Call for Publications are HERE
2021
November
-By November 1st, 2021: International conference The 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, on July 12-14th, 2022 at University of Seville, Spain. Please send your proposals (300 words) along with a short biography (100 words) to Jefferey Simons and Cristanne Miller Click here for more details.
August
-By August 8th, 2021 : International conference Towards political modernity in Ibero-America, on November 18-19th, 2021 in Grenoble, France. Please send your proposals (300 words) along with a bibliography and an autobiographical notice in english, french, spanish or portuguese, to daniel.rojas@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr. Click here for more details.
June
-By June 30th, 2021 : International conference Performance in the Americas from 1950 to today; on November 18-19th, 2021 in La Rochelle, France. Please send your proposals (400 words) and a short biography (250 words) to Elodie Chazalon , Cécile Chantraine-Braillon and Mélanie Barlot . Click here for more details. .
May
By May 3rd, 2021 : International conference Rethinking the free time/work time divide in automn 2021, online. Please send your proposals (300 words) along with a short bio to Sonia Birocheau and Fabienne Moine . Click here for more details.
-By May 3rd, 2021: International conference Entre l’enfance et l’entrée en vie adulte. Normes et pratiques dans les sociétés médiévales, modernes et contemporaines, on November 4-5th, 2021, at Campus Condorcet, France. Please send your proposals, in english, french, spanish or italian to colloqueSDH2021@gmail.com
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-By May 10th, 2021 : International conference Liberalism and/or socialism: tensions, exchanges and convergences from the 19th century to today, on October 21-22nd, 2021 at University of Lorraine, France. Please send your proposals (300 words), along with a short biography to liberalism.socialism.conference@gmail.com . Click here for more details.
-By May 31st, 2021: International conference Framing/unframing spaces in the English-speaking world, on October 15-16th, 2021, at University of Strasbourg. Please send your proposals (300 words) in english or in french, along with a short biographical notice, to Pauline Collombier-Lakeman and Rémi Vuillemin . Click here for more details.
April
-By April 1st, 2021: International conference Crises: Climate and Critique in the Literature and Arts of the English-Speaking World after 1800, on November 18-20th, 2021, at University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Please send your proposal (250-500 words) along with a short bio to Pierre-Louis Patoine, Sarah Montin and Isabelle Alfandary . Click here for more details.
-By April 4th, 2021: Call for presentations, organized by PopMeC 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture. Theme: AUTOMATA, CYBER TERROR AND TECHNOCRATIC REALITIES. Please send your proposals (300-350 words) in english, along with a short bio (100-120 words) to popmec.call@gmail.com . Click here for more details. .
-By April 9th, 2021: 26th Annual SERCIA Conference Cosmopolitan Aspirations in English-Speaking Cinema and Television, on September 8-10th, 2021, at Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. Please send your abstract (300-500 words) along with a short bio through the conference website . Click here for more details.
March
-By March 1st, 2021: One day symposium Researching the Influence of Feminist Film Theory on 21st Century Films and TV Series, at University Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, France, on November 19th, 2021. Please send your proposals (300-500 words) along with a short bio-bibliography to Hélène Charlery , Emilie Cheyroux and Chirstelle Maury . Click here for more details.
-By March 7th, 2021: Call for presentations, organized by PopMeC 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture. Theme: GOTHIC AND THE ETHNIC OTHER + BODIES AND BOUNDARIES. Please send your proposals (300-350 words) in english, along with a short bio (100-120 words) to popmec.call@gmail.com . Click here for more details. .
-By March 7th, 2021: International online conference Education, Technology & Culture in Crisis: Secondary & Higher Education in a Time of Virtual Instruction, on May 15-16th, 2021. Click here for more details.
-By March 8th, 2021: International conference War and nature: traces, interactions and reconfigurations in 19th- to 21st-century literature in English, on October 8th, 2021 at Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 (France). Proposals (no longer than 500 words) along with a short bio should be sent to Sylvain Belluc , Isabelle Brasme and Guillaume Tanguy. Click here for more details.
-By March 14th, 2021: Call for presentations, organized by PopMeC 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture. Theme: ECOGOTHIC. Please send your proposals (300-350 words) in english, along with a short bio (100-120 words) to popmec.call@gmail.com . Click here for more details. .
-By March 15th, 2021: Call for paper for the International Graduate Conference 2021, on July 1-2, 2021, online, dedicated to Radical Possibilities: Protest, Crisis and Reshaping North American Democracies. Please submit your abstract (300 words) via this website . Click here for more details.
-By March 15th, 2021 : Call for papers from the International Vladimir Nabokov Society for MLA 2022. Please send 250-word abstracts and brief CVs to siggy.frank@nottingham.ac.uk and zokuzmanovich@davidson.edu . Click here for more details.
-By March 21st, 2021: Call for presentations, organized by PopMeC 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture. Theme: BODIES AND BOUNDARIES + GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE GOTHIC. Please send your proposals (300-350 words) in english, along with a short bio (100-120 words) to popmec.call@gmail.com . Click here for more details. .
-By March 28th, 2021: Call for presentations, organized by PopMeC 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture. Theme: CHILDREN AND YA GOTHIC STUFF. Please send your proposals (300-350 words) in english, along with a short bio (100-120 words) to popmec.call@gmail.com . Click here for more details. .
-By March 30th, 2021: International conference Decolonising the Memories of Enslavement, on December 7-8-9, 2021 at Schoelcher, Martinique . Please send your proposals (350 words) along with a short bio-bibliography (150 words) to Myriam Moïse and Benaouda Lebdai . Click here for more details.
-By March 31st, 2021: International conference Tourism, arts and territories, on October 7-8th, 2021 at ULCO, Boulogne sur Mer, France. Please send your abstracts (ca. 400 words), written in French or in English with 3 key words and a short biographical presentation, to this adress.
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February
-By February 8th, 2021 : Conference Sites of Feminist Memory:
Remembering suffrage in Europe and the United States of America, on June 7-11, 2021. Please send a 300 word abstract in English to Marc Calvini-Lefebvre and Claire Sorin. Click here for more details.
-By February 8th, 2021: Annual one-day conference PLIN Linguistic Day 2021 devoted to Linguistics applied to Business Language in a multilingual and multicultural world, on May 7th at University of Louvain, Belgium. Please send your abstract (300-500 words) in English to plindayucl@uclouvain.be. Click here for more details.
-By February 19th, 2021: Conference The City, the Media and Gentrification: Actors, Discourses and Representations, on May 28-29th 2021, at University Sorbonne Lettes, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Please send your proposals (300 words) along with a short bio-bibliography to eventmediagentrification@gmail.com .Click here for more details.
-By February 28th, 2021: Call for presentations, organized by PopMeC 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture. Theme: THE HOUSE AS GOTHIC LOCUS + THE UNCANNY AND THE US FAMILY . Please send your proposals (300-350 words) in english, along with a short bio (100-120 words) to popmec.call@gmail.com . Click here for more details. .
January
-By January 4th, 2021 : International conference Keeping silent, listening, speaking up: voice and silence in audience-response to arts and literature, on November 3-5, 2021, at University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. Please send your proposals (500 words) , in english or french, along with a short bio-bibliography (150 words) to Claudine Armand and Diane Leblond. Click here for more details.
-By January 4th, 2021 : International Conference Representing Catastrophe in Contemporary Arts and Letters: Conceptual and Formal Reevaluation, on May 18-19, 2021 at Jean Monnet University, Saint Etienne, France. Please send your proposals (400 words) in english or in french, along with a short bio-bibliographical notice to Sophie Chapuis, Anne-Sophie Letessier and Aliette Ventéjoux . Click here for more details.
-By January 8th, 2021 : International conference North American Poetry 2000-2020: Poetics, Aesthetics, Politics.,on October 14-16th, 2021 at ‘Institut universitaire de France, Paris. Please send your abstract (300 words) in english, along with a short biographical note to northamericanpoetry2020@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By January 8th, 2021 : 42nd annual AIW (American Indian Workshop) conference, The Sovereign Erotic, on July 12-17, 2021. Online conference. Please send your abstracts (300 words) to James Mackay . Click here for more details.
By January 10th, 2021 : Study day From Invisibility to Visibility – Representing Diasporic Margins on may 27th, 2021 at Jean Monnet University, Saint Etienne, France. Please send your proposals (500 words) along with a short biographical notice, to Christine Dualé , Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet and Marlène Barroso-Fontanel . Click here for more details.
-By January 31st, 2021 : One-day conference, War and nature: traces, interactions and reconfigurations in 19th to 21st century literature in English, on October 8th, 2021, at University of Montpellier, France. Please send your proposal (500 words) along with a short biography to Sylvain Belluc, Isabelle Brasme, and Guillaume Tanguy. Click here for more details .
-By January 31st, 2021 : One-day conference Are cultural studies a method ?, on april 9th, 2021 at Artois University, France. Please send your proposals (2500 signs), in English or in French, along with a short bio-bibliographical notice, to je.cultural.studies@gmail.com
. Click here for more details.
2020
December
-By December 1st, 2020 : GERAS 42nd international conference Literary and scientific culture(s): Continuities and Discontinuities in English for Specific Purposes, on March 18-20, 2021 at Lorraine University, France. Please submit your proposal (300 words) in english or french on the submission website . Click here for more details.
-By December 7th, 2020 : Online Symposium “No one listens to Springsteen anymore. He’s history!” (Blinded by the Light): Pop-rock Music and 2000s Cinema, in January/February, 2021. Please send your proposals (250 words) to Clémentine Tholas and Catherine Girodet. Click here for more details.
-By December 11th, 2020 : Conference Stories from the Margins: Indigenous Connections to the Land, on June 29-30, 2021 at University of Northumbria.
Please send 250-300 word abstracts, accompanied by a 100-word biographical statement (state affiliation if applicable) and 3-4 keywords to Francesca Mussi . Click here for more details.
-By December 15th, 2020 : Fourth Biennial European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Women’s Network Symposium, Feminisms in American Studies in/and Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here?, on April 30th 2021 at University of Warsaw, Poland, or on April 16th, 2021 online. Please send your proposals (300-400 words) along with a short bio note (150 words) to eaaswomensnetwork@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
November
-By November 1st, 2020 : Conference Reception : contemporary perspectives, on June 24-25, 2021 at Sorbonne University, France. Please send your proposals (400 words), along with a short bio-bibliography to receptionvale2021@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By November 1st, 2020 : The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in the art and visual culture of the United States. Click here for more details.
