Taking this year’s Modernist Studies Association theme of “Graphic Modernism” in a slightly different direction intimated in the title, this panel features graphical analyses of modernism based in a Digital Humanities methodology. One definition for “graphical” is “of or pertaining to a graph,” to data plotted and coordinates mapped. This panel will feature quantitative analyses of modernist culture in an effort to visualize what Raymond Williams might call a “sociology of culture,” the wide-ranging social practices that make culture possible but which are often obscured by the objects themselves.

CFP: "THE VESEY CONSPIRACY at 200: BLACK ANTISLAVERY and the ATLANTIC WORLD" 

In preparation for a volume of essays to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Denmark Vesey conspiracy of 1822, the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW) at the College of Charleston will hold a small conference on enslaved and free black anti-slavery, February 8-10, 2019. 

With their 2016 production of Spring Awakening, Deaf West Theatre was celebrated for their ongoing revolutionary approaches towards musical theatre, putting deaf and hearing actors on stage together, adapting stories and characters in Deaf cultural contexts, and making diversity and accessibility top priorities both on- and off-stage. The production was also the first Broadway show to feature an actor in a wheelchair, Ali Stroker.

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

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. 

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 (