43rd Meeting of APEAA

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa

1-3 june 2023

Culture(s) of the Self

‘The time in which there was such a thing as the Other is over’, announced recently Byung-Chul Han (2016). The philosopher argues that the age-old ‘negativity of the Other’ is now receding in favor of the positivity and proliferation of the Same. Indeed, the disputes resulting in what has come to be known as cancel culture seem to suggest a fear of dissension, an inclination to reduce experience to watchwords, and a reluctance to engage with otherness [in thought, feeling, or experience] in a meaningful and critical way.

It seems uncontroversial that the self is arguably one of the greatest, if not the most formidable, preoccupation of the 21^st century. While the reflection on, and around, ‘identity’ and ‘the self’ is, of course, not new – Augustine’s Confessions (AD 397-400) comes to mind –, one might argue that it was the intellectual and technological events of the last two centuries that brought about what might be described as the vertigo of the self. In different but conflating ways, currents of thought, scientific experiments and practices, political theories, everyday conventions and perceptions have coincided in placing the self at the forefront of debates: Romanticism, psychoanalysis, theory of relativity, (neo)liberalism, the rise of popular culture, the ever growing suspicion towards intellectuals and hierarchies, the breaking down of the distinctions between the public and private spheres, as well as the upsurge of the age of pundits, of my-opinion-is-better-than-your-fact, and the contemporary ‘confessional society’ (Bauman 2011, 84), etc. all seem to have led, and to point, to a centrality of the self in present-day debates and struggles.

Despite the fact that intellectual (and political) movements such as post-structuralism and post-colonialism have been pivotal in questioning the integrity of the self, drawing attention to its heterogeneity, incompleteness, and instability (Hall 1987, Rushdie 1997 and 2013, among others), the idea of the ‘true’ self endures as a lingering, and productive, construct, in the arts, religions, in the socioeconomic and political arena, as one that needs to be discussed.

Because ‘[i]n constructing an identity, one draws, among other things, on the kinds of person available in one’s society’ (Appiah 2005, 21), this conference will be a locus to question the ways in which selves are socially and aesthetically constructed and/or deployed, and to discuss the situatedness of the debates around the self and identity, in the understanding that, as Salman Rushdie famously put it, ‘human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all senses of that phrase. Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old films, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to the death’ (Rushdie 2010 [¹1991], 12).

Topics

Topics welcomed include, but are not limited to:

the invention of the ‘I’ in literature: life writing, autoethnograghy, autobiography, memoirs, journals, autofiction, etc.;
the construction of the self in language, literature, tv, and the arts;
the self in visual culture: from self-portraiture to the selfie;
‘I post, therefore I exist’ – the cultural life of the self(-exposure) in social media;
the self and its avatars in the production of knowledge [science, gaming, entertainment, etc.];
(neo)liberalism and self-reliance as a cultural topos;
post-structuralism and the instability of the self;
the politics of the ‘I’, the ‘I’ in politics;
ecologies of the self;
performing the self: social rituals and restrictions;
fluid selves and emerging identities;
mobility, globalization, and self-translation;
selves in conflict: aggression, violence, and trauma;
rethinking the ethics of the self;
self and environment;
the cult of the self: self-centeredness, narcissism, egocentrism;
self-care and well-being;
self-determination, cultural rights, and cancel culture;
self-reflexivity in critical thought: challenges and aporias.

Papers and panel proposals in the following fields of knowledge are welcome: Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Food Studies, Migration Studies, Performance, Film and Theatre Studies, Gender Studies, Translation Studies, Subaltern Studies, Globalization Studies, Film Studies, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Teaching and Methodology, etc.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Eva C. Karpinski (York University | Toronto)

Luísa Leal de Faria (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

and

Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Praticalities

The working languages of the conference are English and Portuguese. Speakers should prepare for a 20-minute presentation followed by Q&A. Please send a 250-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note (100 words) to cecc.fch@ucp.pt by March 15, 2023.

Proposals should list the paper title, name, institutional affiliation, and contact details. Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection will take place by March 31, 2023.

After having been accepted, participants will be asked to register at the conference and provide some personal details to that purpose, on the CECC website: https://fch.lisboa.ucp.pt/cecc .

Fees:

Early bird

APEAA members (by April 30): €80

Other Participants – €120

Students (ID required) — €30

After April 30 but no later than May 15:

APEAA members – €120

Participants –€180

Students (ID required) – €50

The registration fee includes coffee breaks, plus lunches on Thursday and Friday, as well as conference documentation.

Scientific Committee

Mário Avelar (University of Lisbon)

João Brogueira (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Maria José Canelo (University of Coimbra)

Rui Carvalho Homem (University of Oporto)

Maria Zulmira Castanheira (Nova University of Lisbon)

Jane Duarte (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Rita Faria (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Adriana Martins (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Ana Matoso (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Paulo de Medeiros (University of Warwick)

Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon)

Margarida Pereira (University of Minho)

Manuel Portela (University of Coimbra)

Rogério Miguel Puga (Nova University of Lisbon)

Organizing Committee

Rita Faria

Diana Gonçalves

Alexandra Lopes

Adriana Martins

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International Conference on Anglo-Portuguese Studies III: a tribute to Professor Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa, OBE (1932-2021)

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Campus de Campolide

Lisbon, Portugal, 24-26 November 2022

CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) is pleased to announce its 3rd International Conference on Anglo-Portuguese Studies, a 3-day conference on topics related to Anglo-Portuguese historical, literary and cultural relations. We also welcome papers on Luso-American exchanges, Anglo-Iberian relations and papers that make comparisons and connections between Portuguese-speaking and Anglophone countries.

Keynote speakers:

Lara Bule (Independent Scholar)

Other keynote speakers to be announced

We look forward to receiving proposals for 20-minute papers, either in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Participants may also want to propose their own thematic panels, to include papers delivered by 3 or 4 participants.

Submissions should be sent by email to: angloportugueseconference@gmail.com

Proposals for papers and pre-organized panels (in this case, please also include a brief description of the panel) should include full title of the paper, a 250-300

word description of the paper, name, institutional affiliation and position, contact details, a short bionote and AV requirements (if any).

Important dates:

Deadline for submission of proposals: 15 October 2022

Notification of acceptance: 20 October 2022

Deadline for registration: 30 October 2022 (after this date proposals will no longer be considered).

