Call for Proposals
Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production
The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexu…[Read more]

(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the Novel

Special Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West” 

Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more]

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<div>Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces- (Palgrave Macmillan/Hispanic Urban Studies Series)</div>
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Landscape architecture and urban planning join aesthetics of design with the hard science of engineering. These areas foreground the complex influence of history and culture in the mapping and planning…[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]

The official blurb is below, and I’m asking for brief proposals/bios by March 25. This could certainly be a forum, so 20 minute talks are not strictly necessary. Email me for more info. steven.syrek@gmail.com.

Open Source Lit, Open Source Crit

The “open source” movement’s potential for literary studies. Literature as source code? Criticism as…[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]

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]

An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016.  Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the implications for the humanities of cogn…[Read more]

The editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around.  Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, P…[Read more]

MLA Session sponsored by the Forum on 20th- and 21st Century German

Mobility/Stasis: Crossing Borders, Media, Disciplines

Transnational, multimedial, interdisciplinary – although often employed as distinct descriptors, the mobility (and immobility) of peoples, material objects, information, and ideas suggests these concepts might be more p…[Read more]

Anyone who is interested in digging DEEP into Kafka’s esoteric dimension and connecting his works of  t r a n s f o r m a t i o n  — to Plato, John the Evangelist and other romantics is encouraged to join the KAFKA group >> the proof, of course >> is in the pudding!

2017 Modern Language Association Convention
Call for Papers
For a session on “Sexual Cognition”
Sponsored by the Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies
Topics may include how cognitive study advances our understanding of sexualities and how LGBTQIA, gender, or feminist theories complicate cognitive approaches.
250-word abstracts by 8 March to …[Read more]

Dear all,

I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:

A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference

<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>

A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]