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Writing Changes: Alphabetic Text and Multimodal Composition (edited collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 10:02am
Pegeen Reichert Powell, Columbia College Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 1, 2016

This edited collection, in development with the MLA book publications program, takes as a starting point the multimodal turn in composition studies, and focuses on the changing role of writing in our field. Writing here refers to the semiotic resource of alphabetic text composed on a page or screen.

Regulating and Legitimating Sexualities: the State, Law, Sexual Culture and Change under Neo-Liberalism

updated: 
Monday, May 16, 2016 - 11:54am
International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics & Miami University Luxembourg
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 8, 2016

Regulating and Legitimating Sexualities: the State, Law, Sexual Culture and Change under Neo-Liberalism

 

An International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics Workshop in Association with and hosted by

Miami University Luxembourg - Differdange, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

October 21st-22nd 2016

 

THATCamp @ The Lake

updated: 
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 6:12pm
THATCamp - Wright State University Lake Campus
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Announcing THATCamp @ The Lake! On June 18th and 19th, we’ll gather at Wright State University’s campus in Celina, OH for an open meeting of the minds. In two days, we plan to explore the intersection between technology and the classroom, as well as discuss the ways that technology can expand our pedagogy and research.

“A Quest for Remembrance”: The Descent into the Classical Underworld

updated: 
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 12:10pm
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2016

'A Quest for Remembrance' : The Descent into the Classical Underworld"

A One-day Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Warwick 

Saturday 20th May 2017

Keynote speaker: Professor Edith Hall, King's College London

"μνήσασθαι ἐμεῖο" [remember me]
Odyssey 11.71

CfP Medical Humanities

updated: 
Monday, May 16, 2016 - 11:55am
MedHum Fiction | Daily Dose
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Are you interested in writing about the medical humanities?

 

Maybe you’re a horror movie fan with an interest in exploring the intersection between medical humanities and pop culture? Perhaps you’re interested in thinking about the process of writing or teaching history of medicine?

 

If you are, then we want to hear from you!

 

Edited Book of Articles on Indian Short Stories

updated: 
Monday, May 16, 2016 - 11:57am
Saikat Guha (The Editor, from West Bengal, India)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Call-for-Papers for an Edited Book of Articles on Indian Short Stories (A Non-Paid Project)

 

Multicoloured Glass: Studies on Indian Short Stories

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Edited by Saikat Guha

Email ID: songofmuse@gmail.com

Deadline of Submission: 31 July, 2016

[Articles written by Indian citizens will be given priority.]

Download CfP file (PDF) here: https://songofmuse.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/call-for-papers-book-on-i...

 

About the Book:

Update: Worshipping the Monstrous: The Supernatural Screen

updated: 
Sunday, June 19, 2016 - 8:20pm
Film & History
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 15, 2016

This area of the 2016 Film & History conference, Gods & Heretics, examines notions of the monstrous, monstrosity, and the supernatural as they relate to on-screen representations, thematic inferences, narrative structures, or even production practices throughout the history of filmmaking. How do we better understand the implications of these histories, patterns, or aberrations? What is being signified or challenged, made visible or concealed, through our constructions of the monstrous?  

The Strange Place of Ecocriticism: The Material as Cultural Artifact?

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2016 - 9:28pm
Dewey W. Hall/California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2016

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association  

PAMLA 116th Annual Conference November 11-13, 2016

 

Panel Chair:              Dewey W. Hall, Professor of English

 

Affiliation:                California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

 

Email:                        dwhall@cpp.edu

 

Session Title:           “The Strange Place of Ecocriticism: The Material as

Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice

updated: 
Saturday, July 2, 2016 - 1:04pm
Dewey W. Hall, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice

Dewey W. Hall, Editor

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

 

Call for Papers

 

Call for Papers: [Inter]sections No. 19 (2016)

updated: 
Monday, May 16, 2016 - 11:57am
American Studies Program, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 1, 2016

March 6, 2016

Submission Guidelines

[Inter]sections is an online annual peer-reviewed journal of American studies. We are currently accepting submissions for issue 19 (2016) by September 1, 2016.

We publish academic papers, as well as relevant reviews and interviews. Papers should be between 3,000 and 8,000 words, and written in accordance with the 2009 MLA citation style. All submissions should also include an 100-word abstract and a list of 5-7 keywords, a short bio,  and an abstract. Alternately, you may wish to fill in the following submission form:

Name:

Affiliation:

Bio (no more than 100 words):

E-mail address:

"Trojan Horse" Pedagogy: Southern Studies in a Terrain of Struggle

updated: 
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 6:53pm
SAMLA 88 (Jacksonville, FL - November 4 - 6, 2016)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 3, 2016

"Trojan Horse" Pedagogy: Southern Studies in a Terrain of Struggle

SSSL'S Emerging Scholars Organization

SAMLA 88 - Jacksonville, FL - November 4 - 6, 2016)

 

UVA-Wise Medieval/Renaissance, Sept. 15-17, 2016 (Undergrad) (proposals by July 15, 2016)

updated: 
Monday, May 16, 2016 - 11:57am
University of Virginia's College at Wise
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 15, 2016

The University of Virginia's College at Wise’s Medieval-Renaissance Conference is pleased to accept abstracts for our thirtieth conference.  The conference is an open event that promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies.  Papers by undergraduates covering any area of medieval and renaissance studies—including literature, language, history, philosophy, science, pedagogy, and the arts—are welcome.  Abstracts for papers should be around 300 words in length and should be accompanied by a brief letter of recommendation from a faculty sponsor (the latter can be mailed or emailed separately).  A branch campus of the University of Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise is a public four-year liberal arts c

DeLillo's Zero K

updated: 
Monday, May 16, 2016 - 11:54am
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 5, 2016

Zero K is Don DeLillo’s 16th novel and deals with cryogenics -- the freezing of the dead body for a subsequent scientifically-fueled resurrection. Keeping in mind SAMLA’s theme,  Utopia/Dystopia: Whose Paradise is It?,  we seek papers that explore DeLillo’s themes, conflicts, characterization, and/or science. (SAMLA 88 * November 4-6, 2016 * Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront * Jacksonville, FL.)  Please send your 250 word abstract to Jacqueline Zubeck (jacqueline.zubeck@gmail.com) by June 5, 2016.

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