Conferences

“Waging Peace: A Conference Studying the Challenges of Postwar Peace” Hosted by the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 8-10, 2016 University of Southern Mississippi When wars end, the communities, veterans, and governments that waged them begin the processes of peace. From the reconstruction of national identities to […]

Organizers of the 37th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference seek paper and panel submissions to its “The Beats, Counterculture, & Hipsters” area. Topics of interest might include Literature of the Beat Generation, Beat Culture and the Cold War, The Beats in Popular Culture, Women in the Beat Generation, African American Beats, Beat Appropriation of

Myths and legends play a vital role in explaining how human beings understand their world. Many myths and legends are linked to a specific places or environments.  The place can be an ordinary spot that became associated with an important event, or it can be created as an ideal or to serve as a critique

The Protest Issues and Actions section of the Popular Culture Assocation (PCA) seeks proposals for its annual paper sessions at the 2016 Conference to be held in Seattle, Wa from March 22-25, 2016.  Any disciplinary approach may be used to examine dissent, past or present, in a local, national, or international setting. Papers may focus

While there is a plethora of critical readings on the intertextuality of fairytales, there is significantly less attention drawn to the metaleptic and metafictional attributes embedded in the rest of the children’s literature canon.  Picturebooks, to give but one specific example, utilize metaleptic devices profusely, either as a means to highlight the potentiality of language