EXTENDED DEADLINE: Abstracts will now be accepted up to Tuesday 14 February. Abstracts submitted by this date will receive a decision around the second half of March or sooner. Send abstracts to pacificspinoza@gmail.com. (Those who have already submitted abstracts, thank you -- decisions will be sent out for these by late February or latest early March.)

Full details at: www.interstices.ac.nz/call-for-papers-spinoza-auckland-2017/

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PLENARIES / KEYNOTES include:

2017 NWSA Annual Conference: 40 YEARS AFTER COMBAHEE:

Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives

The Lesbian Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association invites complete panel,

workshop, or roundtable format submissions (not individual submissions) for a guaranteed

caucus sponsored session to be held November 16-19, 2017 at the annual conference.

According to the conference CFP, “NWSA is an organization of feminist scholars and

scholar-activists that emerged out of the social movements of the 1960s and 70s. It is fitting

then that since our 40th anniversary conference will take place in Baltimore, the site of the

The Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in Hull, England from July 24 to July 27, 2017.  The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900).

Started by Norwich Unitarians in 1994, the Martineau Society encourages scholarship on the Martineau family and their nineteenth-century context as well as their continuing influence.  Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

We seek essays of 5,000 to 6,000 words for an anthology that explores American literature through the lens of social justice.  The volume will become a part of a popular literary series published by a major press.

The aim of this conference is to provide an open platform for prospective researchers for discussion of new advancements in Information Technology, big data analytics, development and applications using efficient techniques. We encourage researchers to submit original works which will enrich prospective researchers and provide novel and improved techniques based on some of the areas mentioned below, although not limited to these areas, since "research does not follow any boundaries”. Topics of the session may include, but not limited to, the following:
Big data analytics, development, applications
Software/hardware tools and techniques for big data management
Security issues for big data management

Il pubblico della poesia (Cosenza: Lerici), edited by Alfonso Berardinelli and Franco Cordelli, was published in 1975. It is the first anthology to consider the poetic generation that appeared after 1968. The novelty of these poets was characterised in three main ways: the interruption of the linear relationship with Tradition; the «tendency towards the fast dissolution of the sociocultural and ideological figure of the Author»; and a change in the literary field. As argued by Berardinelli in the introduction: «[...] The Self that produces poetic texts in these years no longer resembles that of the great tradition of the twentieth century, and probably not even that of the author’s fathers and older brothers of the preceding twenty years ».