CFP: 23rd Annual MELUS Conference

23nd Annual MELUS Conference, April 2-5, 2009
Red Lion Hotel at the Park, Spokane, WA
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US: www.melus.org
Conference Theme:
“Poetic Justice: Imagination, Empowerment, and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US”
Multi Ethnic Literatures in the United States narrate the stories not only of [...]

CFP: ISA 2009-Russia in Asia

Russia Encounters Asia: Interests and Identitites
ISA Annual Convention in New York, February 2009
Panel organizers: Dr. Alexander Bukh, Tsukuba University, Japan, and
Dr. Mikhail A. Molchanov, St. Thomas University, Canada
Russia’s identity as not only European, but also a Eurasian nation has always been subject to a debate. With the center of global politics and finance now moving [...]

CFP: Clothing, Flesh, Bone: Visual Culture above and below the Skin

Deadline for paper proposals: May 9, 2008
Clothing, Flesh, Bone: Visual Culture above and below the Skin
Chairs: Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida, Box 115801, Gainesville, FL 32611-5801; and
Sarah Adams, University of Michigan, 3502 Barton Farm Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105
This panel broadly explores new approaches to the study of visual culture that depicts or adorns [...]

2008-2009 EUROPA FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM

New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, Romania -, announces the EUROPA FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM, supported by the VolkswagenStiftung (Hanover, Germany).
The program targets researchers and academics from South-Eastern Europe (including Romania), as well as young Western scholars working on South-Eastern Europe. Applicants must be doctoral students, or hold a Ph.D. title. Duration [...]

CFP Collective Biography Conf., ANU Canberra, 8-10 Sep 08

This will be a multi-disciplinary conference, covering any aspect of collective or group life writing. Paper proposals on any aspect of this theme, such as networks; families; artistic, political or academic groups; communities; institutional history and prosopography, are welcomed. Papers may be on specific topics or people, or may be reflections on aspects of methodology.
The [...]

CFP: Film & History at the NEPCAs

For those of you who are unable to get to Film & History’s biennial conference this fall in Chicago, here’s a wonderful alternative for connecting with other Film & History scholars — join the Film & History area at the Northeast Popular Culture meetings:
Call for Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers
Film & History Area
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
October [...]

Graduate colloquium “Provincials and Empire”

The graduate students of the Yale University departments of Classics, History and History of Art are pleased to announce their upcoming graduate colloquium, “Provincials and Empire”, to be held at Yale University, New Haven, CT, on Friday and Saturday April 25-26, 2008. The colloquium will feature a keynote address by Prof. Clifford Ando (University [...]

Conference on the legacy of the 2012 Olympics: Booking now open

You can now book your place at the first annual colloquium on the legacy of the 2012 games, being held at the University of Greenwich on 8th & 9th May 2008.
The conference is the first of its kind to bring together academics, policy makers, cultural practitioners, government agencies and business to discuss the legacy of [...]

CFP: Contributors are invited for the volume New Directions

Call for papers: contributors are invited for the volume New Directions
in Travel Writing and Travel Studies - Carmen Andras, editor 
Travel studies have recently gained an important place among academic fields owing to
their inter- and trans-disciplinary character. Contributions are invited to Carmen Andras at mailto:carmen_andras@yahoo.com on the subject of travel from the perspectives of history, literature, [...]

Feminist Theory and Fashion in Modernity

Essay proposals are sought for a cross-disciplinary collection foregrounding current feminist scholarship on modern fashion in the period between 1860 and 1940.
Fashion was frequently held up by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists of western modernity (including Baudelaire, Veblen, Simmel, and Benjamin) as a quintessentially modern form. One hundred years later, theorists and historians of [...]