MONDAY, 14 NOVEMBER, 2011
Dear Colleagues,
As agreed, this year our School sessions will be focused on the topic of "American Drama: genesis, history, general trends, genre palette, current status". Prof. Vysotska has kindly suggested the year's agenda along the lines of which the discussion will take place (see here). The first session will be held on Dec., 15 at 4.30 p.m. at the Institute of Literature, room 313.
SATURDAY, 27 AUGUST, 2011
Dear Colleagues,
The International Symposium "AMERICAN SHORT STORY: GENRE THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE (on the verge of the 20th – 21st centuries)" will be held on September 15, 2011 in Kyiv (Shevchenko Institute of Literature, the National Academy of Sciences: Kyiv , Hrushevskogo str. 4, third floor, Conference Room). The Symposium will start on Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. Registration of participants – on Sept. 15, starting from 9 a.m. (Hrushevskogo str., 4, room 303).
The cost of publication in the CALSU Yearbook of the Symposium proceedings collected by the Organizing Committee after presentation and discussion at the Symposium will be covered by participants (20 UAH/page). Unfortunately, the Organizing Committee won’t have the opportunity to compensate for participants’ travel costs.
WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE, 2011
The Center for American Literary Studies in Ukraine (CALSU) invites American literature explorers – researchers, lecturers, postgraduate students – to participate at the international symposium AMERICAN SHORT STORY: GENRE THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE (on the threshold of the 20th – 21st centuries) to be held on September 15, 2011 at Shevchenko Institute of Literature, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (room 316).
Please, send your suggestions for presentation topics (plenary presentation – 20 minutes, sections – 12 minutes) accompanied by abstracts (max. 1000 characters) before July 1, 2011 to the address atkol@mail.ru. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to reject proposals that do not meet requirements of the research convention.
More information available here.
WEDNESDAY, 6 APRIL, 2011 We will meet for the April session of the School on Thu, 21st at 5 p.m. to continue discussing the phenomenon of the American short story. Please, check the previously distributed topics for discussion and sources in the announcement below. As ever, we meet at Fulbright office, Hrushevskogo str., 4, room 305.
TUESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY, 2011 On May 27, 2011 the Black Sea State Petro Mohyla University holds the Ukrainian Research Conference "Peripheral and Local Identities in Literature". In order to take part in the conference, it is necessary to submit the presentation and send information about the author before April 25, 2011 to: nlebedintseva(at)yahoo.com (Lebedyntseva Natalia), phone: (0512) 76-92-60, +38097-564-0601.
TUESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY, 2011 On June 15-17, 2011, Shevchenko Institute of Literature at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine hosts the 11th International Conference of Young Researchers. Topics – theory of literature, history of the Ukrainian literature, foreign literature, comparative literature, literary sources and text studies. Proceedings will be published. The deadline for submitting materials – April 30, 2011. E-mail: conference4yr(at)gmail.com (subject – "conference").
TUESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY, 2011 The 7th International Chycherin Readings "World Classics in the Literary and Critical Discourse of the 21st Century" to be held at Lviv National Ivan Franko University on October 20-21, 2011. Contact Matsevko-Bekerska Lidia, tel. (032) 2394-582, e-mail: svitlit(at)franko.lviv.ua.
TUESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY, 2011 Polish Association for American Studies announces 2011 Annual Conference "American Experience – the Experience of America" to be held in Gdansk on October 19-21, 2011. Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2011. Please submit a proposal of up to 300 words for each individual presentation to paas_experience(at)ug.edu.pl. More detailed info: http://paas.org.pl/?page_id=34.
TUESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY, 2011 Odesa National University named after I.I.Mechnikov invites you to participate at the International Conference "Development Vectors of the 20th Century Literary Process and Research Methods" dedicated to Victor Zinchenko to be held on May 5-7, 2011. Applications shall be accepted through March 15, 2011 at: sapo_juli(at)mail.ru, vsylantyeva(at)mail.css.od.ua, kafedralit(at)mail.ru.
TUESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2011 11th Biennial European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "Crossing the Borders: Reality, Desire and Imagination in Australian, New Zealand and the Pacific lives, literatures and cultures" will take place at the UNIVERSITY OF PRESOV, SLOVAKIA on SEPTEMBER 12-15, 2011. Deadlines: Please e-mail 250-word abstracts to Jaroslav Kusnir jkusnir(at)fhpv.unipo.sk by March 30, 2011. Registration fee: 150 Euro. For more info, visit www.easa-australianstudies.net.
TUESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2011 The next conference of the Russian Society for American Culture Studies will take place on December, 2-9, 2011. The theme: "Urbanism in American Culture". Deadline for the panel proposals – March, 15. Papers proposals will be accepted until September 10. More exact information will be available on the web site www.rsacs.org.
TUESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2011
Dear colleagues!
The Ñenter for American Literary Studies in Ukraine invites you to the presentation of the new scholar publications:
- The CALSU yearbook, Issues 5-6, "American Modernism: context, figures, the post-postmodern perspective".
- Book by PhD, Prof. N.O.Vysotska "Unity of the Plural. American Literature at the End of the 19th-beginning of the 21st Centuries in the Context of Cultural Pluralism". (Kyiv, KNLU, 2010).
