The Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (www.wsecs.org) invites proposals from all disciplines on the general topic of “The Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene and Biodiversity,” scheduled for Friday and Saturday of Presidents’ Day weekend, February 14-15, 2020, at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado).

The Plenary Speaker is:  

Dr. Joyce Chaplin, Professor of Early American History at Harvard University.

Abstracts and articles are sought for an edited collection to be entitled Decentering the Anthropocene: Spanish Ecocritical Texts and the Non-Human. Ecocriticism examines literary and cultural representations of the natural environment and diverse life forms, often in the context of broader political, economic, and social issues and often with an ethical commitment to sustainability and environmental justice. In this context, ecocritical work may interrogate how texts treat anthropocentrism, or the centralization of humans’ perspectives, needs, and experiences over those of other beings.

November 15-17, 2019 | Westin Peachtree Plaza | Atlanta, GA

GRAMMA/ΓΡΑΜΜA: Journal of Theory and Criticism

Issue number 26, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mapping New Trends: Greek Scholarship in Anglophone Studies

In 2018 Gramma celebrated its 25th anniversary and its 25 issues. To mark this occasion, the 26th issue of Gramma will be devoted to the topic of New Greek Scholarship in Anglophone Studies.

The S.ARCH International Architectural Conference is a 3-day event with the focus on sustainability in architecture. S.ARCH is unique event providing a common platform for both groups: academics / researchers and architects. Among them, our delegates are also students, representatives of construction companies, civil engineers, developers, etc., coming from more than 40 countries around the world.

The Conference consists of following:

- Set of Keynote Speeches given by international prominent architects,

- Oral Presentations of contributed works (Research Papers),

- Oral Presentations of the S.ARCH AWARD short-listed projects and designs

- Oral Presentations of the S.ARCH Architecture COMPETITIONs Winners,

This panel welcomes paper proposals for the Southeastern Modern Language Association Conference (Nov. 15-17, 2019) on any aspect of Indigenous science fiction, futurism, or speculative fiction. By June 10th, please submit an abstract of 250 words, a brief bio, and any A/V requests to Dr. Megan Vallowe, Dalton State College, at mvallowe@daltonstate.edu.

For additional conference information, see: https://samla.memberclicks.net/

The travel and literature session welcomes proposals focused on travel, odyssey and mobility through a literary lens, with a special interest in 20th- 21st century travel writing.

We are particularly interested in papers that take into consideration travel writing by authors better known for other forms of writing (novelists, poets, philosophers, essayists) and for whom travel, and travel writing, serve as a means to veer from their habitual modes of writing and allow them to experiment with another form (Baudrillard’s Cool memories, Barthes’ Empire of signs, Leiris’ Phantom Africa are examples of travel narratives of interest).

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