The Brontes in Context (II): The Professor and Agnes Grey,
14-15 November 2008,
Centre for Literary Studies; Institute for Social, Cultural and Policy
Research,
University of Salford (UK)

Meant as a follow-up to the very successful first “The Brontes in Context”
conference, this conference aims to re-read The Professor and Agnes Grey
as well as contextualise the novels in the light of historically informed
research of contexts.

Never Get Old? Celebrity, Aging & Society

Edited by Roland Reiter & John A Stotesbury

The Graduate Film Studies Journal is currently looking for submissions for
its third issue. We are looking for 7-10 page essays, completely written
and ready for publication. All papers should be written in proper MLA,
APA, or CMS formatting. All papers should be about film (all aspects of
film and film theory are acceptable). The deadline is September 1st, 2008
(the issue should be ready for full review by October 1st, 2008). If you
have any questions, concerns, or comments, please e-mail Dr. Douglas C.
MacLeod, Jr. at dm8600_at_albany.edu.

I am looking for two chapters to complete this anthology, to be published by Continuum in
2009: one on Italian cinema, and the second on male rape, looking more specifically at Bruno
Dumont's 29 Palms.

Please send a proposal asap and no later than June 20th, 2008 to:
dominique_at_dominiquerussell.ca

Proposals should include:
- Provisional title,
- 500-word abstract
- Provisional bibliography
- Short bio.

Below is the original cfp:

In her 2001 book Watching Rape, Sarah Projansky, argues that rape is
a key force throughout the history of film, and that "one cannot
fully understand cinema itself without addressing rape and its
representation" (26).

Call for Papers:

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency â€" Boston, Massachusetts

Crazy Women: Healing Post-Trauma

It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole... - Virginia
Woolf

Call for Papers

Pop Psych: Psychotherapy in/and Popular Culture

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Bibliography and Textual Studies: "People of the Books: Christianity and
Islam in Book Studies." Participants will consider elements of two
religions and cultures especially concerned not only with the contents
but the paratextual elements of their respective books. This panel is
particularly interested in the intersection of Christianity and Islam in
textual studies, although abstracts on any aspect of either religion as
it relates to bibliography will be considered. Please send 250-word
abstracts to Erin Mann, erin-mann_at_uiowa.edu, by JUNE 15, 2008.

CFP: Urban Culture (6/20/08; MAPACA, 10/30-11/1/08)
Urban Culture Area, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture
Association, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, October 30th-November 1st, 2008.
 
Small neighborhood cafes and stores are closing down, giving way to new
condo buildings and chain stores; favorite parks dwindle in size, giving
way to various markets and corporate businesses…Pedestrians smile to the
tunes coming from their i-pods but not to each other…What is becoming of
our cities? What is becoming of us, the residents of these cities? This
year, the Urban Culture area of MAPACA aims to understand the production,
negotiation, and loss of public space in the metropolitan city, in light

Diana Wynne Jones. A conference.

Location: University of the West of England, Bristol.
Date: 3rd, 4th and 5th July 2009

Note that Continental Airlines offers a non-stop flight from Newark to
Bristol.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Organisers: Charles Butler, Farah Mendlesohn, Chris Bell.

Diana Wynne Jones lives in Bristol and hopes to attend on Saturday.

Call for Papers:

On any and all aspects of the writing of Diana Wynne Jones, on her
influence and influences. Papers on fan activity and scholarship, TV and
film adaptations also welcome.

Deadline, 31st January 2009.

[We are also potentially interested in papers allied to the topic: if
unsure, just ask.]

Call for Submissions
Encountering Ephemera: Scholarship, Performance, Classroom

Seeking proposals for a volume of essays tentatively entitled
Encountering Ephemera: Scholarship, Performance, Classroom. The editors
are looking for an additional four-five 5-6,000 word manuscripts to fill
the twelve-essay volume. By presenting a wide range of definitions and
theoretical perspectives as well as a variety of pedagogical strategies
and approaches for teaching and exploring notions of early modern
ephemera, contributors will seek to address the following kinds of
questions.

2009 NEMLA Convention, Women’s Studies Section
CALL FOR PAPERS
 40th Anniversary Convention, The Northeast Modern Language Association
(NeMLA)
February 26th-March 1st
Hyatt Regencyâ€"Boston, MA
Special Women’s Studies session: Women & Commodities

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
February 26 â€" March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency â€" Boston, Massachusetts

Bibliography and Textual Studies: "People of the Books: Christianity and
Islam in Book Studies." Participants will consider elements of two
religions and cultures especially concerned not only with the contents
but the paratextual elements of their respective books. This panel is
particularly interested in the intersection of Christianity and Islam in
textual studies, although abstracts on any aspect of either religion as
it relates to bibliography will be considered. Please send 250-word
abstracts to Erin Mann, erin-mann_at_uiowa.edu, by June 15, 2008.

Bibliography and Textual Studies: "People of the Books: Christianity and
Islam in Book Studies." Participants will consider elements of two
religions and cultures especially concerned not only with the contents
but the paratextual elements of their respective books. This panel is
particularly interested in the intersection of Christianity and Islam in
textual studies, although abstracts on any aspect of either religion as
it relates to bibliography will be considered. Please send 250-word
abstracts to Erin Mann, erin-mann_at_uiowa.edu, by June 15, 2008.