CFP: The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style

The International Ralph Ellison Symposium September 28-30, 2017 Oxford University The Rothermere American Institute (www.rai.ox.ac.uk) at the University of Oxford and the Ralph Ellison Society (https://ellisonsociety.wordpress.com) are pleased to announce the first International Ralph Ellison Symposium. The symposium will bring together Ellison scholars and readers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and other international locales. The symposium will explore a variety of themes vital to Ellison’s life and work, in particular the relevance that his self-fashioned American and African-American identity has around the world. The likely session topics include: Ellison in translation (Invisible Man is in print in more than twenty different languages, including a Mandarin edition published in 2016). The reception, past and present, of Ellison’s fiction and essays in different countries. The status and future direction of Ellison scholarship. Ellison’s own engagement with the world: for example, his urge (thwarted by tonsillitis) to fight in the Abraham […]

South Carolina State University’s Department of English and The South Carolina Project on Language and Culture (SCPLC) will host an inter-disciplinary Conference on October  6, 2017. Conference Theme:  America’s southern cultures and identities:  language, customs, literature. The organizing committee is soliciting proposals for 20-minute presentations on topics related to language, culture, dialects, literature, film, communities, and other  areas that highlight research and documentation studies on  South Carolina’s cultures and languages as well as Southern regional cultures, languages and communities.  Please send a 250-300 word abstract by March 1, 2017.  Please send it via email to ssalone@scsu.edu.  Please send the following information with the abstract. Name and affiliation of the presenter. Email address Title of the presentation. Abstract (approximately 250-300 words) AV equipment requests, if any. Possible topic areas: Southern Regional Cultures Southern Regional literatures South Carolina literatures African-American Cultures European ethnic communities of The South Caucasian-American communities of The South Hispanic […]