Interrogation Techniques: Law, Texts, Culture
Simon Fraser University English Graduate Conference, May 29-30, 2009

This interdisciplinary conference will interrogate the role of the law in
the production, content, dissemination, and critical reception of texts.
The relationship between legal and other discourses affects how cultures
and individuals perceive the world, and act on that perception. Law,
literature, and society intersect in diverse forms, from the Ten
Commandments to the political role of the novel in Victorian England, from
vigilante justice in revenge tragedies to the establishment of the Creative
Commons online.

Ireland On The Move
Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies Meeting
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
March 20-22, 2009
Submission Deadline Extended: Now December 15, 2008

The 19th Annual Southern Regional ACIS Meeting will be held March 20-22,
2009. The conference is being hosted by the University of Tennessee-
Chattanooga.
 
Proposals for papers that address the theme, "Ireland on the Move," should
be sent to:

Thomas C. Ware
Dept. of English 2703
615 McCallie Avenue
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598

 
Proposals should be around 250 words. Papers should be no more than 10
pages.

Call for Papers (Deadline Extension): American History and Culture area
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Associations
30th Anniversary Conference, February 25-28, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico
New Deadline: December 15, 2008

Call For Papers: 2009 Festival of Faith and Music
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
April 2-4, 2009

Call For Papers: 2009 Festival of Faith and Music
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
April 2-4, 2009

The peer-reviewed NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture invites
submissions for its 2009-2010 issues. NINE seeks to promote the study of
all historical aspects of baseball and centers on the cultural
implications of the game wherever in the world baseball is played. The
journal reflects an eclectic, interdisciplinary approach and does not
foster a particular ideological bias.

NINE publishes nonfiction articles, fiction, poetry, and solicited book
reviews. The journal is published by the University of Nebraska Press
and is available online through Project MUSE at http://muse.jhu.edu.

"Liminal Literature: Borders and Genre"

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison Conference in Language and Literature (MADLIT)
English Dept. Graduate Student Conference
February 26-28, 2009

The fifth annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Literature Conference
(MadLit) invites paper and panel proposals for this year's topic, "Liminal
Literature: Borders and Genre."

The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre and Disability
Edited by David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson

The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre and Disability
Edited by David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson

Call for Presentations

Interrogations: Creative Interdisciplinarity in Art and Design Research

AHRC Postgraduate Conference, De Montfort University & Loughborough University,
 1st and 2nd July 2009, Loughborough University, School of Art and Design

1st Global Conference
Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics

Monday 4th May - Wednesday 6th May 2009
Budapest, Hungary

The editors of Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation, Scott Peeples
and Jana Argersinger, are planning a potential conference panel and
subsequent thematic issue on the subject of violence, pain, and trauma.
Poe's violence is often so stylized that critics tend not to take it
seriously as violence. Instead, we recognize the satire in the abuse
suffered by the narrator of "Loss of Breath" and the decapitation of
Psyche Zenobia, and we contemplate the symbolic meaning of Rowena's torture
in "Ligeia" and Madeline's premature burial in "The Fall of the House of
Usher." But given the fact that violence is pervasive in Poe's tales and

I plan a collection of essays on the connection between texts and
politics in the Romantic period. The collection will support the idea
that the text sometimes became a political work which called for
political reflection and/or change. Essays should therefore investigate
the works of writers who used their texts to reflect their political
leanings and ideologies. This collection of essays will reinforce the
notion that the political activism often associated with the Romantic
time period was promoted through the literature produced by Romantic
writers.

Please submit essays of about 20 - 25 pages by January 31, 2009:
sharon_joffe_at_ncsu.edu

        The Pater Newsletter seeks essays for a special issue on "Pater and Cosmopolitanism." In “Mr.
George Moore as an Art Critic” (1893), Pater asserts that “the genius of Ingres is cosmopolitan, like
that of those old Greek artists,” then goes on to explain why “a certain cosmopolitanism [is], in
truth, an element of national character.” Essays that explore the implications of cosmopolitanism
for literary, aesthetic, mythic, historical, national, political and/ or cultural work in a Paterian
context are invited. Essays should be approximately 2500-3000 words. Each submission should
include a title page identifying your name and institutional address; the essay, which should not