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We invite you to submit paper proposals to the 2010 Comparative Literature Symposium at USC. We welcome submissions from all disciplines relevant to the conference theme:

"Longing in the Age of New Media"
Symposium Date: Feb. 19th, 2010

Please submit an abstract by November 8th 2009 to Coltsymposium@gmail.com

We now invite submissions for our annual symposium featuring guest speaker and respondent Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Director, Society for the Humanities; Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University. His research and teaching crosses the boundaries of new media, film and video, visual studies, Twentieth-Century Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, performance, and English and French early modern studies. He is currently working on a book, Immaterial Archives: Curatorial Instabilities @ New Media Art, which is a sequel to Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008).

In the current age of new media, various fields of study are experiencing a literal vanishing of the very materials that have traditionally defined them. With this disappearance of the physical material, how has our perception and interaction with the new medium altered? Does the end of the age of mechanical reproduction lead to a resurgence of the aura in older media? Is this the result of nostalgia for the tactile or other sensory experiences that no longer act together in the same way? How does the designation of spectral/material change across different media?

The authors of the papers selected for the Symposium are expected to participate in all symposium events on February 19th 2010. The symposium schedule consists of a morning seminar, led by Professor Murray. The selected symposium papers will be posted online for everyone to read in advance of the seminar. It will begin with Professor Murray’s response to the papers and then open to a discussion of their arguments in conjunction with his own published work. After a catered lunch, we will reconvene for a lecture by Professor Murray on his current research. The authors of the chosen papers are invited guests at the Comparative Literature Symposium dinner with Professor Murray, later that evening.

Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional and departmental affiliation. Due to the interactive format of the symposium, final papers are due on January 10th 2010 so that our keynote speaker and audience members can read papers and prepare comments prior to the event.

The symposium encourages the following topics or thematic combinations:

-Digital media vs. celluloid
-Spectral figures within literary texts
-Spectral figures in cinema
-The politics of ownership
-Materiality
-Preservation and decay
-Collecting and displaying art
-Public vs. private art
-The virtual museum
-The spectrality or materiality of the spectator
-The (digital) archive
-Medium and genre
-Gendered media
-The fetishization of the book

Proposals are invited for an edited collection of scholarly essays and autobiographical essays on African Traditional Religions/African Diasporic Religious belief systems. The editors of this collection seek to explore the following questions: Who are ATR practitioners? How do they function in African Diasporic communities where Christianity and/or Islam religious practices are expected? Who is out of the “broom closet”? Should they be out of the “broom closet”? How do they define relationships, associations, and/or boundaries with other religious/cultural traditions—and where do boundaries become less certain? What are their intersections with other communities of faith or identity? How are ATR practitioners transforming discourses on communal and/or national ethics and morality, as well as complicating or challenging notions of cultural unity? How do literary genres such as speculative fiction, science fiction, and/or Afro-futurism create or expand discursive practices, as well as explore cultural performances of identities, transgressions and/or subversions of boundaries,borders, and traditions with regard to ATR? Submitted proposals may explore but are not limited to the following areas of focus in their essays:

GLBT involvement in ATR
Youth and ATR
Identity Politics and ATR
Multiracial/Multicultural participation in ATR practices
Orthodox/Non-Orthodox notions of ATR praxis/ritual, exclusionary politics
Paganisms and ATR
ATR and corporate workspaces
Legal issues and ATR
Sexism and ATR
Gender and ATR
ATR and Scientific/Medical discourse
ATR and Science Fiction/Afrofuturism/Speculative Fiction

We seek autobiographical, creative, and academic submissions that tackle the complex ways in which African Traditional Religions frame these and other discussions. Abstracts are welcome from a variety of academic disciplines and perspectives.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Abstracts: 250 words in length.
Deadline for Abstracts: February 28, 2010
Deadline for Complete Papers: June 30, 2010
Please submit proposals to Cherie Ann Turpin (cturpin@udc.edu or cherieanntupin@mac.com) or Anika T. Cazenave (anikacazenave@yahoo.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. "Ravenna" is edited by Elisa Bizzotto and Luca Caddia and published by Steven Halliwell at The Rivendale Press as one of THE OSCHOLARS group of fin de siècle journals under the general editorship of D.C. Rose.

http://www.oscholars.com/Ravenna/Ravenna2/toc.htm

This issue includes the following articles:

David Fettig: "The Discordant Melody of Change: Giacomo Puccini, George Egerton, and Orchestrations of the New Woman in Fin de Siècle London";

Simon Poë: "Made in Italy: Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s ‘Patience on a Monument, Smiling at Grief’".

And reviews:

Derek Duncan, "Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality: A Case of Possible Difference" [by Vincenzo Bavaro];

Elisabetta Girelli, "Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema" [by Anna Viola Sborgi];

Yvonne Ivory, "The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850-1930" [by Stefano Evangelista].

"Ravenna" is now accepting submissions for articles and reviews of recent books for future issues. If you are interested in sending a proposal, please contact the editors at the following email addresses:

Elisa Bizzotto (bizzotto@iuav.it)
Luca Caddia (luca.caddia@katamail.com)

Thank you very much for your attention. I hope you will enjoy "Ravenna" 2!

Best Regards,

Luca Caddia

North Carolina State University English Graduate Student Symposium

March 5-6, 2010

Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2009

The Resurrection of the Paranormal: Investigating Otherness in 21st Century English Studies

With the recent explosion of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series and the maintained popularity of films like Labyrinth, Poltergeist, and Night of the Living Dead, notions of the paranormal are captivating the popular culture scene and subsequently influencing the scholarly community in ways which are beginning to challenge traditional notions of the paranormal. While investigations of the paranormal have a visible place in the literary canon, as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet make clear, the overwhelming success of popular series like Twilight has led some to question their potential for scholarly application. As such, examinations of the paranormal are now growing to include considerations of what we have termed the PARAnormal. Unlike paranormal texts, which address the supernatural and the fantastic, PARAnormal texts function in ways that could be considered supernatural or fantastic. These texts do not necessarily deal with paranormal topics, but instead challenge the roles traditionally attributed to texts by the scholarly community. In transcending genres and blurring conventional boundaries, PARAnormal texts cause us to reexamine scholarly notions and consider the application of less traditional genres in the classroom. Thus, while paranormal texts are interested in Otherness, PARAnormal texts are Others. In bringing together a broad range of approaches to the study of the paranormal and the PARAnormal, this symposium seeks to foster a dialogue about Otherness in 21st century English studies.

We invite submissions from all areas of English studies that explore the ways in which the paranormal or the PARAnormal are represented, framed, or interpreted in the 21st century. While presentations need not focus on texts produced in the 21st century, we encourage submissions which approach the subject from a variety of modern critical perspectives. We will accept submissions of scholarly papers and original creative work.

Presentations may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Magical realism as exemplified by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Salman Rushdie, and Isabelle Allende
Fabulous/Fantastic fiction as illustrated in the work of
Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due
Young adult fiction as characterized by J. K. Rowling,
Charlaine Harris, and C. S. Lewis
The construction of Otherness in paranormal texts
Societal and cultural values portrayed in the paranormal
Popular reception of paranormal texts
The paranormal/supernatural as cultural heritage
“The voice of reason/rationale” in paranormal texts
The paranormal or PARAnormal in popular media:
Film
Television
Comics
Gaming
The paranormal or PARAnormal text as political statement
Place of PARAnormal texts in the classroom
Impact of PARAnormal texts on 21st century English studies
Reclaiming cultural identity (Otherness) through PARAnormal texts
Exploring gender identity (Otherness) through PARAnormal texts

Please submit a 300 word abstract by December 21st to aegs.ncsu@gmail.com. Proposals must include the title of the paper, the name of the presenter, and institutional affiliations (including area of English study). Panels should submit three complete proposals in one document with a 100 word explanation of the panel theme. Individual presentations will be limited to 15 minutes. Panel presentations will be limited to 45 minutes.

This symposium is hosted by the NCSU Association of English Graduate Students.

It is sponsored by the NCSU English Department.

