Conferences

NeMLA 2017, Baltimore  March 23rd-26th: The first-year writing seminar is a course that fulfills many goals of transitioning students to college-level writing, reading, and discussion. It is one of the first places that students grapple with those “structures of feeling” that gather around social identity and difference. This panel seeks papers that explore pedagogical approaches […]

Abstracts are now being accepted for the annual Popular Culture Association meetings scheduled for Wednesday, April 12 to Saturday, April 15, 2017.  The international conference will be held at the Marriott Marina, San Diego, CA. The Eros and Pornography division of the PCA/ACA is one of the oldest in the organization and the organizers welcome

A growing body of scholarship explores the complex relationships between Jews, whiteness, antisemitism, and racism, as well as Jewish perspectives on race and racism, among many other related themes. At the same time, scholars of cultural studies have produced fruitful work on how the Jew has been imagined and constructed in different Jewish and non-Jewish

Michigan State University will host the fifth annual graduate student research conference on migration, welcoming papers on the theme Migration With(out) Boundaries. Migration Studies is a burgeoning and all-too-relevant area of academic attention, and the conference seeks to foster a cohort of scholars working on any thematic, conceptual, spatial, or temporal aspect of human migration from any disciplinary perspective. Submissions

Panel I: Politics and Immigration.Throughout immigration policy’s long history in Germany, most notably in the aftermath of WWII and German unification in 1990, it has been contested political, social, and cultural territory. This is no less the case now, with Germany taking in some 1.1 million refugees in 2015. What do past cultural, social, and