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 conference aims at investigating the theoretical and practical dimensions of community, in connection with contingency and in light of Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology.

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.

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?

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.

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

Cultural Exchange in Edith Wharton's Life and Work