Landscapes and Legacy: critical partnerships between arts, culture and heritage is a two-day conference hosted at University of Derby on the 26thand 27thJune 2019 that will discuss how partnerships in the arts and cultural sector inform heritage. The conference aims to respond to the demands and possibilities within different types of heritage and legacy making activity, natural, cultural and industrial within the managed urban, rural or alternative landscapes. It intends to address
Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to announce a call for papers for Granfalloon: A Kurt Vonnegut Convergence, a two-day conference/festival in celebration of the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut to be held May 9-11, 2019 in Bloomington, Indiana.
This unique gathering adopts Vonnegut’s penchant for defying conventions, both artistic and social. Granfalloon is part symposium, part exhibit, part
Once Upon a Time There Was a Virus....: Storytelling, Health and Illness Saturday 31st August - Sunday 1st September 2019 Lisbon, Portugal
Throughout history, people have felt a need to tell each other stories about the ordinary as well as the surprising experiences of being alive, particularly in relation to health, well-being, illness, disease and death. Telling stories was — and still is — a way of recording and grappling with the origins, causes and preventio
We are pleased to announce that the submissions deadline for paper, panel and roundtable proposals for the Conference “The Street and the City — Encounters, taking place at the University of Lisbon (11-12 April 2019), has now been extended until 4th February 2019.
Submissions to the conference are invited from a broad range of disciplines including literature, cultural studies, anthropology, history, politics, the social sciences an
‘Poetics in Commons’ explores the potential of literature and art to create and reinvent shared spaces, ways of living and forms of social and ecological cooperation. It asks for critical and practice-led responses that reflect the connections between writing, making and ‘commoning’ (the practice of doing and being in common) in order to address a set of increasingly urgent questions. How can creative expression help us to resist the privatisation of knowledge, languag
In common superhero mythos, unearthly, other-than-human, or more-than-human figures use their many extraordinary abilities to restore order, do battle with evil, uphold justice, and protect the innocent. Acting as guardians, protectors and defenders of Earth and its people, these courageous figures have long captured both our attention and imagination. However, with the rise of several notable media franchises, superheroes have become a ubiquitou
For a proposed volume celebrating The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, co-editors Jayme Stayer and Anthony Cuda are soliciting abstracts for original essays on aspects of Eliot’s work that pertain to his non-fiction prose. The volume will be dedicated to the General Editor of The Prose, Ronald Schuchard, to honor his influence in the fields of Eliot studies and modernism. Essays may fall into the following categories, but are not limited to what is described here:
« MARKS: BORN (ONLY) SUBVERSIVE ? » at the French National Assembly. CRI DE FEMMES 2019 Colloquium Call for Papers
Questioning the femininities, women, women’s sexes is a mission that Cri de Femmes Festival chose for itself since its very first actions. There is an essential need to question and place the debate at the core of the celebrations : art for art’s sake has is meaningless here. No relevance in
What is “home? Is it the physical space where you live or a metaphysical state of mind? What or who do we associate with it? Is it something you run to or is it something you try to leave behind? Positively or negatively, consciously or subconsciously, home, community, and cul
I am looking for one essay to fill an empty spot in an edited collection on the television show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. This essay should address the critical reception of the show. The final draft of the essay is needed by March 15, 2019.
The collection overall argues that the show participates in quality or post-quality television programming through its generic hybridity and diverse cast and storylines.
If interested, please submit queries and/or a 300-wo
Fantastic animals, evil criminals, notorious neighbourhoods, mysterious objects, invisible ideologies, unspoken laws: monstrosity can take different shapes, crossing the boundaries between the visible and the thinkable, reality and imagination human and nonhuman; as an uncanny atmosphere always on the verge of being materialised and individualised in the monsters that populate collective imagination, biological taxonomies, legal discourses, and moral p
From the editorial committee of Entremons: UPF Journal of World History, we invite you to send an original text, which we can publish in the next edition of our journal.
