For writers and artists such as David Hockney, Christopher Isherwood, John Rechy, Paul Monette and Gore Vidal, Los Angeles provided the literary backdrop for gay communion and protest.
Categoria: CFPs
Rosemary Pearce and Timo Schrader (University of Nottingham) are recruiting panelists for a session on the role of emotions in 20th century U.S. protest and activism, as part of the upcoming EBAAS conference in 2018.
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4 – 7 April 2018
King’s College London, University College London, and the British Library.
Panel Title:
“The American Academic Novel Nowadays: Its Contents and Discontents”.
Place, Protest, and Pedagogy: A Roundtable on Teaching in Place
Seeking participants for a teaching-focused roundtable proposal for EAAS 2018 (London) exploring the radical (or not) potential of American Studies courses that engage the places in which they are taught.
University of Coimbra, Portugal, 22-24 March 2018
Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2017
** This is the second call for chapters **
As part of the Manchester University Press series, Contemporary American and Canadian Writers, this volume will chart recent and emerging c
ritical opinion on the celebrated author, Marilynne Robinson.
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The New Languages of American Democracy
In the past twenty years, American democracy had to face a number of high impact events which have heavily affected its domestic scene, as well as the delicate balance of its world-wide political relations—from the final years of the Clinton administration to the election of George Bush and the tragedy of Ground Zero from the second Gulf War, to the election of an African American President like Barack Obama, to the emergence of a female candidate for the White House, to the recent election of the highly controversial President currently in charge, these are just a few of the crucial passages the U. S. democratic system has suffered in its recent past.
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
30th November – 1st December 2017
Second Call For Papers:
“Swift Today: His Legacy from the Enlightenment to Modern-Day Politics” is a conference commemorating the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift: the acclaimed Irish author of Gulliver’s Travels,
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