Crossing Boundaries, the second annual LAS interdisciplinary graduate student conference, is accepting proposals for papers, panels, or posters through Friday, January 23, 2015. Students interested in presenting at the conference may submit proposals here. 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 will kick off at 11 a.m. in McGowan South (1110 West Belden Avenue).
The Group Project is looking for storytellers, musicians, and other artistic collaborators—such as dancers, actors, illustrators, comedians, and journalists—for its next 7 Stories show. The multimedia performance will take place at Martin’s Corner Bar (2056 West 22nd Place) on Monday, February 23, at 8 p.m. TGP is also offering three-month internships. Over the course of the internship, students will help produce three performances. Contact Thegroupprojectemail@gmail.com for more information.
Wayne State University‘s sixth annual Group for Early Modern Studies (GEMS) graduate symposium welcomes abstracts from humanities graduate students working on the early modern period, broadly defined as 1400–1800. Abstracts should relate to the general theme of “will.” The symposium will take place on Friday, March 13, 2015, at Wayne State University in Detroit. The submission deadline is January 16, 2015. Students may submit their 250-word abstracts to gems.symposium@gmail.com. For more information, download the official call for papers as a Word doc or check out the graduate symposium website.
The American Graduate School in Paris is accepting abstracts for its 2015 conference, The Influence and Role of NGOs in Global Governance: From Grassroots to Global. The conference will take place in Paris April 23–24, 2015. The abstract submission deadline is January 30, 2015, and the final paper submission deadline is March 27, 2015. Students may submit abstracts of up to 500 words to conference@ags.edu as an attachment (Microsoft Word or PDF). For more information, visit the AGS conference website.
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.
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 →