This year SAIC’s learning symposium, titled Going Off(Shore), attempts to flatten the typical hierarchical design of  conferences and take on a conversational format, inviting graduate students to submit generative conversational prompts that provoke a departure from stable ground, so as to rethink learning and curriculum. The symposium takes place Saturday, April 9th  from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm. Submissions are due on March 11th, and can be sent here. For further details, see the flyer below or contact the conference organizers at goingoffshore2016@gmail.com.

Below is a call for submissions for DePaul’s 7th annual Spring English Conference. Here is a .pdf or .docx of submission guidelines. Submissions are due April 1st.   Call for Submissions – Academic and Creative Work 7th Annual Spring English Conference Hosted by Students of the Department of English Organizers: Anastasia Sasewich (MAWP) and Jordan Weber (MAE) Friday, April 29, 2016 • Arts & Letters Hall 2315 N. Kenmore Ave The DePaul English Department invites you to participate in our seventh annual student-run conference. The Spring English Conference (SPEC) will be held on the afternoon of Friday, April… Read Article →

Driftwood Press is a literary magazine dedicated to curating from a broad field of work including fiction, poetry, photography, graphic narrative, literary criticism, and interviews. Driftwood is currently open year-round for submissions. There next publication will be released April, 4th. Find out submissions details here.

LAS Student Government Senators, Benjamin Bui and Bohdana Bohny, along with Student Government Executive Vice President, Kristina Pouliot, are hosting an event on marketing humanities degrees. The event, “Learn, Acheive, Succeed: How to Market your LAS Degree” will be March 1st from 4:30-5:30 pm in A&L Room 207. Panelists include Gene Beiriger (Dept. History), Ed Childs (Career Center LAS Specialist), and LAS alumna Nya Brooks. You can find out more through OrgSync.

This Friday, March 4th the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences will be hosting Crossing Boundaries the third annual LAS Interdisciplinary Conference.  The event will be held between 12:00-5:00 pm in McGowan South. The conference will feature graduate research from students across the humanities as well as a keynote, “Scholarship Outside the Box”  hosted by LAS faculty. A full schedule of events is available below, or contact LASGraduateOffice@depaul.edu for questions. Schedule: 12:00-12:15         WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS  Lucy Rinehart, Interim Dean & Associate Professor of English​ 12:20-1:35           PAPER SESSION I Group A: “Gender Identity in Literature” Group… Read Article →

To commemorate Women’s History Month, The Women’s Center is hosting “An Evening with Aja Monet” on Tuesday March 8th. In addition to performing her work, Ms. Monet will engage in a moderated discussion about art as a form of social resistance. Find out more on the flyer below. More on Aja Monet: “Poet Aja Monet Confronts Police Brutality Against Black Women With #SayHerName” “Aja Monet Uses Poetry as a Tool to Protest Violence and Racial Injustice” Vibe “Tongue Tactics: 9 Afro-Latino Poets Who Get Radical On The Mic”

Mark your calendars! The 7th Annual the Spring English Conference will be held on Friday, April 29th. Submissions, open for both creative and academic writing, are due April 1st. Stay tuned for further details on guidelines, requirements, and the announcement of the keynote speaker!

DePaul professor Miles Harvey will be one of the faculty at the University of New Orleans’ creative writing workshops in Cork, Ireland this summer. The program takes place June 17 – July 16. Find out more information on the flyer below, or visit the program’s website here.

A new online literary journal, NoiseMedium, is hosting their first creative writing contest. Their first contest is free to enter, and includes a $500 grand prize and publication for the top 100 submissions. It is open to all genres and formats. The deadline to submit is March 14. Send submissions to contests@noisemedium.com. Find out more online.

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