Vera Cuntz-Leng Wins Jamie Bishop Award
Cuntz-Leng received the Bishop award for an essay originally composed in a language other than English. She is the first graduate student ever to receive the award. The title of the essay and abstract appear below. “Frodo auf Abwegen:[...]
read moreCfP: DORIS LESSING 2014: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
DORIS LESSING 2014: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Friday/Saturday 12/13th September 2014 Location: University of Plymouth, Devon, UK Website: www.dorislessing2014.com Please send 200 word abstracts for a 20 minute paper, along with a brief biography, to dorislessingconference@gmail.com by Monday[...]
read moreCfP: European Network of Comparative Literary Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS European Network of Comparative Literary Studies (REELC/ENCLS) 6th Biennial Congress. Organised in collaboration with CLAI (Comparative Literature Association of Ireland) Themes: “Longing and Belonging” Places: Dublin City University and National University of Ireland, Galway Dates: 24-28 August[...]
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THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES 39th Annual Meeting Global Work and Play 23-26 October 2014 Delta Montréal 475, Avenue Président Kennedy Montréal, Canada http://utopian-studies.org/conference2014 Utopias have nowhere left to hide in an era of global capital and information flows. Imagining[...]
read moreCfP: The 2015 Eaton Science Fiction Conference
Call for Papers The 2015 Eaton Science Fiction Conference Designing the Past, Designing the Future October 16-17, 2015 Riverside Marriott Hotel Riverside, California This conference will examine the relationship of speculative genres—science fiction, fantasy, horror, and utopian literature and other[...]
read moreICFA Online Registration Period Ending
Online advance registration for ICFA will continue through next Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00). Then we will shut down registration so that registration can finalize preparations. This does not mean that people cannot register for the[...]
read moreICFA 35 Program Now Available
You may now view the Program of the 35th ICFA in .pdf form.[...]
read moreCall for Submissions: Volume of Essays “Finding Our Humanity in a Post-Human World”
Editors Donna White and Anita Tarr are seeking submissions for a volume of essays on children’s and young adult literature entitled Finding Our Humanity in a Post-Human World. We use the term humanity to refer to what we feel is[...]
read moreREALLY REALLY Last Reminder SFRA/Wiscon 2014
Dear all, anyone and everyone who hasn’t yet submitted a paper/panel/roundtable proposal has less than 48 hours to do so! All the instructions are online at http://www.wiscon.info/sfra.php . Do remember that, unlike in previous years, when conference directors exercised a[...]
read moreVolunteer Survey
Hello, everyone! Your dedicated Registrar, Valorie Ebert, would like for anyone who wishes to volunteer at this year’s conference to follow the link in this email and fill out the survey. Thank you for your participation. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1krBnXe7eswxCoIYfFdCAJOSVzuPP09NRQxtm29YDfVA/viewform[...]
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