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 […]
The Uses of “Religion” in 19th Century Studies Armstrong Browning Library: March 16-19, 2016 Baylor University From March 16 – 19, 2016, the Armstrong Browning Library will host an international conference on “The Uses of ‘Religion’ in 19th Century Studies.” The conference will engage questions being asked ever […]
ESC—“‘Fear, Love, and Confusion’: A Special Issue on the AUTOMATED BODY” Deadline for submission of abstracts or completed papers: August 15, 2015 ESC: English Studies in Canada invites submissions for a special issue on the automated body, edited by Cecily Devereux and Marcelle Kosman, to be published Spring […]