CALL FOR PAPERS

BEYOND DON JUAN:
RETHINKING IBERIAN MASCULINITIES
New York, March 31-April 1, 2011

The Catalan Center at New York University

In collaboration with:

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University
Men and Masculinities, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Centre Dona i Literatura/Càtedra UNESCO “Dones, desenvolupament i cultures”, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Espai Francesca Bonnemaison, Diputació de Barcelona, Spain
CEDIC (Centre d’Estudis dels Drets Individuals i Col.lectius), Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain

The Iberian Peninsula has produced some of the most compelling and enduring male archetypes in Western literature and culture, including eponymous characters such as El Cid and Don Juan, and iconic personages such as the bullfighter or the hidalgo, among others. Indeed, both Spain and Hispanic cultures have long been associated with the archetypal notions of machismo and the macho that originated in medieval Iberia.
Nevertheless, constructions of masculinity in the Iberian Peninsula and in Iberian cultures as they developed beyond the Peninsula go far beyond these figures. In the Catalan-speaking territories, in Galicia, in the Basque Country, as well as in the Americas, other styles and figurations of masculinity exist below the radar of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque texts that gave rise to this gallery of characters. And perhaps in Spanish language literature, Don Quixote can already be said to queer traditional images of the macho bravado, following on the heels of his Catalan counterpart, Tirant lo Blanc.
This conference will thus focus on both tracing and revisiting these archetypes of masculinity from medieval Iberia to the present, by placing them in the context of the divergent counter-images that exist, and have always existed, below the radar. The conference will be especially concerned with the exploration of alternative models for being a man which examine or challenge the traditional links between machismo and Hispanic culture, and/or suggest more egalitarian models of manhood. Therefore, we welcome papers that investigate both the construction and de-construction of masculinity in Iberian cultures and literatures, from any genre and historical period, from different disciplines (literary studies, film studies, art, religion, visual culture, photography, etc.) and methodological perspectives (masculinity studies, feminist theory, queer studies, cultural studies, etc.). We are particularly interested in re-visions of Iberian masculinities, especially as they are manifested in Catalonia, the Basque country, and Galicia, in non-Christian cultures in the Iberian Peninsula, and in the Americas, including Latino cultures in the U.S. and Canada. We hope that rethinking masculinities from these counterpoints will contribute different perspectives on the topic, and that by exploring Iberian cultures through masculinities we will understand new aspects of the relationship between these cultures.
Please send 250-word abstract proposals to mary.ann.newman@nyu.edu (CC JoseMaria.Armengol@uclm.es) by March, 1 2010. A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published as a special issue of the prestigious academic journal Men and Masculinities (Sage Publications).

Film and History Area at the PCA/ACA National Conference (12/01/09; 3/31-4/3/10)
'Seeing History in Experimental Film and Media'
March 31-April 3, 2010, St. Louis, Missouri
Deadline: December 1, 2009

Presenters are sought for a panel on history in experimental media, as part of the Film and History Area at the PCA/ACA conference.

Although experimental media is sometimes dismissed for abstracting the realities of social, cultural, and political histories, it is also particularly well suited to express the complexities—the difficulties and potential—of representing the past in the present. Experimental film and media practices are often seen as uniquely able to express critical histories; that is, experimental visual forms can question or critique conventional notions and narratives of history in ways that other visual forms perhaps cannot. This panel will consider the complex intersections of experimental film and media, history, and culture. How do we see history in experimental film and media? How is this similar to and different from seeing history elsewhere? Papers may discuss a single film/project or filmmaker/artist in focus, or explore a historical question or event across a range of texts, or examine the intersection of experimental media and history through a specific cultural or national lens.

Possible topics for Seeing History in Experimental Media might explore, but aren’t limited to:

-How experimental film and media implicitly or explicitly critique constructions of history or established historical narratives
-Experimental film as a kind of counter-cinema
-Experimental documentaries that investigate a particular historical question, event, struggle, etc.
-How compilation films use archival or found images, how these images function in the present
-The role of allegory in a particular experimental film or project
-How historical narratives are constructed and deconstructed in experimental film
-Playing with time and temporality in experimental media
-How representations of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and/or sexuality function in relation to a particular historical period or event
-Experimental film and pedagogy—visualizing history to teach film, or teaching history with film

Please email a 250-word abstract or proposal (in the email, not as an attachment) to Kristen Fallica (kmf33@pitt.edu) by December 1, 2009.

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 March 5 2010 at UCSB. We hope to include papers from a range of critical and disciplinary contexts, covering the period 1500-1800.

Cloning, organ farms, the completion of the Human Genome Project, recombinant DNA, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and other manufactured life forms, all suggest that, depending on one’s point of view, the twenty-first century opens onto a horizon of radical possibilities for the future or cataclysmic end of what is meant by "human." UCSB's Early Modern Center Winter Conference, "Limits of the Human," turns back to the early modern period to ask: before we were posthuman, how did we become human? How and why do early modern representations of hybrids, animals, monsters, anomalies, race, gender, and automata define what is human and separate out what is not? How do those things classified as non-human construct, reflect, or refract humanness? What innovations in technology, botany, labor equipment, law, and mathematical notation helped to calcify the boundaries of the human? How did Cartesian, Newtonian and Leibnizian systems of the world shape the conditions that Michel Foucault argues, "made it possible for the figure of man to appear"? In what ways were the "limits" always permeable, and how did they invite transgression and mutation? The EMC's one-day interdisciplinary conference provides a forum to explore early modern literary and cultural responses to the issues and questions that helped delineate the limits of being human.

We invite papers that will add to our understanding of the limits of the human in the early modern period. Please send abstracts, 300-500 words to emcconference@gmail.com by December 4 2009. Please direct questions to Billy Hall at the above email address.

The human body has continued to captivate intellectuals of the arts and sciences throughout history, whether through an aesthetic or physiological study of its structural form and internal mechanisms or in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of the mind that reside within the biological machine. Literature, art, music, film, and storytelling often turn our attention to these ideas of the body, and their inquiries into the physical body and the mind have framed our universal conceptions of health and disease, while also giving rise to myriad variations on the notions of bodily normality and abnormality. The body becomes a receptacle for our non-corporeal collective and individual identities, divisions, and prejudices. Sick or well, beautiful or ugly, powerless or powerful, the body is the site of competing visions that structure our perceptions of its physical form and its philosophical and social signification. While we frequently favor the “normal” and thereby reject the “abnormal”, it is the bodily abnormalities that best explore and question our definitions and interpretations of the body. Reflection on these bodily deviations not only elucidates what we consider to be normal and why, but it also destabilizes conventional distinctions between the typical and the atypical, between conformity and deviancy. The 23rd Annual Symposium of the Graduate Association of French and Italian Students seeks to investigate various representations of the deformed or deviant body in order to explore what constitutes our formulation of health (normality) and disease (abnormality).

We welcome submissions from all applicable disciplines that shed light on the ways in which we can “reform” our general conceptions of the body through the lens of the deviant or otherwise “deformed” body.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

The Sick Body:
• Physical illnesses, epidemics, disabilities, doctors and medicine
• Mental illnesses, neuroses, psychoses, the mentally ill as Other, treatment, therapy, the fragmentation of the self
• Medical or societal definitions of the healthy and unhealthy human body

The Ugly Body:
• Aesthetic conceptions of the body in artistic, visual, literary and cinematographic forms
• Physical deformities, monstrosities, the grotesque
• Fragmentation, bodily manipulation or transformation

The Sexual Body:
• Queer studies and the queering of the body, sexuality, transsexuality
• Gender studies, Woman as Other, masculinities and feminities, social or physical gendered roles
• Eroticism, fetishism, masochism

The Powerless Body:
• Crimes against the individual, crimes against humanity, genocide, persecution, destruction of the body
• Politics, authority, regulation of the body
• Effects of colonialism, occupation, wars on the body

We invite abstracts in English ranging from 200 – 250 words that relate to or expand upon the topics suggested above. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes and must be presented in English. In your abstract, please include name, email address, academic affiliation, and AV requests. Along with your abstract submission, please suggest the category or categories to which you feel your submission is best suited.

Please address inquiries and abstract submissions to Theresa Pesavento and Tina Petraglia at gafissymposium2010@gmail.com. Abstracts must be received no later than January 15th, 2010. For further information, please visit http://frit.lss.wisc.edu and click on the GAFIS link.

31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association
http://swtxpca.org/
Submission Deadline: 12/15/09, Priority Registration Deadline 11/1/09

Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505.842.1234

Proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables are now being accepted for the Area “Arab Culture in the U.S.” In addition to academic presentations, artists (e.g., poets, musicians, and dancers) are welcome to perform their work.

Here is a possible but not exhaustive list of topics – other themes/topics are encouraged:
-Arabs in American media
-Arab film in the U.S.
-Arab drama, poetry, and prose in the U.S.
-Arab music and dance in the U.S.
-Arab immigration to the U.S.
-Arabs in the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks
-Arab political, religious, ethnic, linguistic, and sexual identity in the U.S.

Please send an abstract of 250 words, saved in Rich Text Format, with relevant audio/visual requests by the deadline above to Dr. Lutfi Hussein at the e-mail address given. Panel ideas should include one abstract of 200 words describing the panel, accompanied by the underlying abstracts of 250 words of the individual papers that form the panel.

Graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate in the conference. The deadline for graduate student awards is January 10, 2009. For more info, click here: http://swtxpca.org/documents/48.html

More information regarding the conference (listing of all areas, registration, hotel, travel, etc.) can be found here: http://swtxpca.org/

Caribbean Enlightenment
An Interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies Conference
8th to 10th April 2010, University of Glasgow

Keynote Speakers
J. Michael Dash, Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
Paget Henry, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Brown University
Nick Nesbitt, Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen

Call for Papers
In a speech widely regarded as instigating the series of events that would lead to the overthrow of the Lescot government in 1946, André Breton’s proclamation of Haiti’s ‘inalienable enthusiasm for liberty and its affirmation of dignity above all obstacles’ articulated the enduring revolutionary conviction in the Enlightenment-inspired principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. This artistic, cultural and political expression of a universal right to freedom and self-determination reflects the diverse and complex ways in which Enlightenment ideals have found expression in the Caribbean. From the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 to The Black Jacobins, surrealism, négritude, and the contemporary writings of such theorists as Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, the interrogation of universality has both contributed to the ongoing dissemination and creolization of Enlightenment discourse and has subjected it to a thorough critique. This conference aims to explore the various ways in which the site of the Caribbean, with its writers, artists, revolutionaries, and diverse peoples, has adapted and questioned the legacies of the Enlightenment. Acknowledging the Caribbean’s crucial role in the Atlantic world, the Enlightenment’s history of empire building and slave rebellions, colonial domination and postcolonial nation-building, the valorization of reason and its role in the division of knowledge, will be interrogated against the dissemination of a discourse promoting universal human rights, democracy and equality.

This conference seeks to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on Enlightenment themes, both historical and contemporary, in order to trace the spread of a universalist discourse across the Caribbean. We hope to bring together Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone perspectives that explore figurations of the universal within the Caribbean context. Noting the region’s national and linguistic divides, this conference will expose the ways in which Enlightenment ideals have been adapted to express the particular experience of the Caribbean peoples. Finally, we pose the question: ‘Does the commitment to universalism amount to a totalizing discourse, or can universalism be revisioned?’

We invite papers and panel suggestions that deal with any aspect of Caribbean Enlightenment, but which may include:

Reason and Rule of Law
Revolutions and uprisings
Shortcomings of the Enlightenment: slavery and racism
Development of ‘improvement’ in technologies, medicine and language
Universal Human Rights, Democracy, Marxism, Self-determination
Economics of Caribbean Enlightenment
The impact of surrealism
Négritude and the universal
Appraisals of The Black Jacobins
Contemporary Caribbean literature/philosophy and universality ‘revisioned’
Gendered, gay, racial, and class perspectives on universality
Religion and the Caribbean
Caribbean thought and ‘post-continental’ philosophy.

Please send panel proposals and/or paper abstracts (300 words) with a brief biographical statement (150 words) to Lorna Burns and Michael Morris at caribbeanenlightenment@googlemail.com by 1st December 2009.

A limited number of postgraduate travel bursaries are available by application. Further details & a full call for papers are available at www.gla.ac.uk/caribbeanenlightenment

Charting Transnational Native American Studies: Aesthetics, Politics, Identity
Extended Deadline: December 15
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/cfp.html

Guest-edited by Philip J. Deloria, Hsinya Huang, John Gamber, and Laura Furlan

In the context of an increasingly transnational globe, the master narratives of time and place have been open to various rethinkings. In hemispheric American indigenous cultures, central coordinates for the construction of individual and collective identity have emerged around spatial notions of homeland, territory, migrancy, diaspora, and removal. Equally critical have been complex understandings of layered, recurrent, multidimensional, and sacred time. These ways of thinking space and time have originated from multiple contexts, including tribal, cross-tribal, hemispheric and global exchange. They demonstrate multiple and longstanding forms of both tribal-national and transnational orientation. At the same time, methodological borderlines between inquiries into cultural impact, identity and politics, on the one hand, and analyses of literary, aesthetic and stylistic qualities, on the other, are also being redrawn, diversifying and complicating a discussion concerning the current place of Native Studies at large. These conversations are themselves explicitly transnational in nature—though perhaps not always visible in that form. This forum seeks to present work in transnational Native American studies and investigate the transnational dimensions of the field itself.

Nationalistic approaches, which have come to the fore in a number of areas of Native American studies, have clear pragmatic importance for American Indian people and nations. Intellectually productive as well, such approaches nonetheless run the risk of oversimplifying complex tribal identities, erasing broad networks of interaction and community, and smoothing indigenous histories that have always included transnational elements. How might we think about the relation between nation and sovereignty, and how do we consider those concepts in relation to “post-sovereignty” arguments that position them within a colonizing Western frame? What are the critical genealogies of indigenous nationhood? More important, what does it mean to put such questions in a transnational frame—not only in terms of the global flow of people, ideas, and capital, but also in relation to the political and aesthetic situations defined by particular tribal nations? In what ways have indigenous conceptions of nationhood—and the movements between nations—challenged and complicated European and other colonial understandings of the nation? What kinds of advantages and disadvantages inhere in comparative global approaches to indigeneity, particularly in relation to tribal and national narratives that have been central to much of American Indian studies? How do indigenous American artistic expressions establish, reshape, challenge, and/or complement the formation of communities and collective cultural and literary entities? How, in these processes, do longstanding notions of homeland and nation interact with new modes of community formation and literary expression, drawn across spatial and temporal borderlines?

This special forum seeks to address some of the issues surrounding place and mobility, aesthetics and politics, identity and community, and the tribal and the global indigenous, all of which have emerged in the larger frameworks of transnational American Studies. We wish to contextualize Native American literatures and histories not only across national boundaries but also across the disciplines of literary and cultural studies. The editors of Journal of Transnational American Studies thus invite contributions that explore the consequences of transnationalism for Native American Studies, American Studies, and for the field of literary and cultural criticism in general.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit manuscripts electronically at http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas and indicate Special Forum when prompted for “Type of Submission.”

Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words, including endnotes, and are accepted on a rolling basis. Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style and include an abstract (not to exceed 250 words) and keywords. Submission guidelines and the style guide for JTAS can be found on our website at http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas.

Authors retain copyright for all content published in The Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS). However, authors grant to the journal the right to make available such content, in any format, in perpetuity. Authors may reproduce, in other contexts, content to which they possess the copyright, although in any subsequent publications JTAS should be acknowledged as the original publisher.

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Associate Managing Editor for Special Forums
Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS)
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/

CFP: Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association, 2010

The Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association seeks proposals for the American Literature Association’s 21st annual conference at the Hyatt Regency in the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco on May 27-30, 2010.

We are particularly interested in seeking out proposals that address the following topics:

• Representations of Identity in Memoir, Autobiography and Testimonio
• Science Fiction in the Caribbean/Latin American Diaspora
• Roundtable on Teaching Latina/o Literature

Details for each session appear below. Those interested in submitting a proposal should send a one-page abstract with your name, position, affiliation, and contact information to the appropriate panel chair.

For information about the Latina/o Literature and Culture Society, please contact Latina/o Literature and Culture Society president Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson at eliza_rodriguezygibson@redlands.edu.

For more information about the ALA and the conference, go to www.americanliterature.org.

Deadline for Submissions to the Society is January 4, 2010

Representations of Identity in Memoir, Autobiography and Testimonio
This panel will explore representations of Latina/o identity in autobiography, memoir, narrated autobiography and testimonios. What are the possibilities, limits and dangers offered by the listed genres? What do they tell us about identity, displacement, agency, and history? How have the genres evolved? Does our current historical knowledge complicate our reading or does it illuminate our understanding? We are interested in examining how Latina/os articulate agency in circumstances that would otherwise contain them, and how these published narratives inform our own current-day struggles to articulate identity. Please email abstracts of 300-500 words by January 4th, 2010 to Lisette Ordorica Lasater (llasa001@ucr.edu). Include with your abstract your name, academic affiliation, and contact information.

Science Fiction in the Caribbean/Latin American Diaspora
When Junot Díaz’s protagonist in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) asks the question “What more sci-fi than the Santo Domingo? What more fantasy than the Antilles?” he both draws our attention to the affinity that the geographical space of the Caribbean has for the fantastical elements of science fiction (SF) and also possibly indicts the critics of the genre for their lack of acknowledgement of the narratives from this area that might fit its characteristics. This panel seeks papers that support Oscar’s assertion. Papers may address the works in SF of writers from the Caribbean/Latin American diaspora, meditations on why these writers have been marginalized in this genre, new discoveries of writers or texts that should be classified as SF from the Caribbean/Latin American diaspora, or how the Caribbean/Latin American geographical space has been addressed in North American SF. Please submit paper proposals of approximately 300 words with your name and academic affiliation to akb1@mit.edu by January 4, 2010.

