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CFP: Poetic Words in the 21st Century Neoliberal City

Which alternatives to the capitalist and neoliberal status quo is the poetic involved in constructing, by participating in expression, response, spatial occupation or collective organisation? Conversely, in what ways has poetry in public spaces become a tool for readying urban spaces for gentrification? Which strategies do poets and cultural organizers employ to resist such re-signification of poetry […]

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CFP: Social Identity, Affect, and the First-Year Writing Classroom

Calls for Submission, Conferences / Kim Singletary

NeMLA 2017, Baltimore March 23rd-26th: The first-year writing seminar is a course that fulfills many goals of transitioning students to college-level writing, reading, and discussion. It is one of the first places that students grapple with those “structures of feeling” that gather around social identity and difference. This panel seeks papers that explore pedagogical approaches

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CFP: Eros and Pornography — 2017 PCA/ACA Conference

Calls for Submission, Conferences / Kim Singletary

Abstracts are now being accepted for the annual Popular Culture Association meetings scheduled for Wednesday, April 12 to Saturday, April 15, 2017. The international conference will be held at the Marriott Marina, San Diego, CA. The Eros and Pornography division of the PCA/ACA is one of the oldest in the organization and the organizers welcome

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CFP: Jews in Racialized Spaces

Calls for Submission, Conferences / Kim Singletary

A growing body of scholarship explores the complex relationships between Jews, whiteness, antisemitism, and racism, as well as Jewish perspectives on race and racism, among many other related themes. At the same time, scholars of cultural studies have produced fruitful work on how the Jew has been imagined and constructed in different Jewish and non-Jewish

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CFP: Second Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions in Canada

Calls for Submission / Kim Singletary

In 1967, female members of SUPA denounced their comrades’ sexism, arguing that it made the organization “like a civil rights organization with a leadership of southern racists.” In 1970 members of the Vancouver Women’s Caucus led an Abortion Caravan across Canada to protest the criminalization of abortion, drawing on powerful props such as coat hangers

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