JOB: Lecturer in English, American Literature (National University of Ireland Maynooth)

Call for Papers: HARDBOILED HISTORY: A NOIR LENS ON AMERICA’S PAST University of Warwick, 19th May 2017 Confirmed Speaker: Warren Pleece, comic artist and graphic novelist (more to be announced) Abstracts are invited for a one-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Warwick, supported by the Department of History and the Humanities Research Centre. Hardboiled History seeks to bring together scholars interested in the ways contemporary media represents and reinterprets history, by exploring how and why “noir” resurfaces in depictions of America’s past across a variety of mediums. Since the 1940s, when critics began to recognise Hollywood was producing a new “cycle” of films distinct in their visual style and cynical worldview, a wealth of scholarship has explored film noir as a genre (or “mood”, “phenomenon”), its ties to hardboiled literature, the industrial conditions that fostered it, and the tropes it codified. With their inherent darkness and existentialist explorations, the […]

Call for Papers. 2017 British Group in Early American History Postgraduate & Early Career Conference The above event will take place on Friday March 31st 2017 at the London-based Institute of Historical Research, the UK’s national centre for history. London, with its unique colonial archival resources and lively research student populati­­on, is one of the leading centres of early American scholarship in Europe, and the IHR is a natural location for this event. The IHR Library’s North American Room houses one of the foremost UK collections of published material relating to the early history of the United States, Caribbean, and Canada. We welcome proposals that embrace the broad field of North American history, including the Caribbean, from the seventeenth century through to, but not including, the American Civil War. Proposals for panels and papers of many types are sought: from traditional panels to roundtables to “state-of-the-field” or teaching panels. We will accept individual […]

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 […]