Registration fee: 80 € (regular registration)

Student fee: 40 € (ID required)

Further information will be posted online in September 2022.

All speakers are responsible for their own travel arrangements and accommodation. Relevant information about hotels will be provided later on the conference website.

Event website: https://angloportuguese.wordpress.com/

Organized by the Anglo-Portuguese Studies research area.

Executive Committee:

Maria Zulmira Castanheira

Rogério Miguel Puga

Gabriela Gândara Terenas

Miguel Alarcão

João Paulo Pereira da Silva

Isabel Oliveira

Maria da Conceição Castel-Branco

Marco Neves

Administrative support:

Cristina Carinhas: cetaps@fcsh.unl.pt

Mariana Gonçalves: cetapsgestao@fcsh.unl.pt

For further queries please contact:

cetaps@fcsh.unl.pt

angloportugueseconference@gmail.com

mzc@fcsh.unl.pt

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International Conference

Visual Storytelling: From the Mural to the Digital

University of Aveiro (Portugal), 30 June – 1 July 2022

https://www.iscap.pt/cei/VS/index.html

Organized by the Centre for Languages, Literatures and Cultures (CLLC), University of Aveiro, and the Centre for Intercultural Studies, Porto Accounting and Business School, Porto Polytechnic (CEI-ISCAP, P.PORTO

We now live in a predominantly visual culture. Whether it be computer operating systems, with their visual equivalents for what for most of us are largely incomprehensible processing or algorithmic functions, or the wordless assembly procedures for an IKEA flatpack, we tend to take in the world and process it through images. This is not to deny the longevity and remarkable inheritance of oral traditions – only to say that the cave paintings and ancient runes have been there from the start too. Indeed, what does it mean to talk of “imagery” in writing except to suggest that the function of these verbal usages is to invite pictures in the head, pictures that may have a greater vitality than the words themselves. Conversely, when it comes to images, Eco claims, we are in the presence of macroscopic blocks of texts, whose verbal equivalent is not a simple word but a description, an entire speech, or even a whole book.

Within this framework, visual culture is recurrently used as an epithet to describe our contemporary condition, deeply immersed in the world of images. Contemporary urban landscapes have become communicational ecosystems of visual languages made up of graffiti, street-art, advertising, signs, and propaganda. The central role of audiovisual technologies and media are one possible explanation for this state of affairs, along with the growing aestheticization of everyday life via social media, and a frustration with established avenues to expression and presence. Images and visual communication are the ideal means to construct narratives and confer symbolic meanings to the world, something well-understood by power brokers everywhere, from religions to authoritarian regimes, from people who want to sell things to us to people who want to tell things to us.

The art of written storytelling from early literatures to the present day has been well covered in studies from the field of narratology. What this conference proposes is to participate in the current global conversation on storytelling through image from the modern period to the present and on into the future.

Digital cultures are carrying us forward at a dizzying pace, and some of the anchorage provided by the written and spoken word may be loosening rapidly. Nicholas Mirzoeff speaks of a visualization of existence, already claiming before the end of the 20^th Century that “modern life takes place onscreen […] seeing is not just a part of everyday life, it is everyday life” (An Introduction to Visual Culture. Routledge, 1999).

But visual storytelling is not the invention of the present, nor of Europe. From the vivid graffiti found in Pompeii to the scroll narratives in Rajasthan known as Phad paintings, visual figurations of popular culture have always conferred symbolic meanings on the experiences and values shared by communities. The history of the graphic novel acknowledges forebears such as Hogarth’s series of narrative paintings in the 18thC. One might go on to reference the slideshow and silent cinema, both of which are (or are approaching) over 100 years old. Victorian genre painting could also be cited, in which artists would attempt to encapsulate by detail and suggestion a dense narrative in a single canvas. Masque, ballet and mime could also be mentioned as forms of expression which use body and movement to convey a story in 3D space. But, it may be argued, it is in the 20^th century that the image came into its own. Cheaper and more ubiquitous forms of photography, followed by the possibility of making home movies, and now of making them available for everyone to see, have followed upon greater technical sophistication in mechanical reproduction of the image, as Walter Benjamin noted so paradigmatically, changing the quantity of images we process and the nature of our reaction to them. If you add to this the penetration of the home by television since 1945 and the subsequent penetration of hearth and hand by the personal computer and the smartphone, we have a society which might feel (erroneously of course) that “it has seen it all”, or at least that it has all been made available to be seen if only we had enough life.

In the contemporary iteration of storytelling exemplified by video games the conceptualisation of narrative flared up into a wholesale revisiting of our relationship to stories, particularly when structured by the rules and challenges inherent in game progression. Even if the combat sequence of this controversy has given way to more of a puzzle-solving sequence, the issue of the significance of narrative remains distributed throughout video game studies like a health bar in constant need of attention.

The presumption behind the cryptic set of illustrations for descaling your coffee machine are that anyone anywhere can decode contemporary sign systems. The utopian elimination of writing may be further evidenced in the global sharing of popular culture references which are overwhelmingly visual. Even The Lord of the Rings is now more Peter Jackson’s construction of Tolkien the philologist’s text for most people; and arguably so now is any written text once it is transformed into a movie. Lolita is as much Sue Lyons’s sunglasses as it is Nabokov’s prose.

At the same time, local cultural variations and rerouting of these shared visualities both draw on and resist the presence of largely Western imageries and imaginaries. From Brazilian Hugo Canuto’s launching off Jack Kirby’s Avengers illustrations to animate the syncretic curating of West African mythologies in his Contos dos Orixás graphic novels, to the use of Indian pictographic traditions to tell the story of the abduction of Sita in Samhita Arni and Moyna Chitrakar’s Sita’s Ramayana, to the large number of children’s books which tell the stories of indigenous peoples with recourse to their traditions of line and colour palette, the availability of distinctive variants is larger than we might think in any medium we care to consider.

When we speak of visual culture and visual storytelling, we are referring to a system made up from a combination of universes and sub-universes, with their agents, objects and specific processes of production, dissemination, and reception. It is not a static system, but one whose constant renewal results from the rate at which its agents and technological processes change. It is also a worldview, a particular way of perceiving and portraying reality, that is not only connected to forms of seeing, but also to modes of representation which appeal to different languages, cognitive levels and sensory models. We may even admit the existence of diverse visual micro–cultures that correspond not so much to different social groups as to different moments of social life, aesthetic and ideological proposals, interests and intentions, which present alternative, though not necessarily antagonistic, ways of seeing and representing the world.

