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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

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University of Sheffield
Location: Sheffield
Salary: £30,688 per annum, Grade 7.1
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed on: 8th November 2017
Closes: 15th December 2017

Contract Type: Fixed-term with a start date between 1 September 2018 and 1 May 2019 for a period of 36 months.
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Department: Candidates are welcome to submit applications to hold this post in any of the schools or departments within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

 

Summary:

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Sheffield comprises four departments and two schools: Archaeology, History, Philosophy, Music, the School of English and the School of Languages and Cultures. We critically reflect on all aspects of human society and culture (past, present, and future) and on the process of reflection itself. We investigate cultures and languages near and far, their ideas, texts, artefacts and landscapes. We aim to create the cultural capital of the future. Working individually and collaboratively, we continually develop innovative methods of enquiry within and across disciplines. Our openness to enquiry and independence in asking and answering questions, enables further understanding, allows us to work creatively and enhances our disciplines.

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities will support up to three applicants for the current round of Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships, in one or more of the following fields: Archaeology, English, History, Philosophy, Music, Modern Languages and Cultures, and Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Applicants with a proven track record of research and high quality research proposals will be selected for support on the basis of their fit with both the Leverhulme Trust’s expectations and Departmental and Faculty strategic priorities.

Leverhulme Fellows will undertake a significant piece of publishable work during their tenure and conduct a programme of high quality research in line with the Leverhulme project proposal.

These are fixed-term appointments for a 36-month duration. The Fellowship must commence between 1 September 2018 and 1 May 2019. Appointments are dependent on the successful award of the Leverhulme Fellowship.

If you are interested in applying, you must first check that you meet the Leverhulme Trust’s eligibility criteria. These can be found here.

For further information about the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship process please go to: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/arts-and-humanities/research-innovation/early-career-fellowships/leverhulme-internal-application-process.

 

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CFP: Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment

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8th Triennial International Conference of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies

20-22 September 2018, Prague, Czech Republic

The Central European Association for Canadian Studies will hold its 8th Triennial International Conference from September 20-22, 2018 at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

The conference is intended to address the theme of Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment. Canada has been a transnational country from its inception: founded on the ideas of Métis identities, forged by the metropolis-colony relationship, and modernized under the cross-boundary flow of American goods and capital. The revival of transnationalism as a widely respected lens of scholarly research in manifest fields provides us with very useful multidisciplinary bridges to study both past and contemporary Canada. In the context of growing globalization, the perspective of transnationalism of the nation-state raises important questions about overlapping (real or imagined) affiliations of individuals, communities, corporations, and social movements.

Possible streams for proposals may include, but need not be limited to:

  • –  Transnational identities: contributions concerning diasporic communities in Canada, literature, religion in transnational context, borders in fiction, transnational literary exchange;
  • –  Transnationalism and migration: papers on (re)adaption of the multiculturalist approach, transnational citizenship, immigration discourse, media use in a transnational environment;
  • –  Transnational networks and social movements: contributions concerning transnational social or labour movements and groups in Canada;
  • –  Transnational forces in international relations: studies of Canada in supranational institutions, Canada-US relations;
  • –  Transnational history: works on borderlands, migration, the history of communities;
  • –  Transnational environmental issues: i.e. implications of climate change, transnational

    arrangements for climate change governance, eco-cosmopolitanism, environmental

    literature, the energy debate, the Arctic, staple dependence;

  • –  Transnational economic relations: papers on transnational business power, transnational

    corporations, capital movements, preferential trade agreements in a Canadian context.

    Confirmed speakers include:
    Dianne Draper, Geography Professor, University of Calgary
    Paul-André Linteau, Historian, Associated Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal Ian Ross, Métis/Ojibway playwright and author, Manitoba

    We welcome proposals for twenty-minute presentations or panels of 3 or 4 papers (ninety minutes) in the field of Canadian Studies. We especially encourage contributions that present a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.We accept proposals in English and French.

    An abstract of the proposal, maximum 250 words, with a brief CV of the author(s), should be submitted by 15 December 2017 at the latest to the conference coordinator, Magdalena Firtova at ceacs2018@gmail.com. The selected participants will be notified of their acceptance by 15 January, 2018. More information is available at the conference website www.ceacs.fsv.cuni.cz.

CFP: The New Americanist

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We are now accepting abstracts for the second issue The New Americanist (American Studies Center, University of Warsaw).

