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Sustainable Networks: The Enlightenment to the Contemporary (June 13-15, 2014)

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 5:35am
Nanyang Technological University

CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: 1 MAR 2014)
Sustainable Networks: The Enlightenment to the Contemporary Conference
Nanyang Technological University, Yunnan Garden Campus, Singapore
June 13-15, 2014

In 1987 the Brundtland Commission influentially defined "sustainable development" as "development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." "Sustainable Networks: The Enlightenment to the Contemporary" will provide a forum for scholars to theorize sustainability's future-oriented but historical grounding while examining the necessarily interdisciplinary approach to sustaining human society.

CFP: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Phenomena book -deadline March 3, 2014

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 5:29am
editor Marisa Hayes

Now accepting abstracts to be considered for a new book, Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show from Intellect Press. This title will be part of the new series of Fan Phenomena books, which aim to explore and decode the fascination we have with what constitutes an iconic or cultish phenomenon and how a particular person, TV show or film infiltrates its way into the public consciousness.

Conference and Publication: Contemporary Literary Theory and Contemporary Interpretation of Literature

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 5:19am
Cusanuswerk

The Cusanuswerk is the scholarship body of the Catholic Church in Germany and awards government scholarships to exceptionally gifted students and researchers in all branches of academic study. For more information, please visit www.cusanuswerk.org

--- Conference and Publication: Contemporary Literary Theory and Contemporary Interpretation of Literature ---

The Cusanuswerk invites academic personnel, senior students; PHD candidates and Post-Doctoral researchers to submit previously unpublished papers on the topics of contemporary literary theory and/or contemporary interpretations of literary texts.

[UPDATE] (Deadline extended to March 1) Inter-disciplinarity, Multi-disciplinarity and Trans-disciplinarity in Humanitie

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 3:52am
Erciyes University

Traditionally, multidisciplinarity draws on knowledge from different disciplines but stays within their boundaries. Moreover, interdisciplinary studies have focused on contemporary cultural constructedness, bringing to the fore key concepts, critical frameworks and fundamental research in different areas of investigation. Thus, inter-disciplinarity facilitated access to knowledge regarding theories and pragmatic research in contemporary issues and the conditions in which they emerged. Some major cultural debates were held, particularly those around globalization and technology which fundamentally affected the way we perceive race and ethnicity, gender, environment and broader aspects such as nation and society at large.

Reassessing Women's Writing of the 1840s and 1850s

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Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 3:48am
International Centre for Victorian Women Writers

The deadline for submission of abstracts for this inaugural conference hosted by the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers, has been extended to Monday 3 February.

The keynote speakers will be Professor Valerie Sanders (University of Hull) and Professor Gail Marshall (University of Leicester)

California State University, Los Angeles - Significations Graduate Conference, May 3, 2014

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 9:18pm
CSU Los Angeles/English Graduate Student Association

Significations - CSULA Department of English Graduate Student Conference - May 3, 2014
Deadline for Submissions: March 3
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jayne Lewis, University of California, Irvine

Paper Topics
This year's theme is "Convergence." We invite submissions exploring the fields of literature, linguistics, composition and rhetoric, and creative writing. Areas of inquiry may also include cultural studies, critical theory, film, gender studies, philosophy, the social sciences, and visual and performing arts.

Submission Guidelines
Papers must be between 10 and 12 pages in length, including Works Cited and endnotes, and in strict accordance with MLA format. Anticipate 20 minutes for presentation of your paper.

The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work (March 1, 2015; March 15, 2016)

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 9:18pm
Ika Willis (University of Wollongong), special issue editor for Transformative Works and Cultures



Fan fiction is often compared to the literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. Both fan writers and classical authors use the techniques of allusion, appropriation, and transvaluation to expand on and/or to critique existing works. Both circulate works within small, intimate communities, constituted as audiences for transformative works by their detailed knowledge of a shared group of texts. Furthermore, practitioners and scholars of fan fiction and transmedia storytelling explicitly refer to the megatext of Greek mythology as the historical precursor and model of the vast narrative objects of contemporary popular culture.

20-21-22th November, 2014. GENERAL ORGANOLOGY: The Co-individuation of Minds, Bodies, Social Organizations and Technè

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 9:16pm
Noötechnics collective in collaboration with Kent University, School of Political sciences & Kent Law School

General Organology: The Co-individuation of Minds, Bodies,Social Organizations and Technè

20-21-22th November, 2014

University of Kent, Canterbury

Keynote Speakers: Maryanne Wolf, Tufts University
Maurizio Lazzarato, Philosopher
Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota
Bernard Stiegler, Philosopher

Organisation: Noötechnics collective in collaboration with Kent University, School of Political sciences & Kent Law School

Submission deadline and procedure: May 1st 2014, abstract 750-1000 characters, blind refereeing procedure

[UPDATE] **DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 31** "Remix the Conference" University of Calgary Free-Exchange Graduate Conference

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 5:19pm
Free-Exchange Conference, University of Calgary Department of English

"Remix the Conference" University of Calgary Free-Exchange Graduate Conference March 7-9, 2014

"It's the remix to ignition, hot and fresh out the kitchen..." – R. Kelly, "Ignition"

"It's taking little pieces from here, adding it to little pieces from there—as many different disparate elements as you can find—and make something totally new out of it." – DJ Shadow

Special issue: "Piers Plowman and the Body"

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 4:32pm
Yearbook of Langland Studies

The editors of YLS are pleased to announce a special volume on 'Piers Plowman and the Body.' Any essay related to this topic will be considered for publication.

Suggested topics include: bodily suffering and disease, physiology, humors, senses, and medicine; disability; gender and sexuality; celestial beings, animals, and other living organisms; law, penance, and the regulation of the body; ritual, gesture, song, and speech; personification allegory; genre, form, and the "body" of the text; materials and manuscripts; the body and literary tradition (i.e., the alliterative "corpus").

Submissions to the special volume are due by August 1, 2014.

CFP (Journal) -- Signs and Society

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 11:27am
Semiosis Research Center

Dear all,

Signs and Society is a *multidisciplinary open-access* journal focusing on the study of sign process (or semiosis) in the realms of social action, cognition, and cultural form. Taking as its broad mission the study of "signs and society," the journal publishes articles that analyze sign processes and/or sign activities empirically—in some specifiable or generalizable social circumstance, historical period, or textual artifact.

The journal solicits contributions from scholars in traditionally defined fields as well as emerging interdisciplinary fields of inquiry:

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