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The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at The City University of New York, The Graduate Center announces an international conference
Postmodernity's Musical Pasts: Rediscoveries and Revivals after 1945
To be held at The City University of New York, The Graduate Center 26‒27 March 2015
April 4-6, 2014
proposals due January 15, 2014
Keynote speech by Andrew Piper
Master class with Rita Felski and Andrew Piper
Long Beach International Film Festival
Digital Edutainment Conference
Call for Proposals—Deadline March 3, 2014
LongBeachIndie.com
Long Beach Indie, an international film festival and artist summit, announces its 1st annual Digital Edutainment Conference. Taking place August 27-31, 2014 at the Long Beach Convention Center and Cinemark at the Pike Theater Complex, our mission is to celebrate global diversity by encouraging submissions from emergent and established scholars representing every region of the world. Theoretical and practical approaches are welcome as we hope to create an experience that moves participants to action after the conference. Possible topics include:
The James Fenimore Cooper Society will host two panels at the 25rd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held in Washington DC at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill from May 22-25th, 2014.
International Susan Glaspell Society
Call for Papers The American Literature Association 25th Annual Conference
May 22-25 2014, Washington D.C.
THE LEGACY OF SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S GROTESQUES IN THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
"It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood."
The James Fenimore Cooper Society will host two panels at the 25rd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held in Washington DC at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill from May 22-25th, 2014.
James Fenimore Cooper and Politics
In the years since his death, the stature of Italo Calvino has only continued to grow. While his status as an Italian writer was never in doubt, the global range of his work is still being explored. This panel invites papers interested in pursuing this framework, political and historical, national and transnational, literary and philosophical. The influences on Calvino's fictions were immense, and the influence of his fictions on other writers and other literary movements - postmodernist, postcolonial, magical realist, science fictional, and others - have been equally immense. This panel seeks to better understand these influences. In what ways can Italo Calvino be seen not only as a great Italian novelist, but as a key figure in world literature?
Guest Editor: Stephen J. Burn
Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2014
The voice of an artist reaches and touches the world as well as the lives of his/ her readers. The words of writers can stir social unrest but they can also pacify the crowds. Literary works are instrumental in preserving national identities, and Poland's troubled history during the Partitions can serve as the epitome of the authority of literature. Writers, however, are equally revered as they are persecuted for the statements they dare to utter.
[Please note extension of deadline to January 15th.]
Dystopia as a genre has exploded in recent years. Cambridge Scholars Publishing has expressed interest in publishing a collection which seeks to answer questions such as the following: How has the genre been treated similarly or differently by various practitioners? Why is it so popular and why has it become a trend in 'young adult' literature? At what points in literary history has the genre been this popular? What is it about our world that has prompted this explosion? How do television programs and films with a dystopian flavor approach their topics? Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy and The Hunger Games trilogy stand out for their popularity but lesser known works are welcome.
American, British and Canadian Studies, the Journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, invites submissions for a special issue on Faces of Globality: American Studies and the Romanian Diaspora. The special issue looks to integrate the cultural experience of the Romanian Americans to the vast and diverse array of European diasporas in the US toward an appraisal of the range and worth of their scholarship and creative output. With this end in view, we seek an ample set of contributions across the full spectrum of theory and practice, in poetry, prose, drama, visual arts, translation, pedagogy and mixed creative or critical modes of writing.
Fractured Ecologies
Call for Contributions to an edited collection on environmental criticism and radical experimental writing
DUE TO A NUMBER OF LATE INQUIRIES, DEADLINE IS EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 15 2015 2014
Edited by Chad Weidner and Franca Bellarsi