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category: childrens literature[UPDATE] CFP: Science Fiction and Fantasy SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/15/09; 02/10-13/10)full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations contact email: abuckman@csus.edu CFP: Science Fiction and Fantasy SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/15/09; 02/10-13/10) Call for Papers: Special Topic: Cornelia Funke
Genre Dynamics: Exchange and Transformation--A Seminar/Panel at ACLA 2010 (New Orleans April 1-4), subm. deadline, Nov. 13, 2009full name / name of organization: Mark A. Cantrell, Shepherd U; Chad J. Loewen-Schmidt, Shepherd U contact email: MCANTREL@shepherd.edu, cloewens@shepherd.edu As conceptual categories that both derive from and frame our understanding of particular works, genres are determined largely by what Ludwig Wittgenstein calls “family resemblances” rather than by
Children's Literature Society of the American Literature Associaton (12/30/09) (5/27/10-5/30/10)full name / name of organization: Dorothy G. Clark/Children's Literature Society of ALA contact email: dorothy.g.clark@csun.edu CALL FOR PAPERS CHILDREN’S LITERATURE SOCIETY
Turning Points and Transformations (Deadline Extended)full name / name of organization: Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture contact email: langlit2010@louisiana.edu
Framing the Human: (De)humanization in Language Literature and Culture - March 6, 2010full name / name of organization: University Of Minnesota, Twin Cities Association of Graduate Students in Romance Studies contact email: agsrs@umn.edu Debates around how "the human" is defined, interrogated and regulated often delineate boundaries that separate the human and its others (e.g. the animal, the divine, the monstrous).
Rebecca Harding Davis Sessions at ALA (May 27-10, San Francisco)full name / name of organization: The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World contact email: mrenfroe@mtsu.edu The Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World will host two sessions at the annual conference of the American Literature Association.
New Directions in Critical Theory: Borders, Power, Community-- April 30-May 1 2010full name / name of organization: New Directions in Critical Theory contact email: ndconf@gmail.com
UPDATE: Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA; 2/10/10-2/13/10)full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations contact email: gypsyscholar@rgv.rr.com Submission and Registration Deadline – December 15, 2009
Caught in the Act: Performance and Performativity. Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. April 17th, 2010.full name / name of organization: UMass-Amherst English Graduate Organization contact email: umassengconf@gmail.com
"The Life of the Text: Creation, Reception, and Explication" [12/1/09;2/19/10]full name / name of organization: Natures 2010--a graduate student humanities conference--Feb. 19, 2010 contact email: gradengl@lasierra.edu Graduate students working in all areas of humanities studies, including art, film, history, religion, literature, and the performing arts are encouraged to submit abstracts.
7th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference: Tolkien in the Classroomfull name / name of organization: Tolkien at UVM contact email: cvaccaro@uvm.edu This April 9-11, 2010, the English department will host the three-day J.R.R. Tolkien conference. Leslie Donovan will be our guest speaker.
Mythology in Contemporary Culture: March 31 - April 3, 2010full name / name of organization: Kate Rittenhouse/2010 Popular Culture Association Annual National Conference contact email: earth2k8@mac.com Mythology in Contemporary Culture CALL FOR PAPERS 2010 Popular Culture Association (PCA)/American Culture Association (ACA)
Global Nonkilling Working Papersfull name / name of organization: Center for Global Nonkilling contact email: jevans@nonkilling.org The Center for Global Nonkilling, an organization working to promote change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world, is launching in January 2010 its “Global Nonkilling Working Papers”
Writers in Love (3/1/10; 11/11-14/10)full name / name of organization: Cynthia J. Miller/Film & History contact email: cymiller@tiac.net Call for Papers
Literary London 2010, 7-9 July 2010full name / name of organization: Literary London contact email: contact@literarylondon.org Literary London 2010
Hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London
Re-defining art: Artistic genres in literary works.full name / name of organization: The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) contact email: medinaa@uhd.edu This seminar seeks to identify how and why contemporary literature uses visual works of art (murals, montages, sculpture, paintings, photography, etc) as a means of interpretation.
