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AWARDS AND PRIZES WITH OCTOBER 1, 2019 DEADLINE:
Avery O. Craven Award
https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/avery-o-craven-award/
Given annually for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history.
The co-chairs of the Stephen King Area—Philip Simpson of Eastern Florida State College and Patrick McAleer of Inver Hills Community College—are soliciting papers, presentations, panels and roundtable discussions which cover any aspect of Stephen King’s fiction and film for the Annual National Joint Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference to be held in Philadelphia from April 15th-April 18th 2020. Papers, presentations, and panels can cover King’s experimentation with medium (e-books, graphic novels, TV series), his more recent fictions, including his Dark Tower
Deadline: September 23, 2019
The Herbert D. Katz Center at The University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for the 2020–2021 academic year on the theme of America’s Jewish Questions.
The academic journal Messages, Sages and Ages (http://www.msa.usv.ro/), based at the English Department, University of Suceava, Romania, invites contributions for an issue on intercultural conversations. The theme issue is edited by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh (Dundalk Institute of Technology).
Calling for papers and teaching demonstrations for a conference on "Rethinking Race and Slavery at 400 Years." The conference will be held on Friday 8 November at Avon Old Farms School, Avon Connecticut (see weblink for details).
Our aim is ambitious: capitalizing on the 400th anniversary of the beginnings of African slavery at Jamestown, the conference seeks to re-evaluate scholarship and teaching about race and slavery across the entire sweep of U.S. history since 1619. Keynote speakers include award-winning scholars Manisha Sinha and Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar.
