This panel and roundtable seek to investigate the value of close reading in early modern studies. Since the sunset of New Criticism’s zenith in literary studies, close reading has assumed a primarily pedagogical role. But what of its theoretical and historicist payoff? What position can close reading play in the 2024 scholarly landscape?
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The Indiana Association of Historians invites proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, lightning sessions, and working
groups relating to any historical subject for its annual meeting in Indianapolis, IN. We are particularly interested in papers exploring the conference theme of “Historical Intelligence.” See the full conference description attached below.
Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University.
Call for Proposals: Writing Research from the African Continent
Please consider submitting an abstract for an edited collection on writing pedagogy, research and administration on the African continent to be published by the The International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Book Series| The WAC Clearinghouse
All articles submitted should be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Deadline for proposal submission is Feb 16, 2024
View the call for proposals below.
Dear colleagues,
Matthew G. Stanard (Berry College) will present research findings from The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock (LUP, 2019) at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) from 14h00-16h00 on 18 December 2023. Language: French. Location: auditoire More 53, place Montesquieu, 2, 1348 Ottignies/Louvain-la-Neuve. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61220
Between the 17th and 18th July 1973, Georges Henein passed away in Paris, marking the end of the most significant historical phase of Surrealism in Egypt. Cosmopolitan above all, deeply Egyptian, and weaver of relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean, Georges Henein is an author whose activities and writings, partly still unpublished, have left a lasting impact on the Egyptian cultural world in the 1930s.
We are excited to extend an invitation to submit abstracts for the international and interdisciplinary conference “Sex Education: Subjectivities / Materialities / Differences”.
There's still time to run a Wikipedia assignment next term:
The deadline to run a Wikipedia assignment next term is now January 15!
Application deadline: January 7, 2024
The Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) are pleased to announce the third convening of the ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop, to take place at the University of Texas at Austin on April 4-6, 2024. The two invited scholars for 2024 will be announced shortly.
UCSF Archives and Special Collections is thrilled to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has generously awarded the UCSF Digital Health Humanities program with a grant to host the Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute (ADHHI). The NEH is an independent federal agency and one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States.