CALL FOR PAPERS

OCTOBER 24 – 27, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
WATERLOO, ONTARIO
Sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies
http://caas2013.uwaterloo.ca/

"Total Money Makeover"$: Culture and the Economization of Everything

Vandana Shiva writes,"Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence" (Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace). In keeping with the ASA's 2013 theme, "Beyond the Logic of Debt: Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent," this panel invites discussion of post-1900 protest works (of any genre) which seek to address the cost of the U.S.'s environmental "over/consumption." Papers in this panel might address representations of environmental degradation as a collective vs. individual debt, they might query the idea of an "ethical" recourse to such degradation, or they might explore artistic representations of dissent.

Call for Papers and Posters:

"Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science"

British Modernities Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

March 8-9, 2013

Keynote Speakers:

Harriett Green, Literature and Languages Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Robin Valenza, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes. The Strand Magazine and the Sherlock Holmes stories contribute one of the most enduring paradigms for the production and consumption of popular culture in the twentieth- and the twenty-first centuries. The stories precipitated a burgeoning fan culture including various kinds of participation, wiki and crowd-sourcing, fan-fiction, virtual realities and role-play gaming. All of these had existed before but they were solidified, magnified and united by Sherlockians and Holmesians in entirely new ways and on scales never seen before.

'Attentive Writers': Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority
Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 23-25 August 2013

DATE
May 9-10, 2012

VENUE
Yaşar University, İzmir

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Hilde Heynen – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

BACKGROUND

Textos Híbridos, la revista electrónica dedicada al estudio de la crónica latinoamericana desde la Conquista hasta el presente invita a la presentación de estudios críticos sobre la crónica para la edición de julio, 2013. Textos Híbridos tiene como objetivo dar visibilidad a la crónica como un género distinto e importante que merece su propio espacio académico con el fin de promover el diálogo sobre una forma literaria que ha sido continuamente marginalizada. La revista convoca estudios sobre la crónica desde diferentes disciplinas o aproximaciones críticas e invita a considerar este género literario más allá de sus fronteras tradicionales, incluyendo cualquier tema o formato.