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The Long, Wide Nineteenth Century - July 31-August 2, 2015

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Monday, September 22, 2014 - 7:41am
The Dickens Project

Recent critiques of the idea of the "Victorian" have included attention to both space and time, challenging both the temporal imperatives that follow, perhaps fetishistically, the contours of Victoria's reign, and the geographical isolation of a culture (or set of cultures) in which people went to war or opted for diplomacy; traded (or refused to trade) objects and ideas; translated and plagiarized the works of other cultures; embarked on journeys to discover rivers, love, self, or God; produced and abandoned formal and informal empires.

The European Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy 2015

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Monday, September 22, 2014 - 3:34am
The International Academic Forum

IAFOR and Its Institutional Partners are excited to announce the Second European Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy. Publish before a global audience. Present in a supportive environment. Network and create new relationships. Hear the latest research. Experience the UK. Join a global academic community.

ECERP2015 Conference Theme: "Power"

Power, used or abused, conceptually brings together several central philosophical questions of ethics and religion. What is power? What conditions make its exercise legitimate? How is illegitimate use to be defined? Is power itself, as some have claimed, neutral? Can its exercise ever be neutral? Can there be an unconscious use or abuse of power? If so, how does it function?

Annual World conference on Women's studies (WCWS) - 2015

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Monday, September 22, 2014 - 2:58am
TIIKM Conferences

Call for papers – WCWS 2015

Gender equality is essential for the achievement of human rights for all. But Women are often discriminated against many form of social and economic factors. Women form the majority of the world's poorest people and the number of women living in rural poverty has increased by 50% since 1975. Women work two-thirds of the world's working hours and produce half of the world's food, yet they earn only 10% of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's property. Violence against women throughout the world and in all cultures prevails on an unimaginable scale, and women's access to justice is often paired with discriminatory obstacles in law as well as in practice.

[UPDATE] "To (Not So) Boldly Go: Science Fiction as Instrument of Colonial Enterprise" abstract deadline September 30, 2014

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Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 10:13pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Both science fiction and postcolonial theory are concerned with troubling normative understandings of movement, diaspora, and hybridity. Indeed, "The Stranger in the Strange Land" is an oppositional trope that is at the heart of both science fiction and historical colonial encounters. The other-worldliness and futurity of science fiction has offered numerous writers an effective (and increasingly popular) medium to critique political, social, and cultural issues, and in many ways presents an ideal literary landscape to interrogate the colonial enterprise. Even so, there is a relative lack of postcolonial voices in the mainstream SF genre. What accounts for this silence?

"Reimagining the Humanities PhD": NeMLA Toronto, Ontario, April 30-May 3, 2015

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Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 8:27pm
Dan Olson-Bang/Fordham University

How can we prepare PhDs for uncharted career trajectories? What challenges await those with doctorates who work both within and without academe?

The Atlantic's Elizabeth Segran asks "What Can You Do With a Humanities PhD, Anyway?" Her article's title reflects growing doubts about the value of a doctoral degree in the humanities. This roundtable aims to imagine how the PhD can be reconceived. How can we open up new possibilities for PhDs that respond to the ways the academy and job market have changed?

EMOTIONAL CONTROL: AFFECT AND CHILDREN'S TEXTS

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Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 7:19pm
Elizabeth Bullen, Kristine Moruzi, and Michelle J. Smith

Inspired by the 2014 Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research conference on affect in children's texts, we are seeking contributions for an edited collection, Emotional Control: Affect and Children's Texts. During the last two decades, studies of affect and emotion have expanded beyond the field of psychology and been embraced by humanities disciplines including Cultural, Literary and Queer Studies, Philosophy and Sociology. Theorists of affect are typically concerned with the ways embodied and unconscious forms of knowing/being interconnect with the aesthetic, ethical and ideological.

[Reminder] Theater/Performance Studies Panel at El Mundo Zurdo/Gloria Anzaldúa Conference (May 27-30, 2014)

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Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 3:32pm
Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa

Theater and Performance Studies Panel

El Mundo Zurdo 2015: Memoria y Conocimiento, Interdisciplinary Anzaldúan Studies--Archive, Legacy, and Thought
May 27-30, 2014
Austin, Texas

I am seeking collaborators for a panel focusing on Theater and Performance Studies at the 2015 Gloria Anzaldúa Conference. Papers may explore theater and performance through an Anzaldúan lens and/or study Anzaldúa's work (the archive) as theater/performance. Innovative approaches to the intersections of Anzaldúa's work and theater/peformance are especially welcome.

Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts: On Reason and Revelation

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Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 2:09pm
Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts

Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts
On Reason and Revelation

Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts
University of Dallas, Irving, TX
January 31, 2015
Keynote Speaker: Khalil Habib (Salve Regina University)

The Braniff Graduate Student Association (BGSA) of the University of Dallas is pleased to announce the first Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts. This conference aims to explore the relationship between reason and revelation through the various lenses of philosophy, theology, literature, political philosophy, and the human sciences generally.

Related topics include but are not limited to:

• Faith and reason

• Rationalism and the imagination

International Conference: "Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection" (Leuven, Belgium, 27/05/2015 to 29/05/2015)

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Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 3:52am
Department of Literary Studies and the Institute for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture of the University of Leuven

Call for papers International Conference: "Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection" (Leuven, Belgium, from the 27th to the 29th of May 2015)

Organized by the Department of Literary Studies of the University of Leuven and the Institute for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture of the University of Leuven.

Keynote Speakers:
Roberto Esposito
Frédéric Neyrat
Johannes Türk
(more keynote speakers to be announced)

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