The collection, preservation, study, and dissemination of the human record, scholarly and otherwise, are basic principles of all humanities work. Undeniably, the affordances of digital technologies and the human networks they weave increasingly offer viable and valuable approaches to these needs. However, the vulnerabilities of technological…[Read more]

A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature

What is the “tipping point” that makes a scholarly argument persuasive? This panel combines the sharing of scholarly interests and discoveries that are the purpose of conventions with a pragmatic aspect of rehearsing the mechanics of comparative persuasion.…[Read more]

Call for papers, Special Session to be proposed for the MLA’s 2018 Annual Convention.  This session invites papers concerned with the stakes and importance of literary study in an era of misinformation and American cultural uncertainty.  Areas of inquiry for discussion may include, but are not limited to:

– New (and/ or necessary) approaches to l…[Read more]

<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”><span style=”font-style: italic;”>Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;”>A Panel Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative…[Read more]

Now welcoming submissions, The Pocket Instructor: Writing (edited by Amanda Irwin Wilkins and Keith Shaw) will be a collection of creative exercises for teaching academic writing in the undergraduate classroom. It follows in the footsteps of The Pocket Instructor: Literature, edited by Diana Fuss and William A. Gleason (Princeton University Press,…[Read more]

CFP: Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts (CFP, NY 2018)

Papers on the application of DH techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu)

LLC Japanese since 1900 session CFP, MLA NY 2018 just posted:

Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media

Papers on the application of DH techniques to nontextual materials from or concerning Japan, including film, art, sound. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017
Joanne Bernardi (joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu)

Posted on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo, rcampo@bidmc.harvard.edu:

Call for Proposals: 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium at Harvard Medical School on 6th May 2017

Proposals for abstracts and oral presentation are now being accepted for 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium, to be convened at Harva…[Read more]

Details:
Proposal for Special Session: “Global Literature and Technology”
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia
MLA 2018 in New York City

Please consider submitting to a special session, proposed to take place at MLA 2018 in New York City, on “Global Literature and Technology.”

Description:
Digital media pose a challenge to the c…[Read more]

Teaching Fellowship in Health Humanities and Race
CLARK UNIVERSITY, WORCESTER, MA. Health Humanities and Race. Renewable Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, beginning Fall 2017. The successful applicant will teach three courses the first  year and four in the second year, beginning undergraduate to graduate level; give  one public lecture based on r…[Read more]