Call for Papers

The Religious Turn in Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies
A Two-Day Conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 6-7, 2009

Keynote Speakers: Sarah Beckwith (Duke University) and Arthur Marotti
(Wayne State University)

The Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the
University of Michigan, is requesting submissions for its conference on the
religious turn in late medieval and early modern studies, to be held
February 6-7, 2009.

Call for Papers

The Religious Turn in Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies
A Two-Day Conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 6-7, 2009

Keynote Speakers: Sarah Beckwith (Duke University) and Arthur Marotti
(Wayne State University)

The Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the
University of Michigan, is requesting submissions for its conference on the
religious turn in late medieval and early modern studies, to be held
February 6-7, 2009.

The 2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and
Society: Minding Animals,' hosted by the Animals and Society (Australia)
Study Group and the University of Newcastle, 13 and 18 July, 2009, at
Civic Precinct,Newcastle, Australia

OPCA Conference Panel: Terror and Political Violence in Popular Culture

Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference in Honolulu, HI, May 22-23, 2009 at Chaminade
University of Honolulu

I invite pedagogical papers on any 19th century American literature to
constitute an independent panel proposal for the American Literature
Association conference in Boston, MA, May 21-24, 2009. I would like to
put to gether a roundtable discussion of approaches to teaching 19th
century American literature: innovative approaches to teaching individual
texts in a traditional classroom; non-traditional teaching settings, such
as web-based teaching; teaching texts in a global context; assignments
other than traditional papers, etc. Because I hope to put together a
roundtable of 5-6 panelists, proposals should be geared for 10 minutes
rather than the customary 15-20 minutes.

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States

March 26 - 28, 2009

States of Suspension

The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group

Keynote Speaker: Michael Hardt

University of Florida, March 26-28, 2009

The Christian Parapsychologist, a journal of the Churches’ Fellowship for
Psychical and Spiritual Studies, is seeking article submissions for the
first issue of its new series, to be published in September 2009. The
theme of the first issue will be Literature and the Supernatural.
  
We will consider articles on any aspect of literature and the
supernatural, provided that they are relevant in some degree to some
aspect of the Christian religion. Literature should be understood in its
widest sense, as including novels, poems, plays, ephemera including
ballads, early printed treatises, graphic novels, newspapers, films, etc.
and ranging from Anglo-Saxon poetry to contemporary writing.

WSQ Call for Papers: special issue on Citizenship
Guest Editors: Terri Gordon and Robin Rogers-Dillon

This proposed anthology gives female patients the chance to speak to
doctors in letter form. In particular, it offers women the chance to tell
their physicians things they may never have had the courage or the
opportunity to say before.

We hope to receive submissions with a range of subjects and tones. They
may range from critical to thankful, serious to humorous.

Send submissions to kerli_at_musc.edu. Letter should be included in the body
of the email, not as an attachment.

Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2009.

Please note that at this time, no monetary compensation can be offered.
This may or may not change in the future when a publisher is secured.

The deadline for abstract submissions to the conference "James Baldwin: In His Time / In Our Time"
has been extended until November 20, 2009. Please send 1-2 page abstracts to Quentin Miller at
qmiller_at_suffolk.edu. The conference will be held from March 19-March 21 at Suffolk University in
Boston. We will consider any aspect of Baldwin's career; we are also interested in considerations of
Baldwin in conjunction with his contemporaries or his influence on other writers. The conference
website can be accessed by clicking on the link on Quentin Miller's home page:

http://webcas.cas.suffolk.edu/miller/index.html

May 28-30, 2009
K.U. Leuven, Belgium

This conference wants to bring together scholars from science fiction
studies, adaptation studies and literary studies to share their expertise
and shed new light on science-fiction adaptations and novelisations.

May 28-30, 2009
K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Amsterdam has always been a locus of powerful imagining, and for
centuries the city has been the subject of representation in literature,
music, and the visual arts. Yet while artists and writers have long
emphasised the city’s reputation for permissiveness and tolerance, in
recent years the international image of Amsterdam as the paradigm of
an “open society” has been charged with new significance and urgency.
Against the backdrop of the war on terror, an increasingly polarised
debate has taken place about multiculturalism and about new, global
challenges to our Western models of capitalist democracy. In this context
Amsterdam has emerged as a privileged site of representation which

Deadline for submission: November 01, 2008

Neil Gaiman's seminal comic book series "The Sandman" portrays a peculiar attitude towards
women. Often empowering, but occasionally troubling, Gaiman's epic narrative negotiates complex
and difficult social and narrative female identities. This panel seeks to explore some of the areas in
which Gaiman addresses (or denies) feminism and feminist theory throughout the series. Please
send abstracts of 250-500 words and your resumé with contact information to:

Aaron Drucker
Panel Chair
aaron.drucker_at_cgu.edu