Conferences

The use of Twitter and other Web 2.0 applications as a contemporary practice to write or re-write literary texts is developing participative, multimodal, and co-constructed creations where the roles of authorship and audience become intertwined. This panel aims to investigate the multifaceted aspects of this phenomenon in the Italian and in the international context. Can […]

Call for proposals for World Literatures panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Washington, DC, March 21-24, 2019 The Coming-of-age Genre in the Arabic Novel Chair: Sally Gomaa, PhD, Salve Regina University The Bildungsroman is a contested genre in the Arabic novel. For example, Frederic Jameson has famously argued that all third-world

The American Studies Association (ASA) and the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), with support from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUFSC), have announced a competition open to ASA members (U.S. citizens). The organizers plan to select two ASA delegates (pending funding) for participation in the annual JAAS conference to be held in late May-early

The year 2017 represents the 375th anniversary of African American presence in Maryland. Since the arrival of the first captives from Africa in 1642, people of African descent have contributed significantly to the shaping of Maryland’s culture, economy, and institutions. The organizers of this conference invite panels and individual papers addressing any aspect of the

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) has issued a call for papers for a proposed panel for its upcoming 102nd meeting in Cincinnati, OH between September 27 and October 1, 2017. The panel has not yet been submitted to ASALH and the organizers are currently collecting abstracts for the submission.