CALL FOR PROPOSALS CUNY’s 16th Annual IT Conference Thursday and Friday, November 30 and December 1 @ John Jay College of Criminal Justice Instructional/Information Technology in CUNY: Opening Access The escalating costs of higher education—both tuition and the collateral expenses of textbooks and course materials—have widespread effects. With the announcement of the Excelsior Scholarship and […]

The problematic use of ideas established in nineteenth century, using medieval literature and culture, to define nascent senses of nationalism lingers over the field of Medieval Studies. The nineteenth century saw the construction of Western European national identity using, for example, texts such as the Chanson de Roland, the Nibelungenleid, and the works of Thomas Malory. However, […]

Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel by SEPTEMBER 30, 2017. Stefania Porcelli, Luisanna Sardu Landscapes of Emotions in Italian Literature In light of expanding literary theories contributing to a better understanding of emotions and affects in literary texts, this panel will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss various new and important perspectives […]

CALL FOR PAPERS An Interdisciplinary Conference October 27, 2017   Department of Comparative Literature The Graduate Center, CUNY New York, NY   While often conceived of as a mere edge, a periphery is, etymologically, a space that encircles and contains. Historically, this constitutive ambiguity has led to an impoverished notion of periphery in which what occurs on […]

Activism and the Intersectional Internet: Power and Resistance A half-day symposium hosted by the GC Digital Fellows May 17, 2017, The Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submissions: Friday, April 14th, 2017 The GC Digital Fellows invite submissions for inclusion in a half-day symposium on digital activism that […]

The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is now accepting applications for our 2019 host institution. The conference is an itinerant, interdisciplinary graduate student conference focusing on the Middle Ages, and is entirely organized and run by graduate students. Vagantes is a unique opportunity to showcase the Medieval Studies community at your institution, to gain valuable […]

Ovid Across Europe: Vernacular Translations of the Metamorphoses in the Middle Ages & Renaissance  University of Bristol, 28-29 September 2017 From the 12th-century onwards, Ovid’s Metamorphoses exerted an enduring influence on Western culture. The capacity of this poem to be constantly present in our world is due to its innate transformative ability. In the Middle Ages, the Metamorphoses was often read […]

Shift, Issue 10, Call for Papers Submission deadline: March 22, 2017 http://shiftjournal.org Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture welcomes academic papers, exhibition and book reviews, translations of important texts into English, as well as other texts—of traditional or experimental format— addressing issues relevant to our visual and material world from current graduate students. […]

The Teaching and Learning Center invites members of the CUNY community to contribute to Visible Pedagogy’s “Teach@CUNY Series,“ which spotlights actual assignments, activities, and approaches being used in CUNY classrooms. (more…)

“Methods?: A Workshop on Methodology, Field Research, and Theory” Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Theory Workshop: Methods? April 6, 2017, The Graduate Center Room 5414, All Day Hosted by SPTSA: Social and Political Theory Graduate Student Association About the Workshop/Mini Conference The Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop/Mini Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Social […]