Monthly Archives: December 2015

Adaptations and History – Call for Papers

The 11th Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies
St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK
26-27 September, 2016

Papers are invited on any aspect of adaptation studies but proposals on adaptations and history are particularly welcome. These might include: the history of adaptations, adapting history, biopics and adaptations, adaptation as historical appropriation, adaptations and period drama or heritage adaptations. Proposals (between 50 to 100 words) should be sent to: Deborah Cartmell (djc@dmu.ac.uk) and Imelda Whelehan (Imelda.Whelehan@utas.edu.au) by 1 June, 2016.

Magna Carta Panels at the NZ Historical Association Conference

The New Zealand Historical Association (NZHA) will hold a series of panels on Magna Carta at their conference 2-4 December at the University of Canterbury. The call for paper proposals deadline was June 15th.

There will be an exhibition of the University of Canterbury copy of the Magna Carta to coincide with the conference. Plans are well advanced for a postgraduate symposium to be held on 1 December. There are also plans for a ‘mock trial’ of King John’s barons to take place during the conference and a re-enactment of the signing by the society for creative anachronism.

Effaced from History? Facial Difference and its Representation from Antiquity to the Present Day – Call For Papers

Effaced from History? Facial Difference and its Representation from Antiquity to the Present Day
The University of Winchester
31 March – 2 April, 2016

Papers of 20 minutes are invited that address any aspect of the theme of facial difference, whether through birth attributes, illness, injury or deliberate modifications such as tattooing, piercing, masks and make-up. Papers should speak to one or more of the key themes of staring and visibility, language, and/or materiality.

Subjects might include, but are not limited to:

  • Medical approaches to facial difference
  • Gender and difference
  • War, violence and punishment
  • Visual culture — sculpture, painting, photos…
  • Literary responses (inc. drama)
  • Shame and stigma
  • Print media — news items, sensationalism, exhibiting the face
  • Congenital and acquired differences
  • Self-inflicted or faked differences
  • Queering the face — what is ‘normal’?

If you prefer to offer a poster, we welcome submissions in that form as well.

The conference will open with a public lecture from Suzannah Biernoff on the evening of 31 March. Further keynote speakers to be announced.

Please send your abstract or poster outline (max 200 words) and a short bio (max 100 words) to emily.cock@winchester.ac.uk by Friday 11 December, 2015.