*Deadline approaching: 1 November 2013* Cultural Crossings: Production, Consumption, and Reception across the Canada-US Border http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/nottingham.html Second international Culture and the Canada-US Border conference University of Nottingham, 20-22 June 2014 Keynote Speakers: Charles Acland, Danielle Fuller, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo Call for papers: The Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the […]
The Page: Visual and Material Literature 2014 Department of English Graduate Student Conference University of Ottawa 14-16 March 2014 Robert Darnton’s 1982 characterization of the growing field of book history as “interdisciplinarity run riot” in many ways continues to describe the state of the field in 2013. […]
Writing and Translating Culture: Bridging Differences Together Montreal, May 1 to 4, 2014 The Association of Italian Canadian Writers (AICW) is accepting proposals for its 15th biennial conference to be held in Montreal, May 1 to 4, 2014. The conference seeks readings and papers that illustrate the building of bridges (generational, linguistic, cultural, […]
For: The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance & the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. In 1997, Kay Mussell called upon scholars of popular romance “to incorporate analysis of lesbian and gay romances into our mostly heterosexual models.” Today, closing in on two decades later, that challenge has […]
August 7 – 10, 2014 Lakehead University, Thunder Bay campus Thunder Bay, Ontario Culture, Justice, and Environment “I want to propose a more radical notion of displacement, one that, instead of referring solely to the movement of people from their places of belonging, refers rather to the loss […]
