Annual Queen’s Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference March 23rd to March 24th, 2018 Queen’s University, Kingston, ON Call for Paper  “I think our culture doesn’t recognize passion because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.”  – bell hooks, Outlaw Culture ...

Literature from the long nineteenth century abounds in acts of fraud and forgery, whose far-reaching implications captured the popular imagination during this period of rapid economic development and offered a means of engaging with the unstable realities of a burgeoning ...

What makes a joke right or wrong? When is it good or bad to laugh? The rights and wrongs of a joke can be expressed in political terms: a joke is politically incorrect or it exploits a marginalized group of ...

2018 Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada April 26-28, 2018 Call for papers We invite abstracts for 20-minute conference presentations on any aspect of British literature from the 18th-century and earlier, for the 2018 NPCEBL ...

AIM AND SCOPE Faithful to its well-established tradition, WOCAL furthers its research concerns with the status of African languages in the modern world. The particular focus of WOCAL9 centers on the nature and manifestations of the impact of globalization on ...

SPIRITUAL VEGETATION: Vegetal Nature in Religious Contexts Across Medieval and Early Modern Europe Plants have been seen as aesthetic objects and as visual codes shaping communication processes, yet plants can also be understood as dynamic subjects or agents of crossover, ...

Friendship Ambassadors Foundation is seeking proposals for workshop sessions at the 2018 Winter Youth Assembly at the United Nations. Our workshop and training sessions aim to equip young people with the necessary tools, knowledge, and skills to become an effective ...

We are looking forward to submissions for issue 2, vol. 9 (2018). Submissions should cover topics of applied linguistics and and related theoretical issues, such as current topics in cognitive linguistics, usage-based linguistics, and interactional approaches. The journal Studies in ...

Call for papers The laboratory of Values, Society and Development (LVSD) (research groups: Language and Culture; Language Contact and Language Policy) organizes its First International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education on May, 9-10, 2018, at the Center of Letters ...

The Women’s Network of Northeast Ohio is now accepting submissions for the 2018 Women’s Leadership Summit, to be held November 9 2018 in Akron, OH. Women’s Network (WN) is a grassroots organization that aims to bring women to the forefront ...

Call for Papers Unveiling Hidden Discourses: 1968 Fifty Years Later An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Warwick through the Humanities Research Centre Keynote speakers: Professor Anne Etienne (UCC) and Professor Maud Anne Bracke (University of Glasgow) Saturday, 19th May 2018 ...

The theme for the 5th World Humanities Forum is “The Human Image in a Changing World.” The very purpose of humanities research is to study humans, but the image of humans however, has gone through on-going changes not only throughout ...