Notes

1. The minutes of the Brno meeting have been posted on the GSN Members page: https://essenglish.org/gsn-members/
2. A new Gallery Picture has been posted: https://essenglish.org/gsn-gallery/

CFPs

XXII SELGYC Symposium
Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, 14-16 March 2019
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1903/#SELGYC

(Neo-)Victorian ‘Orientations’ in the Twenty-First Century
University of Málaga, Spain, 15-17 May 2019
Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1905/#orientation

Urban Otium: Materialities, Practices, Representations
University of Freiburg, Germany, 2-4 May 2019
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1905/#urban_otium

Reading and Writing the World: Perception and Identity in the Era of Climate Change
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, 5-6 April 2019
Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2019
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1904/

Health and Healing in Culture and Literature: International Başkent Conference
Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 13-15 March 2019
Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1903/#health

Identity, Projection and the Other: International Conference on Film Studies
London, UK, 9 February 2019
Deadline for proposals: 10 November 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1902/#identity

Mirror, Mirror: Perceptions, Deceptions, and Reflections in Time
London, UK, 9 March 2019
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1903/#mirror

Somewhere In Between: Borders and Borderlands
London, UK, 6 April 2019
Deadline for proposals: 10 December 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1904/#in_between

Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity: 2019 SAUTE conference
Department of English, Universität Basel, Switzerland, 3-4 May 2019
Deadline for proposals: 13 January 2019
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1905/

Nonviolence and Intercultural Dialogue
London, UK, 8-9 June 2019
Deadline for proposals: 1 February 2019
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1906/#nonviolence

The Postmillennial Sensibility in Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media II
Košice, Slovakia, 27-29 June 2019
Deadline for proposals: 15 February 2019
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1906/#postmillennial

“My Soul is a Witness”: Reimagining African American Women’s Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature
A special issue of Religions
Deadline: 15 February 15 2019
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2019-01-03/

Note
A new Gallery Picture has been posted: https://essenglish.org/gsn-gallery/

Feeling British
A special issue of the French Review of British Studies
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-04-06/#feeling_British

Blues in the 21st Century: Myth, Social Expression and Transculturalism
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Italy, 23-24 November 2018
Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/#blues

Language, Power, and Ideology in Political Writing
Call for Chapters
Submission date deadline: 30 August 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-07-09/#political_writing

Dikes of Courage: Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement and the Aesthetics of Protest
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, 23-24 November 2018
Deadline for proposals: 8 September 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/#dikes-of-courage

Common Room: On the Road
Płock, Poland,  19-20 October 2018
Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1810/#on-the-road

Adaptation and the Protean Poetics of Margaret Atwood
Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté, Dijon, France, 1 February 2019
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1902/#Atwood

Challenging Precarity
AURO University, Surat, Gujarat, India, 27-29 January 2019
Deadline for proposals: 10 October 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1901/#precarity

Recycling Woolf
Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, 27-29 June 2019
Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1906/#Woolf

Feminism and Technoscience: Third Biennial European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Women’s Network Symposium
Thessaloniki, Greece, 6 April 2019
Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1904/#feminism

Short Fiction as Humble Fiction
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier-3, France, 17-19 October 2019
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2019
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1910/#short-fiction

Crime and Criminals in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World
Paris, France, 18-19 January 2019
Deadline for proposals: 20 May 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1901/

Negotiating, subverting, reconfiguring borders in the English-speaking world
University of Strasbourg, France,  5-6 October 2018
Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1810/#borders

Intersectionality: Theories, Policies, Practices. 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS)
Grainau, Germany, 14-17 February 2019
Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1902/#intersectionality

‘Because of Her?’: Women and the Shaping of Canada
Bordeaux, France, 12-14 June 2019
Deadline for proposals: 20 June 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1906/

Nadine Gordimer, Jump and Other Stories: “the alternative lives I invent”
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, 4-5 October 2018
Deadline for Proposals: 30 June 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1810/#Gordimer

Tracing Non-Human Agency in Literatures in English
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany, 15-17 November 2018
Deadline for proposals: 31 July 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/#non-humans

Revisiting Multiculturalism and Interdisciplinarity in Today’s Academic Communication
University of Social Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 6-7 December 2018
Deadline for proposals: 23 September 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1812/#PTLS

Sapphic Vibes: Lesbians in Literature from the Renaissance to the Present
Université de Haute-Alsace, France, 14-15 March 2019
Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1903/

