View the complete detailed call for proposals: http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals/

Queers & Comics – 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) 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]

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 a…[Read more]

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CFP Revista Badebec, University of Rosario, Argentina. Dossier “Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean (1980-2014)” (literature, film, and TV). First deadline: November 30th, 2014. Contact: badebec@gmail.com 

BADEBEC INVITA A PARTICIPAR DE SU PRÓXIMO DOSSIER

“Ficciones policiales en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”…[Read more]

Panel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th    Century (Session ID: 15391)

Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391

Deadline: September 30, 2014

Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)

Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontar…[Read more]

Advertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film

This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer c…[Read more]

Salmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to further under…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Looking for participants for this LASA panel (MUST BE a current LASA member).

Session Title: From Beauty Pageants to Audiovisual Art: The portrayal of Precarious Bodies in Literature and Performance in the Dominican Republic

This panel examines how artistic and audiovisual representations of gendered and sexed bodies are…[Read more]

Roundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also highlight literature, film…[Read more]

The Aphra Behn Society is hosting two sessions at ASECS 2015. Abstracts due to session organizer 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 the…[Read more]

Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention

 Toronto, Ontario – April 30-May 3, 2015

 NeMLA’s Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus seeks abstracts for the approved panels below – panel descriptions, submission guidelines and the full cfp are available at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2015.html

Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014[Read more]