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Waterscapes: Postcolonial Perspectives on the Environment and Place in Crisis (11/01/2011; 03/29 - 04/01/2012)

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Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 9:09pm
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference Providence, Rhode Island

Recently, it has become clear that environmental degradation is the biggest hazard facing life on planet earth and has a long colonial and imperial history. Interestingly, ecocriticism as a field has developed mainly in American Studies. But if planetary environmental issues affect the entire planet, how are they represented in literature that is not written in the U.S.?

Hyperaesthetic Culture

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Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 5:41pm
Transformations

We live in a competitive sensory environment. The marketing of consumer goods continually appeals to taste, touch, vision, hearing, and smell, compelling other practices to engage our senses in what David Howes describes as a 'hyperaesthetic culture'. This environment is saturated with alluring and intense sense experience that proliferates as technologies such as ultrasonography, satellites and computer applications provide access to things previously beyond human perception. Bodies are cultivated to be aesthetically appealing and optimally available to the senses for commercial, medical and security purposes.

Video Games as Text; Text as Play

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Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 5:19pm
University of Wyoming Department of English

Video Games as Text; Texts as Play

The University of Wyoming is accepting abstracts for its upcoming graduate student conference: Video Games as Text; Texts as Play. The conference will be held the second weekend of April, Thursday the 12th to Saturday the 14th. Abstracts will be due by January 15th. Our keynote speaker will be Judd Ruggill, Assistant Professor, Arizona State.

-ality call for submissions

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Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 7:20am
-ality fiction journal

-ality is a new electronic fiction publication. We are looking for submissions from all authors that relate to any of the -ality words: reality, equality, spirituality, sexuality, corporeality, and so on.

The journal is edited by two graduates from the State University of New York at Binghamton, joined by Richard Burian, a scholar in linguistics and language who hails from Australia, taught in Hungary, and now resides in Canada.

We ask for fiction submissions of no more than 8,500 words, or three 1,000 word flash fiction submissions. Our reading period opens September 1st and ends December 15th for the first issue. Our Spring reading period opens February 1st and closes April 15th.

[UPDATE] "DESIRE: FROM EROS TO EROTICISM" NOVEMBER 10-11, 2011 DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!!

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 9:13pm
CUNY Graduate Center (Comparative Literature Department)

Desire: From Eros to Eroticism
Keynote Speakers: Peter Brooks &David Konstan

The students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center present an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on November 10-11, 2011.

Update: NeMLA March 15-18, 2012: The Literary response to war – What is it worth?

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 7:54pm
Jeffery C. Blanchard / Northeast Modern Language Association

Deadline fast approaching! September 30, 2011. This panel will seek to address the role Modern and contemporary literature play during wartime and whether or not they provide a culturally valuable response to conflict. As we move further into the 21st century, and our wars deepen as well, the need to examine our representations of war in literature become more important. Wartime generates a need for many things, but is literature one of them? In a world where science and the military dominate by taking swift, concrete actions during war, it is critical for our discipline to consider the significance of wartime literature and its potential value as a medium of response. Does literature facilitate recovery from trauma?

Call For Papers--Imaginatio et Ratio

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 6:15pm
Imaginatio et Ratio: A Journal of Art and Theology

Imaginatio et Ratio is an E-journal focusing on the arts and theology. Imaginatio et Ratio was started in the hopes that it could serve a growing community of artists and thinkers and strives to present accessible but high quality art, literature and theology/philosophy--as well as news/events, interviews and book, film, art and music reviews. We are looking for contributions for the inaugural issue of the journal.
Submission Guidelines:
In general, we welcome the submission of essays/articles, interviews, reviews (book, film, music, art), creative writing, and art that attempts to engage Christian theology in some fashion.
Style and Format:

Revisiting Tex(x)ture in Literature

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 3:30pm
Rasmus R. Simonsen/ACCUTE

In an essay titled "Outing Texture" Renu Bora distinguishes between texture as "the surface resonance or quality of an object or material" and texxture (two x's) as "the stuffness of material structure." Put differently, we can say that texxture denotes the historicity of texture. In Eve Sedgwick's rendering of Bora's concept, texxture is thought to be "the kind of texture that is dense with offered information about how, substantially, historically, materially, it came into being." We might then ask: how does the dialectic of texture/texxture influence literary productions and their reception?