The presentation will take place on February, 3 at 3 p.m. in the meeting room of the Institute of Literature NASU (4, Hryshevskogo str.).
CALSU Annual Reporting Conference will take place before the presentation (at 2 p.m.).
SUNDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2010 The Russian Society for American Culture Studies announces the 36th International Conference "Nature and Sustainability of Culture", which will take place at Moscow State University on December 3-10, 2010. For the preliminary agenda and options of participation, please visit www.rsacs.org.
WEDNESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2010 CALSU supports and invites its members for active participation in the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Theoretical Symposium on the topic "Contact Zones: literature and mass culture", which will be conducted by the Literary Theory Department of the Institute of Literature at the NAS of Ukraine on October, 28-29, 2010 at the Institute of Literature (Kyiv, Hrushevskogo str., 4). For detailed information, visit http://www.ilnan.gov.ua/conference.htm.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 BelAAS announces the 19th International Conference “Unity in Diversity: Effects of the Past and Present” to be held at the Department of World Literature of Minsk State Linguistics University on May 13-15, 2010. Deadline for the proposals: April 5, 2010. See more details here.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 The Ukrainian Inter-University Research Shakespearian Center invites you to take part in the International Research Conference “(Inter)National Shakespeare: Reception Vectors”, which will be held on April, 27-28, 2010 at the Institute of Philology, National Shevchenko University (Kyiv). Applications are accepted till March, 10. See more details here.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 The Black Sea State Petro Mohyla University (Mykolaiv) invites to take part on May, 14, 2010 in the research conference “History and Memory in the Space of Literature”. For participation in the conference, it is necessary to send the presentation and information about the author before April, 15, 2010. See more details here.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 On October, 7-8, 2010, the International Research Conference "Poetics of the Mystical" will take place in Chernivtsi National Fedkovych University. To take part in the conference, send your applications before September, 5, 2010. See more details here.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 The Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics of the National Aviation University and Linguistic Society "Ukraine-Language-World" invite you to participate in the 3rd International Scientific Conference “Language, Literature and American Studies Problems” on April 21-23, 2010 in Kyiv, which will be held at the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics of the National Aviation University. See more details here.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 The Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association (TWWA) announces the International Whitman Symposium "‘In Paths Untrodden’: The 1860 Leaves of Grass" to be held at Universita di Macerata on June 18-19, 2010. One-page abstracts should be sent by 21 April, 2010. See more details here.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 An Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Conference "TEXTING OBAMA: politics/poetics/popular culture" will be held on September, 7-10 2010 at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Proposals should be emailed to textingobama@mmu.ac.uk by no later than 26 March 2010. See more details here.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 American Studies Symposium "To Honor Emory Elliott: “American Literary History in a New Key”" will be held from September 24 till September 28, 2010. Organized by the Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association (SSASAA), and cosponsored by the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), the symposium is open to alumni of the Salzburg Global Seminar as well as other individuals working in the field of American literature. See more details here.
MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 The Romanian Association for American Studies and the Fulbright Commission invite you to attend the 2010 RAAS – Fulbright Conference "The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti)Utopian" to be held on October 7-9, 2010. Proposals for 20-minute papers should be submitted by March 15th, 2010 in the form of an abstract of 150-200 words. See more details here.
SUNDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2009
The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) devotes itself to the study of the avant-garde and modernism in Europe within a global setting, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The network promotes interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics. EAM welcomes all scholars engaged in these areas of research to participate in its bi-annual conferences and to contribute to its open-source bibliography. All EAM initiatives, including its book series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, are trilingual (English, French and German).
The next EAM conference High and Low will be held at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan in Poland from 9-11 September 2010. Visit the conference website www.eam-europe.ugent.be
MONDAY, 6 APRIL 2009
Dept. of American Literature and Culture, University of Lodz announces the International Conference “Theory That Matters: What Practice after Theory?” to be held on April, 7-9 2010.
Please, send a paper proposal and 200 word abstract, by 10 January 2010, to Dr. Malgorzata Myk (goskamyk(at)gmail.com) and Dr. Kacper Bartczak (kacper(at)uni.lodz.pl).
FRIDAY, MARCH 13 2009 Electronic journals e-Journals USA produced by U.S. Department of State Office of International Information Programs (IIP) are available at www.america.gov/publications/ejournalusa.html. The most recent edition is Multicultural Literature in the United States Today (February 2009).
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 2008 Internet resource LitAkcent (www.litakcent.com) invites CALSU members for cooperation. Such cooperation implies diverse opportunities, the basic option being publication of literary research articles, 5-10 thousand characters, in Ukrainian. Please, visit this resource and consider the suggested opportunities. Contact person: Natalia Ksondzyk, ksondzyk_n(at)ukr.net
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 2008 Dear colleagues, within the framework of collaboration between CALSU and the Publishing House "Nauka", materials of the collection "Discourse of Romanticism in the American Literature" (4th volume of "American Literary Studies") have been published on the open global educational resource Connexions (cnx.org, Rice University, TX, USA). We ask authors of the collection to read the following information.
