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The Interlingual Poetics of Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: English, French, Franglais? (paper session)
Contact: Jamie Fumo, Florida State University
Editors:
James Tink (Tohoku University, Japan)
Sarah Bezan (University of Alberta, Canada)
This panel calls for papers that stake a claim in the cultural significance of representing alcohol or alcohol consumption. How do these representations relate to alcoholism as a disease and the alcoholic as an identity category? Does the text evaluate alcohol abuse morally or politically? Do communities organized around alcohol consumption facilitate social movements based on class, race, sexuality, or gender?
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Rendezvous: Journal of Arts and Letters
Volume 43, Numbers 1 & 2
The Rendezvous Journal of Arts and Letters invites submissions for an upcoming issue that addresses the current state of the humanities and humanities education in colleges and universities in the United States.
Submissions may take the form of scholarly articles, reviews, or creative works (e.g., poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art work). Provision may also be made for a select number of digital and multimedia works.
What Is the State of the Humanities Today?
In Defining the Humanities, Robert Proctor states:
Call for Papers, CEA 2016
Conference Theme: creation
47th Annual Conference | March 31-April 2, 2016 | Denver, CO
Native American Literature Panel(s)
This year's conference theme is particularly relevant to Native American/Indigenous/First Nations peoples. While all topics related to Indigenous literatures will be considered, including Indigenous poetics, Indigenous rhetorics, as well as issues of sovereignty, separatism, and transnationalism, papers that address the conference theme will be especially welcome.
Proposals will be accepted online at www.cea-web.org beginning August 15,
2015.
Submission deadline: November 1, 2015
Queen City Writers, a refereed journal of undergraduate writing and multimedia composing, seeks submissions that speak to issues of disabilities/abilities for an upcoming issue.
Possible questions and issues to consider include, but are not limited to:
• After 25 years, how has the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 impacted or changed the rhetoric of disability in American culture?
• How do disabilities interact with writing processes? How should or do writing classrooms and/or writing centers address disabilities in meaningful ways?
• In what ways does attention to disability benefit everyone, not just persons with disabilities?
When Theodore Roosevelt spoke of America as a "young giant of the West," a "nation glorious in youth and strength," at the Republican National Convention in 1900, he inserted himself into a long rhetorical tradition: Whether in promise or in criticism, identifying 'youth' with America and calling the US a nation that is yet to grow up constitutes a well-established trope in discussions of 'Americanness.' At the same time, adolescence and youth are core concepts at the heart of American literature and culture, and they are at the center of many contemporary debates.
Submissions are invited for a site to launch in December that aims to reclaim the rhetoric used to shape the public's perception of pregnant teens and young mothers. While this site will serve as a resource and as a community for pregnant teens and young mothers, its audience is also the general public, as its primary purpose is to help change the detrimental ways in which these pregnant teens and young mothers are often perceived as a result of how they're portrayed by the popular media and in teen pregnancy prevention campaigns, like the one produced by the Candie's Foundation.
37th Annual Conference
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association
COMPUTER CULTURE AREA
February 10-13, 2016
Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM
www.southwestpca.org
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday, November 1, 2015
Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 37th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). Please consider submitting.
Now in its eighth year, the AUM Southern Studies Conference invites panel and paper proposals on any aspect of Southern literature. The conference will be held 5-6 February 2016. Topics may include but are not limited to:
The 59th Annual American Studies Association of Texas (ASAT) Conference will be held November 12th-14th, 2015 on the campus of Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. The Conference Committee is now accepting proposals for the upcoming meeting. The theme of the 2015 conference is: "Contextualizing Conflict, Culture, and Community." The following is a suggested, though not a comprehensive list of subject areas to consider:
Agriculture and Rural Studies Ingenuity and invention
Art (visual and performing) Journalism
Communication Studies Language and Literature
Creative Writing Penal Systems and Reform
Environment and Landscape Studies Political Science
The Supernatural
Call for Participation 2016
Friday 11th March – Sunday 13th March 2016
Budapest, Hungary
Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and even more mimetic fiction in various media such as texts and graphic novels have long permitted the sort of free experimentation often celebrated (or bemoaned) in the American religious environment, though constrained by genre conventions, social contexts, market forces, and other factors. Thus, especially the "estranged" genres of fiction (pace Suvin) permit not only the utopian depiction of traditional religions as they ought to be and the dystopian depiction of religions as they ought not to be, but also the representation of novel religious forms—a space in which new fictional religions may be invented.
Trauma
The 6th Global Conference
Call for Participation 2016
Friday 11th March – Sunday 13th March 2016
Budapest, Hungary
This is a call for papers for a collection that will look at literary-feminist interpretations/ re-readings of Hindu religious primary texts.