The 10th Annual African American Studies Spring Symposium will be held at The University of Texas at San Antonio on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Each year, the University of Texas at San Antonio hosts a daylong African American Studies Spring symposium. On this 10th anniversary, the symposium invites presentations from across the disciplines that examine […]
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CFP for panel at 2017 ASECS National Conference, March 30-April 2, Minneapolis In The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, historian Vincent Brown argues, “If people looked to the past to find the roots of contemporary forms of inequality, domination, and terror, rather than the origins of freedom, rights, and universal
From January 5-7, 2017, the Japan Studies Association will meet in Honolulu to share its continuous and new pedagogical and research interests in Japan’s literary and cultural traditions, historical and economic developments, sociopolitical and religious past and present. The organizers invite proposals for individual presentations, discipline-specific or interdisciplinary panels, roundtables on pedagogy and teaching innovation
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Over the past three decades, there has been increasing interest in both Fan Studies and Medieval Studies in the relationship between medieval literary culture and fan fiction (popular, ‘unofficial’, fan-generated creative writing that participates in a pre-existing fictional ‘universe’ and uses its characters). Many Fan Studies scholars have seen fanfiction as the heir to the
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The organizers of the roundtable Women, Rewriting (and) Authority: Critical Approaches to Feminist Translation, are seeking participants. The roundtable will be held at the annual Northeast Modern Language Association meeting, held in Baltimore, Maryland March 23-26, 2017. This roundtable addresses the negotiation of the textual authority of those who call themselves or are called “women”