May 2013
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#CFP: Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – 24... →
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BOOKS
A Fatal Addiction: War in the Name of God
Thomas Block
Algora...
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#CFP: UPDATE -- 2013 MMLA Convention: Is the... →
In 2010, performance artist Marina Abramović presented a retrospective show at MOMA entitled Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present that included one new performance. From March 14 to May 31, Abramović performed a solo piece in the museum’s atrium; she invited visitors to sit silently across from her for as long as they chose. In this way, she was “present” in more ways than one; being present...
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#CFP: Friendly Fire: Renaissance Humanists’... →
The clarion call of “Humanities Under Attack!” is by now an academic commonplace. Much of the aggression is seen as stemming from external forces such as shrinking budgets, hostile legislature, and disappearing enrollments. However, there is also a persistent strain of self-critique among scholars working in the humanities, which challenges the intellectual system’s perceived exclusivity and...
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#CFP: Short Story at MMLA 2013 →
This session welcomes critical papers on the short story for the annual MMLA convention. Proposals may be related to the conference theme of Art & Artifice, but it is not necessary.
Please send 250-word abstracts by May 31, 2013, to Katy L. Leedy, Marquette University, katy.leedy@marquette.edu.
The convention will be held November 7-10, 2013, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more information,...
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#CFP: DEADLINE APPROACHING: 2013 Annual Conference... →
*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Sixth Annual ASMEA Conference Tides of Change: Looking Back and Forging Ahead in the Middle East & Africa November 21-23, 2013 Key Bridge Marriott Hotel * Washington, D.C.
ASMEA is currently seeking proposals for paper presentations at the Sixth Annual Conference. Members from any discipline, tenured or untenured faculty, or those otherwise affiliated with a...
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#CFP: American Masculinities
“American Masculinities” is the theme for the Annual Conference of The New York Metro American Studies Association to be held November 2, 2013 at Pace University’s Manhattan Campus. The annual conference provides a dynamic forum for area scholars, while attracting presenters nationally. NYMASA announces a call for papers for its 2013 annual one-day conference closing June 1, 2013. The theme for...
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#CFP: Forging Justice Conference →
Welcome!
HAVEN, and UpRoot!, are pleased to be co-hosting the 38th National Conference on Men and Masculinity with NOMAS (The National Organization for Men Against Sexism) this year in Detroit. The theme this year is understanding gender-based violence as a social justice issue, and we are thrilled to share these conversations with activists and advocates from every avenue of social justice...
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#CFP: {masculinities} Transcultural Identity... →
Globalising processes have led, in recent decades, to critical
re-evaluations of the ways in which ‘culture’ has traditionally been understood. Global capitalism, worldwide diffusion and popularisation of communication technologies, as well as increased mobility of people, information, and consumer goods, are some of the forces that account for a widespread intensification of cultural exchanges...
Fwd: {masculinities} CFP: The Monstrous
ARENA ROMANISTICA. JOURNAL OF ROMANCE STUDIES - a print academic
journal published by the Department of Foreign Languages at the
University of Bergen - announces a call for paper on the topic of the
“monstrous”, a term that could be applied in a range of contexts and
fields.
As we know, the word monster —and its versions in French (monstre),
Italian (mostro), Spanish (monstruo), and...
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#CFP: GAMES OF LATE MODERNITY; Johan Huizinga’s... →
GAMES OF LATE MODERNITY
Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens: 75 Years Later (January 15-17, 2014)
The end of this year will be marked by the 75th anniversary of Johan Huizinga’s classic study of the Homo Ludens. Its main thesis is, as striking as it is simple, well known: Culture is founded on and as a form of play. Huizinga’s aim was to understand play as a ‘totality’. The element of play can be...
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#CFP: [UPDATE] “Making Meaning at the End of the... →
SAMLA Convention 2013
November 8-10, 2012
Marriott Atlanta Buckhead Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia 2013
“Making Meaning at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Texts”
Chair: Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College
Affiliated Group: College English Association
As R.E.M., that great band from Athens, Georgia, famously sang, “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” What is driving our...
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#CFP: Humboldt Journal of Social Relations - Call... →
The State of the State of Jefferson
This special edition of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (HJSR) explores contemporary issues pertinent to communities of northern California and southern Oregon, investigating a range of themes common to the mythical State of Jefferson. The issue welcomes university-affiliated submissions, including those from graduate and undergraduate students, as...
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#CFP: Trickster: (Re-)constructing the World from... →
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
The session topic coincides with recent renaissance of the interest in trickster, comprehended both as an agent of change and instrument of progress, but also a vehicle of instability, and a driving force of destruction. The growing awareness of this...
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#CFP: Atwood's Apocalyptic Visions (8/1/13) →
Cambridge Scholars Publishing has expressed interest in a collection on Margaret Atwood and the theme of the apocalypse (though the collection is not yet under contract).
Please send abstracts of 500-600 words (or completed essays) to Karma Waltonen (kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu) by August 1, 2013.
