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International Conference of Investment & Retail Management (ICIRM)

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 8:19am
Academy of Business and Retail Management

Call for Papers
ICIRM – Istanbul 2012
International Conference on Investment & Retail Management
(ICIRM)
23rd - 25th April, 2012
ww.abrmr.com
Overview of the Conference
The dynamics of the retail sector are proving elemental to the development of a
number of economies internationally. Yet the protracted nature of the global
recession coupled with a lack of stability in capital markets has caused considerable
discomfort. Those operating in the retail sector face additional challenges from overregulation,
exchange rate volatility and the vagaries of macroeconomic imbalances.
Yet for all these difficulties the retail sector remains remarkably robust and often at

International Conference on the Restructuring of the Global Economy

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 8:17am
Academy of Business and Retail Management

Call for Papers
ROGE 2012 – Pune, India
Conference on the Restructuring of the Global Economy (ROGE)
1st - 2nd February 2012
www.abrmr.com
Overview of the Conference
The dynamics of international trade have taken on an added significance in the light
of the challenges created by the recent global financial crisis. Entire sectors and even
nations have begun to reassess their trading relationships and the more enlightened
are eager to gain an insight into the theories and processes that have helped certain
economies to weather the storm. The emerging giants of Brazil, China and India are

International Trade & Academic Research Conference

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 8:15am
Academy of Business and Retail Management

Call for Papers
ITARC – London 2011
International Trade & Academic Research Conference (ITARC)
7th - 8thNovember, 2011
www.abrmr.com
Overview of the Conference
The dynamics of international trade have taken on an added significance in
the light of the challenges created by the recent global financial crisis. Entire
sectors and even nations have begun to reassess their trading relationships
and the more enlightened are eager to gain an insight into the theories and
processes that have helped certain economies to weather the storm. The
emerging giants of Brazil, China and India are demanding greater attention

[UPDATE] Revenge of the Queers: Ethics and the Politics of Resentment (Sept. 30)

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 8:08am
NEMLA 2012, March 15-18

rom Diane DiMassa's caffeinated homicidal heroine in Hothead Paisan to Lee Edelman's sinthomosexual who "chooses not to choose the Child," revenge – if only phantasmatic – invigorates queer narratives, theory, even politics. And given that oppression breeds resentment, it is no intellectual leap to consider why revenge becomes a popular trope. But is there something inherently queer about revenge? Could we envision distinctly queer forms of revenge? Or is such an essentialist application of "queer" its very antithesis?

Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires; Bern, Switzerland, May 18-20, 2012

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 6:20am
Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) Annual Conference; University of Bern, Switzerland; Conveners: Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter

This conference addresses the key role that empire retains in European and North American consumer culture despite decades of postcolonial challenges to imperial control.

Gender and Popular Fiction

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 11:10pm
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Presents
Issue 11.3
Gender and Popular Fiction, Edited by Cameron Leader-Picone and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
with articles by Jan Goggans, Ashley Barner, Erin Hollis, Linda Ledford-Miller, and K.C. Harrison
We also are still accepting abstracts for the following two special issues:
Games and/as Resistance (Nov 1)
"(In)Securities " (Nov 15)
See website for further details.

Call for Papers - Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism (20 January 2012)

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 9:57pm
Brigham Young University

Criterion seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous essays written from diverse critical perspectives and about texts from any time period or literary tradition. Submissions are peer-reviewed by a selection board at BYU, and final decisions are made by the journal's two Editors-in-Chief in consultation with a faculty advisor. Essays may be submitted on a year-round basis, but Criterion is currently soliciting submissions for its 2012 issue, scheduled for publication in April of 2012. The submission deadline for the 2012 issue is 20 January 2012. Essays received after this deadline will be considered for the 2013 issue.

Rapture erotica / dystopian literature for After NAFTA: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 5:47pm
Gisele Baxter, Brett Josef Grubisc, Tara Lee, eds.

