The Society for American Travel Writing will host two sessions at the American Literature Association's 25th Annual Conference, 22-25 May 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Scholars of American travel writing and practicing travel writers are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.

The journal Social Inclusion will launch a special issue under the title "Perspectives on Human Trafficking and Modern Forms of Slavery".

Mr. Siddharth Kara, one of the world's most foremost experts in the field, will serve as the Guest Editor for issue. Mr. Siddharth Kara is an Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Director of the Carr Center Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery.

Authors interested in submitting a paper for this special issue are kindly asked to consult the Instructions for Authors and Membership Requirement, and send their abstracts by email to Mr. António Vieira (antonio.vieira@librelloph.com) by 30 April 2014.

Title: Housing and Space: Toward Socio-Spatial Inclusion

Guest Editors:

Dr. Dallas Rogers
Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Australia; E-Mail: D.Rogers@uws.edu.au

Dr. Rae Dufty-Jones
Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Australia; E-Mail: r.dufty@uws.edu.au

Dr. Wendy Steele
Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Australia; E-Mail: w.steele@griffith.edu.au

Dr. Jago Dodson
Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Australia; E-Mail: j.dodson@griffith.edu.au

For Emerson, Poe the poet was a "jingle man," a writer of lachrymose lyrics, but Baudelaire and the Symbolists venerated Poe, whom they considered a model of poetic excellence. Eliciting divergent responses during the nineteenth century, Poe's verse continues to frustrate and to intrigue readers in our time. Such divergences present opportunities for teachers, who can choose from a wide range of approaches as they introduce the poetry of Poe to students. For this panel, which will feature papers about pedagogical matters, the Poe Studies Association solicits proposals for a panel at the 2014 American Literature Association Conference.

This panel, chaired by Langdon Hammer, author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism, editor of Hart Crane: Complete Poetry and Selected Letters, and co-editor of O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane, seeks proposals addressing any aspect of Crane's life and work. Preference will be given to proposals charting out new directions in Crane scholarship. Possible topics include reevaluations of Crane's work in relation to sexuality, race, popular culture, form and (new) formalism, or the transnational; reconsiderations of Crane alongside his modernist peers; and reflections on Crane's critical reception and possible critical futures.

Editor seeks essays that read Don DeLillo's fiction as a novelization of social theories of time and space as expressed across various academic disciplines. Essays should be about 20-25 pages follow MLA guidelines. Tentative deadline is March 1,2014, although early submissions are encouraged.

Vancouver poet Sachiko Murakami's poem "Tower" in her 2011 collection of poetry _Rebuild_ cannily inverts the Eurocentric geographical compass that defines Canada's relationship with Europe and Asia. By subverting the directionality of our gaze both West and East, the poem also recalls the history of trans-Pacific flows of immigrants, culture and capital that has shown no signs of abating. What happens when we think of West as East in a critically productive form of disorientation? How are Canada's trans-pacific borders explored and redefined through literary texts whether novels, short stories, poetry, or film? What kinds of trajectories and inventories are traced at these coastal margins and beyond?