Call for Papers: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture-SWTXPCA 2012 Feb-8-11

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 2:26pm
Rob Weiner/Texas Tech University

Call for Papers: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture-SWTXPCA 2012

Please make plans to attend our 33rd Annual Conference
February 8-11, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras NW,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87102
Tel: +1 505 842 1234 or 888-421-1442
http://www.swtxpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: December 1st 2011

The SW/TX PCA/ACA area chair invites papers on Comics, Graphic Novels and Popular Culture.

Any Aspect of Comics and Graphic Novels in Popular Culture will be considered.

RUST BELT (Great Lakes/ Great Books)

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 2:19pm
Northeast Modern Language Association

!!NEW DEADLINE!! !!NEW DEADLINE!! !!NEW DEADLINE!!

Seminar Session at NeMLA 2012 (Rochester) considers 'Rust Belt' as place/condition/plotline. Session examines literary responses to urban centers, presupposing industrial stagnation & political intransigence (Cleveland Rochester Toronto Detroit/Windsor Duluth) Looks to fiction by Wideman, Susan Power, Ondaatje, Jeffery Allen, M. Attwood, Eugenides, Alex Shakar. Asks how writers define Rust Belt? 'Region?' 'Local epic?' 'Workshop of the Nation?' or 'Republic's Slop Sink?' Have its writers produced 'last books of 20th century?' 300-500 words & bio or questions to:

M. Antonucci (mantonucci@keene.edu) by September 25, 2011.

[UPDATE] Representing Eire: Ideology in Irish Cinema from John Ford to John Carney, NeMLA March 15-18, 2012

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 1:32pm
NeMLA

While the Abbey Theatre is perhaps the most familiar public context through which the nationalistic and aesthetic struggle to shape an identity for a (post)colonial Ireland was formed, expatriate Irish used the bourgeoning film industry to represent Ireland from an international perspective. Recent commercial successes have ranged from the international co-production of The Wind That Shakes the Barley, winning British director Ken Loach a Palme d'Or, to the Dublin grassroots construction of John Carney's Oscar-winning Once, but awards aside, a tension still exists between the Ireland of filming destination and the Ireland of film origination.

UPDATE: CFP - Disability Studies and Virginia Woolf - Panel for the 22nd Annual Conference on Woolf (2012)

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 12:51pm
Sherri Foster, Washington College

CFP - Disability Studies and Virginia Woolf - Panel for the 22nd Annual Conference on Woolf (2012) contact email: sfoster2@washcoll.edu This panel seeks 20-minute papers that examine representations of disability in Woolf's writings or use her work to think about the relationship between disability and literary modernism or literary studies more generally. It is a special panel for "Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf", the 22nd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf to be held from 7-10 June 2012 at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Updated Deadline for Abstracts: September 25, 2011 Please send a 250-word abstract as a Word attachment.

Representations of Disability in Science Fiction (essay collection, book) Proposals due: Nov. 18/11

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 11:57am
Dr. Kathryn Allan

Contributions are invited for an essay collection on the representations of disability and the disabled body in science fiction. Technology is often characterized as a cure for the disabled body – one that either elides or exacerbates corporeal difference. From block buster films and televised space operas to cyberpunk and hard SF, disabled bodies are often modified and supported by technological interventions. How are dis/ability, medical "breakthroughs," (bio) technologies, and the body theorized, materialized, and politicized in science fiction? This collection is particularly interested in the ways dis/abled bodies challenge normative discourses of ability, generate novel spaces of embodiment, and proliferate new understandings of human being.

UPDATE: Modernist Manhattan

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 11:41am
New York Institute of Technology

New York Institute of Technology's 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference:
MODERNIST MANHATTAN
March 2, 2012
NYIT's Manhattan Campus
16 W. 61st St. (12th Floor Auditorium)

The plenary speaker for this conference will be Marshall Berman, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY.

