Between Places and Spaces: Landscapes of Liminality
A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
5-6 June 2014
Trinity College Dublin

'Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other.'
- Yi Fu Tuan, Space and Place, 1977.

Victorian Britain belonged to the classifying age. Imperial expansion and new techniques of observation and production confronted Britons with an expanding universe of natural and man-made phenomena. In response, scientists, writers, artists, and educators sought to articulate some underlying sense of order through ever more complex systems of organization, arrangement, and tabulation. Natural philosophers vastly extended and revised the taxonomies of Linnaeus. Medical professionals developed new diagnostic tools and coined a broad range of new pathologies and diseases. Criminologists gathered biometric data that allowed them to constitute and apprehend criminal types.

The Edith Wharton Society invites papers addressing Edith Wharton's relationship to the natural world. Presentations might address Wharton's engagements with nature, nature writers, landscapes, the environment, and so on. Especially welcome will be papers focusing on Wharton's work with dogs (e.g., Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, such fictional works as "Kerfol," her own beloved papillons, etc). Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Emily Orlando at eorlando@fairfield.edu by January 15, 2014.

The T. S. Eliot Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2014 annual conference of the American Literature
Association, May 22–25, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
Please send proposals (up to 250 words), along with a brief biography or curriculum vitae, to Professor Nancy K. Gish (ngish@usm.maine.edu). Submissions must be received no later than January 15, 2014.

For information on
the ALA and its 2014 meeting, please see the ALA website
at www.americanliterature.org

TRANSGRESSING MEDIA
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CRITICAL THEMES IN MEDIA STUDIES
14th Annual Graduate Student Conference School of Media Studies

The New School
April 5 - 6, 2014

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 1, 2014

trans·gress /trans 'gres,tranz-/
verb.
1. infringe or go beyond the bounds

The graduate students of the School of Media Studies at The New School announce a call for proposals for the 14th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference that will take place Friday and Saturday April 5 - 6, 2014. This year,we welcome graduate student theorists, practitioners, and artists to share works and projects on the concept of transgressing.

Call for Submission

Interpreting the multiple cultural histories of a region and their respective intersections are vital for understanding the ways people perceive new geographies. This edited volume seeks to explore the intersections of history and theories concerning environmental memory, inclusive of cultural memory and notions of space. Collectively, they are important aspects of these interpretations.