Consumption: Pleasures of the Text, Materiality, and Cultural Practicesfull name / name of organization: Epitextes contact email: epitextes@gmail.com The French Graduate Student Association of Columbia University is
Columbia Graduate Journalfull name / name of organization: Epitextes contact email: epitextes@gmail.com The Columbia French Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce the inaugural issue of its journal of graduate work, Épitextes, on the subject of:
[UPDATE] National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers - USF Tampa - March 25 - 27, 2010full name / name of organization: University of South Florida English contact email: usf.egsa.conference@gmail.com National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers
National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers - USF Tampa - March 25 - 27, 2010full name / name of organization: University of South Florida English contact email: etrauth@mail.usf.edu National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers
Sex, Death, and Boredom: An Academic Conference. Friday, February 12, 2010. Fordham Lincoln Center Campus.full name / name of organization: Will Fenton, Fordham Graduate English Association contact email: fenton@fordham.edu Calling All Papers Fordham University Sex, Death, and Boredom
Ravenna, an online journal dedicated to the relationship between the British decadent movement and Italyfull name / name of organization: http://www.oscholars.com/Ravenna/Ravenna2/toc.htm contact email: luca.caddia@katamail.com I am pleased to announce the publication of the second volume of "Ravenna", an online interdisciplinary journal devoted to the relationship between the British Decadent movement and Italy.
The Resurrection of the Paranormal: Investigating Otherness in 21st Century English Studies [March 5-6, 2010]full name / name of organization: North Carolina State University Association of English Graduate Students contact email: aegs.ncsu@gmail.com North Carolina State University English Graduate Student Symposium March 5-6, 2010 Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2009
"Limits of the Human"full name / name of organization: Early Modern Center at Uninversity of California, Santa Barbara contact email: emcconference@gmail.com The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) invites paper proposals for our 2010 Winter Conference, "Limits of the Human." The conference will take place on Friday
Infinitus 2010: A Harry Potter Symposium (July 15-18, 2010 in Orlando, FL) Submissions due January 16, 2010full name / name of organization: HP Education Fanon, Inc. contact email: fpsubmissions@infinitus2010.org Presented by HP Education Fanon, Inc.
Assuming Gender - Issue 2full name / name of organization: Cardiff University contact email: gender@cf.ac.uk Assuming Gender ** We are now inviting submissions for our second issue, due out in the Spring of 2010**
The Aural Archive, ACLA, April 1-4, 2010, New Orleans (11/13/09)full name / name of organization: Michael Cohen, Louisiana State University; Sarah J. Townsend, New York University contact email: mcohen@lsu.edu; sjt239@nyu.edu “The Aural Archive” ACLA annual convention, New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010 Proposals due: Nov. 13, 2009
Land of Promise: Stories of the immigrant in multicultural Canada (February 3-4-5, 2010, proposals due December 15, 2009)full name / name of organization: Centre for Canadian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature,Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India contact email: canadacentreju@gmail.com In a multicultural and multilingual context, immigration has been an integral part of the national identity of Canada.
CENSORSHIP AND DISCOURSE IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES (16th-21st centuries) University of Rennes 2 ( France), 27-28 May 2010full name / name of organization: University of Rennes 2 contact email: delphine.texier@univ-rennes2.fr, claire.charlot@univ-rennes2.fr Normal
[UPDATE] San Joaquin Valley Journal (01/10/10)full name / name of organization: California State University, Stanislaus contact email: adorsey@csustan.edu
Festival in the Shire Conferencefull name / name of organization: Festival in the Shire contact email: eden@festivalintheshire.com Welsh influences in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien An academic conference held in conjunction with Festival in the Shire, August 13-15, 2010 at Plas Machynlleth in Wales.
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism -- Submit by 9 January 2010full name / name of organization: English Department Future Scholars Program -- Brigham Young University contact email: byucriterion@gmail.com
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Craft Critique Culture Conference: The Fringe, Or All Things Peripheral (April 2-4, 2010--Iowa City, IA)full name / name of organization: Melanie Reichwald / Department of English, University of Iowa contact email: melanie-reichwald@uiowa.edu Normal
[UPDATE] European Popular Culture and Literature, February 10-13, 2010full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association contact email: mjonet@nmsu.edu 31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association
That Which Moves: The Kinetic Nature of Language and Literature (1/29/10)full name / name of organization: English Graduate Student Association of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte contact email: EGSA@uncc.edu
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