Call for Papers

Realms of Royalty: New Directions in Researching Contemporary European Monarchies

International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture│Justus Liebig University Giessen

20 & 21 April 2017

“I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.”

[Queen Margrethe II, Facebook Post on1 September 2014]

“But I see the world has changed. And one must modernise.”

[Helen Mirren, The Queen, 2006]

Erich Auerbach’s "Mimesis"—The Representation of Reality in Western Literature—was published in 1945 and had a tremendous influence in the middle part of the 20th century. Using a method of textual analysis to establish continuities from Homer to Virginia Woolf, Auerbach has been read by virtually every serious student of literature for seventy years now. Because of the scope and density of the book it is somewhat difficult to ready examine and evaluate Mimesis. This panel will examine Mimesis from two angles. First, we will study and reflect the overarching themes of this magisterial book. Second, we will look at his individual textual analyses to probe their validity and relevance in 2016.

The 32nd Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies Western Regional

 “Her Exiled Children: Ireland and Irish America”

 Missoula, Montana

 October 20 – 22, 2016

 Submissions due July 29 at http://acisweb.org/regionals/western/submissions/

The Graphic Panel Review is an online journal that publishes original short comics, articles and materials regarding comic pedagogy, and articles about all facets of comic scholarship. Our goals are to provide a space where quality original short comics can be shared while fostering an appreciation of comics and promoting comics as a serious artistic form.

We are seeking submissions in both comics and written form for our first issue. 

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Conference dates: November 18 & 19, 2016, NUI Galway

KEY NOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT:

We are delighted to now reveal the first of our keynote speakers: Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington.

Micheline is the granddaughter of the renowned Irish suffragette Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. In 2014, Micheline won an Equality Tribunal case against NUI Galway, for discrimination on the basis of gender in the 2009 NUI Galway round of promotions to Senior Lecturer. She is the first female academic to achieve this in Ireland. Since then she has continued to campaign tirelessly for equality in Ireland's third level institutions.

Revolutionary Genders 2016

Panel title: "Fanfiction in Medieval Studies: What Do We Mean When We Say 'Fanfiction'?"

Conference: 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11-14, 2017

Organizer: Dr Anna Wilson, anna.wilson@utoronto.ca

Abstract submission deadline Sept 15