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[UPDATE] "Users of Scholarly Editions: Editorial Anticipations of Reading, Studying and Consulting": 19-21 November 2015

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 3:55pm
De Montfort University / European Society for Textual Scholarship

"Users of Scholarly Editions: Editorial Anticipations of
Reading, Studying and Consulting"

The 12th Annual Conference of the European Society for
Textual Scholarship (ESTS) will be held at the Centre
for Textual Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester
England 19-21 November 2015

The ESTS returns to Leicester where it was founded in 2001
to stage a major collective investigation into the state
and future of scholarly editing. Our focus is the needs
of users of scholarly editions and proposals for 20 minute
papers are invited on topics such as:

Woolf and Disability

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 1:59pm
Modern Language Association 2016

For the 2016 Modern Language Association Conference:

The International Virginia Woolf Society, in collaboration with the Society for Disability Studies, invites abstracts for a proposed panel entitled Woolf and Disability. This panel explores how disability features thematically and formally in Woolf's work.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Maren Linett, Purdue University, by March 9, 2015. Please email queries and abstracts to mlinett@purdue.edu.

Narratives of Contingency (MLA, Austin 2016)

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 1:54pm
Kristina Quynn/Colorado State University

Paper proposals sought for a special session to be proposed for MLA 2016 (Austin, TX) that consider the narratives and/or discourses of "contingency" in modern/contemporary literature or documents of academe relevant to contingency studies.

Topics might include readings of academic novels and stories that include adjunct, contingent, or non-tenure-track characters; the rhetorical moves and textual representations of contingent faculty in job postings, institutional or other field-specific materials; the range of approaches we might use to understand contingency relevant to race, gender, class, or other relevant critical theories; readings that explore or theorize the function of contingency in tales of academe.

CFP: MLA 2015, deadline March 15, Division of American Literature to 1800

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 1:33pm
Kathleen Donegan/University of California, Berkeley

Dear friends and colleagues,

The Executive Committee for Division of American Literature to 1800 invites submissions to the following calls for papers for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, Texas.

Linguistics and Translation in Early America
Cross-cultural communication, literacies, knowledge, and indigenous adaptations. What shapes language and translation in the Americas from 1492 – 1836? CV; 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2015: Sarah Rivett (srivett@princeton.edu)

Special Journal Section: The New Black and The New Negro: Generational Tensions between Blackness, Colorlessness, and Post-Black

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 12:39pm
Kinitra Brooks, guest editor / Transnational Literature

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Feature: Volume 8, no. 1, November 2015
Guest Editor: Kinitra D. Brooks, University of Texas, San Antonio

The New Black and The New Negro: Generational Tensions between Blackness, Colorlessness, and Post-Black

A class of colored people, the 'New Negro', ... have arisen since the War, with education, refinement, and money. – Cleveland Gazette, 28 June 1895

MLA 2016 Special Session: The Counterpublics of Underground Comix

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 9:33am
MLA / Margaret Galvan and Leah Misemer


When underground comix emerged in America in the 1970s, they were connected with the counter culture movement and rife with anti-establishment content. These comics participated in and addressed counterpublics, which queer theorist Michael Warner defines as "formed by their conflict with the norms and contexts of their cultural environment." Yet much of the scholarship of the underground comix movement has centered on straight white men located in San Francisco (e.g. R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson).

4th Meeting of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN) 28-31 October 2015, Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels-Belgiu

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 9:30am
European Beat Studies Network

Call for Papers

4th Annual Meeting of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN)
28-31 October 2015, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Brussels-Belgium

Papers are invited for the 4th Annual Meeting of the European Beat Studies Network. In keeping with the inclusive spirit of the EBSN, we are open to submissions of scholarly papers, panels, and roundtables, as well as artistic/creative dialogues and performances devoted to any aspect of the Beat Generation.

Comparing Literary Historiography

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 9:10am
MLA 2016, Special Session

Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at Austin. We aim to examine literary historiography that takes into account more than one language tradition. Examples include world literary history, regional or imperial literary histories, literary histories of nations with a variety of literary languages (e.g., Belgium, Canada, India, Switzerland, the US), and histories that attempt to incorporate dialect with official versions of "a" language, or oral with written forms of literature.

[update] Playing Offstage: Theatre As a Presence or Factor in the Real World (deadline December 15, 2015)

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 6:30am
Professor Sidney Homan, English Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Call for Papers (deadline, December 15, 2015)
Playing Offstage: Theatre As a Presence or a Factor in the Real World
I am issuing a call for papers for a collection to be called Playing Offstage: The Theatre As a Presence or Factor in the Real World. I have proposed an edition of some 8-10 essays (along with an introduction). This collection would complement an earlier issue of Comparative Drama I had the privilege of editing: The Audience As Player: Interactive Theatre Over the Years. There the issue was the real-life audience's leaving the house and, as actors, entering the illusory world onstage. Here, the theatre moves offstage and into the larger, everyday world.

Snapshot culture. The persistence of the photographic experience in post-media aesthetics

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Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 5:51am
Comunicazioni Sociali. Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies

The contemporary mediascape is characterized by continuous and endless remediation flows that re-shape and hybridize the contents, the forms and the vehicles of visual-based media experience. In such a scenario, over the last years photography has gained a central role in negotiating between the need for innovation propelled by digital media and the persistence of its original nature and purposes. On the one hand, the advent of photo-sharing websites and social networks, photography apps for mobile devices, portable hybrid devices for photo and video (e.g.

LIQUID BLACKNESS - Call for Proposals

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 5:35pm
liquid blackness

liquid blackness is undertaking a long term research project on the legendary yet seldom seen film: Larry Clark's 1977 Passing Through. Studying the potential of the arts and politics of the jazz ensemble, we are developing an experimental project of collective research that will unfold throughout the year, and culminate in a public screening and symposium in Fall 2015.

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