This panel is a broad call for papers on Spenser's Afterlives: How have people read his poetry? What have people done with his poetry?  Possible topics include: Spenser's immediate imitators (e.g. Giles and Phineas Fletcher); translations of Spenser (e.g. the Latin translations of The Shepheardes Calendar in the 17th c.); The Faerie Queene as children's literature; Spenser's influence on Milton, Melville, or Hawthorne; Spenser's influence on 20th and 21st century fantasy literature (Tolkein, C.S.

Analog Games and Gender 

Panel for Game Studies Section

PCA 2019

Washington DC

April 17-20,2019

Concepts of gender have been a cornerstone of contemporary discussion in the field of game studies (Hayes 2011; Kafai et al 2008; Shaw 2014; Williams, Ratan, and Harrison 2011) . While much of the research is firmly tied to video games, understandings of gender in analog games has slowly come to the fore. Increased media related to live action role playing games (larp), the unpredicted resurgence of Dungeons & Dragons, and the longevity of collectible card games like Magic The Gathering demonstrate analog games as a durable subsection of game studies that is ripe for academic analysis in terms of gender.

HAS RECOVERY RUN OUT OF STEAM?:
PERSPECTIVES FROM THE AFRICAN DIASPORA 

Panel Description

SPECTRA: The Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives

The ASPECT Journal

https://spectrajournal.org/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Issue 7.1, Fall 2018

The editors of SPECTRA: The ASPECT Journal invite scholarly work in all areas of social,
political, ethical, and cultural thought for the Fall 2018 issue.

We invite the submission of academic articles, book reviews, and original artwork for publication
in volume 7.1. Submissions may speak to individual social science or humanities fields, or apply
an interdisciplinary lens to contemporary theoretical, critical, empirical, or policy-oriented
subjects.

NeMLA 2019 Roundtable: Mindfulness in the Writing and Literature Classroom

This roundtable session will discuss practical strategies for implementing techniques of mindfulness in the writing and literature classroom, and it will consider the advantages and disadvantages of such techniques.

How do American writers who exist in two or more different spaces at the same time cognitively map their experience? Cognitive mapping, an “aesthetic” first called for by Frederic Jameson, is a strategy of disalienation that combines the phenomenological mapping of one’s own subjectivity in a spatial totality with the “Althusserian  . . .