Conferences

The City in Literature & Culture special session of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is accepting proposals for the organization’s 117th annual conference. The call-for-papers deadline is Monday, June 10, 2019. This special session welcomes proposals focused on the varied ways of constructing the city’s identity as broadly conceived, particularly beyond North America. […]

From team songs sung after a match to Arthur Honegger’s 1928 “Rugby” symphonic movement; from terrace chants to Neil Hannon’s ‘Duckworth-Lewis Method’ concept album, sport and music have always been inextricably linked. Both produce moments of community, transcendence, and emotional resonance – and both are vital components of the past, present and future of modern

The 2019 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall on Friday, November 15-Saturday, November 16 at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the organizers are seeking proposals for panels and presentations. You can find general information about the 2019 conference and any updates here.  The organizers will

Recent years have seen an increased scholarly interest in early modern ideas about civility. Although often associated with urbanity, gentility, or refinement, this conference will explore ideas of civility more broadly, asking how the limits of acceptable behaviour and discourse were defined, enforced, and negotiated in early modern Britain. The meaning of civility in post-Reformation

20th Cambridge Heritage Symposium Cooking Identities & Tasting Memories: The heritage of food McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge May 10-11, 2019 In addition to its necessity for life, food serves as an unparalleled means through which to study the formation of identity within and between sociocultural groups. The embodied practices associated with cooking