Special Issue of Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations Transatlanticism’s Influence on British Literary Study Transatlanticism is often credited with enriching, and sometimes even correcting, the study of American literature. By de-emphasising the nation and its perceived coherence and uncovering crosscurrents from the British Isles, […]
CALL FOR PAPERS Speaking Her Mind: Canadian Women and Public Presence 20-22 October 2016 University of Calgary http://speakinghermind.ca/ How are women engaging with public discussion and debate in Canada? Speaking Her Mind: Canadian Women and Public Presence is the follow-up conference to Discourse and Dynamics: Canadian Women as […]
History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference John Douglas Taylor Conference, April 29-30, 2016 Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton Organizers: Chandrima Chakraborty, Nisha Eswaran, Sharifa Patel and Sarah Wahab 329 people, mostly Indo-Canadians, died in the June 23rd 1985 bombing of Air […]
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(Panel) – Hartford, Connecticut, March 17-20, 2016 Brad Congdon / NeMLA 2016 contact email: brad.congdon@dal.ca In an unpublished forward to The Preserving Machine, Philip K. Dick lamented that “As a writer builds up a novel-length piece it slowly begins to imprison him, to […]
