Call for Papers
                        
     The Electronic Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies (ECCCS) is
happy to announce a call for papers for their first issue of 2009. Founded
in August, 2008, The ECCCS is an electronic forum for young scholars
exploring contemporary culture. The ECCCS encourages submissions that
explore, integrate and challenge issues in contemporary culture in the
following areas: Education, New/Social Media, Music, Television/Film and
Society/Culture. With the intention of providing space for a range of
voices and styles, the ECCCS seeks submissions from young scholars, young
professionals with academic or practical experience in the topic they hope

LITERARY HORIZONS JOURNAL

In Their Eyes were Watching God (1937), Zora Neal Hurston describes the
Black woman as the “mule of the world” because she is both a victim of
racism and of male domination. During the period in which Hurston writes,
do other writers, both male and female, support her perspective? What is
the place of the Black woman 50 years later? Given these questions, the
Literary Horizons Journal, a journal dedicated solely to publishing the
work of graduate students, is soliciting papers that explore the role of
the Black woman in American Literature. The topics may include but are
not limited to:

Call for Proposals (CFP):

Exploring Literary Space: The Dialectics of Inside and Outside

FreeX 2009, a Graduate Student Conference
Friday February 27 â€" Sunday March 1, 2009
Hosted by the graduate students of the University of Calgary’s English
Department
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

CFP DEADLINE: Friday January 2, 2009

New Myth: Re-envisioning Self, Culture, and Archetype, solicits
submission of papers on literature and mythology in traditional and
contemporary contexts, ranging from the Ancient to the Postmodern.
Interdisciplinary papers on art, film, music, psychology, critical
theory, and comparative religion are welcome. 8-15 pages in MLA style
sent as an email attachment in Microsoft Word to lansing.smith_at_mwsu.edu
or hard copy addressed to:
 
Evans Lansing Smith/Peter Fields
Editors, New Myth
English Department
Midwestern State University
3410 Taft Blvd.
Wichita Falls, TX 76309

Conference "Imagining Amsterdam: Visions and Revisions"

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are seeking submissions for an edited collection on Caribbean
Literature, Language, and Culture

Possible topics include:
    
  Caribbean Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
  Creole Linguistics and Writing in Creole
  Caribbean Music
  Asian Caribbean Experience
  Canadian Caribbean Experience
  Caribbean Migrations
  Gender and Representation
  Sex/Sexuality in Caribbean Literature
  Caribbean Religion in Caribbean Literature
  Culture and Identity in the Caribbean
  Caribbean Cinema

Our updated conference web page now includes calls for papers, original films, and digital artworks.
Please refer to our site at <http://www.english.ufl.edu/da/conference.html>.

Deadlines for paper abstracts and original films has been extended to December 1, 2008 and
Original Digital artwork submissions are to be sent by December 15, 2008. Our conference will be
held from March 6-7, 2009 with a screening of original films on the 5th.

All questions can be directed to Elise Takehana at takehana_at_ufl.edu.

Our updated conference web page now includes calls for papers, original films, and digital artworks.
Please refer to our site at <http://www.english.ufl.edu/da/conference.html>.

Deadlines for paper abstracts and original films has been extended to December 1, 2008 and
Original Digital artwork submissions are to be sent by December 15, 2008. Our conference will be
held from March 6-7, 2009 with a screening of original films on the 5th.

All questions can be directed to Elise Takehana at takehana_at_ufl.edu.

Our updated conference web page now includes calls for papers, original films, and digital artworks.
Please refer to our site at <http://www.english.ufl.edu/da/conference.html>.

Deadlines for paper abstracts and original films has been extended to December 1, 2008 and
Original Digital artwork submissions are to be sent by December 15, 2008. Our conference will be
held from March 6-7, 2009 with a screening of original films on the 5th.

All questions can be directed to Elise Takehana at takehana_at_ufl.edu.

Our updated conference web page now includes calls for papers, original films, and digital artworks.
Please refer to our site at <http://www.english.ufl.edu/da/conference.html>.

Deadlines for paper abstracts and original films has been extended to December 1, 2008 and
Original Digital artwork submissions are to be sent by December 15, 2008. Our conference will be
held from March 6-7, 2009 with a screening of original films on the 5th.

All questions can be directed to Elise Takehana at takehana_at_ufl.edu.

The American Religion and Literature Society sponsors two panels at the
annual American Literature Association meeting, to be held at the Westin
Copley Hotel in Boston, MA, May 21st -24th, 2009.

Papers are sought on any aspect of the topic “Islam in the American
Imagination.” These may include, but are not limited to, representations
of Islam and/or Muslims in American literature; writings by American
Muslim authors; and intersections of Islamic and American thought in
American literature. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes
long (about 10 pages of text). Send 500-word abstracts to

The 17th annual Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM)
will be held March 20-21, 2009 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb,
Illinois.

Since 9/11, there has been a call for authors to legitimately represent the
attack on New York City. Several texts, including but not limited to
William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition (2003) and Jess Walter’s The Zero
(2006), utilize the 9/11 attacks as a psychological framework within genre
fiction to highlight the (in)stabilization, negotiation, and fragmentation
of individuals in society, while Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007) offers a
more literary attempt at directly representing 9/11.

Please note that the submission deadline for the St. John's University
English Graduate Conference is January 15, 2009, NOT 2008 as stated on
the original CFP.

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PHOBIA:
Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

An international conference hosted by the Glamorgan Research Centre for
Literature, Arts and Science
Friday 8 â€" Saturday 9 May, 2009
The ATRiuM Campus, Cardiff, UK

Keynote Speakers:

Laura Otis (Emory University):
Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth
Century (2001)
Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-century Literature, Science
and Politics (1999)
Organic Memory: History and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries (1994)