Call for Papers

I would like to draw your attention to a number of interesting calls for papers

Transcultural Imaginaries
Making New, Making Strange

14–17 June 2013

A Moving Worlds Conference
organized by

Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), NTU
and Division of English, NTU

Organizing Committee:
Neil Murphy, Shirley Chew, Jennifer Crawford, Daniel Jernigan, Lim Lee Ching, Bede Scott

 

We invite papers and proposals for panels (of 3-4 papers).
Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to:

Translation and transcreation
Interregional exchange — the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean
Forms in Architecture
Rewriting diaspora
The transport of styles
Postcolonial aesthetics
Technology and visual arts and media
Inventing Asia
Travelling theory
Sustainability: contesting paradigms
Contact zones and linguistic identity
Transcultural cities

Abstracts of 250 words to be sent by email to <movingworlds@ntu.edu.sg> by 20 Feb 2013.
http://portal.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/TransculturalImaginaries/default.asp

 

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10th Ralahine Utopian Studies Workshop

Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary European Literature

University of Limerick (Ireland)

Thursday 13 June 2013

Proposals (300 words) are thus invited for papers (in English) on instances of cognitive mapping observable in contemporary European literature(s), and should be sent (as an e-mail attachment) to Dr Michael G Kelly (michael.g.kelly@ul.ie) by Friday 8^th March 2013.

 

http://www3.ul.ie/llcc/10th-ralahine-utopian-studies-workshop/

 

 

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International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Conference
URBAN CULTURES
School of English, Queen's University Belfast
22-26 July 2013
Call for Papers

We welcome proposals for individual papers and panels on topics including but not limited to:
Literary and cultural representations of the city;
Cognitive geographies;
The literature and culture of individual cities;
The Belfast Group;
Diasporic and migrant cities;
Re-reading The Irish Writer and the City (1984);
Gender and the urban;
Urban sexualities;
Urban coteries;
The divided city;
The archipelagic city;
Urban genres;
Class and the city;
The city and memory.

Abstracts (250-300 words) to be sent to iasil2013@qub.ac.uk<mailto:iasil2013@qub.ac.uk> by 17 March 2013.

Please also include a brief biography (50 words including affiliation).
Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length.
Research students in good standing who have papers accepted will have the conference registration fee waived.

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Emerging Perspectives graduate conference

May 2-3, 2013 at University College Dublin in association with the UCD English Graduate Society and Humanities Institute
The UCD English Graduate Society warmly invites MA and PhD students of all levels to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words which engage with the theme ‘Emerging Perspectives’ for the 2013 EGS Postgraduate Symposium.

We invite submissions from a broad range of areas within the below disciplines including but by no means limited to:

• New approaches to literature, multiculturalism, devolution, globalisation, migration, diasporas, historical materialism (American, British, Irish Literature.)

• Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romantic, Victorian, Realism, Naturalism.

• Modernism, the Beats, Surrealism, Peripheral Modernities.

• Postmodernism, Digital Age/ Post-postmodernism?

• Theory: Materialism, structuralism, deconstruction, postmodernism, gender & queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, world literature, digital humanities.

• Novels, poetry, film, drama

This event will be held in the UCD Humanities Institute on the UCD Belfield campus. A selection of the proceedings from the conference will be published in the fourth volume of Emerging Perspectives.
Deadline for submission of abstracts, 300 words maximum, by March 1st 2013 for 20 minute presentations. Submissions for panels are also invited.
Please email submissions as well as any queries regarding the event to englishgradsoc@ucd.ie
http://www.facebook.com/egs.ucd 

 

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If anyone wants me to include any other call for papers just email them to me deirdre.flynn@mic.ul.ie