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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing
Special Issue of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
Edited by Elisabeth Bekers, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, and Helen Cousins
FOMO 2020 -- Exploring What’s Missing
Keynote Address by Prof Ashon Crawley, UVA (bio below)
28 February 2020, 9am-4pm (lunch and refreshments provided)
The George Washington University in the National Churchill Library and Center
Hosted by: The English Graduate Student Association at GWU
MVSA invites proposals for Seminars to be held at the 2020 conference, “Truth, Investigation, and Mystery,” April, 24-25, Chicago, IL.
Participants in MVSA Seminars will write 5-7 page papers that will be pre-circulated to the other participants prior to the conference. During the Seminars, the Seminar Leader and participants will identify important points of intersection and divergence among the papers and identify future areas of inquiry and collaboration. The Seminar format allows a larger number of scholars to participate in MVSA and to seek financial support from their respective institutions to attend the conference and discuss a shared area of scholarly interest. Seminars are limited to 12 participants.
Call for Papers
Liminality in Literature and Language: Affect and Migration
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference April 10, 2020
New Submission Deadline: February 3, 2020
Self-Promotion and Self-Aggrandizement: Accelerating Literary Legacy through Nonfiction
Storytelling and the Body
2nd Global Inclusive Conference
Sunday 5th July 2020 to Monday 6th July 2020
Bratislava, Slovakia
Nostalgia
2nd Global Interdisciplinary Conference
Friday 3rd July 2020 - Saturday 4th July 2020
Bratislava, Slovakia
In the heart of their communities and repositories of some of the most independent cultural collections in the UK, independent libraries are social, educational, working spaces which deliver numerous personal benefits to those who use them. This year’s theme is inspired by Ray Oldenburg’s The Great Good Place (1989), in which Oldenberg discusses the desirable ‘third place’: public places where anyone can gather and interact. Unlike the first place (home) and the second place (work), third spaces offer inexpensive access to discussion, pleasure, and community, leading to social cohesion, civic engagement, and the wellbeing that comes from a sense of place. Third spaces can be cafes, main streets, coffeehouses, beer gardens…
In Visible Man (1924), Béla Balázs predicted that the cinema would rescue the face from illegibility.
Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Sunday 5th July 2020 - Monday 6th July 2020
Bratislava, Slovakia
Case Closed? The Affaire Dreyfus in British literature and culture
Rome (Italy), 6 February 2020
The International Doctoral Conference at the University of Padua is an interdisciplinary and bilingual forum which takes place every year. This year the conference is open to PhD students, researchers and scholars interested in the topic of literary and linguistic enigmas from a broader historical and socio-cultural perspective.
Agreeing with Fortini (1991), the difference between obscurity and complexity lies on the nature of “darkness”, which «cannot and must ever not be […] ‘won’ or ‘overcome’ since its raison d’être lies in being […] a particular kind of ‘figure of speech’». In fact, complexity implies at least one chance of effectively decoding the hidden meaning.
GCfE 14th Annual ConferenceVoices of Change: Presents, Pasts and Futures of Activism and Protest in Europe21-22 May 2020, University of BirminghamCall for papers
In recent years, Europe has witnessed the rise of various protest movements: Extinction Rebellion, the Yellow Vests in France, “Stop the Coup” protest in the UK, to name but a few. These protests were fuelled by the deterioration of the social, political and environmental situation in Europe and the rest of the world, as well as by citizens’ increasing demands for social, political and environmental justice.