The Modern Short Story and the Magazines: 1880-1950
An edited volume
Deadline for proposals: 30 March 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-01-03/#modern_short_story

Brexit and the Divided Kingdom
Special Issue of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures
Deadline for proposals; 16 April 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-04-06/#Brexit

Scotland in Europe, Conference IV
University of Warsaw, Poland, 26-28 September 2018
Deadline for proposals: 20 April 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1809/#Scotland

The Reception of Contemporary French Thought Through the Prism of Translation: TRACT Conference
Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle, France, 12-13 October 2018
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1810/#TRACT

Innovation and Experiment in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium, 29 November – 1 December 2018
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/#Irish_fiction

Racial Passing: New Historical and Aesthetic Perspectives
Call for articles for a publishing project
Deadline for proposals: 21 May 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-04-06/#racial_passing

Frankenstein Revived: Essays on the International Reception, Translation and Recasting of Mary Shelley’s Novel
A collection of essays
Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-04-06/#Frankenstein

(Re-)Mobilizing voters: electoral strategies and practices in the English-speaking world, 1867-2017
Université Grenoble Alpes, France, 8 February 2019
Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1902/#voters

Crossroads II: City/Non-City
Institute of Modern Languages, University of Białystok, Poland, 29-30 November 2018
Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/#Crossroads

Experiments in short fiction: between genre and media/La brièveté et l’expériment: entre genre et media
IL LI 23, Fall 2018
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-04-06/#short_fiction

Avenging Nature: A Survey of the Role of Nature in Modern and Contemporary Art and Literature
An edited volume
Deadline for chapter proposals: 1 July 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-07-09/#nature

Cultures and/of Migration
The third issue of VTU Review
Deadline for complete manuscripts: 1 August 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-07-09/#migration

Place and Placelessness in Postcolonial Short Fiction
Montpellier, France, 13-15 June 2019
Deadline for proposals: 1 September 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1906/#placelessness

Representing Trans
One of the three issues of volume 24 of EJES (2020)
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-10-12/#trans

Contemporary Literature and/as Archive
Special Issue, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-10-12/#archive

The Fleeting Nature of Short Forms
University of Angers, France, 18-20 April 2018
Deadline for proposals: 21 January 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1804/#short_forms

Understanding America in a Time of Change: 12th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS 12)
Budapest, Hungary, 25-26 May 2018
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1805/#HAAS12

Ecofeminist Science Fiction
Deadline for chapter proposals: 1 February 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-01-03/#ecofeminist_sf

Corporeal Archives: International Scientific Conference
Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, Serbia, 1-2 June 2018
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1806/

Transnationalism and Imperialism: New Perspectives on the Western
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, 15-16 November 2018
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/#western

Water: 2018 Annual Conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies
University François Rabelais, Tours, France, 8-10 November 2018
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/#SFEE

Forster: Nature, Culture, Queer!
University of Education Ludwigsburg, Germany, 13-14 April 2018
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1804/

Migrant Narratives and the City
Budapest, Hungary, 27-28 April 2018
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1804/#migrants

Salaciousness, Licentiousness, and Promiscuity in Literature, Culture, and Law: 7^th Symposium Opoliense
University of Opole, Poland, 10-11 May 2018
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1805/

The Second Annual Early Modern Women Writers’ Colloquium (2018)
Nicosia, Cyprus, 25-27 March 2018
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1803/

Abortion in the British Isles, France and North America since 1800
University of Paris-Sorbonne, France, 6-8 November 2018
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/

Nationalism and the Postcolonial
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 10-12 May 2018
Deadline for proposals: 31 December 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1805/

Environment, Ecology, Climate and ‘Nature’ in 21st Century Scottish Literature
Special Issue of Humanities  (ISSN 2076-0787)
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-01-03/

Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis
A special issue of Open Cultural Studies, De Gruyter Open
Deadline for porposals: 15 January 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-01-03/#Marx

Sarah Hall: A Two-Day International Conference
University of Leuven, Belgium, 16-17 May 2018
Deadline for proposals: 19 January 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1805/

From Tokens of Love to Archived Relics: Private Life and Material Culture in Indian Ocean Societies
University of Reunion Island, France, 21-22 November 2018
Deadline for proposals: 30 January 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1811/#archives

The Humanities and the Challenges of the New Europe: Culture, Language, Identitiess: SELICUP 8
Alcudia, Majorca, Spain, 24-26 October 2018
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1810/

Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe
A special issue of Open Cultural Studies, De Gruyter Open
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2018-01-03/#diaspora

Women’s Spring: Feminism, Nationalism and Civil Disobedience
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, 21-23 June 2018
Deadlne for proposals: 1 April 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1806/#womens-spring

An augmented version of the Directory of GSN Members has been posted. For downloading and searching it, please click:

https://essenglish.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Directory.pdf

A survey of the activities of GSN members at ESSE-Brno has been posted as well: There will be a meeting of the Gender Studies Network, which is open to all conference participants. In addition, we are pleased to highlight that members are variously involved as lecturers and convenors. This is now available on the GSN Members page: https://essenglish.org/gsn-members/#Brno

Jane Austen Ours
The Winter 2017 issue of The ESSE Messenger
Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2017-10-12/#Austen

“A Sudden Swift Impression”: Re-Examining the Victorian Short Story
University of Brighton, UK, 27 January 2018
Deadline for proposals: 2 October 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1801/#short_story

Urban Walking – The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Other Media
Jena, Germany, 9-10 March 2018
Deadline for propsals: 15 October 2018
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1803/#flaneur

Beyond Books and Plays. Cultures and Practices of Writing in Early Modern Theatre
Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume 8, 2019
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2017-10-12/#JEMS

Staging motherhood and mothers in British drama across centuries
A thematic volume
Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2017-10-12/#motherhood

Dissonance, eclecticism and the blurring of genres in the modern and contemporary culture of the English-speaking world
University of Reims-Champagne Ardenne (URCA), France, 13 April 2018
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1804/#dissonance

British Women and Parody
Amiens, France, 6 July 2018
Deadline for proposals: 17 December 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1807/

Anglo-Iberian Relations: From the Medieval to the Modern
Zafra, Extremadura, Spain, 19-21 October 2017
Deadline for proposals: extended to 2 June 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1710/#angloiberian2017

Northernness: concepts, representations, images
Université de Mulhouse, France, 12-13 October 2017
Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1710/#Northernness

Texts and Territories: The Curious History of the Middle Ages
Call for chapters for an edited volume
Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/books-journals-2017-04-06/#textsandterritories

Beyond Crisis – Reassessing Raymond Williams’ Cultural Materialism
University of Potsdam, Germany, 19-21 January 2018
Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1801/#beyondcrisis

Constructions of Identity: New World – New Ideas
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 27-28 October 2017
Deadline for proposals: 1 September 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1710/#identity

The Postmillennial Sensibility in Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media
Košice, Slovakia, 29 June – 1 July 2017
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 20 March 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1706/#SKASE

The Discourse of Identity: II International Conference
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 8-9 June 2017
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 1 April 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1706/#identity

Global Fantastika
A special edition of Fantastika Journal
Deadline for articles: 30 April 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#global_fantastika Continue reading “Gender Studies Network – CFPs of particular relevance” →

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Women Writers Online will be free during March. This collection includes almost 400 texts written and translated by women, first published between 1526 and 1850. http://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/free-march/

In addition to WWO, the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University also has several publications that are always open access, including:

• Women Writers in Review: a collection of almost 700 reviews of and responses to works by the authors in WWO. WWiR is open access and linked with WWO, so that readers can easily navigate between both collections. http://wwp.northeastern.edu/review/

• Women Writers in Context: a collection of essays exploring topics related to early women’s writing. WWiC provides core background information for the texts in WWO and WWiR, while highlighting shared themes and historical interconnections and helping readers to discover new works by women writers. http://wwp.northeastern.edu/context/

• Teaching materials: the Women Writers Project has recently begun an initiative to partner with faculty on developing assignments and activities using WWO and WWiR. More information on the teaching partner program, along with an initial set of assignments here: http://wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/teaching/pedagogical-dev.html

Contact:

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Northeastern University
WWP@northeastern.edu

The Gender Studies Network directory of members is online now.

The directory comprises over 80 concise profiles from 18 countries. The information has been provided by the members themselves. In addition to basic data, up to five key areas of interest in the field of Gender Studies and up to five main GS publications are given. The pdf format allows detailed search. The breadth and variety of the work documented is impressive and inspiring. Readers will find many new things, e.g. specialist journals in their very domains they may not yet have heard of. The directory will certainly prove a very useful resource tool both for research and networking.

