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Call for Papers: Negotiating, subverting, reconfiguring borders in the English-speaking world
University of Strasbourg, France: 5-6 October 2018
Guest speaker: Philip Ursprung, Dean and Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich
THE CIRCULATION OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IN EUROPE’S BORDERLAND
University of Bucharest, Romania
November 8th-9th, 2018
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Prof. RUI CARVALHO HOMEM, University of Porto
Prof. ALEXANDER SHURBANOV, University of Sofia
What’s Missing in Shakespeare?
Shakespeare's plays are often complicated by what they lack. Key characters go missing from scenes or drop out of the action entirely; absent characters exert influence over those onstage; mislaid or immaterial objects are pivotal to the resolutions of plots; urgent questions are settled through silences; and plays are frequently haunted by untaken roads or abandoned plot threads. In addition, contemporary performances are shaped significantly by cuts to the script, with some scenes or characters rarely realized in performance, and some plays rarely performed at all.
Arcadia University English Department Graduate Conference: the 19th Century and Gender & Sexuality, hosted by the Arcadia University English Department
Deadline for Submission: May 30th, 2018
Registration Date: August 15, 2018
Contact Email: arcadia.graduate.conference@gmail.com
Conference Website: arcadiaconference.wordpress.com
Conference Date: Saturday, October 6, 2018
Location: Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
Call for Papers:
International Journal of English Language & Translation Studies is an indexed, peer-reviewed, open-access, research quarterly which aims to generate and disseminate new, high quality knowledge about English language teaching, literature, linguistics and translation studies as well as to promote advanced researches and best practices in these fields. We are currently soliciting unpublished, quality research articles/case studies in the fields of ELT, Linguistics, Literature, Discourse and Translation Studies for Volume: 06, Issue: 02 [April-June, 2018 Issue] of IJ-ELTS.
“A diachronic approach to Ian McEwan’s fiction : from sensationalism to ethical writing ”
This call is for contributions to an ongoing book project on Ian McEwan's œuvre. We are specifically looking for chapters that examine the earlier part of his literary output – his stories in First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets as well as his novels and novellas The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent – and some of his more recent work: Saturday, On Chesil Beach and Solar.
LOVE, ETC.
A conference sponsored by the “Uses of Literature” Research Project at the University of Southern Denmark, October 3-4, 2019
What is there left to say about love? Endlessly invoked, celebrated, assailed, abused, and parodied, love has been hailed as the meaning of life and disdained as the ultimate cliché. This conference is inspired by the conviction that love is poised to become a focus of renewed interest in the humanities. We anticipate two main focal points for the conference, without excluding other options.
Call for a paper that addresses and compares great ape intelligence and social behavior. Specifically, we’d be interested, in line with the aims and scope of the journal, for a paper that looks at, among great apes, what has been traditionally considered human-unique traits and characteristics like moral behavior. Therefore, emphasis could be placed, comparatively speaking even among the great apes, on the similarities and differences in helping, aggression, and intelligence among orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. In this regard, one could discuss recent findings in the context of great ape personhood. In turn, the paper could dovetail into a discussion about great apes in captivity, habitat loss, and animal rights.
The CW’s show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has attracted considerable critical acclaim, including creator and star Rachel Bloom’s Golden Globe for Best Actress and Emmy awards for choreography and editing. Because of its female creator, screenwriter, and directors, its hybrid form as a television musical comedy, and its blatant engagement with “sexist term[s]” and mental illness, the show is ripe for feminist media analysis. I seek proposals for papers for an edited collection on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Borderlines
5th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of
The Graduate Center for Literary Research at the University of California Santa Barbara
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
Photo. Graphic. Modernism.
Panel proposal for MSA Columbus, November 8-11 2018
This panel considers how working with photography reshapes how modernist writers conceived of graphic or violent images. Taking Virginia Woolf’s decision to leave the photos of “dead bodies and ruined houses” out of her feminist, anti-war essay, Three Guineas (1938), as a starting point, this panel welcomes papers that interrogate the relationship between literature and photography, particularly as it relates to images of violence, war, and dispossession.
Jill Carroll, writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education, argues that all instructors use a “teaching persona,” even those who unconsciously adopt what she calls a “default” persona. “If it [the default persona] works for you, consider yourself lucky,” she writes, “but if it doesn’t, the results can be messy.” This panel intends to address our teaching personae, and asks that participants consider the following questions (or any other questions that seem relevant to the issue at hand):
-Do you purposefully craft a persona for yourself, and if so, how have you gone about it?
-If at multiple universities, do you sample different approaches or personas?
-Who or what are your influences?
Shakespeare and Society
Deadline: May 30th, 2018
Full name/ Name of Organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Contact Email: arigg003@ucr.edu
Drama and Society 3 Panel: Shakespeare and Society
Chair: Amanda L. Riggle
At the 116th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
In Bellingham, Washington Friday November 9th through Sunday November 11th, 2018
CFP: Opioid Aesthetics: Expressive Culture in an Age of Addiction
Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities solicits submissions for a special issue on Performing Identities in Jewish Latin American Film, guest edited by Luca Barattoni (Clemson University) and Patricia Nuriel (Wofford College).