"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." -Jonathan Swift

The graduate students and English Department of the University of Arizona invite proposals for the annual New Directions Graduate Conference. Held every spring, New Directions is an interdisciplinary conference organized for and by graduate students as a way of drawing together student scholars across wide-ranging and diverse fields. This year's conference, titled "Visions: Temporality, Spectacle, and Space," will concern itself with varied modes and modalities of future progress and degradation, concerns about visual cultures and the construction of knowledge, and the possibilities inherent in spaces, places, and the demarcations that define them.

Power Dynamics: 2016 Media and the Environment Conference
University of California, Santa Barbara
April 29 and 30, 2016

Keynote address by University of Michigan Assistant Professor and poet Tung-Hui Hu, author of works including A Prehistory of the Cloud (2015, MIT Press) and Greenhouses, Lighthouses (2013, Copper Canyon Press)

Call for book chapter proposals: Todo Fontanarrosa: la obra de un completo humorista / All Fontanarrosa: The Work of a Complete Humourist

Editors: Dr Celina Bortolotto (Massey University, New Zealand) and Dr Annick Pellegrin (University of Mauritius)

Contact email: fontanarrosaproject@gmail.com

Play's the Thing: Phenomenology and Play in Early Modern Literature, 1500-1800
University of California, Santa Barbara
Conference Date: March 4-5, 2016
NEW PROPOSAL DUE DATE: December 11, 2015

The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites proposals for our annual conference, "Play's the Thing: Phenomenology and Play in Early Modern Literature, 1500-1800," to be held on March 4 and 5, 2016. We are happy to announce our three keynote speakers: Laura Engel (Duquesne University), James A. Knapp (Loyola University Chicago), and Bruce Smith (University of Southern California).

CFP Deadline Extended to Friday December 18th, 2015

Keynote Speaker: Mimi Thi Nguyen, associate professor of Gender and Womens Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt and Other Refugee Passages (2012).

Keynote Speaker Announced: Cecily Hilsdale, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University

Session I: The Alternative Ellen Glasgow

As a transitional figure in the history of Southern and American literatures, Glasgow's long fiction is predominantly the focus of critical consideration, but what of her achievements in other genres? The goal of this panel will be to (re)consider Glasgow's poetry, non-fiction essays, short fiction, and less-discussed long fiction. Essays that also address Glasgow's major and minor works from innovative, alternative, or even "off the wall" perspectives are welcome as well.

Please submit 250- to 300-word proposals for 20-minute presentations as an attachment to an email sent to the address listed below.

Session II: Ellen Glasgow: Across the Canon