Call for Papers – NeMLA Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus

47th Annual NeMLA Convention

March 17-20, 2016 Hartford, CT

Hosted by the University of Connecticut

Session Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2015

Call for Papers Begins: June 15, 2015

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2015

All submissions are online at: http://www.buffalo.edu/ne…[Read more]

Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)

Gender in Distance Education

Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?

Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]

Call For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education (Taylor & Francis)

Gender in Distance Education

Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?

Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University,…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences.…[Read more]

CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “MARIANO MELGAR, 200 AÑOS: POESÍA E INDEPENDENCIA”

PRIMERA CIRCULAR (para los interesados en Mariano Melgar, el bicentenario de las independencias y el romanticismo en general)

La Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (AIP), la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), el Municipio de Mariano Melgar, Arequip…[Read more]

Good morning colleagues,

I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:

 teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more]

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme:  Conflicts and Resolutions

Featured Luncheon Speaker:  Poet Linda Nemec Foster

 Location:  Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512 

We live in a society that has c…[Read more]

2015 marks seventy years since the publication of Laforet’s Nada. This panel proposes to offer new readings of the author’s ground-breaking work and/or to revisit her lesser-known works (i.e., Insolación, La mujer nueva, Un matrimonio, etc.). Please send abstracts (250 words) and a brief biography todochoa@trinity.edu by 3/20/15. You can find this…[Read more]

We are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]

Familial/Communal Structures

Black Motherhood

The Presence of the ancestor

Other Mothering

Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma

Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)

Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)

Violence

Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood

Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons

Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]

The deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.

What difference does age make in what we…[Read more]

***The Congress submissions deadline has been extended to March 30***
***La date limite pour les soumissions de propositions au Congrès a été repoussée jusqu’au 30 mars***
***Se extendió el plazo de entrega de propuestas para el Congreso hasta el 30 de marzo***
*** O prazo de envio de propostas para o Congresso foi estendido até o 30 de março**…[Read more]

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 of social space. Since men have traditionally served as both prime architects and builders of metropolitan areas–designing plans and constructing…[Read more]

2015 marks seventy years since the publication of Laforet’s Nada. This panel proposes to offer new readings of the author’s ground-breaking work and/or to revisit her lesser-known works (i.e., Insolación, La mujer nueva, Un matrimonio, etc.). Please send abstracts (250 words) and a brief biography to dochoa@trinity.edu by 3/10/15. You can find…[Read more]

CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:

Dear Friends,

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):

Global Arab Texts and their Publics

Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]

<br clear=”all” />Call for Papers:  “Mobility and Migrations:  movements of people and capital in 18th and 19th century Spanish worlds”

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CFP – MLA 2016

“Miguel de Unamuno’s Literary Legacy”

This panel seeks innovative approaches to the contemporary reception and/or influence of
Unamuno’s works, particularly his fiction.

250-word abstract and CV by 10 March 2015 – lacastro@ufl.edu

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CFP – MLA 2016

“Miguel de Unamuno’s Literary Legacy”

This panel seeks innovative approaches to the contemporary reception and/or influence of
Unamuno’s works, particularly his fiction.

250-word abstract and CV by 10 March 2015 – lacastro@ufl.edu