-By November 2nd, 2020 : International conference : The Many Faces of Liberalism, on March 15-16th, 2021 at University of Tours. Please submit your proposal, in english or french through the submission website
-By November 2nd, 2020 : International conference Beyond Borders: Mapping Sexualities and the Sexualisation of Spaces, on May 6-7, 2021 at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France. Please send your proposals (300 words), in english or in french, along with a short biographical notice to Pierre-Antoine Pellerin and Marie Moreau . Click here for more details.
-By November 30th, 2020 : International conference Trade unions, conflict and direct action in the Americas and in Europe, from the end of the 19th century to the 1980s, on May 27-28th, 2021 at Université Paris 8/Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers-Paris), France. Please submit your proposals (250 words) along with a short bio-bibliography through the conference website . Click here for more details.
-By November 30th, 2020 : International conference From Cham to Yakub.
Forging, Using and Spreading Religious Genealogical Discourses on January 27-28th, 2021 at Le Mans University, France. Please send your proposals (500 words) along with a CV to Vincent Vilmain . Click here for more details.
October
-By October 1st, 2020 : BOOK PROJECT/Colloquium Colonial Slavery in European Museums: Arts and Representations. Authors will be invited to present their contributions at colloquium Objects and Stakes of Slavery Commemoration: Mapping Slavery Memories and Artistic Visions at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Paul Eluard de la ville de Saint-Denis planned on June 10th and 11th 2021. Click here fore more details.
-By October 2nd, 2020 : International conference Chicago: an Irish-American Metropolis? Politics, Ethnicity, and Culture from 1830s to the present Time, on June 21-23, 2021 at University of Chicago in Paris and at Universiy of Paris (site Paris Diderot), France. Please send your proposals (250 words) along with a one-paragraph CV to James Chandler, Arnaud Coulombel , Thierry Dubost and Paul Schor. Click here for more details.
-By October 15th, 2020 : International conference Gender, Modernities,and the Global Enlightenment, on February 23-25, 2022 in Valencia, Spain. Please send your proposals (1 page) along with a short CV (200 words) to cirgen@uv.es . Click here for more details.
-By October 22nd, 2020 : Call for communications for 15 workshops organized by the Institut des Amériques for their annual congress on September 22,23,24 2021. Every workshop is listed and detailed on the IdA website.
-By October 25th, 2020 : International conference Les femmes dans les séries télévisées sécuritaires, on December 11-12, 2020 in Paris. Please send your proposals (300 words) in english or in french, along with a short resume, to contact@demoseries.eu. Click here for more details.
September
-By September, 11th, 2020. International conference 20 Years Later: Looking Back at 9/11, on October 7-8, 2021 at University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. Please send your proposals (300 words) along with a short biographical notice to Françoise Coste. Click here for more details .
-By September 30th, 2020 : Call for papers for the second international conference under the aegis of the French Society for Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (SEPC), Name of a Discipline: Where are ‘postcolonial’ theories and practices going, and what can we call them?,on January 28-29th, 2021 at the Université d’Orléans LLSH (Hotel Dupanloup). Please send your proposals (300 words), in english or french, to nameofadiscipline@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
July
-By July 20th, 2020 : Annual conference of the SEAA, Maps and Mapping in English-speaking Countries in the 17th and 18th Centuries on January 15-16, 2021 at University Paris Diderot, France. Please send a 300 word abstract in english along with a short CV to colloque1718janvier2021@gmail.com Click here for more details.
June
-By June 15th, 2020 : Study day The US Presidential election of 2020: What kind of United States?, on October 22nd, 2020 at Grenoble Alpes University. Please send your proposals to electionus2020@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By June 15th, 2020 : International conference Gender, Sexual and Racial Dynamics in the Americas, on November 12-13-14, 2020 in University Gustave Eiffel, France .Please send your proposals (500 words) in english, french, spanish or portuguese, along with a short biographic note (150 words), to IDAEST2020@gmail.com. Click here for more details .
-By June 22nd, 2020 : International Conference, The Current Stakes of Social, Racial and Environmental Justice in the Americas on October 8-9, 2020 at University of La Rochelle, France. Please send a 400 word abstract in english, french or spanish along with a short biography to Emmanuelle Andres and Sebastian Urioste. Click here for more details.
May
-By May 1st, 2020 : International conference, “No one listens to Springsteen anymore. He’s history!” (Blinded by the Light): Pop-rock Music and 2000s Cinema, on September 18, 2020, at University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Maison de la Recherche, France. Please submit your 250-word proposal, in english or french, to Clémentine Tholas and Catherine Girodet . Click here for more details .
By May 11th 2020 : Call for thematic workshop proposals for 2021 IdA Congress on September 22-23-24, 2021 at Condorcet Paris Aubervilliers Campus. Please send your workshop proposals to assist.com@institutdesameriques.fr. Click here for more details. .
-By May 15th, 2020 : One-day conference : Émotions, stratégies politiques et participation citoyenne dans les sociétés européennes et américaines contemporaines, on November 20, 2020, at University Bourgogne Franche-Comté. Please send your proposal (300-500 words) to David Bousquet and Alexandra Palau .
By May, 30th, 2020 : International Symposium Faulkner’s fetishized words, on november 19-20, 2020 at University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France. Please send your proposals (300 words), in english, along with a short biographical sketch to Frédérique Spill, Solveig Dunkel and Astrid Maes . Click here for more details.
April
-By April 5th, 2020 : International conference PopMeC on May 27-28, 2020 at Instituto Franklin–UAH (Alcalá de Henares), Spain. Please send your proposals (200-250 words), in english or spanish, along with a short bio (100-120 words) to popmec.call@gmail.com . Click here for more details.
-By April 7th, 2020 : Research Seminar in American History hosted by Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, on July 1-3, 2020 in Middelburg, The Netherlands. Applicants are invited to submit their proposals, consisting of a 300-word abstract and a CV, to Debby Esmeé de Vlugt and Nanka de Vries . Click here for more details.
-By April 10th, 2020 : International Conference North American Poetry 2000-2020: Poetics, Aesthetics, Politics. on October 15-17, 2020 at Institut Universitaire de France, Paris. Please send your abstract (300 words) along with a short biographical note to northamericanpoetry2020@gmail.com . Click here for more details.
-By April 30th, 2020 : International Conference, Indigenous Environmental Artistic Practices Responding to Pollution: Comparative Research between Oceania and the Americas, on Novembre 19-20, 2020, at University of Bretagne Occidentale, France. Please send your 250-300 words proposals along with a short biography to Estelle Castro-Koshy, Géraldine Le Roux, and Jean-Marc Serme. Click here for more details.
-By April 30th, 2020: Conference for early-career scholars, The Shape of News and Public Opinion in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe and America, on September 24-25, 2020 at University of Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France. Please send a 250-word proposal, in English or French, together with a short bibliography to Laurent Curelly, Click here for more details.
-By April 30th, 2020: International conference, Russian poetry and American poetry: crossings and circulations (end of 19th century to present times), on June 2-3-4, 2021 at University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France. Please send a 1 page abstract, in English or French, together with a short biography to Claire Gheerardyn and Delphine Rumeau . Click here for more details.
-By April 30th, 2020: One-day conference, Gender Trouble 2020: Queering art / Queering society?, on October 9, 2020 at University Paris-Diderot, France. Please send a 300 words abstract, in English or French, along with a short biography to Juliette Mélia and Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun.
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-By April 30, 2020: conference for graduate students and emerging scholars Where My Girls At? Contemporary Feminist Art, on July 2nd, 2020 at LMU Munich, Germany. Please send a 300 words abstract along with a short biography to Megan Bosence , Bärbel Harju and Amelie Starke .
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March
-By March 1st, 2020 : International conference The « Marginal Man » in the Americas, 16th-21st centuries A fertile notion to (re-)think trans-colonial, trans-imperial, and trans-national mobilities? on November 20-21, 2020 at Nanterre. Please send your proposals in english, spanish or french to hommemarginal2020@gmail.com. Click here for more details .
-By March 2nd, 2020 : One day conference Anthrodecentrism: Humans as Footnotes in Time and Space, on June 12, 2020 at Catholic University of Paris, France. Please send a 300-word proposal along with a short biography to Dr. Diane Leblond, Dr. Sarah Gould, Dr. Estelle Murail and Dr. Delphine Louis-Dimitrov . Click here for more details.
-By March 13th, 2020 : International conference Towards a Decentered History of Dance on 8-10th october, 2020 in Lyon. Please send your proposal (500 words) in english or french, to histoiredecentreedanse@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By March 15th, 2020 : Conference Eco Consciousness : Imperatives in American Culture, on October 8-10, 2020 at Ovidius University, Romania. Please send a 150-200 words abstract in english to raas.conferences@gmail.com . Click here for more details .
-By March 15th, 2020 : International conference Frontier(s) and frontier-zone(s) in the English-speaking world, on December 10-11, 2020 at University Côte d’Azur, France. Please send a 400 words abstract in english or french to Ruxandra Pavelchievici and Didier Revest .
-By March 17th, 2020 : International conference Cosmopolitan Aspirations in English-Speaking Cinema and Television, on September 2-4, 2020 at University of Zaragoza, Spain. Please send a 300-500 words abstract in english along with a short bio (120 words) through the Conference website .
-By March 24th, 2020 MLA Convention 2021 from Jan 7 to Jan 10, 2021 in Toronto. Playing with/for Time: Nabokov’s Persistent Images. Please send your proposals ( 250 words) along with a short biography to Lara Delage-Toriel . Click here for more details .
-By March 29, 2020 : EDIS International Conference My Splendors are Menagerie’: the Persistence of Emily Dickinson’s Voice in Art Forms Other than Literature. Please send a 250-300 word abstract to Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau. Click here for more details.
February
-By February 1st, 2020: Conference Borders in/of Adaptation, on October 1-2, 2020 at University of Burgundy, Dijon, France. Please send a 300-word proposal (in the form of a Microsoft Document saved as “AAS_your name”), in English, along with the paper title, a short biographical note, your academic affiliation and your contact information to Shannon Wells-Lassagne and Candice Lemaire. Click here for more information.
-By February 1st, 2020: Conference Occidentalism : The West since 1945, on June 10-12, 2020 at University Paris 8, France. Please send a 250-300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short CV, via this website. Click here for more details.
-By February 14th, 2020: Conference The United States, United States / Dis-United States, on October 1-2, 2020 at University Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France. Please send a 15-line proposal, in English or French, along with a short biography to Marie-Christine Michaud, Pauline Pilote and Karim Daanoune.
