American Comparative Literature Association
2019 Annual Meeting - Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Panel Title: Neoliberalism: Between Utopia and Dystopia
March 7th-10th, 2019
This panel seeks to examine utopian representations of (neo)liberalism in 20th century literature and culture, emphasizing comparative connections to (neo)liberal political philosophy and economic theory.
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Society for Utopian Studies
43rd Annual Conference
"Disruption, Displacement, and Disorder"
Berkeley, California
November 1-3, 2018
Panel Title: Neoliberalism: Between Utopia and Dystopia
This panel seeks to examine utopian representations of (neo)liberalism in 20th century literature and culture, emphasizing comparative connections to (ne
IFAU 2018 - 2nd International Forum on Architecture and Urbanism aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects related to Landscapes, Cities and Architecture within FRAGILE TERRITORIES. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and con
1818-2018 — the silent revolution: of fears, folly & the female
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon
5-6 November 2018
In 2018 we celebrate events which took place two hundred years ago: the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the birth of Emily Brontë. While the two events are markedly different, as the former is a tangible work of art and the latter more of a promise of what was to come, both have contributed to challenge an
We call for papers for the 8th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies. This edition will be on the theme of “Replacement and Replaceability and takes place in Lisbon on the 6th and 7th of December 2018. The conference is organized by The Lisbon Consortium in conjunction with the Research Centre for Communication and Culture at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
We aim to discuss the ways in which the concept of ‘replacement’ can be understood and pro
CFP VOLUME 10
IN BETWEEN [NARRATIVE ENVIRONMENTS]
In our inaugural issue of 2009, we defined Int|AR’s focus on adaptive reuse as one that “includes not only the reuse of existing structures, but also the reuse of materials, transformative interventions, continuation of cultural phenomena through built infrastructure, connections across the fabric of time and space, and preservation of memory — all of which result in densely woven narratives of the built enviro
Dear colleagues,
Let me bring in your attention a CFP in Humanities.
Vol. 1, No. 2 - November, 2018
Submission Deadline: September 25, 2018
Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue be
International Journal of Sustainable Real Estate and Construction Economics call for paper / special issue proposal.
Topics include but not limited to:
Application of economic theories for the sustainable built environment
Sustainable waste management
Green building finance, water management, civil engineering and hydrology
Artificial intelligence and sustainable building
Motivation and barriers in sustainable construction
Policies, regulations and green
The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Winter 2019 issue, themed “Archival Research: Discovery, Truth, and Imagination. Submission deadline: November 15, 2018.
Archival research is crucial for scholarship in all disciplines. Within the archive, in whatever form it takes, is the opportunity to overlap chronological moments and movements which may have never met for any othe
Call for Chapter Proposals: Living Metal: Metal Scenes around the World
Metal music has been around since Black Sabbath hit the first chord on its song “Black Sabbath. Since that time Metal scenes are constantly being created, developed, stagnating, and growing all over the world—anywhere where Metal is played and cared about. Today, that means in just about every country on earth. This book, Living Metal: Metal Scenes around the World, is being publi
M y t h o l o g i c a l P a n o r a m a s
Tracing Distortions and Fictions of Landscape Across Time and Space
Call for Papers
A one-day conference at Senate House, University of London
4th October 2018
Keynote: Professor John Wylie (University of Exeter)
In recent decades, the ‘spatial turn’ in critical theory has heralded an increased focus on geographical
We are seeking proposals for papers focusing on the literature, culture, and social history of the British/Anglophone long-eighteenth century. This standing session entertains paper proposals on a wide variety of topics but particularly welcomes papers focusing on this year's special conference theme of "Acting, Roles, Stages."
