Conferences

The Center for Civil War Research and the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History at the University of Mississippi seek papers for the 2016 Conference on the Civil War, to be held October 6th through 8th. This conference will be hosted in partnership with the History Department’s annual Porter Fortune Symposium on History. Heather Cox […]

Uprooted—Refugees/Migrants/The Displaced:  An International Multidisciplinary Conference 9th International Conference on Transatlantic Studies October 10-12, 2016, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri This multi-disciplinary international conference explores the diverse social justice issues involving refugees/ immigrants/ the displaced confronting both sides of the transatlantic world. Various conflicts throughout the world have led to multiple crises as refugee and

The organizers of the fall 2016 Northeast Popular/American Culture Association conference are seeking papers on popular and American culture, broadly construed, for its annual fall conference to be held on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22, 2016, on the campus of Keene State College in Keene, NH. NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences that

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

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