially successful directors in Hollywood. In particular Nolan has earned a reputation as a director able to extend the boundaries of mainstream film production. From his debut feature Following (1998) to The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Nolan's films remain thematically and stylistically consistent while also demonstrating a continued evolution and innovation in terms of visual style, storytelling and technology, both artistically and within an industrial context.