DePaul’s Center for Intercultural Programs (CIP) has planned a variety of events for winter quarter. Check out the CIP 2015 winter calendar for more information.
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The deadline to submit abstracts for Mind, Body, and (Con)Text: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Linguistics has been extended to January 15, 2015. School of Languages and Cultures 15th Annual Graduate Symposium March 6–7, 2015 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Graduate students may submit abstracts of up to 250 words to slcsymposiumpurdue@gmail.com. The email submission should specify the presenter’s name, institution of affiliation, email address, and phone number. The abstract itself should not include any identifying information. In a separate attachment, students may also submit a short-form CV (one page). Both individual presentations and panels are welcome. The committee will award up to two $100 travel… Read Article →
The 23rd annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) at Northern Illinois University is accepting proposals for 15-minute papers from individuals and panels. The conference will take place at Northern Illinois University March 27–28, 2015. This year’s theme is Ctrl, Alt, Delete. The deadline for proposals is January 16, 2015. Graduate students should send their 200- to 250-word proposals to mcllm@niu.edu, including the name, institutional affiliation, email, and phone number of each author. Panel proposals should include a brief overview of the panel’s theme and purpose and a 200- to 250-word abstract for each paper.
Thursday, January 8. Stimulate, Create & Submit: Attendees can kick-start their writing at 826CHI from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Come in with nothing; leave with a short piece and a submission plan for 2015. Register on the event page. Thursday, January 15. “Tales from the Office” reading: Five Chicago writers tell stories about work at Open Books from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. See the CWC Facebook page for more information about this free event. Check out the CWC holiday newsletter and the upcoming events page for announcements about future writing-related events.
DePaul’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences invites all LAS graduate students to attend Crossing Boundaries, the second annual LAS interdisciplinary graduate student conference. The conference, which will showcase work by graduate students across many departments and programs, will take place on Friday, March 6, 2015. The one-day event kicks off at 11 a.m. in McGowan South (1110 West Belden Avenue). Those interested in presenting at the conference may submit proposals here. The submission deadline is January 16, 2015.
The DePaul Humanities Center invites DePaul students and staff to attend The Trials of Job on Thursday, January 22, at 7 p.m. The event features choral performances and a discussion of Job’s suffering in the context of art, music, literature, theology, and politics. A reception will follow at St. Vincent DePaul Parish (1010 West Webster Avenue). The Trials of Job marks the DePaul Humanities Center’s first event of winter quarter 2015 and the second event in CondemNation: Justice, Prison, Punishment, Persecution, its yearlong series on punishment and persecution. For more information, see the Trials of Job event flyer.
The University of St. Thomas English graduate program will host an interdisciplinary conference called Postcards from the Edge: Texts and Contexts on Friday, April 24, 2015. Email one-page proposals for individual papers, poster presentations, panels, or roundtables to the graduate conference coordinator, Andrea Gullixson (andrea.j.gullixson@gmail.com), by February 15, 2015. For more information, view the Postcards from the Edge flyer.
Crystal Chan Author Talk December 10, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Rogers Park Library 6907 N. Clark Street Event Description (from Crystal) Got kids? Are you a kid at heart? This December 10, I’ll be at the Rogers Park branch of the Chicago Public Library doing some cool interactives around my children’s novel, Bird. We’ll talk a bit about Bird, but then as the story’s two protagonists want to be a geologist and astronaut, there’ll be time for the kids to talk about what they want to be when they grow up, and why, and explore a bit… Read Article →
Indiana University Bloomington‘s comparative literature department is accepting abstracts for Missed Connections, a graduate student conference. The conference will take place April 10 and 11, 2015. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 1, 2015. What to Submit Abstract (300 words max) Title of your presentation Short bio (50 words max) with your name, email address, degree level, and institutional affiliation *** Send submission materials to iu.complit@gmail.com, both in the body of the email and as an attachment.
Here are a few upcoming Chicago Writers Conference events, lifted from today’s CWC email newsletter. December 5: The Dissolve’s Entirely Film-Focused Holiday Gift-Giving Guide. The Dissolve’s film critics look back at some of 2014’s best film releases, with an eye toward filling out your holiday shopping list. Tickets are free, but you must RSVP to attend. Limit one free ticket per person. December 8: CWC Executive Director Mare Swallow reads at Is This a Thing?, hosted by former CWCer Inés Bellina. Free. December 17: CWC staff member Amanda Claire Buckley performs her live-action cartoon The Out of Tooners… Read Article →
Pearson is accepting project proposals for its Emerging Pedagogies Research and Travel Grant. Graduate students in composition, rhetoric, and business and technical communication—and adjunct faculty teaching composition courses—may submit proposals. The submission deadline is December 31, 2014. Up to ten $750 grants will be awarded. These grants will help defray the cost of attending the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), which will take place March 18–21, 2015, in Tampa.
The third annual Chicago Book Expo is taking place this Saturday, December 6, at Columbia College Chicago (1104 South Wabash Avenue). The event is free and open to the public. The exposition runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check out the schedule here. See below for a sampling of DePaul connections to the event. Chicago and the Novel (11:30 a.m.): Novelists Rebecca Makkai (The Hundred-Year House), Kathleen Rooney (O Democracy!), a visiting assistant professor at DePaul, and Ian Morris (When Bad Things Happen to Rich People) discuss their novels set in the Chicago area. (Film Row Cinema) Chicago After… Read Article →