Roundtable on Teaching Latina/o Literature.
This session will explore ways of teaching Latina/o literature from a variety of perspectives in a diversity of settings and from a range of approaches—both within and beyond Latina/o Studies. What are the particular challenges and opportunities that teaching this body of work present to teachers and to students? We especially want to invite participants who are new to teaching Latina/o literatures to join us. Please send a short (300 word) statement of interest along with a very short version of your CV (1-2 pages) to eliza_rodriguezygibson@redlands.edu by January 4, 2010.

The buzz surrounding recent Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice and Zombies captures the ambivalence — equal parts horror and delight — evoked by the perpetual resuscitation of the nineteenth century. Leaving others to fight Austen’s zombies, this seminar sets its historical sights slightly later, taking the figure of the zombie as a point of departure. Does Victorian Britain, like the zombie, refuse to remain quietly dead and buried? Or do we keep digging it up?

We invite papers that consider a wide array of nostalgic reconfigurations arising from points of contact between the nineteenth century and contemporary culture. We will explore the ways that retrospective invocations of the nineteenth century — from steampunk technologies to text-based theme parks, literary mash-ups to revisionist cinema, postcolonial negotiations with Victorian antecedents to neo-Victorian inventions – revive the past through anachronism, adaptation, and the mad fusing of genre. These composite creations leave us wondering which is the originary and which the adaptation, which the cultural colonizer and which the colonized, which the controller and which the controlled?

To this end we wish to consider adaptations variously as translations of the Victorian into a modern idiom, as acts of cultural colonization, and as newly-created hybrid structures. Can we consider adaptation as an act of translation or creolization? Is the Victorian a cultural zombie, mindlessly stalking the present as a terrifying spectacle of the past? Or is it resurrected by contemporary writers to fight the perceived evils of modernity? The deadline for proposals is 13 November 2009.

Contact Information
The seminar is being organized by Criscillia Benford (Duke University), Marty Gould (University of South Florida), and Rebecca Mitchell (University of Texas-Pan American). Although proposals are to be submitted via the ACLA website (see below), you are invited to direct any questions about the seminar to victorianacla@gmail.com.

How to Submit a Proposal
Paper proposals (which include a short author bio and an abstract of no more than 250 words) should be submitted via the ACLA website: http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php

Additional information about the proposal process can be found here: http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?page_id=6

About the ACLA conference
The ACLA’s annual conferences have a distinctive structure in which most papers are grouped into twelve-person seminars that meet two hours per day for the three days of the conference to foster extended discussion. Some eight-person (or smaller) seminars meet just the first two days of the conference. This structure allows each participant to be a full member of one seminar, and to sample other seminars during the remaining time blocks. The conference also includes plenary sessions, workshops and roundtable discussions, a business meeting, a banquet, and other events.

The ACLA will convene in New Orleans from April 1 - 4, 2010. The conference theme is “Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanism.” See the ACLA website for additional information: http://www.acla.org/acla2010/.

CHOPIN AND LISZT: Two Composers and their Relation to the Parisian Musical Scene

International Conference

ORGANISED BY: Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca, in collaboration with Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice

DATES: 2-4 December 2010
LOCATION: Lucca (Italy), Palazzo Ducale

Call for papers
The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca (), in collaboration with Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française (), under the auspices of the Provincia di Lucca, the Comune di Lucca, and the Association angevine Franz Liszt, is pleased to invite submissions from scholars of proposals for the symposium on Chopin e Liszt: due compositori a confronto nell’universo musicale parigino / Chopin and Liszt: Two Composers and their Relation to the Parisian Musical Scene / Chopin et Liszt : deux compositeurs face à face sur la scène musicale parisienne to be held in the Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, from Thursday 2 until Saturday 4 December 2010. The Symposium aims to investigate different facets of the life and works of the two composers, in the context of the Parisian scene during the nineteenth century. The programme committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are welcome:

* Chopin, Liszt and 19th-century Parisian art
* Chopin’s and Liszt’s oeuvre in the context of the contemporary musical aesthetic
* Liszt’s orchestral works
* Chopin, Liszt and the ‘French Piano School’
* Chopin, Liszt and musical nationalism
* Chopin, Liszt: performers of different styles
* The Contemporary Reception of Chopin’s and Liszt’s music

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Alexandre Dratwicki (Venice), Nicolas Dufetel (Paris), Jean Gribenski (Poitiers), Catherine Massip (Paris), Michela Niccolai (Paris), David Rowland (Milton Keynes, UK), Massimiliano Sala (Pistoia), Renata Suchowiejko (Krakow)

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:
Rosalba Agresta (Paris), Andrea Barizza (La Spezia), Roberto Illiano (Lucca), Lorenzo Frassà (Lucca), Fulvia Morabito (Lucca), Luca Sala (Poitiers)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Cécile Reynaud (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald (Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK)

The official languages of the conference are English, French, and Italian. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings. Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and one page of biography. All proposals should be submitted by email no later than Monday 5 April 2010 to Luca Sala . Please include with your proposal your name, contact details (postal address, e-mail and telephone) and (if applicable) your affiliation.
The committee will make its final decision on the abstracts by the 15th of May 2010, and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter. Further information about the programme, registration, travel and accommodation will be announced by the end of June 2010. For additional information about the conference, see
For further question, please contact:

Luca Sala
60, rue Ramey
F-75018 Paris
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
Université de Poitiers

The Velvet Light Trap #67 - Seeing Race: Our Enduring Dilemma

"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson shouted during President Barack Obama's speech on health care reform in the halls of Congress. Media pundits were quick to point out that the 19th century was the last occasion of such an egregious breach of protocol took place in Congress. Members of both Houses urged the Republican congressman from South Carolina to apologize for his misconduct--and he did. Soon after, though, the discourse shifted to the reasons for Wilson's outburst. The factor of race became one major point in attributing blame, but that fire was never allowed to flame because of the overwhelmingly hegemonic ideology of colorblindness that currently saturates our culture. This same story could be told in relation to the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the pop culture firestorm that singed Isaiah Washington and the cast of Grey's Anatomy, or the discourses surrounding First Lady Michelle Obama's hair.

The notion that we cannot talk about race unless it is specifically and clearly identified as such in media and culture-at-large is as implicitly understood as is the notion of "one nation under God"--and it is just as powerful. And yet, although we claim to be blind to the markers of external and cultural difference, we always "see" race.

Issue #67 of The Velvet Light Trap will explore all the varied ways that we "see" race in television, film and new media. While the editors maintain a broad definition of "seeing race," special consideration will be given toward articles that interrogate the nexus of racial visibility as a sociocultural fact and/or color blindness as an ideological practice. Whether papers approach seeing race as a discursive category, a commercial commodity, and/or an object of consumption, the editors anticipate submissions that connect these strategies to the historical, industrial, political, and cultural factors that underpin a society's values.

Possible Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Seeing Race in War
* Spectacle
* Production Cultures
* Race and Genre
* Race in Political Media
* Race and Gender Intersectionality in Media

Papers should be between 6,000 and 7,500 words (approximately 20-25 pages double-spaced), in MLA style with a cover page including the writer's name and contact information.

Please send one copy of the paper (including a one-page abstract with each copy) and one electronic copy saved as a Word .doc file in a format suitable to be sent to a reader anonymously. The journal's Editorial Advisory Board will referee all submissions.

For more information or questions, contact Andrew Scahill at adscahill@mail.utexas.edu. Hard copy submissions are due January 30, 2010, and should be sent to:

The Velvet Light Trap, c/o The Department of Radio-Television-Film,
University of Texas at Austin, CMA 6.118, Mail Code A0800, Austin, TX, 78712

The electronic copy submission is also due on January 30, 2010 and should be sent to Andrew Scahill at adscahill@mail.utexas.edu.

The Velvet Light Trap is an academic, peer-reviewed journal of film and television studies. Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas-Austin alternately coordinate issues. The Editorial Advisory Board includes such notable scholars as Charlie Keil, Dan Marcus, David Desser, David Foster, Michele Malach, Joe McElhaney, Beretta Smith-Shomade, Jason Mittell, Malcolm Turvey, James Morrison, Tara McPherson, Steve Neale, Aswin Punathambekar, Peter Bloom, Sean Griffin, and Michael Williams.

We are inviting paper proposals for the 2010 Annual American Comparative Literature Association Meeting (New Orleans, April 1-4).

