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Keynote Announced and Deadline Extended (7/24) for Action!: Performance, Sport, and Moving Bodies in Film and Visual Media

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 2:46pm
The University of Pittsburgh Film Studies Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 24, 2017

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside, Department of English

University of Pittsburgh, September 29th-30th, 2017
Hosted by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization (FSGSO)
Call for Papers | Extended Deadline: July 24th, 2017

[Deadline Extended to June 3] Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2018

updated: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 10:43am
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

 

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) will sponsor a series of panels at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting in New Orleans, LA on March 22-24 2018. SHARP @ RSA brings together scholars working on any aspect of the creation, dissemination, and reception of manuscript and print and their digital mediation. Applicants with creative or interdisciplinary methodologies are especially encouraged to apply.

Yankees and Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 1:34pm
McFarland and Company
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2017

McFarland and Company invites baseball writers to contribute abstracts for an essay collection presently titled The New York Yankees and Popular Culture.

Writers are encouraged to submit their own topics for consideration.  Possible topics include:

  • Yankees in Advertising
  • History of WPIX
  • The fight between Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson on the Game of the Week
  • Buster Keaton’s film The Cameraman featuring a sequence at Yankee Stadium
  • Yankees and Seinfeld

McFarland is a leading publisher of books and journals in sports history, including Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game and Black Ball: A Negro League Journal.

(CFP: PAMLA 2017) Images of Crisis

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 8:21am
Toshiaki Komura / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Session Title - Images of Crisis: Poetic Ways of Seeing Disasters

This session seeks papers on representations of "crisis" in literature, broadly defined. A non-exhaustive list of the questions raised by this panel may include: what happens when images of crises, disasters, or ruins are mediated through literature? How do images connect to understanding and knowledge? How does ekphrasis limit or enhance the possibilities of empathy? What are the obligations of our conscience as readers? What are the ethics of writing or reading about cruelties and atrocities? Areas of inquiry encompass, but are not limited to, the following:

Shakespeare and the Greater Middle East

updated: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 1:34pm
Shakespeare
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 30, 2018

Call for papers: special issue of Shakespeare: ‘Shakespeare and the Greater Middle East’

Guest edited by R. M. Christofides, University of Liverpool. 

Memories, Marks and Imprints

updated: 
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 4:20am
CELEC, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

November 20-21, 2017

Université Jean Monnet, Saint- Etienne, France

Organized by : Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Floriane Reviron-Piégay and Emmanuelle Souvignet

 

Keynote speaker: Nancy K. Miller, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY,

teacher, feminist author, memoirist, author of the following books (among others).

Breathless: An American Girl in Paris, Seal, 2013.

What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past, University of Nebraska Press, 2011.

But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives. Columbia University Press, 2002. 

Journal of Intercultural Inquiry

updated: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 1:37pm
Dr Geoffrey Nash, University of Sunderland, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

CFP Journal of Intercultural Inquiry

Call for Papers Date:

Date Submitted: 2017-04-26
Contact email: geoff.nash@sunderland.ac.uk

Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures: call for papers

updated: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 1:36pm
Hunan Normal University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2017

Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (CN43-1537/H) , established in 2016, is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year. The journal publishes research articles, reviews, and interviews. Its purpose is to further multi- and interdisciplinary analyses of research that explores scholarship in different languages and cultures. The journal invites contributions, in English, from authors in all relevant scholarly disciplines related to the study of linguistics, literature and culture and translation. Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures has an international standing, attracting submissions and participation from all countries in the world. Submissions can be delivered electronically as Word file attachment.