Call for Papers / Appel à Communications
Dear colleagues:
The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the 16th to the early 20th century.
Jen Sweeney (Bard College), Nigel Lezama (Brock University) & Jess Clark (Brock University) are co-organizing a small series of critical fashion and luxury studies interventions and events at NeMLA in Washington, DC, from March 21 to 24, 2019. We are seeking 200-word proposals from speakers for the following panel and round table:
Power Dressing: Counter-Hegemonic Practices in Fashion And Luxury
This panel session proposes to discuss the vexed notions of “Frenchness” and “Francophonie” in contemporary Beur and Francophone M
The North Africa Caucus of the African Literature Association is seeking papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the African Literature Association devoted to North Africa.
The aim of this panel is to explore the potential of project-based teaching and learning as a way of increasing students’ proficiency and sensitivity to language and culture.
We invite you to participate in the conference The Nineteenth-Century in 2019. Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century to be held at California State University, Long Beach, Friday April 26-Saturday 27, 2019.
Fashion and film have long been sources of mutual inspiration, with films focusing on the fashion industry and fashion designers taking ideas from icons of the silver screen. As a phenomenon that is inherently visible, external, and communicative, fashion becomes a powerful outward signifier of an individual or collective identity. Similarly, film engages in a sustained dialogue with the world it both reflects and influences, creating an exterior, aesthetic, and visible representation of groups, cultures, or identities.
