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[UPDATE] Shakespeare at Kalamazoo 2013

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 4:36pm
Kavita Mudan Finn / Shakespeare at Kalamazoo

Shakespeare at Kalamazoo is accepting abstracts for two panels at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 9-12, 2013).

1. Shakespeare and Material Culture

2. The Merchant of Venice: Pre-texts, Texts, and After-Texts

[UPDATE] Call for Papers: Film Theory and Aesthetics 2013

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 2:48pm
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 34th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM

Proposals are now being sought for review in the Film Theory and Aesthetics Area. Review begins immediately and continues until November 16, 2012. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations; other topics in the area are also welcome:

[UPDATE}: Elizabeth I on Film: Kalamazoo, May 9-12, 2013

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 2:44pm
Queen Elizabeth I Society

Our panel in 2013 will focus on representations of Elizabeth I in the classic and more recent film narratives. In the last decade alone, the image of Elizabeth I on film has ranged from Dame Judi Dench's aged but energetic queen to Cate Blanchett's preternaturally youthful 55 year old monarch to the adolescent princess played by Laoise Murray on _The Tudors_. This panel will seek to explore the general trajectories of representing Elizabeth I on screen as well as identify and analyze the developments, continuities, and significance of these representations in the 21st century.

This session is sponsored by Queen Elizabeth I Society.

1 Mar 2013. Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Reorganization in Complex Societies

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 2:37pm
Southern Illinois University

In 1988, while the Soviet Union was experiencing a crisis that ultimately led to its dissolution and the reconfiguration of its once vast political and geographic territory, two important volumes on collapse were published: Yoffee and Cowgill's The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations and Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies. This upcoming year (2013) marks the 25th anniversary of these seminal works, a quarter century that has seen new scholarly treatment of the subject and the publication of a fair amount of comparative data and hypotheses.

Update: The RIghteous Heathen in Medieval England--Kalamazoo (May 9-12)

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 1:37pm
Oregon Medieval English Literature Society (OMELS)

This panel is proposed for the 2013 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo Michigan, May 9-12. Broadly, this panel discussion will examine the use of the righteous heathen character in English literature. Panel papers might investigate the development of this character type within the English literary tradition as well as contrast it its continental counterparts. More specifically the panel will focus on the critical function of these pagan figures and examine how authors used this character type to address a variety of literary and cultural themes.

CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/30/12; National PCA/ACA Conference, 3/27/13-3/30/13)

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 1:09pm
Popular Culture Association

NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2013 JOINT CONFERENCE

Submissions: All submissions should go through the database:
http://ncp.pcaaca.org

Due Date: The application due date for this year's conference is

November 30, 2012.

The Conference will be held at the
Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, D.C.

Hotel information:
1 (800) HOTELS-1 (800 468-3571)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 30, 2012.

We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film, literature, or other forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome.

CFP: Literature (General) SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/16/12; 2/13-16/13)

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 12:28pm
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association

Organizers of the 34th annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association conference seek paper and panel submissions to the "Literature (General)" category. This area will provide a forum for scholarly presentations on literary subjects outside of our more specific Literature areas. (Before submitting to the general area, please check the special area list, as you may find a home there: http://swtxpca.org/documents/123.html#Literature.)

[UPDATE] Special Issue of South Atlantic Review: The Power of Poetry in the Modern World

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 12:26pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association

In conjunction with its 2011 SAMLA Conference theme, "The Power of Poetry in the Modern World," South Atlantic Review invites the submission of essays on any aspect of this topic for a special issue of the journal.The guest editor of the issue is Nancy D. Hargrove.

All submissions must be double-spaced and between 6,000 and 7,500 words in length, not including the Works Cited, and must be formatted in accordance with MLA style with endnotes.

Submissions are due by December 1st, 2012, to sar@gsu.edu. E-mails should include the submitter's name, affiliation, a brief bio, and the essay, attached as a Word document.

[UPDATE] The Asian Conference on Film & Documentary 2012

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 11:45am
The International Academic Forum

The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce the Inaugural Annual Asian Conference on Film and Documentary 2012, to be held in Osaka, Japan, from 2-4 November 2012.
The FilmAsia event is a remarkable cross-cutural and interdisciplinary discussion, which encourage academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging lively but respectful dialogue. This international conference will bring together a number of university scholars working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas.

[UPDATE] The Asian Conference on Media & Mass Communication 2012

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 11:28am
The International Academic Forum (iafor)

The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce the Third Annual Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2012, to be held in Osaka, Japan, from 2-4 November 2012.

The MediAsia event is a remarkable cross-cutural and interdisciplinary discussion, which encourage academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging lively but respectful dialogue. This international conference will bring together a number of university scholars working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas.

