REMINDER: THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS 31 JANUARY 2014 North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH) International Conference on Welsh Studies Royal Military College of Canada Kingston, Ontario, Canada 23-25 July, 2014 Call for Papers The NAASWCH Program Committee seeks diverse perspectives on all […]
Victorian Classes and Classifications London, Ontario, Canada November 13-15, 2014 Victorian Britain belonged to the classifying age. Imperial expansion and new techniques of observation and production confronted Britons with an expanding universe of natural and man-made phenomena. In response, scientists, writers, artists, and educators sought to articulate some underlying sense […]
CALL FOR PAPERS Crossing the Space Between, 1914-1945 The 16th annual conference of the multidisciplinary society, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 July 17-19, 2014, Institute of English Studies, London The 16th annual conference of the Space Between society will explore the notion of ‘crossing’ − whether […]
With an entrenched mythology related to peacefulness and cooperation, a popular global reputation for model livability (alongside being boring), and historical crime rates amongst the lowest in the world, Canada cannot be said to seethe with a sense of murderousness. Its genres of storytelling, however, conjure an alternate […]
2014 John Douglas Taylor Conference: Contemporary Orientations in African Cultural Studies May 30 – June 1, 2014, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Call for Papers (Deadline: November 15, 2013) Cultural Studies has become a prominent concern in recent scholarship from and about Africa. Those theorizing the field of […]
