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[UPDATE] FRENZY Colloquium November 9-10, 2012

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 10:32am
York University English Graduate Students' Association

York University 2012 English Graduate Students' Association Colloquium: FRENZY

But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prophecies of a 2012 end of days; Black Friday at Wal-Mart; Howard Beale in Network inciting viewers to scream "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" From mass hysteria to individual neuroses, the elusive nature of frenzy lends itself to dramatically different conceptualizations across the disciplines.

Pour l'engagement critique 20-21 octobre 2012

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 5:54am
maison des écrivains étrangers et des traducteurs -meet-

RENCONTRES DE L'ABBAYE DE FONTEVRAUD - FRANCE -
Directeur : Patrick Deville
Colloque 2012 (20-21 octobre) :
Pour l'engagement critique.
Directeur littéraire : Marc Dambre
INVITES
Guy Goffette, Jean-Paul Goux, Pierre Michon, Camille Laurens, Jacques Réda, Lydie Salvayre
Thierry Guichard (Le Matricule des anges), Alain Nicolas (L'Humanité), Christian Thorel (Librairie Ombres blanches, Toulouse),
Wolfgang Asholt (Osnabrück, Allemagne), Bruno Blanckeman (Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3), Matteo Majorano (Bari, Italie), , Anne Sennhauser (ENS Lyon ATER Paris 3), Dominique Viart (Lille 3 – Institut Universitaire de France).

Call for Papers - HKICEAS 2012

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 5:48am
Higher Education Forum

2012 Hong Kong International Conference on
Engineering and Applied Science

Call for Papers

The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC): FAILURE - Deadline Dec. 1

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 12:31am
The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

The contemporary moment is fraught with the rhetoric of failure and decline. Daily, it seems, political, artistic, and entertainment outlets alert us to broken systems, policies, and promises. How might we rethink failure as an opportunity to engage in more ethical human and nonhuman relationships? Can the failures of democracy, the economy, the classroom, and of culture more broadly open up possibilities for success? How do we recognize our fallibility, learn from it, and cope with it?
In a moment when dysfunction is such a significant part of both private and public life, this conference will embrace an interdisciplinary approach to considering failure's destructive and productive aspects in historical and contemporary culture.

[UPDATE] Shakespeare Institute Review call for papers extended

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 7:38pm
Shakespeare Institute Review

The Shakespeare Institute Review

The Shakespeare Institute Review is an online academic journal funded by the University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law, and to which students at the Shakespeare Institute and on
other postgraduate programmes are encouraged to contribute. Each issue has a theme to which contributors are invited to respond.

Labor Beyond Economy, ACLA, April 4-7 2013

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 5:09pm
American Comparative Literature Association

Hannah Arendt argued that labor is anti-political because its collective nature precludes the possibility of individual consciousness and because it is performed in the name of the economy of the household. Similarly, scholarship on labor and class has been accused in the past of being too invested in the problem of economic distribution to the detriment of identity and political recognition.

[UPDATE]

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 4:47pm
Professor for Peace

Peace and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference 2013
An Interdisciplinary, International Conference

Date: February 15-17, 2013.
Location: Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Abstracts Due: November 15, 2012. Limited conference enrollment.
Send abstracts and inquiries to: professorsforpeace at gmail.com

Abstracts Due Nov. 15, 2012 and should address any topic in one of the panels listed below.
Questions listed below the panel title are starting points--abstracts may address broader issues within the panel title and theme.

Earthen Archives: Ecocritical Theory and Textual Studies

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 4:38pm
Andrew Husband / Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)

Michael P. Branch suggests in his 2001 essay "Saving all the Pieces" that "a full understanding of the American land and its various literary representations will require that scholars of environmental literature dedicate themselves to the preservation and restoration of the many rare, corrupted, or otherwise 'endangered' texts upon which that full understanding may ultimately depend." This panel will explore the migrations between, energies exchanged, and limitations observed in recent developments by ecocritics, textual editors, and book historians. What might an ecocritical textual criticism (or a textual ecocriticism) look like?