Please send proposals to John C. Beynon (jbeynon@csufresno.edu) by June 27, 2018
Call for proposals for the Dickens Society sponsored panel at the Northeast Modern Language Society convention to be held in Washington, DC March 21-24, 2019
"Neo-Dickens for a New Audience: Reading, Watching, and Teaching Dickens in the 21st Century" (Dickens Society Sponsored Panel)
Chair: Mary Ann Tobin, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
As Jessica Cox defines it, Neo-Victorianism involves "creative works that in some way engage with Victorian literature and cu
Please submit abstracts and brief biographical information for consideration in the upcoming NeMLA convention using the following link:http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/17510
Ezra Pound remains a controversial figure in the global literary landscape; however, despite this controversy, he continues to have a widespread and profound influence on contemporary poetics. The foundation of Pound’s poetry, such as The Cantos, is the intersection of borders and boundaries. He explores
In the American cultural imagination, the Midwest embodies the “home or “heart of the nation associated with frontier and rural values of promise, fertility, order, and stability, according to Joanna Jacobson in “The Idea of the Midwest. Jacobson argues that the Midwest has come to symbolize the quintessentially “American, speaking to “the impulse to invent a myth of commonality rooted in the physical landscape at the center of the con
CALL FOR PANELS
This year we are experimenting with a two-part submission process intended to make the conference more participant-driven and democratic. The first step is this Call is for PANELS. We are also issuing a call for Pre/Post Conference Workshop proposals at this time. Proposals may be submitted until Sept. 1, 2018.
Conference panels may be proposed by anyone interested in organizing one. All panels are 90 minutes long and may take the form of a tra
Conference Description
Across the globe the liberal logic of capitalism and technocracy has seemingly triumphed, and with it a culture of secularism, now the dominant ideology of the liberal establishment that prefers progress to tradition, an individualized identity to a sense of shared belonging, and free choice to common purpose. As much as this regime has produced wealth, it has also generated inequality and dissatisfaction. The populist insurgency that is sweepin
I’m Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE
Editors
Ashley Szanter, Weber State University
Jessica K. Richards, Weber State University
Project Overview
Editors Szanter and Richards seek original essays for an edited collection on Rob Thomas’s television series iZombie as well as the show’s graphic novel source material, Roberson and Allred’s iZOMBIE. Currently under contract
Call for Papers
Seduction
University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow
Hosted at the School for Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, University of Edinburgh
On 15th and 16th November, Edinburgh LLC is hosting “Seduction, a two-day interdisciplinary conference that seeks to bring together scholars
Mission: Empowering academic writers to establishing successful habits while advancing writing and editing skills.
Award: $1,150 grant to subsidize one week at the Sugar Pine Writing Retreat.
Writing Retreat Dates: September 9-16, 2018
Eligibility: Applicants must be doctoral candidates or early career researchers from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, business, or law. Appli
Please submit your abstract (300-500 words) through the NeMLA system: www.cfplist.com/nemla/ Home/S/17589
Deadline: September 30, 2018
Chairs: Ji Hyun Lee (Cornell University) and Lilith Acadia (University of California, Berkeley)
Seminar Abstract:
In 1979, Octavia Butler juxtaposed the neo-slave narrative form and the science fictional device of time travel to create Kindred, a
CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd International Conference on
Rohingya: Politics, Ethnic Cleansing and Uncertainty
Conference Date: September 1-2, 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 05, 2018
E-mail for Abstract Submission: conference2018.criminologydu@gmail.com
Venue: Nabab Nawab Ali Choudhury Senate Building, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Organized by: Department of Criminology, University of Dha
The international conference on “Gender, Sexuality, and Justice: Resilience in Uncertain Times, to be held on 7-8 December 2018 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is now calling for proposals.
Professor Janet Jakobsen, Claire Tow Professor and Chair of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, will be the keynote speaker at this conference.
While significant progress was made on the rights of women and sexual minorities
The research school is an intellectual union in search for proper methods applicable to a multi-level phenomenon of foreign/second language acquisition. The program of the school embraces two side of the definition of “method understanding it as 1) research methods associated with the mechanisms of language acquisition and 2) as methods of language teaching informed by research results and applied in the classroom. Thus, the school brings together the most successful practices in
Intelligent systems for human-robot interaction are not only expected to automatically acquire and manage knowledge through a variety of sensors but also expected to learn, adapt, and optimize their behaviour over time. Motivated by exciting and successful advances, biologically inspired models are becoming the choice in machine learning and computational intelligence to solve complex problems in a variety of applications. It goes from extraction of middle- and high-level abstract features, r