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]

Call for Proposals:  MLA 2016:
17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:

131st MLA Annual Convention
Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]

Call for Papers
Panel Topic: Evolution, Ethics, and Tragedy

Conference:
Why the Humanities: Answers from Cognitive and Neuroscience
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
July 9-12, 2015
http://www.kent.edu/cas/why-humanities

Contact Person for this Panel:
David Palmer
Humanities Department
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
dpalmer@maritime.edu

I am…[Read more]

For information, go to https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ssol/main .

Dear Members of the Cognitive Approaches to Literature Group,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:

Teaching Memory Studies

Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinem…[Read more]

Dear Cognitive Approaches to Literature Group,

Please consider submitting an abstract for our special session, “Teaching Memory Studies.” Here’s the full CFP:

Teaching Memory Studies

Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flash…[Read more]

Dear All,
I very much hope that those of you going to the MLA will consider attending our special session, which will take place on Sunday, January 11 (see below).
Sincerely,
Lisa Zunshine

685. Politics and Poetics of Cognition

Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 214, VCC West

A special session

Presiding: Lisa Zunshine, Univ. of Kentucky

1. “…[Read more]

Call for Papers
International Conference
Why the Humanities:
Answers from the Cognitive and Neurosciences
http://www.kent.edu/cas/why-humanities
Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center
Kent, Ohio, USA
July 9-12, 2015
The purpose of this conference is to highlight and enhance the contributions that humanities education makes to personal…[Read more]

Can anyone recommend any good, comprehensive bibliographies on cognitive approaches to literature? I am in particular looking for studies that use cognitive linguistics in their analysis of poetry, but any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Matthew Miller

Call for Papers – Special Session: “Social Justice in the Golden Age/Justicia social en el Siglo de Oro.”

The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT)
Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
March 19 – 21, 2015, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso.
Deadline for submissions for special session: July 15, 2014

This is a call for a SPECI…[Read more]