It is therefore proposed to hold an international conference on Visual Storytelling to continue the conversation on how the forms and techniques of artistic, technical and commercial production are evolving from primordial instances to modern articulations of visual narrative expression. Visually narrated stories are embedded in networks of political, economic, ideological and social circumstances, far too often hardly detectable, even by those who draw, paint, photograph or write (and live) under their influence. They have also been reinvented as profitable cultural symbols of territories dominated by tourism and globalization, very distant from their origins. Whatever we look at involves affect, according to James Elkins. How this affect is evoked, gestured to or animated must be of interest to analysis if we are not to be carried along by the multiple narrative forms proposed to us, invited by us and forced onto us.

Papers are accordingly invited on specific aspects of the following topics, in rough chronological order:

Stage and live performance narratives
Visual storytelling in traditional arts and crafts
Storytelling in the plastic arts
Narrating the landscape: from recording travel to the age of Instagram
Museums, physical and virtual
Photographic narrative forms
Cinema – from the silent days to modern digital and CGI forms
Graphic Novels
Comic Books and comic strips

Cartoons
Children’s books
Television – entertainment, news media and the use of the image
Music videos – narrating the song
Storytelling in advertising and marketing
The campaign video
Visual Narratives on/of the city: graffiti and street art
Video Game narratives
YouTube and online filmmaking
Graphic fan fiction
The business of visual storytelling

We welcome submissions in English, by the 31st March 2022, to be sent to Professors David Callahan (callahan@ua.pt) and Clara Sarmento (clarasarmento@gmail.com) with the following information:

Title;
•Author(s), institutional affiliation, contact email(s);
•Conference topic (see list above);
•Abstract (200 words);
•Bionote (100 words).

Registration fees:

100 euros – employed academics

50 euros – graduate students

Registration is free for members of CLLC, U.Aveiro and CEI, ISCAP-P.PORTO

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Hanna Musiol, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

Miguel Sicart, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Call for Papers: 42^nd Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies

31 March – 2 April, 2022 – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15 January 2022

https://apeaa2022.wordpress.com

ENVIRONMENTS: ECOLOGIES AND (IN)HOSPITALITIES

At a time when we have been invited to withdraw, escape or find solace in virtual atmospheres, notions of environment are in pressing need of re-examination or re-materialization. The recent pandemic context reinforced generalised anxieties about the multiple factors that act upon us as organisms and organic communities and have forced us to consider the challenges but also the possibilities of placing ourselves in direct contact with the natural, technical and political other.

Coined by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, the term oekologie signals the relation between the animal worlds and their organic and inorganic environments. Debates as specific as those about ecological solidarity vs environmental corporatism, or as wide as those about the evolution of our social, technical or financial ecosystems can be illustrative of the multiple cultural, linguistic or cognitive issues that need to be further re-examined from an ecological perspective, not least within the environment of our academic ecologies. Ecological approaches also result in questioning the central role of human language activity and the need to rethink language itself at the crossroads of a myriad of other semiotic possibilities, physical space, material objects and embodied resources. It may be useful to return to the Derridean discussions about hospitality and inhospitality resurrected by the so-called Refugee Crisis and exacerbated by other contexts.

Many disciplines have joined forces under the banner of the Environmental Humanities (EH). In the wake of the crisis of the Humanities, this broad interdisciplinary field emerged largely as a response to the awareness of the limits of planetary resources as a consequence of long periods of violent and unequal exploitation of ‘nature’. The deep and complex changes produced by humans on the environment define the current era, the Anthropocene, as proposed by Crutzen and Stoemer. Seeking inspiration in the notion of ecology, EH championed an ecological perspective to address anew not only the relation between culture and nature, but other established dyads, such as matter / emotion, body / land, agency / inaction, materiality / humanity, animal / human, or physis / nomos.

We hope the 2022 APEAA meeting will allow us to promote a hospitable and interdisciplinary forum to discuss these and other related matters. We invite creative and critical insights that press the field ahead and evince the contribution – and the difference – the Humanities (in particular Anglo-American Studies) can make to the debates at stake, in and beyond academia. Pieces of research unrelated to the EH will be considered as long as they focus on Anglo-American Studies.

The organisers will welcome proposals for 20-minute papersin English responding to the above. The sessions format includes single papers and 4 paper panels; we also accept proposals for post-graduate panels.

THE LIBERAL REVOLUTIONS OF 1820 AND THEIR IMPACT ON LITERARY CULTURE

UNIVERSITY OF MINHO, BRAGA, PORTUGAL, 14-15 July 2022

Organised by the Institute of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Humanistic Studies (NETCult), in association with the Anglo-Hispanic Horizons Network (AHH)

Presentation

In the context of this political liberalism and its literary culture, the prevalence of the British constitutional tradition and its republican adaptation by the American Revolution have been singled out as the main motives for the democratic revolutions that took place in the Atlantic world. Nevertheless, the Iberian traditions of freedom – as well as the literature that sustains them – are usually forgotten in this context. Most notably, the Portuguese Revolution of 1820 is strangely absent from many existing historical and literary accounts. However, if we can say that the position of Portugal in this Atlantic context at the beginning of the nineteenth century was central, we can also say that this context is the main explanatory key to understand the motives of the Portuguese Revolution of 1820. From historical and literary perspectives alike, this can be seen as a process of independence, as the abolition of the Old Regime, as the constitution of freedom, and as the foundation of a Portuguese liberal constitutional tradition. But, also, as a response to the extraordinary international challenges that were imposed on Portugal’s independence – by countries such as France, Great Britain, Spain and Brazil. In short, the Portuguese Revolution of 1820, whose main objective was the founding of a new liberal Portugal, combined both liberalism and nationalism, in the manner of the Atlantic Revolutions; and, more relevantly, with that collective manner and purpose attracted and promoted many individual creators.

