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category: ecocriticism and environmental studiesPolitics of Fear; Fear of Politics, September 2010. Final call for papers deadline 15 May 2010full name / name of organization: Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) University of Brighton contact email: nc95@brighton.ac.uk We live in a world that is dominated by fear. We are increasingly afraid to walk in our city streets, populated as they are by feral youths, drug-dealers and surveillance cameras.
PAMLA Conference, Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii (November 13-14, 2010; special session proposal deadline Dec. 15, 2009)full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association contact email: svonkin@netzero.com The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is hosting its 108th Annual Conference, on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii.
[UPDATE] Watermark Journal--Submission Deadline 1/8/2010full name / name of organization: CSULB Graduate English Department contact email: editor@watermarkjournal.com Watermark, an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking papers for our fourth volume to be publish
Watermark Grad Journal 2010-Submission Deadline 1/8/2010full name / name of organization: CSULB Graduate English Department contact email: editor@watermarkjournal.org WATERMARK CALL FOR PAPERS
Second Annual International Conference on: “Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities” May 20-22, 2010full name / name of organization: Portland Center for Public Humanities contact email: publichumanities@pdx.edu CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Portland Center for Public Humanities Second Annual International Conference on:
[UPDATE] Nov.13, 2010 The 18th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference: Everyday Life and Literaturefull name / name of organization: English and American Literature Association of the Republic of China in Taiwan (EALA Taiwan) &Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan contact email: foreign@dragon.nchu.edu.tw Literature is related to everyday life in a subtle way.
[UPDATE]: Cinema and Landscape International Conference (1/31/10; 4/16/10 - 4/18/10)full name / name of organization: Cinema and Landscape contact email: conference@cinemalandscape.co.uk Call for Papers International Conference ** CINEMA AND LANDSCAPE** University of Sheffield April 16-18, 2010
CFP: "Communicating Illness: Diagnosing Disordered States" - Concordia University, March 19-20, 2010full name / name of organization: Concordia University contact email: colloquiumconcordia@gmail.com Call for Papers: 8th Annual Concordia University Graduate English Colloquium March 19-20th, 2010, Concordia University, Montreal
Nov. 13, 2010 18th Annual English and American Literature: Everyday Life and Literaturefull name / name of organization: English and American Literature Association of the Republicof China in Taiwan (EALA Taiwan) &Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan contact email: foreign@dragon.nchu.edu.tw Literature is related to everyday life in a subtle way.
Go Green: Die Germanistik und grünes Gedankengut, The 1st Montreal German Studies Graduate Student Conference 23-25 April 2010full name / name of organization: McGill University & Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada contact email: janet.janzen@mail.mcgill.ca The 4th graduate conference at McGill and the 1st in collaboration with Université de Montréal, this year’s theme sees its justification in the steady rise of awareness toward environmental issues
From Sacred Nature to Environmental Policiesfull name / name of organization: French American Studies Association contact email: susanne.berthier@univ-savoie.fr A few spots are available for the “Sacred Nature to Environmental Policies” workshop at the annual congress of the French American Studies Association in Grenoble, France, May 27-29, 2010 – dead
[UPDATE] Call for Exemplary Undergraduate Humanities Essaysfull name / name of organization: Valley Humanities Review contact email: contact-vhr@lvc.edu The Valley Humanities Review is currently seeking essays in the humanities for publication in its Spring 2010 Issue.
ACLA: Breaking Languages, Broken Subjects (New Orleans 1-4 April 2010; abstract by 11/21)full name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Association contact email: 4mk46@queensu.ca The “breakage” of language, and the breakdown of communication that may ensue from this breakage, marks the borderlines between personal, social and cultural difference, but the defamiliarization
[UPDATE] Re-Conceiving the Urban: Public Space and Public Health (ACLA, 1-4 April 2010, New Orleans)full name / name of organization: Heather Houser / Stanford University contact email: houserh@stanford.edu Seminar Organizers: Allison Carruth, University of Oregon; Heather Houser, Stanford University We invite paper proposals for ACLA's 2010 Annual Conference, "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms," to be held 1-4 April, 2010 in New Orleans, LA. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Proposals are due Monday, November 23, 2009. How should we understand the “culture of cities,” to cite historian Lewis Mumford, in the context of recent environmental and public health challenges?
[UPDATE] CFP "Hybrid Realism?" American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010 (Deadline 11/23/09)full name / name of organization: Geoffrey Baker contact email: gabaker@csuchico.edu Hybrid Realism?
UPDATE: CFP Albuquerque and Ecocriticismfull name / name of organization: SW/TX Popular Culture Association contact email: khada@ecok.edu The 31th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX Popular Culture Assoc./ACA Conference Website: www.swtxpca.org
CFP: International Association for Philosophy and Literaturefull name / name of organization: International Association for Philosophy and Literature contact email: iaplassistant1@gmail.com Call for Papers and Proposed Sessions
Re-Conceiving the Urban: Public Space and Public Health (ACLA, 1-4 April 2010, New Orleans)full name / name of organization: Heather Houser contact email: houserh@stanford.edu Seminar Organizers: Allison Carruth, University of Oregon; Heather Houser, Stanford University We invite paper proposals for ACLA's 2010 Annual Conference, "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms," to be held 1-4 April, 2010 in New Orleans, LA. How should we understand the “culture of cities,” to cite historian Lewis Mumford, in the context of recent environmental and public health challenges?
