Papers are invited for the SHARP affiliate session at the 2017 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention. Potential topics include print culture, history of the book, authorship, publishing history, ephemera, illustration, publishers’ archives, production, circulation, and reception. Papers addressing this year’s convention theme,“High Art/Low Art Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture,” are especially welcome. What connections can be made between print culture/book history and the diverse world of popular culture? How has print culture reflected popular taste from the early modern world to the present? 

Possible topics include:

Genre fiction

Sensation fiction

Science fiction

Gothic

15th Comparative Canadian Literature Graduate Student Conference

Jointly Organized by Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke

Quebec City

March 23-24, 2017

Cryptography is nowadays an indispensable tool for protecting information in computer systems. It is heavily applied to systems as diverse as the Internet, business transactions, government services, and wireless communication systems. At the same time, cryptography is one of the most theoretical areas of research in computer science. It admits a theoretical framework that allows the use of appropriate models, amenable to mathematical reasoning.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND ART

We, STERLING SPORK, want your words, art, and other detritus.STERLING SPORKis a new literary publication based out of Florida, specializing in experimental literature, art, and nonfiction. We will publish both online and in print.

We are tired of the sterilized hipness of modern literary magazines. We are looking for work (or play) that challenges both the author/artist and reader/spectator––work that falls in the cracks of form, genre, and convention.  

2018 Modern Language Associaton Convention

New York, NY, Jan. 4-7, 2018

War, Disability, and Embodiment

NACBS 2017

November 3-5 2017 Denver, Colorado

Cultures of Violence in South Asia EditorialSpecial Issue of Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium (Vol.2, Issue 1, 2017) While the Indian Subcontinent lays claim to a rich legacy of anti-colonialism borne out of Gandhian ideals of non-violence, it is fraught with periodic flare-ups of violence between the state, insurgency groups, religious organizations, among a wide spectrum of other actors. It could even be argued that the violence has been congenital to the nation-state formation in the Indian Subcontinent, as exemplified in the rich literary tradition of the Partition narratives by SaadatManto, Ahmed Ali, Khushwant Singh, and Bapsi Sidhwa.