Session type:     Special Session
Title of session:     Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures
Submission requirements:     Abstract of about 250 words.
Deadline for submissions:     20 March 2015
Description:     Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual ar…[Read more]

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

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]

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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]

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-american/

We still need your…[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: DEADLINE EXTENSION

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group -…[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]

Call for Papers Special Issue of American Jewish History dedicated to Material Culture

American Jewish History is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on material culture, guest-edited by Laura Leibman (Reed College).  The journal offers articles on every aspect of the American Jewish experience and is the most widely recognized…[Read more]

Call for Submissions: In geveb, a Journal of Yiddish Studies
We are proud to announce In geveb, a new online journal of Yiddish Studies. In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the presentation of digitized archival documents, the exchange of…[Read more]

Come one, come all to the two panels sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Studies [no longer called Discussion Group, but I forget what it’s now called] at this year’s MLA, starting this week:

275. Jewish Geographies, Jewish Space(s)

Friday, 9 January: 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 204, VCC West

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish C…[Read more]

Come one, come all to the two panels sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Studies [no longer called Discussion Group, but I forget what it’s now called]:

275. Jewish Geographies, Jewish Space(s)
Friday, 9 January: 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 204, VCC West
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Jewish Cultural Studies and the Discussion Group on J…[Read more]

Any brave souls want to put their names up–or put someone else’s name up–for election to the Jewish Cultural Studies executive board? The term is five years, starting at the close of this year’s MLA: thus, the lucky winner will serve starting with MLA 2016 and running through MLA 2020, serving as Secretary for MLA 2019 and Grand Dragon for MLA 2…[Read more]