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"Freedom, Come All Ye…" Conference for Scottish Studies

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 7:42am
SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE D’ETUDES ECOSSAISES and the ASSOCIATION FOR SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES and THE UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA (SPAIN)

"Fredome all solace to man giffis, He levys at es that frely levys!"*:

CWWA-FWSA conference: Feminism in Academia: An Age of Austerity? Current Issues and Future Challenges

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 6:11am
The Feminist and Women's Studies Association/The Contemporary Women's Writing Association

Feminism in Academia: An Age of Austerity? Current Issues and Future Challenges

Friday 28th September 2012, The University of Nottingham

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Mary Eagleton (formerly Leeds Metropolitan University)
Professor Mary Evans (Gender Institute, London School of Economics and
Political Science)

CFP - Innovative Studies: International Journal (ISIJ)

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 5:50am
Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals)

Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) invites researchers, editors, scientists & scholars to publish their scientific research papers in Innovative Studies: International Journal (ISIJ) Volume 2, Issue 2.

The Innovative Studies: An International Journal is an independent, peer-reviewed journal devoted to sharing ideas and discussing on science and technology innovations. It publishes scholarly and practitioner-oriented papers, books, case studies, review essays, and book reviews related to innovation, creativity, change management, case studies, technology strategy and planning etc.

CSC Journals anticipate and invite papers on any of the following topics:

Case Studies

Change Management

Creativity

The 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 5:33am
ICARIS 2012, August 28th - 31st, 2012, Taormina, Italy

Artificial immune systems (AIS) is a diverse and maturing area of research that bridges the disciplines of immunology and engineering. The scope of AIS ranges from modelling and simulation of the immune system through to immune-inspired algorithms and engineering solutions. In recent years, algorithms inspired by theoretical immunology have been applied to a wide variety of domains, including computer security, fault tolerance, data-mining and optimisation. Increasingly, theoretical insight into aspects of artificial and real immune systems has been sought through mathematical and computational modelling and analysis.

Hunter Graduate Student Conference: "Storytellers: Crafting, Testifying, Fibbing" May 11-12, 2012

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 4:34am
Graduate English Club of Hunter College

All of us are natural storytellers. Whether fictional, non-fictional, biographical, or autobiographical, the narratives we weave throughout our lives relate us to each other, to our collective histories, and to our notions of personal identity. Yet the methods and structures of storytelling are as varied and unique as the individual storytellers themselves. Who is behind the text, or within the text, and how do we come to understand the motivations and objectives of storytelling?

CFP - International Journal of Ergonomics (IJEG)

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 1:50am
Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals)

Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) invites researchers, editors, scientists & scholars to publish their scientific research papers in an International Journal of Ergonomics (IJEG) Volume 2, Issue 2.

Gender and Conflict, Oct. 18-19, 2012

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 12:50am
University of South Dakota

The University of South Dakota's 2012 Biennial Women and Gender Research Conference invites submissions on the theme Gender and Conflict: Unraveling Paths to Change. The conference will be held on the USD campus in Vermillion, S.D., on October 18 and 19, 2012.

Organizers seek proposals for individual papers or panels on conflicts reflecting the ways in which individuals negotiate gender and agency across space and time. Conflicts may be personal, social, military, generational, familial, postcolonial, economic, psychological, or ethical; they may be the result of cultural, ethnic, racial, and religious expectations, rigidity of sex roles, war, inequality, colonization, or other factors.

Louisiana Folklore Conference March 16-17 2012--Roots Rerouted: Tradition and Innovation in Louisiana Cultures

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 11:54pm
Louisiana Folklore Society

Our theme title, Tradition and Innovation in Louisiana Cultures, invites participants to explore the relationship between traditional practices, beliefs, and customs and individual or collective improvisation or invention. In what ways do these ideas balance one another or inform our ideas about the origin, blending, and evolution of cultural traditions?

Science and Literature Panel-RMMLA Boulder, Colorado 2012

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 9:54pm
RMMLA

The Literature and Science session of the RMMLA invites interpretive
papers focusing on science and its intersection with written
methods of transmission. They might include the reuse of
scientific matter in literary forms; the relationship of
individual writers to science and of certain scientists to
literary figures of their day; the combination of scientific
and literary methods of knowledge making. Papers focusing on
the representation or integration of science in specific
literary texts are especially encouraged. However, proposals
dealing with any aspect of the interdisciplinary field of
literature and science are welcome.

