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).

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.

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.

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."

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

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.

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