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Monthly Archives: February 2014
AYA Newsletter February 2014
The first AYA newsletter has just been distributed! Have a look at the PDF below, in which you will learn about AYA membership, recent changes on our board, as well as our...
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INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES, NEW MEDIA AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT: Interdisciplinary Conference for Researchers and Practitioners.
Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada / OCTOBER 24-25, 2014
How has the digital screen changed our world in general and narrative and visual arts in particular is the broad focus of the second Department...
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The Story of Memory Conference: Exploring New Perspectives on the Relationship between Storytelling and Memory in the Twenty-First Century
The University of Roehampton, UK / 4-5 September, 2014
Invited speakers include: Paul Bloom (Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale); Suzanne Corkin (Neuroscience, MIT); Mark Currie (English Literature, QMUL); Asifa Majid (Psycholinguistics, Radboud); Martijn...
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Searching for Place: Interpretations of the Environment and Landscape – Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
University of Wyoming 2014 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference / March 27 - 29, 2014
"It will soon be apparent that even though we gather together and look in the same directions at the same...
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“Elsewheres”: Issue of The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
The editors of JMMLA seek essays about the literature, film, music, and art of places that don’t really matter, places whose adjacency to the capitals of the world confirms their lack of...
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“Transformations” – University College London English Department Graduate Conference
This year's UCL English Department Graduate Conference seeks to explore the nature of transformation and the many possible meanings this can hold for the wide diaspora of text production and consumption. Over...
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Representing play and games in English-speaking literature
A one-day conference organized by OVALE and VALE EA4085 – Paris IV Sorbonne
June 14th, 2014 / Maison de la Recherche – Paris IV Sorbonne / 28, rue Serpente, 75006 Paris
Keynote speaker: Joyce Goggin, Universiteit...
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Philamet Issue 20 on “Humour”
Philament, the peer-reviewed online journal of the arts and culture that is affiliated with the University of Sydney, invites postgraduate students and early-career scholars to submit academic papers and creative works for...
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English Studies as Archive and as Prospecting
"80 Years of English Studies in Zagreb"
International Conference / Zagreb, Croatia, 18-21 September 2014
Perhaps the most exciting problem that English studies are facing today is coming to terms with the complexities of knowledge...
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“Forever”: University of Toronto Graduate Conference
English Graduate Conference at University of Toronto / May 15-16 2014
Best friends forever; been that way forever; nothing lasts forever; forever young. ‘Forever’ is ubiquitous in our cultural imagination. It finds its way...
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New issue of Textual Overtures on “The Body”
Textual Overtures is currently accepting submissions for its 2014 issue under the theme of “Bodies”. The editors invite papers to address this topic from creative perspectives, including bodies of text, bodies of...
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Academic Blog Competition: Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies – 50 Years On
Publishing house Rowman & Littlefield offers one postgraduate student the chance to attend the "Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies - 50 Years On" conference and write about the event for its blog....
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DOC fellowship program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Doctoral fellowship program financed by the Federal Ministry for Science and Research, additional funding comes from the City of Vienna and the Province of Styria.
Purpose:
To enable young, excellent doctoral candidates from all...
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LSE-UCT July School in Cape Town
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) offer the second "LSE-UCT July School" in Cape Town from 30 June to 11 July 2014....
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Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches
International Conference / Justus-Liebig University, Giessen / Nov. 13 - 15, 2014
The question of materiality has emerged as a central topic in studies concerned with the body, affect, sexuality, bio-politics and digital culture in recent...
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Special issue of The Canadian Review of American Studies: Culture and the Economization of Everything
Due date: March 1, 2014. Please send electronic copies of your paper to CAAS2013@uwaterloo.ca. More information on submission guidelines at the CRAS website.
Find the full CfP here: CAAS CFPFeb2014...
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Radical Negativity: Interrogating productive possibilities for negative states of being
Goldsmiths, University of London / June 13, 2014
More recent feminist and queer scholarship has begun to productively address the dark aspects of human subjectivity perceived to have a detrimental impact on the...
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