New Voices Conference 2014
Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference
Hosted by National University of Ireland, Galway – 5th to 7th June, 2014
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Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars Conference
Hosted by National University of Ireland, Galway – 5th to 7th June, 2014
Semantic Truncation in Ben Okri's Astonishing the Gods
By
A.M. AIKORIOGIE
LECTURER
+2348027319481
augustine.aikoriogie@uniben.edu
Department of English and Literature,
Faculty of Arts,
University of Benin,
Benin City.
Contributions are sought for an edited volume titled "Nation and Its Discontents" focusing on South Asia. The question concerning how to produce and disseminate knowledge on the 'nation', functioning as both an idea and a polity, without dispelling the 'cultural differences', calls for re-conceptualizing spaces, identities, diasporas etc. beyond western perception of nationhood. The 'nation-state', as often been argued, is an overtly restrictive projection of a model derived from western European experience onto the non-West where it may/does not apply.
Call for VOl III ISSUE I 2014(January)
New Academia is a refereed journal published quarterly by Interactions Forum, Pune.
The Journal strives to publish research work of high quality related to Literature written in English Language across the World, English language and literary theory. The aim of the journal is to give space to scholars and researchers to publish their works.
The Journal welcomes the submission of research papers, articles, reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews. All articles published in New Academia will be peer-reviewed.
REVIEW PROCESS :
"Mixed Race Subjects As Global Organizers."
This interdisciplinary panel will take place during the next Critical Mixed Race Studies conference at De Paul University, Chicago, IL in november 2014.
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.
Call for Papers
Traversing the Transnational
2014 University of Tulsa English Graduate Student Conference
April 10 – April 12, 2014
Shift welcomes academic papers, exhibition and book reviews, as well as discussions concerning other art-related events from current graduate students. Please see Submission and Style Guidelines for appropriate guidelines.
Cardiff University and the University of St Andrews are pleased to announce the latest symposium of "Partitions - What are they good for?", the AHRC funded Research Network on Comparative Partitions. This will be held on 1-2 March at the University of St Andrews.
Please note that the deadline for the CFP is Tuesday, the 31st of December. We will respond with news of acceptance of your paper fairly quickly so that you have time to apply for funds and visa, if necessary.
CFP: Partition, Democracy, (and Europe)
(dis)junctions is the interdisciplinary conference hosted by the English graduate students at UC Riverside, and is designed as a friendly forum for graduate students of all levels to introduce their latest work. The theme of this year's conference, "Irreverent Readings," is geared specifically toward innovative projects working with materials, methodologies, and ideas which are not necessarily canonical, mainstream, popular, or even all that respected. We invite your radical ideas, subversive arguments, contrary views, renegade theories, and irreverent readings.
University at Albany 12th Annual EGSO Conference:
TRANSACTION
March 28-29, 2014
We are in the process of establishing a brand new web-based, peer-reviewed journal in English, in the field of myth and fairy tale studies. We are currently accepting proposals for the first two issues.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
The Specter of Race: Stephen King's Representations of Black Masculinities
One of the most pertinent concerns in King's extensive oeuvre is the black body. King's works often deal with the body as a site of horror and abjection. His novella The Body is only one example where the coming of age narrative is necessarily mediated through the search for the body of a dead young boy. Other texts are more clearly invested in the body's potential for (self) destruction. In works like Carrie, Thinner and Pet Sematary, fear of the body's destructive potential is dramatized in horrifying detail.
This proposed special session will examine the typefication, marketing practices and consumption of a diasporic author's identity in the publishing process. By "publishing process" this examination is intended to focus on any time frame from the moment the author finishes writing her piece, through the editing process, to the point when the physical work is available on book shelves and the marketing of the work beyond its dissemination. Genres could include literature, poetry, or drama.