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Negative Cosmopolitanisms: Abjection, Power, and Biopolitics, 11-13 October 2012

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 1:58pm
Terri Tomsky, Eddy Kent, Imre Szeman (Organzers). The Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the array of negative cosmopolitanisms operating today—all those ways in which cosmopolitan subjects are still stigmatized, disempowered, excluded, and denied. Against the superficial liberal celebration of cosmopolitan diversity in the world today, negative cosmopolitanism instead reveals experiences of rupture, exile, oppression, and imperialism. The conference will bring researchers together to explore the histories and constitution of cosmopolitanism past and present, with the aim of better understanding the complex experience of power today.

Negative Cosmopolitanisms: Abjection, Power, and Biopolitics, 11-13 October 2012

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 1:57pm
Terri Tomsky, Eddy Kent, Imre Szeman (Organzers). The Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the array of negative cosmopolitanisms operating today—all those ways in which cosmopolitan subjects are still stigmatized, disempowered, excluded, and denied. Against the superficial liberal celebration of cosmopolitan diversity in the world today, negative cosmopolitanism instead reveals experiences of rupture, exile, oppression, and imperialism. The conference will bring researchers together to explore the histories and constitution of cosmopolitanism past and present, with the aim of better understanding the complex experience of power today.

Sound, Voice, Music

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 12:25pm
Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media

The editorial board of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media seeks articles for its third issue to be published online in Summer 2012.

The third issue is dedicated to sound, voice and music in cinema in the broadest sense. The issue editors (Jessica Shine, Danijela Kulezic-Wilson, Christopher Morris) are interested in papers that examine the themes of sound, voice and music either in the context of specific films, bodies of work, directors, composers etc., or, more broadly, in relation to contemporary or historical cinematic practice, theory and aesthetics. Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

2nd Global Conference: Urban Popcultures

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 6:12am
Dr Rob Fisher/ Inter-Discipinary.Net

2nd Global Conference
Urban Popcultures

Friday 9th March- Sunday 11th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers:
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore
and critically engage with issues related to urban life. The project
will promote the ongoing analysis of the varied creative trends and
alternative cultural movements that comprise urban popultures and
subcultures. In particular the conference will encourage equally
theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural and
political contexts within which alternative urban subcultures are
flourishing.

Tagore: The Global Impact of a Writer in the Community

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 4:04am
Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland

The conference is held under the aegis of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs) being established as part of the Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW).

Proposals of 250 words should be submitted by 31 October 2011. Please send proposals, plus a one-paragraph biography, as Word document or PDF to scots@napier.ac.uk

Ashis Nandy has said that Tagore embodies the modern consciousness of India (Illegitimacy of Nationalism, 1998) and this year India celebrates Tagore's 150th birth anniversary.

Auteurs and Authorship in Indian Cinema (Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 21-25, Boston, MA)

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 1:56am
Dr. Christopher Meir

Much recent scholarship on Indian cinema has focused on the social, cultural and historical dimensions of the popular Hindi-language cinema or in some cases on the film cultures of other popular regional cinemas. As such, the field has seen numerous studies in recent years on the fans, stars and reception of 'Bollywood' in particular, but attention to the sociology of popular cinema in the nation has meant that the great artists of Indian film-making – auteur directors, producers and screenwriters – have been neglected.

Annual Congress 2012

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 1:25am
Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University

The 4th e-Health and Environment Conference will provide unique opportunities for researchers to build this new vision through tackling specific healthcare and environmental topics. These topics are presented in the following section which represents priority topics for the conference sessions. Although topics have been categorized into healthcare and environmental ones, this by no means intend to separate both concepts, on the contrary, topics merging both fields will be appreciated

We invite all those engaged in e-Health and Environment issues to share their experiences and practices by submitting research papers, case studies, poster presentations, students brief papers & reviews, in accordance to the following themes:

Sport and the Nation, International Conference, 19-20 January 2012 (Edited)

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 11:33pm
Department of English and School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University

The history of modern sport is intimately linked to the rise of the modern nation-state and its cultures of self-representation. Indeed, though games have existed as long as human beings have inhabited the earth, organized sport in the contemporary sense is thought to be a distinctive product of modernity. Enshrined in the curriculum of the Victorian public school and viewed as a means of training imperial administrators, sport also entered the public sphere as a spectacle for mass audiences, leading to a regulation of its practices and the foundation of sports bodies.

