The Taboo Conference series is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at bringing together scholars of various aspects of taboo in a variety of academic fields. The project was originated at the Department of Interpretation and Translation of the University of Bologna, Italy, where the first edition was held in 2012. The following editions were held every two years in Durham (UK) and Barcelona (Spain). For its fourth installment the conference returns to the hills of Romagna in the beautiful medieval village of Bertinoro. We hope you’ll be able to join us this year to discuss all the multifaceted ramifications of taboo and the media.
Mese: Febbraio 2018
The Polish Association for American Studies (PAAS) is promoting a Conference about Challenging America, American Challenges. Culture, Society, Politics, held and hosted by the Department of American Studies and Mass Media.
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Cosa ha rappresentato Marte per la Terra? Cosa significa parlare di Marte in prospettiva letteraria e culturale? Queste ed altre domande trovano una risposta in Alieni a stelle e strisce: Marte e i Marziani nell’immaginario USA, scritto da Alessandra Calanchi ed edito per Aras nel 2015.
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The Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship is a one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to graduate students attending master’s, juris doctoral, and doctoral programs in a variety of fields including economics, law, political science, and public policy.
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Prof. Sophia Emmanouilidou (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki), Francisco Lomelí (U. California, Santa Barbara) are co-editing a special issue of Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media. See the attached cfp, if you are interested in submitting a proposal: deadline for submitting the abstract form is Friday September 14, 2018.
Modern Language Association Convention
Chicago, IL
January 3rd – 6th, 2019
Deadline for submission: March 1st, 2018
Women at Work: Margaret Fuller and 19th c. Women Writers on Work.
Be they explorers, adventurers, travelers, exiles or expatriates, scores of women have broken free from the domestic sphere to which a male-dominated society would have them bound and recorded their impressions of the wider world in their writings (letters, diaries, travelogues) or used them as artistic material.
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What is the current state of Blues Literature? It has been well over thirty years since Houston Baker Jr.’s Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1984) put blues back on the critical map. Much has changed since then.
Read More “21/03/18 – MLA2019. CFP “Sweet Home Chicago? Rethinking Blues Literature”” »
Università degli Studi di Urbino, 21-23 novembre
Noir come l’inchiostro: True Crime e Fake News sulla pagina e sullo schermo
“Il mondo è ciò che accade”, scriveva Wittgenstein: ma ciò che accade deve essere narrato, altrimenti non esiste. Se non viene narrato, c’è il vuoto. Le narrazioni danno vita alla cronaca, ai fatti, gli eventi, all’esistenza stessa della vita e della morte.
Vi mancano i climi da musica Jazz e locali affollati? Volete rivivere quelle atmosfere rievocando le figure di Kerouac, Ginsberg & co.? La Mostra Beat Generation – Viaggio in Italia presso la Galleria Nazionale di Roma (Villa Borghese) fa al caso vostro! A cura di Enzo Eric Toccaceli,