By February 15th, 2020 : AFEA Graduate Student Symposiums Post-America, on May 26, 2020 at University of Lille, France. Candidates must send a 500-word proposal along with a short CV (precising registration date and place and name of their director) to both Ronan Ludot-Vlasak and Anne Ullmo for proposals in literature, to Françoise Coste and Hélène Quanquin for proposals in civilization. Any proposal about both these subjects or neither, can be send to anyone. Click here for more details.
-By February 23rd, 2020: One-day conference Mapping addiction: deviant bodies and marginal spaces. Cultural, repressive and imaginary geography of narcotic intoxication, on May 7, 2020 at University of Strasbourg, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English (for 20-minute papers), along with a short biography, to Irène Delcourt and Tim Heron. Click here for more details.
January
-By January 1st, 2020: CUT-UPS@60 conference organised by the EBSN, on September 7-8, 2020 in Paris, France, and on September 10-11, 2020 in London, UK. Please send your proposals in English or French to Oliver Harris. Click here for more information.
-By January 10th, 2020: The Percival Everett International Society (PEIS) organises two panels at the annual conference of the American Literature Association in San Diego. Please send a 300-word proposal in English to Anne-Laure Tissut. Click here for more information.
-By January 15th, 2020: Ecotones #7, Reconfiguring, Repurposing the City: Urban Ecotones in the Global South, on October 29-31, 2020 at University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Please upload a 250-word proposal, in English or French, along with the title, the author’s name, a 150-word bio, and contact information to the conference website.
-By January 15th, 2020: International Conference Artefact, Aesthetic and Critical Representation: Experiment and Innovation in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, on April 23-24, 2020 at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France. Click here for more information.
-By January 15th, 2020: Documentary Poetry, Popular Protest and Activism: An International Poetry and Poetics Seminar, on June 11-13, 2020 at American University of Paris, France. Please send a 250-300-word proposal, in English, along with a short CV (1-2 pages) to ggilbert@aup.edu and wdow@aup.edu. Click here for more information.
-By January 15th, 2020: The Absurdity of Racism: an International Chester Himes Conference, on June 4-6, 2020 at American University of Paris, France. Please send a 250-word abstract in English, accompanied by a very brief bio, including name and professional affiliation or credentials, both submitted on a single page to acraven@aup.edu and wdow@aup.edu. Click here for more details.
-By January 15th, 2020: International Conference Short-circuits and Fused Visions: The Works and Networks of Claude Pélieu, on June 11-12, 2020 at the University of Chicago Center Paris. Please send a 400-word abstract in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliography to pelieu2020@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By January 20th, 2020: International Conference War Memories (2020)/Mémoires de guerre (2020), on June 24-26, 2020 at Le Mans University, France. Please submit a 350-word proposal, in English or French, along with a 200-word biography via the conference website. Click here for more information.
-By January 24th, 2020: International study day Enabling and Disability Comics for/about Young People: Within the Panels and Without., on June 5, 2020 in Amiens, France. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliography to [N. Saudo-Welby->nathalie.saudo@u-
picardie.fr]. Click here for more information.
-By January 30th, 2020: Symposium Citizenship Across Borders. New forms in a post-national world, on October 22-23, 2020 in Strasbourg, France. Please send a 200-word proposal in English, including the title, to Professor Akgӧnül and Professor Faulkner. Click here for more information.
-By January 30th, 2020: International conference COMbART : « Grammars and Politics of Resistance », on June 25-26, 2020 in New University of Lisbon, Lisbon. Please send a 500-word proposal in English, Portugese or Spanish to https://combart.eventqualia.net/en/2020/home/call-papers/. Click here for more information.
-By January 31st, 2020: “ ‘Stratford on Avon’ – accept us all!”— Dickinson and Shakespeare: 2020 Annual Meeting, on July 31-August 1, 2020 in Amherst. Please send a 300-word proposal in English, along with a 100-word bio to Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau and Páraic Finnerty. Click here for more information.
-By January 31st, 2020: seminar Gender transformations on screen, on May 6, 2020 at the University of Rouen Normandy, France. Please send your proposal (300 words max), in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliography to Sylvaine Bataille, Florence Cabaret and Mehdi Derfoufi. Click here for more information.
-By January 31st, 2020: International conference Figuring out Feeling, on July 1-2, 2020 at the University of Paris, France. Please send your proposal (300 words max for papers, 400 for panels and roundtables) in English along with a short biography to figuringoutfeeling@gmail.com Click here for more information.
-By January 31, 2020: 52nd AFEA conference Post-America, on May 26-29, 2020 at the University of Lille, France.
- Change and continuity in historical writing in the American Republic
- Postaposthuman: the becoming of humans and their environment
- What’s the Matter with Literature? Inquiry into Post (New) Materialisms in Nineteenth- Century American Studies
- Post-Fordist Workers, Post-Fordist Corporations : Emerging Figures
- Translating (in) the Aftermath
- Shock Waves: replicating events in American arts and media
- Postsecularity in fiction: a feature of the postmodern turn?
- American popular music after the Second World War: a post-racial, post-class and post- national artefact?
- US Foreign Policy in a Post-Trump World
- Post-object literature and art in the United States? Materialities of the dematerialized work
- Popular Culture Workshop : SUPERNATURE
- “Hyphenated literaturesˮ: new American identities
- A Post-liberal America?
- Postapocalyptic Fiction: What Modes of Representation on the Big and Small Screens?
- The post-welfare state: Trajectories of solidarity in contemporary America
- Intermediality as Post America or creative reinterpretation?
- Post-Scriptum America: Trace, Reversibility and Climate Change
- Post-White America?
- Postwar Poverty in the United States
- Post-9/11 Arab-American Literature
- Post-identity and Social Movements
- Movement and Progress: Beyond, Ahead, and Post- in American Dance and Music
- « A common destiny »? Anticipations and stakes of a « post-slavery » America
- The Age of Post-Photography? Rethinking the Uses and Practices of 21st Century American Photography
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2019
December
-By December 1, 2019: International Conference Turning Points: Interpreting the Past, Explaining the Present and Imagining the Future, on May 22-23, 2020 in Athens. Please send a 250-word proposal in English along with a short bio to turningpoints@lcir.co.uk. Click here for more details.
-By December 6, 2019: International Conference Education policies and visions for society: discourse and practice, 19th-21st centuries, on June 17-19, 2020 at the University of Orléans, France. Please send your proposal in English, Spanish or French along with a short bio-bibliography to Karin.Fischer@univ-orleans.fr, Marie-Helene.Soubeyroux@univ-tours.fr and Susan.Finding@univ-poitiers.fr. Click here for more details.
By December 13, 2019: Conference Gender & screens: Intersectionality in Anglophone Television Series and Cinema, on March 5-6, 2020 at the Université Le Havre Normandie. Please send a proposal to georges-claude.guilbert@univ-lehavre.fr et kevin.drif@univ-lehavre.fr. Click here for more details->https://genreecrans.hypotheses.org/230].
-By December 15, 2019: 8th Biannual conference of the EEASA Colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions in early America and the Atlantic World 1600-1848, on December 10-12, 2020 in Poitiers, France. Please send your proposal (200 words max), in English, along with a one-page CV, to eeasa2020@gmail.com. Please indicate EEASA2020 and your surname in the subject line. Click here for more details.
-By December 15, 2019: International conference Lydia Davis, Writing, Reading and Translation, on May 13-14, 2020 at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, Senate House, University of London. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a 100-word bio, to Jean-Michel.Gouvard@u-bordeaux-montaigne. Click here for more details.
By December 15, 2019: EAAS 2020 Conference, 20/20 Visions: Citizenship, Space, Renewal, on May 1-3, 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. Individual paper abstracts should be no longer than 350 words (excluding bibliography, if you choose to have one). Session proposals must include a short description of the session as well as the title and abstracts of all three papers. Please send your abstracts in English to eaas.warsaw@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
By December 30, 2019: Study Day Picturing Tomorrow: Future-directed Imagination in American Art,, on March 18-19, 2020 at the University of Nanterre, Paris, France. Please send an abstract of 250 words , in English or French, together with a short CV to Tatsiana Zhurauliova, . Click here for more details.
-By December 31, 2019: International conference Playing with/on format, on October 22-23, 2020 at the University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, comprising a title, your professional affiliation and your contact details, together with a short bio-bibliography to jeuxdeformats@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
November
-By November 1, 2019: Annual SAES Congress 2020, RenaissanceS, on June 4-6, 2020 in Tours, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English or French to stephanie.carrez@univ-tours.fr and gilles.bertheau@univ-tours.fr. Click here for more details.
-By November 1, 2019: Film Studies Workshop on RenaissanceS, during the Annual SAES Congress 2020, on June 4-6, 2020 in Tours, France. Please send your proposal (400 words max) in English or French to Christophe Gelly, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot and emicyx@gmail.com. Articles in English may be published in the varia of Film Journal e-journal. Click here for more details.
-By November 3, 2019: International conference Popular Culture and Politics, on December 11-13, 2019 at La Rochelle University, France. Please send a 400-word abstract, in English or French, along with a short biography to Danièle André, Annabel Audureau and Frank Healy. Click here for more details.
-By November 5, 2019: One-day conference, Gothic, Teens and Pop Culture (2000-2020), on April 4, 2020 at Reims University, Campus des Comtes de Champagne, Place du Préau 10 000 Troyes, France. Please send a 300-word proposal and a short bio to Yannick Bellenger-Morvan and Marine Galiné. Click here for more details.
-By November 14, 2019: U.S. History Symposium Activism From Below: Grassroots Organizing in the U.S. from the Civil War to Now, on March 19-20, 2020 at Queen’s University, Belfast. Please send an abstract of 250-300 words in English, along with your academic affiliation (if applicable) and professional title, to activismhistoryqub@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By November 15, 2019: International symposium Art intermediation in the United States since 1945. Concepts, scope, spaces, on April 16-17, 2020 at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Maison de la Recherche, France. Please send a 250-300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio (5-10 lines) to christine.zumello@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr, manoles@unistra.fr and laurence.cossu-beaumont@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr. Click here for more information.
-By November 15, 2019: Study Day #EPHN2020, Pedagogical practices involving digital humanities in social sciences and the arts, on March 27, 2020 at the Université Paris 8, Maison de la Recherche, A202. Please send a 200-300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliograpy (5 lines max) to seminaire.ephn@gmail.com.
