Victorian Intimacies Hosted by the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada VSAWC 2016 Conference • Winnipeg, Manitoba • April 22–23 Conference dates: April 22–23, 2016 Publication workshop: April 21 and 24, 2016 The Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada invites proposals for its 2016 conference, “Victorian Intimacies.” The […]
Philip K. Dick’s Short Fiction (Panel) – Hartford, Connecticut, March 17-20, 2016 Brad Congdon / NeMLA 2016 contact email: brad.congdon@dal.ca In an unpublished forward to The Preserving Machine, Philip K. Dick lamented that “As a writer builds up a novel-length piece it slowly begins to imprison him, to […]
Canadian Culinary Imaginations: A Symposium of Literary and Visual Fare February 19 – 20, 2016 Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Richmond Campus) In her 2014 book The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity, Sandra M. Gilbert observes that while the twenty-first century is “gastronomically obsessed,” the “lore and lure of […]
The Word Hoard Issue V Call for Papers Scum & Villany Word Hoard is soliciting articles, essays, interviews, creative pieces, and other publishable works on the theme of “Scum and Villainy” for our fifth issue. (Please find our previous issues at http://ir.lib. uwo.ca/wordhoard). We believe both “scum” and […]
L.M. Montgomery and Gender: Deadline extended to 31 August 2015 From Anne’s initial iconic and heartrending cry in Anne of Green Gables—“You don’t want me because I’m not a boy”—to the pressure on young men to join the war effort in Rilla of Ingleside, and from the […]