In combination with the list of “Basic Links” (cp. https://essenglish.org/gender-studies/#links) and the surveys of the volume Rewriting Academia: the Development of the Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies of Continental Europe (2015), a unique overall view of the Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe is possible, such as does not seem to exist for other disciplines also engaged in Women’s and Gender Studies.

Crime Fiction: Detection, Public and Private, Past and Present
Bath Spa University, UK, 29 June – 1 July 2017
Deadline for proposals: 13 February 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1706/#criminality

Vulnerabilities
The Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland, 6-8 July, 2017
Deadline for proposals: 19 February 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1707/#vulnerabilities

Modernist Life
Birmingham, UK, 29 June-1 July 2017
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1706/#modernist_life

Globalisation: 2017 Convention of the Postcolonial Studies Association
School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, UK, 18-20 September 2017
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1709/#PSA

Interpreting Migration: An International Multidisciplinary Conference
Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic, 28-30 April, 2017
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1704/#migration

Performing Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Lancaster University, UK, 28-29 April 2017
Deadline for proposals: 1st March 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1704/#fantastika

50 Years + – The Age of New French Theory (1966-1970)
An edited volume
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#French_theory

The Poetics and Politics of Identity
Hammamet, Tunisia, 24-25 November 2017
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2017
https://essenglish.org/conf1711/#identity

Nationalism  in Contemporary Literature and Culture
A monograph or a special issue at De Gruyter Open
Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#nationalism

Popular Mediations of Science – Critical Perspectives on Science and its Contexts
A special issue of Open Cultural Studies / De Gruyter Open
Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#science

Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Volume 10 of Katherine Mansfield Studies
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#KM

3^rd World Conference on Women’s Studies 2017
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 4-6 May
Deadline for proposals: 1 February 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1705/#WCWS2017

Gendering the Urban Imaginary: Fantasy, Affect, Transgression
Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary, 12-13 May 2017
Deadline for proposals: 6 February 2017  
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1705/#gendering

Engendering Difference: Sexism, Power and Politics
Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 12-13 May 2017
Deadline for proposals: 10 March 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1705/#gender

Landscape / cityscape : Writing / Painting / Imagining Situational Identity in British Literature and Visual Arts (18^th – 21^st centuries)
Senate House, London, UK, 19-20 October 2017
Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1710/#landscape

Women’s work: an ongoing (r)evolution (19th-21st centuries)?
Contributions are invited to a publication.
Deadline for proposals: 15 July 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#women%27s_work

The Past is Back on Stage – Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage
University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, 19-20 May, 2017
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1705/#past

Psychopharmacology and British Literature: 1650 to 1900
An edited volume to be published by Palgrave
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 February 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#psychopharmacology

Staging (inter)generational conflicts, crises and discord
Book proposal and call for abstracts:
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#generational_conflicts

Women, from Object to Subject: When the Law and Feminist Militancy Meet!
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France, 15-16 June 2017
New deadline for proposals: 1 March 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1706/#femmes2017

Desire and the ‘Expressive Eye’ in Thomas Hardy
FATHOM, the electronic journal of the French association for Thomas Hardy Studies
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#Hardy

Explorations of Space in Literature: Constructing and Deconstructing the Boundaries
Ankara, Turkey, 25-27 May 2017
Deadline for abstracts: 13 January 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1705/#space

Women and Popular Culture(s) in the Anglophone Worlds (1945-2015)
University of La Rochelle, France, 4-5 May 2017
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1705/#women_and_popular_culture(s)

The Green World in Contemporary Poetry and Philosophy: Mapping Nature in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Contributions are invited to an edited volume.
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#nature

Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe
University of Tampere, Finland, 6-8 July 2017
Deadline for proposals: 24 February 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1707/#Afroeuropeans

The American Short Story: New Horizons
Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, 5-7 October 2017
Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1710/#short_story

Transient Bodies in Anglophone Literature and Culture
University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz, Germany, 9 June 2017
Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2016
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1706/#transient_bodies

38^th APEAA Conference
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 27-29 April 2017
Deadline for proposals: 31 December 2016
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1704/#APEAA38

The Routledge Companion to Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion
To be published in 2017-18
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#political_exclusion

Women, from Object to Subject: When the Law and Feminist Militancy Meet!
International Symposium Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, 15-16 June 2017
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1706/#femmes2017

Transcending Borders and Binaries : New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture
Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 9-10 June 2017
Deadline for proposals: 20 January 2017
https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1706/#CELLS

A-Conference

Cross-dressing in fact and fiction: norms, bodies, identities

A one-day conference to be held at the University of Toulouse, France, 21 April 2017.