The editors of After NAFTA are seeking ONE additional submission for an essay collection to be published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2012. To date we have received and selected proposals that submitted to the following CFP—

Seeking to explore literary iterations of the current dystopian mood, the editors of 'After NAFTA: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature' encourage submissions about a variety of literary genres - novels, short fiction, or graphic novels (written in English or translated) - published by Canadian,
American, and Mexican authors between 1994 and 2010.

Currently, we are seeking a proposal exploring the so-called 'rapture erotica' genre as it pertains to dystopian studies.

Edited Collection PHILIP ROTH: TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 4:50pm
Dr. Velichka D. Ivanova

Abstracts due December 1, 2011 (500 words; please include contact info and short bio)
Final essays due by 10 August 2012 (4,000-5,000 words)

The editor of a contracted collection of essays titled PHILIP ROTH: TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES is seeking proposals for additional contributions for the remaining sections.

Philip Roth is a highly literary and referential writer. The essays collected in this volume will offer an assessment of the conflicting influences on his work by his American and European forebears William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Franz Kafka, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekov, Nikolai Gogol, the medieval English morality "The Summoning of Everyman," among others.

[UPDATE - ABSTRACT EXTENSION] Novelty, Game-Changing, and Genre-Breaking - October 28-29, 2011

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 4:20pm
University of Florida English Graduate Organization

Nothing New Under the Sun?
Novelty, Game-Changing, and Genre-Breaking

2011 University of Florida English Graduate Organization Conference

October 28-29, 2011, at the University of Florida

Keynote Speaker: Richard Flynn (Georgia Southern University)

The English Graduate Organization of the University of Florida invites papers across disciplines concerning the idea of novelty in literature, film, rhetoric or the production of art. By interrogating the causes and effects of novelty in the life of an artist, scholar or artistic movement, we hope to destabilize the boundaries around the "old" and "new" and trace the lingering impact of these game-changers across both time and disciplines.

"This is the End": Transformations and New Beginnings

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 3:54pm
Organization of Graduate Students of English-Northern Arizona University

Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference 2012
Featured Theme:
"This is the End": Transformations & New Beginnings

Rumors of the end of the world have existed for as long as humans have been able to articulate fear. The year 2012 has provided us with yet another instance of this phenomenon. This year's conference will highlight our ideas about endings, beginnings, and rebirths in all of their various forms. We hope to see visions of Armageddon, conceptualizations of endings or changes in art, media, and culture, and new explorations of beginnings and endings in language studies, education, and the sciences.

February 24th and 25th
Kickoff on February 23rd
NAU University Union

The Southern Writers Symposium: Emerging Writers Contest, Dec. 1, 2011

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 3:45pm
Methodist University's Southern Writers Symposium

Entries are now being accepted for the 2012 Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Contest. This year categories will feature fiction and poetry as well as creative nonfiction (particularly creative nonfiction dealing with issues of military life).

The first- and second-place writers in each category will read from their winning work at the conference and receive cash awards of $300 and $200, respectively. The contest is open to writers who meet at least two of the following criteria:

* currently live in the South;
* are natives of the South;
* write about the South.

[UPDATE] Motherhood/Fatherhood and Popular Culture: Boston, April 11- 14, 2012

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 2:48pm
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference

Julie Tharp and Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb write in This Giving Birth: "Ever since a pregnant Demi Moore exploded the beauty myth by posing nude for a magazine cover and Madonna cast off her boy-toy image to sing the praises of maternity, popular culture has also begun to embrace dear old mom." At the same time, Modern Family, Mr. Mom, Thomas Beatie, the At-Home Dads Convention, and Superdad: a Memoir of Rebellion, Drugs and Fatherhood are just a few examples testifying to how popular culture has been embracing dad.

I am looking for papers for multiple panels for the new PCA Area Motherhood/Fatherhood which showcases (from humanities and social sciences perspectives) any aspect of motherhood and or fatherhood in popular culture.

