Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas (York University, Toronto)

Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference 28-29 April 2017 Belfast Campus, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Call for Papers In 2013, Timothy Garton Ash wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian which stated that: ‘The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world’s view of America.’ Garton Ash was writing about the US budget crisis but three years on, as the new Administration-Elect readies itself to take over the White House, the  IAAS wonders if the America the world thought it knew ever really existed. This year’s conference will challenge us to re-discover and re-engage with America – explore the changing political and cultural landscape, uncover previously unheard voices, challenge conventional wisdom, and examine the role of the academic in a post-factual world. This conference represents a unique opportunity to reorient American Studies, both in Ireland and beyond. With this in mind, […]

The April Conference, to be held April 20-22 2017, is a triennial international conference organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Poland since 1978. It presents a valuable opportunity to bring together scholars working in various fields of English and American Studies. Speakers are kindly invited to submit papers on a variety of topics. Our usual General Sessions on British and American Literature, General and Applied Linguistics, Translation and Cultural Studies, Teaching of English as a Foreign Language will be accompanied by a selection of Thematic Sessions as follows: 1. James Joyce 2. Medievalism in Literature 3. New Perspectives on the American South 4. Variation, Variety, Variable – Facets of English in the Contemporary World 5. Stylistics of Multimodality /Intermedial Texts and Discourses (Artistic and Applied) 6. Teaching English in Academia 7. Stance and Evaluation in Discourse 8. Digital Humanities 9. Audiovisual Translation 10. The Contemporary Historical Novel Plenary lectures […]

CFP Lying Conference to be held at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France, November 9-10, 2017. If you look up the word “lie” in the Oxford dictionary, it is defined as an intentionally false statement, meant to deceive. Like irony, lying is a matter of intention and interpretation, and it exists in a virtual space. Indeed, if it is not reported or simply detected by somebody else, a lie never exists as such, and in a way never reaches its potential. However, unlike irony, it is not regarded as a figure of speech. It does not refer to the particular position or strategy of a speaker with regard to his/her own words, but instead to the deceitful nature of these words. Lying challenges facts and truth and distorts them. It either works in the interests of the liar or, when it becomes compulsive or pathological, against them. It can thus designate fundamentally different […]

Elie Wiesel has long been a pivotal figure in Holocaust discourse. His book Night was one of the earliest works by a survivor and continues to be a significant point of reference in Holocaust literature. He went on to become an incredibly prolific writer, working in a range of genres. His death in July 2016 invites examination of what form his literary, political, and cultural legacy will take. Despite a large and distinguished body of scholarship on his writing, many of his works, particularly his more recent fiction such as The Sonderberg Case (2010) and Hostage (2012), have yet to be subject to sustained critical analysis. This volume seeks to bring together insights into Wiesel’s novels. The editors invite abstracts on any work concerning Wiesel’s novels. Topics may include: Wiesel and the contextualization of the Holocaust within Jewish history The relationship between Wiesel’s fiction and non-fiction Hypertextuality in Wiesel’s work […]

Call for Papers: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 14-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. Keynote speaker: Professor Winston James, University of California, Irvine. With special performances from Linton Kwesi Johnson (invited) and David Rovics The Russian Revolution was not only one of the most critical events of the twentieth century in its own right but an inspirational event across the ‘black Atlantic’ as a blow against racism and imperialism.  For colonial subjects of European empires internationally as well as black Americans, the Russian Revolution promised the hope of a world without oppression and exploitation.  This conference aims to build on the growing scholarship and literature in this area to explore the impact the revolutionary events in Russia during 1917 made […]