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Estranged Realities
Call for panelists: "Feeding Cultural Fears: Manifestations of Societal Issues in Film, 1998-Present"
This CFP is for a panel proposal titled “Feeding Cultural Fears: Manifestations of Societal Issues in Film, 1998-Present” for FWPCA/ACA Regional Conference 2020 (Far West Popular Culture Association/american Culture Association) in Las Vegas, February 21-23, 2020.
Photo-Texts and the Mapping of American Lives
Panel CFP for American Literature Association, San Diego, May 21-24, 2020
From How the Other Half Lives to Humans of New York, American authors have long interwoven photos and writing to theorize and map the modern United States and the people who inhabit it. Scholars such as Sara Blair have analyzed how place-based photo-texts produce “emergent iconograph[ies] of modern experience” (How the Other Half Looks), while others, like Jeff Allred and Joseph Entin, have suggested how modernist photo-texts offer new ways of conceptualizing crossovers between realism and modernism, the political meanings and effects of documentary, and the ethics of the gaze.
Paper submissions are invited for the Jack London Society panels at the American Literature Association 31th Annual Conference, May 21-24, 2020, Manchester Grand Hyatt, One Market Place, San Diego, CA. Papers may address any aspect of Jack London studies. Send a 250-word abstract for a twenty-minute presentation to Kenneth Brandt at kbrandt@scad.edu by January 25, 2020. Include a brief biographical sketch and any AV equipment needs. We also welcomeproposals for innovative formats including roundtable discussion groups and panels featuring more speakers and briefer papers.
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