CfP: THE SOCIETY FOR UTOPIAN STUDIES
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: Anomalous Embodiment in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
“I don’t think I am like other people”: Anomalous Embodiment in Young Adult Speculative Fiction. Editors Sherryl Vint and Mathieu Donner are seeking submissions for a volume of essays on young adult literature entitled Anomalous Embodiment in Young Adult Speculative[...]
read moreCfP: Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA)
In November 2014, the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association will be holding its 25th Anniversary Conference in Baltimore, MD. We are inviting all academics who live and work in the Mid-Atlantic Region (or anyone interested in a trip to[...]
read moreA Collection of Community Rememberances for Jay Lake
The announcement of Jay’s passing came this morning from his family on his own blog, here. There is an in memoriam post at Tor.com, here, and Cheryl Morgan remembers Jay here. Find more information about the film Lakeside, which follows[...]
read moreWinners of the Sixth Annual R.D. Mullen Research Fellowships
I would like to announce the winners of the sixth annual R.D. Mullen Research Fellowships, which are funded by the journal Science Fiction Studies in the name of our late founding editor to support archival research in the Eaton Collection at[...]
read moreCfP: Special Issue: The Aesthetics of Trash
Deadline: 22 August 2014 This is why the properly aesthetic attitude of the radical ecologist is not that of admiring or longing for a pristine nature of virgin forests and clear sky, but rather of accepting waste as such, of[...]
read moreCfP: Fantasy and the Post-Tolkien Middle Ages
Below is a CFP for a panel on fantasy and politics I am putting together for a conference on 24-25th October in Atlanta:”Medievalisms on the Move” http://www.medievalism.net/conferences.html Medievalism folks are open to work on genre, and it would be great to have[...]
read moreCfP: DONALD GRAY PRIZE ###DEADLINE TODAY###
DEADLINE TODAY DONALD GRAY PRIZE NAVSA’s annual Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the field of Victorian Studies is named after Donald J. Gray, Culbertson Professor Emeritus in the English Department of Indiana University. Professor Gray received his[...]
read moreRadu Florescu, Dracula Scholar and Historian has Died at 88
Past ICFA attendee, Dracula scholar, and Romanian historian Radu Florescu has died. More information is available here.[...]
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