We are looking for academic articles, as well as reviews of recently published books, which address themes of world history. In order to be considered, texts should be sent via email to revista.entremons@upf.edu between the 1st of January and the 25th of February. Articles should be
Call for papers for the 9th Genealogies of Memory conference
Myths, Memories and Economies: Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparison
International Conference, 28-30 October 2019, Warsaw
The year 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of political changes in former state socialist countries of Eastern Europe in 1989. Together with the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, a
REPRESENTATION IN THE TIME OF THE POSTHUMAN: TRANSHUMAN ENHANCEMENT IN 21ST CENTURY STORYTELLING. 16th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English
http://typh.unizar.es/conference/
University of Zaragoza, Spain
May 29-31, 2019
The drive towards personal progress may be considered intrinsic to the human species. Whether intellectual, emotional, sp
Coding/Decoding/Recoding provides a space to present scholarship that translates, remediates, reimagines, or revisits bodies of thought, borders, and identities. The graduate committee for this conference is looking for papers illustrating practices that unsettle the conventions of how scholarship is practiced and how histories are written. This includes matters of semiotics, hermeneutics, translation, representation, signification, subversion and transgression. This topic is a stimu
Soaring to New Heights: Breakthroughs, Inventions, and Progress in Writing Centers
East Central Writing Centers Association 2019 Conference
April 4-6, 2019 / University of Dayton
SOARING. For some, the word represents a smooth flight pattern with little visible movement. For others, it represents flying to great heights, rising higher and higher. What, though, does soaring mean in a writing center? Do we have smoo
Media Literacy and Academic Research is inviting papers for Vol. 2, No. 1 which is scheduled to be published on April 2019.
The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) and article submission charges. Media Literacy and Academic Research welcomes article submissions and does not charge a publication fee.
Media Literacy and Academic Research is a high-quality open access peer- reviewed journal focused on the acad
Proposals are invited for papers at an international conference on the topic of Huguenot culture and exile in the early modern period.
This conference will mark the publication by the Irish Manuscripts Commission of the diary and financial accounts of Elias Bouhéreau, a Huguenot refugee who died in Dublin in 1719.
Bouhéreau
Marsh’s Library (founded in 1707) is particularly interested in Hugu
The Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) is an annual festival that celebrates and aims to promote the creation, development and appreciation of quality Asian content for children and young adults. Organised by the Singapore Book Council, the festival comprises presentations, panels, masterclasses, workshops, along with a book fair showcasing a wide selection of books from local and international publishers.
The Call for Papers for AFCC 2019 is now open. We are invi
Call for Papers: (Re)thinking Socialism. Knowledge, memory and oblivion of the socialist past November 7-9, 2019, Sofia Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Thirty years after the end of state socialism, the need to fully comprehend it is still an immediate task. Over the past three decades, the dominant public discourse of the previous historical period has under
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville IRIS Center in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences and Lewis and Clark Community College is hosting the interdisciplinary conference “Digital Humanities and the Undergraduate Experience on April 26 & 27, 2019. We are currently seeking proposals from university and college students, staff, and faculty to present on their approach to integrating digital humanities approaches into undergraduate curriculum, informal le
Promoting peace and reconciliation through education has been a vital tool the development of more tolerant and cohesive societies. Whether it be through the development of a culture of peace throughout education institutions, or through the instilling of inclusive identities that broaden notions of citizenship while dismantling harmful notions of difference, peace education plays a crucial role across the spectrum of conflict and risk. From conflict prevention, to conflict management, to pos
Abstract Deadline: 25 February 2019 Full Paper Deadline: 11 March 2019
Workshop Proposal Submission: 25 February 2019 Live Performance Proposal Submission: 25 February 2019
EARLY-BIRD: 25 February 2019. Payment Deadline: 15 March 2019
The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to Modern Science, Ancient Science, Cultural Studies, Language and Treasure, International Rela
Researching the Rainbow Conference 2019 — Call for Papers
The University of Kent’s LGBT+ Staff Network is pleased to open the call for papers for the third annual Researching the Rainbow Conference on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 February 2019 on the Canterbury campus.
The conference, which takes part during LGBT History Month, is to showcase the vast array of excellent research being done on or related to LGBT+ people and issues, and to encourage multi-disciplinary c
