The Waggle (thewaggle.ca) is a new online magazine of engaged writing and the arts. We are committed to publishing interesting writing, visual art, and multi-media art from northwestern Canada and the world beyond.

Our name, The Waggle, is taken from the dance performed by honey bees. The dance is central to their communication, culture, and survival. The waggle-dance is performed centrally, within the hive, but provides information about the world beyond, and sends the bees off in new directions, so that every member of the hive can contribute.

Honey bees are essential to our survival. They're also beautiful, intelligent, and productive.

42nd UBC Medieval Workshop
EXTENDED DEADLINE

Friday 7th – Sunday 9th November 2014

Medieval and Renaissance Œcologies

The Œcologies Project, along with the Committee for Medieval Studies at the University of British Columbia, solicits contributors for the 42nd annual UBC workshop, to be held from 7-9 November 2014 at Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

BCLA Postgraduate Conference
University of Glasgow and University of St Andrews, in collaboration with Scottish PEN

Alternatives: Translation and the (Anti-)Canon
24-25 April 2014

I seek proposed chapters for a collection of essays tackling emergent post-9/11 literature and media. An academic publisher has already expressed interest in this collection.

While several books already exist that cover post-9/11 literature, they typically camp out on the usual suspects (Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Jonathan Safran Foer, Oliver Stone, Paul Greengrass). In contrast, the primary aim of this collection is to broaden that coverage by gathering together articles on newer fiction and examining how these diverse texts complicate and expand upon the initial wave of post-9/11 media.

Reading Matters
Interdisciplinary Summer Conference

Call for Presentations:
Papers are invited for the first academic conference dedicated to engaged reading organized by Troy University. This interdisciplinary summer conference, "Reading Matters," will take place from June 11 to June 13, 2014, at Troy University, Troy, Alabama.

This conference is an attempt to rethink what it means to read and how we read in our current culture. The topic is intentionally broad in order to encompass and encourage a wide variety of potential themes including historical, sociocultural and disciplinary contexts. We welcome any sustained attempt to explore and rethink the various aspects involved in engaged reading.

This research paper explores the current attitudes of teachers towards the bullying—or "peer victimization"—of children and compare with the attitudes teachers held thirty years ago. At that and prior times, the attitude was that peer victimization was considered a part of the childhood experience.

This author examines the previous attitude through research on the documentation of the period before the research conducted by Norwegian psychologist Dan Olweus, who began to study the phenomenon in Norwegian schoolchildren in the 1970's. This author will also provide a summary of Olweus' work, which led him to developthe Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), which the author will explain.