CFP: “A More Perfect Union”, IAAS Postgraduate Symposium (Trinity College Dublin)

HARDBOILED HISTORY: A NOIR LENS ON AMERICA’S PAST Friday 19th May 2017 University of Warwick  Keynote Speakers: Dr. Helen Hanson (University of Exeter) Warren Pleece (Comic Artist and Graphic Novelist) Provisional Programme   09:00-9:30 Registration (The Oculus, OC1.06), Tea and Coffee 09:30-9:45 Opening Remarks 09:45-10:45 Panel 1: (Re)Creating/Marginalising History Alex Pavey (University College London), “‘Something is wrong here’: James Ellroy and the Historiography of Noir Los Angeles” Thomas Travers (Birbeck University), “Cuban Breach: Don DeLillo’s Libra as Historical Noir” Michael Docherty (University of Kent), “All Pachucos go to Heaven: Grim Fandango’s Interactive Requiem for the Mexican Dead of 1940s Los Angeles” 10:45-11:45 Panel 2: The “Historical” Female Body Katherine Farrimond (University of Sussex), “Black and White and Dead: The Femme Fatale as Corpse in Retro Noir” Esther Wright (University of Warwick), “‘It’s a sad story but this town has seen it play out a thousand times”: L.A. Noire’s ‘Historical’ Women” […]

Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas, held from May 15-17, 2017 at York University in Toronto, is the third biennial conference of the International Auto/Biography Association Chapter of the Americas (IABAA). The conference brings together the leading scholars of autobiography, biography, and other forms of life writing, as well as new and emerging scholars, artists and practitioners of life writing, and graduate students. Focusing on regional and hemispheric research and scholarship, the conference will explore the multiple lines that gendered lives in the Americas cross, both physical boundaries of national borders and intangible crossings of the established borders of gender, language, and genre. "Lives Outside the Lines" is a timely theme, given the importance of transnational movements triggered by globalization and given the popularity of multi-media and multi-genre experimentation that creates new possibilities and forms of self-representation. Papers and presentations delivered at this conference will investigate […]

THURSDAY 11 MAY, 16:30--18:00. School of English, University of Leeds On May 11, the School of English at the University of Leeds is hosting a panel session in which three leading scholars in the vibrant field of US food culture studies will join in conversation and discuss their new research: Dr. J. Michelle Coghlan is Lecturer in American Literature at University of Manchester and the author of Sensational Internationalism (2016). Her new project, Culinary Designs, "chronicles the rise of American food writing and the making of American taste in the long nineteenth century." Professor Elizabeth Engelhardt, incoming chair of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, is the author of many landmark food writings including A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (2011) and the student collaboration Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket (2009). Professor Psyche Williams-Forson, chair of American Studies at the University of Maryland, is the author of Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (2006). With Carole Counihan she is also the editor of the important collection Taking […]