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Proposals & Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through The PCA Conference Submission page
Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time. Exceptions and rules

CALL FOR PAPERS

INFO about the conference

ACLA Annual Meeting 2018: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting

Deadline: September 21, at 9 a.m. EST

The American Comparative Literature Association's 2018 Annual Meeting will take place at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California between March 29th and April 1st, 2018. 

interested individuals may submit a paper proposal directly on the ACLA website <https://www.acla.org/node/add/seminar> before  September 21, at 9 a.m. EST

PANEL: Migrants in Transnational Cities

This panel reflects on the place of confusion in British and American modernism. Confusion has not been traditionally considered a proper scholarly response to textual analysis; critics are supposed to interpret a text rather than allow themselves to experience its uncertainties. What happens when we explore the confusion we feel when reading not as something to be worked through, but as something to be worked with? Building on affect theorists’ work on how our feelings can influence the way we read, such as Eve Sedgwick’s reparative reading and Rita Felski’s reflective and post-critical reading, how can considering confusion change both our experience of reading and our critical practices?

“Bridges to and from the Renaissance” at CEA,  April 5-7, 2018

| CEA 49th Annual Conference: “Bridges”

| Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront,  333 1st St S, Saint Petersburg, Florida  33701

| Phone: (727) 894-5000

This call for papers is meant to solicit wide-ranging abstracts on the possibilities of the “bridges” in British literature of the 16th and 17th centuries for the 49th annual conference of the College English Association, a collegial gathering of scholars and teachers in English studies. 

Call for Papers, Peace Studies at CEA 2018

April 5-7, 2018 | St. Petersburg, Florida

Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront

333 1st St South, Saint Petersburg, Florida  33701 | Phone: (727) 894-5000

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Peace Studies for our 49th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Note: You can select “Peace Studies” as one of three topics for your proposal at the above URL. 

Peace Studies

A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, the Underground Railroad, the formal and informal network of routes and people that helped fugitive slaves escape from the slaveholding South to freedom between the end of the 18th century and the Civil War, still draws considerable scholarly attention, whether it be through investigating its history or debating its many representations in public memory, literature and various art forms (Schulz, 2016). Considered “a model of democracy in action,” “the nation’s first great movement of civil disobedience since the American Revolution,” and “an epic of high drama” (Bordewich, 2005, p.

During the Persian Gulf War, the American military debuted smart-bombing that quickly eliminated Iraqi infrastructure. The Persian Gulf War was known as a “clean” war, as targets were efficiently acquired and destroyed. The War in Iraq further exemplified the American military prowess in aerial assault: Predator and Reaper drones acquired targets and enabled surveillance. Although weaponized drones are an efficient means of acquiring and destroying targets, we should contemplate how the American military conducts war in foreign countries, the ethical stakes, and how the combatant’s experience of war has transformed in the age of technology. An especially important facet of drone warfare to consider is the civilian impact.