(The last novel in the MaddAddam series will debut in September. This book focuses primarily on the...
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#CFP: Doubting Faith and Believing Unbelievers →
SAMLA Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE ON CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE (SCCL)
Nov. 8-10, 2013
Doubting Faith and Believing Unbelievers (SCCL Special Session)
Issues of religion continue to dominate intellectual, academic, personal, and social environments in the West, particularly in the US. The “New Atheists” (Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris) have an aggressive agenda that calls for...
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#CFP: Jewish American and Holocaust Literature... →
Call for Papers
2013 American Literature Association’s Jewish American & Holocaust Literature Symposium
Seeking papers on any aspect of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature for the 19th Annual JAHLIT Symposium at the landmark BETSY Hotel in South Beach,
Florida. The Conference will take place November 17-19, 2003. Send 250 word abstract, registration form, and $150 check for...
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#CFP: The Literary Legacy of Revelations →
The Literary Legacy of Revelations
45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
Always a prominent text in Western culture, the book of Revelations has been in the spotlight during the past year in particular due to the 2012 publication of Elaine Pagel’s Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics...
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#CFP: Tenth Native American Symposium →
Tenth Native American Symposium
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma
November 14-15, 2013
Keynote Speaker Dr. Brad Lieb
The Tenth Native American Symposium to be held November 14-15, 2013 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University will focus on the protection and preservation of Native American history,...
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#CFP: UPDATE CFP Andrew Marvell Society at the... →
Call for Papers
Andrew Marvell Society at the South-Central Renaissance Conference
3-5 April 2014, Tucson, Arizona
Deadline: 15 December 2013
The University of Arizona will host Exploring the Renaissance 2014: An International Conference on 3-5 April, 2014. The conference will be held at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa; information about the hotel can be accessed at...
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#CFP: "The Controversy over Attribution of De... →
The manuscript of _De Doctrina Christiana_ was found in the State Paper Office and attributed to Milton in 1823; it was subsequently published by order of King George IV. Although Bishop Thomas Burgess (and others) rejected or doubted the attribution, but editors eventually came to accept the treatise as canonical. In the 1990’s, Professor William Hunter, distinguished editor of the _Milton...
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#CFP: 2014 Catholic Library Association Annual... →
2014 CLA Annual Convention
Catholic Library Association invites the submission of quality proposals for presentation at the 2014 Annual Conference, April 22-24, 2014, in Pittsburgh, PA. CLA meets in conjunction with National Catholic Educational Association during Easter Week each year.
Those attending CLA are librarians serving patrons of all ages primarily in K-12, academic, theological,...
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#CFP: [REMINDER] Allegory Studies? (abstracts... →
CALL FOR PAPERS
ALLEGORY STUDIES?
University of Warwick
7 November 2013
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jon Whitman (English, The Hebrew University)
OTHER CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND CHAIRS: Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. (Psychology, UCSC), Lisa Rosenthal (Art and Design, UIUC), Christiania Whitehead (English and CLS, Warwick)
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/X0kavs
The one-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to...
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#CFP: Smart, Sincere, and Quirky Auteurs – SAMLA... →
I seek papers for a panel on auteurship in recent Hollywood cinema, especially films that have alternately been called the “New Sincerity” (Collins), “smart” (Sconce), “Mumblecore” (Masunaga), “post-pop” (Mayshark), and “quirky” (MacDowell).
Papers may discuss Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Judd Apatow, Noah Baumbach, Sofia Coppola, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Miranda July, Charlie Kaufman,...
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#CFP: It’s the Fruits, not the Roots: A Response... →
Hood’s approach has no flaws from the standpoint of an observing scientist; but, on the personal level, one may have trouble distinguishing between the cause and the consequence.
It’s the Fruits, not the Roots: A Response to Ralph Hood
By Joshua James, Henderson State University
Published by the Religious Studies Project, on 22 May 2013 in response to the Religious Studies Project Interview with...
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#CFP: Podcast: Ralph Hood on Mysticism →
One of the primary interests of scholars and researchers from diverse academic disciplines has been in exploration of mysticism. Mysticism has been observed within a variety of traditions and philosophies from Neo-Platonism to Hinduism and Christianity. Mysticism as a field of study is pregnant with possibilities for academic inquiry, both cross-disciplinary and discipline specific. The field of...
