Panel for the "Flannery O'Connor & the Mystery of Place" conference, July 24-26, All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland. This panel will explore the presence of modern technology in the fiction and correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and its often enigmatic, troubled fascination for the author and her characters. We seek papers that will explore the many aspects and nuances of technology, its threats and its possibilities, its dangers and its seductions, in O'Connor's work.

We invite papers on a range of topics, including but not limited to:

Between Places and Spaces: Landscapes of Liminality
A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
5-6 June 2014
Trinity College Dublin

'Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other.'
- Yi Fu Tuan, Space and Place, 1977.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES

10TH Annual Gender, Sexuality, and Power Student Research Conference May 13, 2014

Keynote Speaker: Lauren Berlant, Professor of English, University of Chicago

Textual Overtures is currently accepting submissions for its 2014 issue under the theme of "Bodies". We invite papers to address this topic from creative perspectives, including bodies of text, bodies of work, the human and non-human body, and so on. We value innovative and inventive interpretation of both subject matter and presentation, and welcome work that embraces digital media, including multimodal and hyperlinked work. We accept work from both Literature and Rhetoric & Composition disciplines.

Submission Deadline: March 1st

The 3rd annual Comparative Literature Undergraduate Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, which will take place on May 31, 2014, provides a space for undergraduates to present original research to their peers in the field of comparative literature and related disciplines. Prior departmental symposia have been incredibly successful, engaging dozens of presenters from across the world. Students will have the opportunity to meet and interact with professors, graduate students, and undergraduates who are leaders in their field. Subsequent publication in the UC Berkeley Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal is a possibility for presenters with exceptionally strong research.

Essays are invited for a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review, that consider the relation of comedy and theory, especially in relation to contemporary stand-up comedy.

Is it possible to theorize humor and comedy in a new way? Or, to put the question differently, is our moment marked by a certain unmistakable conjuncture of theory and comedy?

We are pleased to announce a CFP for submissions to a two-day conference dedicated to the work of A.S. Byatt, in the presence of the author.
As 2015 will mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of Possession, A Romance (1990), we welcome new approaches to this novel. Propositions on her other novels and her short stories will however also be considered.
The conference is dedicated to the memory of A.S. Byatt's French translator, Professor Jean-Louis Chevalier (University of Caen) who was awarded the Prix Baudelaire for his translation of Possession in 1994. Consequently contributions on the translation of Byatt's works would also be of interest as a panel will be organised between A.S. Byatt and her current French translators.