This panel seeks papers that engage with questions, concepts, and histories of the “vernacular” or “vernacularization” beyond Europhone languages and contexts.

Submissions that address one or more of the following questions are encouraged.  How might we explore (and move beyond) the insufficiencies of Europhone terms —such as the “vernacula…[Read more]

Dear colleagues:

What are some of the key critical or theoretical texts (monographs, anthologies, or journal articles/essays) that you consider important to your work in Southeast Asian / Southeast Asian diasporic studies? I’d like to get a conversation going so we can have a pool of interesting and provocative texts to draw on.

Here are 3 of…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:

Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern

Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]

<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more]

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Call for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses Crowne Plaza

Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016

Proposal deadline 15 March 2016

Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]