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DHSI Conference & Colloquium 2019

updated: 
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 2:21pm
Digital Humanities Summer Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 11, 2019

Call for Papers | http://www.dhsi.org/events.php

Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Conference & Colloquium, to be held in June 2019 alongside classes at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria. Open to all, the DHSI Conference & Colloquium offers an opportunity to present research and projects within an engaging, collegial atmosphere. Participation comes free with DHSI registration, and contributors not planning to register for a DHSI course can join for a modest participation fee of $150 CDN.

REPRESENTATION IN THE TIME OF THE POSTHUMAN: TRANSHUMAN ENHANCEMENT IN 21ST CENTURY STORYTELLING. 16th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English

updated: 
Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 5:21am
University of Zaragoza
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 4, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTENDED DEADLINE: February 4, 2019

REPRESENTATION IN THE TIME OF THE POSTHUMAN: TRANSHUMAN ENHANCEMENT IN 21ST CENTURY STORYTELLING

16th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English

http://typh.unizar.es/conference/

 

University of Zaragoza, Spain

May 29-31, 2019

 

“Black Internationalism and New York City”

updated: 
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 12:16pm
Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at New York University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 14, 2019

This conference seeks to promote mechanisms by which academics, activists, policymakers, and other stakeholders enter into greater dialogue and collaboration in areas of conjoined interest. In partnership with the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) – for which NYU serves as the institutional home – NYU’s Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) will convene every two years, alternating with ASWAD’s biennial conference.

(ASWAD’s 10thBiennial Conference will be held from 5-10 November, 2019 at the College of William & Mary. For more information, please consult the website: HTTP://ASWADIASPORA.ORG)

Samuel Beckett Working Group, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai

updated: 
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 1:21pm
Trish McTighe, University of Birmingham
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 7, 2019

The Samuel Beckett Working Group will be meeting at the FIRT/IFTR International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference, 8-12 July 2019.

"Remembering Ntozake Shange"

updated: 
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 7:27pm
The Langston Hughes Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The Langston Hughes Review Special Issue CFP: "Remembering Ntozake Shange" 

Single/Solo/Lone Parenting in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Monday, January 21, 2019 - 3:04am
The Swedish Network for Family and Kinship Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2019

Following the international conference Close relations: a multi-and interdisciplinary conference on critical family and kinship studies, the Swedish Network for Family and Kinship Studies invites chapters for a contributed volume which will explore, discuss and theorise single/solo/lone parenting in Europe and North America. Palgrave Macmillan have expressed a provisional interest in publishing the volume in the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series. 

Peoples and Cultures of the World

updated: 
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 2:11pm
Department of Cultures and Societies -Palermo University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Call for papers

 

Peoples and Cultures of the World

 

International Conference

Palermo University, January 24-25, 2019

Building 19, Viale delle Scienze

Rooms: Aula Seminari A and B

 

 

Deadline for submitting proposals: 5 December 2018

 

Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy

updated: 
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 1:23pm
University of Florida Writing Program
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy

Jim Thompson and the American West: A Critical Collection

updated: 
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 1:24pm
Meredith James
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2019

  Jim Thompson, a writer of hard-boiled crime fiction, was born in Anadarko, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), in 1906.  Thompson’s literary achievements were little-recognized during his lifetime; however, many of his works were re-discovered and re-published in the 1980s. His work is often lauded, noting his ability to understand the criminal mind.  His work is largely critiqued and categorized as only hard-boiled fiction, but his work defies such a simple genre classification.  Thompson combines the genres of crime fiction and Westerns and in doing so, his works read as critiques of American history and culture. Certainly much of Thompson’s work can be read as a critique of post-WWII America.  As David Cochrane points out Thompson’s works serve as “portrait