ACLA 2009 Convention
March 26-29, 2009
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

"The Form of Power, the Power of Form: Global Dictator Fictions"

Co-chairs: Ulka Anjaria and Jennifer Harford Vargas

ACLA 2009 Convention
March 26-29, 2009
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

"The Form of Power, the Power of Form: Global Dictator Fictions"

Co-chairs: Ulka Anjaria and Jennifer Harford Vargas

ACLA 2009 Convention
March 26-29, 2009
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

"The Form of Power, the Power of Form: Global Dictator Fictions"

Co-chairs: Ulka Anjaria and Jennifer Harford Vargas

How do 20th Century television shows, such as “The Honeymooners” and “All
in the Family,” portray married couples in turmoil? How do television
shows, such as “Starsky and Hutch” and “ER,” dramatize the conflicts
faced by people who are partners, both platonic and romantic? How is
the “situation comedy” dependent on couples fighting? Connecticut Review
is looking for academic essays related to the problematizing of the
dramatic dyad in 20th Century television. Your work should be 2,000 to
4,000 words. Submit work to: clermontm_at_easternct.edu in hypertext form or
send 2 hard copies to:
Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, Senior Editor
Connecticut Review
CSU System Office

In what ways does Shakespeare establish continuity of family and dramatic
events through such plays as Henry IV Part 1 and 2, and Henry V? Is it
important to read Shakespeare’s historical plays as meditations on family
relations, or are the kinships portrayed merely as points of historic
detail? How historically accurate are Shakespeare’s portrayals of these
royal kinships? Connecticut Review is looking for academic essays
addressing kinship and its representation in Shakespeare’s histories.
Your work should be 2,000 to 4,000 words. Submit work to:
clermontm_at_easternct.edu in hypertext form or send 2 hard copies to:
Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, Senior Editor
Connecticut Review

How does Shakespeare use the storm in The Tempest to portray the fear and
impact of outside forces on an exotic location? What are some ways in
which The Tempest could be read as a criticism of Colonial meddling? In
what way is this Colonial meddling rectified, such as when Prospero uses
his magic to return the outsiders to Italy? Connecticut Review is looking
for academic post-Colonial readings of The Tempest. Your work should be
2,000 to 4,000 words. Submit work to: clermontm_at_easternct.edu in
hypertext form or send 2 hard copies to:
Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, Senior Editor
Connecticut Review
CSU System Office
39 Woodland Street
Hartford CT 06105-2337

How did 19th Century British authors, such as Charles Dickens, portray
images of children in their literary works? How does Dickens portray
children, as in Oliver Twist and David Copperfield, as characters caught
up in an economic and political class struggle? Does Dickens use these
images of children to personalize these class struggles? Connecticut
Review is looking for academic essays addressing the images of children
in 19th century British fiction. Your work should be 2,000 to 4,000
words. Submit work to: clermontm_at_easternct.edu in hypertext form or send
2 hard copies to:
Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, Senior Editor
Connecticut Review
CSU System Office
39 Woodland Street

How are “outsiders” to Caribe culture portrayed by such authors as
Jamaica Kincaid and Erna Brodber? How do literary works, such as
Kincaid’s Annie John, show how diaspora has created a sense of
displacement for those living in the Caribbean? Does such post-Colonial
literature represent a period of reclamation of identity for the peoples
of the Caribbean? Connecticut Review is looking for academic essays
discussing the “other” in Caribbean diaspora literature. Your work
should be 2,000 to 4,000 words. Submit work to: clermontm_at_easternct.edu
in hypertext form or send 2 hard copies to:
Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, Senior Editor
Connecticut Review
CSU System Office

St. John’s University

English Graduate Conference
“The Disciplines of English”

April 4, 2009
Manhattan Campus

Presented by English Graduate Studies at St. John’s University

Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections
30th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture
Association
Feb 25-28, 2009
Hyatt Regency
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposals are being accepted for the Collecting, Collectibles,
Collectors, Collections Area. All proposals are welcome. We are
especially interested in papers that address the following areas:

* the intersections between literary/filmic/photographic techniques of
exhibition and curation and those of museums

* the intersections between professional and popular archival forms as
expressed through any medium

Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections
30th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture
Association
Feb 25-28, 2009
Hyatt Regency
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Proposals are being accepted for the Collecting, Collectibles,
Collectors, Collections Area. All proposals are welcome. We are
especially interested in papers that address the following areas:

* the intersections between literary/filmic/photographic techniques of
exhibition and curation and those of museums

* the intersections between professional and popular archival forms as
expressed through any medium

"American Landscapes"
ACCUTE Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
May 23-26, 2009
Joint ACCUTE/CAAS Session

"American Landscapes"
Submissions are invited for a joint session of ACCUTE and the Canadian
Association of American Studies (CAAS), on the topic of American
landscapes, literary and cultural. Topics could include, but are not
limited to:
- politics of place
- energy and environment
- redefining regions and/or the regional
- charting virtual landscapes
- the problematic of the "frontier" & disappearing frontiers
- territorial occupations and "homeland"
- exporting the homeland

From: Edward A. Aiken <eaaiken_at_syr.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:21:55 -0400
Papers are invited for a seminar on Traveling from the Real/Virtual to the Virtual/Real and Back
at the Annual ACLA Conference 
March 26-29, 2009 
Harvard University.
A traveler to Las Vegas today might go precisely because the city offers the possibility of
“visiting” Mandalay, Egypt, New York City, Paris, Venice and other locations well beyond the state
of Nevada. A traveler to Paris in 1867 might have gone to the French capital precisely because
such a visit would have made it possible to attend the great Universal Exposition, which would

Call For Papers: Unruly Catholic Women Writers, Volume II. The editors of
The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers: Critical Essays (Palgrave
2007) invite submissions for a second anthology, this time of creative
piecesâ€"short stories, poems, personal essaysâ€"on the topic of unruly
Catholic women, following a spirit of inquiry regarding the extent to which
the Roman Catholic Church enables or restricts female unruliness. Also in
keeping with the first volume, the editors wish to cover varied geographic
and ethnic points of view. All submissions must be written in or
translated into English. Please send submissions of no longer than 5000