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Kinship, Community, and Activism in the Cultural Production of the Black Diaspora

updated: 
Thursday, January 17, 2019 - 4:02pm
The Howard University Graduate English Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 1, 2019

 Kinship, Community, and Activism in the Cultural Production of the Black Diaspora

 

 “To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate         domination.” ― bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

CFP: “Robert Frost and Animal Studies” / American Literature Association Conference in May 2019 in Boston, MA

updated: 
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 1:10pm
Grzegorz Kosc / President / Robert Frost Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

 

CFP: “Robert Frost and Animal Studies”

 

American Literature Association 30th Annual Conference in Boston, MA

May 23-26, 2019 at the Westin Copley Place

Sponsor: Robert Frost Society (session 1)

 

“We were lost piecemeal to the animals, / Like people thrown out to delay the wolves,” Robert Frost wrote famously in his poem “The White-Tailed Hornet” of the modern trend to investigate animality in humans. Robert Frost Society invites new essays on Robert Frost’s life and work which would engage some of the critical frameworks being developed today in animal studies.

Time/Le temps

updated: 
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 4:05pm
International Medieval Society Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 30, 2018

Time/ Le temps

Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris

Paris, 8–10 July /juillet 2019

 

Call for Papers:

 “What is time?” asked St. Augustine. “Who can comprehend this even in thought so as to articulate the answer in words? Yet what do we speak of, in our familiar everyday conversation, more than of time?”

Radical Materialisms--updated

updated: 
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 7:15am
Boston College English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 8, 2019

Radical Materialisms

Boston College English Graduate Conference

April 6th, 2019

 

***We are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for submissions to February 8th***

 

New materialisms and object-oriented ontology offer a radical reorganization—perhaps a democratization—of human/object relations, deemphasizing human agency in favor of a “parliament of things.” This conference asks if such approaches have been too quick to abandon human politics altogether. Can new materialisms be both conceptually and politically radical?