Archival Travels / Traveling Archives

* Seminar Organizers: Anne Kingsley, Northeastern U; Aparna Mujumdar, Northeastern U

This seminar focuses on the relation between the archive and travel as represented or imagined in contemporary texts. The archive, defined by many contemporary critics by its etymological root as a “house of record,” suggests that we might explore its geography, the space and place in which the narratives of history and empire are recovered, named, classified, catalogued, measured, valued, processed and produced. The archive is an active site — traveled to and explored — exemplifying what Ann Stoler has recently coined as “ethnography in the archive.” Her use of the term ethnography and the examination of the anthropology of archival practice encourage the connection between archival practice and travel writing in which epistemological systems and classifications of culture, race, gender, and nationality are recorded, examined, mapped and produced. We are interested in these archival mappings as they are explored through contemporary literature, theory, film, and art. More so, we are especially interested in those papers that explore the challenges that emerging discussions of travel, migration, diaspora, creolization and cosmopolitanism pose to archival production, imagination, theory and practice.

Topics might include, but are certainly not limited to:

* Geography of the Archive
* Mapping the Archive
* Archive as Installation/Exhibition
* Gender, Identity and Place in the Archive
* Global Literatures/Global Archives
* Traveling Narrators and the Archive
* Traveler as Archivalist
* Archival travels
* Archive and Empire
* Postcolonial Archives
* Writing Back to the Archive

Proposals must be submitted through ACLA link:

www.acla.org/acla2010

Deadline: November 13, 2009

When submitting a proposal, make sure to select the seminar "Archival Travels/ Traveling Archives" from the drop down list

In a multicultural and multilingual context, immigration has been an integral part of the national identity of Canada.
Modern Canada constitutes of a large percentage of Diasporic population who contribute extensively to the making of Modern Canada. In the wake of globalization, the evolution of Canada as a Multicultural State has been receiving much attention from mass media. This again has been a contested terrain since the settlement of a chosen race in a promised land has resulted into the subjugation of the Peoples who have been residing in the geo-political entity which came later to be known as Canada.
The conference would like to involve in a dialogue between local and global and highlight the concerns within the concept of Multiculturalism in Canada. ""
It would also highlight the dialectical relationship between race, gender and nation in the context of contemporary politics, philosophies and literatures. A focus on the diasporic population of Canada would greatly enhance our understanding of multicultural and multilingual policies vis-à-vis India. By reflecting on the particular regions shaped by multiculturalism in the “Land of Promise”, the conference would explore the ways in which the development of multiculturalism as an official policy of the Canadian government reflects general processes of socio-economic, political, philosophical, ecological and cultural change. By focusing on the diverse ramifications of the same, the conference would stimulate fruitful debates among faculty, scholars, activists and students on an interdisciplinary basis. Papers are invited in all areas relating to the general theme of the conference. Some such areas are listed below:
Diversity, Pluralism, Ethnicity and Tolerance
Citizenship, Identity and Nation
Societies, integration/disintegration, inclusion/exclusion
Glocalisation
The Verbal and the Visual
Literature and Film
Text and Performance
The New Media (Blog/Online journals/ Online networks)
Resistance, Identity, Community
Alternative sexualities
Translation
Metropolis, cities, towns and ruralis

The title and a brief abstract (200-300 words) of the proposed paper may be sent as an email attachment by December 15, 2009 to canadacentreju@gmail.com

Conference Coordinators:

Professor Suchorita Chattopadhyay,
Ms. Debashree Dattaray,
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

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Call for
Papers

With the development of the modern state,
there has been an ongoing tension between the will to control and at the same
time allow free speech to develop. In English-speaking countries, the theme of
“Censorship and Discourse” has been a recurrent concern from the 16th
century to the present day, as the numerous censored publications and writings against
censorship testify.

This conference will focus on three
different aspects of censorship and discourse:

1)      The nature of censorship and the way
in which it reflects the norms and values of the day;

2)      The discourse of censors as
institutions of censorship;

3)      The perception of censorship and the
reactions it entails.

The aim is to bring together specialists from
different disciplines: from the literary and linguistic disciplines to the
human and social sciences. The conference will be organised on a panel basis
and will be in English.

Submissions

We welcome submissions from a broad
range of disciplines: Literature, Philosophy, Linguistics, History, Law,
Political science, Sociology, Anthropology, the Visual Arts, and Economics.
Postgraduates are welcome.

Please send an abstract of up to 250 words,
together with your particulars (names, institutional address, occupational
status, postal and e-mail addresses) to the following e-mail addresses: clairecharlot@wanadoo.fr
and delphine.texier@uhb.fr .

            Submissions
will be examined by the scientific committee and answers given by the end of
December.

The deadline is 15 December 2009.

correction: the journal is open to everyone of all academic/professional levels

   San Joaquin Valley Journal

CFP Guidelines

The San Joaquin Valley Journal is accepting submissions for the Spring 2010 edition.  SJVJ offers a forum for the discussion of literature, critical theory, rhetoric and composition, pedagogy, and issues relevant to teaching in academe.  SJVJ is particularly interested in scholarly essays that engage issues and ideas in connection with the literature and culture of the San Joaquin Valley.  In view of its regional emphasis, SJVJ also welcomes profiles on San Joaquin Valley writers, creative nonfiction, book reviews, faculty interviews, and commentaries related to the southern portion of California’s Central Valley.  The San Joaquin Valley Journal is refereed and publishes two electronic editions a year during the fall and spring. 

Manuscript guidelines:

Submissions must be written in English.  Submissions should be no less than 12 and no longer than 25 pages in length and must include a brief abstract (not to exceed 250 words).  Submissions must use MLA style.  Documents should be double-spaced on 8-1/2 x 11-inch pages with 1-inch margins.  Documents should also use 12 pt. Times New Roman font.  Journal articles must include parenthetical references, a works cited page, and endnotes.

Submissions must include three paper copies.  To facilitate blind review, the author’s name and essay title should appear only on the coversheet.  Submissions are evaluated by members of the SJVJ editorial staff.  Submissions must also include an electronic copy.  Send the electronic copy via email to adorsey@csustan.edu- please type [SJVJCFP]  as the e-mail subject to ensure timely receipt.  Mail  paper submissions to San Joaquin Valley Journal, Department of English, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA 95382.  Submission deadline: January 10, 2010.

Authors retain the copyright to work accepted for publication but grant SJVJ unlimited right to reproduce or publish the work in whole or in part.

San Joaquin Valley Journal

A new journal devoted to the publication of graduate scholarship

CFP Guidelines

The San Joaquin Valley Journal is accepting submissions for the Spring 2010 edition.  SJVJ offers a forum for the discussion of literature, critical theory, rhetoric and composition, pedagogy, and issues relevant to teaching in academe.  SJVJ is particularly interested in scholarly essays that engage issues and ideas in connection with the literature and culture of the San Joaquin Valley.  In view of its regional emphasis, SJVJ also welcomes profiles on San Joaquin Valley writers, creative nonfiction, book reviews, faculty interviews, and commentaries related to the southern portion of California’s Central Valley.  The San Joaquin Valley Journal is refereed and publishes two electronic editions a year during the fall and spring. 

Manuscript guidelines:

Submissions must be written in English.  Submissions should be no less than 12 and no longer than 25 pages in length and must include a brief abstract (not to exceed 250 words).  Submissions must use MLA style.  Documents should be double-spaced on 8-1/2 x 11-inch pages with 1-inch margins.  Documents should also use 12 pt. Times New Roman font.  Journal articles must include parenthetical references, a works cited page, and endnotes.

Submissions must include three paper copies.  To facilitate blind review, the author’s name and essay title should appear only on the coversheet.  Submissions are evaluated by members of the SJVJ editorial staff.  Submissions must also include an electronic copy.  Send the electronic copy via email to adorsey@csustan.edu.  Mail paper submissions to San Joaquin Valley Journal, Department of English, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA 95382.  Submission deadline: January 10, 2010.

Authors retain the copyright to work accepted for publication but grant SJVJ unlimited right to reproduce or publish the work in whole or in part.

Call for Proposals for Kate Chopin Panel for 2010 Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference

The Kate Chopin International Society seeks submissions for a panel for the 2010 conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, slated for 8-11 April in New Orleans, LA.

The 2010 conference’s theme is “Everybody Loves You When You’re Down And South: Cultural Capital in Hard Times” – a full description on the theme is available in the SSSL’s Spring newsletter available at http://web.wm.edu/english/sssl/newsletters/SSSL-Spring2009.pdf?svr=www.

Briefly, the conference theme looks at how “[s]omething called “The South” remains the movie set for a host of familiar fears: about miscegenation, the loss of national identity, economic decline, shifting sexualities, environmental decay, and collapsing infrastructures. But as the rest of the nation catches up, unable to deny being down and out both at home and abroad, the exceptional status of the South seems less exceptional. What can be learned from the ways that the South has been surviving, enduring, and weathering or even overcoming, transforming, and reinventing hard times? Has the South always been selling itself up river in order to survive? How has our co-dependent, perpetual otherness created cultural capital, capital culture, and the culture of capitalism for the nation and the world?”