[UPDATE] Visual Arts in the 21st Centuryfull name / name of organization: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities contact email: editor@rupkatha.com In the wake of the digital revolution and globalisation policies the whole world is witnessing formation of certain conditions which are having and will continue to have tremendous impact on the produ
Paths of Progress (?)full name / name of organization: California State University, Northridge - Associated Graduate Students of English contact email: agse2010@gmail.com In historical periods of intense political unrest or in calls for social reformation, the written word has encompassed the energy and fervor of such revolutionary moments.
Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies (conference; proposals due Jan 15, 2010)full name / name of organization: Sarah Brophy and Jancie Hladki, McMaster University contact email: brophys@mcmaster.ca CALL FOR PROPOSALS November 19-20, 2010
Who Counts & Who's Counting?--Submission deadline December 1full name / name of organization: National Association of Ethnic Studies contact email: ywang@socy.umd.edu CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS
"Old Lessons for a New Millenium: Nature Writing and Environmentalism in the 21st Century" (June 7-10, 2009)full name / name of organization: Prof. Daniel G. Payne, Dept. of English, SUNY Oneonta contact email: paynedg@oneonta.edu This event will be the sixth in the John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference & Seminar series.
CFP - Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary (March 2010)full name / name of organization: Nicola Masciandaro, CUNY contact email: glossatori@gmail.com CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
ACLA-Seminar: Glocality and Narration in Contemporary Cinema: Real Life in Reel Cyclefull name / name of organization: Annemarie Fischer, SUNY Binghamton contact email: afische6@binghamton.edu In this century, corporate cinema production has experienced an economic and technological crisis.
Spectrum calling for submissions DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 12, 2010full name / name of organization: Spectrum Literary Magazine contact email: spectrum.ccs.ucsb@gmail.com SPECTRUM is an annual journal of art and literature published by UC Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies. Founded in 1957, it is the longest-standing literary magazine in the UC system.
Calling for Papers in Public Policy--Rolling Submissionsfull name / name of organization: William & Mary Policy Review contact email: policyreview@wm.edu The William & Mary Policy Review is the student-run journal at the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William & Mary.
[UPDATE] WORK – IOWA JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES [EXTENDED DEADLINE: 27 NOV]full name / name of organization: Sara Sullivan/Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies contact email: sara-sullivan@uiowa.edu The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies seeks essays on cultural representations and experiences of labor and work, from the perspectives of the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
Helena Maria Viramontes (ALA, 5/27-5/30, San Francisco)full name / name of organization: American Literature Association contact email: hsuanlhsu@gmail.com Helena Maria Viramontes (ALA, 5/27-5/30/2010, San Francisco)
“Invasive Species, Postcolonial and Critical Global Theory” (12/20/09 due) Crossroads in Cultural Studies (June 17-21, 2010)full name / name of organization: Chingling Wo/Sonoma State University, U.S. and Tsung-yi Huang/National Taiwan University, Taiwan contact email: wochingling@hotmail.com -----
[UPDATE] SW/TX PCA/ACA Chicana/o Literature/Film/Culture February 2010full name / name of organization: Jeanette Sanchez SW/TX Popular/American Culture Association contact email: jeannie8@u.washington.edu The final deadline for paper and panel submissions has been extended to Dec. 15, 2009. Early bird registration ends Dec.
Transverse, U of T's comp lit grad journal, is accepting papers ON CENSORSHIP (Deadline: March 1)full name / name of organization: Transverse, grad journal @ the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto contact email: transversejournal@gmail.com CALL FOR PAPERS: Transverse 2009-2010: Censorship I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Voltaire)
Disability and the Enlightenmentfull name / name of organization: Dwight Codr/ South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies contact email: dcodr@tulane.edu Although scholars have long recognized the centrality of the body in the cultural productions of "Enlightenment" England -- whether it be in terms of empiricism or sensibility, in the context of actin
[Update] CFP: 31st Annual Conference (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA 2/10-13/10)full name / name of organization: Sally Sanchez contact email: pcaacaswtx@sbcglobal.net Update CFP: 31st Annual Conference (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA 2/10-13/10) Our 12/15/2009 Submission Deadline is rapidly approaching!
Durrell and the City: Reconstructing the Urban Landscape, July 7-10, 2010full name / name of organization: Donald P. Kaczvinsky/International Lawrence Durrell Society contact email: dkaczv@latech.edu "Durrell and the City" will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Alexandria Quartet with a reassessment of the cities, especially Alexandria, that have been associated with Durre
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