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Nihilism .. Utopianism

updated: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 11:51am
Modern Horizons
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 25, 2016

Modern Horizons Journal CFP – ‘Nihilism … Utopianism’

 

Modern Horizons invites proposals for papers (25-30 minutes long) for our sixth annual conference on ‘Nihilism … Utopianism’ to be held Friday, 27 October, 2016 at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre campus, Vancouver, Canada. Proposals are to be sent to editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca by 25 July, 2016.

 

Gendered Innovations in the Social Sciences

updated: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 11:51am
Barbara Clare
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 21, 2016

'Gendered Innovations in the Social Sciences'

7-9 November 2016, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

What impact does women's limited presence in key fields of research have upon our capacity to grapple with social and political change? And if gender is ignored as an analytic category, can the social sciences make a meaningful contribution to understanding or resolving issues of gender inequality in society? 

Premodern Futurities: Speculative Objects and Prognostication in the Medieval World (Kalamazoo 2017)

updated: 
Sunday, September 11, 2016 - 3:12pm
Carly Boxer, Jack Dragu, and Luke Fidler
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 9, 2016

Interpreting the medieval arts entails setting in motion forms of anachronism; within the arts we see complex negotiations of temporality, which themselves pose significant challenges to our understanding of historical objects. Scholars have been both resistant to and complicit in these forms, a challenge of historicism having been, to a greater or lesser extent, to unlearn certain histories in order to “restore” the contingency of a specific historical moment. For, indeed, medieval people theorized futures of their own. They refined procedures of prognostication and speculation, and, significantly, crafted aesthetic objects that imagined divergent futurities.

Perspectives on the Academic Job Interview

updated: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 11:52am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2016

The Academic job interview isn't a monolithic entity: each academic institution--ranging from research universities to community colleges--has its own processes. Learning to navigate these different environments is difficult, and job seekers can benefit from hearing from a wide range of stakeholders (administrators, departments chairs, junior faculty, etc.)

To that end, we are calling for a wide range of voices to join our roundtable and examine the academic job interview from a variety of perspectives.

Please submit brief abstracts (200 words) and a bio by Sep 30, 2016.

To submit, please use NeMLA's portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/login

Two Shakespeare Panels for ICMS Kalamazoo 2017

updated: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 11:52am
Shakespeare at Kalamazoo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo

International Congress for Medieval Studies 2017

 

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo invites submissions for two sessions at the 2017 Congress, which will be held at Western Michigan University on May 11-14, 2017.

 

Jane Austen & the Arts: A Bicentenary Conference

updated: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 11:52am
Anna Battigelli, SUNY Plattsburgh
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 1, 2016

CFP: Jane Austen & the Arts: A Bicentenary Conference

SUNY Plattsburgh

23-25 March 2017

SUNY Plattsburgh is hosting “Jane Austen & the Arts,” a bicentenary conference that explores Jane Austen’s engagement with the arts.  Discussions of the role of the arts, broadly defined, in structuring Austen’s novels, shaping her characters, or enriching her life are welcome. 

The conference website, https://janeaustenandthearts.com, provides additional information and will soon contain online registration links.

The Quest for the Real: Nonfiction for Children and Teenagers

updated: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 11:52am
Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 30, 2017

Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature invites contributions for a special issue on “nonfiction for children and young adults.” While many children and teenagers prefer to read nonfiction for pleasure (from books of records to military history to sex education) the focus of research and writing about young readers skews extremely heavily towards fiction. Indeed Bookbird itself has not focused on nonfiction since 2003 and no winner or shortlisted candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen writing prize has ever been an author of nonfiction.

“Another Children’s Literature”: Writing by Children and Youth

updated: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 11:53am
Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature invites contributions for a special issue on  “another children’s literature”—one created by children and youth themselves. Usually, “children’s literature” has been assumed to be literature written by adults for children. In this issue, however, we intend to focus on literature created by children and youth. While there has been some critical attention to the juvenilia of canonical authors and considerable educational and psychological interest in what children’s writing reveals about children, comparatively little attention has been paid to the literary dimensions of—and theoretical issues raised by—children’s and youths’ writing. 

UPDATE: Immortal Austen

updated: 
Monday, September 19, 2016 - 11:42pm
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2016

Call for Papers

Immortal Austen

An International Conference

Hosted by the School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University

At Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia

13-16 July 2017

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Devoney Looser (Arizona State), Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford) and Clara Tuite (Melbourne)