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“An island at the center of the world”: Reconsidering Ireland’s Role on the Global Stage
6th Annual Dean Hopper Conference, Drew University
Madison, New Jersey
April 20 and 21, 2018
Animal Print
DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 1, 2017
[T]o forge another word in the singular, at the same time close but radically foreign, a chimerical word that sounded as though it contravened the laws of the French language, l’animot.
Jacques Derrida, “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” 409
The Plays of Simon Stephens
The 42nd Comparative Drama Conference will feature Simon Stephens as its Keynote Speaker on April 6, 2018 and in honor of his appearance we will offer panels on his plays.
While we welcome papers on any aspect of Stephens’s plays, some possible topics to explore include:
Teaching Simon Stephens in the classroom
Productions of Simon Stephens’s works
Simon Stephens as an adapter (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, A Doll’s House, The Seagull)
Comparing Pornography (Stephens’s 7/7 play) to 9/11 plays
Politics in the plays of Simon Stephens
Proposal Guidelines
Entering its twenty-fifth year of publication, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture seeks to promote the study of all historical aspects of baseball and centers on the social and cultural implications of the game wherever in the world baseball is played. NINE is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Nebraska Press and distributed electronically via Project Muse. NINE publishes articles, essays, book reviews, biographies, interviews, oral history, short fiction, and poetry.
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) has extended the submission deadline for our 2018 National Convention, to be held in Indianapolis, IN at the J. W. Marriot from March 28-31. The American Literature Area of PCA/ACA will accept abstracts for individual papers until October 10, 2017.
Dear Colleagues, We have extended the deadline for abstract submissions until January 18 for the 24th Annual Carolina Conference for Romance Studies (April 5-7, 2018). You can find the Call for Papers below, as well as in the included attachment. We hope that you will be able to attend and listen to our keynote speakers: - Enrico Cesaretti, Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia (http://spanitalport.as.virginia.edu/people/efc4p)- Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University (
Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press) is now accepting articles and reviews written in English or traditional Chinese for a general issue of the journal, tentatively scheduled for publication in June 2018. Hong Kong Studies is the first bilingual academic journal to focus on Hong Kong from an interdisciplinary perspective. The editors believe that the timely expansion of the field of Hong Kong Studies warrants a journal of its own, in order to provide a focused platform for facilitating exchange between different disciplines and viewpoints in relation to Hong Kong.
The Mind's Eye: A Liberal Arts Journal
Special Issue: The Dog Diaries, Submissions Due October 30th
We seek submissions that explore the tangible and symbolic affection bonds that people have with dogs. Given how much dogs impart to us, The Dog Diaries will represent a cathartic “Thank You” for best-friends, past, present, and future. Submissions can include scholarly research, commentaries, fiction, science fiction, poetry, book reviews, interviews, cartoons, drawings, photography, and other artistic works.
Keynote Speaker: Professor John J. McGavin
University of Dundee, April 21st 2018
Now in its second year, Writings from Scotland Before the Union: 2018 is a one-day conference which will continue to explore all areas of literature prior to the Act of Union in 1707.
Hosted by the Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee, the conference aims to gain a further understanding of how Scotland saw herself in literary terms before formal Union.
Abstracts are welcome on any topic concerning writing from pre-Union Scotland, though some areas of particular interest include the following:
Sarah Hall published her first novel, Haweswater, in 2002. Since then she has developed into one of the UK’s most protean and quietly acclaimed writers, producing poetry, short fiction and novels in a wide range of genres which are nonetheless bound together by a common style and a common set of preoccupations: wild(er)ness, female sexuality and the deep connection between language, landscape and the body.
Fiction and Facts in Narratives of Political Conflict
Call for Papers
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
March 8-11, 2018
Gender, Sexuality, and Museums, new volume