-By November 30, 2019: International Conference Catastrophisms! Collective anxieties and ideologies in the 21st century, on June 18-19, 2020 at Nîmes University, France. Please send your proposal (between 2000 and 4000 signs, in English or in French) to catherine.bernie-boissard@wanadoo.fr, claude.chastagner@univ-montp3.fr, dominique.crozat@univ-montp3.fr et laurent.fournier@univ-amu.fr. Click here for more details.
October
-By October 1, 2019: Two-day international conference Critical Approaches to Cultural Identities in the Public Sphere: From Ivory Tower to Social Arena, on May 14-15, 2020 in Dijon, France. Please send a 800-word proposal in English or French along with a short bibliography via the conference website. Click here for more details.
-By October 1, 2019: International Symposium Are we (still) in the Modern Age of comics?, on March 6-7, 2020 in Nancy, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English or French along with a short bio-bibliography to Sophie Bonadè, Guillaume Labrude and Siegfried Würtz. Click here for more details.
-By October 10, 2019: The Fourth International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies, on June 24-27, 2020 at the Université Caen Normandie, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English along with a short bio-bibliography statement to Hélène Aji, Amy Wells and Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec. Click here for more details.
-By October 15, 2019: The 18th Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference in North American Studies, on May 13-15, 2020 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Your proposal should include a short abstract for a 20-minute individual presentation (max. 200 words) or a 90-minute panel (max. 400 words), as well as a short academic bio and contact information for all participants (max. one page). Send your proposal in English as a single Word document to mapleleaf-eagle@helsinki.fi. Click here for more details.
-By October 15, 2019: Conference Women’s Resistance to Feminism(s) in the US since the 19th century, on April 3-4, 2020 at the Aix-Marseille University, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English along with a short bio to claire.sorin@univ-amu.fr, marc.calvini-lefebvre@univ-amu.fr and nicolas.boileau@univ-amu.fr. Click here for more details.
-By October 15, 2019: International symposium Anachronisms, on March 19-20, 2020 at the Musée du Temps, Besançon, France. Please send your proposal (1 page max) in English or French to Anne Deffarges and Hélène Valance. Click here for more details.
-By October 25, 2019: International conference When jazz musicians write, on April 4, 2020 at the Université Jean-Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France, and on September 25, 2020 at the Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Please send a 350-word abstract (along with a title), in English or French, and a short bio-bibliography (Word or PDF) to pierre-fargeton@univ-st-etienne.fr and yannick.seite@univ-paris-diderot.fr. Click here for more details.
-By October 30, 2019: Conference Tourisme(s) en situation coloniale et postcoloniale : sites, architectures et ré cits aux 19ème et 20ème siècle, on December 5-6, 2019 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris Belleville, 60 boulevard de la Villette, 75019 Paris. Please send your proposal (one page max), in English or French, along with a short CV and a list of publications to malik.chebahi@paris-belleville.archi.fr and t.kassab@epau-alger.edu.dz. Click here for more details.
-By October 30, 2019: One-day conference “Our Time Has Come”: Towards Transatlantic and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Black Counter-Representations, from 1945 until Today, on December 10, 2019 at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with images and a short biography to imagedenousmeme@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
September
-By September 1, 2019: Conference Culinary translation, on March 18-20, 2020 at the University of Lille, France. Please send a 500-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliographical note to Mickael Mariaule and Samuel Trainor. Click here for more details.
-By September 1, 2019: International Conference Suspicion, on April 9-10, 2020 at the Bordeaux-Montaigne University, France and on April 8-9, 2021 at the University of Verona, Italy. Please send your proposals, in English or French, to Pascale Antolin and Chiara Battisti.
-By September 2, 2019: International Conference Translating Performance / Performing Translation, on December 12-14, 2019 in Laboratoires d’Aubervillers, France. Please send 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio to performingtranslation2019@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By September 9, 2019: One-day Conference Immersive theatre on Anglophone and Francophone contemporary stages, on January 17, 2020 at Sorbonne University, France. Please send a 200-300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short biography to Déborah Prudhon, Juliette Mézergues et Emeline Jouve. Click here for more details.
-By September 10, 2019: International Conference Tourist imaginaries and mobility in the United States, on February 6-7, 2020 at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, building Vauban, France. Please send a 2 000-sign proposal + 5 keywords, in English or French, along with your name, institutional affiliation, email address and position, to Sophie Croisy and Frédéric Leriche. Click here for more details.
-By September 15, 2019: Conference Queering the City ? Perspectives Transtlantiques, on June 11-13, 2020 at the Université Paris Nanterre and the Fondation des États-Unis Cité Internationale, France. Please send a 500-word proposal, in English or French, along with a title, corpus/bibliographic sources and a short biographic note to queeringthecity2020@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By September 15, 2019: One-day symposium The Transatlantic Careers of Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, on March 6-7, 2020 in Nîmes, France. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short biographic note to oldmanandroth.nimes2020@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By September 15, 2019: International conference The Frontiers of The Image, on March 20-21, 2020 at the Université Paris-Est Créteil, France. Please send a 500-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliographical note to marie.olivier@u-pec.fr and claire.fabre-clark@u-pec.fr . Click here for more details.
-By September 20, 2019: International Conference Troublantes Usurpations : impostures dans la littérature, le cinéma et les arts du monde anglophone, on March 19-20, 2020 at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France. Please send a 400-500 word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliography to usurpationtoulouseconference@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By September 21, 2019: One-day Conference The Wanderings of Modernism, on January 11, 2020 at the Sorbonne University, Paris. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short biography to modernisme.errance@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By September 30, 2019: Symposium The Historical Novel: Origin, Revival, Persistence, on April 29-30, 2020 at the Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France. Please send your abstract (15 lines), in English or French, along with a short biography to Isabelle Durand, Pauline Pilote and Patricia Victorin. Click here for more details.
-By September 30, 2019: Symposium Séries américaines de networks des années 1990, on February 27-28, 2020 at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. Please send a 300-word abstract, in English or French, together with a 200-word bio to Claire Cornillon and Sarah Hatchuel. Click here for more details.
August
-By August 1, 2019: Edith Wharton’s New York: Conference in 2020, in June, 2020 in New York. For full panel and roundtable proposals, please submit 200-350-word summaries of each presentation included in the panel or roundtable as well as a brief 50-word bio and A/V requests for each presenter. For individual paper proposals, please submit a 350-500-word abstract, a brief 50-word bio, and A/V requests as one Word document. Please send your proposals in English to whartonnewyork@gmail.com. All conference participants must be members of the Edith Wharton Society at the time of registration. Click here for more details.
-By mid-August, 2019: International conference Retrospective Jan Valtin (1941-1951), on November 14-15, 2019 in Poitiers, France. Please send your proposal in English or French to guillaume.bourgeois@univ-poitiers.fr. Click here for more details.
July
-By July 15, 2019: International Conference Contemporary American Fiction in the Face of Technical Innovation, on January 24-25, 2020 at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Université Vincennes – Saint-Denis, France. Please send a 250-500-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio to beatrice.pire at sorbonne-nouvelle.fr, pierre-louis.patoine at sorbonne-nouvelle.fr and arnaud.regnauld at univ-paris8.fr. Click here for more details.
June
-By June 1, 2019: Annual Conference of the North American Society of the Sociology of Sport, Sport Sociology and the Responsibility for Decolonial Praxis: Decolonizing Minds, Indigenizing Hearts, on November 6-9, 2019 in Virginia Beach, USA. Please send a short proposal (200 words max.), in English, along with your name, institutional affiliation, email address and a title (no more than 10 words), via the online submission system https://nasss.org/call-for-abstracts-vabeach2019/. Click here for more details.
-By June 10, 2019: SEAA 17-18 – Annual Conference, The Force of Commerce: Commerce, the economy and the dynamics of trade in the English-speaking world (17th and 18th centuries), on January 17-18, 2020 at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Please send a 200-300-word proposal, in English or French, with a working title and a short bio mentioning institutional and academic affiliations to seaa2020@hotmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By June 15, 2019: International Symposium The Silver Atlantic: Photographic circulations in the 19th and 20th centuries, on March 19-20, 2020 at the Jeu de Paume Museum, Paris. Please send a 20-minute paper proposal (1,500 characters max), in English or French, along with ten references and a biography (500 characters), in English, to silveratlantic2020@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By June 30, 2019: International conference organized by EMMA and CLIMAS, What Do Pictures Do? (In)Visibilizing the Subaltern, on June 11-12, 2020 at the Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3, France. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, comprising a title, a bibliography and a short biography indicating your professional affiliation and your contact details, to invisibilization.conference@gmail.com et mathilde.arrive@univ-montp3.fr. Click here for more details.
-By June 30, 2019: International conference, Surfing, Across the Board, on November 28-29, 2019 in Bordeaux, France. Please send a 250-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bibliography to Christophe Chamboste, Pierre Floquet et Jeffrey Swartwood. Click here for more details.
-By June 30, 2019: AISNA conference From Island to Mainland: defying visible and invisible borders in Caribbean-American literature and visual arts, on September 26-28, 2019 in Ragusa, Sicily. Please send your proposals to Ada Savin and Elèna Mortara.
May
-By May 1, 2019: BrANCA 4th Biennial Symposium, Scaling the Nineteenth Century, on December 16-17, 2019 at Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham, UK. Please send a 250-word proposal for a 20-minute individual presentation, comprising a provisional title and a short biography, as well as a 1,000-word proposal for a pre-organized panel or roundtable sessions to Dr. Stephanie Palmer and Dr. Matthew Pethers. Working language: English. Click here for more details.
-By May 5, 2019: Conference Arti(st)s in Resistance, on November 6-8, 2019 at the the University of Angers and Le Mans University, France. Please upload a 250-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short biography to the conference website https://resarts.sciencesconf.org. You will need to create an account before submitting your proposal. Click here for more details.
-By May 10, 2019: International conference “Community” in the English-Speaking World. The concept and its uses in social and political discourse, on September 26-27, 2019 at the Bordeaux-Montaigne University, France. Please send a 200-word proposal in English along with a short biography to Mathilde Bertrand, Trevor Harris, and Sophie Koppe. Click here for more details.
-By May 15, 2019: The 2020 French Shakespeare Society conference, « Shakespeare and Actors », on January 9-11, 2020, at the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe in Paris. Please send your proposal including a title, a 500-800-word abstract, in English or French, and a brief bio to contact@societefrancaiseshakespeare.org. Click here for more details.
