Think Art is a conference for the interdisciplinary exploration of the fine arts through the humanities and sciences. Through panel discussions and an exhibition of artwork, Think Art will provide a crucial meeting point for scholars and artists and encourages a cross-disciplinary approach to learning and talking about art.

This year's topic is the investigation of self through the construction, management, and manipulation of memory. How does the individual—and society—remember? We are actively seeking papers and artwork that explore memory through a specific discourse or a cross-disciplinary perspective, but will also consider submissions based on other topics.

In keeping with the 2011 MMLA informal convention theme of "Play…No, Seriously," the Film I panel invites papers on the topic of the appropriation of children and childhood tropes to examine, critique, or subvert cinematic and cultural conventions in horror, fantasy, and science fiction films. Possible avenues for exploration include how vampiric, demonic, otherworldly, robotic, or deformed children prey on conceptions of innocence and vulnerability within the film narrative and the viewing audience.

Keynote speaker:
Catherine Walsh, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador

With the emergence of subaltern and postcolonial studies over the past quarter century, scholars have increasingly shifted attention to the political, epistemic, and poetic force of indigenous and Afro-descendent communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nonetheless, the potential analogies and resonances between the worldviews, textualities, and recurrent political struggles of these populations remain largely overlooked and underexplored.

SCMLA 2011: French Literature II 1600-1850 (3/28 abstracts; 10/27-29 conference)

South Central Modern Language Association

October 27-29, 2011

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The regular session on French literature (1600-1850) invites papers on an open topic. Please send 500-word abstracts or papers to Cristian Bratu (Cristian_Bratu@baylor.edu) by APRIL 15, 2011.

The Tom Lea Institute, the El Paso Times, and the University of Texas El Paso will sponsor four papers to be presented during Tom Lea Month in El Paso. The institute invites proposals on subjects related to the life and works of Tom Lea (1907-2010), whose legacy is celebrated in his hometown every October. Papers will be presented on October 24-25. Those selected will receive a $500 stipend, travel, and one night's lodging. The call is cross-disciplinary.

McDaniel College

is proud to sponsor

Popular Romance in the New Millennium

An International Conference

November 10-11, 2011
Westminster, Maryland*

Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2011

The popular romance has come of age.

Almost four decades ago, with the publication of The Flame and the Flower, the boom in North American romance publication began. Three decades ago major critical work on the popular romance began to appear.

The Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex presents an event devoted to the discussion of John Wilkinson's collection of essays, The Lyric Touch (Salt 2007). The aim of the event is to promote critical attention upon an important book, and to generate discussion and reflection in an atmosphere more focused than is possible in a larger conference. John Wilkinson will be attending and responding to contributors' papers.

We welcome proposals for papers of around 20 minutes in length dealing with any aspect of The Lyric Touch, its critical methodologies, its readings of individual poets and poems, or its relationship to its author's poetry. Ideas for panels are also welcome.

Studies in Australasian Cinema is an international refereed scholarly journal devoted to the cinema of, and film scholarship from, the Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific region. We would like to announce a call for papers for the following issues:

Issue 5.3 (Dec 2011): Cities and Australasian Film and Television

Issue 6.1 (Apr 2012): Imaging Religion and Spirituality

This UNESCO-funded conference is being convened at Marsh's Library in Dublin to interrogate the notion of Dublin as a Renaissance "city of literature". The organizers invite papers discussing literature and literary production in early modern Ireland, with a focus on Dublin. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Language and identity
• Women's writing
• Bibliography studies
• Print and manuscript cultures
• Book history
• Author studies
• Composition and agency
• Writing for the stage and Dublin theatres
• Literary networks
• Genre studies
• Book trade

Call for Creative Writing (poetry and fiction) at PCAS/ACAS 2011

This year's conference will be held in New Orleans October 6-8.

This panel will be comprised of creative writing (poetry and fiction). Please submit either five poems or ten pages of fiction for possible inclusion on the panel. Submissions should be e-mailed as attachments to: jsadreor@kennesaw.edu

The following information should also accompany each submission:

Your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address(es), and phone number(s).

Submissions are due via e-mail by Friday, April 1.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR AN ANTHOLOGY OF TEXAS BORDER FICTION, CREATIVE NON-FICTION, AND POETRY TO BE PUBLISHED BY TEXAS A&M PRESS

NewBorder: An Anthology of Texas/Mexico Border Writing

We are seeking submissions for a collection of the best fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction depicting life, culture, and issues of the Texas/Mexico Rio Grande Border tentatively titled New Border Writing: A Still Life in Words for publication by Texas A&M university Press. Tom Pilkington in State of Mind: Texas Literature and Culture writes:

Environmental disciplines have recently gained prominence due to the potentially devastating consequences of climate change: increasing natural disasters, the greenhouse effect, temperature variations, changing sea levels, etc. Such issues have raised awareness on the necessity for a drastic change in thinking. Ecocriticism—along with other green disciplines dealing with the relationship between society and the environment—places nature as the center of the intellectual debate. As Kate Rigby states, "culture constructs the prism through which we know nature." Reading Nature Conference aims to explore from a critical perspective how such a prism is constructed.

Scholars and other interested parties are invited to submit papers for the 2013 Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (January 26th-February 3rd). The Festival theme is "The Rise of Community: The Town of Eatonville Models 125 Years of Self-Governance."

Seeking abstracts/proposals for papers supporting collaborations between Shakespeare scholars/educators and elementary, middle, and high school teachers and programs. Topics may include but are not limited to: introducing Shakespeare to children, grades 3-6; improving K-12 teacher preparation for teaching Shakespeare; Shakespeare and the early modern English vs. modernized English debate; collaborations of any type.
Please e-mail abstracts, proposals, queries by 15 April; panel proposal is due to MMLA by 22 April.