Short Story

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 4:37pm
The College English Association

The college English Association invites papers on any aspect of the short story, from its history to its present practice, theories of the short story, individual authors, movements or schools of short story writing, pedagogy, close readings of individual stories, and so on. As the theme of the conference is "Nature," widely defined, papers may of course address stories set in natural surroundings, employing imagery or symbols from the natural world, etc.

CFP: Native American Literature Symposium (11/15/12; 03/21/13-03/23/13)

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 3:36pm
Patrice Hollrah / Native American Literature Symposium

14th NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
March 21-23, 2013
Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
Minneapolis, MN

MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER
Call for Proposals
DEADLINE: November 15, 2012

With literature as a crossroads where many forms of knowledge
meet—art, history, politics, science, religion, film, cultural
studies—we welcome once again spirited participation on all aspects of
Native American studies. We invite proposals for individual papers,
panel discussions, readings, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops.

Nominations/Applications for the Beatrice Medicine Award for
Scholarship in American Indian Studies due January 15, 2013. See the
website for details.

[REMINDER] International Pynchon Week 2013: 5-8 August 2013

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 3:27pm
Sam Thomas

AUGUST 5-8 2013, DURHAM, UK:
LINES, LEGACIES, ANNIVERSARIES

2013 marks 3 significant anniversaries for readers and scholars of Thomas Pynchon: 50 years since the publication of his first novel, V., 40 since his most acclaimed work, Gravity's Rainbow, and 250 years since the arrival of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon on American shores (the start of the surveying project that would divide a nation and, of course, the subject of Pynchon's metahistorical novel, Mason & Dixon). In light of this, International Pynchon Week 2013 will be held at Durham University in the UK from the 5th to the 8th of August. The location of the conference has a special resonance as Jeremiah Dixon was born and buried in County Durham.

CFP Stet Journal Issue 3

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 2:11pm
King's College London

Stet, the online postgraduate journal of the English Department at King's College London, is now accepting submissions from current postgraduate students for its third peer-reviewed publication. In this issue, we will present articles from an international pool of students on the concept of dis/orientation. We seek to explore the question of how we are and have been located or dislocated in space, time, and history. Which parts of our personal, social, cultural, geographical, genetic, or technological landscape orient us? What incidents construct our conception of ourselves and our environments?

[UPDATE] CFP Reminder: NVSA 2013 Conference (10/15; Boston 4/5-7)

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 1:21pm
Northeast Victorian Studies Association

CFP: NVSA 2013 -- 1874

Boston University: April 5-7, 2013

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee:
--Robert Browning

NVSA solicits submissions for its annual conference. The topic this year is 1874.

The conference will feature a keynote panel including Isobel Armstrong, Robert J. Richards, and Herbert Tucker, and a walking tour of Victorian Boston led by Martha Vicinus.

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Citizen Poet: Protest Poetry in America Post 9/11-- Seminar, NeMLA 2013, Abstract due September 30th

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 1:18pm
Diane E. Keeney

Citizen Poet: Protest Poetry in America Post 9/11-- Seminar, NeMLA 2013

Event: 03/21/2013 - 03/24/2013
Abstract due: 09/30/2012
Categories: American, Interdisciplinary, Genre & Form, 20th & 21st Century, Poetry, Anthropology/Sociology, Cultural Studies
Location: Boston, MA
Organization: 44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre; Winter 2012/13, Deadline: 12/10/12

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 11:14am
Helena Gurfinkel, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Michelle Paull, St. Mary's University College

UPSTAGE, a peer-reviewed online publication dedicated to research in turn-of-the-century dramatic literature, theatre, and theatrical culture, is seeking submissions for its Winter 2012-13 issue. This is a development of the pages published under this name as part of THE OSCHOLARS, and is now an independently edited journal in the Oscholars group published by Rivendale Press at www.oscholars.com, as part of our expanding coverage of the different cultural manifestations of the fin de siècle. UPSTAGE is indexed by the Modern Language Association.

[UPDATE] After Colonial Governmentality: Cultural Memory and (Post)Colonial Community.

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 10:53am
Michael R. Griffiths (Columbia)

Theodor Adorno famously contended that "Even in a legendary better future, art could not disavow remembrance of accumulated horror, otherwise it's form would be trivial." How then, is one to think a better future in (post)colonial societies, while attending to the horrors of violent and unjust pasts? This collection seeks to address this question.

