Conferences & Funding

Gender and Women's Studies Student Research Conference CALL FOR PAPERS The 29th Annual Gender & Women’s Studies Student Research Conference is on  Friday, April 6, 2018 . It is an exciting opportunity to showcase your work, discuss your interests with students and faculty from Villanova and other area universities, and see the broad range of intellectual disciplines encompassed by Gender and Women’s Studies. Essays and creative work must engage gender, sexuality, or feminist theories. All papers must have been written during Spring or Fall 2017 or written specifically for the conference. Paper Eligibility and Submission Guidelines : http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/gws/ecs_conference/papers.html Submission Deadline: Friday, February 16, 2018 Conference presented by Villanova's Gender & Women's Studies Program and The Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium.  Questions? Email gws@villanova.edu

The Department of English at St. John's University invites papers that think about narrative across literary and writing studies. The Department of English at St. John's University invites papers that think about narrative across literary and writing studies. Our topic for this year's graduate conference, "Telling Stories: Rethinking Narrative in Literary and Writing Studies," asks us to consider what is entailed in generating narrative(s). We seek work that explores the cultural place of stories and their various modes of telling-through drama, poetry, prose forms, performance, digital media, translation--as well as the role of narrative in pedagogy and writing studies, in any historical, national, or diasporic tradition. Conceiving of "telling stories" broadly, we welcome work that critically engages or reconceptualizes storytelling, including analyses of individual, collective, or representative texts or performances; considerations of the making ...

New Biopolitics: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Saturday, February 24, 2018 Keynote Speaker: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Pomona College Conference Information, from Georgetown: Michel Foucault defines biopolitics as “this very specific, albeit very complex, power that has the population as its target, political economy as its major form of knowledge and apparatuses of security [or dispositifs] as its essential technical instrument.” Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, in turn, describe the “biopolitical turn” as “a proliferation of studies, claiming Foucault as an inspiration, on the relations between ‘life’ and ‘politics.’” As scholars have further engaged with and complicated the concept of biopolitics, new trends have emerged from its lineage – from necropolitics to the global proliferations of surveillance to biomanufacturing. To revisit and expand conceptions of biopolitics, the English Graduate...

The society of students in the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) Program at Stockton University would like to invite graduate students in English at Villanova University to submit presentation proposals for an emerging scholars conference we are organizing for Tuesday, March 27, 2018. "In the Name of Conscience": An Emerging Scholars Conference on Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Human Rights aims to provide students enrolled in a Master’s level program or students enrolled in the first years of a doctoral degree program the opportunity to present their research interests in a formal conference setting. Participants may submit proposals for papers or for general presentations. All accepted paper proposals will be chosen for presentations during the conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “The Global Impact of Genocide.” Preferably, proposal topics should be related to the overall theme, but applicants should feel comfortable submitting proposals ...

Formations: Intersections of Form Across the Literary, Social, and Political 11th Annual Graduate English Organization Conference Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park, March 10, 2018 “Forms... mean all shapes and configurations, all ordering principles, all patterns of repetition and difference,” writes Caroline Levine in Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Princeton University Press, 2015). Forms, understood broadly, are at work both within and beyond the realm of aesthetics; they configure and shape politics, culture, and social interactions; they include hierarchies, patterns, dichotomies, containers, and webs. How, then, do the plurality of forms at work in any given context interact, overlap, and influence each other? We envision “Formations” as an exploration of the myriad and overlapping forms that govern experience and interpretation​, as well as an inquiry into the action of forming. It is action, after all, that Beyoncé implies with her ra...

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, welcomes proposals for presentations at Nexus 2018, our 8th biennial interdisciplinary conference, related to the theme of Agency and Artificiality: Assembling Humanity in the 21st Century . The conference dates will be March 1 - March 3 , and submissions are open to faculty and graduate students. We invite papers on the broad topics of humanity in an era of immense technological innovation and global interconnectedness. We are particularly interested in examining connections between the Humanities, Fine Arts, Social Sciences, and Sciences that establish new meanings for society. This conference aims to bring together scholars, creative writers, and educators from a broad range of disciplines in order to generate meaningful research and conversation about what it means to act and to be human in a predominantly digital age. We also hope to foster discussion about ever-shifting cultural narratives that shape increasingly pluralist societies, es...

