Viva voce—“with living voice,” but also (and more commonly) the phenomenon of “word of mouth.” When incidents of speech, song, or shouting take place, it is the mouth that transforms private impulse into audible sound. Articulatory phonetics tells us that this physiological transubstantiation is little more than the […]
2nd BIENNIAL BLACK CANADIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE presents COMMUNITY, EMPOWERMENT & LEADERSHIP IN BLACK CANADA 21-24 May 2015, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia The Black Canadian Studies Association will host its 2nd Biennial Black Canadian Studies Conference (BCSA) Community, Empowerment & Leadership in Black Canada in Halifax, Nova […]
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) CFP: Target Practices from the Cold War to the Wars on Terror (Deadline August 3, 2014) In The Age of the World Target (2006) Rey Chow argues that we live in an era in which “the target” is a key technological, geopolitical, and […]
LITERATURES OF THE FRASER VALLEY University of the Fraser Valley, Thursday March 5, 2015 The Department of English at the University of the Fraser Valley is currently accepting proposals for its 2015 conference “Literatures of the Fraser Valley.” British Columbia has long been a beacon for storytellers’ imaginations, […]
Literary Adaptations: Remixing and Upcycling Third Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies St. Louis University St. Louis, MO June 15–17, 2015 http://smrs.slu.edu/ Organizers: Please feel free to email with any questions. Kristina Sutherland Department of Comparative Literature University of Georgia krsuthe@uga.edu Tara Chambers Department of English University […]
