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]

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]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Children’s Literature Society

American Literature Association

26th Annual Conference

May 21-24, 2015

The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116-5798

The Politics and Morality of Children’s Literature: From Left to Right

Authors use children’s literature to communicate their political and mor…[Read more]

Global Halal
An International Conference on Muslims and the Cultural Politics of the Permissible

February 19-21, 2015
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Global Halal is an international conference organized by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University in partnership with the UK-based Muslim, Trust and Cultural…[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]

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]

Please join us!

Watch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!

“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to…[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]

Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC

Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA

sdonohue@cocc.edu

Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations invited exploring the…[Read more]

Peer Reviewers Needed for ICIK E-News
Storytelling as a Mode for Expressing Indigenous Rights

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Dr. Judy Bertonazzi, Guest Editor for ICIK E-News is seeking peer reviewers. Located at the Pennsylvania State University, the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge is part of a global network of indigenous knowledge…[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]