Bryan Waterman, Associate Professor of English at New York University, will give an introductory presentation for the conference.

UPDATE: Modernist Manhattan

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 11:35am
New York Institute of Technology

New York Institute of Technology's 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference:
MODERNIST MANHATTAN
March 2, 2012
NYIT's Manhattan Campus
16 W. 61st St. (12th Floor Auditorium)
The confirmed plenary speaker for this conference will be Marshall Berman, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY.
Bryan Waterman, Associate Professor of English at New York University, will give an introductory presentation for the conference.

CFP for U.S. Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal, Deadline Extended to 10/5

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 11:10am
U.S. Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal

CALL FOR PAPERS
U.S. Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal
Deadline Extended to 10/5/2011

U.S. Studies Online has extended the deadline for submissions to its Autumn/Winter 2011 issue to October 5th.

Now in its 10th year of publication, U.S. Studies Online has an established reputation as the postgraduate journal for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). This peer-reviewed online journal enables postgraduate students at British and international universities to have their work published in a high-quality refereed environment at a time when the opportunity for postgraduates to publish in American Studies paper journals is becoming increasingly limited.

Shakespeare in Performance, May 4-6 2012 (1/31/12 deadline)

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 10:39am
University of Maine at Farmington

Shakespeare in Performance
University of Maine at Farmington May 4-6 2012
Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2012

Shakespeare and performance in all its expressions, with a focus on the tragedies. This includes stage and screen adaptations, but we are also especially interested in papers and proposals for workshops, demonstrations, and non-traditional presentations on previously under-examined Shakespearean performance (musical scores, ballet, puppetry, street theater, digitization, hybridization, and so forth). Papers engaging the intertextualities of play, performance, and reception, source and script, and that are sensitive to the multiplicity of competing interpretations are also encouraged.

CFP: Horror.SW/TX PCAACA.Albuquerque 2.8-12.2012

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 8:04am
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association

CALL FOR PAPERS

"HORROR"

33rd Annual Conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center on February 8—11, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Call for Journeys

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Friday, September 16, 2011 - 8:02am
Academic Quarter

Documenting human patterns of mobility is a key element in the travelers' social anatomy. The distinctive dialectic process between the traveler and the foreign has led to processes of identity formation from Homer to the present day. The result of these dialectic processes has over time resulted in both substantial images of identification, imaginary, and xenophobic images.

Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America

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Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 10:19pm
Mount Royal University

Call for Papers

Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America

Mount Royal University

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

October 10-13, 2012

www.skies.mtroyal.ca

Building on the success of Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture, and Change in Western North America in October 2010, Under Western Skies 2 welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and NGOs to address the environmental challenges faced by human and nonhuman actors across North America.

Collapse and Catastrophe: Spain's Cultural Panorama in the XXI Century

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Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 8:44pm
ACLA: http://www.acla.org/acla2012

In the last ten years Spain has experienced pivotal changes that have occurred through collapses, catastrophes and re-vindications in the political, social and environmental realms.

This panel seeks to explore various questions, amongst them:
- How have the arts responded to these events?
- How does transatlantic literature react to the events both in Spain and the country of origin?
- How have the Spanish regionalisms acknowledged and re-conceptualized their identity as a result of these events?
- How has immigration been incorporated into Spanish subjectivity?
- How have gender issues, human rights and human trafficking in Spain been incorporated into the cultural landscape?

CFP: SupraSpace: On the Concept of Space and Place in Art and Visual Culture, June 3-4, 2012

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Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 1:51pm
Tel Aviv University, Art History Department

Space has been subject to aesthetic, art-historical, philosophical, anthropological, geographical and political investigations, each with its idiosyncratic definitions. Space maintains a close relation with illusionism, narrativity, and the performative qualities of art. Space is especially interconnected with time, making it impossible to separate one from the other. In the current dynamic reality in which we live, it is hard to remain confined to just one modality of spatial thinking that will capture all of its complexity; yet this problem is not limited to our contemporary globalized moment, but is also relevant to different historical periods.

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