Calls for Submission

In tabloid journalism and in social media, gossip, rumors and scandals about celebrities develop intimacy among fans. Such gossip and rumour mongering serves a purpose in society: to build a common moral ground on the backs of celebrity lives. However what about the celebrities themselves whose emotional lives are consumed by us? The production, circulation and

The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) invites paper proposals for its eleventh biennial conference, to be held February 5-6, 2016 at the University of California, Irvine. FEEGI conferences investigate the histories of places and people touched directly and indirectly, advantageously or catastrophically, by European overseas expansion. The conferences provide an opportunity for scholars to exchange ideas about

The American Studies Association of Texas (ASAT) is soliciting submissions for its 59th Annual Meeting November 12-14, 2015, hosted by the English department of SamHoustonStateUniversity, Huntsville, TX.  300-word proposals should address this year’s conference theme: “Contextualizing Conflict, Culture and Community” with a specific interdisciplinary line of inquiry and a review of research completed to date.