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/776822/cfp-second-issue-new-americanist

 

The New Americanist is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal publishing scholarly work on the United States and the Americas broadly considered. We are especially interested in work which includes a global perspective, introduces new critical approaches, and proposes theoretical frameworks to the study of the US. We welcome contributions from scholars from around the world and across the humanities and social sciences.

The New Americanist comes out twice yearly in association with the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Please submit previously unpublished work only. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer review.

The New Americanist is always seeking book reviews and commentary. Please contact us if you are interested in contributing at newamericanistjournal@gmail.com.

Assistant Professor in History and Literature (81144-117)

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University of Warwick – Department of History
Location: Coventry
Salary: £39,992 to £47,722 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 2nd November 2017
Closes: 3rd December 2017
Job Ref: 1696505

The Department of History at the University of Warwick seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in History and Literature. You will contribute to the design and teaching of the new undergraduate joint-honours degree of English and History (VQ32). You will conduct research in History and be prepared to work in collaboration with colleagues within the Department of History and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, and with colleagues across the University. You will be expected to build research networks in your specialism beyond the University.

We seek an outstanding scholar who specialises in the historical embeddedness of literature and culture – socially and materially – and who is keen to provide innovative teaching in this area, including the design and delivery of new modules. The successful candidate will engage with the intersection of history and literature in both their research and teaching. We welcome applications from all those working in, and critically reflecting upon, the field of cultural history, whether within the context of Britain, North America, or Global history.

You will possess a PhD or equivalent; will have an emergent or already established international reputation in an appropriate field of study; and will have relevant teaching experience. You will also demonstrate a commitment to teaching excellence. You will contribute to the teaching on the core modules of the English and History degree, and will develop new modules as your specialist research-led teaching.

All applications must be accompanied by a CV and covering letter. Writing samples may be requested from candidates during the latter stages of the recruitment process and should not be submitted with the initial application.

Please direct all informal inquiries to Professor Daniel Branch, Head of Department, at D.P.Branch@warwick.ac.uk.

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role are found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick jobs page. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button below.

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Head of the Department of Humanities

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Sheffield Hallam University – Faculty of Development and Society
Location: Sheffield
Salary: £71,654 to £78,404 per annum dependent on experience
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 6th November 2017
Closes: 4th December 2017
Job Ref: 035742

Sheffield Hallam University is one of the UK’s largest and most dynamic universities, with around 31,500 students, 4,400 staff, and an annual turnover of more than £266m. We are known for our exceptional teaching which gives students distinctive knowledge, skills, and attributes; for research which makes a real difference; for engagement that links the University to the city, region, and the world beyond; and for the quality of our services and professionalism. Our mission is simple: we transform lives. We do this by preparing our students for successful careers and life after graduation, and by creating knowledge through research and industry partnerships that provide practical solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges.

The Faculty of Development and Society are now seeking to appoint an outstanding leader to be our next Head of the Department of Humanities. With confidence and vision, you will lead a group of committed and high performing academics in the areas of English, History, Film and Performance. You will have gravitas and creativity to inspire the Department to greater achievements, and a personal track record of developing and managing a range of successful external partnerships, internal teams, and academic portfolios. A commitment to excellence in student and staff experience aligned to the values of the University is key to succeeding in this role.

We are an ambitious university determined to lead. If you would like to join us please visit www.perrettlaver.com/candidates, quoting reference 3317 for further information including details of how to apply.

Sheffield Hallam welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of age, pregnancy and maternity, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status.

For non-EU applicants, we may be able to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this job if required.

Please quote job number: 035742

Closing date: 04/12/2017 at 5.00pm

To find out more about working at Sheffield Hallam University please visit http://www.shu.ac.uk/jobs

To apply, or get more information about this post, please click on the apply button below.

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CFP: “Race, Dystopia, and American Identity”

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Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2017
Full name/name of organization: The St. John’s University Humanities Review
Contact email: saunderc@stjohns.edu

Call for papers, The St. John’s Humanities Review Spring 2018 Issue

The St. John’s University Humanities Review

Special Issue: “Race, Dystopia, and American Identity”

Deadline for Abstracts: December 15, 2018

Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2018

Editors: Scott Koski and Catherine C. Saunders

Contact email: scott.koski16@my.stjohns.edu & saunderc@stjohns.edu

“Race, Dystopia, and American Identity”

A Special Issue of The St. John’s University Humanities Review Spring 2018

Focusing on race, dystopia and how they shape or contribute to American identity, The St. John’s University Humanities Review (http://stjenglish.com/st-johns-humanities-review) is accepting submissions for its special issue, “Race, Dystopia, and American Identity” which will be published in the spring of 2018. The editors are seeking reviews, interviews, and essays that contemplate race, dystopia, and American identity through theoretical, pedagogical, and/or personal lenses. The editors are especially interested, but not limited to, reviews or criticisms that consider race, dystopia, and the role of the fool (or satiric versions of) within dystopian spaces.

The editors are also seeking book reviews on recent publications, both fiction or non-fiction, that contain themes of race, dystopia, and American identity. If interested in reviewing one of the following titles, or a recent title of your suggestion please reach out to the editors immediately.

 

We Were Eight Years and Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones

Be Fierce by Gretchen Carlson

CHOKEHOLD by Paul Butler

Borne: A Novel by Jeff VanderMeer

 

Please submit an abstract of 250 words with a working title along with a CV by December 15, 2018. The final deadline for submissions is February 15, 2018.

Submissions must be sent as Microsoft Word documents (.doc or .docx only) attached via email (i.e. not in the body text of the email) to both editors:

scott.koski16@my.stjohns.edu

saunderc@stjohns.edu

 

Submissions must be double-spaced, adhering to Chicago Manual of Style (NB w/footnotes, 16th Edition). Book reviews and interviews should be no more than 1000 words; essays and all other submissions no more than 5000 words.

Submissions may consider (but are not limited to) the following queries:

  • How does popular culture portray the intersection between race, dystopia, and American Identity (e.g. NBC’s This is Us, ABC’s Scandal, and Netflix’s Orange is the New Black or House of Cards)?
  • Does the role of the fool (wise, trickster, clown etc.) necessarily mean comic relief/a figure of levity, or could we rewrite the narrative of this term by also including those who embody idealism in the face of dystopia?
  • How does satire or humor complicate dystopia, especially in conjunction with race?
  • How might current media narratives—such as the pervasive narratives of racial tension, political conflict, or sexual assault—connect dystopia and American identity?
  • How do race and dystopia affect classroom environment? How might educators engage race and dystopia to create inclusive classroom environments?
  • How might classroom engagement, or avoidance, of race and dystopia affect American Identity?

CFP: 10th Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS)

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Deadline for submissions: January 5, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Swedish Association for American Studies
Contact email: saasconference2018@gmail.com

10th Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS)

“Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America”

Stockholm, September 28–30, 2018

Call for Panels and Papers

The Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS) will hold its 10th biennial conference in Stockholm on September 28–30, 2018. Confirmed keynote speakers are David R. Roediger (University of Kansas), Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth), and Frida Stranne (Halmstad University).

We hereby invite proposals on any subject in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. The overarching theme for the conference is “Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America,” which highlights central tensions in American culture and politics: the relation between isolationism and internationalism, openness and closure, migration and borders, exceptionalism and universalism. We particularly welcome submissions engaging with this broader theme.

SAAS is an academic network that encourages scholarship in the multidisciplinary field of American Studies. SAAS seeks to develop a critical understanding of the role, position and meaning of the United States and Canada. In Sweden, research about North America is conducted in many different disciplines; the SAAS conference thus functions as an important forum for interdisciplinary exchange and provides American Studies scholars with an opportunity to meet and network. We welcome panels from junior and senior scholars on any topic related to the study of the United States and North America from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

 

  • Art
  • Visual Culture
  • Film and Media Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literature
  • Musicology
  • Popular Culture
  • Gender Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Political Science
  • Religion
  • US or North American History

The year 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of president Woodrow Wilson’s famous “Fourteen Point Speech,” where he described his vision for a world of peace and unity. Wilson’s first “point” was a call for “Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.” Nine months after the US entrance in World War I, the principles of free trade, democracy, and national autonomy formed the foundation for the postwar peace negotiations and the establishment of the League of Nations. Although Thorstein Veblen noted just one year later that “the President’s proud words have gone whistling down the winds,” Wilson’s internationalism stand in sharp contrast to the current president Donald Trump’s agenda of “America First.” As Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen has pointed out, these changes are not only political but also aesthetic, ultimately affecting the public discourse through manipulations of language and culture. Notions of United States internationalism or isolationism are intimately connected to American exceptionalism, to immigration, race, and ethnicity, and fundamentally to the perception of America at home and abroad. The theme of this year’s SAAS conference invites participants to engage both with a national American and a global horizon in exploring notions of “Open Covenants” in history, politics, literature, film, cultural studies, and other areas of American Studies.

Proposals for Panels and Individual Papers

In order to submit a panel proposal, please provide us with a title for the panel, the name, email address and brief bio of the panel convener, and a description of the topic (200-500 words). If the convener already has one or more panelists, please also provide the name, email and bio of individual presenters (max 100 words) as well as a title and abstract (of 200-250 words) for each presentation. Panel proposals should be sent to saasconference2018@gmail.com. Deadline: January 5, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to panel conveners by January 15, 2018. Panels that have been accepted will then be posted on our website, and a separate call for papers will be announced for these panels, with a later deadline, in consultation with the panel conveners.

In order to submit an individual paper, please send in an abstract (200-250 words) with a title that clearly outlines the topic of the paper, along with a brief biographical description of the presenter (max 100 words), including address details. Paper proposals should be sent to saasconference2018@gmail.com. Deadline: January 5, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to individual paper presenters by February 1, 2018.

For more information about the conference, please visit our website: www.saasinfo.se/conference.

CFP: Washington Irving Society (ALA 2018)

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Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Washington Irving Society
Contact email: Tracy_Hoffman@baylor.edu

CFP: Early American Literature and Food Culture (ALA 2018)

The Washington Irving Society invites proposals connecting Irving and his contemporaries with food culture studies for the ALA Conference in San Francisco, May 24-27, 2018. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the history of particular foods, the politics of the kitchen, agricultural practices, cross-cultural food encounters, mealtime rituals, hunger, or overconsumption as represented in early American literature. All critical frameworks are welcome. Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words plus a short CV to skeck@stlawu.edu by January 15, 2018.

CFP: Christmas Traditions in American Literature (ALA 2018)

Washington Irving’s Sketch Book contains a handful of Christmas stories set at an English manor called Bracebridge Hall. These Christmas sketches influenced Charles Dickens, among others, and brought old English traditions into America’s Christmas consciousness. The sketches inspired Irving fans to host Bracebridge dinners, and these festivities continue almost 200 years later. In fact, an extravagant Bracebridge production occurs every December at Yosemite National Park. The Washington Irving Society invites papers from participants of such dinners, Irving scholars, and experts in other American texts dealing with the holidays for an ALA round table discussion of Christmas traditions. Please send an abstract of 250-300 words and a short CV to Tracy_Hoffman@baylor.edu by January 15, 2018.

For further information about the American Literature Association’s conference, held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, May 24-27, 2018, please consult the ALA website: http://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/.

CFP: Southern Cultures Special Issue on Music and Protest

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CFP: Southern Cultures Special Issue on Music and Protest

Southern Cultures, the award-winning quarterly of the Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, musicians, and visual artists for our Music and Protest Issue, to be published Fall 2018. We will be accepting submissions for this special issue through December 1, 2017, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/submit .

This call aims to gather work that documents and understands southern music’s relationships to protest and resistance, both historically and in its present moment, and in the voices of musicians, scholars, critics, audiences, visual artists, and activists, broadly defined. We understand southern music to exist across many genres, communities, and collaborations and seek to expand the conversation beyond the sometimes-limiting lenses of “traditional music” and “protest songs.” To that end, we are less interested in stereotypes, revisiting past debates, or fetishized music culture than we are in the interaction of peoples and cultures with the broader forces of political, social, historical, and economic change at work in the South.

Submissions can explore any topic or theme related to southern music and protest, with a special interest in pieces that seek new understandings of the region and its musics, identify current communities and concerns, and address its ongoing struggles for justice and expression. We welcome explorations of the region in the forms Southern Cultures publishes: scholarly articles, memoir, interviews, surveys, photo essays, and shorter feature essays.