Call for Papers:“Reformatting the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Technology and the Humanities” at York University.  Conference info: YorkU Humanities Graduate Conference, February 23-24, 2018 . The Graduate Program in Humanities and the Humanities Graduate Student Association (HuGSA) at York University are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference interrogating the critical role of technology, both past and present, in shaping human culture and society. Technology, in the broadest sense, has enriched our lives by opening up new vistas of knowledge about ourselves (or our selves) and the natural world. Digital technologies, for example, have made possible new, highly-advanced forms of social organization. They have also revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives, from travel, communication, entertainment, culture and the arts to food, medicine, education, politics, and science. However, technology is also associated with the rise of technical ...

The competition for Graduate Summer Research Fellowships is now open. The deadline for applications is January 20, 2018 (regardless of which day of the week it falls on). For details regarding eligibility requirements, criteria, how to apply, deadline for proposals and review process, faculty evaluation of the project, and award recipients, please visit the “Graduate Summer Research Fellowship” webpage found  here .   Important note: please read the webpage in its entirety since the application process has changed.   Villanova University students cannot receive support to conduct research in countries under a Travel Warning from the U.S. Department of State.  In the event that a country is placed on a travel warning after funding has been awarded, students must communicate with the Office of Graduate Studies to cancel travel arrangements and return any funds that have been awarded. If you have a scholarly project for which you would like summer support, pl...

Graduate students are invited to take part in the College at Brockport’s 4thAnnual SEGUE—The Symposium for English Graduate Students, which will take place on Saturday, February 24, 2018 . SEGUE is a gathering of MA and early Doctoral students; our aim is to create a collegial venue for graduate students to disseminate their work, hone their professional skills, and network with one another. More information can be found on Brokport's website . As always, remember that if you decide to submit proposals to any conferences, be sure to consider applying for funding. See the Graduate Studies Office’s webpage on  Conference Travel Funding . And remember that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference. (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.)

The Early Modern Colloquium at the University of Michigan invites abstracts for papers for their interdisciplinary graduate student conference, " Exploring Resistance through Medieval and Early Modern Culture ,” at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 16-17, 2018. Keynote lectures by Carla Della Gatta (USC) and Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt) and panel responses from the medieval and early modern faculty at the University of Michigan. The challenge to resist structures of oppression both within and beyond the academy is particularly exigent in our current moment. From nearly unavoidable discussions of religion and totalitarian rule, medieval and early modern scholarship has a rich tradition of focusing on the restrictions a society can face and the resistance movements and revolts that result from circumscription. Enriching our discussions of religion, sovereignty, discourses, institutions, etc. more recent work has acknowledged the necessary inclusion of gender, sexualit...

Attention grad students: The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) has issued a call for abstracts! Visit their site to submit. As always, remember that if you decide to submit proposals to any conferences, be sure to consider applying for funding. See the Graduate Studies Office’s webpage on  Conference Travel Funding . Remember that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference. (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.) The Northeast Modern Language Association's 2018 keynote speaker will be Professor Rob Nixon, the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University. He is the author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, which won numerous awards, including the International Studies Association for the best book in environmental studies.

The competition for graduate student research fellowships for the Summer of 2018 is now open. The deadline for applications is Monday, January 20, 2018. For details regarding eligibility requirements, application procedures, and the required cover page to be appended to any submitted proposals, please visit the “ Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship ” found on the Graduate Studies website. If you have a scholarly project for which you would like summer support, please discuss this with a faculty member in your program who will be willing to formally sponsor your effort.

As always, remember that if you decide to submit proposals to any conferences, be sure to consider applying for funding. See the Graduate Studies Office’s webpage on  Conference Travel Funding . And remember that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference. (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.)

For more information click here ! New submission deadline: October 31 . As always, remember that if you decide to submit proposals to any conferences, be sure to consider applying for funding. See the Graduate Studies Office’s webpage on Conference Travel Funding . And remember that you have to apply for the funding before you attend the conference. (In recent years, the funding has tended to run out early in the spring semester.)