-By May 15, 2019: International conference “How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?” Woman Suffrage and Women’s Citizenships in the Long History of the 19th Amendment, on January 8-10, 2020 at the Université de Lille and the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Please send a 500-word proposal, in English, along with a short bio to nineteenth1920@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By May 20, 2019: International Conference by GUEST Normandie, Adapting Children’s and Young Adult Novels into Anglophone Television Series, on September 5-6, 2019 at the University of Rouen Normandy, France. Please send your proposal (400 words max), in English or French, along with a title and a short bio-bibliography to Florence Cabaret and Virginie Douglas. Click here for more details.
-By May 20, 2019: 54th WLA Conference, Not Cloudy All Day: Climates of Change in the American West, on September 18-21, 2019 in Estes Park, Colorado, USA. Please upload your proposals in English via ConfTool. Click here for more details.
-By May 30, 2019: International Conference, “The father of the text”: Continuities and Ruptures of Faulkner’s Legacy in Contemporary Literatures, on September 27-28, 2019 at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Logis du Roy and Citadelle. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio to Frédérique Spill and Solveig Dunkel. Click here for more details.
-By May 30, 2019: 22nd International Colloquium of American Studies, Secrets, on September 12-14, 2019 at the Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English, along with a short bio (150 words max.) to colloquium.olomouc@upol.cz. Click here for more details.
-By May 31, 2019: International Conference Les manières de faire vernaculaires / Vernacular Ways, on January 23-24, 2020 at the Paris Diderot University, France. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a bio to Jordi Ballesta and Eliane de Larminat.
April
-By April 1, 2019: 25th Annual International Sercia Conference, Trouble on Screen, on September 4-6, 2019 at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Please send a 300-500-word abstract, in English or French, together with a short bio via the platform EasyChair. Click here for more details.
-By April 1, 2019: Conference Metafiction and reflexivity on screen on November 14-15, 2019 at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Clermont Ferrand, France. Please send a 300-word abstract, in English or French, together with a short bio-bibliography to Caroline.Lardy@uca.fr, Christophe.Gelly@uca.fr and mudrockca@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By April 5, 2019: Conference Ecotones #6. Post/Colonial Ports: Place and Nonplace in the Ecotone, on October 24-26, 2019, at the Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Please upload your proposal in English containing a 250-word abstract, its title, the author’s name, a 150-word bio, and contact information to the conference website. Click here for more details.
-By April 21, 2019: International conference Contemporary poetry, media, mass culture, on September 19-21, 2019 at the ELTE, Budapest. Please send your abstract (300 words max), in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliography (5 lines max) to poemedias2019@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By April 30, 2019: Conference Echoes and remanence of 1968 in the arts of the United States, on November 15, 2019 at the Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, France. Please send a 400-word abstract (max), in English or French, accompanied by your biography to Zachary Baqué, Claude Chastagner and Emeline Jouve . Click here for more details.
By April 30, 2019: International Conference WTSM19 Writing/translating social media, on October 17-19, 2019 in Paris. Please submit a 300-word abstract, in English or French, to the EasyChair interface. Click here for more details.
-By April 30, 2019: One-day conference Diasporas, États et développement économique : opportunités et risques, on June 24, 2019 at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France. Please send a 250-word abstract, in English or French, along with a title and a short biography to marie-ondine.aza@u-cergy.fr and anne.groutel@univ-paris1.fr.
March
-By March 1, 2019: International Conference Towards Extinction, To Ward Off -Extinction on November 7-9, 2019 at the University of Lille, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English together with a 50-word bio, in Word or PDF format, to towards.extinction.lille2019@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By March 1, 2019: 2019 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference on Romanticism in a transatlantic context, on July 8-10, 2019 at the University of Lancaster, UK. Please send a 300-word abstract in English, accompanied by a 100-word biography and a 2-page CV, to Kevin Hutchings. Click here for more details.
-By March 4, 2019: International transdisciplinary symposium The Desert and the USA on November 21-23, 2019 at the Université Bretagne Sud (Lorient). Please send a 400-word proposal in English or French together with a short bio-bibliography to Karim Daanoune, François Gavillon and Lionel Larré. Click here for more details.
-By March 15, 2019: Conference In-betweenness: spaces, practices and
representations, on May 29, 2019 at the Maison de la Recherche of the Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 University, France. Please send a 350-word abstract, in English or French, together with a title and a short biography to Anouche Der Sarkissian and Cléa Fortuné. Click here for more details.
-By March 15, 2019: International conference Illustration and Adaptation on October 10-11, 2019 at the University of Burgundy, France. Please, send a 500-word abstract (in English or French) together with a 100-150-word bio to sophie.aymes@u-bourgogne.fr and shannon.wells-lassagne@u-bourgogne.fr. Click here for more details.
-By March 25, 2019: One-day conference The Machine in Anglophone Arts and Literature, on May 28, 2019 at Sorbonne University, France. Please send an abstract (300 words max), in English or French, along with a short bio to laboratoire.ovale@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
February
By February 15, 2019: Symposium Old and new formats of historical fiction: archeology of a popular culture on November 22, 2019 at the Paris Diderot University, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English or French (duration of papers: 20 min.) to Emilia Le Seven, Ariane Hudelet, Michel Imbert and Marjolaine Boutet. Click here for more details.
-By February 15, 2019: One-day conference Literary Tattoos: Lasting Impressions, Cultural Practices and Representations, on June 13, 2019 at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis, France. Please send a 250-word proposal, in English or French, accompanied by a brief biographical note to Anne Chassagnol and Brigitte Friant-Kessler. Click here for more details.
-By February 15, 2019: International Conference Melville’s Measures on October 17-19, 2019 at the University of Lille and Paris Diderot University. Please send a 500-word proposal in English or French together with a short bio to melvillesmeasures@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By February 17, 2019: Two-day Conference in Memory of Professor François Brunet (Paris Diderot University), American Art in the 1940s: Global Currents, Local Tides, on April 16, 2019 at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art and on April 17, 2019 at the Paris Diderot University, France. Please send a 250-word proposal, in English or French, accompanied by a short CV to tatsiana.zhurauliova@univ-paris-diderot.fr. Click here for more details.
-By February 18, 2019: Conference Fashion, Costumes and Visual Cultures on July 9-11, 2019 in Roubaix, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English or French along with a short bio to fashionandcostume@outlook.com.
-By February 21, 2019: Workshop Whither Republicanism? Theory and practice in the contemporary Anglosphere, on May 10-11, 2019 at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France. Please send your proposals in English containing a title to Frank Rynne and Adrien Rodd. Click here for more details.
-By February 28, 2019: One-day workshop The Powers and Postures of Posters on June 21, 2019 at the Université Paris 8, France. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio to Sébastien Lefait and Sandrine Villers.
January
By January 1, 2019: The 15th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference, Place and Placelessness, on June 25-29, 2019 at the University Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France. Please send your 250-500-word proposal (noting any audio/visual requests), in English, along with a brief CV or biographical statement to fitzgeraldintoulouse@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By January 1, 2019: Symposium Walt Whitman and New York on January 1, 2019 at the Grolier Club, New York. Please send your proposals (250 words max), in English, to Matt Miller and Lindsay Tuggle. Click here for more details.
-By January 7, 2019: International conference Laïcité(s) : Religion et espace public/Religion and State in the public sphere on November 21-22, 2019 at the Clermont Auvergne University, France. Please send à 250-350-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliography to Jérôme Grosclaude. Click here for more details.
-By January 15, 2019: Conference Literary Tourgée on September 27-29, 2019 at the Chautauqua Institution, New York. Please send a 250-word proposal in English together with your CV to Sandra Gustafson. Click here for more details.
-By January 15, 2019: Conference American Islands: Outposts of Security, Prosperity, and Culture, on May 22, 2019 at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, the Netherlands. Please send your proposals in English (500 words max) to rias@zeeland.nl. Click here for more details.
-By January 15, 2019: Beyond Bureaucracy track Ethics & New Models of Governance during the DGO.2019 Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Click here for more details.
-By January 20, 2019: Postgraduate Study Day Women on the edge: exploring the borders of femininity, on March 8, 2019 at the University of Strasbourg, France.
Please send a 300-word proposal (for a 20-minute paper), in English, along with a short biographical notice to Irène Delcourt, Lucy-Anne Katgely and Juliette Misset.
-By January 25, 2019: International trans-disciplinary conference Federal Theatre Project (1935-39): context and issues on October 17-19, 2019 at the University Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France.
Please send your proposal (4,000 characters maximum), in English or French, together with a short biographical sketch to Émeline Jouve and Géraldine Prévot. Click here for more details.
-By January 25, 2019: The Summer Institute of Psychoanalysis, on June 24-27, 2019 at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA.
PhD students and post-doctoral students are welcome to send a letter of application of no more than 800 words as well as a résumé to alessiadricciardi@gmail.com.
-By January 27, 2019: Interdisciplinary international conference Daphne du Maurier: A Critical Reassessment on June 27-28, 2019 at the University of Le Mans, France. Please post your proposal for a 20-minute presentation, in English or French, on the Sciencesconf site. Click here for more details.
-By January 28, 2019: 51st AFEA Congress Discipline and its Discontents on May 21-24, 2019 at the University of Nantes, France.
Please send a 250-300-word proposal, in English or French, together with a short biography to the workshop organizers. All speakers have to be members of the AFEA. Click here for more details.
-By January 30, 2019: 2019 Dickinson Scholar Award.
Please send a 600-800-word proposal, in English, together with a CV, a cover letter, a brief bibliography and a preliminary budget to Michelle Kohler. Click here for more details.
-By January 30, 2019: 2019 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship.
Please send a 600-800-word proposal, in English, together with a CV, a cover letter, a brief bibliography and contact information for two references to Michelle Kohler. Applicants must have completed a PhD. Click here for more details.
-By January 31, 2019: Three-day conference Short Forms and Adolescence on June 19-21, 2019 at the University of Angers, France. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, together with a 50-word biography to Karima Thomas and François Hugonnier. Click here for more details.
-By January 31, 2019: Doctoral students and young researchers’ symposium The out-of-frame and the unsaid in texts and images on June 5-6, 2019 at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Please send a 300-word proposal, in English or French, containing its title, together with a short biography to doctorants.hcti@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By January 31, 2019: Workshop Michel Foucault’s legacy: towards an understanding of disciplinary processes and undisciplined epistemologies in the US during the 2019 Afea Conference, on May 21-24, 2019 at the University of Nantes, France. Please send a 250-300-word proposal, in English or French, accompanied by a short biography to Aurélie Godet and Elodie Grossi. Click here for more details.