Traversals of affect/ Traversées d'affect - March 21-23rd, 2013

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 11:26am
Emory University, French Department and Comparative Literature Department

If one is to speak, following the work of Jean-François Lyotard, of the power of the work of art, it is to be located in the gesture that it enacts. The gesture does not belong to the objective properties of the work such that they might be adequately articulated, but rather stands as the "absolutely emotive power of the work," that which "affects sensibility beyond what it can sense." Without being immediately thinkable, the gesture would give rise to thought, demanding it, precisely as thought would be caught unprepared. That is to say that the work of art always involves a certain performance, no less in case of the plastic arts than in others, not as a simple representation, but as through the demand exerted by the unpresentable.

{Update} College Language Association Convention (April 10-13, 2013)

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 10:17am
The Langston Hughes Society

The Langston Hughes Society welcomes papers that explore how Langston Hughes's writings have indfluenced literary texts by other authors in the Americas, Europe, and/or Asia. Papers comparing and/or contrasting the writings of Langston Hughes with the writings of other authors in the Americas,
Europe, and/or Asia are also welcome. All accepted presenters must join the Langston Hughes Society and the College Language Association by February 1, 2013. Please email an abstract (300-400 words) and a biographical profile (305 lines) to Dr. Sharon Lynette Jones at shajones@claflin.edu by September 8, 2012.

International Conference on Marketing - 2013

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 9:03am
Leap Business Management

The ICOM 2013 offers you a valuable opportunity to share the knowledge and networking with colleagues from different countries who are sharing the same goals whilst exploring beautiful Sri Lanka. Scientists and experts who are in Marketing Management, invited to participate in this International Conference on Marketing - Challenging Environment 2013.

Variation within and across Jewish Languages (26-28 June 2013) - Deadline for abstract submission is 30 November 2012

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 8:10am
Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp)

This conference, organized from 26 till 28 June 2013 at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), aims to bring together scholars who work on linguistic aspects of Jewish languages with the focus on domains such as linguistic structure, language variation, language change (dialectology and diachrony), bilingualism and comparison of written and spoken uses. The conference will also stimulate research in to date enriched areas in the domain of Jewish language studies; for example, language acquisition and development (in communities of native speakers), learning of Jewish languages as second language, language loss, etc.

TAEECE2013 [May 9-11, 2013]

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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 6:46am
SDIWC

The International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE2013)
Mevlana University, Konya, Turkey
May 9-11, 2013
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/taeece2013/

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The conference will be held at Mevlana University, Konya, Turkey from May 9-11, 2013 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. All the papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference and in SDIWC digital library.

Real & Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean -- Grad conf.; Feb. 8-9, 2013

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 10:18pm
MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES ORG.; UIUC

Call for Papers

Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) and Prof. Abdulkader Sinno (Indiana University Bloomington)

Submission Deadline: October 28, 2012

On behalf of the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, we are pleased to announce the organization of the graduate student conference "Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean." This conference will be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign over a period of two days: Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9, 2013.

International Symposium of Hispanic Literature and Writers' Round Tables

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 4:24pm
California State University Dominguez Hills

California State University Dominguez Hills and
INSTITUTO LITERARIO Y CULTURAL HISPÁNICO

CALL FOR PAPERS
To be presented at the XXXVIII International Symposium of Hispanic Literature

California State University Dominguez Hills is pleased to announce that on March 6th, 7th and 8th it will host the XXXVIII International Symposium of Hispanic Literature in conjunction with Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico. At this symposium we will honor the work of the prestigious Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, who will also deliver the Keynote address. Join us to celebrate International Women's Day! We are asking for your cooperation by submitting a proposal to be presented at the symposium.

Affect and Identity in Early Modern Performance, NeMLA 2013: Sep 30 deadline

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 3:40pm
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), March 21-24, 2013

CFP: Affect and Identity in Early Modern Performance

This panel seeks to explore the potential performative and affective power of early modern drama on group identities. The theater, as locus of communal and social performativity, is a fruitful site to investigate the shaping force of affective response on collective identities and their historical narratives. How does the drama model and orchestrate response, reaction, and construction of identity categories based on age, race, class, gender, religion, nationalism, bodies, or other criteria? Please submit 250-word abstracts to rhizme@gmail.com.

Alexander McCall Smith's Humane Worlds: Finding Room for Delight in the Canon; March 21-24, 2013

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 3:00pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 44th Annual Convention, Boston

This panel seeks to explore and critique Alexander McCall Smith's fiction, while implicitly or explicitly commenting on the academy's willingness to accept popular and escapist literature. There is much to enjoy and consider in his writing, but as yet, he is primarily treated as 'merely' a writer of popular fiction. This panel invites papers that will seriously consider his work, the pleasures of reading, and the relationship of each to the academy. Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Nicole Willey at nwilley@kent.edu.

