American Comparitive Literature Association 2011 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 31st – April 3rd, 2011 “World Literature / Comparative Literature” Seminar: Foucault and/on Literature Seminar Organizer: Philip Goldstein, U of Delaware-Wilmington, Philip Goldstein, U of Delaware-Wilmington Summary The question of how the work of Michel Foucault bears on the study of literature has been controversial. …
Call for Papers: The Green Apparatus? Political Technologies of the Sustainable City Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 12-16th April 2011, Seattle, USA. Session organized by Stephanie Wakefield (CUNY Graduate Center) and Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota) “Nature is the new civic ideal.” —Alexandros Washburn, Director of Urban Design for the NYC Department of City …
Call for Papers – ‘French Theory : reception in the visual arts in the United States between 1965 and 1995′ (Brussels, May, 2011) Summary There are many American artists, active in the second half of the twentieth century, whose practice and theory have been infuenced by philosophy, literary studies and social sciences. In this regard, …
On Hacking’s ‘Style(s) of thinking’ A two day workshop University of Capetown 26th – 28th March 2011 Keynote Speaker: Professor Ian Hacking Call for abstracts Deadline for abstract submission (500-1000 words): 1st December 2010 Focus This workshop, which coincides with Professor Hacking’s 75th birthday, aims to explore aspects of his extended body of work. Although …
History and Contemporary Literature, Synthesis ejournal Vol. 5 (2012) Special issue: Call for papers Deadlines: 1 December 2010 submission of abstracts 1 February 2011 notification of acceptance 1 October 2011 submission of articles History and Contemporary Literature Christine Harrison and Angeliki Spiropoulou (issue editors) The ‘turn to history’, witnessed in both literary studies and literature …
Seminar: Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-09-30 Conference Date: April 7-10, 2011 Conference Venue: Hyatt New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Deadline for Abstract Submission: Sept. 30, 2010 (300-500 words) Notification of acceptance of papers by 5th of October, 2010. Deadline for Final Paper Submission: March …
Conscripted Subjects: Disciplined Society, Critique, and the Humanities. Graduate Student Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA, USA February 23-25, 2011 Submission deadline: October 15, 2010. In light of our current moment marked by economic collapse, heightened political paranoia, racial profiling, and ubiquitous surveillance, this conference wishes to highlight the connection between states of crisis and …
CFP: Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History This year’s theme: Genealogies Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 3-5, 2011 Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010 The Executive Committee of the Twelfth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois …
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