Event: 10/12/2017
Abstract Due: 10/12/2017
Categories: Digital Humanities, Interdisciplinary, Popular Culture, Film, TV, & Media
Location: Publication | Organization: Quarterly Review of Film and Video

The editors (Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) of Quarterly Review of Film and Video are now seeking new submissions of manuscripts in film, video, and moving image studies.

The journal publishes five times per year (four regular issues, and one year-end special issue), and is now seeking selected articles for publication.

QRFV is devoted to providing innovative perspectives from a broad range of methodologies, including writings on newly developing technologi... Read More →

Event: 08/01/2012
Abstract Due: 08/01/2012
Categories: Postcolonial, American, Hispanic & Latino, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, British, Pedagogy, German, Popular Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Literary Theory, Women's Studies, World Literatures, African-American, Colonial, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Victorian, 20th & 21st Century, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian
Location: Publication | Organization: Arizona State University; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Edited Collection CfP: Pedagogies of the End: Teaching and Knowledge at the Fin de Siècle

Co-Editors: Dan Bivona, Arizona State University, and Helena Gurfinkel, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

500-word abstracts and 1-paragraph bios to dbivona@asu.edu and hgurfin@siue.edu by August 1st, 2012.

This collection explores a possible relationship between the fin in the fin de si&egra... Read More →

Event: 03/21/2013 - 03/24/2013
Abstract Due: 09/30/2012
Categories: American, Literary Theory, 20th & 21st Century
Location: Boston, Massachusetts | Organization: Northeast Modern Language Association -- The Arthur Miller Society

Not only was Arthur Miller a major American playwright, he also was a significant public intellectual actively involved in political and social issues. In both these arenas and in his private life, one of Miller’s central concerns was integrity: the individual’s confrontation with his/her own ideals of what it is to live a worthwhile and morally responsible life, a life worthy of respect. Miller’s writings often focus on people who feel they have failed in this task of being... Read More →
http://nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html

Event: 03/21/2013 - 03/23/2013
Abstract Due: 09/30/2012
Categories: American, Interdisciplinary, African-American, Colonial, Revolution & Early National, Transcendentalists, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Aesthetics
Location: Boston, MA | Organization: NeMLA

Regional literatures have a photographic memory, and regional authors represent dialect, landscape, micro-culture and spatiality with exacting precision. In this sense, regional works are inherently ekphrastic - local color emerges in texts through the re-presentation of music, art, images, sounds and locales. This intersection of image-into-text calls up a surprising breadth of experience in regional authors; authors like Faulkner, Cather, Welty and O’Connor had extensive experience in... Read More →

Event: 12/19/2012 - 12/20/2012
Abstract Due: 10/15/2012
Categories: Interdisciplinary, Anthropology/Sociology
Location: Helnan Palestine Hotel, Alexandria, Egypt | Organization: The Protection Project

On December 19-20, 2012, the Alexandria University Faculty of Law (AUFL) and The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies will host a conference titled “Access to Justice” at the Helnan Palestine Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt. The event will bring together professors of law, religion and social sciences and representatives from NGOs and other elements of civil society to discuss a broad array of topics related to access to justice. Read More →
http://www.protectionproject.org/get-involved/calls-for-papers/

Event: 12/05/2012 - 12/06/2012
Abstract Due: 10/12/2012
Categories: Interdisciplinary, World Literatures, Anthropology/Sociology, Middle East
Location: Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon | Organization: The Protection Project

On December 5-6, 2012, The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in cooperation with Beirut Arab University will host the first regional conference on corporate social responsibility titled: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arab World” in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference will bring together business representatives, law professors, and representatives from NGOs and other elements of civil society to discuss a broad array ... Read More →
http://www.protectionproject.org/get-involved/calls-for-papers/

Event: 11/06/2012 - 09/11/2012
Abstract Due: 06/15/2012
Categories: Interdisciplinary, Anthropology/Sociology
Location: Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC | Organization: The Protection Project

On November 6, 2012 The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies will host a conference titled “The Procedural and Substantive Elements of Prosecuting Cases of Trafficking in Persons: Comparative Models and International Standards” in Washington, D.C., USA. The symposium will investigate the procedural and substantive elements of prosecuting trafficking cases in the United States and abroad. Law professors, prosecutors, practicing... Read More →
http://www.protectionproject.org/get-involved/calls-for-papers/

Event: 03/21/2013 - 03/24/2013
Abstract Due: 09/30/2012
Categories: American, Interdisciplinary, Genre & Form, Gender & Sexuality, Literary Theory, Women's Studies, Transcendentalists, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Poetry, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy
Location: Boston, MA | Organization: NeMLA

It could be said that our modern ideas of Emily Dickinson began to be formed most solidly by the critical work, biographical conjecture, and creative reimaginings of Dickinson’s life done by1930s scholars and artists. In 1930 alone, three biographies were produced of the poet, including Genevieve Taggard's The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson, and Allen Tate published his seminal essay "New England Culture and Emily Dickinson."  In addition, a new collection of poetry was brought o... Read More →
http://nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp_american.html

Event: 09/10/2012 - 09/11/2012
Abstract Due: 06/15/2012
Categories: Interdisciplinary, Anthropology/Sociology, Cultural Studies
Location: Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon | Organization: The Protection Project

On September 10-11, 2012 The Protection Project at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will organize a regional conference titled “Harmonization of the Law: the Hague Conference, Unidroit, and UNCITRAL ” in cooperation with the three organizations and the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the Beirut Arab University in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference will examine approaches to harmonization of the law utilized by the Hague Conference,... Read More →
http://www.protectionproject.org/get-involved/calls-for-papers/

Event: 03/21/2013 - 03/22/2013
Abstract Due: 09/01/2012
Categories: Pedagogy
Location: Richmond, Virginia | Organization: University of Richmond

The University of Richmond invites abstracts for its conference, Connecting the Humanities and the Professions, to be held March 21-22, 2013. The conference, which is offered with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will explore connecting the humanities and education or research in the legal, business, and medical professions. In addition to a presentation by our keynote speaker, William Sullivan, Senior Scholar at the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash Coll... Read More →