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"The 'Pre-Occupation of the American West": American Studies ASsociation 2014 Annual Meeting

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 10:57pm
Carrie Johnston

Ethnography is inextricable from any narrative we might tell about
the development of the West at the turn of the twentieth century. The professionalization of anthropology played a key role in the describing and documenting a notion of vanishing cultures--in particular, Native American cultures--which, in turn, could be
marketed as tourist attractions. Salvage Ethnography (to use Jacob Gruber's term) was fundamental to creating a culturally rich image of the West, as well as to relaying a sense of urgency about visiting a rapidly changing landscape. As a result, the region's

FERAL FEMINISMS – CFP ISSUE 3 – Feminine Feelers // Deadline – 15 March 2014

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 5:39pm
FERAL FEMINISMS

Feral Feminisms (http://feralfeminisms.com), a new independent, inter-media, peer reviewed, open access online journal, invites submissions for a special issue entitled "Feminine Feelers," guest edited by Zorianna Zurba. Submitted contributions may include full-length academic essays (about 5000 – 7000 words), shorter creative pieces, cultural commentaries, or personal narratives (about 500 – 2500 words), poetry, photo-essays, short films/video (uploaded to Vimeo), visual and sound art (jpeg Max 1MB), or a combination of these. Please direct inquiries and submissions to Guest Editor, Zorianna Zurba zorianna[at]gmail[dot]com.

[UPDATE] Writing the World (Chicago 5-8 June 2014)

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 2:59pm
Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Writing the World

Time passes! The deadline for submitting proposals to the Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Writing the World is approaching: 25 January 2014. See our web site: www.niu.edu/woolfwritingtheworld

Writing the World (Chicago 5-8 June 2014) promises to be lively. In addition to our keynote speakers, we plan the following special events—all-inclusive with your registration fee ($190 regular/$100 students, independent scholars, emeritus or part-time faculty):

CFP: Aura Today: Explorations of Corporeality and Materiality on the Modern Stage (GSA 2014 Deadline: February 7, 2014)

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 2:46pm
Martin Sheehan, Tennessee Technological University

CFP: Aura Today: Explorations of Corporeality and Materiality on the Modern Stage

German Studies Association 38th Annual Meeting (GSA)
Kansas City, Missouri, September 18-21, 2014
Deadline for Submissions: February 7 (Panel Submissions Due February 17)

Panel organizers:
Martin P. Sheehan (Assistant Professor of German, Tennessee Technological
University; msheehan@tntech.edu)
Gerrit Roessler (Program Director, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); roessler@daad.org)

The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature and Cinema (forthcoming, 2015)

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 12:32pm
Patricia Vieira, Georgetown University

The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature and Cinema
(forthcoming, 2015)

Edited by Patricia Vieira, Monica Gagliano and John Ryan

Ecocriticism's rise to prominence in the fields of literature and cultural studies has been paralleled by the investigations of plant intelligence in botany and by novel philosophical approaches to the ontology of plants. However, attempts to integrate these bodies of knowledge have been scarce. The Language of Plants will commence a dialogue between philosophy, science, literature and cinema dealing with plants. The aim of the edited collection is to develop a better understanding of plant life through critical awareness, conceptual rigor, and interdisciplinary thinking.

Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies Örebro, Sweden 26-27 September 2014, Abstract Deadline March 1

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 12:04pm
SAAS, Swedish Association for American Studies

Eighth Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies
Örebro, 26-27 September 2014
Call for Papers

SAAS is an academic network that encourages scholarship in the multidisciplinary field of American Studies. SAAS seeks to develop a critical understanding of the role, place and meaning of the United States and North America. In Sweden, research about the US/America is conducted in many different disciplines; the biennial SAAS conference thus functions as an important forum for interdisciplinary exchange and provides American Studies scholars with an opportunity to meet and network.

...With Feeling: 11-12 April 2014

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 11:05am
Department of English, University of Malta

...With Feeling
Postgraduate Symposium 2014

https://www.um.edu.mt/events/withfeeling2014

'Once more ... with feeling!' goes that well-known phrase of critical encouragement. It suggests feeling is desirable, and it is a particular kind of feeling that is sought. 'Affettuoso!', as the Italian term has it, an instruction telling musicians that a piece of music is to be played tenderly, in a manner that brings out its affecting qualities, inviting us to 'be mov­ed­'. The word 'emotion', after all, comes from 'ex-movere', Latin for "moving out [of its place]" or "stirring up".

[UPDATE] Gilman and the Novel, ALA 2014

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 10:29am
Peter Betjemann/Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society

One additional panelist is required for the session described below. Please submit a proposal and brief CV by JANUARY 27, 2014.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Novel
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, May 22-25, 2014

Panel Organizer: Peter Betjemann, Oregon State University

In 1899, Charlotte Perkins Gilman declared that her writing wouldn't "stop to be bothered with characters." Disavowing the "careful analysis and disentangling of individual" peculiarities, Gilman asserted that her work would instead draw out social, economic, and racial types. "Characters in mass" would center a fiction that she conceived, first and foremost, as sociological.

[UPDATE] Queens of Crime, 12-13 June 2013

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 10:25am
Senate House, University of London

Women hold a unique place in the authorship of crime fiction. Is there a relationship between gender and genre? What makes a Queen of Crime, in the past or the present?

Keynote Speakers: Val McDermid, Dr Lee Horsley

POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH: The University of Durham's Online Literature Journal 2014 March/April Issue, Deadline FEB 28th

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 8:29am
Durham University

Call for papers:

POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH (ISSN 1756-9761). The University of Durham's Online Literature Journal: a peer-reviewed Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English.

Postgraduates are invited to submit papers of not more than 7,000 words for Issue 28 of Postgraduate English. Contributors are not confined to a particular theme, the better to reflect a diversity of interests. Papers, in MLA style, must be received no later than 28th February 2014.

MODERNISM NOW! The British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference 2014

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 7:05am
The British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)

The British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference 2014

MODERNISM NOW!

26–28 June 2014
Institute of English Studies
Senate House, London

Keynote Speakers:

Tyrus Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary, London)

State of Britain : Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries. 24-25 October 2014

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Monday, January 20, 2014 - 6:03am
Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines (SEAC)

In book 1, chapter 1 of Past and Present (1843), Thomas Carlyle raised the "Condition of England question," emphasizing the necessity to grasp the full measure of the contradictions of England's new industrial prosperity. The expression took hold and was reappropriated by literary history through the "Condition of England novel" category. The ethical and aesthetic urge to reflect on the present has always been central to British art. Even as modernism was taking form, Forster was writing his own "State of England novel," with Howards End. English late modernism was, to a great extent, characterized by a compulsion to turn once again to a confrontation with the reality of the here and now.

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