Paper proposals (for 20 minute-presentations) around this more general theme and/or the following particular aspects are welcome:

. Representations of the liberal revolutions in the literary culture of the period and of later periods

. The role of periodicals and of illustration in the (creative) representation of the liberal revolts

. The links between liberalism and the romantic movements in the European and non-European context

. Issues of political liberty and freedom of literary creation inaugurated by the liberal revolutions

. The literary places of European and non-European liberalism: genesis, memory, recreation

. The emergence of the national literatures and nationalist and independence issues in the period

. Legends and myths associated with the romantic liberal revolt, including the figure of the hero (revolutionaries and martyrs)

. The perspective of the Other – the liberal revolts seen from the literary culture of other countries

. Literary images of refugees and exiles in the context of the liberal revolutions and/or writers in exile

. Literary representations of secret societies in the context of the liberal struggles (the example of Carbonaria)

. Liberalism and literary genre: The importance of the historical novel in the representation of the liberal conflicts; the role of lyric and drama in the period

. The diffusion or expansion of literary culture in the context of the liberal revolutions; reception and translation issues

WEBSITE: http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/revolutions

Organisation: Institute of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Humanistic Studies (NETCult), in association with the Anglo-Hispanic Horizons Network (AHH)

http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/

http://ahh.english.ucla.edu/

Confirmed Guest Speakers:

Prof. Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton, UK. (President of the British Association for Romantic Studies 2015-2019 and President of AHH)

Prof. Diego Saglia (University of Parma, Italy, senior member of AHH)

Prof. Fernando Machado (University of Minho, Portugal)

INFORMATION:

Submission – abstracts (between 200 and 300 words), with titles, keywords (5) and bionotes (100 words) should be sent to the following e-mail address: litcehum@ilch.uminho.pt.

The languagesof communication are the following: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Italian

The paper proposals will be analysed and selected by the scientific committee. At the end of the conference, the organising committee plans to make a peer-reviewed selection of the texts presented for publication: in electronic format and in book form (the latter on request).

IMPORTANT DATES:

New submission of proposals: until December 31, 2021

Notification of acceptance: until January 31, 2022

Conference registration (online): until March 31, 2022

Programme publication (online): until April 30, 2022

Registration (for attendants): until May 31, 2022

REGISTRATION FEES:

Until March 31, 2022 – 80 euros (External students – 40 euros)

After this date (and until May 31, 2022) – 120 euros (External students – 80 euros)

CEHUM members (and ILCH students) — (free registration)

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ASANOR Conference 2022

Appalling Ocean, Verdant Land: America and the Sea

29 September – 1 October

Bodø, Norway

Call for Papers

Proposal Deadline: 8 April 2022

The 2022 ASANOR conference will be held at Nord University from September 29 to October 1. We welcome papers from a wide range of fields, including literature, history, political science, linguistics, and cultural studies, that explore the role of the sea in the American experience.

From the Puritan pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock to the digital nomads stopping over in San Francisco, the multifarious interchange across the seas has, for better or worse, shaped the nation; whether through the unspeakable horrors of the Middle Passage or the grateful arrival of huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the ceaseless, multidirectional traffic of people, ideas, values, expressions, aesthetics, and wares has defined and ceaselessly redefined what we think of as American. This process is sometimes slow and gradual, sometimes precipitate and radical, but whether through generations of involvement with economic and cultural energies or a lightening extension to the imaginative landscape, the importance of the sea to the consolidation of the United States would be hard to overestimate.

For this conference, we are interested in the sea as both physical reality and cultural topos, and participants may equally track the networks of global trade or plumb the depths of human consciousness. Possible topics (with representative prompts) include but are not limited to:

Literature: In what ways has the ocean or the major continental waterways served as inspiration for American literature? What guiding metaphors govern the American literary engagement with the sea?

Economy: How has sea travel or global import/export affected the American economy historically and/or in the present?

Politics: In what ways are political alliances or agreements consolidated or destabilized by shared oceans? What cultural reasons motivate the differing voting patterns on the US seaboard and interior?

Religion: How has the sea figured in American religious experience? How have transatlantic/transmarine networks influenced religious networks and communities?

War/Military Engagement: To what extent has the ocean been an arena for conflict and/or how might it evolve as one? In what ways can both American isolationism and American imperialism be understood in the context of the sea?

Indigenous Knowledge & Practice: How do indigenous perspectives on the sea inform or challenge American attitudes? What role has the sea played in indigenous cultures and societies?

Language: How does the English language / American usage conceptualize the ocean or nautical voyage? How has seaborne cultural exchanges changed language?

Transnationalism: How has the idea of transnationalism been shaped by an historical engagement with the sea?

Representation: What texts, historical figures, archival materials, or resources could redefine or decenter received understandings of American experiences or understandings of the sea?

Culture: How has the sea been represented in other media (film, visual art, music, TV), and how have these representations made an impact on American culture?

Climate Change: What role has America played in the history, either long or immediate, of climate change? How is climate change altering the American relationship to the sea?

To apply, please send a 300-word abstract and a 100-word biography to asanor2022@nord.no by 8 April 2022.

Three stipends (3.000,- NOK each) are available for graduate students (M.A. and Ph.D.) travelling to the conference from outside of Norway. For consideration, eligible candidates may submit the application form alongside their presentation abstract.

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Heidelberg Center for American Studies 19th Annual Spring Academy Conference

Heidelberg, Germany, 21–25 March, 2022

/Call for Papers/

The eighteenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 21-25, 2022. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects.

The HCA Spring Academy invites participants to work closely with experts in their respective fields of study and offers workshops held by visiting scholars.

We encourage applications that pursue an interdisciplinary approach and range broadly across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Papers can be presented on any subject relating to the study of the United States of America. Possible topics include American identity, issues of ethnicity, gender, transatlantic relations, U.S. domestic and foreign policy, economics, as well as various aspects of American history, literature, religion, geography, law, musicology, and culture. Proposals should include a preliminary title and run to no more than 300 words.

Participants are requested to prepare a 20-minute presentation of their research project, which will be followed by a 40-minute discussion. The presentations will be arranged into ten panel groups.

In addition to cross-disciplinary and international discussions during the panel sessions, the Spring Academy aims at creating a pleasant collegial atmosphere for further scholarly exchange and contact.

Accommodation will be provided by the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.

Thanks to a small travel fund, the Spring Academy is able to subsidize travel expenses for participants registered and residing in soft-currency countries. Scholarship applicants will need to document the necessity for financial aid and explain how they plan to cover any potentially remaining expenses. In addition, a letter of recommendation from their doctoral advisor is required.

