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CFP: Transatlantic Studies Association 17th Annual Conference (University of North Georgia)

CFP: British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Panel at the BAAS/EAAS Joint Conference (London)

BRITISH ASSOCIATION  OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICANISTS PANELS AT THE BAAS/EAAS JOINT CONFERENCE, LONDON 2018 The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists invites submissions to two panels to be submitted to the joint British Association for American Studies/European Association for American Studies Conference, taking place in London, April 4-7 2018. More information on BrANCA and its activities can be found here: http://www.branca.org.uk/ 1. OPEN PANEL ON 19th CENTURY AMERICANIST TOPICS Each year BrANCA hosts a special panel at BAAS showcasing progressive, interdisciplinary work on the United States in the long nineteenth century. This year BrANCA invites paper proposals on any relevant topic to be included within a sponsored panel at the BAAS/EAAS Conference in London, April 4-7 2018. We invite proposals for papers from all researchers working in the field. We are particularly interested in global, hemispheric and transatlantic approaches to key themes in nineteenth century literary studies, and papers that propose new ways […]

Queer Screens Conference 2017 (Northumbria University)

QUEER SCREENS CONFERENCE 2017 September 2nd and 3rd 2017 The Institute of the Humanities and the Gendered Subjects Research Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Keynote speaker: Prof. Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) We seek to tackle diverse aspects of queer representation, and question the extent to which the new influx of queer on-screen visibility works at once both to liberate and obfuscate certain queer identities and cultures. How, for example, should we perceive representations of the legalization of gay marriage in numerous countries, while taking into account that these changes in law also mark the entrance of queer individuals into reproductive and familial time? In England and Wales, 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalized private homosexual acts between male individuals aged 21 or over. As such, this anniversary comes at what is arguably a troubling time; one where right-wing nationalism spreads across the […]

Game of Thrones: An International Conference (University of Hertfordshire)

Game of Thrones: An International Conference University of Hertfordshire, De Havilland Campus, 6-7 September 2017   Co-organised by the Media Research Group of the Schools of Creative Arts and Humanities REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:  http://store.herts.ac.uk/conferences-events/conferences-events/conferences/creative-arts/game-of-thrones-an-international-conference The University is in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which 25 minutes, by train, from central London. The nearest train station is Hatfield (direct route from King's Cross Station). The University is a short taxi journey or bus ride from Hatfield railway station. You can view train times and fares on the National Rail website. There are also bus services available from all the major London airports to the University. ​ Airport bus services  ​ Heathrow Airport (21 miles or 34km away) Arriva 724 service Luton Airport (18 miles or 29km away) National Express JL737 Service Stansted Airport (20 miles or 32km away) National Express JL737 Service Gatwick Airport (40 miles or 64km away) National Express JL737 Service View our maps and directions section for more information on […]

CFP: Cine Excess XI (Birmingham City University)

Updated Call for Papers The 11th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions Birmingham City University Presents: Cine Excess XI Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd Birmingham City University (and related screening venues) 9th-11th November 2017 www.cine-excess.co.uk Keynote: Professor Mark Jancovich (UEA) Over the last 11 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with global cult filmmakers for an event comprising a themed academic conference with plenary talks, filmmaker interviews and UK theatrical premieres of up and coming film releases. Previous guests of honour attending Cine-Excess have included Catherine Breillat (Romance, Sex is Comedy), John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers), Roger Corman (The Masque of the Red Death, The Wild Angels), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, King of the Ants), Brian Yuzna (Society, The Dentist), Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria), Joe Dante (The Howling, […]

War of the Worlds: Transnational Fears of Invasion and Conflict, 1870-1933 (Lancaster University)

One-day international workshop organised by the Invasion Network at Lancaster University, 8th September 2017. Key-note speaker: Professor Emeritus David Glover Confirmed speakers include: Michael Hughes, Michael Matin and Antony Taylor Hosted by the Department of History, Lancaster University and supported by the Irish Research Council, ‘War of the Worlds: Transnational Fears of Invasion and Conflict 1870-1933’ seeks to consider the fear of invasion as a global phenomenon in the period between the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) and the rise of the German Third Reich, including any region in which the fear became a notable social phenomenon and/or how fears of invasion and future conflict expressed in different nations and regions informed each other.

CFP: Special Issue of the European Journal of American Culture: American Horror Story

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the European Journal of American Culture: American Horror Story Guest Editors: Harriet Earle, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Jessica Clark, University of Suffolk, UK This call for papers seeks submissions that engage with the television series American Horror Story (produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk) as part of a Special Issue for the European Journal of American Culture. Over six seasons (so far), American Horror Story has received massive popular and academic interest for its bold and often apposite reworkings of a wide range of cultural tropes and folk stories, set against uniquely American backgrounds and played out through a distinct cast of characters. Papers should be between 6000-8000 words and the deadline for final submission is 31stJanuary 2018. Papers should be submitted to the Special Guest Editors Harriet Earle and Jessica Clark via AHSspecialissue@gmail.com. Submissions to this journal could include, but are not […]

