Global Asia: Critical Aesthetics and Alternative Globalities June 27-28, 2016 – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore In the inaugural issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Tina Chen and Eric Hayot posit that “ ‘Asia’ has been ‘global’ since long before the diasporas of the nineteenth century; the question is how, and why, and what kinds […]
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Call for Papers – Special Issue: The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies Edited by Chih-ming Wang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Fang Cho (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio) The rise of China, both as a palpable geopolitical force and a contested discursive formation, has centrally occupied US global imaginaries in the most recent decade:
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The Human is an international and interdisciplinary indexed journal that publishes articles written in the fields of literatures in English (British, American, Irish, etc.), classical and modern Turkish literature, drama studies, and comparative literature (where the pieces bridge literature of a country with Turkish literature). The Human is inviting submissions for a special issue to
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The 43rd annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference (July 17-21, 2016) invites session proposals and/or paper abstracts on the topic of “Faulkner and the Native South.” From his earliest stories to his late novels, William Faulkner returned repeatedly to the Native American origins and histories of his imaginary landscape, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Faulkner’s fictional representations include
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The Pennsylvania State University Committee for Early Modern Studies 2016 Symposium, Call for Papers October 28-29, 2016 State College, Pennsylvania In August of 2015 a video was anonymously released that showed the fiery demolition of Palmyra’s 2nd-century CE Temple of Baalshamin. This shocking act, which purportedly occurred weeks before the world became aware, was the
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