Conferences

The Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies announces its fourteenth annual Bloomington Workshop (May 13-15, 2015). Caught between the universalizing vocabularies of rights, ethical obligations, or natural impulses and the competing self-interests of the market, between the collective and the individual, many of our contemporary debates about care—who deserves it, who gives it, who gets it—can […]

The McGill English Department’s Twenty-First Annual Graduate Student Conference on Language and Literature invites submissions on literary and cultural engagements with violation. Violation can signify multiply: violating rules and regulations, violating genre or generic conventions, violating treaties, violating the body, violating expectations, violating intellectual property and copyright, violating social and cultural conventions, violating promises, violating

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of digital humanities, including, but not limited to: humanities research enabled through digital media, data mining, software studies, or information design and modeling; computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities,

Growth in Writing, Teaching, and Learning Co-Chairs: Hilarie Ashton and Erin M. Andersen In his classic composition text Writing Without Teachers, Peter Elbow asks us to consider the metaphor of growing as a way to encourage and teach fluid, flexible writing: “Instead of a two-step transaction of meaning-into-language, think of writing as an organic, developmental