Rural Teacher Identity Development: Stories of Growth, Change, and the Challenges/Rewards of Teaching English in Rural Schools

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 1:11pm
Lisa Eckert, Montana State University Dept. of English

How does an early career teacher negotiate tensions between university instruction and real-world expectations in rural settings? How does a mid-career teacher maintain energy and enthusiasm amid an educational culture focused on testing and objective definitions of knowledge, especially in rural schools? How does a late-career teacher continue to effect change and grow as a professional in rural communities? Several books and articles have described and theorized the difficult journey to becoming an English teacher, including Britzman's Practice Makes Practice (1991) and Alsup's Teacher Identity Discourses: Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces (2006).

Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 12:03pm
Irene Gammel / MLCRC, Ryerson University

Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Join us in New York City for a reception to celebrate Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (MIT Press, 2011) edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo.

Friday, November 4th, 2011, 6 – 8pm

Come and enjoy the art work, music, and poetry. Refreshments will be served.

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
24 West 57th Street, Suite 305
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-582-3201

For more information:
Cait MacIntosh, admin@mlc.ryerson.ca
Dana Martin, dana@fancisnaumann.com

Call for Papers Transgressive/Trash/Exploitation/Art Cinema

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 11:16am
Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association

Call for Papers Transgressive/Trash/Exploitation/Art Cinema
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
http://www.swtxpca.org
Please make plans to attend our 33rd Annual Conference
February 8-11, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87102
Tel: +1 505 842 1234 or 888-421-1442
Proposal submission deadline: December 1, 2011
Who We Are/What We Do

[UPDATE] Dickens and the Visual Imagination, 9-10 July 2012

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 10:48am
An international two-day conference to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012. Hosted by University of Surrey, Paul Mellon Centre and the Watts Gallery

This conference, hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre in London and the University of Surrey in Guildford, will explore the interfaces between art history and textual scholarship through the work of Charles Dickens.

Plenary speaker: Professor Kate Flint (Rutgers University). Other speakers TBC.

Sculptural Film

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 10:07am
Session for the Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians

38th Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair
The Open University, Milton Keynes
29 - 31 March 2012

Session 19:
'Sculptural Film: Before and Beyond Richard Serra'
Session Convenor:

Katerina Loukopoulou, University College London, k.loukopoulou@ucl.ac.uk

[UPDATE] Poetry Communities and the Individual Talent (April 6-7, 2012)

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 8:41am
Jonathan Fedors and Katie L. Price / Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

Poetry Communities and the Individual Talent
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
April 6-7, 2012

Confirmed Keynote Panelists: Maria Damon (University of Minnesota), Craig Dworkin (University of Utah), Brian Reed (University of Washington at Seattle)

Reflections and transfigurations: tradapting and performing Shakespeare today. 26-27 April 2012, University of Toulouse, France.

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 7:06am
ART. University of Toulouse Le Mirail

CFP: Reflections and transfigurations: tradapting and performing Shakespeare today. 26-27 April 2012, University of Toulouse, France.
Confirmed Plenary speakers: Djanet Sears (University of Toronto), author of the critically acclaimed Harlem Duet (1997), Paula Vogel (Yale) author of Desdemona: a play about the handkerchief (1993). Both playwrights will discuss their own play as well as the original text which inspired them, Othello.

'Unplanned Wildernesses': Narrating the British Slum 1844-1951 - University of Warwick - 19th May 2012

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 6:51am
Humanities Research Centre University of Warwick

In 1844 Friedrich Engels described the slums of Manchester as 'unplanned wildernesses'; stating that no 'human being would willingly inhabit such dens' (The Condition of the Working Class in England). This emphasis on the bewildering experience of the slum – the 'maze of lanes, blind alleys and back passages' – as well as the slum's contaminating presence in the Victorian city, is part of a wider dialogue concerning working-class neighbourhoods throughout the nineteenth century that incorporated the writings of such figures as Charles Dickens and the sociologist Charles Booth.