Deadline 15 November 2016

https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1704/#cross-dressing

B-See also the following calls for papers on the ESSE website:

New Zealand and Pacific Literatures in the Global Marketplace
Regent’s University, London, UK, 7-8 July, 2017
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2017

https://essenglish.org/cfp/conf1707/#NZ-and-Pacific-Literatures

Manifestations of Love and Hate in American Culture and Literature: 38th Conference of the American Studies Association of Turkey
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 1-3 November 2017
Deadline for proposals: 3 March 2017

https://essenglish.org/conf1711/#love_and_hate

C-See also the following call for contributions on the ESSE website:

Polish science fiction and fantasy literature
Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies is looking for submissions
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2017

https://essenglish.org/cfp/journals/#Polish_SF

ESSE13 Round Table “Creating a European Anglicists’ Gender Studies Network”

Evidently, the topic was very popular, and it attracted an engaged audience. The introductory part was devoted to foundations. First, Renate Haas (University of Kiel) highlighted Gender Studies as a European discipline.

She based her argument on the recent volume Rewriting Academia: The Development of the Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies of Continental Europe (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2015). In it, 25 experts give broadly contextualised surveys for their countries. Haas pointed out that European cooperation has proved crucial for the full academic recognition of Gender Studies and that a deeper European understanding of Gender Studies presents both a task and a great chance. Next, María Socorro Suárez Lafuente from the University of Oviedo characterised several landmark achievements. That some of their beginnings were modest and elementary may be an encouragement for new endeavours. Chaired by Florence Binard (Université Paris Diderot / Sorbonne Paris Cité), the second part focussed on the concrete practical measures of networking.

A registration form will be posted on this blog for those who wish to join the EGSN. The aim is to become more visible on a national and, more importantly, on a European level.

During the Galway round table, also a call for national correspondents was launched. Their main role will consist of collecting relevant information (written in English) in their respective countries. Participants from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Romania, and Spain have already volunteered. Candidates from other European countries are welcome! In addition, all EGSN members are invited to send us (Renate, María, Florence) information about CFPs, conferences, publications etc. on English Gender Studies that might interest other members.

A mailing list will be created in order to further intensify communication between EGSN members.

Renate Haas, haas@anglistik.uni-kiel.de
María Socorro Suárez Lafuente, lafuente@uniovi.es
Florence Binard, fbinard@eila.uni-paris-diderot.fr

This list is only preliminary and highly selective. Its aim is for a start to highlight Anglicist contributions, as the field is immense due to the strong interdisciplinary character of Women’s and Gender Studies and due to the size of Europe. (ESSE currently has more than 30 member states.) A maximum of two sites is given per country. First choice are associations or journals with an explicit Anglicist WGS orientation. If they are missing, WGS associations, journals or book series have been chosen in which scholars from English Studies play an important role or whose emphases are particularly close to English Studies. Occasionally, interdisciplinary research centres, courses of study or projects are also included.

(Please don’t forget to consult the homepages of the ESSE constituent associations.) Continue reading “Gender Studies Network – Basic Links” →

Welcome to the Gender Studies Network!

Women’s and Gender Studies have established themselves as a vibrant, highly innovative field of English Studies and contribute decisively to the crucial role the discipline plays among the humanities in Europe. The plethora of achievements makes it difficult to get an overall picture, particularly as the strong interdisciplinary orientation of Women’s and Gender Studies encourages co-operation in smaller local or regional units. Much can therefore be gained from European exchange and synergies. Women’s and Gender Studies cut across all sectors of English Studies and a network can help to bring them together for focussed work, greater international visibility and well-deserved prestige.

During ESSE 12, a first panel gathered together colleagues from all over Europe, and there was general consensus that a broad exchange of information is basic. A great opportunity is now open through this “corner” in the Messenger. In another panel during this year’s conference, RT11 <http://www.esse2016.org/roundtable.html>, we will be able to discuss the next steps and further initiatives. Even before Galway suggestions are most welcome, including additions to the Basic List of Links particularly relevant to Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies <Basic_List_of_Links>. For instance, we also envisage a directory of Anglicist researchers and research in the field.