17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and Anston Bosman (abosman@amherst.edu).

[The deadline for this panel has been extended to March 18th!]

MLA 2016 Special Session: HIV/AIDS and the Literary/Cinematic Archive

Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. With the current proliferation of theories and conceptualizations pertaining to archive studies, how can the literary o…[Read more]

Queers Read LGBT Literature
This panel explores the state of contemporary LGBT literature and the value of a LGBT literary canon. Calling for papers that ask: what is LGBT literature now? Abstracts by 15 March 2015; Shanté Paradigm Smalls (smallss@stjohns.edu) and Ramzi Fawaz (fawaz@wisc.edu)

Dear colleagues,

Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:

131st MLA Annual Convention
Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

We welcome proposals that examine translations of books and exchange of knowlege between the Middle East and Russia in the pre-modern period:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural interaction be…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please consider submitting a 300-word abstract to this CFP for the 2016 MLA convention.

Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature.

Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our…[Read more]

I’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies”). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]

I’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This announcement from Anne Neveu should be of interest:

ANNOUNCEMENT

2015 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Instructors

What Is Gained in Translation? Learning How to Read Translated Literature

Applications are now being accepted for a three-week summer institute for college and university instructors on the topic “What Is G…[Read more]

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<div>I am pleased to send you the Call for Papers for the next issue of TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies (http://ejournals.library.<wbr />ualberta.ca/index.php/TC/<wbr />announcement)
The deadline is March 15, 2015.</div>
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I look forward to receiving your…[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]

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]

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]