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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.
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Is There a Text in This Field? Middle English Canonical Texts and the Edition of Record (Roundtable)
Contact: Jim Knowles, NC State University
CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums, & Popular Culture Area, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: November 1, 2015
37th Annual Conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association, February 10-13, 2016, in Albuquerque, NM Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
The New Voices Planning Committee is proud to announce that we are now accepting proposals for the 2016 New Voices Conference. This year's annual conference will be held February 4-6, 2016, at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, and will feature papers, panels, workshops, creative writing readings, and a poster session.
While narratives of "savage war" along the borders of wilderness and civilization are not unique to the United States, Americans' tendency to assign those stories mythic significance is.
Introducing a conversation between Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and Deepa Mehta, the American scholar Deepika Bahri recalled how Rushdie had written that "The opposite of hatred is love; the opposite of tyranny is love; the opposite of censorship is love; the opposite of evil is love; the opposite of politics is love; the opposite of war is love; the opposite of God is love." This conversation, titled, "The Only Subject is Love," emphasized the centrality of love as a theme in Rushdie's writing and in the creative process. This seminar will have us explore the role love plays in reacting and responding to its opposites in postcolonial literature.
Consumption sustains and undermines modern life, from popular culture to our most privileged art. The Association of Carolina Emerging Scholars is seeking abstracts that address consumption in any of its many forms, including but not limited to the following: eating, buying, obsession, the reception of media, and the status-seeking public use of resources first called "conspicuous consumption" by Thorstein Veblen in 1899.
Description of Award:
In 1927, Ernest Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer, whose family lived in Piggott, AR. The Pfeiffer family, prosperous Arkansas landowners who had made their fortune in the pharmaceutical business in St. Louis, supported their new son-in-law both financially and intellectually. They converted the barn behind their Piggott home into a writing studio for him. It was in this unlikely spot that Hemingway wrote much of A Farewell to Arms and several of his short stories. This barn and the Pfeiffer family home are now restored and have been opened to the public by Arkansas State University-Jonesboro.
Articles are sought for a collection of essays on representations of Conjure, Hoodoo and Voodoo in African-American literature. This collection seeks to explore how African-American writers have used, referenced, engaged and disengaged with Conjure, Hoodoo and Voodoo in their writing through various cultural and historical movements.
Papers on the topic of the influence of Medical Humanities on the current and changing state of medicine from various areas of study, including bioethics, literature, sociology, anthropology, public health, history, and medical education, are invited to be considered for Drew University's Transatlantic Connections 3 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference with a dedicated track for Medical Humanities. The three-day conference will take place in Bundoran, Ireland January 13-16, 2016.
"Sociability, Authority and the Curation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
Robby Koehler (NYU) AND Edmund G. C. King (The Open University, UK)
Game Cultures Society
http://gameculturessociety.org/
The Playful Reader (paper session)
This proposed session asks us to consider form in medieval and modern contexts, specifically responding to discussion taking place during Session 218 of last year's Congress, "Reconsidering Form and the Literary." There, speakers proposed that modern desires and assumptions regarding textual form influence how originals are interpreted and then presented to a modern audience, from which a discussion evolved considering the editorial and pedagogical implications of such a sentiment. As a work is moved from its manuscript context, it is inevitably transformed into a version distinct from the original and reflective of modern desires regarding form and design.