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New Directions: British Women Writers Conference

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Monday, August 14, 2017 - 10:28am
18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2017

New Directions: the 26th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference

April 11-15, 2018

The University of Texas at Austin

The twenty-sixth annual BWWC invites papers and panel proposals interpreting the theme of “New Directions.” Since the landmark “Generations” conference of 2017 invites a retrospective look back, “New Directions” will encourage turning to the future to ask crucial methodological, theoretical, and content-based questions about our fields’ key concepts and literatures.

MVSA Seminars: Victorian Health and Wellness

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Monday, August 14, 2017 - 10:28am
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

MIDWEST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION VICTORIAN HEALTH & WELLNESS

“Tools for Corpus Analysis in the Study of the Long Eighteenth Century” Part II (Digital Humanities Caucus)

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Monday, August 14, 2017 - 10:28am
49th ASECS Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2017

For this panel, we seek individual or team submissions focused on literary or historical work using digital tools
for corpus analysis. We invite papers that cover various aspects of computer-assisted textual analysis,
whether in research or in the classroom. Questions might include: What are the risks and benefits of
computer-assisted textual analysis? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having students “screw
around” with texts in this fashion? What does it mean to derive significance from a text or a corpus of texts
through quantitative means? How might texts be interpreted and interrogated through specific methods and

CFP: Special issue- "Women in Buddhism"

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Monday, August 14, 2017 - 10:29am
Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Dear Colleagues,

The topic of women in Buddhism spans a large geographical and historical expanse, beginning some 2500 years ago during the lifetime of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. Throughout the history of Buddhism, women—their status within the traditions, their contributions, and their myriad roles—have been a subject of attention and concern.  The present volume seeks to examine how women’s roles in Buddhism have changed over time, how the women’s ordination movement has developed in specific contexts, and how women have changed the landscape of Buddhism, both as practitioners (lay and monastic) and as scholars in the field.

(1) This issue will examine the changing landscape of women in Buddhism;

NEW JOURNAL: Early Middle English -- Call for Submissions

updated: 
Monday, August 14, 2017 - 10:29am
Early Middle English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Announcing *Early Middle English*, a new biannual open-access journal published by MIP-Arc Humanities Press.  *EME* is the first scholarly journal devoted to this vital period of linguistic change, literary and material experimentation, emerging genres, and multilingual interaction, and it takes the widest possible conception of the field. EME seeks to examine not only texts written in Early Middle English but also the historical and global situation of the literature of England and its production ca. 1100-1350. 

We are currently seeking submissions for the first two issues.  Submissions can fall into one of two categories:
1. Traditional long-form essays of 6000-8000 words