Forces at Play: Bodies, Power, and Spaces

Cyber bullying, the male gaze in cinema, SlutWalk in Toronto, the canonization of slave narratives, border rhetoric in the classroom – issues such as these take up the ways bodies, power, and spaces converge in a re-seeing and re-interpreting of historical and contemporary social complexities. Investigating this nexus in our discursive and material realities gives us the language for articulating the machinations of power and space that construct and dismantle singular and collective (im)material bodies.

We are welcoming graduate and undergraduate student papers or full panel proposals that address any area of literature (British, American, world, colonial and post-colonial, medieval, modern, contemporary, etc.), rhetoric, composition, or pedagogical studies. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract to xialpha.utc.conference@gmail.com. Submissions must include name, institutional affiliation, student status (graduate or undergraduate), contact information (name, phone number, address, email address), and a list of any audio/visual equipment needed for your presentation. Presentation time should be limited to 20 minutes (usually about ten pages).

Children's literature as a field of academic study has grown steadily in Taiwan over the past several years. Many other Asian nations have also seen a concerted interest in both the production and criticism of literature for young people. This interest has given rise to the creation of the Taiwan Children's Literature Research Association (TLRCA), a distinctly Taiwanese organization in the process of formation that is dedicated to the study of children's and young adult literature.

Rationale:

Masculinities research has evolved considerably over the past three decades. Feminist studies have demonstrated how patriarchy functioned by oppressing women. Masculinity studies however demonstrate men not just as a homogenous group but revealing instead a diversity of masculinities.

Ireland and African-America
9-11 March 2012
Clinton Institute for American Studies
University College Dublin, Ireland
Call for Papers

As the conclusion to our Visualizing the Liberal Arts Initiative, Carleton College will host an interdisciplinary conference offering visionary lectures, speculative discussions, hands-on sessions, exhibitions, and performances.

Visual Learning: Transforming the Liberal Arts will be held in the Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College's new center for interdisciplinary arts collaboration. The conference will address topics ranging from the theoretical to the practical. The keynote speaker is Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics.

For a proposed session at the 2013 MLA conference, we seek papers that offer new thinking about Shakespeare's relationship to Ovid.

For example, how does Ovid influence Shakespeare's visions of gender? How is desire manifested in Ovidian violence, whether on Shakespeare's stage or in his poems? How do modern adaptations of either author's work ask us to rethink the relationship between Shakespeare and Ovid? Can Shakespeare's classical sources help us understand the linkages between gender, love, and brutality in his plays and poems? How do Ovid's mythical or poetic paradigms for transformation, desire, and transgression resonate in scenes of Shakespearean violence?

Proposed Panel: Remixing The American Renaissance
Conference: ALA, May 24-27, 2012, San Francisco, CA
Deadline: Friday, January 27th.

Summary: This Call for Papers seeks scholars interested in how digital medias remix works of the American Renaissance and, in the process, highlight how these works are, themselves, the product of an emerging Remix Culture. Preference will be given to papers with an interest in new media and remix theories and applications.

****** IEEE HPCC-2012, TrustCom-2012, IUCC-2012, ICESS-2012 ******

The 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2012) to be held in Liverpool, England, UK, 25-27 June 2012
http://www.scim.brad.ac.uk/~hmibrahi/HPCC2012/

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-2012) to be held in Liverpool, England, UK, 25-27 June 2012
http://www.scim.brad.ac.uk/~hmibrahi/TrustCom2012/

Pomona Valley Review is looking for poetry, short fiction, and artwork for its sixth online issue this April. Run by Cal Poly Pomona graduate students in English, PVR needs quality prose and art from undergraduates and graduates alike from any college campus.

The deadline for submissions, electronic only, is March 30th. Please see our website for details and specifics on the online submission process. Thank you always for your continued support. Additional notes below.

- We need your short fiction, poetry, and art for our spring 2012 issue.

- We encourage first-time unpublished writers to submit.

- This is a great opportunity to gain professional experience in the humanities.

Diesis: Footnotes on Literary Identities (ISSN 2161-3095), is an open-access journal of literary criticism particularly interested in giving voice to undergraduate and graduate students. This journal is devoted to the exploration of authorial, literary, and socio-political identities across time, space, and genre. Diesis is published bi-annually in the spring and fall.

The editors are currently seeking review board and undergraduate advisory board members from all literary specialties to review submissions, provide comments, and recommend articles for publication in Diesis. Review Board and Undergraduate Advisory board members are named both on our website and on each issue. Please note: all positions are unpaid.

Diesis Volume 2, Issue 2:
Revolutions & Reversals

Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2012

The Editorial Board of Diesis: Footnotes Literary Identities (ISSN 2161-3095), a journal of literary criticism particularly interested in giving voice to undergraduate and graduate students, is inviting submissions to its third issue. This issue takes up authority, social structure, and the construction of desired realities in literature as its primary focus.

Lars von Trier's movies constantly thematize debt, but never so memorably as in Dancer in the Dark which links hospitality to insanity and blindness, and, yet, such giving, such indebtedness, is also framed by an excessive, formal exuberance as Selma (played by Björk) dances and sings her way to the gallows.

Call for Papers

2012 RMMLA Convention
Boulder, Colorado ~ October 11-13, 2012

Description: This panel explores the cultural processes that have occurred throughout Spain since1800. We are specifically looking to present how the national identity and subjectivity have been reconstructed, re-vindicated and reinvented.
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/call/cfp_sessions_by_group.asp?group_id=19