Fictions of Reproduction: Representations of Contraception and Abortion in Film and Television / SCMS, 21-25 March 2012, Boston

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 6:23pm
Megan Minarich / Vanderbilt University

This panel is organized around film and television programs that treat the issues of contraception and/or abortion in some facet. The texts in question might address conception, pregnancy, and/or childbirth in the absence or contraception, or it/they may be more invested in presenting measures for or concern with the prevention of pregnancy. Films/programs may range from educational to fictional, and may be generically diverse (melodrama, comedy, film noir, etc.). They may also vary in terms of national origin and time period. Here are some potential topics/questions:

"Reassessing John Neal:" C19: Berkeley, April 12-15, 2012: Deadline, Sept 15, 2011.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 2:14pm
C19: THE SOCIETY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICANISTS

Long appreciated primarily as a powerful advocate of literary nationalism in the United States, recent scholarship has begun to reveal John Neal (1793-1896) as an innovative literary stylist, a penetrating cultural critic, a pioneering regionalist, and a vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career. A new volume of critical essays on Neal is forthcoming in 2012 (Headlong Enterprise: John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, edited by Edward Watts and David J. Carlson). This panel aims to continue the Neal "renaissance" by presenting further new work on Neal's writing (literary and non-literary), life, and cultural significance.

Image and Language: Godard and the problem of expression NEMLA 2012 Rochester deadline: September 30

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 12:19pm
Elif Sendur/Binghamton University

This panel asks to question the relation between expression and language, between the image and the word using Godard's work. This young Turk of the New Wave or the philosopher king of cinema, besides tackling the question of politics and aesthetics, constantly constantly questions the relationship between images and language, a question that is crucial for cinema as well as for literature. From Nana's question in Vivre Sa Vie "Words should express exactly what one wants to say? Do they betray us?" to his Le Gai Savoir where the relation between image and words are questioned; from his extraordinary use of letters or words on filmic scenes to his separation of his films into book chapters, Godard experiments on language in its own limit.

NEMLA 2012: Fictional Readers of French Literature

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 12:05pm
Ana Oancea

This panel welcomes papers analyzing the representation of characters in any fictional work [eg. Huysmans, O'Neill, Pasolini] who read French literature of any period. How and why do these characters read French literature? What influence does it exert on them? What is the value of French literature in these works?

Please send 300 word abstracts, in English or in French, to Ana Oancea (aio2101@columbia.edu) by Sept. 30, 2011.

'You are What you Read: Fictional Readers of French Literature' has been approved for inclusion in the NEMLA 2012 Convention, which will be held March 15-18 in Rochester, NY. The host institution is St. John Fisher College.

[UPDATE] Shakespeare and the Natural World, March 29-31, 2012 (Abstracts due October 1, 2011)

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 11:34am
Jennifer Park and Katie Walker / The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recently Shakespeare studies have taken a "natural" turn. With the advent of ecocriticism and posthumanist thinking, a "green Shakespeare" has begun to emerge. The purpose of this conference is to consider the construction, politics, and history of the trope of "nature," both in Shakespeare's works and in current Shakespeare scholarship. Papers for this conference may consider animal studies, early modern zoology, bio-politics, climate theory, geohumoralism, food, medicine, botany, demonology, and more. Our aim will be to discuss a variety of questions: What constitutes early modern environmental studies? How did early modern writers define "nature," as opposed to supernature, or preternature, or culture?

Call for Papers on Marguerite Porete, International Congress on Medieval Studies, 10–13 May 2012

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Monday, July 25, 2011 - 11:02pm
International Congress on Medieval Studies

We invite conference papers on Marguerite Porete, her inquisition trial, and/or the Mirror of Simple Souls, for the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, on 10–13 May 2012.

For details, please see the Call for Papers available online at

  • http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html

    • A proposal consists of a 300-word abstract and the participant information form downloadable from

    Southern Studies Conference (February 10-11, 2012)

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    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 10:32pm
    Auburn University Montgomery

    Southern Studies: The AUM Liberal Arts Conference at Auburn University Montgomery, February 10 and 11, 2012.

