The University of South Florida is pleased to announce a call for presentations for its Symposium on “Re-Shaping the Future of Graduate Education in the Humanities.”

There is no shortage of experts declaring the death of the Humanities on university campuses throughout the United States. Politicians question the “value” of a humanities-based graduate education while students uneasily balance a need for professionalization with a desire for intellectual exploration. A defeatism has often hampered students and professors as they both struggle to understand the shifting dynamics of graduate education in the Humanities.

CEA 48th Annual Conference

March 30-April 1, 2017   |  Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 29928

  Theme:  Islands

Call for Papers: Television

Southwest Popular/American Culture Association

38th Annual Conference

February 15-18, 2017

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Extended: Abstract or Panel Proposal submission deadline: November 15, 2016

The Southwest Popular/American Culture Association’s annual conference is one of the nation’s largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars. Panels are now forming for all 80+ individual subject areas, including the Television area.

Eudora Welty Society  

American Literature Association

Boston, May 25-28, 2017

CFP Work-in-Progress on Eudora Welty

The Eudora Welty Society invites short papers that present a section of, or otherwise introduce, your current Welty work-in-progress. Make your case and perhaps also place it among thoughts about what is needed in Welty Studies in the 21st Century. We hope to hear about books underway, articles forming, and dissertations being proposed.

Extended Call for Papers

Myths and Fairy Tales

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

38th Annual Conference, February 15-18, 2017

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Extended Proposal submission deadline: November 15, 2016

ACCUTE 2017 - Toronto, Ryerson University, May 27 - 30.

Proposals Due Noveber 1

This panel calls for a reassessment of Austin Clarke’s writing. While Clarke was one of Canada’s earliest, most prolific, and most awarded writers, scholarship on his work remains scarce. This critical neglect is particularly surprising given his foundational role in Canadian literature; his first short stories predate Frye’s articulation of ‘where is here?’ This neglect has not gone wholly unnoticed: W.J. Keith describes his Clarke’s writing as “characteristically neglected” and Clarke’s biographer, Stella Algoo Baksh argues that there is “a dearth of comprehensive examinations of Clarke’s life and writing.”

Please find below the call for a special issue of Label Me Latina/o Journal on Afro-Latina/o Literature and Performance. Submissions are due November 4th. Please share widely. 

http://labelmelatin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Label-Me-Latinao-Special-Issue-2017-Call-For-Submissions-Afro-Latina-Literature.pdf

Black and Latin@: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad in Afro-Latina/o Literature and Performance

CALL FOR SCHOLARLY ESSAYS AND CREATIVE WORKS FOR Label Me Latina/o