Conferences

The Television area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association is accepting proposals for its 2017 conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The organizers are looking for papers that examine any aspect of television, from any time period, and using any number of methods. Potential topics for paper or panel proposals include, but are […]

The International Conference on Humanities, Social Sciences and Sustainability (IXSUS 2017) will be held Monday and Tuesday, October 30-31, 2017  at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. With the theme of “Resilience,” the conference will promote a critical understanding of the innovative and organic approaches from the humanities and social sciences toward sustainability. Our shared

The History and Political Science Department at Chestnut Hill College will host an interdisciplinary conference on “The Legacy of the Russian Revolution,” November 16-18, 2017. Keynote speakers will be Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Sydney, Australia, and University of Chicago, emeritus) and Wendy Goldman (Carnegie Mellon University).  Proposals for papers or panels are invited on any

Musical numbers have served as constitutive elements of cinema since its early days in the so-called silent period. From the musical moments in silent films emerged the film musical as a specific genre. Musical numbers remain central components beyond generic categories and have succeeded from early sound film musicals to recent TV shows. This conference

The Women’s Studies Program at Texas Tech University has announced a call for proposals for the 33rd Annual Conference on the Advancement of Women, which will take place on the campus, April 21, 2017. The organizers invite papers and panel proposals that explore the manifold meanings of movement and change as connected to, created by,