CALL FOR PAPERS

The Langston Hughes Society
Panel: "The Writings of Langston Hughes: Pathway and Portico to Circum-Caribbean Literature"
College Language Association Convention 2014
Conference Dates: March 26-29, 2014
Location: New Orleans, LA

Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world. Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years. Apart from showcasing great writing from war-torn areas, the magazine is a tool for understanding complex political crises in various regions and serves as an alternative to compromised representations of those issues. www.warscapes.com
We are actively calling for submissions for book reviewers. Film, performance and art-exhibit reviewers are also welcome.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Attachments: Queer Investments in Capital and Globalizations

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
March 6-8, 2014
Organized by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies
Sponsored by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies

With keynote speaker, Robert McRuer, Professor of English, George Washington University. Professor McRuer will be presenting on his latest book project on "cripping global austerity politics." McRuer is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and co-editor of Sex and Disability.

This panel will explore representations of masculinity in the context of the long nineteenth century's (1789-1914) Empire-informed conceptions of national and gendered identity.

What were the politics behind representing the British soldier in the literature and/or visual arts of the long nineteenth century? Did these politics change if the soldier happened to be Scottish, Welsh, Irish, or native to the overseas colonies? What about masculinities that, though not belonging to soldiers, were highly informed by the martial aesthetics of Imperial manliness?