The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, has released its call for a new group of fellows. Both academics and artists working in the environmental humanities, of any nationality, are eligible. Applications are due 31 January 2016. Please see the following link for more information — and spread the w…[Read more]

Freeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsMUuEpxO0

Biography: I am Associate Librarian at the University of Kansas Libraries where I currently serve as co-director of KU’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities. My work focuses on engagement with faculty and students in areas related to scholarly communication, digital publishing and digital scholarship, and I have administrative,…[Read more]

I am not quite sure what the protocol is for these statements now that we are on a blog format, but here goes.  I am Pamela K. Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor at the University of Florida, and I am on the ballot for the executive committee of the division, representing our interests to the MLA.  You can all google if you are interested in s…[Read more]

Please consider applying for the WESS/SEES DeGruyter European Librarianship Study Grant, which funds a research project relating to the acquisition, organization, or use of library resources from or relating to Europe, either historical or current.

The DeGruyter Foundation will offer €2500 to the recipient to cover airfare, lodging, and other e…[Read more]

For the 2016 Convention in Austin, TX, the Libraries and Research Forum has decided to hold an open meeting. The theme: “What Was, Is, and Shall Be an Academic Library – and Who Will Work There?”

The session is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, at 3:30 PM. Bill Thompson (Western Illinois U. Libraries) and Amanda Watson (NYU Libraries) will be…[Read more]

Special Issue on Transatlantic Ecocriticism.

Ecozon@: European Journal of  Literature, Culture and Environment

http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29

If you are attending the MLA convention in Austin, TX please join us at Container Bar (made of recycled shipping containers!) for a happy hour on Thursday January 7 beginning at 8 PM. The gathering is co-sponsored by ASLE and the MLA Ecocriticism and Environmental Forum. All are welcome!

The Container Bar is located at 90 Rainey St, Austin, T…[Read more]

As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.

Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]

CFP: ACLA 2016 – Writing the Disaster in the Era of the Anthropocene
http://www.acla.org/seminar/writing-disaster-era-anthropocene
Location: Harvard University
Date: March 17-20, 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23rd, 2015 (http://www.acla.org/node/add/paper)
Organizers: Jennifer Cazenave and Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William Smith…[Read more]

Dear All:

I’m co-organizing a February 2016 workshop titled “Men and Nature: Gender, Power, and Environmental Change” at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. Our CfP deadline is tomorrow, but if you have interest and need more time, please contact me at nseymour@fullerton.edu. See our CfP at:…[Read more]

“Unsettling Medicine: Politics, Society, and Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Medical Practice.”

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University

Chair: Sari Altschuler

Deadline: August 16, 2015.

This panel is looking for papers that expand the political, social, and economic con…[Read more]

CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West

<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:

Unsettling the Gendered West

This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]