2018
Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking for individuals or organizations that may be interested in organizing and promoting the 7th Annual International Colloquium on Black Males in Education being held in Dublin, Ireland. Potential dates are either the week of September 24 or October 22, 2018. This year’s Colloquium’s program will be in conjunction with the celebration of Frederick Douglass’ birthday bicentennial. If you are interested, please contact Christopher T. Moss.
December
-By December 1, 2018: International Conference Stonewall at 50 and Beyond: Interrogating the Legacy and Memory of the 1969 Riots on June 3-5, 2019 at the Université Paris-Est Créteil and the Université Paris-Dauphine. Please upload a 500-word proposal, in English or French, along with a 5-line bio to the conference website.
-By December 1, 2018: Interdisciplinary Conference Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction on April 25-27, 2019 at the Maison Française d’Oxford, UK. Please send 300-word proposals, in English, along with a one-page CV to mfosf2019@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By December 1, 2018: International conference Persisting Souls in Literature, Art, History, Politics and Philosophy in the English-Speaking World, on April 11-12, 2019 at the Catholic University of Paris. Please send a 250-word proposal in English, accompanied by your short bio, to Delphine Louis-Dimitrov, Estelle Murail and Sara Thornton. Click here for more details.
-By December 1, 2018: Société d’Etudes Modernistes / Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes Joint Workshop, Exception(s) on June 6-8, 2019 at the Aix-Marseille University. Please send a 300-word proposal in English together with a short bio-bibliography to Nicolas Boileau and Charlotte Estrade. Click here for more details.
-By December 1, 2018: Conference The return of the Rust Belt and the populist moment on June 20-21, 2019 at the Université de Paris-Est Créteil, France. Please submit your 300-word proposals, in English or French, to fdechantal@univ-paris-diderot.fr, lauric.henneton@uvsq.fr and guillaume.poiret@u-pec.fr. Click here for more details.
-By December 12, 2018: AFSP’s 15th Congress/8th CoSPoF, What Intersectionality Does – or Does not Do – to Activism, on July 2-4, 2019 at the Sciences Po Bordeaux. Please send your proposal (500 words max), in English or French, along with bibliographical references and a short bio to clement.petitjean@uvsq.fr. Click here for more details.
-By December 15, 2018: 12th Transatlantic Walt Whitman Seminar on May 27 – June 1, 2019 at the New York University. Please send your applications, in English, containing a curriculum vitae, a one-page statement of interest, and a letter of support to Karen Karbiener, Éric Athenot and Jesse Merandy. Click here for more details.
-By December 15, 2018: One-day workshop Beyond the “White Man’s Burden”? Representations of the “Far East” in the English-Speaking World since World War II on June 14, 2019 at the Université Paris 8. Please send a 250-300-word proposal, in English or French, together with a one-page CV to representationsfareast@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By December 15, 2018: Conference Ecotones #5 – The Caribbean: Vulnerability and Resilience on June 21-22, 2019 at the Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA. Please upload your proposals in English, containing a 250-word abstract, its title, the author’s name, a 150-word bio, and contact information, to the conference website. Click here for more details.
-By December 15, 2018: International Symposium Vladimir Nabokov : History and geography, on June 6-8, 2019 at Sorbonne University and the University of Cergy-Pontoise. Please send your proposals, in English or French, to vn.histoiregeo2019@vladimir-nabokov.org. Click here for more details.
-By December 20, 2018: One-day conference TV Series: So British or So American?, on March 29, 2019 at the University of Rouen Normandy. Please send your proposals (300 words max) in English or French, accompanied by your bio (200 words max), to sebastien.lefait@univ-paris8.fr, ln.machinal@gmail.com and florence.cabaret@univ-rouen.fr. Click here for more details.
-By December 31, 2018: 3rd Biennial European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Women’s Network International Symposium, Feminism and Technoscience, on April 6, 2019 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Please send your 300-400-word proposal, in English, together with a one-paragraph biography to eaaswomensnetwork@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
November
-By November 12, 2018: Stream on Animation Film
as part of the 10th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, on June 10-13, 2019 in Athens, Greece. Please submit your proposals, in English, to atiner@atiner.gr using the abstract submission form. Click here for more details.
-By November 15, 2018: GERAS 40th International Conference, Ethics and specialised domains: the place, functions and forms of ethical considerations in specialised varieties of English, on March 21-23, 2019 at the université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, France. Please submit your proposals, in English or French, to geras2019@u-paris2.fr. Click here for more details.
-By November 15, 2018: International Conference The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction and Ethics for the Anthropocene on June 19-21, 2019 at the École polytechnique and Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Please send a 250-500-word proposal in English or French together with a short bio to christopher.robinson@polytechnique.edu, sarah.bouttier@polytechnique.edu and pierre-louis.patoine@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr. Click here for more details.
By November 15, 2018: Maison Française d’Oxford 2019 Photobook Conference, The British, American and French Photobook: Commitment, Memory, Materiality and the Art Market (1900-2019), on March 14-16, 2019 at the Maison Française d’Oxford, UK. Please submit a 300-word proposal in English accompanied by a one-page CV to paul.edwards@cnrs.fr. Click here for more details.
-By November 20, 2018: Camera Memoria seminar on the histories of photography LARCA – UMR 8225, starting in February 2019 on Friday afternoon at the Paris Diderot University, France. Please submit your proposals (1 page max), in English or French, along with a short bio to camera.memoria@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By November 30, 2018: One-day conference Voix singulières / Singular voices on April 11, 2019 at the Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. Please submit your 300-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio to voixsingulieres@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By November 30, 2018: International conference Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas, 19th – 21st Centuries. A multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of dependence or autonomy through old age, on September 26-27, 2019 at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France. Please submit your proposals (400 words max), in English or French, containing a title, along with a short bio to Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga. Click here for more details.
-By November 31, 2018: Workshop XVII-XVIII during the 2019 SAES Congress, Exception(s), transgression and renewal, on June 6-8, 2019 at the Aix-Marseille University. Please send a 300-word proposal in English, in Word.doc format, together with a short bio-bibliography to Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Sara Watson. Click here for more details.
October
-By October 1, 2018: Two-day conference A « re-run » through Gil Scott-Heron’s work on June 20-21, 2019 at the Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, France. Please submit a 350-word proposal, in English, along with a short bio to Vincent DUSSOL and Claudine RAYNAUD. Click here for more details.
-By October 8, 2018: International Conference 2019, Reenchanting Urban Wildness: To Perceive, Think and Live With Nature in Cities, on June 11-14, 2019 in Perpignan, France. Please submit your 300-400-word proposals, in English or French, along with your bio-bibliography (5-6 lines) to ecopoeticsperpignan2018@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By October 12, 2018: Conference Rethinking the History of the Rust Belt since 1945 on December 7, 2018 at Sorbonne University, France. Please submit a 300-word proposal in English along with a short bio to areasorbonne@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By October 15, 2018: 14th SAAS Conference The Image and the Word: Interactions between American Literature, Media, Visual Arts and Film on April 9-11, 2019 at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Please submit your proposals in English to Panel Chairs. Click here for more details.
-By October 15, 2018: Conference Counter-mapping in the Americas 16th-21st centuries on February 7-8, 2019 at the University of Limoges, France. Please send a 500-word abstract in English, French or Spanish and a 200-word biography to lucie.genay@unilim.fr and diane.bracco@unilim.fr. Click here for more details.
By October 19, 2018: One-day Conference Parenthood on American Television on January 25, 2019 at the Université Le Havre Normandie, France. Please submit your 300-word proposals, in English or French, to b.annlys@gmail.com and jessicathrasher9000@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By October 21, 2018: Three-day Conference Imagining Machines as Mediators for Fiction on December 11-13, 2018 at the Paris 8 University. Please submit your proposals (300 words max) in English or French together with a short bio-bibliographical note via EasyChair. Click here for more details.
-By October 22, 2018: Workshop during the Institut des Amériques Congress, Populisms in the Americas: images and representations, on October 9-11, 2019 in Paris. Click here for more details.
-By October 22, 2018: Workshop during the Institut des Amériques Congress, Uses of the Judiciary in the Americas, on October 9-11, 2019 in Paris. Please upload your proposals to the Congress website. Click here for more details.
-By October 31, 2018: Symposium Borders in the Americas on June 11-13, 2019 in Grenoble, France. Please, send a 300-word proposal (in English, French or Spanish) together with a 100-word bio to bordersinamericas.2019@gmail.com.
September
–By September 1, 2018: “Passages”: The Robert Duncan Centennial Conference in Paris on June 12-14, 2019 at the Sorbonne Université, Paris. Please send your 250-300-word proposals to robertduncaninparis@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By September 14, 2018: One-day conference Mobilizing Voters in the English-Speaking World : the role of grassroots organizations and civil rights organizations (1867 – 2017) on May 10, 2019 at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France. Please send a 300-word abstract along with a short bibliography to gregory.benedetti@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr. Click here for more details.
-By September 15, 2018: The Twenty-Sixth Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies, Monuments, on April 25-27, 2019 in Bergen, Norway.
Please send a 500-word abstract max (250 words max for individual panel presentations 20 minutes long) to NAASBergen@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By September 15, 2018: 50th Annual Congress of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Collecting Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Circulation and Disruption, on March 21-23, 2019 in Denvers, Colorado, USA. Please send your abstracts in English to Anne Nellis Richter and Bénédicte Miyamoto. Click here for more details.
-By September 15, 2018: Conference Speaking in Tongues: Celebrating Walt Whitman in Translation on June 13-14, 2019 at the Université Paris-Est Créteil, France. Please send a 200-word abstract to Éric Athenot and Graciela Villanueva. Click here for more details.
-By September 15, 2018: International Symposium Staging American Night(s): representation(s) of intimacy on March 28-29, 2019 at the University of Burgundy, France. Please send a 300-word abstract, in English, French or Spanish, along with the paper title, a short biographical note, your academic affiliation and your contact information to stagingnights2019@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By September 15, 2018: Two-day symposium American Literature in France 1917-1967: the Role of Cultural Intermediaries and Mediators on March 14-15, 2019 at the Rennes 2 University, France. Please submit a 300-word abstract for a 25-minute presentation, in English or French, along with a short bio-bibliographical note to the conference website.
