The Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece in cooperation with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), invites scholars to submit proposals for the international conference to be held in Athens between November 27-29, 2014. The topic chosen for this edition isThe War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities. Keynote speakers who have confirmed their participation are Professor Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia) and Professor Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University). Deadline for paper submissions: June 30, 2014. For further details, please click here.

The conference will take place in Seville, Spain between May 28 and May 30, 2012. The topic chosen for this edition is The Romance of Theater: American Drama and Its Stories. Plenary speakers who have confirmed their attendance and participation are Harry Elam, Naomi Wallace, Christopher Durang, Johan Callens, Bob Vorlicky, David Savran and David Roman. For further details, please click here.

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  - CALL FOR PAPERS The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, invites you to the Expressions of the Self: Autobiography and Its Avatars Conference to be held in Iasi on 24-26 September 2009.  Recognised since the late 18th century as a literary genre on its own, autobiography has proven to be the testing ground for a plethora of critical issues: authorship, selfhood, identity, cultural representation, the distinction between fact and fiction, memory, subjectivity, morality, intentionality, etc. In its fuzzy definitions and alternative denominations, autobiography has become increasingly prominent as a popular cultural phenomenon that…