START OF APPLICATION PROCESS: September 30, 2021

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: November 15, 2021

SELECTIONS WILL BE MADE BY: January 2022

PLEASE USE OUR ONLINE APPLICATION SYSTEM:

www.hca-springacademy.de

MORE INFORMATION: www.hca.uniheidelberg.de

FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS: springacademy@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

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Wastelands

34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
UNED, Madrid 6-8 April 2022

The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States. Hence, the overarching theme ofthe conference is open to all kinds of reflections around the concept of “wasteland” and waste. EAAS 2022 invites proposals that address the concept of waste in U.S. culture,
history, and politics.Proposals may address (but are not restricted to) the following topics:

WASTELANDS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
• Environmental waste (water, land, e-waste, etc.).
• Anti-Waste: degrowth philosophy.
• “Zero waste” movement and consumerism.
• Food waste.
• Wastelands as devastation of spaces.
• Waste of resources (human, natural, economic, etc.).

THE ETHICS OF WASTE
• Moral waste: deterioration of democracies and other values. Empty discourses
(political, cultural, etc.).
• Wasted opportunities (land of opportunities, American dream).
• Waste as a “negative store”, as opposed to the archive; forgetting, destruction,
and latent cultural memory.
• Waste of information: useless and redundant data, technology, media, etc.

CORPOREAL WASTE
• Illnesses and pathologies.
• Age: The Growing Land.
• Emotional wastelands: real or metaphorical alexithymia.
• Pandemics and other physical threats.
LITERARY AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF WASTELANDS
• ‘Wasteland” as an image of decadence, crisis, and postwar.
• Barrenness vs. fertility, hopelessness vs. regeneration.
• T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and its literary / cultural influence.
• Literary representations of wastelands.
• (Audio)visual representations of wastelands.
• Ruins, trash, in painting, music, film, and other artistic representations.SUGGESTED FORMATS:
EAAS 2022 accepts abstracts and proposals including individual papers, complete panels, workshops or talkshops.
Paper proposals should be 300 words maximum. Individual papers should be 15 minute presentations.
Panel proposals should include a description of the panel as a whole and the abstracts of three individual papers. Full panels have 1 h. 30 minutes.
Workshops or Roundtables of 4-5 participants with shorter statements and discussion on a given research topic or common theme. Presentations for workshops will be uploaded one month in advance of the conference to encourage intellectual exchange.

Teaching talkshops: 3-4 participants discussing their various teaching experiences of a theme related to that of the conference. Workshop and Talkshop proposals should include a title and a brief description of the theme. Workshops and talkshops have 1 h. for questions or debate.

We strongly encourage and will give preference to panels that reflect the diversity of our field in terms of gender, ethnicity, and institutional affiliation. We encourage the participation of scholars from different institutions and countries.

Presentations are restricted to one paper per participant at the conference.

SUBMISSIONS:
Submissions are made through the webpage of the conference: https://eaas2022.com/
DEADLINE for submissions: October 10
Notification: October 31
Contact: conference@eaas2022.com

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

BICENTENARIES

THE LIBERAL REVOLUTIONS OF 1820 AND THEIR IMPACT ON LITERARY CULTURE

UNIVERSITY OF MINHO, BRAGA, PORTUGAL,

29-30 June 2020

Organised by the Institute of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Humanistic Studies (NETCult), in association with the Anglo-Hispanic Horizons Network (AHH)

Presentation

Taking advantage of the bicentenary celebrations of the liberal revolutions that occurred in southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece) around 1820, but with repercussions in other regions and cultures, this international conference aims to constitute a forum of discussion around the impact that these revolutions had on the literary culture of several countries. Driven by the republican ideals of the French and American Revolutions and by the various independence and nationalist movements, the liberal and constitutionalist wave that swept across several European nations (and their respective colonies) in the first decades of the nineteenth century aimed to completely eradicate the absolutism and feudalism that still prevailed within these monarchist nations, at the end of the Napoleonic invasions. Thus, we are interested in analysing the impact that these movements and striking events had on the literary culture of the nineteenth century, particularly in the works that were then produced in several countries; but we are also interested in exploring the decisive role that many writers (in several languages), some of whom in exile, had in these same movements and events. The ultimate goal of the conference will be to find, in this convergence of different cultures in transition, common literary currentsor traditions of a strongly liberal political nature. In the context of this political liberalism and its literary culture, the prevalence of the British constitutional tradition and its republican adaptation by the American Revolution have been singled out as the main motives for the democratic revolutions that took place in the Atlantic world. Nevertheless, the Iberian traditions of freedom – as well as the literature that sustains them – are usually forgotten in this context. Most notably, the Portuguese Revolution of 1820 is strangely absent from many existing historical and literary accounts. However, if we can say that the position of Portugal in this Atlantic context at the beginning of the nineteenth century was central, we can also say that this context is the main explanatory key to understand the motives of the Portuguese Revolution of 1820. From historical and literary perspectives alike, this can be seen as a process of independence, as the abolition of the Old Regime, as the constitution of freedom, and as the foundation of a Portuguese liberal constitutional tradition. But, also, as a response to the extraordinary international challenges that were imposed on Portugal’s independence –by countries such as France, Great Britain, Spain and Brazil. In short, the Portuguese Revolution of 1820, whose main objective was the founding of a new liberal Portugal, combined both liberalism and nationalism, in the manner of the Atlantic Revolutions; and, more relevantly, with that collective manner and purpose attracted and promoted many individual creators.

Paper proposals (for 20 minute-presentations) around this more general theme and/or the following particular aspects are welcome:

. Representations of the liberal revolutions in the literary culture of the period and of later periods

. The role of periodicals and of illustration in the (creative) representation of the liberal revolts

. The links between liberalism and the romantic movements in the European and non-European context

. Issues of political liberty and freedom of literary creation inaugurated by the liberal revolutions

. The literary places of European and non-European liberalism: genesis, memory, recreation

. The emergence of the national literatures and nationalist and independence issues in the period

. Legends and myths associated with the romanticliberal revolt, including the figure of the hero (revolutionaries and martyrs)

. The perspective of the Other -the liberal revolts seen from the literary culture of other countries

. Literary images of refugees and exiles in the context of the liberal revolutions and/or writers in exile

. Literary representations of secret societies in the context of the liberal struggles (the example of Carbonaria)

. Liberalism and literary genre: The importance of the historical novel in the representation of the liberal conflicts; the role of lyric and drama in the period

. The diffusion or expansion of literary culture in the context of the liberal revolutions; reception and translation issues.

