Most often, borders are thought of as spaces of division that, according to Gloria Anzaldúa, “distinguish us from them.” However, borders also create their own spaces, as “two worlds merging to form a third country — a border culture [where] duality is transcended.” The presence of multiple languages and dialects in border contexts and the language experiences of linguistically diverse writers provides teachers and students with opportunities and challenges as they engage writing in personal, social, educational, professional, and community situations where audience, purpose, and language vary.

The Fifth Euroacademia International Conference

‘Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities’

Centro Congressi – Piazza di Spagna

Rome, Italy

9 – 10 December 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 1st of November 2016

Conference description:

Academic literary critics have long eyed book reviewers, their public counterparts, with suspicion. For example, in The Armed Vision, a 1948 study of the methods of modern literary criticism, Stanley Edgar Hyman makes the following heavily weighted distinction, "the reviewer, more or less, is interested in books as commodities; the critic in books as literature." However, the past 15 years have seen a proliferation of forms and forums for online writing about books that combine the literary and the commodity in complex and interesting ways, deconstructing and reevaluating the distinctions between these terms.

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CONFERENCE ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE PAINE COLLEGE

AUGUSTA, GA

NOVEMBER 2-4, 2016

The Department of Humanities at Paine College is requesting proposals for the 20th Annual Conference on the Harlem Renaissance to be held on the campus of historic Paine College. The theme for 2016 is “Precursors, Periods, and Postscripts: Critical Thought, Beliefs, Productions, and Activism before, during, and after the Harlem Renaissance.” The focus for presentations will center on the literature, history, philosophy, art, and music, as well as inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches from the social and political sciences, economics, and STEM.

Enchanted, Stereotyped, Civilized: Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film
(essay collection)
Gardens have been a crucial part in mythology and literature. Throughout English
literature for example, the idea of a garden is a recurrent image; these images largely
stem from the story of the Garden of Eden which is found in the Genesis, the first book of
the Bible. Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature – the garden can
be seen as civilized and ‘shaped’ and therefore domesticated nature –, in the vast library
of garden literature few books focus on what the garden means – on the ecology of
garden as idea, place, and action. Our volume will discuss the topic of the garden in

27th Annual Mardi Gras Conference

Where: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

When: February 22-24, 2017

Abstracts due: December 16, 2016

http://mgcon2017.weebly.com/

Theme:

Gumbo & Zydeco: Interdisciplinary Magic

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AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

MAY 25-28 2017

BOSTON, MA

Cormac McCarthy Society

Cormac McCarthy and Ron Rash

In Ron Rash’s Serena (Pen/Faulkner Finalist 2009), one of the choric lumberjacks named Ballard makes an off-hand comment about a girl he sees in Tennessee.  Nearly lost in a welter of logger jokes and putdowns, readers of McCarthy’s Child of God would have not missed Rash’s darkly humorous intertextual nod.  McCarthy’s influence on the generations of writers who have followed in his wake has been immense.  This panel will consider one of two important aspects of the relations between McCarthy’s and Rash’s works.