Black Performing Arts:  Sound, Movement, Image, Text

Popular Culture Association

2019 National Conference

Washington Marriott Wardman Park

2660 Woodley Road NW

Washington, D.C.

20008

April 17-20, 2019

Call For Proposals:  Sessions, Panels, Papers

Call for Chapter Proposals

Working Title: Canonical Young Adult Literature: Criticism & Critique

Editors

Victor Malo-Juvera, University of North Carolina Wilmington, malov@uncw.edu

Crag Hill, University of Oklahoma,  crag.a.hill@ou.edu

Proposal Submission Deadline: November 1, 2018

Proposal Decisions: December 22, 2018

Overview

The Shadow Lines (1988) is Amitav Ghosh’s acclaimed masterpiece. The novel won the Sahitya Akademi award, India’s most prestigious annual literary prize, as well as the Ananda Puraskar in 1990. The novel has gained enormous resonance in postcolonial studies as it touches upon some of the major issues in the fields of colonial history, national identities, memory,time and space, hybridity, transnationalism and borders. It has been seminal in the definition and discussion of a postcolonial cartography.

The rise of the internet has certainly led to a proliferation of false news stories and social media posts/pages. Fake news's profile has only risen as more organizations describe legitimate news sources as false when they don't like what is being said, leading to further confusion for students regarding who to believe. This roundtable looks at how to effectively educate first-year students on credible research methods, such as how to vet web sources and disseminate biased news reporting. The priority should be on recent examples to provide a practical context on the subject.

The conference is through the Northeast Modern Language Association and will take place March 21-24th, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

Session at ICMS Kalamazoo 2019, May 9-12. Sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. 

We encourage submissions that address non-European and / or non-Christian contexts.

Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words, along with a completed Participant Information form, to session organizer Dainy Bernstein (dainybernstein@gmail.com) by September 15. Please include your name, title and affiliation on the abstract itself. All abstracts not accepted for the session will be forwarded to Congress administrators for consideration in general sessions, per Congress rules.

This is a session sponsored by the International Layamon's Brut Society for the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-12, 2019, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.  

ISECS 2019, Edinburgh

The International Congress on the Enlightenment is the quadrennial meeting of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) and the world’s largest meeting of specialists on all aspects of the eighteenth century. Recent ISECS congresses have been held in Los Angeles (2003), Montpellier (2007), Graz (2011), and Rotterdam (2015). The 15th ISECS Congress will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Sunday 14 July to Friday 19 July 2019. It is organized by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) and the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS), and hosted by the University of Edinburgh.