Some of the topics the conference is interested in might bear particular fruit from exploring Kate Chopin’s work. These include but are not limited to:
•economics and class disparities
•the cultures of poverty and violence
•miscegenated space and cultural production
•ethnic identity as cultural capital
•Afro-Caribbean cultural interchanges
•climate change, hurricanes and weathering hard times
•industrial cultures: oil, fishing, sugar cane, cotton, rice, indigo, chicken, Wal-Mart
•Hollywood South
•tourist souths: Natchez, Nashville, Charleston, New Orleans
•global exchanges: southern music, food, culture, literature around the world
•sharecroppers and other silenced voices
•archeological souths

Please send 150-250 word abstracts by November 1, 2009 to Christina Bucher at cbucher@berry.edu. This deadline will allow us to send the panel proposal to the SSSL by their deadline of November 15, 2009.

Fifteenth Conference On Baseball in Literature in Culture

March 26, 2010

On the campus of Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Keynote Address: Dr. Jim Carothers, U. of Kansas, "Baseball Fictions and Baseball Facts"

Luncheon Speaker: Lee Smith, former Major League pitcher and Hall of Fame candidate. 

TheFifteenth Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture is soliciting 1-2page proposals for presentations to be given at the conference on Friday, March26, 2010. Presenters will have 15-20 minutes. Proposals should summarize thetalk as clearly as possible. The conference theme defines “culture” loosely: inaddition to baseball literature, topics could include aspects of baseballhistory, baseball in painting or music, readings of creative works (fiction,non-fiction essays, poems, plays), and so on. All presentations must follow the15-20 minute format. Statistical analyses of teams and players are not wanted.

Proposalsshould make clear how baseball relates to some aspect of local, ethnic,regional, national or international culture; we are particularly interested inaccepting proposals for multi-disciplinary essays that examine the intersectionof baseball and class in American and global cultures. Presenters of essayscovering this deep, almost intrinsic connection between baseball and class willhave the opportunity to submit papers for a peer-reviewed volume tentativelytitled “Baseball and Class.”

Proposalsshould be sent to Dr. Ron Kates, Department of English, Box 70, MiddleTennessee StateUniversity, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, or by e-mail to rkates@mtsu.edu. Include on the proposalyour name, address, phone number, school affiliation, and e-mail address. Thoseindividuals who choose to e-mail proposals should send a hard copy by post aswell. The deadline for proposals is January 15, 2010. Presenters will benotified of acceptance by January 31, 2010. Conference registration fee is 70dollars (for both presenters and attendees), which may be paid either in personor by mail. 

Religion and the Arts, a peer-reviewed journal from Boston College, is looking for articles on the special topic of JERUSALEM, especially in the city and literature, music, art history, photography, painting, cartography, architecture, film, or other artistic media, from any faith perspective.  Papers are due by May 1, 2010, and will undergo peer review. The special double issue is to be published in early 2011. Please send completed papers to  James Najarian, Editor, at relarts@bc.edu, or by mail at the address on our website: http://www.bc.edu/publications/relarts/

Transnationalism and Minority Travel Writing (12/01/2009; ALA 05/27-30/2010)

Papers are invited for a proposed panel at the 2010 meeting of the American Literature Association in San Francisco (27-30 May, 2010).

Examinations of the politics of travel writing frequently assume that the paradigmatic tourist is white. The figure of the minority traveler or tourist demands that we rethink the structures of power and identity revealed by travel and revisit familiar conventions of travel writing, including the topoi of "home" and "away," the epistemology of the gaze, and the dynamic of "the self discovered in apprehension of the other" (Ashcroft). I seek papers that consider the experience of travel outside of the U.S. for Americans who are members of racial minorities. This panel will focus on extra-national travel in order to examine how the minority traveler's relationship to America is called to light when he or she departs from it, and how the racialized American is received into other national imaginaries. While all relevant proposals are welcome, papers that deal with minority travel that takes the form of "return" to an ancestral or ethnic homeland are particularly encouraged.

Relevant issues may include:

Comparative racisms inside and outside of the U.S.

The construction of the other or the exotic in minority travel writing.

Activist or imperialist implications of minority travel.

"Heritage tourism" and the commodification of the past.

The possibility of transnational coalitions or identifications.

Relationships among minority tourists and other global migrants.

Please send paper proposals of 300 words and a short CV to Professor Lucas Tromly, Department of English, University of Manitoba. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to tromly@cc.umanitoba.ca by 1 December, 2009. Please include contact information and any requests for audio-visual equipment.

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Hybrid Realism?

Several studies over the
last 30 years have troubled the stereotype of realism as monological and
disciplinary. George Levine, in 1981, emphasizes that “realism posits ‘mixed’
conditions,” and he has more recently read certain realist novels as staged
duels between competing epistemologies. Marshall Brown, also in 1981, explains
realist narrative as a product of “interplay” between “Jakobson’s metonymic and
sequential order” and “metaphorical or substitutional order”; as “the ordered
or hierarchical intersection of contrasting codes”; and as “a structure of
ordered negations perceived within the text quite independently of any
relationship between the text and what is assumed to be its ‘world.’” More recently, Lilian Furst has described the realist novel as “a record . . . of a
past social situation and as a
texture made up of verbal signs” which, “far from canceling each other out, . .
. overlap in an inescapable and reciprocally sustaining tension that forms the
core of realism’s precarious enterprise.” Is realism really a clash of
competing codes? Opposed styles of knowledge? Content that challenges form?

This panel proposes a
discussion of realism as a mixture or hybrid form, or as a product of tension
between various codes, epistemologies, or other narrative modes, or even
between content and form. Submissions dealing with realism in the context of
any period, national literature, or genre, are welcome.

For questions, contact Geoff
Baker at gabaker at csuchico.edu. To submit a proposal, please visit http://www.acla.org/acla2010/
and follow instructions for submission.

Criterion:
A Journal of Literary Criticism 

Call for Papers: Undergraduate
and Master’s Students

Deadline: 9 January
2010 

Criterion: A Journal of
Literary Criticism is published by the Department of English at
Brigham Young University in collaboration with the Future Scholars Program.
It is an annual journal dedicated to publishing excellent literary analysis
and criticism produced by undergraduate and master’s students. 

Criterion seeks original,
well-researched, and intellectually rigorous essays written from diverse
critical perspectives and about texts from any time period or literary
tradition. Submissions are peer-reviewed by a selection board at BYU,
and final decisions are made by the journal’s two Editors-in-Chief
in consultation with a faculty advisor. 

Essays may be submitted on
a year-round basis, but Criterion is currently soliciting submissions
for its 2010 issue, scheduled for publication in April of 2010. The
submission deadline for the 2010 issue is 9 January 2010. Essays received
after this deadline will be considered for the 2011 issue.  

Submissions for the general
section should be between 3000 and 6000 words (not including the bibliography).
All submissions should be double-spaced, written in English, and formatted
according the most recent MLA guidelines. Submissions should be sent
as MS Word attachments to byucriterion@gmail.com. The accompanying email—addressed
to the Editors-in-Chief—should include the author’s full name, undergraduate
or graduate institution, current year (i.e. junior, senior, first- or
second-year master’s student), paper title, and contact information
(email, phone number, current address, and permanent address). The email
should also include an affirmation that the submission contains the
author’s original work and is free from plagiarism. 

Criterion encourages
authors to be sensitive to nuances of language and presentation, avoiding
language that exhibits racial, ethnic, and gender bias, and treating
issues of sexuality and violence with sensitivity. 

The contents of Criterion
represent the opinions and beliefs of the authors and not necessarily
those of the editors, staff, advisors, or Brigham Young University. 

This year, editors anticipate
reserving a certain amount of space for essays addressing issues in
comparative ethnic studies. For information on participating in this
special forum, please visit Criterion’s website,
http://english.byu.edu/criterion/home.php, and follow the
“Current Issue” link under the Publications heading. 

Sincerely, 

Kiyomi MacDonald and Chris
McKeen

2009–2010 Editors-in-Chief

First RoundDeadline: November 1, 2009

 AREA: “Lovecame first in my thought, therefore I forgot it naught”: Medieval Love andSexuality in Film and Television

 Medievalliterature includes many depictions of love and sexuality, from religious writingsto historical chronicles, and from mythological tales to genre-inspiringromances. We find similar stories in medieval poetry, such as GeoffreyChaucer’s tale of lost love TheBook of the Duchess, from whichthis area gets its title. These stories provide a wellspring of inspiration forfilmmakers, and their narratorial zeal has reached an apex in the new century.From Antoine Fuqua’s KingArthur (2004) to Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf (2007) on the big screen, and even the BBC’s current Robin Hood program, movies and television programs depictingmedieval stories and heroes have never been more popular. This area seeks tobetter understand our modern fascination with love and sexuality in medievalfilm and television, and its role in our imaginings of medieval history. Inaddition to the many issues directly involved with love and sexuality, paperand panel proposals might enhance their understanding of medieval film andtelevision by analyzing the theoretical framework presented in recentscholarship, such as Nickolas Haydock’s MovieMedievalism: The Imaginary Middle Agesand Kevin J. Harty’s TheReel Middle Ages.

