Milton and Theatricality, interpreted broadly and all-inclusively.

Abstracts or complete papers (7-page or 15-minute) by 15 March 2011.

(Please note: This is session is pending MLA approval)

Seeking papers that address thematic, critical or ideological intersections between posthumanism and poetry; including interspecies relationships, transhumanism, the making and unmaking of the humanist subject, and encounters with animal or machine. Discussions of poetry from any time period or national language welcome.
Please send 300-word abstract and brief CV to T.J. Welch by March 5, 2011.

Critical and Transnational Approaches to American Popular Music is an ambitious project that examines both the local and transnational significance of American popular music such as Blues, Rock and Roll, and Hip Hop. The first part of the book will situate these musical genres in the large and complex framework of American popular culture in which language, utopia, and traditions have played major roles in the construction of identity, activism, and social change. The second part of the book will put American Blues, Rock and Roll, and Hip Hop in conversation with similar or different musical genres from other parts of the world in which identity, resistance, and social transformation are also crucial parts.

The PhD in Humanities (http://louisville.edu/humanities) and the Association of Humanities Academics at the University of Louisville (ahalouisville.com) announces the annual University of Louisville Graduate Conference in Humanities, March 25, 2011.

New Directions in Critical Theory Conference

"Singularity: Transdisciplinary Explorations in Language, Culture, and Theory" The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) April 29-30, 2011.

Keynote Speaker: Vincent B. Leitch, General Editor - Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism

Plenary Speaker: Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona

The SCMLA's English I: Old and Middle English Language and Literature section is accepting 500 word proposals for papers on any topic in Old and Middle English. Proposals are due by March 28, 2011, to session chair, Molly Martin, at mamartin@mcneese.edu.

Lost & Found in Translation:
Indian Writers, Translators, Texts, and Contexts

Edited by Jafri S. Abbas and Shafiqul Alam

Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE)

6th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference

'The "9/11" Decade: Rethinking Reality

Wednesday 31 August – Friday 2 September 2011

Joint conference organisers:
Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics, University of Brighton;
Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry, University of Ghent;
Centre for Research Ethics & Ethical Deliberation, Edge Hill University;
Centre for Research in Ethics and Globalisation, University of Groningen

Invited keynote speaker: Geoffrey Robertson QC

Announcing the call for papers for a graduate conference on appreciation and critique: on April 2nd and 3rd, 2011. The University of Wyoming Department of English will be hosting an academic conference for graduate students of all disciplines to present papers and articles on the interplay of appreciation and criticism. More information available at www.uwappreciates.com.

Norumbega was a region situated between New England and Maritime Canada on early maps, deriving from Verrazano's map of North America, c. 1529, on which it was spelled Oranbega. Three centuries later, sixteenth-century Norimbega had become "the unknown regions […or] all the vast territories around the gulf and river of St. Lawrence, with all its islands" (Botham Howitt, 9), and today it remains in some ways an enigma (Bradley, 101). The etymology for the term is unclear; while most scholars agree that it was named after places in Europe, some of its variants exhibit possible indigenous influences (Morison, 464; Baker 1994).

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for cross-posting.

Please see below our general call for papers for our symposium: The Rest is History: Ireland, Performance and The Historical Imagination.

This symposium seeks to re-negotiate the archive of Irish theatre and performance in order to cast a light on those subterranean dramaturgies that are either characterised as the discontents of historical time or indeed, transmogrified into the historical imagination.

Recent Gothic studies have increasingly looked into problems associated with the idea of delimitation, both in terms of material and media. This leads to the two sets of questions implied in this conference's title: Where are the limits of the 'classic' Gothic tradition? Where have these limits been reached or even transgressed? Can one speak about a 'post-Gothic mode'? What, if anything, is capable of replacing the Gothic? The second set of questions is prompted by the commercialisation and commodification of an increasingly romanticised Gothic and its diffusion among different media and modes: Is the Gothic dependent on 'literature'? Are there media-specific 'Gothics'? Which intermedial and intermodal forms are there?

ASLE UK (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK) www.asle.org.uk ) invites proposals for its Postgraduate Conference to be held from 9 to 10 September 2011 at the Centre for Creative Collaboration (www.creativecollaboration.org.uk, London WC1), on the theme of 'Emergent critical environments': Where next for ecology and the humanities?'
Keynote speakers include:
Kate Soper
Robert McKay

Excursions, the open access interdisciplinary postgraduate journal at the University of Sussex, invites calls for reviews of up to 1,500 words from postgraduates and early-career researchers on books and events including, but not limited to:

Books on the interdisciplinary
Performance, theatre, installation art and film that transcends boundaries
Multi-media, innovative and cross-disciplinary conferences and exhibitions

Please submit your reviews through our website at http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk/cfp.html