Kategorie: Call for Papers

Part 1: 30 September – 2 October 2015, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Part 2: September 2016, The Banff Centre, Canada

Organized by the Canadian Studies Centre (CSC) at the University of Innsbruck and the Canadian Literature Centre (CLC) at the University of Alberta, this two-part bilingual (English-French) conference seeks to explore how crisis directs or transforms First Nations, Québécois, and Canadian writings in English and French, and how authors and intellectuals endeavour to counterbalance the social, economic, and ideological insecurities we live in.

Deadline for conference or 3-4 people panel proposals (in English or French): January 1, 2015

Please find the Call for Papers here: English version | Version française

The 2nd issue of Lettere aperte (Winter 2014/15) will be on „Italo-America – Transatlantic Connections and Italian (Cultural) Studies“.

Please find the Call for Papers here.

The 2014 Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, DGfA) calls for submissions to this year’s
conference.

This year’s PGF will be hosted by the American Studies Division of the
Department of English and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz
from October 10 to 12, 2014.

Please find the Call for Papers here. Deadline: July 21.

L’Università di Napoli ‘l’Orientale’ will host the International AISC (Italian Association for Canadian Studies) Conference on Alice Munro, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. The topic of the conference will be Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story and will take place in Naples, 2-4 October 2014. Please find the Call for Papers here.

„The aesthetics and politics of contemporary women’s life-writing in Canada and the US: multicultural perspectives“ will take place on Saturday, 07 March 2015, in Poznan, Poland.

The organizing committee seeks panel and paper submissions. This conference will focus on life-writing by North American women in the context of the multicultural societies of Canada and the United States. We hope to draw scholars from a variety of disciplines whose research focuses on aesthetic and political issues in memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, letters, testimonies, blogs, personal essays, travel narratives, biographies and other forms of life-writing by Canadian and American women.

The deadline for submissions is November 30th 2014. For more information and the Call for Papers, see:

http://arzepa.wix.com/life-writing