International Performing Arts Summit on DIRECTING June 20-21, 2013

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 2:39pm
DiPA Research Network with Acadia University, Dalhousie Theatre and Humber School of Creative & Performing Arts

An Invitation to an International Performing Arts Summit ON DIRECTING

Presented by the DiPA Research Network

In collaboration with Acadia University
Dalhousie Theatre and Humber School of Creative & Performing Arts

June 20-21, 2013
Humber College Lakeshore Campus
Toronto, Canada

This International SUMMIT will explore DIRECTING as a uniquely interdisciplinary art form. We invite proposals from artists and researchers for papers, practical presentations and conversations. Our focus is on DIRECTING across the disciplines, from theatre to film/TV to dance to musical drama to new media. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Modernist Intuitions (NEMLA, March 21-24, 2013, Boston) - EXTENDED DEADLINE

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 2:06pm
Northeast Modern Language Association

*NEW DEADLINE 9/30*

This panel seeks to explore representations of intuition in Modernist literature. As developments in technology, medicine, industry, and other areas seemed to rely on and value solely cognitive forms of sense making, many Modernist writers focused on intuitive knowledge as a possible remedy to the problems of the early 20th century. Abstracts that explore representations of alternative forms of knowing more broadly are welcome.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 400 words to Dr. Ellen McWhorter at mcwhortere@merrimack.edu by September 30, 2012.

[UPDATE] WSQ: Engage! Call for Papers

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 1:39pm
Women's Studies Quarterly

Call for Papers

WSQ Special Issue: Engage!

Guest Editors: David A. Gerstner & Cynthia Chris

"I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement." — Oscar Wilde

"There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do not think it's asking to much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect."

— Nikki Giovanni

[UPDATE] The 18th Irregular Miami J'yce Birthday Conference: Joyce and England; January 31-February 2, 2013

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 12:29pm
University of Miami

The 18th Irregular Miami J'yce Birthday Conference:
Joyce and England
University of Miami
January 31-February 2, 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are now being solicited for the 18th Irregular Miami J'yce Birthday
Conference to be held at the University of Miami, January 31-February 2, 2013.
Possible topics could include:
• English characters in Joyce
• Joyce and the English language
• Joyce and subversion
• nationalism & imperialism
• emigration/immigration
• Joyce visiting England
• Joyce and English contemporaries
• Joyce and Shakespeare
• Joyce and Cardinal Newman
• English politics and Joyce
• BUT ALL JOYCE TOPICS ARE WELCOME!

CFP: Comics and the American Southwest and Borderland

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 11:25am
James Bucky Carter & Derek Parker Royal

CFP: Comics and the American Southwest and Borderland

The editors of Comics and the American Southwest and Borderlands seek submissions for this collection, which has interest from the University Press of Mississippi. We hope the collection does for the Southwest and Border region what Costello and Whitted's Comics and the U.S. South did for that region and Southern studies via mining, creating, and illuminating the intersections of comics scholarship and established academic writing on the Southwestern United States, the U.S-Mexico border, and their literatures, identities, and cultures.

[UPDATE] NeMLA 2013 panel, The Sequential Monster: Reading Comics as Monstrous

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 11:16am
Emily Lauer, SUNY Suffolk County Community College

The Sequential Monster: Reading Comics as Monstrous

Comic books, graphic novels and webcomics generally combine words and images to create narratives. Perhaps we can see them, therefore, as monstrous: beasts that combine the elements of verbal and visual, narrative and static communication forms. Like a monster composed of pieces of other animals, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This panel will examine a social understanding of comics forms and the kinds of literacies required to accept and interpret them.

Abstracts of 300 words to lauere@sunysuffolk.edu; Deadline: September 30, 2012. Include: name, affiliation, anticipated a/v requirements.

CFP Edited Collection on Dark Fairy Tales in Children's and Young Adult Literature

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 9:14am
Tanya Jones and Joe Abbruscato

Scholarly essays are sought for a collection on the "dark/gothic" fairy tale motif in children's and young adult literature. One of the most popular and long standing traditions in literature for youth, fairy tales have always had elements of fantastical horror, dark motifs, and other Gothic themes built into them. Cannibalism, murders, despair, rape, kidnapping, reincarnations, broken families and many other horrific elements are to be found in these stories. Countless experts insist that their inclusion was, and still is, vital to the growth and maturation of the child reader. The melding of the traditional fairy tale and Gothic literature themes help the reader not only to see the positive aspects of life, but the darker side as well.

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