Pacific Triangles: Australia, China, and the Reorientation of American Studies (10th-11th August 2012)

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 8:31pm
Paul Giles (English); Jane Park (Cultural Studies), in association with the U. S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Pacific Triangles: Australia, China, and the Reorientation of American Studies

A symposium at the University of Sydney, Australia,
10th-11th August 2012.

Plenary speakers:

Kuan-Hsing Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Jacqueline Lo, Australian National University
Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College, USA

Undercover America at MLA 2013 (3-6 January, Boston)

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 7:44pm
Laura Fisher

This panel examines the methodology and genre of the undercover narrative in U.S. literature. From slumming expeditions and Progressive-era social investigations to cross-class passages into the world of the waitress, factory laborer, and tramp, middle- and upper-class writers have undertaken the journey "down and out" in order to understand and represent workers and the poor in their work. What do such "experiments in misery" tell us about the role of class, and cross-class affiliation, in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature?

Service Learning in Humanities

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 5:53pm
Interdisciplinary Humanities/Humanities Education and Research Association

The Fall 2012 issue of the journal Interdisciplinary Humanities will be a special issue on service-learning in the humanities. The editors welcome submissions of articles, essays, and reflective pieces on service-learning from various points of view: students, faculty, agency mentors, and higher-education and non-profit community administration and staff. Documents may focus on studies, theory, practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and school-community partnerships as they apply to service-learning. The co-editors for this special issue are Isabel Baca (University of Texas-El Paso) and Joana Owens (Jacksonville University).

CFP for NeoAmericanist Journal (Issue 6.1)

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 5:06pm
NeoAmericanist: An Inter-Disciplinary Online Journal for the Study of America

NeoAmericanist, an online multi-disciplinary journal for the study of America, is issuing a CALL FOR PAPERS to interested Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting any PAPERS, PHOTOGRAPHY, ART WORK, or POETRY, as well as REVIEWS of music, architecture, movie, books and multimedia from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level students on the topic of the United States of America.

Call for Submissions: Writer's Bloc Literary Magazine

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 4:03pm
Writer's Bloc

Writer's Bloc. Postmark deadline: February 29, 2012

Writer's Bloc is the only literary magazine at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Published once a year, it accepts poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, one-act plays, interviews, and essays from the student body, faculty, and staff of TAMUK, and from writers around the nation and the world. Mail work to: Writer's Bloc MSC 162, Fore Hall 110, 700 University Blvd., Kingsville, TX 78363-8202 For more information, visit: www.tamuk.edu/artsci/langlit/writers_bloc.html

Roots and Radicalisms: Literature, Theory and Praxis - University of British Columbia Graduate Conference in English

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 3:54pm
Endnotes 2012 Graduate Conference - University of of British Columbia

Roots and Radicalisms: Literature, Theory and Praxis

Jean Baudrillard's claim from The Illusion of the End (1992) that history "has become a dustbin. It has become its own dustbin, just as the planet itself is becoming its own dustbin" signals a millennialist angst that proclaims the exhaustion of ideas and the end of historical "progress." And yet, as the significant worldwide political upheavals of the past year attest, global citizens are not yet entirely resigned to living in and among dustbins. Is it possible that we are experiencing a widespread reemergence of radical thinking and action?

SCSC 2012 "Early Modern Technics and Prosthetics"; Cincinnati, OH; Oct 25-28

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 3:19pm
Dr. Katie Chenoweth

Sixteenth Century Society and Conference 2012

Session: "Early Modern Technics and Prosthetics"

Proposals are invited for papers exploring questions of technics, technology, prosthetics, and the human in early modern Europe. Engagement with critical theories of technology/prosthetics is encouraged.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief CV to Katie Chenoweth at chenowethk@wlu.edu by April 1, 2012.

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Journal Guest Editors

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 1:21pm
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

We are currently looking for guest editors for the summer 2012 issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (www.ncgsjournal.com).

This past summer Lizzie Harris McCormick and Cecile Kandl put together an issue on "Women Write the Natural World." Previous summer issues inclue "Nineteenth-Century Feminisms: Press & Platform," edited by Susan Hamilton and Janice Schroeder, and "Gender, the Professions, and the Press," edited by Andrew King and Marysa Demoor. All past issues of the journal can be found on our website.