Doig Country: Imagining Montana and the West (Montana State University)

Doig Country: Imagining Montana and the West  Montana State University, Bozeman, September 14-16 2017 On September 14-16, 2017 the Western Lands & People Initiative at Montana State University in Bozeman, with the College of Letters & Science and the MSU Library, will host the symposium to celebrate the work of Ivan Doig and the acquisition of his papers by the university. The organizers invite proposals for papers and presentations that address the literature, history and geography of Montana and the West that Doig explored in his memoirs and fiction. Work need not directly address Doig's writings, but should allow participants to enter into a broad discussion of the connections between landscape and human experience, history and fiction, or what close observation and attention to place contribute to the various disciplines that engage us as scholars and as readers. Further information can be found at http://ivandoig.montana.edu/symposium-2017/

New Directions in American Philanthropy (Sheffield Hallam University)

New Directions in American Philanthropy Sheffield Hallam University 14-15 September 2017 Meaning, literally, “love of all mankind”, the historian Lawrence J. Friedman has framed philanthropy as ‘a collective form of charitable giving.’ In the nearly two centuries since Alexis De Tocqueville’s observation that the United States is a ‘nation of joiners,’ volunteerism and philanthropy have played a significant role in America’s domestic and international history. For some, such as the scholar Olivier Zunz, philanthropy is ‘part of the American progressive tradition.’ Yet despite good intentions, the history of American philanthropy is not without controversy. Indeed, the political scientist Inderjeet Parmar, acknowledging that ‘it is difficult to believe that philanthropy…could possibly be malignant,’ has argued that it has not always been either an effective tool or a force for positive change. The purpose of this workshop is to engage in this debate concerning the positive and negative aspects of American philanthropy. […]

Lecture: “Foundations of America’s Empire: How Elite Networks Dominate American Power at Home and Abroad” (Sheffield Hallam University)

Free Public Lecture: Professor Inderjeet Parmar (City University of London), "Foundations of America’s Empire: How Elite Networks Dominate American Power at Home and Abroad" - 14th September 2017, 17.30-19.30, Sheffield Hallam University In this lecture, Parmar argues that corporate foundations – like Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller, among others – have played a significant but neglected or misunderstood role in the rise and development of American power. He argues that despite their cuddly public image and claims of benign support for democracy, human rights, development and freedom, such institutions are locked into the strategic heartlands of American elite power at home and its imperial global projects. Combining a historical analysis with the rise and politics of the Trump phenomenon, this lecture suggests that elite power-knowledge networks centred on influential American foundations, but which extend to think tanks, both main political parties, major universities, the federal executive, mass media and international organisations, built […]

College Art Association and Terra Foundation Publication Grants

The College Art Association and Terra Foundation for American Art Announce Opening of 2018 Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant The College Art Association welcomes applications and letters of intent for the 2018 Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant. Guidelines for the grant define “American art” as art (circa 1500–1980) of what is now the geographic United States. Awards of up to $15,000 will be made in three distinct categories: grants to US publishers for manuscripts considering American art in an international context, grants to non-US publishers for manuscripts on topics in American art, and grants for the translation of books on topics in American art to or from English. Letters of intent are due in the CAA office by September 15, 2017. A complete application to the award is by invitation only. The grant also provides funds each year for travel to CAA’s Annual Conference, […]

CFP: Edited Collection on the Writing of Marilynne Robinson

As part of the Manchester University Press series, Contemporary American and Canadian Writers, this volume will chart recent and emerging critical opinion on the celebrated author, Marilynne Robinson. Having issued an earlier call for papers, the editors now seek proposals that specifically address the following areas:  Robinson and her contemporaries; Robinson’s nonfiction writing; Robinson and race; Robinson’s role as a public intellectual; Literary review culture, prize giving, and the production of “literary” fiction via the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; Robinson’s engagement with history, particularly the ongoing relevance of the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and/or Civil Rights Movement to her work; Robinson and US intellectual history.   Please email abstracts of no more than 300 words with your institutional affiliation and brief bio (c. 250 words) to robinsonsymposium@gmail.com no later than 15th September 2017.   All chapters will be subject to a blind peer review process and full details and submission guidelines will be provided to contributors on […]

CFP: ‘Avant-Garde as Protest: Experimental Literature and Its Role in the American Avant-Garde’, Panel at EBAAS 2018 (London)

Lizzy Pournara (Ph.D. Candidate at the department of American Literature in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) is looking for panel participants for the upcoming conference organized by the European Association of American Studies that will take place in King’s College London, University College London, and the British Library, 4th - 7th April 2018 The panel is entitled “Avant-Garde as Protest: Experimental Literature and Its Role in the American Avant-Garde” and  participants are sought for 20 minutes presentation papers concerning but not limited to digital literature and multimodal narratives, experimental poetics, innovative poetry and fiction, interdisciplinary artistic practices, visuality, experimental typography. The deadline of the submission is on 22nd September 2017.   Please send an abstract (250 words), including a title and a short CV by 22nd September 2017 at lizzypournara@gmail.com