WEBSITE: http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/revolutions

Organisation: Institute of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Humanistic Studies (NETCult), in association with the Anglo-Hispanic Horizons Network (AHH)

http://cehum.ilch.uminho.pt/

http://ahh.english.ucla.edu/

Confirmed Guest Speakers:

Prof. Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton, UK. President of British Association for Romantic Studies and President of AHH)

Prof. Diego Saglia(University of Parma, Italy, senior member of AHH)

Prof. Fernando Machado (University of Minho, Portugal)

Organising Committee:

Paula Alexandra Guimarães(Coordinator)

Orlando Grossegesse

Ian Haywood

Diego Saglia

Sérgio Sousa

Carlos Pazos

Hugo Machado

Ana Catarina Monteiro

Scientific Committee (alphabetical order):

Agustín Coletes Blanco (University of Oviedo, Spain)

Alicia Laspra Ródriguez (University of Oviedo, Spain)

André Corrêa de Sá (Univ. Santa Barbara, California, USA)

Angela Esterhammer (University of Toronto, Canada)

Carlos Pazos (University of Minho, Portugal)

Cristina Flores (University of La Rioja, Spain)

Eugenia Perojo Arronte (University of Valladolid, Spain)

Eunice Ribeiro (University of Minho, Portugal)

Fernando Duraán (University of Cadiz, Spain)

João Paulo Braga (Catholic University, Portugal)

Jonatan González (University of La Rioja, Spain)

Jorge Bastos (University of Porto, Portugal)

Manuel Gama (University of Minho, Portugal)

Maria de Fátima Marinho (University ofPorto, Portugal)

Orlando Grossegesse (University of Minho, Portugal)

Otília Martins (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

Paula Alexandra Guimarães (University of Minho, Portugal)

Paulo Motta (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Sérgio Sousa (University ofMinho, Portugal)

Xaquín Nuñez (University of Minho, Portugal)

INFORMATION:

Submission

abstracts(between 200 and 300 words), with titles, keywords (5) and bionotes (100 words) should be sent to the following e-mail address: litcehum@ilch.uminho.pt.

The languagesof communication are the following: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Italian

The paper proposals will be analysed and selected by the scientific committee. At the end of the conference, the organising committee plans to make a peer-reviewed selection of the texts presented for publication: in electronic format and in book form (the latter on request).

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission of proposals: until December 31, 2019

Notification of acceptance: until January 31, 2020

Conference registration (online): until March 31, 2020

Programme publication (online): until April 30, 2020

Registration (for attendants): until May 31, 2020

Conference: June 29 and 30, 2020

REGISTRATION FEES:

Until January 31, 2020 -80 euros

After this date (and until May 31, 2020) -120 euros

CEHUM members (and ILCH students) –(free registration)

METHOD OF PAYMENT:By bank transfer(to the UMinho account indicated in the website)

VENUE: AmphitheatreB1 (Pedagogical Complex 2) and Auditorium of the Institute of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Minho, Gualtar Campus, Braga, Portugal

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Revista Canarias de Estudios Ingleses (“9/11 and its war aftershocks in cultural American Studies: A 20-year insight.”)

Dear colleague:

I am commissioned to edit a number of our department’s journal, Revista Canarias de Estudios Ingleses. A tentative title for the monograph is “9/11 and its war aftershocks in cultural American Studies: A 20-year insight.”

Please click on this link to find further information on RCEI, including indexation:

https://riull.ull.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/915/7993/RCEI%2076%20%282018%29.pdf?seque nce=1&isAllowed=y

As the title suggests, we plan to edit a number of articles on different aspects of the cultural constructions around 9/11 and its long aftermath. Manuscript submissions must be presented in English, between 4,500 and 5,500 word-long, and conform to MLA style system.

The following list suggests topics to work on:

– Digitalization and self censorship
– Discourses generated: the pragmatics of 9/11 and after
– Hollywood vs. Independent film
– Identities: issues of class/gender and sexuality /race
– Islamophobia and a new American nativism
– The neoconservative agenda implemented
– Poetry after 9/11 and Mosul?
– Postpostmodernism as the framework to narrate 9/11
– Telling the Terror
– Trauma
– Vietnam and Iraq / Afghanistan: modes of narration
– Views from outside: non-US literatures in English discuss the Terror on/from America

Other topics to this list are most welcome.

If you or members of your department are interested in contributing, contact Juan J. Cruz at jcruz@ull.edu.es. Please send a tentative title and draft for an abstract (four to six lines), plus your affiliation.

We expect to keep the timeline that follows in order to complete the edition on time:

– November-December 2019: reception of proposals. After your proposal is admitted for publication

– May-October 2020: send manuscript. You will receive feedback from the board.

– March-June 2021: Send the final manuscript as will be published, following the suggestions from RCEI, if any.

Publication is scheduled in September-October 2021. Do not hesitate to contact us for further information.

Regards, Juan J. Cruz

Catedrático de Literatura norteamericana, historia y cultura de los países de habla inglesa. Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Universidad de La Laguna
Campus de Guajara Apdo. 456

E-38200 La Laguna
Tenerife Canarias / Canary Is.

ESPAÑA /SPAIN

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Call for Papers: 41^st Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies

The Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Aveiro is very pleased to announce the 41^st Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, which will take place between 26 and 28 March 2020.

Proposals for papers, panels and roundtables are welcome on a wide range of topics that fall within the field of English Studies (literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, performance, film and theatre studies, gender and sexuality studies, translation studies, linguistics, language teaching and methodology).

Although the conference programme will take into consideration a plethora of themes and issues anchored in the domain of English Studies, the conference invites proposals imbued with the spirit of the 1920s and the 2020s – inaugural decades launching a series of social, economic, cultural, scientific, artistic and literary changes shaping the world.

1920s

‘The Lost Generation’: Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The (Post)Suffragette Struggle for Women’s Rights
The modernist novel and modernist poetry: Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Henry James, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound
New Woman Fiction
The Bloomsbury Group
Eugenics and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan
The Immigration Acts of 1917-1924 in the USA
Prohibition: The Progressive Era
Race, Class and Gender
The Influence of Psychoanalysis
Social Darwinism

2020s

Brexit and Ireland: Could the Troubles return?
The Post-Brexit Imagination
Post-Brexit Literature
The Era of “Make America Great Again”

Keynote speakers to be confirmed

Book Presentations
APEAA members are also invited to present their own recently published academic books and/or translations (2018-2020).

