Jan 27th, 2012

CFP/Appel: Women’s Writing in Canada & Québec Today/Écritures des femmes au Canada et au Québec aujourd’hui

(Version française ci-après) Call for Papers Women’s Writing in Canada & Québec Today: Alliances/Transgressions/Betrayals Écritures des femmes au Canada et au Québec aujourd’hui: alliances/transgressions/trahisons [cid:5033B6B3-7780-4E37-830F-DD48B38535A7] - October 12-14, 2012, The Banff Centre, Alberta - Spring 2013, Montreal (dates to be confirmed) Organizing Committee: - Simon Harel, Director of the Department of Comparative Literature, Université de [...]

Dec 30th, 2011

CFP: Public Poetics

PUBLIC POETICS: CRITICAL ISSUES IN CANADIAN POETRY AND POETICS Mount Allison University, Sackville NB, 20–23 September 2012 Poetic discourse in Canada has always been changing to assert poetry’s relevance to the public sphere. While some poets and critics have sought to shift poetic subjects in Canada to make political incursions into public discourses, others have [...]

Nov 1st, 2011

CfP: ACLA Panel Parameters of Change: Perception of Minorities in Comparative Perspective

ACLA conference (March 29th to April 1st, 2012), deadline 15 November http://acla.org/acla2012/?page_id=1131 Parameters of Change: Perception of Minorities in Comparative Perspective Seminar Organizer(s): Monika Albrecht (University of Limerick, Ireland, (Monika.Albrecht@ul.ie), Giuliana Adamo (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Integration, assimilation, and many related issues such as the recent European retreat of multiculturalism are subject to vigorous scholarly, political and [...]

Oct 30th, 2011

CfP: Congrès 2012 – Perspectives comparées sur les croisées de chemins et les contre-courants / Comparative Perspectives on Crossroads and Crosscurrents

Appel de Communication: Congrès 2012 – Perspectives comparées sur les croisées de chemins et les contre-courants Les croisées de chemins sont des intersections critiques, des points de jonction où des décisions sont prises, et où des orientations aux conséquences d’envergure sont choisies. Les contre-courants, quant à eux, se fondent l’un dans l’autre, stimulant et agitant [...]

Oct 16th, 2011

CfP: Forms of Life: Literature, Politics, Aesthetics

  Forms of Life: Literature, Politics, Aesthetics The Department of Comparative Literature Binghamton University March 2nd-3rd 2012 What comprises the matrix within which a given language has meaning? How is meaning constructed and how is it operative across social, cultural, and linguistic impasses? How is conflict and antagonism orchestrated both across and within disparate forms [...]

Oct 6th, 2011

The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13) Banff Research in Culture 2012

Program dates: August 2, 2012 – August 15, 2012 Application deadline: December 2, 2011 Program Information Program Faculty: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Pierre Huyghe (additional faculty to be announced soon) Organizers: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Kitty Scott, Imre Szeman, Heather Zwicker The Retreat constitutes a section of dOCUMENTA (13) that will take place at The Banff [...]

Sep 27th, 2011

REMINDER: Petrocultures CFP Deadline October 15, 2011

Note: Funding available for students. Please contact us directly, if you have eligible students or if you are an interested student. petrocultures@gmail.com   Call for Paper, Panel and/or Workshop Proposals Petrocultures : Oil, Energy, Culture University of Alberta: September 6-8th, 2012 Research Trip to Fort McMurray Alberta: 9-11th, 2012   The “Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture” [...]

Sep 22nd, 2011

University of Victoria, Department of French: Poste de Senior Instructor / Senior Instructor Position in French

(English version below) Le Département de français de l’Université de Victoria sollicite des candidatures pour un poste à temps plein titularisable au rang de “Senior Instructor” avec date d’entrée en fonction le 1er juillet 2012. Responsabilités: enseignement de cours de français langue seconde à tous niveaux du programme de premier cycle; participation au bon fonctionnement [...]

Sep 20th, 2011

University of Illinois – Assistant Professor in Latin American Culture

The Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure track Assistant Professor position in Contemporary Latin American literatures and cultures, including Brazil. We are looking for scholars with clearly defined expertise in Cultural Studies including but not limited to film, urban studies, photography, music, [...]

Sep 9th, 2011

CfP: Fascination des Images / Image fascination

APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS  Fascination des Images / Image fascination  International and Interdisciplinary conference organized by Gilles Declercq, Marie-Dominique Popelard, Stella Spriet, and Anthony Wall  20-21 January 2012 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (Canada)  Please submit a 250 word abstract by email by October 10, 2011. Contact : Stella Spriet (stella.spriet@usask.ca). Images are present [...]

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