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CfP: 40 Years of Alien (Bangor University)

40 years of Alien An academic symposium hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies Bangor University, UK Friday 24 May 2019 Keynote Speaker: Dr Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark) Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Conceived primarily to cash in on the popularity of science-fiction films in the late 1970s, directed by a person known for making adverts (Ridley Scott) and starring an unknown actor in the lead role (Sigourney Weaver), it transcended its humble origins to frighten and disturb audiences on its initial release. Its success has led to three direct sequels, two prequels, one ‘mashup’ franchise, a series of comic books, graphic novels, novelisations and games, and has an enormous and devoted fanbase. For forty years, Alien (and its progeny) has animated debate and discussion among critics and academics from a wide variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives. Hosted by the […]

CfP: Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book, SHARP 2019 (University of Massachusetts)

CFP - Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book We are pleased to invite submissions for the 27th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), to be held in Amherst, Massachusetts—primarily at the University of Massachusetts—from Monday, 15 July, to Thursday, 18 July 2019, with optional book-historical excursions on 19 July. (Details on pre- and post-conference activities will follow.) The conference theme is “Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book.” Areas of inquiry may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following: • The indigenous book: concepts, definitions, evolution • Making marks to new media: varieties of communicative practice • Cross-cultural encounters, diglossia, heteroglossia, and cultural hybridity • The uses of print by colonizers and colonized • Decolonizing book history, libraries, and archives • The formation and material expression of national literatures • Meanings and manifestations of the vernacular: national languages, lexica, […]

Biannual Meeting of the European Early American Studies Association (London)

Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road, London

Biannual meeting of the European Early American Studies Association London, 14-16 December 2018 The Making and Unmaking of Identities and Connections in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 The 7th biannual meeting of the European Early American Studies Association convenes in London 14-16 December 2018 at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London. The conference theme for EEASA 2018 is “The making and unmaking of identities and connections in early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850.” Issues of identities and connections were as pertinent to the inhabitants of early America and the Atlantic World as they remain today. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, the geopolitics of the Americas were in constant flux. European and indigenous empires emerged, competed, expanded, contracted and collapsed. New nations and unions were formed and reformed. Identities and loyalties were transitory, political and cultural borders permeable. Weak centers fostered local autonomy and a […]