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category: african-americanCFP for BLACK CAMERA: An International Film Journal: A SPECIAL ISSUE on “SEXUALITY AND EROTICISM IN BLACK FILMfull name / name of organization: Black Camera: An International Film Journal/Indiana University Press contact email: L.H. Stallings (lhortons@indiana.edu) Black Camera invites submissions for a special issue on “Sexuality and Eroticism in Black Film, Cinema, and Video” to be published in Fall 2011.
[UPDATE] Approaches to Teaching Ethnic American Literatures in the 21st Centuryfull name / name of organization: Helane Adams Androne, PhD/Miami University of Ohio, Middletown campus contact email: adamshd@muohio.edu Call for Papers: Approaches to Teaching Ethnic American Literatures in the 21st Century [Update]
CSU Fullerton's Annual Graduate Conference, February 5-6, 2010 (Revised Deadline)full name / name of organization: Acacia Group contact email: acaciaconference2010@gmail.com CSU Fullerton's Annual Graduate Conference, February 5-6, 2010
“Cities of God” in Ethnic Literature: The Roles of Religious Communities (MELUS 2010; deadline 11 December 2009)full name / name of organization: Steve Pearson, U of Tennessee / MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States contact email: aristophanes68@hotmail.com Papers are invited for a panel on the depiction of religious communities in ethnic U.S. literatures for the 2010 MELUS Conference at The University of Scranton (PA).
[Update] CFP: The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute's 5th Annual Conference 2010 Theme: Education as a Right and Economic Driverfull name / name of organization: Armanthia Duncan/ The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change contact email: drmcfrrn@memphis.edu Call for Papers
[UPDATE] The Aural Archive, ACLA, April 1-4, 2010, New Orleans (11/23/09)full name / name of organization: Michael Cohen, Louisiana State University; Sarah J. Townsend, New York University contact email: mcohen@lsu.edu; sjt239@nyu.edu “The Aural Archive” ACLA annual convention, New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010 Proposals due: Nov. 23, 2009 [Deadline extended]
The Drawn Map -- CFP deadline December 20th, 2009full name / name of organization: English Graduate Student Association at Northeastern University contact email: neuegsa@gmail.com The Drawn Map. Keynote Speaker:
CFP (ALA Proposed Panel 5/27/10-5/30/10): "The Patriotism of the Mindless": Violence Against the Black Body as Patriotic Act”full name / name of organization: D.H. Simmons contact email: dsimmons@lovett.org The title of this panel, borrowed from James Baldwin's "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon," suggests its emphasis.
PAMLA Conference, Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii (November 13-14, 2010; special session proposal deadline Dec. 15, 2009)full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association contact email: svonkin@netzero.com The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is hosting its 108th Annual Conference, on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii.
UPDATE: African American Life Writingfull name / name of organization: a/b: autobiography contact email: sboyd@westga.edu _a/b: Auto/Biography Studies_ invites submissions for a special issue focusing on African American life writing.
[UPDATE] Watermark Journal--Submission Deadline 1/8/2010full name / name of organization: CSULB Graduate English Department contact email: editor@watermarkjournal.com Watermark, an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking papers for our fourth volume to be publish
Watermark Grad Journal 2010-Submission Deadline 1/8/2010full name / name of organization: CSULB Graduate English Department contact email: editor@watermarkjournal.org WATERMARK CALL FOR PAPERS
“Righting” and “Re-Writing” Wrongs" ACLA Annual Meeting April 1-4, 2010full name / name of organization: Deborah Donig/ ACLA contact email: ddonig@english.umass.edu Each new textual creation is in some way a reflection or mimesis. All literary creations are beholden to some narrative ancestor, some antecedent form, some prior idea.
SCMLA Conference on Christianity and Literature session, October 28-30 2010full name / name of organization: South Central Modern Language Association Regional Conference contact email: jhooten@umhb.edu South Central MLA 2010
True Blood ( PCA/ACA, 3/31 - 4/3, Submission Deadline: 12/15)full name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association contact email: mfindley@vtc.edu The Vampire in Literature, Culture and Film area of the Popular Culture Association is seeking papers for the Joint National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference to be h
3rd Global Conference: Diasporas - Exploring Critical Issues (July 2010: Oxford, United Kingdom)full name / name of organization: Dr Rob Fisher/Inter-Disciplinary.Net contact email: dias3@inter-disciplinary.net 3rd Global Conference Wednesday 7th July – Friday 9th July 2010 Call for Papers
Second Annual International Conference on: “Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities” May 20-22, 2010full name / name of organization: Portland Center for Public Humanities contact email: publichumanities@pdx.edu CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Portland Center for Public Humanities Second Annual International Conference on:
[UPDATE] Nov.13, 2010 The 18th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: Everyday Life and Literaturefull name / name of organization: English and American Literature Association of the Republic of China in Taiwan (EALA Taiwan) &Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan contact email: foreign@dragon.nchu.edu.tw Literature is related to everyday life in a subtle way.