This area,comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers and panel proposals that examineall forms and genres of film and television featuring depictions of medievallove and sexuality. Possibilities include, but are not limited to, thefollowing topics:

•    Modern perceptions of Camelot (Excalibur, FirstKnight, and King Arthur)

•    Sexy temptresses (MontyPython and the Holy Grail, The Other Boleyn Girl, and Angelina Jolie in Beowulf)

•    American and British colonialism projected through medieval film (CecilDeMille’s The Crusades, FirstKnight and Pathfinder)

•    Love and attraction between different social classes and nationalities (The 13th Warrior, AKnight’s Tale, and Kingdom of Heaven)

•    Modern conceptions of medieval patriotic and religious love (El Cid, Braveheart, and TheMessenger)

•    Romance and love in medievalist and fantasy film and television (The Lord of the Rings and TheChronicles of Narnia)

•    Modern recreations of medieval hetero- and homosexuality (PeterGlenville’s Beckett, EdwardII and Braveheart)

•    Connections between love and violence and morality (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and BBC program Robin Hood)

•    Rhetorical and narrative rationale behind the alteration of medievaltexts (Braveheart, Sturla Gunnarson’s Beowulf and Grendel, and Beowulf)

•    Altered parental and matrimonial love, and fabricated love between manand monster in recent Beowulf film adaptations

Please send your200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

Justin T. Noetzel

Department ofEnglish

Saint LouisUniversity

Adorjan Hall Room127

3800 LindellBoulevard

Saint Louis, MO63108

Email: noetzelj@slu.edu  (email submissionspreferred)

Panel proposals for upto four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or herown paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcomingmeeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory). 

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Craft Critique
Culture is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections
among critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the
academy. This year’s conference will explore the dialectical relationship
between the periphery and center, specifically questioning the nature, theory,
practice or role of the periphery.

This year’s keynote presentations
will include Michal Kobialka and Jane Lewty. Michal Kobialka, a Department of
Theatre Arts and Dance professor at University of Minnesota, studies medieval
theatre historiography and postmodern theatre. Recent Writers’ Workshop
graduate Jane Lewty examines the intersection of analytical and expressionistic
prose discourses.

We invite submissions of critical,
theoretical, and original creative work in a variety of media and across the
humanities, sciences, and legal disciplines. In the past, submissions have included not only traditional scholarly
papers but also film, video, music, writing, visual art and artists’ books.

Possible topics include, but are
not limited to:

·        
Postmodernity

·        
New media literature

·        
Avant-garde and
experimental literature, art and film

·        
Marginalia and other book
studies

·        
Subcultures

·        
Subaltern communities

·        
Queer studies

·        
Political radicalism

·        
Politics of marginalization

·        
Extremism

·        
Cults

·        
Border studies

·        
Native American
reservations

·        
Homelessness

·        
Target marketing

·        
Social work

·        
Disability studies

Please submit paper abstracts of no more than 350 words — creative
presentations also accepted. Full panels (featuring three papers) may also be
proposed. Each panel proposal should consist of three paper abstracts and a
brief explanation of the panel’s purpose and relevance to the conference. Each
panel submission should total no more than 1,500 words. Please include name,
institutional affiliation (if applicable), street address, telephone number,
and email address on all abstracts and proposals. Please submit all paper
abstracts or panel proposals to:

Melanie Reichwald
308 English-Philosophy Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

or by email at: melanie-reichwald at uiowa DOT edu.

Submission deadline is December 18,
2009.

Poetry and Voice, a creative and critical conference.

University of Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. Dates: June 25th-June 27th 2010

Deadline for proposals: 1st February 2010

Confirmed keynote readers/speakers: the UK poet laureate, Professor Carol Ann Duffy; poet and co-editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, David Constantine; co-editor of MPT Helen Constantine; modern American war poet, Brian Turner.

In the study and writing of poetry, voice is considered the essence which makes the work live. Critics and editors talk of a ‘distinctive voice’ and of poets ‘finding their voice’. But what is ‘voice’ in poetry? What if a writer inhabits distinctly different voices as in the practice of the dramatic monologue or in the work of a Pessoa or Browning? Where does the voice of poet and subject overlap? How are such voices formed? How does one  ‘find’ one’s voice? And why is the finding of a voice expressed as a sense of discovery?

Furthermore, what is ‘finding one’s voice’?  A matter of identity? And is that identity stylistic, national, ethnic, gendered, age-related? Is it the voice of a generation (as so frequently stated) or a time? What are the pressures of history and culture that create a distinctive voice?

            Poets have often chosen the subject of voice itself as their material, the physicality or echoing of a voice (voice and memory, as in Hardy’s ‘The Voice’). What is the relationship between voice and silence; between giving voice and enforced silences? (e.g. in the work of Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Ritsos and Ovid). How does the voice of the poet reveal yet conceal?

            War poets conjure with their right, or not, to use the language of an invaded country. What choices do we make in employing voices and language not our own, whether in translation or in our own poetry?

            And what of the lyric voice? All three of our confirmed guest poets employ the lyric voice to great effect. The lyric voice is ambiguous, both our own and not our own voice.

            This creative and critical conference is open to academics and poets who would like to reflect on voice in poetry either through reading their own work, giving a paper, or, as is appropriate with so many poets now working in the academy, by giving a hybrid reading/presentation, where they read some of their own work and reflect on the use or influences of voice.

            Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-       dramatic monologues or riddles

-       the lyric voice

-       the physical manifestation of voice in poetry e.g. timbre, sound, style, song

-       finding one’s voice, the losing of a voice

-       writing in many voices

-       forgotten voices

-       page and stage voices, recorded and live voices

-       the voices of the landscape or city

-       the voices of war or peace

-       dialect voices, marginal voices

-       voice and style

-       voice and identity

-       intertextual use of voices

-       international voices

-       translating voice

-       voice themed workshop proposals

Please send one of the following:

a 250 word proposal for a twenty minute paper; a 500 word proposal for a forty minute lecture; a selection of 4-6 poems on the topic and a writer’s c.v. of not more than 500 words; a proposal of 250 words outlining the nature of your hybrid reading/presentation and four poems;a proposal of 250 words outlining your specific workshop idea and how you would run it.

Send to the conference convenor Stephanie Norgate, s.norgate@chi.ac.uk , and write ‘Poetry and Voice’ in the subject line. Please use an RTF or Word attachment. Proposals will be vetted by a conference committee of practising poets and academics.

We hope to publish a book length anthology of creative, critical and hybrid pieces on poetry and voice.

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ACLA ANNUAL MEETING 2010

“CREOLES, DIASPORAS,
COSMOPOLITANISM”

New Orleans, LA

April 1-4, 2010

Conference website: http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=117

Seminar Topic:  Expanding US Latinidad or

What’s new about
the “New” Latin@ Diasporas?

Acknowledging the
invaluable corpus of research on Chican@, Cuban American, Mexican American, and
Puerto Rican communities, this panel seeks to expand and deepen our
understanding of the Latin@ diaspora and is preferably
looking for contributions on “other“
Latin@ communities of Caribbean, Central, and South American origins such as
Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Panamanian,
Salvadorian, Venezuelan Americans, of among others, African, Arabic, Asian, Eastern European, Jewish, and indigenous
ancestries. Comparative papers on varieties of Spanglish(es) and
literary works in Spanglish are also most welcome.

Papers might equally address the
following issues: 

-         
What are the benefits and/or limitations of attempts to
label Latin@s of Caribbean, Central and South American ancestry “Alterlatinos”
(McClennen), “new Latin@s,” or “the Other Latinos” (Falconi and Mazzotti)?

-         
How have these “alter,” “Other,” “new” Latin@ diaporic
groups influenced US American culture? To what extent have they transformed the
cultures/politics/social practices of their countries of origin?

-         
What is the position of Brazilians, Guyanese, Haitians,
Portuguese, Spaniards, and persons of Spanish ancestry within US
Latin@/Hispanic discourse?  How do these
extraordinarily diverse peoples, who to a substantial extent are perceived as
Latin@s/Hispanics in the US
popular imagination, challenge, redefine, or reify US Latinidad?

