Stolen Lives: Identity Theft and Contemporary Narrative

Proposed Special Session Panel
MLA Convention, Dec. 27-30, 2009
Philadelphia, PA

Abstracts invited for a panel focusing on the treatment of identity theft in contemporary literature and/or film. Possible topics include:
impersonated and reinvented selves; ontologies of identity, networked identities; privacy, surveillance, and self-surveillance; questions of genre and genealogy; plagiarism, adaptation, pseudonymity.

500-word abstracts by March 10; Price McMurray (pmcmurray@txwes.edu)

Territories of Thought

Haunted Masculinities: Men and Their Ghostly Selves in American Literature Proposal for special session for MLA 2009

African American Literature and Environment MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

The 2009 Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish
Studies will be held October 17-19 at Southern Illinois University-
Carbondale. The conference theme is “Ireland: Medieval to Modern,” but
papers and panel proposals are welcomed on any topic related to Irish and
Irish Diaspora Studies, and presentations may be given in English or in
Irish. The plenary speakers are Mary O’Malley and Brian Ã" Conchubhair;
Louis de Paor will be awarded the Charles P. Fanning Medal for his
contribution to Irish Studies.

Please send 200-word abstracts to Beth Lordan, Director, Irish and Irish
Immigration Studies Program. The deadline for submission is May 1, 2009.

Apologies for Cross-Posting

Dear All,

Just a quick reminder that the registration deadline for Acting Out: A
symposium on Screen Performance, Inference and Interpretation is only one
week away - friday 27th February 2009.

Registrations forms and the provisional programme for the event can be
downloaded from our website:
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ftt/research/ftt-actingout.asp

Please circulate to any colleagues, post-doctoral researchers or
postgraduate students who may be interested.

best wishes,

Lucy Fife Donaldson & Ceri Hovland

Acting Out - A Symposium on Screen Performance, Inference and Interpretation

I would like to announce a CFP for the very general but always intellectually stimulating annual
panel at the RMMLA, "Film Theory and Criticism." Please send a 350-word abstract by March 1st. I
look forward to reading your abstracts very soon!

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For any of the sessions below submit a title and abstract (100-150 words)
to the session chair. See
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/conf09Snowbird/default.asp.
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Classical Rhetoric in Modern Contexts: Classical Rhetoric in Modern
Literatures and Film*
William J. McCarthy, 634 Marshall Road SW, Vienna, VA 22180; 703-200-
1873; mccarthy_at_cua.edu

Rhetoric of Humor: The Moves that Make us Laugh*
Jeff Swift, 4198 JFSB, English Dept, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
84602; 801-422-3565; jswift8_at_gmail.com

MLA 2009 panel sponsored by MLA Committee for the Literatures of People
of Color in the United States and Canada

Transformative Texts: Books That Rocked the World. Single, paradigm-
changing literary texts by authors of color in the United States and
Canada. How did they rethink, reshape, redirect the field? 250-word
abstracts by 26 Feb.; Lan Dong (baerchendong_at_yahoo.com).

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"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush
stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger--but recognize the opportunity." -- John F. Kennedy

Call for Submissions
Dash, Cal State Fullerton's annual literary journal, seeks submissions
for its 2009 issue. It is our mission to publish works of poetry,
fiction, creative nonfiction, criticism, and art (as well as hybrid
texts) that push the boundaries of short, emphatic expression. We aim to
communicate more with less. Waste not, want not. Submit.

Boundaries (push at your own risk)
Poems
30 lines or less. Submit up to 5.

Fiction, Nonfiction, Criticism
2000 words or less, double-spaced.
Limit: 1 submission per category.

Art
Digital images, 300 dpi.
Email as TIFF attachment.
Do not send original artwork.

Hybrid
Surprise us.

CFP: D. H. Lawrence's Circle and Short Stories
(3/25/09; MLA 12/27/09-12/30/09)

The D. H. Lawrence Society of North American (DHLSNA) invites individuals
to submit abstracts for consideration for the 2009 MLA meeting in
Philadelphia (which will be held from December 27th through 30th).

The DHLSNA is organizing two panels: "D. H. Lawrence's Circle" and "D. H.
Lawrence's Short Stories."

We are interested in considering abstracts for the "D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories" panel of a
theoretical, biographical, literary or cultural nature that involve one or more of the short stories.

Call for Papers â€" Rocky Mountain MLA in Snowbird, UT â€" October 8-10, 2009

Special Topics Session on Literature and Trauma: Traumatic Memory and
Narrative Memory in Ethnic American Literatures

The Special Topics Session on Literature and Trauma has focused on a
range of specific issues â€" in 2008, the panel discussed the
representation of trauma in Holocaust and Ethnic American Literatures,
and in a previous year, it invited papers specifically on trauma in the
Native American literary tradition.

 "Leaps of Faith: When Mania Meets Modernity”
 
 This panel will interrogate the upsurge of the new(?) homicidal/suicidal
 religiosity in the West. Possible perspectives are political,
sociological, activist, and philosophical. Approaches can cover the full
range from critical analysis to prescriptions for political action. Some
possible ideas, not intended to restrict ideas but just to spur thinking
on a few possible approaches:
 
 - the suicide bomber as Kierkegaardian hero
 - religious mania as a reaction to/ byproduct of Western modernity
 - leaps of technological faith: the new high-tech cargo cults (Heaven's
 Gate, etc)