Peitho is the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Published twice yearly, Peitho seeks to encourage, advance, and publish original research in the history of rhetoric and composition.

We invite Special Issue proposals for our Fall 201­­­4 issue. This themed publication will be developed by a guest editor or editors with the aim of enabling the journal to help set the intellectual agenda in the history of women in rhetoric and composition, to encourage innovative research on topics in feminisms and rhetorics by scholars working in the area, to attract participation by top scholars, and to stimulate scholarly advances within the field.

Recent advances in post-secular thought have made clear the difficulties of distinguishing between religious and extra-religious representations of the supernatural. Vampires, zombies, apocalypse, and gothic horror are just some examples of fictional modes and characters that blur the lines between religious and secular imaginations. To what end do American writers blur or reinscribe these lines in new ways? Is a zombie apocalypse or a survivalist narrative a secular adaption of religious belief to a material reality? Or does it remain religious? How can we tell? We invite papers that explore how American writers confront the difficulty of representing religious belief, practice, or ritual in a secular age.

Entries are now being accepted for the 2014 Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Contest. This year's categories feature fiction and poetry.

The first-place writer in each category will be invited to read from his or her winning work at the conference and will receive a cash award of $300. Second place writers will receive $200. The contest is open to writers who meet at least two of the following criteria:
• currently live in the South;
• are natives of the South;
• write about the South.

The Virginia Humanities Conference invites proposals for papers, panel sessions, and performances that investigate any aspect of the humanities and its bodies. The theme reflects our interest not only in discussions of how the humanities is always an embodied experience, but also in conversations about what bodies of knowledge define the humanities and how we might reconsider the range of the humanities in the light of STEM initiatives, digital scholarship, and other pressures on humanistic endeavors. Dr. N. Katherine Hayles will deliver a keynote address on a new intellectual model for the humanities, and we believe that this year's conference will also contribute to re-envisioning our work in the humanities.

'Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature and the Environment' One Day Symposium.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Ronald Hutton (Bristol University)
Venue: Falmouth University, Cornwall, Date: 8th March 2014

The 15th annual Literary Festival and Scholars' Day will be held at Newman University in Wichita, KS on April 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2014. This year's theme is "Zombiefest!" The keynote speaker will be Robin Becker, author of the zombie novel Brains. Scholarly or creative approaches to this or other topics are welcome and encouraged.
Submit 250-word abstracts to Dr. Susan Crane-Laracuente at cranes@newmanu.edu by Monday, February 17th. For more information, call 316-942-4291, ext. 2341.