Category: History
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Call for Submissions – PSA 33, Special Issue on “Six Characters as World Literature”
Call for Submissions PSA XXXIII (2020) Co-editors: Enza De Francisci, Lisa Sarti, and Michael Subialka PSA, the journal of the Pirandello Society of America, is happy to announce its upcoming special issue devoted to Six Characters as World Literature (volume 33, which will be published in spring 2021). Celebrating the centenary of one of […]
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CFP – Edited Volume on ‘D’Annunzio as World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception’
‘D’Annunzio as World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception’ Edited by Elisa Segnini and Michael Subialka CALL FOR PAPERS In the last two decades, there has been a renewed interest in Decadent literature, and a reassessment of the Decadent movement in relation to a poetics of circulation and reception. Scholarship on Decadence has been especially productive in unveiling […]
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CFP – D’Annunzio as World Literature at Glasgow (MLA Symposium, June 2021)
We invite proposals for a panel at the Modern Language Colloquium in Glasgow (UK), which will be held on 17-19 June 2021, on the theme: D’Annunzio as World Literature: Translation and Reception in the Wake of Decadence As recent studies have demonstrated, translation was crucial for the development of the decadent movement, […]
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Art and Civilization I
Art that concerns the nature of civilization has never been more relevant, with the climate and COVID-19 crises. I will compare in this series two works of art from two different time periods: the early nineteenth century (Thomas Cole’s 1830s series The Course of Empire), and the early twenty-first century (Chiho Aoshima in the […]
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CFP – D’Annunzio as World Literature at Toronto MLA (2021)
D’Annunzio as World Literature: Translation and Reception in the Wake of Decadence As recent studies have demonstrated, translation was crucial for the development of the decadent movement, which originated in France but soon found disciples across and beyond Europe. Among these was Gabriele d’Annunzio, a poet, modernist experimenter and political agitator whose larger-than-life persona […]
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MLA 2021: “Breaking the Fourth Wall: Experimental Theatre from Six Characters to Today”
The Pirandello Society of America is excited to annouce the call for abstract submissions for our sponsored panel at the next MLA Convention, to be held in Toronto (January 2021). Breaking the Fourth Wall: Experimental Theatre from Six Characters to Today 2021 MLA Convention, Toronto In recognition of the 100-year anniversary of the first […]
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Society of Architectural Historians and UVA Press Launch Open-Access SAH Archipedia
A newly designed, open-access edition of SAH Archipedia, an online encyclopedia that tells the history of the U.S. through its structures and places, is now freely available to the public. The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and University of Virginia Press (UVA Press) are pleased to announce a new open-access, mobile-friendly edition of SAH Archipedia, an authoritative online encyclopedia of the […]
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The Book of ‘Thugs’
‘The Book of Thugs’ is an interactive, transmedia art piece, under the Words Matter project conceptualized, developed, and installed by the Fashioning Circuits Lab of ATEC (The School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at UT Dallas). Fashioning Circuits is a place where ‘critical-makers’ come together and both study and engage in scholarship, creative practice, and computational craft. […]
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Current Research in Digital History CFP
Call for Papers Current Research in Digital History 2019 March 14, 2020 — George Mason University, Arlington, VA Get the CRDH 2020 CFP as a PDF The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media invites submissions for the third annual Current Research in Digital History conference. Submissions should offer historical arguments and interpretations rather than showcase […]
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How To Remake (i.e. Save) the History Major in 7 Steps
People often ask me how I might, for example, remake a college history major. Given the drastic decline in students majoring in or even taking history courses, it’s time to think about remaking history, not to train future professors of history (the replication model we are now in) but because history is a vital and […]