UpStage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 12:26pm
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA; St. Mary's University College, UK

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 Summer 2012 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.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the work of Shaw, Schnitzler, Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, von Hofmannsthal, and their contemporaries in Western and Eastern Europe and beyond.

The Male Body in Medicine and Literature - Deadline 1 December 2012

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 7:50am
Greta Depledge and Andrew Mangham

Call for Papers: The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (ed. by Greta Depledge and Andrew Mangham)

Following the success of the recent collection The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (LUP 2011) Liverpool University Press have commissioned a companion volume entitled The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. This new collection will provide interdisciplinary essays that will explore the complex intersections between literature and the medical treatment of the male body. We wish to consider the wider cultural ramifications of the representation of the male body, health, sickness, masculinity and 'manhood' in order to further our understanding of gender studies, gender politics, science, medicine and literature.

i-KNOW 2012

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 6:12am
Know-Center GmbH

********* CALL FOR PAPERS **************************
12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
5 to 7 September 2012
Messe Congress Graz, Austria
http://i-know.tugraz.at
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This CfP is also available under this link!

Synergies of Knowledge Computing Disciplines

CFP - International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM)

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 4:18am
Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals)

Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) invites researchers, editors, scientists & scholars to publish their scientific research papers in an International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM) Volume 3, Issue 2.

CFP - International Journal of Ubiquitous Computing (IJUC)

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 4:03am
Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals)

Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) invites researchers, editors, scientists & scholars to publish their scientific research papers in an International Journal of Ubiquitous Computing (IJUC) Volume 2, Issue 2.

The Challenges of Late Modernism

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 2:39am
MSA 14: Modernism and Spectacle (Las Vegas, Oct 18-21 2012)

This proposed panel seeks to examine the phenomenon of late modernism - is there such a thing, and how do we define it? Is it an analytically useful concept or should we think of another way of categorizing literature written after high modernism. Are there particular technological, social or political values that underpin late modernist writing? Can the concept of late modernism be extended beyond the Anglo-American world? Papers looking at either late modernism in a theoretical perspective or evaluations of individual late modernist authors are encouraged.

Please send a proposal (300 words) and a brief bio by 15 March to Marius.Hentea@UGent.be.

The Literary Classic in and through Time

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 2:30am
MLA 2013

What is the classic? Has its meaning changed? What value system underpins criticism in different epochs? Is literary value dead?

Submit proposal (300 words) and brief bio by 5 March 2012.

CFP: Literature and Religion: Sanctuary & Sacred Space (PAMLA: Seattle, WA; October 19-21, 2012Deadline 3/31/12)

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Monday, January 23, 2012 - 2:00am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

Literature and Religion panel at PAMLA seeks papers that address how questions of faith have shaped literary works and cultural meanings. In particular, it welcomes papers that address the topic of sanctuary and sacred space. How do literary texts represent sanctuary and sacred space? What is the role of memory in creating sacred space? What is the relationship between physical place and sacred space? How does one's experience of suffering contribute to the creation of sanctuary and sacred space? How do migration, immigration and movement impact the construction of sacred space?

The conference will take place at Seattle University, Washington from October 19-21, 2012.

Submission Deadline: Saturday March 31, 2012.

CFP - Edited Collection: Textual Multiplicity in Medieval and Golden Age Spain

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 10:01pm
Belen Bistue and Anne Roberts

We invite contributions to an edited volume tentatively titled DISOBEDIENT PRACTICES: TEXTUAL MULTIPLICITY IN MEDIEVAL AND GOLDEN AGE SPAIN. We intend this volume to add to the conversation about the interplay of literary practices and forms of civil disobedience.

More specifically, this project seeks to explore the ways in which textual multiplicity threatens (state-sponsored attempts at) political unification in medieval and early modern Spain.

Victorian Mixed Media 19-21 October 2012

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 7:34pm
Victorians Institute

The 41st Meeting of the Victorians Institute
19-21 October 2012
at
Virginia Commonwealth University

Please send 300-500 word proposals for papers and a 1-page c.v. via email to dlatane@vcu.edu by 1 May 2012. Papers are invited on any aspect of the rubric, including,

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