DePaul will be hosting their 2016 Thesis and Dissertation Conference this Saturday, February 6 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm in Lincoln Park Student Center. See the flyer below for more information and RSVP here.
DePaul will be hosting their 2016 Thesis and Dissertation Conference this Saturday, February 6 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm in Lincoln Park Student Center. See the flyer below for more information and RSVP here.
The University of Illinois at Chicago is hosting their annual graduate student conference Engendering Change this April 23. The conference focuses on themes of gender and sexuality, and this years theme is specifically oriented towards the intersection of racial and gender justice. Abstracts are due February 1st and can be emailed to engenderingchange2016@gmail.com. For more details download the call for papers.
Northern Illinois University’s Department of English in cooperation with the Allerton Planning Committee will be hosting the 52nd Alerton English Articulation Conference from April 13 and 14 at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois. This years theme Charting Our Future: Evolutions, Revelutions, and Revelations asks with the changing state of higher education and cost of tuition how colleges and universities can evolve, revolt, or remap the world of education. The conference will be accepting individual presentations, group presentation, and poster presentations. Interested parties can email a title and on-paragraph abstract of group or individual proposals to AllertonConference@niu.edu by February 1. Those… Read Article →
The deadline to submit contest entries for the University of New Orleans Writing Workshop in Cork, Ireland is this Sunday, January 31st. See the flyer below for further details, or visit their website here.
The deadline to apply for The Newberry Library’s conference “The Turn to Religion: Women and Writing in Early Modern England,” is fast approaching! The conference will focus on a new and exciting field of scholarship that explores the role of women’s devotional writing in shaping the English Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The conference is also in part a research methods workshop for early career graduate students. Leading the conference is Wayne State University’s Jamie Goodrich, and DePaul’s very own Paula McQuade! The conference takes place on Saturday, March 12 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The conference is limited,… Read Article →
Another reminder that the deadline to submit to the the Third Annual LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is this Friday, January 15th. The conference takes place Friday, March 4 from 12:00-5:00 pm on the Lincoln Park Campus. Find further details and the submission link here. All LAS graduate students are eligible. This conference is an opportunity to share your work with other students and faculty across departments and programs. The conference is accepting previously completed and in-progress work, presented as academic papers and poster presentations. Academic work created specifically for the conference is welcome but not… Read Article →
The Graduate History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is now welcoming proposals for its 2016 interdisciplinary conference, “Putting History to Work.” The conference invites submissions across a range of fields, themes, and historical periods. It will be held from March 5-6 and includes a panel discussion with Jim Grossman the Executive Director of the American Historical Society as well as a networking dinner for conference presenters. Interested students can submit a one-page paper proposal, resume or CV, and a brief two to three sentence biography for consideration to ghapage@history.umass.edu & cscruggs@history.umass.edu. Submissions close… Read Article →
The 24th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Langauage and Media (MCLLM) is currently accepting proposals for 15 minute research presentations. MCLLM encourages proposals from a broad range of topics, particularly ones that explore the conferences 2016 theme: Keep the Change. Proposals of 200-500 words will be accepted until January 29 and may be submitted to mcllm@niu.edu with name, institutional affiliation, email, and phone number. The conference takes place on Friday April 1 and Saturday April 2nd. This year’s keynote speaker will be musician, scholar, and author Adam Gussow, associate professor of English and Southern Studies… Read Article →
The Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University is pleased to announce the Second Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, titled “Crystal Queer.” The conference will be held on Friday, April 1 through Saturday, April 2nd in Bloomington, Indiana. 300 word abstracts are due by January 30th, and can be sent to complit.iu@gamil.com. The attached call for papers provides further information.
Welcome back MAE and MAWP students! After the long winter break, Ex Libris is excited as you are for Winter Quarter 2016. A few important dates to remember as we strap in for the cold weeks ahead: DePaul’s 3rd annual LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is now accepting submissions. The conference will be held on March 4th and the deadline to submit is January 15th. Visit their site here. The English Honor’s Society, Sigma Tau Delta is now accepting applications. Find the application form here. Sunday January 10th is the last day to add/swap classes. Friday January… Read Article →
Ex Libris would like to announce it will be on a short hiatus for Winter Intercession. Over the next few weeks of December, the site will be working on some small updates and will not be making any new posts. Ex Libris will still be fully operational and providing access to previous posts, class lists, and other digital resources. In the meantime, a few quick reminders: DePaul’s 3rd annual LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference is now accepting submissions. The conference will be held on March 4th and the deadline to submit is January 15th. Visit their site here…. Read Article →
Purdue University has announced a call for submissions to a new symposium focusing on interdisciplinary research in the fields of linguistics and language use. They invite submissions of original research papers from all areas of linguistics, applied linguistics, literature, second language studies, and cultural studies of any language or language group to be presented in 20-minute talks or posters. Abstracts are due by Tuesday, December 22nd. Find full details here, and submit here.