3rd Annual Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference; Honolulu, HI,
May 22-23, 2009

Chaminade University of Honolulu

Panel and individual paper proposals are invited for the Asian American
Culture Area of the 2nd annual Oceanic Popular Culture Association
Conference. Topics and proposals that examine cultural production within
and/or about the Oceanic region are especially welcome. All proposals
will be considered. Possible topics include:

VISUAL AND VERBAL INTERSECTIONS

The aim of this session is to explore the intersection between verbal and
visual languages as expressed in but not limited to literary works in
order to engage in a dialogue on the mutual collaboration between the
word and the image. Possible topics may include ekphrastic writing,
novels that integrate images as part of the narration, iconicity,
photography, futurism, illustrated narratives (graphic novels and comics
included). Word & Image act not only as two kinds of expression but also
as two modes of narration. Different approaches may include image
theories, visual semiotics, cultural studies, literary theory, etc.

REVISITING THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: CASE STUDIES
This session invites papers revisiting the Italian Renaissance.
Participants may discuss (among other topics) the (dialectical)
relationship between imitation and innovation or tradition and creativity
in Italian Renaissance Literature. Questions of authorship, textuality,
literary borrowings, and influence can be examined along with the issue
of genre as a narrative form. Papers focusing on chivalric romances,
genre debates, "contamination" of genres, and the work of Ariosto are
particularly welcome.

Please send a 200 words abstract by Jan. 2, 2009.

Organizer: Slavica Grujicic, University of Toronto
(slavica.grujicic_at_utoronto.ca)

CRITICAL PRACTICE & ITALIAN FILMS FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT

Graduate School of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Free University Berlin

The Continuity of Change
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on North America
July 10-11, 2009

Sparked by the compelling rhetoric in the U.S. presidential election
campaign of 2008, this conference examines the concept of change within an
interdisciplinary perspective. We invite inquiries into the different
implications of "change." We ask to what extent and in what ways change
appears as a recurring theme in North American history, culture,
literature, politics, society, and economics.

The University of Dayton English Department is asking for academic and
creative submissions for LitFest 2009: Coming to Voice Together: Literacy,
Poetry, and Community. Submissions should focus on the themes addressed in
the conference title and be no longer than 8 pages, suitable for a 20
minute reading in a conference setting. Confirmed readers include Janet
McAdams (Kenyon College), Jeff Gundy (Bluffton College), and Ruth Ellen
Kocher (University of Colorado, Boulder). The University of Dayton Litfest
is scheduled for March 27-29 2009 on the campus of the University of
Dayton. Submission postmark deadline is February 10, 2009.

The Language of the Stage:
Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy

The Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy (formerly known as From Page to
Stage) working group of the International Federation for Theatre Research
(IFTR/FIRT) is proud to announce its change in title, and to offer a call
for papers for its first official meeting under the new name, to be held at
IFTR’s annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal from July 14-17, 2008.

A Panel for the Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
Boston, May 21-24, 2009

“The Age of Forrest” - This proposed panel will consider the impact of star
Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) on theatrical, oratorical, and literary culture
from the 1820s through the early 1870s. Papers on his performance of
masculinity, relationship with playwrights, and role in a highly publicized
divorce trial are particularly welcome.

Please send a one-page abstract and brief c.v. in MS Word by 9 January 2009
to: lmielke_at_ku.edu.

Thank you,

Laura L. Mielke
Assistant Professor, English
University of Kansas

Reminder: Deadline approaching

Contributors are sought for a collection of essays examining Postcolonial
issues in Australian literature. The collection will include a dozen or
more essays focusing on specifically postcolonial issues that are
addressed in Australian fiction, poetry, drama and creative non-fiction,
including hybridity, first contact, resistance, indigeneity,
immigration/invasion, land rights, national identity, marginalization,
expatriation, Diaspora, and anxieties regarding belonging. The editor
seeks essays that emphasize the postcolonial nature of Australian
literature and analyze Australian texts from a postcolonial theoretical
perspective.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributions are invited toward a collection of critical essays on the
poetry of Derek Walcott. We seek essays that address the various
postcolonial themes of racism, hybridty, diaspora, linguistic
innovations, identity. Essays dealing with coparative studies are also
welcome. Original manuscripts of 2500-4000 words in MLA format should be
submitted no later than 30th September, 2009.Please include a brief
biographical statement. Papers must be submitted electronically (MS Word
2003 or 2007 document only) to om_dwivedi2003_at_yahoo.com and hard copies
sent by snailmail to:

Dr. O.P. DwivediM-61,
Govindpur Colony
Allahabad-211004
Uttar Pradesh
INDIA

CFP: NWSA 2009, Atlanta, GA (Abstract Due: 2/9/09; Conf. Dates: Nov. 12-
15, 2009.)

Beyond Body Image: Teaching Fat Liberation and Fat Acceptance in the
Women’s and Gender Studies Classroom

CFP: /SEDUCTION AND SENTIMENT IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD/. (essay collection)

What relations pertained between seduction plots, sentimental narratives,
and the economic and political imperatives of the Atlantic world in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? When, how, and why are the languages
of seduction (whether sexual, financial, social, cultural, or political)
and sentiment (whether designed to foreground feeling or to produce
sympathy and affective relations) positioned in relation to one another? In
what ways do the varied exigencies of the seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Atlantic world reconfigure old and shape new
possibilities for seduction and sentiment?

*SEDUCTION AND SENTIMENT IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD* (essay collection)

What relations pertained between seduction plots, sentimental narratives,
and the economic and political imperatives of the Atlantic world in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? When, how, and why are the languages
of seduction (whether sexual, financial, social, cultural, or political)
and sentiment (whether designed to foreground feeling or to produce
sympathy and affective relations) positioned in relation to one another? In
what ways do the varied exigencies of the seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Atlantic world reconfigure old and shape new
possibilities for seduction and sentiment?

*SEDUCTION AND SENTIMENT IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD* (essay collection)

What relations pertained between seduction plots, sentimental narratives,
and the economic and political imperatives of the Atlantic world in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? When, how, and why are the languages
of seduction (whether sexual, financial, social, cultural, or political)
and sentiment (whether designed to foreground feeling or to produce
sympathy and affective relations) positioned in relation to one another? In
what ways do the varied exigencies of the seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Atlantic world reconfigure old and shape new
possibilities for seduction and sentiment?