Cahiers Ivoiriens d’Etudes Comparees (CIEC) / Ivorian Journal of Comparative Studies (IJCS) VOLUME 2 NUMERO 2

LA MUSIQUE POPULAIRE AFRICAINE : LES VÉRITABLES VOIX DU PEUPLE ?

ARGUMENTAIRE

Peut-être pour des raisons d’un élitisme intellectuel ou peut-être du fait de l’absence d’un outil adéquat pour leur analyse, les arts populaires afr…[Read more]

Special Issue for Postcolonial Text

CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a fo…[Read more]

Please see cfps for 2 panels, and consider submitting an abstract. Thanks!

Transnational Memories: 9/11 and South Asians (Guaranteed panel)

Papers that engage with racial injury, anger, trauma, and grief of South Asians in post-9/11 US, Canada, and Britain; representations of 9/11 in fiction, cinema, memoirs, etc. produced in South Asia and in…[Read more]

***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more]

This panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:

The varying nature of Bukowski’s reception across time and space (his contemporary European reception, for instance,…[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]

The Tenth Biennial conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies will take place on 1st and 2nd July 2015 at the University Centre, High Melton, Doncaster.

And the official Call for Papers:
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The theme for this conference will be: Outlaws in their Contexts (local heroes to global outlaws,…[Read more]

Please join us for our MLA Panel tomorrow:
678. Politics of Difference and Poetics of Reconciliation
Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 14, VCC East

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on South Asian Languages and Literatures

Presiding: Masood Raja, Univ. of North Texas

1. “Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adilzada’s Baazigar,” Masood R…[Read more]

We held our annual Executive committee meeting yesterday and will soon share the news about new members for the next five year term.

Meanwhile, please do post your comments and suggestions to this forum so that we can make this into a viable place to generate ideas and to increase the visibility of our group.

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]

View the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals

Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out F…[Read more]

Panel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century

(Session ID: 15391)

Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391

Deadline: September 30, 2014

Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)

Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)

For Ra…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

PCA/ACA Travel & Tourism

CALL FOR PAPERS AT NATIONAL PCA/ACA CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, APRIL 1-4, 2015

We had 7 panels in Travel and Tourism last year in Chicago; I hope to see 15 this year.

I’m looking for any and all interesting papers or presentations regarding travel and tourist culture. This i…[Read more]

Salmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to expand under…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,
As some of you may know, John Hawley and I are putting together a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. We have received a number of excellent proposals but are interested in a contribution from someone who teaches Ghosh’s works in a creative writing workshop. If you or anyone you know does so, I would be m…[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. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]

Cities are sites of profound paradoxes, and this is currently nowhere more apparent than in South Asia where they simultaneously represent both the frontiers of globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political inequalities of the global south. We argue that South Asian cities operate as what Rashmi Verma in her analysis of…[Read more]