Society for Contemporary Literature @ ALA 2018  | May 24-27, 2018 | San Francisco

POSTINDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS

This panel aims to explore the various literary spaces—both urban and organic—that define American literature after deindustrialization. How does the postindustrial economy remake the ways that people work in, live in, rely on, and relate to their built and natural environments? And how, in turn, do those new environmental dynamics reshape contemporary novels and poems? 

American Literature Association

May 24-27, 2018, in San Francisco, California

Thoreau and Resistance 

What do Thoreau's writings offer contemporary modes of social and political resistance?  As we navigate an extended period of political crisis, what can we learn from Thoreau's complex responses to the national politics of his time? This panel will consider Thoreau's legacy for resistance movements with particular attention to the question of the relation between his political and natural history writings. Please send queries or one-page abstracts (for an 18-minute presentation) by January 15, 2018 to: kristen.case@maine.edu.  

IESPTA organizes 2nd ESP conference at Oxford University, 1-2 June 2018

We invite papers dealing with ESP and the related fields.

• ESP and educational policies
• New developments in syllabus design
• Digital world and ESP
• Methods in reading and academic writing 
• Issues in ESP
• Integrating content and language in ESP
• Migration and ESP
• ESP Teacher
• ESP at work
• Impact of Technological development on ESP

Topics are not limited to above. 

Paper Submissions:

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

(ISSN: 2457-0044)

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an academic journal, invites original and unpublished research papers from scholars on the following:

Rhetoric of Exile

PUBLICATION SERIES: The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning the Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts

This series will embrace exploratory discussions that emanate from the latest Africana ideas from the Caribbean, Black Atlantic, and Southern United States. The series aims to examine ideologies, theories, aesthetics, and their cultural and global manifestations. From the music, dance, literature, fashion, linguistic nuances, and beyond, Africana culture is vibrantly original and requires significant documentation to avoid its loss in the vast imitation that abounds nationally and internationally. 

Contact the editor for full proposal guidelines.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s recent interview in Time magazine concluded with an optimistic and historically loaded statement:

UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 15, 2018

WHAT IS UNIVERSE?  COMMUNICATION • COMPLEXITY • COHERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON IN PORTLAND • APRIL 19 – 21, 2018

 “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”  — Martin Luther King, Jr.‎