Conferences & Funding

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...