At the request of colleagues, please note the extended deadline for abstracts is 14th February 2017 (for a truly bloody Valentine’s…)

Gothic Feminism presents:

Women-in-Peril or Final Girls? Representing Women in Gothic and Horror Cinema

25th – 26th May 2017

University of Kent

Keynote speaker: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers

Break-up: Separation, Estrangement and Disjunction

SHU Humanities Postgraduate Conference 2017

Hosted by SHSU Postgraduate Research Students’ Society - 1st and 2nd June 2017

‘Between three counties far apart that lay

We were divided and looked strangely each

At the other, and we knew we were not friends

But fellows in a union that ends

With the necessity for it, as it ought.’

From “Home”, Edward Thomas, 1916

                                                                                    Literature, Life, and the Biological

Time: December 15-16

Venue: 10F, Chueh-seng Building, Tamkang University 

             New Taipei City, Taiwan     

 Open Call for Papers, Issue 2.2 (Winter 2017)

In Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain reflects that the Armistice has “come too late”: “[the people] did not cry jubilantly: ‘We’ve won the War!’ They only said: ‘The War is over’” (421-2).Honoring the centenary of the Great War’s end, this panel seeks papers on ways in which the arts address practices of memory and commemoration, particularly relating to fraught relationship(s) between war and peace, and the ways in which, as Madelyn Detloff reminds us, we exist in a “‘patched’ present troubled by modernist constellations of personal trauma, militarized violence, and ‘imperial loss’” (Modernism 10).

Call for Papers

Literature and the Sea: Maritime Literary Currents

Abstracts are invited for a proposed collection of essays on literature and the sea, broadly defined.  Proposed papers may focus on the literature of any country and any literary period, but please keep in mind that the language for the volume will be English.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing has already expressed interest in publishing this collection. 

Topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:

SASGLS General Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

 “Things fall apart”

17-19 August 2017, University of South Africa (Unisa), Pretoria, South Africa

The South African Society for General Literary Studies (SASGLS) invites scholars to submit proposals on the theme “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” for its biennial conference, to be hosted at the University of South Africa (Unisa), Pretoria, from 17 to 19 August 2017.