ACLA 2012 " Reproduction, Life, and Futurity in the Humanities"

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 6:34am
Brown University, RI, March 29th to April 1, 2012

Call for Papers: ACLA 2012 " Reproduction, Life, and Futurity in the Humanities"

Now accepting paper proposals for a seminar session entitled "Reproduction, Life, and Futurity in the Humanities" at the American Comparative Literature Association conference to beheld at Brown University from March 29th to April 1, 2012.

New Voices in Irish Criticism: "Legitimate Ireland"

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 6:15am
Queen's University Belfast

New Voices in Irish Criticism: "Legitimate Ireland"
19th – 21st April 2012
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University, Belfast

From plantations to Grattan's parliament, poitín distillers to the IMF bailout, the Irish have always had a fraught relationship with institutions of political, social and religious power. It raises questions surrounding the legitimacy of performative and systemic aspects of Irishness, which has been and continues to be in flux both north and south of the border.

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE: tracing memories / imagining spaces

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Monday, September 26, 2011 - 4:43am
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE: tracing memories / imagining spaces
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, 36th annual conference
Dates: 28 May-3 June 2012.

Deadline for submissions: 15 Oct 2011
Keynote speakers Jacques Rancière (philosopher), Erkki-Sven Tüür (composer) and others.

Hosted by Tallinn University and the Estonian Literary Museum
Location: Tallinn University (Estonia)
Go to www.iapl.info for details on submission of paper or panel proposal.

Questions? contact: execdir@iapl.info

Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director and Program Coordinator

Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing May 4-5, 2012

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Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 11:23pm
Hosted by the Poetry and Politics Research Cluster, University of California, Santa Cruz

This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as innovative acts and encounters that are always in the process of both venturing to do something previously untried, and questioning and testing the very boundaries and mores, however contingent, established by those attempts.

The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies - May 4-5, 2012

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Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 11:02pm
C21: Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies
Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
May 4-5, 2012

This conference takes up the "nonhuman turn" that has been emerging in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over the past few decades. Intensifying in the 21st century, this nonhuman turn can be traced to a variety of different intellectual and theoretical developments from the last decades of the 20th century:

actor-network theory, particularly Bruno Latour's career-long project to articulate technical mediation, nonhuman agency, and the politics of things;

Shakespeare and Performance (January 31, 2012)

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Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 10:40pm
Early Modern Studies Journal (EMSJ) formally Early English Studies (EES)

The 2012 volume will focus on "Shakespeare and Performance." We are interested in articles that consider any aspect of performance in historical or contemporary productions of Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights. The following list is of possible topics, but should not be considered exhaustive:
Comparative performance in England

Comparative performances in England and other countries

Street performance

Provincial performance

Performance of Guilds

Women and performance
Boy's companies

Current Productions of early modern plays

Shakespeare Festivals

Playing spaces

Actors and the text

Theatrical Gesture

Court Performances and Masques

ANZASA Biennial Conference

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Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 9:51pm
Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association

The Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association will be hosted by the University of Queensland's Cultural History Project, in Brisbane, Australia, from 3-7 July, 2012. ANZASA will again bring together scholars from Australia and New Zealand with colleagues from around the world who specialise in American Studies.

Keynote Speakers:
• Emeritus Professor Michael Fellman, Simon Fraser University
• Professor Paul Giles, Challis Chair of English, University of Sydney
• Professor Karla F. C. Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law, Duke University

[UPDATE] Mennonite/s Writing VI: Solos and Harmonies

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Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 9:45pm
Kirsten Beachy/Eastern Mennonite University

Proposals for scholarly papers, creative writing presentations, and panels are sought for the sixth in a series of conferences on Mennonite writing in the U.S., Canada, and beyond to be held at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA on Thursday March 29-Sunday April 1, 2012. The conference will both celebrate and examine this rapidly developing literature across borders on the North American continent and as it is developing world wide. Papers that address the relationship of the artist and communities—solos and harmonies—in ethical and aesthetic dimensions, are particularly welcome. Suggestions include:

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