"Come Together?" Concepts of Community in Contemporary British and Irish Literature and Culture. May 31st & June 1st, 2013.

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 7:38am
Department of English Literature and Culture, University of Mannheim, Germany.

International conference/ Call for papers

The Department of English Literature and Culture invites paper proposals for the international conference, "Concepts of Community in Contemporary British and Irish Literature and Culture", which will be held at the University of Mannheim, May 31st and June 1st, 2013.

[UPDATE] Deadline reminder: Women's and Gender Studies Caucus of NeMLA, March 21-24, 2013; due: Sept 30, 2012

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 7:11am
Northeast Modern Language Association - NeMLA

Chairs of the following pre-approved panels and roundtables of the NeMLA Women's and Gender Studies Caucus seek proposals. For panel / roundtable descriptions, and submission information, please see: http://nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp_womensstudies.html Unless otherwise stated, proposals are due by September 30th
Panels:
The Artemis Archetype in Fiction, Film, and Television
Between the Written and Oral: Medieval and Early Modern Women and Their
Texts (Roundtable)
Communal Modernisms: Teaching Women's Literature in the 21st-Century
Classroom (Roundtable)

CFP: First Issue ¡Plop! Estudios Pop

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 5:43am
¡Plop! Estudios Pop (UAB)

¡Plop revista de estudios pop of the Autonomous University of Barcelona invites researchers, teachers and students interested in Cultural Studies and Pop Studies to send their academic articles for its publication in the first issue of the journal in February 2013. This first number will be dedicated to:

• Identity and geography in Spanish and Latin American popular music

Suggested topics but not exclusive:

[UPDATE] Hospitality & Society

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 5:41am
Co-editor Paul Lynch, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Hospitality & Society is an international multidisciplinary social sciences journal focusing on academic perspectives on hospitality and addresses all aspects of hospitality's connections with wider social and cultural processes and structures.

Aims and Scope

• To consider issues associated with hospitality leading to its advancement and understanding, including developing new approaches to the study of hospitality.
• To serve as a multidisciplinary forum encouraging interdisciplinarity with contributors coming from a wide variety of disciplinary bases
To be international in scope and inclusive in its coverage addressing hospitality from the macro to the micro level

[Update: Deadline Extended] Chinese and Western Literature and Arts in the Eighteenth Century

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 1:32am
Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities, National Sun Yat-sen U, Kaohsiung TAIWAN

Eighteenth-century culture in England, Western Europe, and America is clearly characterized by the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment even though, just as clearly, Enlightenment spread only gradually and unevenly throughout the regions and cultural strata of the West.

[UPDATE} NeMLA 2013 CFP: Queer Self-Representation: It Isn't All About Me

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Monday, September 17, 2012 - 12:01am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

This panel will examine the significance and radical potential of queer self-representation.The personal continues to be political, and for queer constituencies whose representation by a dominant mainstream has been either absent, negative, or consistently rife with limiting stereotypes, self-representation becomes crucial. However, while queer self-representation may engage with such negative representation, it is not limited to this function.

Gender and Chaucer: New Readings (due September 30)

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Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 10:56pm
Northeast Modern Language Association, March 21-24, 2013

Gender and Chaucer: New Readings
In Crip Theory, Robert McRuer argues that 'compulsory able-bodiedness' functions analogously to compulsory heterosexuality to determine expressions of identity and marginalize the non-compliant. This panel seeks papers that investigate the work the Canterbury Tales does in constituting and challenging fourteenth-century norms about gender and sexuality as inflected by other categories of identity including, but not limited to, age, religious status, and ability. Send abstracts of 250-300 words to Heide Estes, at hestes@monmouth.edu

Modern Soundscapes - July 10 -13, 2013

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Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 10:07pm
Australasian Association of Literature & Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia (University of New South Wales)

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Steven Connor (Cambridge) and Garrett Stewart (Iowa)

What is a modern soundscape?

[UPDATE] CFP Captivity Narratives

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Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 9:34pm
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 34th Annual Conference

CFP: CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES
Abstract/Proposals by 16 November 2012

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 34th Annual Conference Celebrating "Popular/American Culture(s) in a Global Context"

February 13-16, 2013
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

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