–By September 30, 2018: Third congress of the tosc@ tosc@paris.2019 on June 27-29, 2019 in Paris. Please, send a 350-word proposal in English, French, Italian or German, in Word format, to paristosc@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
– By September 30, 2018: Symposium Adaptation and the Protean Poetics of Margaret Atwood on February 1, 2019 at the Center for Canadian Studies, Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté, Dijon, France. Please, send a 250-word proposal, in English or French, along with a short bio to Fiona McMahon and Shannon Wells-Lassagne. Click here for more details.
–By September 30, 2018: International conference Thinking freely in religion in English-speaking countries on March 14-15, 2019 in Paris. Please, send a 500-word proposal, in English or French, along with a CV to Nathalie Caron and Rémy Bethmont. Click here for more details.
–By September 30, 2018: Conference Percival Everett: theory, philosophy and fiction on May 2-3, 2019 at the University of Rouen Normandie, France. Please, send your proposals in English to Anne-Laure Tissut.
-By September 30, 2018: One-day conference US network TV series of the 1980s on February 22, 2019 at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. Please send a 300-word abstract, in English or French, together with a 200-word bio to Claire Cornillon and Sarah Hatchuel. Click here for more details.
-By September 30, 2018: International conference Influence, disinformation, and power in Europe and the Americas on January 17-19, 2019 at the université de Caen Normandie, France. Please send your proposal offering a new perspective or a new approach to the study of power, influence and manipulation to Taoufik Djebali, Eliane Elmaleh, Salah Oueslati, Pierre Guerlain and Raphaël Ricaud. Click here for more details.
–By September 30, 2018: One-day seminar An Age of Anger: Politics and Aesthetics on December 20, 2018 at the Maison de la Recherche of Sorbonne University, France. Please, send a 250-word proposal, in English or French, to Jagna Oltarzewska. Click here for more details.
August
– By August 31, 2018: 13th Biennial Conference “With Harp and Sword”: Navigating and Resisting The Second Nadir on January 30 – February 2, 2019 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Please send your proposals of up to 500 words for complete panels, individual papers, and workshops that focus on applied or experiential aspects of the conference theme to CAARconference@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
July
-By July 1, 2018: Symposium Vladimir Nabokov and Translation on September 27-28, 2018 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Proposals of 500 words max (in English or French) to send to shvabrin@email.unc.edu and julie.loison-charles@vladimir-nabokov.org. Click here for more details.
-By July 30, 2018: International colloquium 1968 in the Americas on October 15-17, 2018 at the Poitiers University, France. Please, send your proposals and summaries, in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese, via the website. Click here for more details.
June
-By June 1st, 2018: Conference « (Re-)Mobilizing voters: electoral strategies and practices in the English-speaking world, 1867-2017 » on February 8, 2019 at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France. 300-word abstracts (in English) and a short CV to send to veronique.molinari@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr. Click here for more details.
-By June 1st, 2018: International workshop « Oceania and the Pacific Rim: borders and transnationalism in the Oceania-North America and Oceania-Asia regions » on October 5, 2018 at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Please send your proposals of 500 words max, in English or French, to Adrien Rodd and Sophie Croisy. Click here for more details.
-By June 4, 2018: International conference « Let the Sun Shine In: American Theatre, Protest and Censorship » on October 26-27, 2018 at the British Library, London, UK. Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief biography via the event’s Google form. Click here for more details.
-By June 8, 2018: International Graduate Students Workshop on October 11-12, 2018 at the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, USA. Please send 300-500-word proposals in English along with a 2-page CV to global-aesthetics@udel.edu. Click here for more details.
-By June 15, 2018: International conference « 300 Years of Robinsonades » on April 11-12, 2019 at the Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, France. Please, send a 20-line summary (preferably in English) along with a title and a short bio-bibliographical note to Emmanuelle Peraldo. Click here for more details.
-By June 15, 2018: Conference « Negotiating, subverting, reconfiguring borders in the English-speaking world » on October 5-6, 2018 at the University of Strasbourg. Please send 300-word proposals, in English or Frenh, to Sandrine Baudry, Hélène Ibata and Monica Manolescu. Click here for more details.
-By June 15, 2018: One-day conference « Images et usages de la wilderness au Canada et aux Etats-Unis » on October 12, 2018 at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Please send 300-word proposals, in English or French, to Anne-Sophie Letessier and Hervé Mayer. Click here for more details.
-By June 22, 2018: Symposium « The Revolution: 1968 & the Politics of the Arts in the United States » on November 22, 2018 at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France. Please, send a 400-word proposal, in English or French, together with a short bio to Zachary Baqué, Claude Chastagner and Emeline Jouve. Click here for more details.
-By June 22, 2018: One-day workshop « Pluralizing perspectives? Truth and Reconciliation in societies emerging from conflict and/or violence » on November 22, 2018 at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France. Please, send a 200-250-word proposal (in English or French) together with its title to Joana Etchart and Franck Miroux. Click here for more details.
-By June 30, 2018: International Symposium « Modernism and Obscenity » on November 23, 2018 at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France. Main speakers : Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia) and Hélène Aji (Paris Nanterre University). Please send a 300-word abstract, in English or French, and a short bio-bibliography to Philippe Birgy and Aurélie Guillain. Click here for more details.
May
-By May 10, 2018: The 2019 French Shakespeare Society conference, « Shakespeare and the animal world », on January 10-12, 2019, at the Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe in Paris. Please, send your proposal including a title, a 500-800-word abstract, in English or French, and a brief bio to contact@societefrancaiseshakespeare.org. Click here for more details.
-By May 10, 2018: Conference « Religious Encounters: between Coexistence and Cohabitation » on November 29-30, 2018 at the Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, France. Working languages : English, Spanish, and French. Proposals including a brief CV (2 pages max), an e-mail address, and a 30-line summary in French to send to Mokhtar.BenBarka@univ-valenciennes.fr and John.Chandler@univ-valenciennes.fr. Click here for more details.
-By May 15, 2018: Workshop « Stripped, Exposed and Pleasured: Brazen Bodies in Contemporary Culture » on November 15-16, 2018 at the Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté. Abstracts of 2500 signs, in English or French, in docx format, to send to r.atzenhoffer@unistra.fr and margaret.gillespie@univ-fcomte.fr. Click here for more details.
-By May 20, 2018: International Conference of the SEAA 17-18 « Crime and Criminals in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World » on January 18-19, 2019 in Paris. Please send a 300-word abstract, in English or French, together with its title and a brief bio-bibliography to seaa2019@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By May 30, 2018: International Conference « Shakespeare on Screen in the Digital Era: The Montpellier Congress » on September 26-28, 2019 at the Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3. Seminar and panel proposals to send to Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. Click here for more details.
April
-By April 9, 2018: Conference « Crossing, highlighting. Transfering intersectionality : exploring the evolution of a militant concept » on November 14-16, 2018 at the Paris Diderot University. 500-word proposals including a short biographic note to send to Myriam Boussahba-Bravard, Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun and Frédérique Berthet. Click here for more details.
-By April 15, 2018: Biennial meeting of the European Early American Studies Association « The Making and Unmaking of Identities and Connections in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 » on December 14-16, 2018 in London, UK. A 200-word proposal in English and a single-page CV to send to eeasa2018@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By April 23, 2018: International conference « Family Portraits: Representing the Contemporary North-American Family » on September 27-28, 2018 at the Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne (CELEC). Proposals of around 300 words, in English or French, and a short bio to send to Sophie Chapuis and Marie Moreau. Click here for more details.
-By April 30, 2018: Symposium « Tourism, cinema and TV series » on October 12, 2018 at the Université de Lille 3, UFR LEA. Please send an abstract (about 400 words) in English or French, 3 key-words and a short bio to Nathalie Dupont and Raphael Eppreh-Butet. Click here for more details.
March
By March 1, 2018: Workshop « Transatlantic Conversations: New and Emerging Approaches to Early American Studies » on October 4-6, 2018 at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Proposals of 400-500 words, in English, and a 2-page CV to send to Prof. Oliver Scheiding . Click here for more details.
By March 2, 2018: PhD seminar in American History/American Studies on May 2-4, 2018 at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, the Netherlands. A 300-word abstract and a CV to send to Dr. Cees Heere. Click here for more details.
By March 15, 2018: One-day workshop « Brand placement in film and TV series » on June 15, 2018 at the Université Paris 8. Abstracts of 250-300 words, in English or French, to send to seb.lefait@gmail.com and sandrinevillers@hotmail.com. Click here for more details.
By March 31, 2018: Comic and graphic novel workshop CORPUS / CLIMAS (Université de Picardie Jules Verne / Université Bordeaux Montaigne) « The edifice is in the panel – monumental architecture in comics » on June 4, 2018 in Amiens, Logis du Roi. A 300-word abstract, in English or French, to send to Nicolas Labarre and Amélie Junqua. Click here for more details.
By March 31, 2018: Conference « Transnationalism and Imperialism: New Perspectives on the Western » on November 15-16, 2018 at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, site Saint Charles. 350-word proposals in English, including short bio and bibliography, to send to Marianne Kac-Vergne, Hervé Mayer and David Roche. Click here for more details.
February
-By February 1, 2018: Symposium « Poets That Came: Walt Whitman’s Creative Reception from Paper to Web » on June 1-2, 2018 during The Eleventh Annual International Whitman Week Seminar at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. One-page abstracts to send to Stephanie M. Blalock, Wendy Katz, Kenneth M. Price and Julia Sattler. Click here for more details.
-By February 1, 2018: Annual graduate student symposium « Ethics and social engagement of researchers: questioning research practices in the social sciences and humanities » on June 8, 2018 at the MSHS Sud Est in Nice, France. 250-word abstracts to send to jddurmis2018@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By February 12, 2018: One-day conference « Network TV Series in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s » on May 7, 2018 at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. Proposals for a 30-minute paper and a short bio to send to Claire Cornillon and Dennis Tredy. Click here for more details.
-By February 15, 2018: Research forum « Cartographies and Topologies of Identity » on March 1, 2018 at the Université des Antilles-Schoelcher, Martinique. Proposals including the title of the presentation, an abstract, and a bio-bibliographic note to send to Frédéric Lefrançois. Click here for more details.
-By February 16, 2018: International conference « Writing her/self in Text and Image in Anglophone Women’s Life Writing » on September 28-29, 2018 at the Paris Nanterre University. Proposals (250-300 words) and short bios to send to Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Valérie Baisnée, Claire Bazin, Corinne Bigot, Stephanie Genty and Nathalie Saudo-Welby. Click here for more details.