    Call for papers and panels on the topic of Southern culture.

    Hawthorne's Humor, journal (special issue), 11-15-2012

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    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 7:24pm
    Nathaniel Hawthorne Review

    Call for Papers, Hawthorne's Humor

    A special issue of the _Nathaniel Hawthorne Review_ is being planned on Hawthorne's humor, to be published in fal1, 2013. Essays (no longer than 9,000 words, WORD doc files) are invited for consideration on the following topics, although the list is not meant to be exhaustive.

    UPDATE: Performing South Asia at Home and Abroad, SALA 2012

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    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 6:08pm
    South Asian Literary Association

    Performing South Asia at Home and Abroad

    South Asian Literary Association (SALA), Seattle 2012

    Date: Wed., January 4, 2012 at 9:00am – Thurs., January 5, 2012 at 5:00pm

    Venue: Hyatt Place Downtown, 110 6th Avenue North (at Denny Way)

    Distinguished Keynote Speaker: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

    Distinguished Guest Author: Charles Johnson

    Abstract Deadline: August 31, 2011

    CALL FOR SCHOLARLY ESSAYS AND CREATIVE WORKS

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    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 5:17pm
    Label Me Latina/o

    Label Me Latina/o (www.labelmelatin.com) is an online, refereed international e-journal that focuses on Latino Literary Production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The journal invites scholarly essays focusing on these writers for its biannual publication. Label Me Latina/o also publishes creative literary pieces whose authors self-define as Latina or Latino regardless of thematic content. The Co-Directors will publish creative works in English, Spanish or Spanglish whereas analytical essays should be written in English or Spanish.

    CfP Kalamazoo Medieval ICMS 2012: Postcolonial England

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    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 3:10pm
    Durham University English Department

    The Department of English Studies at Durham University invites submission of proposals for its session at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from May 10-13, 2012. The panel seeks proposals of 300-500 words with a working title and department affiliation by September 1, 2011. Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general sessions at Kalamazoo. The CfP is as follows:

    Postcolonial England

    Théâtre et actualité(s)

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    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 2:49pm
    ASECS

    Dear List,

    We are currently seeking proposals for "Théâtre et actualité(s)," a panel at ASECS's upcoming meeting in San Antonio. Papers in English or in French are encouraged; please don't hesitate to send along any questions.

    "Théâtre et actualité(s)"

    Logan Connors, French & Francophone Studies Program, Bucknell U., Lewisburg, PA 17837 AND Yann Robert, Dept. of French & Italian, Stanford U., Pigott Hall, Room 105, Stanford, CA 94305

    logan.connors@bucknell.edu AND yrobert@stanford.edu

    Computers and Writing May 17-20, 2012

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    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 2:06pm
    Wendi Sierra

    CFP: Computers and Writing 2012
    ArchiTEXTure: Composing and Constructing in Digital Spaces
    http://chasslamp.chass.ncsu.edu/~cw2012/

    North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
    Onsite Conference: Thursday, May 17, 2012 – Sunday, May 20, 2012
    Proposal Submission Opens: September 1, 2011
    Proposal Due Date: October 22, 2011 (before midnight EST)
    Notifications of Acceptance: December 15, 2011
    Registration Opens: January 15, 2012
    Online Conference: Dates to be announced

    Keynote Speakers: David Parry, Alex Reid, Anne Wysocki

    Thing Theory and Object-Oriented Studies in Medieval Contexts [International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, May 10-13 2012]

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    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 1:41pm
    Anthony Adams

    A new and exciting move toward 'object-oriented studies' is underway among historians and literary scholars, including medievalists. Such studies (colloquially known as 'thing theory') see 'things' neither as mirrors of human activity or will, nor deictic signs pointing to inner lives of human characters. Rather such an approach wishes to examine the 'network of relationships' between subjects and objects. Moreover, it has been argued that medieval literature has much to offer such studies, as objects have a degree of autonomy in medieval literature that is lacking in later texts, having been bullied out of the focal field by Enlightenment empiricism.

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