Registration is now open for Toy Story at 20.

The conference officially begins at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle on the evening of Thursday 12th November, with a special screening of Toy Story followed by Professor Paul Wells' keynote address. The programme of papers and panels on Friday 13th November will take place at the University of Sunderland's David Puttnam Media Centre, at St Peter's Campus on the banks of the River Wear in Sunderland. For more information, please visit the conference website:

https://toystoryat20.wordpress.com.

Literary history is full of forgetting—both forced and natural. Manuscripts and books have been forgotten as a result of conquest, language changes, and politics. Other texts have been forgotten due to their physical condition: sole manuscripts are hidden away in archives, libraries burn, and paper disintegrates. Many medieval texts that are now central to the English literary canon, such as Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and the Book of Margery Kempe, were virtually unknown until the nineteenth, or even twentieth centuries. Later texts, from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, have been forgotten due to changes in taste, to their originally ephemeral nature, or to the sheer quantity of works that were published.

Editors:
James Tink (Tohoku University, Japan)
Sarah Bezan (University of Alberta, Canada)

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:

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?

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.

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: