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Asian Conference on Education - CFP extended to September 1, 2010

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Saturday, July 24, 2010 - 10:47am
The International Academic Forum

http://ace.iafor.org/Submissions.html

Education systems across the world are becoming increasingly socially, ethnically and culturally diverse, both as a consequence of globalization and in response to internationalization. The conference theme, "Globalization or internationalization?", has a particular focus on adult, distance and access education, and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this question from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Education, including:

Conference on 'Managing Business Development in Globalized World: Strategies for Excellence' 4th-5th Feb,2011

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Friday, July 23, 2010 - 12:44pm
Prestige Institute of Management Dewas

Pr C O N - 2 0 1 1
Fourth National Conference on Managing Business Development in Globalized World: Strategies for Excellence

4th-5th Feb, 2011 - Dewas, Madhya Pradesh

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research focused on verity of aspects needed to achieve Strategies for Excellence, selected papers of the registered delegates, out of those accepted for presentation in the conference will be published in the form of book, which will be released during the conference.

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Thanatos as Muse? Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, 21-23 October 2011

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Friday, July 23, 2010 - 10:06am
National University of Ireland Maynooth

This international and interdisciplinary conference seeks fresh perspectives on these issues. In particular, we invite contributions on the following topics:

definitions of Schubert's late style (ontology versus chronology; critique versus synthesis);
text setting in the late songs;
Schubert's late style and Schubert's maturity;
problems in the reception of Schubert's late music;
contradictions in the biographical scholarship of Schubert's final years;
issues in the theory of form;
topic, affect and expression in the late music;
issues of tonal strategy;

[UPDATE] Call for Submissions: Inquire

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Friday, July 23, 2010 - 6:56am
Inquire: A Journal of Comparative Literature

Inquire invites submissions from graduate students that clearly strive to reconsider traditional topics in new ways or to take up less canonical forms, genres, and methodologies. We encourage submissions that take an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to describe and discuss the production, dissemination, and reception of literature in all forms across languages, cultures, and national borders.

Guidelines: original work not submitted to another journal, complete essays in English, 5-7,000 words (including bibliography and endnotes), MLA format, 12-pt font, double-spaced throughout, include a separate cover sheet with name, institutional affiliation, email, an abstract (200 words), and a short biography (100 words).

Call for Contributions on 'The Last Film' - deadline October 4, 2010

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Friday, July 23, 2010 - 5:10am
Jura Gentium Cinema

Jura Gentium Cinema

Call for Contributions on 'The Last Film'

International contributions are sought for a dossier of articles converging around the idea of the last film.

Last-ness could apply to:

• The last film made in a certain jurisdiction, e.g. the last film made in ex-countries, e.g. GDR / USSR / Czechoslovakia / Yugoslavia, etc.,

• The last film made under a dictator or leader, e.g. Franco / Tito / Stalin / Hoxha / Blair, etc.

• The last film made by a defunct studio or by a company that has disappeared.

• The last film reflecting a particular ethos or made during an event-defined time frame (e.g. Communism, Vietnam, Apartheid).

New Latin American Writing in the U.S. (9/30/10; NeMLA 4/7-10/2010, New Brunswick, New Jersey)

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Friday, July 23, 2010 - 3:33am
Bernabé Mendoza / NeMLA: Northeast Modern Language Association

In light of the recent critical reception of such authors as Roberto Bolaño and Junot Díaz, this panel seeks to ask, what constitutes a Latin American author today in the U.S.? How is s/he read? Fifty years after what was labeled as the "boom," how are we approaching new Latin American texts? Do we still adhere to a boom aesthetic, which insists on a fascination with local color and exoticism? Other questions to be considered include (but are not limited to): What do recent critiques reveal about our understanding and expectations of literary works written by Hispanic writers (writing in English, Spanish, or 'Spanglish')? How are Latin American authors and their texts marketed?