This section seeks to have
contributions from as wide a variety of disciplinary backgrounds as possible
and encourages submissions from history, literary history, linguistics, music,
dance, sculpture, painting, political science, sociology, anthropology, and
other fields.

Deadline for Paper
Proposals: November 13, 2009

Send inquires relating to this seminar to Luz Angélica
Kirschner, lak273@gmail.com

or luz_a.kirschner@uni-bielefeld.de

Second Call for Proposals

Edited Collection

Linguistics & the Study of Comics 

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Scholars are invited to submit their work on the linguistic study of the comic arts. The chapters in this edited collection will focus on the ways that linguistic codes function in comics. Any aspect of linguistic theory and analysis is welcome, and all submissions should appeal to both comics scholars and linguists. All forms of comics will be considered: graphic novels, comic strips, comic books, on-line comics, videos, etc. Scholarship in non-English and multilingual comics is especially encouraged.

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 Possible topics for this edited collection

pidgin/creole studies * politeness theory * conversation analysis * language variation * speech act   theory * bilingual/multilingual texts * intercultural communication * language & gender * language & sexuality * code switching * phonology * morphology * syntax * semantics * corpus linguistics * cognitive linguistics * interactional sociolinguistics * standard/prestige language * language policy * language & ethnicity/race * constructed languages * critical discourse analysis * language socialization * language death * language preservation *

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 Contributor Guidelines

·      Send an abstract of 400-500 words.

·      Send a one-page tailored curriculum vitae for each author and co-author. (Narrative CVs are fine.)

·      Submit abstracts and CVs as Word or Word-compatible files. PDFs are also acceptable.

·      Submission deadline: Monday 16 November 2009.

·      Materials should be sent to Frank Bramlett via email <fbramlett at unomaha dot  edu>.

31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010

Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association

http://swtxpca.org/

Submission Deadline: 12/01/09, Priority RegistrationDeadline 12/15/09

Conference Hotel:

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

330 Tijeras

Albuquerque, NM 87102

505.842.1234

Papers are now being accepted on topics related toEuropean popular culture and literature. All approaches and time periods are welcome. 

Scholars, teachers, professionals, and others interestedin European popular culture and literature are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities forbest graduate papers. 

If you wish to form your own panel, please contact mewith information on the panel and a list of participants.   Please share this CFP with colleagues.

Please send a short curriculum vitae and a 250-350 wordabstract or/and panel proposal to mjonet@nmsu.eduor to the physical address below by 01 December 2009. 

Dr. M. Catherine Jonet, European Popular Culture andLiterature Area Chair

MSC 3WSP

New Mexico State University

P.O. Box 30001

Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

We are inviting paper proposals for an accepted seminar at the 2010 Annual American Comparative Literature Association Meeting (New Orleans, April 1-4).

The Creolization of Myth: Between Interculturation and Remediation

• Seminar Organizers: Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Utrecht U; Liedeke Plate, Radboud U Nijmegen

Myth, defined as a culturally central story that is told and retold, lends itself particularly well to creolization. This creolization, today, inevitably involves new media and technologies, which then contribute to the articulation of new diasporic and/or cosmopolitan grammars of identity and vocabularies for the self. How does the creolization of myth, the intercultural rewriting of myth and its incorporation of heterogenous elements, affect contemporary formations of national, social, and cultural identities? And what roles do remediation and the mixing of media play in these identities? This panel seeks to explore the creolization of myth in a novel way as a dynamic of interculturation and remediation at the same time: myths circulate not only in-between different cultures (and changing constantly as a result of that circulation), but also in-between different media that profoundly affect their vitality and “longevity.” Indeed, since myths typically have no stable, authorial, and medial origin they have always already been creolized. We are particularly interested in papers addressing creolizations of the myth of (old) Europe, migrant rewritings of local myths, Canongate’s series The Myths. We also welcome papers looking at contemporary rewritings of ancient myths through the lens of “the creole.”

Proposals are to be submitted through the ACLA website: www.acla.org/acla2010
Deadline for Paper Proposals: November 13, 2009 

When submitting a proposal, be sure to select the correct title of the seminar to which you are applying in the dropdown menu immediately following the field for the proposal text.

For more information, contact: Kiene Brillenburg Wurth <C.A.W.BrillenburgWurth[at]uu.nl> and/or Liedeke Plate <l.plate[at]let.ru.nl> 

Tenth Annual EGSA Conference at

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"That Which Moves: The Kinetic Nature of Language and Literature"  

January 29th, 2010 ● 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

~Ovid, 43 B.C.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

~George Meredith, 19th Century Novelist                

Nothing at all of this is fixed.               

Each element [is] able to move, to stir, to oscillate, to come and go in its relationships with the other elements in its universe.                                               

~Alexander Calder, 20th Century Sculptor

The theory of kinetic art emerges from the notion that all the components of a sculpture are moved by its environment, the artist, or the viewer.  Like kinetic art, language and literature are also defined through dynamic movement, as their reflexive relationships present the motions of a dialectic: a discourse which both challenges and responds to its own queries. In the same manner that one sees the motion of time—actions of the past reflected and transformed by the movements of the present—one may see the motion of language and literature, as theories and meta-narratives of the present constantly shape and change how we interpret knowledge. In Calder’s words, “Nothing at all of this is fixed.”   

The 10th Annual EGSA Conference invites submissions from all areas of English studies, including literature, linguistics, creative writing, rhetoric and composition, and technical writing. Although we encourage a wide variety of interpretations for our theme, the following topics represent acceptable—but certainly not exhaustive—explorations of “The Kinetic Nature of Language and Literature”: 

·         How ideological shifts in history are represented through literary works

·         How the perceptions and interpretations of fictional worlds  has changed over time

·         How the relationship between language and literature has transformed through the ages

·         How linguistic theory has progressed or changed throughout history

·         How the concept of “literary genre” has been perceived throughout various periods

 ·         How political and historical movements are represented in literary works

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We ask that you please submit an abstract or synopsis of approximately 300 words to egsa@uncc.edu no later than December 18, 2009.  Abstracts and synopses should be sent as an MS Word attachment with “EGSA Conference” in the subject line of the e-mail.  All submissions should include the presenter’s name, the presenter’s affiliated university, and the title of the piece. 
 

UNCC Department of English
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28213

Trauma and Narrative: Intersections Among Narrative Study, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis

While trauma and narrative are older than human history, complex understandings of trauma are fairly recent.  In recent years trauma studies has become important to diverse fields.  Literary and cultural studies examine how narratives of trauma express political oppression, political conflict and symbolic forms for ethnic or national identity.  Narratives that testify to trauma may offer a healing or organizing response to pain, but may also inflict traumatic and disorganizing effects for both individuals and political communities.  Psychoanalysis examines the registration and fate of traumatic experience in the mind and body, as subject to processes of repression, dissociation, and foreclosure, as it also examines the fate of these processes in producing specific symptoms and effects on personality. In recent decades, in treatment of traumatized persons, the co-construction of healing narratives has come to the fore as a key to recovery from trauma. Neuroscience is mapping the neuronal links of the traumatized brain and is examining how distorted mind/brain interactions influence behavior after traumatic experience.  Researchers in many fields argue that trauma induces demonstrable functional changes in the brain and induces, as well, functional changes in the cultural fields responding to traumatic events.  These changes, however, are observed and defined differently in specific fields; normally these fields do not exchange information across disciplinary boundaries.  This conference will invite different scholars to share new research and explore how different definitions and perspectives on trauma can cross clinical and departmental boundaries.  Our goal is to encourage a more nuanced and global understanding of trauma and its effects.  

On November 4-6, 2010, the departments of English, Psychiatry, and Human Science at The George Washington University, in association with the Washington Psychoanalytic Society, will host a set of speakers examining trauma as it is understood in neuroscience, psychoanalysis and the humanities.  Particular attention will be given to papers that examine intersections among cultural, historical, literary, and neuroscientific understandings of trauma narratives.  Keynote speakers include Francoise Davoine and Jean Max Gaudilliere, Cathy Caruth, Jack Lindy, Fred Alford. Moderators experienced in facilitating group discussion across separate disciplines will chair panels and encourage cross disciplinary discussion.

We invite papers that examine intersections among these disciplines as well as papers that present findings from a particular discipline in language understandable to those in others. Submissions may be in the form of either individual papers, which we will group into three-person panels (with each paper presentation to last a maximum of twenty minutes), or proposals from a three-person panel of presenters who would like to coordinate their submission. Abstracts submitted by December 1, 2009, will be acknowledged, and final decisions regarding acceptance will be made by January 20, 2010.  Send a 250-word abstract to Natalie Carter at gwu.trauma@gmail.com.