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#CFP: 2013 Situations Cultural Studies... →
Date: July 8th (Mon.) ~ 19th (Fri.) 2013
Venue: Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea<br>
Topic: Identity, Re… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 16, 2013 at 11:48AM
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#CFP: PhilosophyFeeds: Phil Updates: CFP on the... →
PhilosophyFeeds: Phil Updates: CFP on the Virtue of Love http://bit.ly/11O2lm3 (author unknown) via Twitter / PhilosophyFeeds on May 15, 2013 at 06:04PM
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#CFP: Graduate Seminar, "Introduction to Holocaust... →
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museums Center… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 14, 2013 at 11:30AM
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#CFP: PhilosophyFeeds: Phil Updates: CFP:... →
PhilosophyFeeds: Phil Updates: CFP: Naturalism in German Idealism http://bit.ly/10blc3Q (author unknown) via Twitter / PhilosophyFeeds on May 13, 2013 at 05:10PM
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#CFP: IHS Resources for the Academic Job Market →
Do you worry about the job market? IHS can help you. Join IHS Academic Placement Officer Amanda Brand as she gives an ov… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 13, 2013 at 03:01PM
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#CFP: Mapping a Career of Academia →
Join us as Dr. Josh Hall gives an overview of what it looks like financially to make a career out of higher education to… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 13, 2013 at 02:58PM
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#CFP: Manchester Methods Summer School →
The Manchester Methods Summer School will be held at the University of Manchester, UK, from June 17 -21, 2013.
The sc… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on May 08, 2013 at 12:19PM
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#CFP: Call for Applications. Masters Education in... →
Piet Zwart Institute, Master of Education in Arts:
Call for Applications for European students
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Postgraduat… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 07, 2013 at 09:20AM
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#CFP: Special Summer Course on Teaching History... →
The School of Education at Mercy College will be offering a new graduate summer course/workshop from July 8-18 on teachi… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on May 06, 2013 at 11:18PM
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#CFP: Writers' Faire →
Join us on August 25, 2013 for the Writers Faire. (11:00am-3:00pm) This festive day features 24 free mini-classes and p… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on May 06, 2013 at 07:40PM
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#CFP: Curatorial Postgraduate Programme at Bochum... →
Postgraduate Programme “Art Criticism & Curatorial Knowledge”
Ruhr University Bochum
Application Deadline: June… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 03, 2013 at 07:11AM
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#CFP: PECANS Law, Gender and Sexuality Reading... →
PECANS
Postgraduate and Early Career Academics and Network of Scholars
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Everyone… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 02, 2013 at 06:12PM
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#CFP: The Eastern Caribbean Economic and Currency... →
The Eastern Caribbean Economic and Currency Union: Macroeconomics and Financial Systems
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 pm … (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 02, 2013 at 02:44PM
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#CFP: SEMINAR DEADLINE APPROACHING: Assessing the... →
The Institute for Constitutional History is pleased to announce another Robert H. Smith seminar for advanced graduate st… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on May 02, 2013 at 10:40AM
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#CFP: Summer Academic Working Groups 2013 →
Summer Academic Working Groups are now forming for the 2013 season. Summer Academic Working Groups (SAWG) are clusters o… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on May 01, 2013 at 02:23PM
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#CFP: 1st Short Course in Empirical Methods in... →
The Post-Graduate Programme (Master in Economics) of the University of Macedonia organizes the 1st Short Course in Empir… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on May 01, 2013 at 01:01PM
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#CFP: LAST CALL for writers and researchers Summer... →
CeRCCa is now open for short and long term residencies in a rural setting near Barcelona. The residencies are open to w… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on May 01, 2013 at 07:07AM
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#CFP: Celebrate 100 Artists with Art21, Inc. →
Join Art21 as it celebrates the 100 artists that have appeared in the PBS documentary series Art in the Twenty-First Cen… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on April 29, 2013 at 11:31PM
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#CFP: International ILEM Summer School... →
International ILEM Summer School
Transformation of Muslim World in the 21st Century
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24-30 August 201… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on April 28, 2013 at 05:13AM
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#CFP: Summer School - Ottoman Art and Architecture →
Art of the Sultans: Ottoman Art and Architecture
22-26 July 2012 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Dr. Antonia… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Summer Program on April 28, 2013 at 11:34AM
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#CFP: Choosing the Right Grad Program →
Get expert advice on how to weigh various programs, looking at rankings, costs, and faculty in relation to your goals an… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on April 24, 2013 at 02:34PM
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#CFP: Entering the Academic Job Market →
Survey the state of the academic job market according to your interests. How can you find relevant jobs, put together ap… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on April 24, 2013 at 02:31PM
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#CFP: What To Do With Your Dissertation →
Finally finished your dissertation? What happens now? Dr. Magness will offer ideas about how to turn your dissertation i… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on April 24, 2013 at 02:29PM
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#CFP: Your Guide to Online Teaching →
May 1st, 8:00-9:00 PM EST
Danny Shahar, University of Arizona<br>
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Explore the implications of the on… (author unknown) via H-Net Academic Announcements - Seminar on April 24, 2013 at 02:25PM
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Research Grants –– Varieties of Understanding, New... →
Psychology Request for Proposals (RFP)
Psychology RFP Director: Tania Lombrozo, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
This $1.2 million dollar RFP is intended to support empirical work in psychology on the nature and varieties of human understanding. We anticipate applicants from cognitive, social, and developmental psychology, but will consider additional...
