Call for Contributions Geo-political Conflict in Emergent Genres and Forms: Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East after the Second Intifada

Modern Language Association Convention, Seattle, January 9-12 2020

Sponsor: The Robert Frost Society

Contact: Calista McRae, mcrae@njit.edu

Deadline for proposals: Monday, March 25, 2019

Session title: “Robert Frost and Fiction”

The Robert Frost Society invites papers on Frost and fiction, broadly construed: his reading in fiction and links with novelists; his prose stories; his narrative poems and fictive speakers; fiction and “lyric reading”; supreme fictions; dishonesty, gossip, invention.

Seeking abstracts that theorize any aspect of Nelson's The Argonauts. Send abstracts of 200-300 words to tyler.carson@rutgers.edu by March 1st 2019.

We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics.

Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .doc or .rtf). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail. Send electronic submissions to journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu.

Teaching Graphic Narratives

Graphic narratives offer a wide variety of doubles and doppelgängers. Secret superhero identities and Gothic doubles create unique possibilities for exploring the self, power, perception, and the potential for other realities, while graphic narrative adaptations of a literary work highlight other ways of seeing and interacting with a text. Graphic narratives encompass worlds beyond fiction as well, with graphic memoirs and textbooks in a wide range of fields from rhetoric to literary theory, history, and science.

Between Myth and Memory: Contemporary Politics and the Performance of History

An interdisciplinary one-day symposium 

— Call for Papers —

 25 April 2019

Centre for Performance and Urban Living, University of Surrey, UK

The University of Surrey can be reached within 30 minutes by train from central London.

Keynote: Dr. Sophie Nield (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Peterloo Massacre has been dubbed “the bloodiest political event of the nineteenth century on English soil” (Poole 2007, 111). Its psychological, sociocultural and political reverberations reach far and wide. The approaching bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre calls for reappraisal and questioning through the (sometimes) distorting, yet revealing lens of narrative – that is, through the numerous ways in which Peterloo has been represented and retold in literature, art, on stage and on film. Writing about popular protest in 1819, John Gardner states that “Events are usually ephemeral and those present are often unclear about what actually happened.