CFP: Chaos, Order, and the Power of Fun in Early Television
Panel for the 2014 American Studies Association Conference
(November 6-9, 2014; Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, CA)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Twenty-First California State University Shakespeare Symposium
CSU Long Beach, 90840

Presented by the CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
And
The La Verne Shakespeare Experience

Saturday March 1, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Burton (Whittier College)
Author of Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama (2005) and Race in Early Modern England (2007)

The conference will comprise:

We are seeking a third panelist to help us explore the outer limits of the vaudeville circuit in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Our panel is concerned with transnational performances of race and racial mimicry on the popular stage in Europe. We are particularly interested in racialized American vaudeville acts and performers who travelled on the European continent during this period and the dissonance and consonances that emerge from their performances of racial identity in foreign contexts. Of course, the consumption of racial stereotypes in international contexts is linked to US imperialist and European colonial impulses, but what form did these international performance practices take?

The Early Modern Colloquium at the University of Michigan invites abstracts for papers for their interdisciplinary graduate student conference, "Representations of Race in the Early Modern Period" at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 21-22, 2014 with conference keynotes by Professor Arthur Little (Department of English, University of California- Los Angeles)and Professor Peter Erickson (Department of Theater, Northwestern University).

This conference aims to bring together scholars from the fields of classics and psychology in order to determine what they have to offer to each other in terms of hermeneutic approaches, research questions, and methodological legitimation. Both the field of classics and that of psychology are here to be conceived in the widest sense possible, comprising, in case of the former, ancient philosophy, history, rhetoric, and literature, and, in case of the latter, psychoanalysis, social psychology, theories of emotion, and neuroscience. A more extensive overview of the research questions that all of these fields can raise in relation to each other is provided in the text attached.

9th Jul 2014 University of Brighton, UK
Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo
Evening Readings by: Dorothea Smartt, Jay Bernard, Katy Massey and Sheree Mack

Following the first international expert meeting on Black British Women's Writing (Brussels, 2013), this inaugural conference of the Black British Women's Writing Network (BBWWN) will offer scholars and postgraduate students the chance to come together to debate some of the continuing preoccupations and new directions in this diverse and burgeoning field of study. Abstracts of 250 words are invited for 20- minute papers as well as 60-minute panel proposals that engage with, but are not limited to, the following topics: