The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites papers for the panel After the Fall, Behind the Wall - East European Representations of the German-speaking West organized in the framework of the 2012 convention on March 15-18, 2012 in Rochester, New York. Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2011.

On November 2-4, 2011 Simon Bacon (The London Consortium) organizes an interdisciplinary conference on Vampires: Myths of the Past and the Future in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London. Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2011.

On 28 June - 1 July 2010 the Department of Modern Languages at Swansea University will host a conference on The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition. For full programme and registration, please see http://www.author-translator.net.

The Swansea Unievrsity and the Sheffield University will organize a conference on German Women's Writing in its European Context, 1700-1900 (Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Conference Series) on November 25-26, 2010. Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London. Keynote speakers: Norbert Bachleitner (Vienna), Magdalene Heuser (Osnabrück/Berlin), Susanne Kord (London). Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2009.

Wer glaubt, das sei kein Thema mehr, irrt: Gender - nach wie vor sehr aktuell und relevant. Zwar - meiner Ansicht zufolge - mehr für Alltagspraktiken in Privat- und Arbeitsleben, aber sehr wohl auch in den Wissenschaften.

Die Germanistik der Universität Duisburg-Essen wendet sich mit der Konferenz Geschlechterkonstruktionen - Neue Perspektiven zu Männer- und Frauenbildern in Literatur, Sprache und Gesellschaft am 4. und 5. Juli dem Thema zu.