Four Corners Conference on Globalization

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 6:21pm
Languages Literature and Mass communication

Second Annual Four Corners Conference, 2010: Globalization
Past, Present and Future Impacts: Real and Imagined—a Dialogue on Globalization

Call for Papers

Call Deadline: 30-July-2010

On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, we would like to inform you of the:
Four Corners Conference on Globalization Mesa State College
Grand Junction, CO
22 October—23 October 2010
Website: www.mesastate.edu/spanish/fcc

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Tony Payan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso and the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies.

The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture (April 23 2011)

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 4:00pm
madison moore /Yale University

What is street style, and what is the relationship between style, "the street," and popular culture? How have the Internet, digital cameras and other technologies impacted how we understand the way we dress? In what ways does street style engage with broader issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality?

The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, a one-day symposium at Yale University, aims to investigate and openly discuss the relationships between street style and identity. We are interested in papers that approach street style from a contemporary lens, but also encourage papers with more of an historical perspective.

Scholarly Editing: Call for Editions and Essays

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 3:37pm
Association for Documentary Editing

Scholarly Editing
The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing

CALL FOR EDITIONS AND ARTICLES

Background
Since 1979, Documentary Editing has been a premier journal in the field of documentary and textual editing. Beginning with the 2012 issue (to be published in late 2011), Documentary Editing will be renamed Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing and will become an open-access, digital publication. While retaining the familiar content of the print journal, including peer-reviewed essays about editorial theory and practice, the 2012 issue of Scholarly Editing will be the first to publish peer-reviewed editions.

Cultural Studies Association (3/24,25,26/11): Critical, and Cultural, Approaches to Music

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 2:59pm
Sheila Liming

Though often considered most at home in literature and language arts, cultural studies has, from time to time, lent its critical eye toward music. Major figures associated with the history and methods of cultural studies, including G.W.F. Hegel, Theodor Adorno, and Edward Said, left their more familiar realms of study to consider and write critically about music. This panel aspires to follow that historical trend and present a variety of presentations which highlight theoretical approaches to music and music criticism consistent with the methods of cultural studies.

[UPDATE] CFP: Auteur as Citizen: Nicholas Ray and New Directions in Director Studies

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 2:03pm
Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Prospective Panel: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 10-13, 2011
Ritz Carlton Hotel, New Orleans, LA

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, August 8, 2010 11:59 PM EDT

Submissions are still welcome for essays that consider the relationship between film authorship and citizenship with respect to Nicholas Ray, director of "They Live By Night" (1949), "In a Lonely Place" (1950), "Johnny Guitar" (1954), "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), and "Bigger Than Life" (1956).

The Black Maritime Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (9/30/2010 ; 4/7-11/2011)

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 11:47am
NeMLA

This panel calls for papers on maritime literature that represents the experience of Black and Asian sailors and their contribution to nineteenth-century Atlantic maritime culture. Known variously as "Black Jacks," "Prize Negroes," "Seedy Boys" and "Kru Men," a growing number of blacks –- slaves liberated from slave ships, indentured servants and freed men –- joined the ranks of the British naval and merchant marine service as sailors, stokers, cabin boys, translators and navigators. Historical census records estimate that, by the late-nineteenth century, a third of Britain's maritime force was Black or Asian.

11th Annual SALA Conference, Los Angeles, January 7-8 2011: Transnational Realisms and Post R<!--break-->

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 11:22am
11th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: Transnational Realisms and Post Realisms in South Asian Literature and Culture

This conference examines ways in which South Asian realist and postrealist writers unsettle and rework realist codes. South Asian cultural and narrative forms are erased or occluded in the realism/anti-realism debate. The normative account in literary histories posits realism as the precursor to modernism. South Asian literary realisms diverge from, and are discontinuous with, the long history of debate about Platonic and neo-Platonic art as copying a copy of the real.

[UPDATE] WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE: OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE STATUS QUO (8/1/2010; 10/21-23)

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 10:59am
South Carolina State University

WOMEN AND POPULAR CULTURE:
OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, SEXUAL POLITICS, AND THE STATUS QUO
CONFERENCE AT SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, THURSDAY-SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21-23, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL (SPELMAN COLLEGE), PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION, ANNA JULIA COOPER PROFESSOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES

[UPDATE] 2010 MTSU EGSO Presents Common Threads: A Crazy Quilt of Literary Inquiry

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 10:44am
Middle Tennessee State University English Graduate Student Organization

UPDATED MTSU EGSO CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
The English Graduate Student Organization at Middle Tennessee State University has extended the submissions request for its 3rd MTSU EGSO Conference in an effort to complete two discussion panels.

The two panels with openings remaining are British Literature and American Literature. Any time period, topic, or genre within these two fields is welcome.

Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted through email to the MTSU EGSO Conference Selection Committee.
The extended deadline for submission of abstracts is August 15, 2010.

Participants will be notified of their acceptance via email by September 1, 2010.

"Perfect Harmony" and "melting strains". Music in Early Modern Culture between Sensibility and Abstraction; 1.-3.Dec.2011

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 6:54am
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany; SFB 644 Transformations of Antiquity

In Early Modern culture, philosophers, musicians, theologians, and poets grappled with the ambivalent nature of music. Music was perceived as a phenomenon occupying an ambiguous position between mathematical abstraction and sensual experience. In the Pythagorean-Platonic tradition, music was understood as euphonic mathematics replicating the perfection and beauty of a transcendent cosmic order. At the same time, the emotive and physiological effects of actual musical experience proved it to be a sensuous phenomenon of insistent immediacy and affective power.

ABWFA 1st Global Session on Terror

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 9:36pm
ABWFA

Reservation Deadline: August 15, 2010
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2010
Paper Submission Deadline: December 31, 2010

From the schoolyards to the far reaches of the earth, terrorism has become one of the largest problems humankind faces in our modern world. Terrorism takes on many forms; psychological bullying, personal insults, abuse of political power, religious intolerance, race and gender slurs. The product of terrorism is fear and hatred and can possibly spin itself into a web of physical violence against individuals, groups and entire nations.

Practice-Led Research in the Arts (09/01/2010)

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 12:43pm
Creative Industries Journal

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Special Issue on Practice-Led Research in the Arts

Creative Industries Journal (Intellect)
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=145/

The Creative Industries Journal is planning a Special Issue on Practice-Led Research in the Arts/Creative Industries.

Ideas for papers looking at any aspect of Practice-Led Research in the Arts are greatly welcomed, as are "work-in-progress" suggestions. Approaches to Practice-Led Research in the Arts/Creative Industries - from all disciplines that work in the area - are greatly encouraged.

CFP: Moronic Ox Literary & Cultural Journal

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 10:40am
Moronic Ox Literary & Cultural Journal

Moronic Ox Literary & Cultural Journal is associated with publisher Open Books and publishes novel excerpts, short stories, flash fiction, op-ed, poetry, nonfiction articles, videos, humor, book reviews, photo essays and other interesting material in English for a general audience. This e-zine is not published on a traditional schedule, but rather it is updated continually.
To submit to Moronic Ox: submissions@open-bks.com
For more information visit: http://www.moronicox.com

[UPDATE]Memory of Borders, Borders of Memory: Life Writing at a Distance: NeMLA, April 7-10, 2011; submissions due Sept 30, 2010

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 9:04am
Northeast Modern Language Association 2011 conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

This panel invites papers on "Life Writing at a Distance," broadly defining both life writing and "distance" as spatial/geographical or temporal remove: Topobiography; eco-biography; heroic memoirs; missionary and spiritual autobiography; letters and epistolary life narratives; life narrative of/in place; biography, memoir and autobiography in exile; expatriate memoirs; life narratives in travel and tourism; ethnoautobiography; migrant memoir and testimony. Please submit 300-word abstract and brief cv by September 30, 2010, to Mary Goodwin, National Taiwan Normal University, profgood@hotmail.com.

Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the University (1 October 2010)

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 8:42am
Dalhousie University

The editors of Compendium2: Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the University invite contributions for online publication in the spring of 2011. Compendium2 publishes theoretical and practice-based essays that address writing development in post-secondary education. For the journal's fourth issue, we are interested in hearing from a range of disciplines, and invite submissions that consider the integration of writing and critical thinking as well as those that describe more specific assignments and teaching techniques.

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