Special Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon

http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening

In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an ent…[Read more]

TÍTULO DE LA CONFERENCIA:

CUERPO, MEMORIA Y TRAUMA

Viernes 6 de Marzo – Sábado 7 de Marzo, 2015

CONVOCATORIA

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M University

Women’s and Gender Studies Program – Texas A&M Unive…[Read more]

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M Univers…[Read more]

American Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place

10 Huntington Avenue
,
Boston MA 02116-5798

Conference Director:
Olivia Carr Edenfield,
Georgia Southern University

Conference Fee: For those who pre-register before April 15, 2015: $90
 ($60 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired…[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
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out F…[Read more]

Call for Papers

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 23-25, 2015

Modern Bodies: Corporeality in Spanish Silver Age Literature and Culture

The advent of modernity and the processes of modernization in early twentieth-century Spain, during the so-called Silver Age (1900-1936), radically changed existing representations of the human body. …[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, Ontario)

For Ra…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

PCA/ACA Travel & Tourism

CALL FOR PAPERS AT NATIONAL PCA/ACA CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, APRIL 1-4, 2015

We had 7 panels in Travel and Tourism last year in Chicago; I hope to see 15 this year.

I’m looking for any and all interesting papers or presentations regarding travel and tourist culture. This i…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

C/ Zalamea, 1 · 28290 Las Matas · Tel. 91 630 09 58 E-mail: arodriguez@isdfundacion.org / ismasd@isdfundacion.org · CIF J84935840 Nº Registro Fundaciones 954

CONVOCATORIA DE ARTÍCULOS (CALL FOR PAPERS): REVISTA PRISMA SOCIAL Nº 13 – NARRACIONES DE MASCULINIDAD(ES)

Desde la Fundación iS+D para la Investigación Social Avanzada les informa…[Read more]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

Popular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]

<span>”Immigration and Comics”
</span>

<span>Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 8-11 Jan. 2015, in Vancouver. Jointly sponsored by the MLA Division on <i>European Literary Relations </i>and the MLA Discussion Group on <i>Comics and Graphic Narratives</i>.</span>

<span> Recently, the…[Read more]

Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more]

Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015

The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the…[Read more]

Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015

The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the adoption…[Read more]

Call for Submissions

FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN

Intellect Books

Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm

A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.

This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]

Call for Submissions

FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN

Intellect Books

Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm

A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.

This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]