Find all the Important Dates in Submissions and Registration (http://apeaameetingaveiro2020.web.ua.pt/index.php/submissions-and-registration/).

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The Eighth International Conference on Popular Romance Studies

Diversity, Inclusion, Innovation

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | Canary Islands | June 17-19, 2020

Proposal Deadline: October 20, 2019

What loves matter in popular romance culture? Who is represented as capable of love, or worthy of it? How do popular romance media—books, films, TV, web series, popular music, comics, etc.—promote and/or resist (neo) imperialism, (neo) colonialism, white supremacy, ethno-nationalism, ableism, and compulsory heterosexuality? How do innovations in publishing and media creation and/or distribution help to diversify popular romance, making it more inclusive, and what innovations are needed in popular romance studies to bring this diversity—or its continuing absence—into our critical discourse?

Celebrating the start of its second decade, the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance calls for papersand posterson the popular culture of romantic love, now and in the past, from anywhere in the world.

Popular Romance Studies is an interdisciplinary field including scholars from literary studies; film, television, and media studies; communication and the social sciences; critical race, feminist, and queer studies; disabilitystudies; audience & fan studies, etc. All theoretical and empirical approaches are welcome, including talks, panels, and workshops on professional development, international collaboration, and pedagogy. Content creators, writers, and professionals from various romance industries are invited to submit proposals as well.

We are open to proposals on any relevant text or topic. This year we are particularly interested in papers, posters, panels, and workshops focused on issues related to diversity, inclusion, and innovation. Possible topics might include:

Social justice themes and efforts at broadening popular romance media, including issues related to race, sexuality, gender, class, disability, age, religion, etc.

•Love and romance in the context of mass migration and displacement.

•Popular romance in colonial and post-colonial contexts.

•Romance beyond the Anglosphere: traditions, texts, translations (literal and metaphorical).

•Changes in romance genres and innovations in popular romance creation, marketing, and sales.

•Resistance to change in popular romance.

•Popular romance media communities and controversies.

•Panels on individual authors/creators and individual texts (books,series, films,shows,etc.)

Submit abstracts of 250-350 words (plus bibliography of 3-5 items, if appropriate) to conferences@iaspr.org by October 20, 2019. Please specify whether you are proposing a paper, workshop, or poster. Panel submissions (3-4 related papers) are welcome.

Thanks to the generosity of Kathleen Gilles Seidel, a limited number of Seidel Travel Support grants will be awarded to non-tenured presenters, including graduate students and junior scholars. Information about travel support applications will be sent out with acceptance notifications

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An Academic Tribute to The Beatles

Lisbon, 16-18 April 2020

FCSH NOVA, Colégio dos Jesuítas, Campolide

Call for Papers:

Half a century after the Beatles’ break-up (1970) and forty years since John Lennon’s murder in New York (Dec. 1980), the ‘Fab Four’s popularity remains a global phenomenon, bridging up generations across spatial, linguistic, social and cultural boundaries. However, with a few notable exceptions, Academia as a whole has hitherto failed to pay critical attention to the Liverpool band and its manifold contributions to contemporary pop music (both then and now), and the “ways of life” emerging in Britain, Europe and the United States since the 1950s. This International Conference seeks to fill in this academic gap, by approaching, reassessing and reframing John, Paul, George and Ringo through a broad range of disciplines, themes and topics, such as:

The Beatles: influences, heritages and legacies;
The Beatles and contemporary Britain;
The Beatles, The British Sixties and “Swinging London”;
The Beatles, the British Invasion and the American rock scene: Them and US;
The Beatles and the emergence of (a) common culture(s);
The Beatles and the emergence of (a) youth culture(s);
The Beatles in the classroom;
The Beatles in literature;
The Beatles and contemporary pop/rock artists and bands;
The Beatles’ lives, loves and biographies;
The Beatles’ controversies;
The Beatles: peace and love;
The Beatles: sex and drugs and rock and roll;
The Beatles: power, politics and religion;
The Beatles and/in the media;
The Beatles’ performances: stage, screen and studio;
The Beatles’ discography and the record industry;
The Beatles’ songs: lyrics and/or music;
The Beatles’ filmography;
The Beatles’ iconography;
The Beatles and/in the visual arts;
The Beatles’ memorabilia and merchandising;
The Beatles and/in fashion;
The Beatles and the English language;
The Beatles in Europe;
The Beatles in Portugal;
Beyond the 20th century: Beatles Fo(u)r Ever;
Beatlemania: fandoms and revivalisms;

Languages:

English and/or Portuguese.

Obs.: Speakers should prepare for a 20 minute presentation (MAX.), followed by 10 mins. debate.

Abstracts:

Up to 250-300 words (MAX).

Obs: Please select from the list above the most appropriate number to describe your paper (If 29, please specify).

Bionote/Affiliation/Institutional e-mail:

150 words (MAX).

Audiovisual requirements, if any (please specify).

Deadline:

30th Nov. 2019.

E-mail:

beatleslisbon@gmail.com

cetaps@fcsh.unl.pt

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Op. Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies

https://sites.google.com/site/opcitapeaa/home

2019 Call for Contributions

2nd Series, Nr 8: 2019

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Op. Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies (the Journal of APEAA – Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos / the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies) is calling for papers for its forthcoming issue, 2nd Series, Number 8, which will be published in November 2019.

Proposals along the Journal’s usual fields, disciplines and areas of research are welcome. The Journal covers all aspects of the cultures of the English-speaking countries from a variety of angles, including literary studies, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, performance, film and theatre studies, gender and sexuality studies, translation studies, linguistics, language teaching and methodology.

We welcome:

POSITION PAPERS

(10,000 to 20,000 characters, without spaces, including notes and bibliographic references);

FULL PAPERS

(30,000 to 40,000 characters, without spaces, including abstract, notes and bibliographic references).

