Call for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association

(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.

Satire and the Editorial Cartoon

Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded the combination of humor, hyperbole, a…[Read more]

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group -…[Read more]

Dear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group:

Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women

For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus on the American working woman and how…[Read more]

Special Session 77: “Sustainability and Population in American Literary History” at this year’s MLA might be of interest to folks studying ecocritical topics, demography in literature, race, reproduction, or other American literary topics. The panel is on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in 116 VCC West. More information about the panelists and papers can b…[Read more]

Special Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon

http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening

In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an enti…[Read more]

Special Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon

http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening

In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an ent…[Read more]

American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place

10 Huntington Avenue
,
Boston MA 02116-5798

Conference Director:
Olivia Carr Edenfield,
Georgia Southern University

Conference Fee: For those who pre-register before April 15, 2015: $90
 ($60 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired…[Read more]

2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”

Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]

Inviting Submissions to a new ejournal: Imaginary Relations: a Journal for the Ideological Critique of Aesthetic Objects (IR)
http://www.imaginaryrelations.net

Imaginary Relations is an experimental ejournal dedicated to ideological critique and analysis of aesthetic objects: poetry, fiction, drama, film and television. The journal seeks to examine the…[Read more]

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Panel: “Digital Humanities and Latin America: New Trends, Challenges, and Developments”
This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends and developments on the subject such as the inclusion of…[Read more]

46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 through May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014

This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the walk poem that suits American poets so well? How…[Read more]

Call for Papers

WORLDS and WORDS

29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities

Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities

Carrollton, Georgia

October 30-November 1, 2014

Deadline Extended until July 22nd

We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]

XVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)

Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
&
The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences

21-24…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]