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CFP: [20th] Cognitive Estrangement: How Languag is Science Fiction's Most Powerful Technology

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Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 4:29pm
Jennifer Kelso Farrell

This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between the science
fiction reader and the science fiction text. Science fiction scholar Darko
Suvin determined that science fiction is a mode of literature that at once
sets the reader in an alien environment while simultaneously making that
environment seem scientifically plausible. The reader's seemingly
contradictory situation is not remedied merely through detailed
descriptions of scientific terms, but is accomplished through the very use
of language, what Samuel Delany calls the subjunctive. In "About Five
Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Five Words" Delany defines the subjunctive

UPDATE: [Collections] Time and Temporality (Journal issue June 2009)

updated: 
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 1:29pm
Nandita Batra

Atenea, a multidisciplinary bilingual journal on the humanities and
social sciences, features essays, books reviews, and some fiction and
poetry.
URL: http://www.uprm.edu/atenea

The editorial board invites submissions for publication for a special
issue (June 2009) on "Time and Temporality"

Essays may address the intersection of time with a wide variety of topics
including (but not limited to) history, narrative, memory, consciousness,
and culture.

Submissions in either English or Spanish are welcome (see the guidelines
below):

UPDATE: [Postcolonial] Forthcoming book on the Caribbean short story

updated: 
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 9:23am
Lucy Evans

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS
 
The Caribbean Short Story: Contexts, Theory, Practice [working title],
ed. by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt & Emma Smith. Forthcoming with Peepal Tree
Press (Winter 2009/10)
 
According to Kenneth Ramchand, 'the history of Caribbean prose fiction
before 1950 is essentially the history of the short story'. This
collection posits the Caribbean short story not only as vitally
influential in the development of the region's literary tradition, but
also as a site of continuing reinvigoration. It investigates the
significance of short stories to Caribbean cultural production in the

UPDATE: [Collections] Forthcoming book on the Caribbean short story

updated: 
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 9:21am
Lucy Evans

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS
 
The Caribbean Short Story: Contexts, Theory, Practice [working title],
ed. by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt & Emma Smith. Forthcoming with Peepal Tree
Press (Winter 2009/10)
 
According to Kenneth Ramchand, 'the history of Caribbean prose fiction
before 1950 is essentially the history of the short story'. This
collection posits the Caribbean short story not only as vitally
influential in the development of the region's literary tradition, but
also as a site of continuing reinvigoration. It investigates the
significance of short stories to Caribbean cultural production in the

UPDATE: [Graduate]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:51pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [Professional]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:51pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [Rhetoric-Composition]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:51pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [Computing-Internet]

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Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:51pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [Science]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:50pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [General]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:50pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [Film]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:50pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [Bibliography]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:50pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:50pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

UPDATE: [American]

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 10:50pm
Lindsay Cobb

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE: "THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)- 3rd Floor Salons

...So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

CFP: [Children] The Young Adult Novel - Studies in the Novel - Special Issue

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Friday, October 24, 2008 - 8:30pm
Sara Dammann

For a special issue on The Young Adult Novel, Studies in the Novel seeks
articles on young adult literature from any critical/literary perspective.
The volume is to be guest edited by A. David Cappella of Central
Connecticut State University. "Young adult literature," in this context,
refers to literature that has been written specifically for and marketed to
young adults. New perspectives on well-known YA novels are welcome, as
well as papers on those novels that have received less critical attention.
 Completed articles and 1-page vita to David Cappella at
(cappellad_at_ccsu.edu) WITH cc to (studiesinthenovel_at_unt.edu) by January 15,
2009.

CFP: [International] Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 8:04pm
Prof. Dr. Werner Huber

CFP: Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges (01/15/09;
09/03/09-09/06/09

The Seventh Conference of EFACIS: THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS
AND CENTRES OF IRISH STUDIES <www.efacis.org>

“IRELAND IN/AND EUROPE: CROSS-CURRENTS AND EXCHANGES”

3-6 SEPTEMBER 2009, UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA

CFP: [International] Staging Interculturality

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 8:00pm
Prof. Dr. Werner Huber

CFP: Staging Interculturality (Austria) (01/15/09; 06/04/09-06/07/09)

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English is pleased
to announce its 18th Annual Conference (4-7June 2009). It will be organised
by the Department of English (Prof. Rubik, Prof. Huber) at the University
of Vienna and held as a rooming-in conference at the Don-Bosco-Haus, Vienna
(13th district).

CFP: [American] Domesticity and Community

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 7:42pm
Meghan Gilbert-Hickey

Submissions are invited for a proposed panel for the Fourth Conference of
the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, October 21-24, 2009,
in Philadelphia. The panel will examine the ways in which nineteenth and
twentieth century American women writers consider, challenge, adapt to, and
even manipulate domesticity as a way to gain access to a larger community.
 Potential topics might include domestic space, housework, motherhood, and
other versions of domesticity, as well as communities based on race,
gender, class, politics, or varied combination of these and other
categories. Writers of all genres are of interest.

CFP: [Graduate] SUNY at Stony Brook 2009 English Graduate Conference

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 6:40pm
John Christie and Jesse Curran

Call for Papers for the 21st Annual Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate
Student Conference
The Desire for Representation/The Desire of Representation
Stony Brook Manhattan, New York
Saturday February 21st, 2009
The Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate Conference, the longest running
interdisciplinary graduate student conference in the nation, welcomes
papers and panels from all disciplines within the Humanities and Social
Sciences.
Why do we study? Why do we create? Why do we continue? Theories of desire
suggest the continual progress toward something that perhaps never quite
achieved. The brilliant Anne Carson writes, “there would seem to be some

CFP: [Collections] CFP - Anthology, First Person Sociology

updated: 
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 4:33pm
Michael Hemmingson

Seeking chapters for an an anthology tentatively titled _First Person
Sociology: Towards Autoethnography and the Subjective "I" in Today's
Qualitative Research_ (McFarland and Co., 2010).

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