Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.

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]

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]

The new MLA Forum on Global Hispanophone is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).

Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory

The term ‘Hispanophone li…[Read more]

Call for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association

(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.

Satire and the Editorial Cartoon

Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]

Organizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston) 

Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at Au…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).

GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum  to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a&hellip;[Read more]

If you’re concerned about the place of eighteenth-century studies in the new forum structure being implemented by the MLA, you might consider applying to the following proposed special session for the 2016 convention in Austin:

Naming the 18th Century. What’s at stake in naming this period “long” (1660-1830), “short” (1715-1789), early modern, En…[Read more]

Call for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the Journal

Transmodernity, co-edited “y Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.

Call for Papers:

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unreso…[Read more]

Call for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the JournalTransmodernity, co-edited by Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.

Call for Papers:

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unresol…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in this graduate student conference at the University of California in Irvine. Please see attached CFP and feel free to visit the Eco-Materialisms website for more information.

EcoMaterialisms: Organizing Life and Matter

University of California, Irvine

Friday…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

this is to invite you to submit abstracts to the Annual ASLS (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Conference, to be held in Stirling, Scotland, on 3-5 July 2015:
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers on Gl…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to submit abstracts to the Annual ASLS (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Conference, to be held in Stirling, Scotland, on 3-5 July 2015:
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers on G…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to submit abstracts to the Annual ASLS (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Conference, to be held in Stirling, Scotland, on 3-5 July 2015:
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>EMPIRES AND REVOLUTIONS
<h2 style=”text-align: center;”>R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers on G…[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…[Read more]