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Engaging the Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture (Nov. 1, 2013 / Jan. 30, 2014)

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 7:56pm
Elyce Rae Helford (senior editor), Mick Howard, Sarah Gray-Panesi, Shiloh Carroll / Middle Tennessee State University

The past thirty years have offered a growing and changing body of scholarship on images of fantastic women in American popular culture. Collections from Marleen Barr's Future Females (1981) and Future Females: The Next Generation (2000) to Elyce Rae Helford's Fantasy Girls: Gender and the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (2000) and Sherrie Inness's Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture (2004) have offered multifaceted commentary on ways in which contemporary media culture posits and positions "empowered" women in speculative fictions.

Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London - Edited Collection

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 6:59pm
J. Caitlin Finlayson (University of Michigan-Dearborn) and Amrita Sen (Oklahoma City University)

Proposals are sought for a collection of essays on the topic of Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London, edited by J. Caitlin Finlayson (University of Michigan-Dearborn) and Amrita Sen (Oklahoma City University).

Race and the Uses of Mimesis in American Literature

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 6:57pm
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 (Feb. 22-24, 2014)

Race and the Uses of Mimesis in American Literature
The Louisville Conference for Literature and Culture After 1900
University of Louisville, KY
February 20-24, 2014

[UPDATE] 'Green' or Ecocritical Shakespeare (deadline 9/15)

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 5:22pm
Shakespeare 450

Seminar 12: 'Green' or Ecocritical Shakespeare: non-human nature as a character in his plays

Call for papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE

Seminar Leader: Malvina Isabel Aparicio, PhD USAL, Prof. UNLP, Argentina

This seminar is part of 'Shakespeare 450', an international conference celebration Shakespeare's 450th anniversary.
Paris, April 21-27, 2013.

Gender, Sexuality and Hip Hop Mini-Conference, December 4 & 5

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 1:04pm
Tulane University; Anna Julia Cooper Project, LLC

In conjunction with Professor Melissa Harris-Perry's Fall 2013 course, Hip-Hop and Feminism, Tulane University, in partnership with the Anna Julia Cooper Project, LLC, will host a mini-conference on the topic of gender, sexuality and hip-hop. The conference will bring together a small group of scholars, students, artists, and activists for an intensive series of discussions focused on the contemporary challenges and opportunities at the intersection of gender, sexuality and hip-hop.

CFP: Essays on Teaching Chesnutt

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 12:36pm
Bill Hardwig and Susanna Ashton

Call for Papers
Approaches to Teaching Charles Chesnutt

Editors: Susanna Ashton, Clemson University
Bill Hardwig: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Essays on Approaches to Teaching Charles Chesnutt are sought for a collection to be developed as a project for consideration by the MLA Approaches to Teaching series. We are in conversation with the MLA editorial offices about a longer proposal that will necessarily contain a list of committed contributors with a broad range of approaches and backgrounds.

Call for Chapters (Edited Volume): Arab Spring and Peripheries. Deadline for 400-word abstracts: 1 November 2013

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 12:22pm
Daniela Huber (Istituto Affari Internazionali) - Lorenzo Kamel (Harvard University/Bologna University)

Call for Chapters (Edited Volume): Arab Spring and Peripheries

Lorenzo Kamel, historian from Bologna University and currently (2013/2014) Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Daniela Huber, researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali of Rome in the Mediterranean and Middle East programme, are assembling an edited volume about the role and the reactions of "peripheries" to the so-called Arab Spring.

An overwhelming majority of the works on the subject are focused on cities, power centers, and high politics. Media outlets in both the print press and television networks have mainly reported on the developments which occurred in the major cities and usually did not cover events in the "periphery."

Rap and Hip Hop Culture (Pop Culture/American Culture Association) Nov. 1 Deadline

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 12:22pm
Popular Culture/American Culture Association (Southwest Area)

Call for Papers: RAP AND HIP HOP CULTURE

Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association
35th Annual Conference: Popular and American Culture Studies: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Feb 19-22, 2014
Albuquerque, NM
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center
Downtown Albuquerque
http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2013
Submit Paper Proposals Here: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org
Graduate awards available

CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/1/13; National PCA/ACA Conference, 4/16/14-4/19/14)

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 11:57am
Louis H Palmer, III/Popular Culture Association

CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/1/13; National PCA/ACA Conference, 4/16/14-4/19/14)

NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2013 JOINT CONFERENCE

Submissions: All submissions should go through the database:
http://ncp.pcaaca.org

Due Date: The application due date for this year's conference is December 15, 2013.

The Conference will be held at the
Marriott Chicago, Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago Illinois

Hotel information:
1 (800) HOTELS-1 (800 468-3571)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 1, 2013.

Science and the Occult in the Long Nineteenth Century; NEMLA Apr 3-6, 2014

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 10:05am
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association

Science and the Occult in the Long Nineteenth Century

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

The goal of this panel is to explore the intersections between two current themes in British literary studies: the influence of science on the literature and culture of the long nineteenth century and the period's simultaneous fascination with and investigation of the occult. While science and the occult are often assumed to occupy different discourses culturally and, particularly in terms of genre, narratively, such a separation is artificial.

Widowhood in the Middle Ages

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 4:54am
Kalamazoo 2014

This panel seeks to address widowhood as an emotional, social and economic category in the Middle Ages.

Possible topics might include:

• The pious widow and the holy family
• Widowhood and economic/intellectual freedom
• Widows as authors
• Widows vs. virgins in religious belief

CFP - Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2014

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 4:10am
IAFOR

The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global university partners is proud to announce the Fourth Asian Literature and Librarianship, to be held from April 3-6 2014 at the Rihga Royal Hotel and The Osaka International Conference Center, Osaka, Japan.

LibrAsia Conference Theme 2014:
Individual, Community & Society: Conflict, Resolution & Synergy

CFP - Asian Conference on Arts and the Humanities 2014

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 4:08am
IAFOR

www.acah.iafor.org

Conference Theme 2013: Individual, Community & Society: Conflict, Resolution & Synergy

Conflict is an integral part of the human condition. The universal struggle between our personal selves - who we are as unique, separate and different from others, with our specific blend of experiences, abilities, attitudes, aspirations, needs and wants - and our social selves, intricately connected to, and interdependent on, others and our loved ones, our friends and favored groups, our communities and cultures - leads inevitably to internal as well as interpersonal conflict.

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