Although most of us would be loathe to let students follow Allen Ginsberg's
Zen-based exhortation, "First thought, best thought!" and write only first
drafts, many Zen-based techniques have, nevertheless, crept into writing
and public speaking classrooms with great success. This panel will explore
how panelists and participants have used non-religious meditative or yogic
techniques for pedagogical purposes. All approaches are
welcome--theoretical, pedagogical, or creative. Dissent especially encouraged!

‘Century’s End’: Re-Evaluating Literature and the Arts
at the Fin de Siècle
12 & 13 September 2008

A two day interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by the School
of English at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Confirmed plenary speakers:
Professor Kate Flint. (Rutgers University, New Jersey).
Title: " 'The hour of pink twilight': looking queerly at women
on the fin-de-siècle London street"
Professor Roger Luckhurst. (Birkbeck College, University of London).
Title: tbc

Deadline Extended to May 6th!

Tutoring writing and teaching writing are two very different
undertakings.
Writing Centers offer a very individualized learning environment that is
difficult to emulate in a classroom setting. At the same time, the goals
that one sets for an entire class are vastly different thant the goals
for
a tutoring session. For those of us expereinced in both worlds, these
differences can be both troublesome and inspiring.
I am seeking papers/presentations that address any of the following
topics:
How does tutoring experience affect your teaching style?

How does teaching experience affect your tutoring style?

The Toys and Games Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association
welcomes proposals for papers and presentations on toys and games for the
2008 Midwest Popular Culture Association & Midwest American Culture
Association conference, October 3-5, 2008, Cincinnati OH.

Stuart Hall’s turn to the visual arts to address the rich “multicultural
question” of how European societies can begin to reconcile “equality and
difference” is the starting point of this session. Teachers of
multicultural literature often count on visual texts (feature films,
documentaries, photographs, illustrations, and so on) to make other
cultures come to life for American students. These artifacts do the
cultural work of rendering otherness visible, at once compelling and
estranging, as they facilitate and problematize understanding of the
worlds in which they are embedded. How do multiculturalists and
postcolonialists teach visual texts of otherness? What are the

Panel: Modern Emergencies
 
This panel seeks papers that theorize any textual inscription of
emergency in the modern moment, but is most especially interested in
projects that examine how emergencies activate state-based, communal, or
individual violence that re-defines the limits of the modern nation.
Papers should stress the mediation of violent emergence and the emergency
moment via literature, film, photography, painting, journalism, or
performance. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the
following questions: What are modernism’s emergencies and how do we
understand their importance to thinking “the modern” in a cosmopolitan,

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

CALL FOR PAPERS

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:
Mythological Transformations

CALL FOR PAPERS

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:
Mythological Transformations

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:

Transatlantic Literary Influences: American and British Literature
from the Long Nineteenth Century

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic:

Transatlantic Literary Influences: American and British Literature
from the Long Nineteenth Century