Nobody practices irreverent intertextually like the Muppets. From it's inception, The Muppet Show combined parody and variety show performance in ways that reflect on and challenge traditional media forms and genres. We welcome paper submissions on any Jim Henson Company production, Muppet ephemera and products, Muppet participation in social media outlets, or unofficial parody works that utilize the Muppet image. Possible paper topics could include but are not limited to the presentation of criticism as portrayed through the characters Statler and Waldorf, Muppet film interpretations of canonical texts, Miss Piggy's role as an atypical and subversive pop culture icon, the Muppet's metatextual use of music and performance.

BEYOND AUTHORSHIP
24-27 June 2014
University of Newcastle Australia

This symposium seeks to move beyond authorship as the primary focus of corpus-based studies in early modern literature, to consider broader questions of language and style, genre and form, influence and adaptation; to interrogate the new literary histories enabled by electronic text corpora, and the new methods of analysis they make possible.

Confirmed speakers include Douglas Bruster, Gabriel Egan, Jonathan Hope, MacDonald P. Jackson, Lynne Magnusson, and Michael Witmore.

Theory/Post-Theory: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Organized by the Graduate Student Association of the Department of Rhetoric
University of California, Berkeley
April 18th, 2014
Keynote Address: Professor David N. Rodowick (Chicago)

The Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to invite papers that investigate the role, value, and efficacy of theory in the contemporary humanities and social sciences.

The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World welcomes proposals for a session on "Davis and the Political" at the American Literature Association's 25th Annual Conference.

The conference will be held on May 22-25, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. For further information about the conference, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org.

New Directions Graduate Student Conference
"[Dis]Embodied Disciplines: Blurring Boundaries in the Academy"
Conference Dates: April 11-12, 2014, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 20, 2014

The body is a site where regimes of discourse and power inscribe themselves, a nodal point or nexus for relations of juridical and productive power. And, yet, to speak in this way invariably suggests that there is a body that is in some sense there, pregiven, existentially available to become the site of its own ostensible construction.
– Judith Butler

Inequality has marked human existence and its effects have been felt worldwide. Academics and public intellectuals have pursued the causes and effects of inequalities through academia and the public sphere. The concepts and realities of inequality have been much examined through the lenses of literature, philosophy, theology, sociology, political science, economics, and psychology. From the ancient to modern analyses of the subject, the interpretation of equality and inequality has evolved, but inequality has always been a central theme of academic discourse. This conference will explore inequality as it impels us forward in our pursuit of an end that may ultimately be unattainable.

Flying: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kate Millett

30 May 2014
School of Arts
Birkbeck, University of London
Supported by the Feminist Review Trust

Keynote: Victoria Hesford (SUNY Stony Brook University), author of Feeling Women's Liberation (Duke UP, 2013)