Call for Papers
Panel Topic: Evolution, Ethics, and Tragedy

Conference:
Why the Humanities: Answers from Cognitive and Neuroscience
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
July 9-12, 2015
http://www.kent.edu/cas/why-humanities

Contact Person for this Panel:
David Palmer
Humanities Department
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
dpalmer@maritime.edu

I am…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Division (soon to be “Forum”) on Drama and Performance is pleased post below a lengthier description of our plans for Austin, 2016.

On behalf of Brian Herrera, Eng-Beng Lim, Nadia Ellis, and Shane Vogel, we are very much looking forward to your queries and proposals,

Jody Enders, Chair (2016)

What are the lim…[Read more]

Here are CFPs for 3 different sessions we’re sponsoring for MLA2016 in Austin:

QUEER PROXIMITIES 

Forum: TC Sexuality Studies

Explorations of the sensorium; texture, sensation, affect, touch; spacing and relationscape; distance and distancing, nearness, seclusion; relationalities, withdrawal, fusion; transpecies, human; bonds and bonding, i…[Read more]

In mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]

In mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]

Check out our sessions and related sessions for MLA 2015 by visiting our blog entry. We look forward to seeing you at the sessions and also to continuing the conversation online!

Help us acknowledge LGBTQ activism by academics; deadline extended to November 30.
THE MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD
This award serves not only to honor an LGBTQ academic activist every year, but also, in Eve Sedgwick’s words, “to publicize and celebrate—and as widely as possible—the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer act…[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]

View the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015

Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more]

The Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages
welcomes submissions for its annual awards.

The 2014 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at an e…[Read more]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Rethinking Shakespeare and Italy: Cultural Exchanges from the Early Modern Period to the Present, ed. by Enza De Francisci and Chris Stamatakis (Routledge: Studies in Shakespeare Series)

This volume brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, drama, and linguistics, as well as actors…[Read more]

The Robt Greene topic reminds me.  Renn. scholars in the U.S. should be aware of  work in Britain which has changed/supplemented knowledge of earlier drama.  Greg Walker’s work is a good key to the whole and and his history re-names the “morality”  play as part of Tudor Drama in his book of that name, his anthology, and bibliography.  Rece…[Read more]

Hello All,

I’m starting a project looking into the theater scene of London pre-1592, using Robert Greene and his “Conny Catching” pamphlets as my entry point. My hope is to gain a better understanding of the social environment at that time through the different contributors of the “pamphlet wars”, of which Greene seems to be at the center.  The…[Read more]

The Aphra Behn Society will be hosting two sessions at ASECS in 2015. Abstracts due to session organizers by September 1, 2014.

SESSION 1:

Collaborations: Women in the Arts

Dr. Carolyn Woodward

writecjw@gmail.com

During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of…[Read more]

Hello, Everybody Shakespearean,

A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.

At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional…[Read more]

MESSAGE FROM PROF. SEAN ROBINSON RE: STUDY ON THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ FACULTY

Inside the Lavender Tower: Stories of LGBTQ Faculty
Call for LGBTQ Faculty Participants

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

I am conducting an international, qualitative study on the experiences of LGBTQ faculty. The purpose of my research is to capture the stories and…[Read more]