-By February 28, 2018: 3rd international conference on Science and Literature on July 2-4, 2018 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6 (UPMC). Proposals including the title, the name and affiliation of the author(s), an abstract of 350 words max and a CV of five lines max to send to gvlahakis@yahoo.com and konstantinos.tampakis@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
January
-By January 5, 2018: Conference « Apocalyptic Forms of Power, Apocalyptic Programs » on March 12-14, 2018 at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. Abstracts to send to monica.michlin@outlook.fr and https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apoc2018. Click here for more details.
-By January 6, 2018: Summer Institute « Psychoanalysis and the Media » on June 25-28, 2018 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 University, France. A letter of motivation (max 800 words) and a resume to send to Professor Alessia Ricciardi .
-By January 7, 2018: International Interdisciplinary Conference « The Fleeting Nature of Short Forms » on April 18-20, 2018 at the Maison de la Recherche Germaine Tillion, University of Angers, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Angers, France. A proposal (350-500 words) and a CV (3/4 – 1 page) to send to Karima Thomas et Cécile Meynard. Languages : English, French. Click here for more details.
-By January 10, 2018: 39th International GERAS Conference « Diachronic dimensions in specialised varieties of English: implications in communications, didactics and translation studies » on March 15-17, 2018 at the University of Mons, Belgium. A 300-word proposal (in English or French) to send to Christine Michaux and m.memet@orange.fr. Click here for more details.
-By January 10, 2018: Workshop « Culture(s) et écriture(s)
mineures » / « Minor Culture(s) and Writing(s) » on June 7-9, 2018 at the Paris Nanterre University, France. A 200-word proposal (in English or in French) and a 150-word bio to send to Anne Garrait-Bourrier and Christine Dualé. Click here for more details.
-By January 21, 2018: American Studies Leipzig Grad Conference « American Cultures of Dissent » on April 28-29, 2018 in Leipzig, Germany. A 300-word proposal (for a 20-minute presentation) to send to asl-gradconference@uni-leipzig.de. Click here for more details.
-By January 28, 2018: Rising Up: A Graduate Students Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Research on March 9-10, 2018 at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. A 250-word proposal to send via http://www.risingup.online. Click here for more details.
-By January 29, 2018: Apply for Terra Foundation for American Art Academic Awards, Fellowships and Grants. Click here for more details.
-By January 30, 2018: International conference « From Tokens of Love to Archived Relics: Private Life and Material Culture in Indian Ocean Societies » on November 21-22, 2018 at the University of Reunion Island, France. A 400-word proposal and a short bio to send to Françoise Sylvos and Florence Pellegry. Click here for more details.
-By January 31, 2018: Conference « Frederick Douglass across and against Times, Places, and Disciplines » on October 11-13, 2018 in Paris, France. A 500-word proposal (in English or French) to send to DouglassParis2018@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By January 31, 2018: The 2nd annual conference of the European Initiative on Security Studies (EISS) on June 21-22, 2018 at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France. Click here for more details.
-By January 31, 2018: 7th International Conference of the European Society for Periodical Research « PERIODICALS IN-BETWEEN. Periodicals in the Ecology of Print and Visual Cultures » on June 27-29, 2018 in Paris. A 250-word proposal (in English or French) and a short CV to send to 2018ESPRit@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
2017
December
-By December 1, 2017: International conference « Giving voice to the voiceless?Actors, strategies and discourse » on June 21-22, 2018 in Paris-Est Créteil, France. Proposals to send to colloquesansvoix@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By December 10, 2017: One-day symposium « Dissonance, eclecticism and the blurring of genres in the modern and contemporary culture of the English-speaking world » on April 13, 2018 at the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne, France. Proposals to send to sylvie.mikowski@univ-reims.fr and yann.philippe@univ-reims.fr. Click here for more details.
-By December 14, 2017: Conference « Law and Humanities: Representing Crime » on June 22-24, 2018 at the University Paris II, Melun, France. A 500-word proposal and a short bio to send to representingcrimeconference@orange.fr. Click here for more details.
-By December 15, 2017: Conference « Ecotones 3. Indian Ocean: Ecotones, Contact Zones, and Third Spaces » on June 14-15, 2018 at the University of Reunion Island, France. A 250-word proposal and a 150-word bio to upload to the website : https://ecotones.submittable.com/submit/94373/ecotones-3-indian-ocean.
-By December 15, 2017: International conference « Taking place » on October 4-6, 2018 at the Paris-Sorbonne University, France. A 400-word proposal and a short bio-bibliography to send to : takingplaceconference@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By December 15, 2017: CinEcoSA Conference « Mapping out the Audiovisual Translation Industry » on April 6, 2018 at the University of Nantes, France. A 300-word proposal (in English or French) and a short biography to send to : Nolwenn Mingant, Cecilia Tirtaine and Joël Augros.Click here for more details.
-By December 23, 2017: International conference « Abortion in the British Isles, France and North America since 1800 » on November 6-8, 2018 at the Paris-Sorbonne University, France. A 500-word proposal and a short CV to send to : Claire Charlot, Adrien Lherm et Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq. Click here for more details.
-By December 29, 2017: Terra Foundation Research Workshop « Framing Environmental Dimensions in American Art » on April 5, 2018 at the Terra Foundation for American Art Paris Center, France. An abstract of up to 250 words and a CV to send to : moreteau@terraamericanart.eu. Click here for more details.
-By December 31, 2017: American Literature Association 29th Annual Conference on May 24-27, 2018 in San Francisco, CA, États-Unis. Abstracts of 250 words to send to : Keith Mitchell, Amee Carmines, or Anne-Laure Tissut. Click here for more details.
November
-By November 1, 2017: One-day conferences « Frantz Fanon’s Legacy in the Literature and the Arts of the Americas » on December 15, 2017 in Tours, France, and on April 6, 2018 in Dijon, France. A 250-word abstract and a short bio-bibliographical notice to send to Sophie Large and Flora Valadié. Click here for more details.
-By November 1, 2017: IFUSS Research Residencies and Symposium « THE ‘OTHER’ BORDER: Canada and the United States » in February-April, 2018 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Proposals to send to Dr. David Schrag. Click here for more details.
-By November 5, 2017: Workshop « Citizenship and Liberty in the Anglophone World in the 17th-early 19th century » on May 4, 2018 at the Clermont Auvergne University, France. A 300-word proposal and a short bio to send to Anne-Claire Faucquez and Linda Garbaye. Click here for more details.
-By November 15, 2017: Third International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies (SEM) « Modern Objects » on June 13-16, 2018 at the Paris-Sorbonne University, France. A 300-word proposal and a short bio to send to Hélène Aji, Noëlle CunyNoëlle Cuny and Xavier Kalck. Click here for more details.
-By November 20, 2017: Conference « A Holiday from War? ‘Resting’ behind the lines during the First World War » on June 22-23, 2018 at the Maison de la Recherche of the University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France. A 250-word proposal and a short bio to send to Sarah Montin and Clementine Tholas. Click here for more details.
-By November 30, 2017: International conference « The Cartographic Imagination: Art, Literature and Mapping in the United States, 1945-1980 » on May 18-19, 2018 at the Reid Hall, Paris, France. A 300-word proposal and a short bio to send to cartographicimagination@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By November 30, 2017: International conference « Translating and adapting canonical works in contemporary Anglophone theatre » on June 22-23, 2018 at the Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis University and the Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, France. 30-minute proposals (+ 10 minutes for questions) in English or French to send to Marie Nadia Karsky, Isabelle Génin and Bruno Poncharal. Click here for more details.
October
-By October 1, 2017: International symposium « On the Inhabitability of Cartographic Worlds » on December 11-13, 2017 at the University of Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France, and in Archives nationales, Pierrefitte, France. A 500-word abstract (in English or French) and a short bio-bibliographical notice to submit using the following link : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mapping2017. Click here for more details.
-By October 15, 2017: International symposium « War Memories: Celebrations, Reconstructions, Representations, War narratives in the English-speaking world (18th to the 21st century) » on June 12-14, 2018 at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario. A 250-word abstract and a 200-word bio to submit directly on the website. Click here for more details.
-By October 21, 2017: Workshop « Representations of Sub-Saharan Africa » on February 16, 2018 at the University Paris 8, France. A 250-300-word abstract (in English or French) to send to representationsofafrica@gmail.com. Click here for more details.
-By October 27, 2017: Panel « ’Where’s Nora?’ Reclaiming the Irish Girl’s Presence in New England literature » during the Transatlantic Women 3: Women of the Green Atlantic Conference on June 21-22, 2018 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland. A 300-word abstract and a short bio to send to Cécile Roudeau and Stephanie Palmer. Click here for more details.
-By October 7, 2019: Conference Mobilizing Voters in the United States and the United Kingdom: political strategies from parties and grassroots organizations (1867 – 2017), at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France. Please send a 300-word proposal in English along with a short bibliography to Gregory Benedetti and Véronique Molinari. Click here for more details.
September
-By September 15, 2017: Conference « A Tale of Two Constitutions » on September 18, 2017 at the Palace of Versailes, France. Apply here.
-By September 15, 2017: International conference « Representing nature in the Age of Anthropocene » on March 22-23, 2018 in Lyon, France. A 300-400-word abstract and a short bio to send to JeanDaniel Collomb and Pierre-Antoine Pellerin. Click here for more details.
-By September 17, 2017: Panel « Conflictual and Toxic Environment in American Intellectual Life and Education since 1990 » within the conference « Environment, Place and Protest » on April 4-7, 2018 in London, the United Kingdom. A 250-word abstract and a short bio to send to Aristi Trendel. Click here for more details.
-By September 21, 2017: Seminar « Composing With Failure » on March 29-April 1, 2018 at the University of California, Los Angeles, the USA. Click here for more details.
-By September 25, 2017: Panel « Illness and the environment in American Literature and Cinema » within the conference « Environment, Place and Protest » on April 4-7, 2018 in London, the United Kingdom. A 250-word abstract and a short bio to send to Pascale Antolin. Click here for more details.
-By September 29, 2017: Interdisciplinary conference « War and Trauma in Past and Present » on March 9-11, 2018 at the University of Bamberg, Germany. A 300-word proposal and a short CV to send to warconference.bagralcm@uni-bamberg.de. Click here for more details.
July
-By July 15, 2017: 10th Festival of Geopolitics « How great is America? » in March 14-17, 2018 at the Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. Apply here.
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