international conference on caribbean studies UPDATEfull name / name of organization: University of Texas Pan American contact email: hrromero@utpa.edu DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO 12/7/09 2nd. International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS) “The Many Caribbean’s and the Bicentennial of the Continental
CFP: "Communicating Illness: Diagnosing Disordered States" - Concordia University, March 19-20, 2010full name / name of organization: Concordia University contact email: colloquiumconcordia@gmail.com Call for Papers: 8th Annual Concordia University Graduate English Colloquium March 19-20th, 2010, Concordia University, Montreal
Undergraduates, Get Your History Papers Published! Submit to HISTORY MATTERS: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Researchfull name / name of organization: HISTORY MATTERS: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research contact email: histmatt@appstate.edu
Nov. 13, 2010 18th Annual English and American Literature: Everyday Life and Literaturefull name / name of organization: English and American Literature Association of the Republicof China in Taiwan (EALA Taiwan) &Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan contact email: foreign@dragon.nchu.edu.tw Literature is related to everyday life in a subtle way.
UPDATE: New World Francophonie: ACLA Panel, April 1-4, 2010full name / name of organization: Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College/ American Comparative Literature Association contact email: giacoppe@ramapo.edu The ACLA’s annual meeting in New Orleans seems an ideal time to address the francophone literatures and cultures of the “New World,” too often considered only as an afterthought in comparative A
[UPDATE] Toni Morrison: New Directions - a special issue of MELUS (20 Jan)full name / name of organization: Kathryn Nicol (University College Dublin) and Jennifer Terry (University of Durham) contact email: kate_edin@hotmail.com Call for Papers Toni Morrison: New Directions
[UPDATE] Call for Exemplary Undergraduate Humanities Essaysfull name / name of organization: Valley Humanities Review contact email: contact-vhr@lvc.edu The Valley Humanities Review is currently seeking essays in the humanities for publication in its Spring 2010 Issue.
ACLA: Fictions of Haiti (New Orleans 1-4 April 2010; Abstract by 11/23/09)full name / name of organization: Kimberly Manganelli & Angela Naimou, Clemson University contact email: kmangan@clemson.edu, anaimou@clemson.edu “Commemorations,” observes Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “sanitize further the messy history lived by the actors.
UPDATE: ACLA: Allegories of Language (New Orleans 1-4 April 2010; abstract by 11/23)full name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Association contact email: machosky@hawaii.edu Allegory has long been situated in a metaphorical-metaphysical scheme that presumes a hierarchical relationship between word and meaning.
CFP: Afffectivity and Aesthetics of the Postnational across Literature, Cinema, and Theory (deadline: Nov. 23)full name / name of organization: ACLA annual convention, New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010 contact email: jchlpark@yahoo.com; mayumoin@gmail.com
[UPDATE] ACLA Seminar: Toward a Gendered Analytics of Diaspora (deadline extended to Nov. 23)full name / name of organization: ACLA 2010 Conference (April 1-4), New Orleans, LA contact email: soumitree.gupta@gmail.com ACLA Seminar: Toward a Gendered Analytics of Diaspora: Interrogating Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Diasporic Cultural Productions
African American Literature in Today's Society (accepting now through 1 Mar 2010)full name / name of organization: The Connecticut Review contact email: ctreview@easternct.edu African American literature has become a major part of relevant American literature throughout the centuries, particularly beginning with the introduction of the slave narrative.
[UPDATE] ACLA Seminar: Toward a Gendered Analytics of Diaspora (deadline extended to Nov. 23)full name / name of organization: ACLA 2010 Conference (April 1-4), New Orleans, LA contact email: soumitree.gupta@gmail.com ACLA Seminar: Toward a Gendered Analytics of Diaspora: Interrogating Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Diasporic Cultural Productions ACLA Annual Meeting, April 1-4, 2010
[UPDATE] Re-Conceiving the Urban: Public Space and Public Health (ACLA, 1-4 April 2010, New Orleans)full name / name of organization: Heather Houser / Stanford University contact email: houserh@stanford.edu Seminar Organizers: Allison Carruth, University of Oregon; Heather Houser, Stanford University We invite paper proposals for ACLA's 2010 Annual Conference, "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms," to be held 1-4 April, 2010 in New Orleans, LA. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Proposals are due Monday, November 23, 2009. How should we understand the “culture of cities,” to cite historian Lewis Mumford, in the context of recent environmental and public health challenges?
[UPDATE] Bodies in Motion: Corporeality & the Representation of Immigrants, Refugees & Diasporic Subjects (ACLA 11/23/09; 4/1-4)full name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Association contact email: kepitt@uwm.edu This seminar seeks to explore connections and tensions between discourses of the body and discourses of diaspora, migration, exile, and transnationality.
[UPDATE] CFP "Hybrid Realism?" American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010 (Deadline 11/23/09)full name / name of organization: Geoffrey Baker contact email: gabaker@csuchico.edu Hybrid Realism?
Detective Fiction Panel at LSU's Mardi Gras Conference February 11-12, 2010full name / name of organization: LSU English Graduate Student Association contact email: kmecho1@lsu.edu The detective has always been a central figure in crime narratives.
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