CALL FOR PAPERSDemeter Pressis seeking submissions for an edited collection entitledMothering, Community, and FriendshipEditors: Norma I. Peña Rivera, Janet MacLennan, and Dorsía Smith SilvaDeadline for Submissions: August 15, 2017This edited collection aboutmotherhood, community,and friendship welcomescontributions not only fromacross interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, but also from the spectrum of people whoexperience, create, construct, value, study, and change communities such as academics, community workers,activists, educators, urban planners, artists, and members of mothering groups. Considering a broad meaningof communities, it includes virtual and “analogous” (real) communities, in time and in space.

At the 2nd International Laurence Sterne Conference (26-28 October, Bydgoszcz, Poland) Dr Daniel Cook will be convening the panel "The Age of Sterne in the 21st century". The panel will concentrate on the uses and abuses of the Georgian period - especially, though not exclusively, the 1750s and 1760s (the "Sternean" decades) - in contemporary literature and popular culture. 

Send paper proposals to dr.daniel.cook@gmail.com and j.lipski@ukw.edu.pl; the deadline is 15 July 2017.

More more information on the conference go to www.sterne2017.pl