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• 16 déc 2013

  14 mar 2014

  15 déc 2014

  Chicago

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Academic Program Grants

  2014 Terra Foundation Academic Awards, Fellowships & Grants

  These grants provide support for symposia, colloquia, and scholarly convenings on American art that take place in Chicago or outside the United States; or that take place within the United States and examine American art within an international context and/or include a significant number of international participants.

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• 30 sep 2013

  Harrisburg

  Call for papers - Representation

  45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

  Between Theatre and Cinema: Intermediality and Aesthetic Renewal

  This panel seeks to explore the aesthetic and theoretical ties between cinematic and performance texts when a play is filmed. Proposals in French or in English on the following topics are welcomed: dialectical implications resulting from the filming of the stage; differences between what is commonly called the “film de théâtre” and its fictional or documentary homologues; interdisciplinary approaches generated by the broad range of relationships between film and theater. 

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• 20 sep 2013

  Chicago

  Call for papers - Modern

  Sounds of Freedom: Music and Performance Across the Black Atlantic World

  The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal in partnership with the Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University, announce a Call for Papers on “Sounds of Freedom: Music and Performance Across the Black Atlantic World” for a special issue of journal. The Editors are seeking papers that explore the nexus between music and performance over place and time, showing through myriad examples how music and performance of diverse sites of the African diaspora is critical in the making of the modern Black Atlantic living tradition.

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• 29 mar 2013

  30 mar 2013

  New Haven

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Beyond French New Languages for African Diasporic Literature

  In recent years, Africans from former French colonies in both the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan regions have been settling in countries other than France and writing in languages other than French. This break with the colonial and postcolonial habits of la Françafrique – the familiar bind of metropole and colony – has been going on for years and is now ripe for analysis. Writing in German, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, English, and other languages, these authors suggest new patterns of diasporic belonging and raise new questions about the postcolonial world. Issues of immigration, language choice, cosmopolitanism, global citizenship, and world literature will be addressed.

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