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Call for Papers

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association invites submissions for abstracts or papers for African American Literature session at this year’s RMMLA in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Deadline Extended! MLA 2011 Special Session Call for Papers: Parenting Bodies and Postcolonial Literature

The Department of English at Texas Southern University will host the 12th Annual Interdisciplinary McCleary Symposium, March 25-26, 2010, in Houston, Texas.

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Guest Editor: Frank Stevenson

The (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism conference, organised and led by postgraduate students, aims to attract doctoral researchers from across a diverse range of disciplines including Anthropology, A

International Conference "Unity in Diversity" on the Niche Areas in Commonwealth Linguistics, Literature and Culture

All topics of interest in bringing feminist persectives to the classroom are welcome. Reconsiderations of feminist perspectives through the lens of post-revisionist feminist particularly encouraged.

The Indian Review of World Literature in English
(http://www.worldlitonline.net)
Call for Papers

Wayne State University Department of English and the Bavarian-American Academy in Munich INVITE APPLICATIONS FOR

Second International Summer Academy for Doctoral Students and Junior Faculty in American Studies

MODERNITY, MOBILITY, AND DISPLACEMENT: TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES FROM DETROIT

MAY 13-22, 2010, Wayne State University, Detroit

Special Session on Religion & World Literature: Imago Dei: humanity contains the image of God.

PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) is the western regional affiliate of MLA. The 2010 conference will take place November 13-14 at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii.

We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter in an edited textbook focusing on the African experience.

Windows: A Visual Studies Working Papers Conference
University of California, Irvine
Friday, March 12, 2010

EXTENDED DEADLINE -- Abstracts due: Wednesday, March 3rd at 5pm

The Department of North American Studies at the University of Freiburg and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies announces a call for papers from postgraduate students working with issues of cla

Proposed Special Session: “Servants and the Text”

Initial interest has been expressed for an essay collection to commemorate the bicentennial of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth in 2011.

CRITICAL WHITENESS STUDIES SYMPOSIUM
September 23 & 24, 2010
University of Iowa

Keynote Speakers:
David Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Afterlives”: June 4, 2010

Keynote Speakers
Mark Seltzer (Evan Frankel Professor of Literature, UCLA)
Saree Makdisi (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UCLA)

The term "afterlives" has become increasingly predominant in recent literary criticism. But what is meant by afterlives? How do its ghostly connotations distinguish it from older critical models of influence, and how can we understand its proximity to haunting as divergent from previous theorizations of spectrality? How do afterlives function within and between texts?

Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, a peer-reviewed online journal, invites submissions for its thematic issue, “Becoming-Girl.” Deleuze articulates the notion of becoming a

This 24th annual conference invites scholars, students, directors, teachers, and actors to share best practices to empower the artistic, economic, and educational engines of Black theatre.

The Institute of African American Research has extended the deadline and has modified submission parameters for its Humanities Script Writing Competition.

The 2nd Annual Conference on Louisiana Studies will be held September 24-25, 2010 at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

As researchers we ‘consume’ texts, reading, interpreting and reusing material found in archives or specialist electronic resources. Libraries are a key tool in this process.

Special Session for MLA 2011, Los Angeles, CA

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Virtual Education

Virtuosity: Dedicated to Virtual Education

MLA panel on Narrative and Intellectual Disability

Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies
(Collection of Critical Essays)

This panel at MLA 2011 in Los Angeles will discuss any and all aspects of the cultural and intellectual legacy of 'The Wire,' with a particular interest in its critique of neoliberal institutions and

Health/Care/Nation

A conference sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies and the University of Windsor

Windsor, Ontario 14-17 October 2010 (proposal deadline: 10 April 2010)

Textual adaptations of traditional literatures have long been written and discussed.

Description: Papers may discuss the effect of online teaching on liberal arts education, examine implications of (a)synchronous methodologies, and determine effective assessment measures.

This special session will deal with how Detective Novels have treated race, class, gender, politics, sexuality, or religion in an increasingly destabilized contemporary American landscape.

Hey You(th)!

Stop! Take a deep breath and hear our call.

Men in Feminism

UC Riverside (dis)junctions Conference 2010, April 9-10
Conference Theme: States of Crisis