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CFP: Excellent Undergraduate Work Related to Civil Rights and Race

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 7:53pm
Queen City Writers journal of undergraduate writing and composing

The peer-reviewed undergraduate journal Queen City Writers seeks submissions for the spring 2014 issue themed around civil rights and race relations. The issue will honor 2013, which marks several anniversaries related to the American Civil Rights Movement. These include: 1863—President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation; 1868—The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution defined citizenship and nullified the Dred Scott Case; 1963—Martin Luther King Jr. penned his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and made his "I Have a Dream" speech; 1968—Martin Luther King Jr.

Business/economic fiction: An "unidentified popular genre" or a cultural UpO

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 5:43pm
Belphégor

Business/economic fiction: An "unidentified popular genre" or a cultural UpO
In an article titled "Workplace Fiction That's True to Life" published in The New York Times of April 16 2011, the journalist Bryan Burrough wrote: "I've often wondered why there aren't more strong works of fiction dealing with the business world." Every year one can read at least one similar article in a big newspaper or magazine complaining about the lack of novels, or fiction in general, dealing with business and economics. These complaints are partly founded, since what could be called business fictions or economical fictions seems to be rare. But are they so?

Edited book: Hard Times and Popular Culture - Call for contributions

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 2:59pm
Claire O'Callaghan/ University of Leicester

HARD TIMES: AUSTERITY AND POPULAR CULTURE

Edited by Helen Davies and Claire O'Callaghan

"I said pretend you've got no money, she just laughed and said oh you're so funny. I said yeah? Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here." ("Common People", Pulp)

"I decree today that life Is simply taking and not giving England is mine - it owes me a living" ("Still Ill", The Smiths)

"Folks don't laugh so loud when you've a grand in your back pocket." (The Full Monty)

The Economics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry (ASECS 2014; deadline September 15, 2013)

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 1:59pm
Jacob Sider Jost

This panel invites paper proposals dealing with the economics of poetry or the economic lives of poets in the eighteenth century. Possible avenues of approach might include, but are by no means limited to: the economics of patronage; the print market and the relationships between authors, booksellers, printers, and buyers; the livelihoods and careers of individual authors; non-monetary economies (symbolic capital, cultural capital, gift economies); the economy as theme within eighteenth-century poetry; relationships between poetry and eighteenth-century banking, capitalism, and credit.

UPDATE Call for Papers from the quint 09/15/13

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 1:01pm
the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north

call for papers

The quint's twentieth issue is issuing a call for theoretically informed and historically grounded submissions of scholarly interest—as well as creative writing, original art, interviews, and reviews of books.  The deadline for this call is 15th June 2013—but please note that we accept manu/digi-scripts at any time.

All contributions accompanied by a short biography will be forwarded to a member of the editorial board. Manuscripts must not be previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere while being reviewed by the quint's editors or outside readers.

[UPDATE] CfP: ICFA 35 "Fantastic Empires"

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 11:33am
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

35th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Empire

March 19-23, 2014

Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel

The deadline for submitting proposals is October 31.

UPDATE Women and Outlawry (2), ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 8-11, 2014

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 10:51am
Alexander L. Kaufman, Valerie B. Johnson / International Association for Robin Hood Studies

We invite abstracts (300-500 words) for 15-20 minute paper presentations for the following two sessions, sponsored by the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS), at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 2014 . Please send abstracts (300-500 words) and completed Participant Information Forms (link below) by September 15, 2013, to Alexander L. Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu) and Valerie B. (valeriebjohnson@gmail.com).

Women and Outlawry: I. Historical Female Outlaws in the Middle Ages:

Call for papers conference Disability in Jewish Thought and Culture (University of Antwerp). Deadline: 30 September 2013

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 10:28am
Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp

CALL FOR PAPERS: International conference 'Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind'. Disability in Jewish thought and culture
31 March - 2 April 2014
Institute of Jewish Studies - University of Antwerp

Please send your abstracts (500 words) and short bio to David Dessin (david.dessin@uantwerpen.be) by 30 September 2013

UPDATE: Inventing the Middlebrow (conference)

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 9:36am
Jaime Harker

Inventing the Middlebrow: The Middlebrow in 20th-Century Literature and Culture
June 27-29, 2014
St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN

African Literature: the Past, the Present and the Future

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 7:59am
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Uyo, Nigeria

African Literature: the Past, the Present and the Future
A Festschrift for
Joseph Nwabueze OBINAJU

CALL FOR PAPER
Well researched articles are invited from scholars interested in the celebration of an erudite academic –Professor Joseph N. Obinaju – for his enormous contributions in learning and teaching of literature and literary criticism in the University of Uyo and in Nigeria in general.