Possible topics and questions to explore might include (but are certainly not limited to):

  • How have musicians and audiences in the American South aligned or unaligned their musics with their politics and ethics, both historically and today, within both formal and vernacular contexts? How has music addressed, rectified, or exacerbated oppressive situations over the course of southern history?
  • Is music inherently political or apolitical, and do musicians have political responsibilities or not? How do artists and listeners engage with southern politics and social justice through music beyond the confines of programmatic “protest music” with explicit political content? What other strategies of political engagement and action through music are possible and fruitful?
  • How are musicians responding, both within their art and beyond, to the current cultural and political climates of the South? Topics might include discourses related to Black Lives Matter; arguments about the removal of Confederate monuments; the recently increased visibility and violence of white nationalists in the South; HB2 and debates about gender and transgender rights; the acrimonious 2016 presidential election and its aftermath; immigration and the U.S.–Mexico border; and the military, national security, and the ongoing “War on Terror.”
  • As the South assumes an increasingly diverse and global identity, how is the music of (or about) recent immigrant, refugee, and transplanted communities engaging or disengaging with articulations of protest, social justice, and identity? How is the music and musical consumption of recent arrivals changing the textures of southern music?
  • How have new technologies and media—allowing for the increasingly rapid creation, sampling and editing, dissemination, and critique of music both new and old—changed the capacity, pace, and immediacy of musical protest and resistance in the South and beyond?

As we also publish digital content, we are able to feature select essays with video, audio, and interactive visual content. We encourage creativity in coordinating print and digital materials in submissions and ask that authors submit any potential digital materials with their essay or introduction/artist’s statement.

We encourage authors to gain familiarity with the tone, scope, and style of our journal before submitting. Those whose institutions subscribe to Project Muse can read past issues for free via http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/ . To read our current issue, access our submission guidelines, or browse our content, please visit www.southerncultures.org .

CFP: “Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America”

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10th Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS)

“Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America”

Stockholm, September 28–30, 2018 Call for Panels and Papers

The Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS) will hold its 10th biennial conference in Stockholm on September 28–30, 2018. Confirmed keynote speakers are David R. Roediger (University of Kansas), Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth), and Frida Stranne (Halmstad University).

We hereby invite proposals on any subject in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. The overarching theme for the conference is “Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America,” which highlights central tensions in American culture and politics: the relation between isolationism and internationalism, openness and closure, migration and borders, exceptionalism and universalism. We particularly welcome submissions engaging with this broader theme.

SAAS is an academic network that encourages scholarship in the multidisciplinary field of American Studies. SAAS seeks to develop a critical understanding of the role, position and meaning of the United States and Canada. In Sweden, research about North America is conducted in many different disciplines; the SAAS conference thus functions as an important forum for interdisciplinary exchange and provides American Studies scholars with an opportunity to meet and network. We welcome panels from junior and senior scholars on any topic related to the study of the United States and North America from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Art
Visual Culture
Film and Media Studies Cultural Studies
Literature
Musicology
Popular Culture
Gender Studies
Anthropology
Political Science
Religion
US or North American History

The year 2018 marks the one hundredth anniversary of president Woodrow Wilson’s famous “Fourteen Point Speech,” where he described his vision for a world of peace and unity. Wilson’s first “point” was a call for “Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.” Nine months after the US entrance in World War I, the principles of free trade, democracy, and national autonomy formed the foundation for the postwar peace negotiations and the establishment of the League of Nations. Although Thorstein Veblen noted just one year later that “the President’s proud words have gone whistling down the winds,” Wilson’s internationalism stand in sharp contrast to the current president Donald Trump’s agenda of “America First.” As Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen has pointed out, these changes are not only political but also aesthetic, ultimately affecting the public discourse through manipulations of language and culture. Notions of United States internationalism or isolationism are intimately connected to American exceptionalism, to immigration, race, and ethnicity, and fundamentally to the perception of America at home and abroad. The theme of this year’s SAAS conference invites participants to engage both with a national American and a global horizon in exploring notions of “Open Covenants” in history, politics, literature, film, cultural studies, and other areas of American Studies.

Proposals for Panels and Individual Papers

In order to submit a panel proposal, please provide us with a title for the panel, the name, email address and brief bio of the panel convener, and a description of the topic (200-500 words). If the convener already has one or more panelists, please also provide the name, email and bio of individual presenters (max 100 words) as well as a title and abstract (of 200- 250 words) for each presentation. Panel proposals should be sent to saasconference2018@gmail.com. Deadline: January 5, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to panel conveners by January 15, 2018. Panels that have been accepted will then be posted on our website, and a separate call for papers will be announced for these panels, with a later deadline, in consultation with the panel conveners.

In order to submit an individual paper, please send in an abstract (200-250 words) with a title that clearly outlines the topic of the paper, along with a brief biographical description of the presenter (max 100 words), including address details. Paper proposals should be sent to saasconference2018@gmail.com. Deadline: January 5, 2018.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to individual paper presenters by February 1, 2018.

For more information about the conference, please visit our website: www.saasinfo.se/conference.