All articles should include an abstract (900 characters, without spaces) in English (and in Portuguese if the text is in Portuguese), and a number of keywords (up to 6). The article and the abstract(s) should be in a single document

REVIEWS of recent books or essays, as well as NOTES and NOTICES about journals are also welcome
We also welcome brief ABSTRACTS of MA and PhD dissertations that have been submitted to public discussion in Portugal in the past two years. Abstracts in English and Portuguese should be c.1,600 to 2,000 characters, without spaces, in each language. Please don’t forget to include complete name, complete title (if the dissertation is in Portuguese, you can add a translation of the title), degree, university, date and name(s) of supervisor(s).

Op. Cit. being a peer-reviewed journal, all contributions are sent out anonymously to experts for evaluation. It is therefore required that the author’s name, affiliation, and address should appear only on the cover sheet of the manuscript.

The email “subject” should read “Op.Cit.-2019-Proposal-Author’s surname”.

All proposals and queries should be addressed to op.cit.editor@gmail.com.

Deadline for the submission of proposals: 31 May 2019.

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40th APEAA Meeting

6-8 June 2019

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

University of Porto, Portugal

Extended call for papers

New deadline: 28 February 2019

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Alex Houen (Cambridge University)

Sarah Hentges (University of Maine at Augusta / University of Southern Denmark)

Isabel Fernandes (Universidade de Lisboa)

The Department of Anglo-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto is pleased to announce the 40th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, which will take place between 6 and 8 June 2019.

Papers, panels and roundtables proposals are welcomed on any subject that falls under the remit of the two academic areas (including literary studies, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, performance, film and theatre studies, gender and sexuality studies, translation studies, linguistics, language teaching and methodology). Proposals for panels, put together around a common theme or research domain are welcome. We also welcome papers and panels on Canadian, Irish, Scottish and other (Anglophone) Studies.

Although the conference programme will accommodate the whole range of topics pertaining to the field of Anglo-American Studies, the many anniversaries celebrated in 2019 may provide the foundations for panels and individual papers:

the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919
the 90th anniversary of the 1929 New York Crash
the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War in 1939
the 70th anniversary of the founding of NATO in 1949
the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719

Book Presentations: APEAA members are also invited to present their own recently published academic books and/or translations (2017-2019).

Submissions and queries should be sent by e-mail to apeaa2019@letras.up.pt.

Please include the following information with your proposal:

the full title of your paper / panel / roundtable;
a 250-300 word description of your paper / panel / roundtable;
your name, postal address and e-mail address;
your institutional affiliation and position;
a short bionote;
AV requirements (if any)

Working languages: English and Portuguese.

Conference webpage: http://apeaa.pt/cfp/

New deadline for submissions: 28 February 2019

Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2019

Deadline for registration: 3 May 2019

Registration Fee (APEAA and SAAS members): 60 Euros

Registration Fee (non-members): 90 Euros

Student fee (APEAA and SAAS members): 30 Euros

Student fee (non-members): 45 Euros

Scientific and Organizing Committee:

Carlos Azevedo | Rui Carvalho Homem | Fátima Vieira | Maria Teresa Castilho | Jorge Bastos da Silva

39th APEAA MEETING

26-28 April 2018

Venue: Department of Linguistics and Literatures – University of Évora.

The University of Évora, through its Department of Linguistics and Literatures (DLL), is pleased to announce the 39th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, which will take place in Évora, between 26 and 28 April 2018. It is now opening a call for papers and panels in a range of subjects in Anglo-American studies.

We look forward to receiving paper and panel proposals in the academic areas which are currently part of Anglo-American Studies, including (but not restricted to): Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Performance, Film and Theatre studies, Gender and Sexuality studies, Translation Studies, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language teaching and methodology, Multilingualism. Proposals for panels, put together around a common theme or research domain, are particularly welcome. We also welcome papers and panels on other Anglophone studies, such as Canadian, Irish, Scottish, etc.

Deadlines:

Deadline to propose new panels: 30th October 2017.

These proposals should be sent to the organizing committee.

Individual papers, workshops, graduate roundtables and poster sessions (integrating the proposed panels or not): 31st January 2018.

Abstracts of 250 words in English or in Portuguese should include name of the speaker, institutional affiliation and position, full title of paper, format and a short biographical note and contact details should be sent to the conference website:

www.apeaa.uevora.pt

Working languages: English and Portuguese

A selection of papers will be published.

Thematic Panels (some proposals received)

The Contemporary Short Story in English: Exploring new boundaries (coord. Ana Raquel Fernandes, U. Europeia, and Teresa Casal, FLUL)

Dark Side Stories in American Arts, Literature and Culture (coord Maria Antónia Lima, UÉ, Margarida Vale de Gato, FLUL, and Teresa Botelho, UNova)

Pain, Loss and Trauma in Literature and Arts (coord. Carla Castro, UÉ)

Life Writing: Discourse, Identity, Representation (coord. Ana Clara Birrento and Olga Gonçalves, UÉ)

English in the 21st century: current approaches to English as an international lingua franca (coord. Luís Guerra, UÉ, Lili Cavalheiro, FLUL, Ricardo Pereira, IPLeiria)

Politics, sex, violence and other ordinary stuff in Contemporary British and American Drama (coord. Rui Pina Coelho, FLUL, Christine Zurbach, UÉ, and José Alberto Ferreira, UÉ)

Jazz Stories in Music, Literature and other Arts (coord. Eduardo Lopes, UÉ, and Paulo Gaspar, ESML-IPL)

Airplanes take off against the wind: study routes in Visual Arts in confluence with other knowledge areas (coord. Sandra Leandro, UÉ; Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello, UA)

Make sense of living together: new perspectives in Anglo-American Philosophy (coord. Olivier Feron and Teresa Santos, UÉ)

Some anniversaries celebrated in 2018 may provide the foundations for panels and individual papers:

The 200^th birth anniversaries of Emily Brontë and Frederick Douglass; the 100^th birth anniversary of Nelson Mandela; the 100^th anniversaries of the end of World War I; the 50^th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. An important literary anniversary occurs in 2018: the 200^th anniversary of the first publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).

Book Presentations: APEAA members are also invited to present their own recently published academic books and/or translations (2016-2018). Please contact the organizing committee (apeaa2018@uevora.pt).

Registration Fee:

Early Bird – 30 March

APEAA members – 40 Euros

Non-members – 90 Euros

Late Registration – after 30 March

APEAA members – 60 Euros

Non-members – 110 Euros

APEAA student members (undergraduate, MA and PhD): 15 Euros

Other students: 40 Euros