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Florida English 
Call for Submissions


For the eighth annual issue of Florida English, the editors invite submissions dealing with the theme: Italian-Americana. Ideas for critical articles might include individual literary works by Italian-American authors or directors, films, etc, and the influence of these in shaping genres or the identities of the country at large, communities, or individuals. One might consider the issues of immigration, assimilation, tradition or the loss of tradition, religion, or food.

In addition, Florida English is also looking for original pieces of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction that are rooted in Italian-Americana or explore any facet thereof (see ideas above).

The deadline for Receipt of submissions is April 15, 2010.

Submission guidelines:

· Send up to five poems and/or one each: short story, creative nonfiction, or critical essay on both paper and CD (or other electronic format that is not a floppy disk) saved in Microsoft Word or RTF to the appropriate editor (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or critical essay) to:

Florida English
c/o Department of Language and Literature
State College of Florida
5840 26th Street West
Bradenton, Florida 34207

· For all submissions, please include a cover sheet and a brief bio. for the contributor’s page on both paper and electronic format saved in Microsoft Word or RTF with your name, address, phone number, email address, institutional affiliation (if you have one), and the title(s) of your poems, story, nonfiction piece, or essay.

· Because we rely on blind submission judging, do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript.

· Do not send simultaneous submissions or previously published work. We’re serious.

· Follow current MLA guidelines for critical essay submissions and formatting. Please use endnotes instead of footnotes.

· Submissions must arrive by April 15, 2010.

Manuscripts will be recycled; contributors will be notified of acceptance status via email at the completion of the reading period (near the end of August, 2010).

Payment upon publication is one copy of Florida English. Additional copies of current issues may be purchased at a special contributor’s rate of $7.

Interviews/Reviews:

Florida English is also interested in publishing interviews and book reviews. Anyone interested in having a book reviewed or writing a review or interview should contact one of the editors at the above address (noting “Attn: Review” or “Attn: Interview”) or by emailing ruffnec@scf.edu; grienej@scf.edu; or mckeer@comcast.net with “Attn Review” in the subject line so that you can receive the review/interview guidelines.

Florida English: http://www.flacea.org/FLENG/FloridaEnglish1.htm

"Writing Our Hope" is a bi-annual literary journal of creative nonfiction and poetry that publishes student work on themes of tolerance and equality. Submitted works should have a hopeful tone, focusing on solutions and possibilities in the present and future, rather than only a description or cataloguing of injustices in the past or present. In its first two years, "Writing Our Hope" has published the work of high school students, but it is now expanding to include works by college undergraduates, ages 17-24, and their professors.

For submission guidelines on how college undergraduates may submit writings individually, see http://www.writingourhope.org/guidelines-college.html.

For information on how a professor may submit a body of student work for publication in a Supplement, see http://www.writingourhope.org/teachers.html

"Writing Our Hope" is a project of the creative writing program at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School, a public arts magnet high school in Montgomery, Alabama. The project was funded in its inception by a Teaching Tolerance grant from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Conference Theme:
Voices

“And in my voice most welcome shall you be.” As You Like It 2:4.87

San Antonio. Images of the River Walk merge with the memories of its most famous location, the Alamo. Remember it, the voices from the past call out, and we do.

Those voices on opposing sides of its walls, representing Santa Anna and Sam Houston, spoke for two distinctly diverse cultures. And within those cultures were voices and texts that influenced the actions during that struggle – significant cultural markers of time, place, and being.

Before and after the struggle there, writers everywhere have reflected and influenced the events of their day, and from their experience, the great writers have created texts that have become ageless connections to what is past, or passing, or to come.

Their voices also call for us to acknowledge or recognize beauty or to realize or remember significant lessons – perhaps via a character like Professor Farber from Fahrenheit 451 or a place like a raft on a river in Huckleberry Finn – with an urgency no less than the Alamo’s. This correspondence we find within ourselves is our human condition – but it is the capacity to listen for and to those whose message or memory is unlike our own that makes us scholars. Our voices blend with those we admire or abhor – creating a text, which (if it stands the test of taste and time) will blend with still other voices, like those of our students, newly discovering “a peak in Darien” – all wishing to be heard and remembered.

In the shadow of San Antonio’s famous symbol of voices that call for attention and allegiance, College English Association asks you to submit papers on any aspect of the following topics:

Native Voices Giving Voice
Voices in Poetry, Fiction, Drama Voice in Oral Literatures
Voices from the Center Poet as Sayer; Poet as Voice-giver
Voice (lessness) as Power Vox Populi
Composition and Voice Voices of the Home
Oral Interpretation of literature Voice as Speech
Digital Voices Voices of Deception
Voices in the Wilderness Voices of Joy
Voice studies Voices as Vocalizations
Voices of the Folk Voices in Material Culture
Voices of Praise Voices of Protest
Voice in Curricula, Courses, & Programs

General Program
In addition to our conference theme, we also invite scholars, teachers, and graduate students to submit papers that address any topic relevant to our profession, including English, American, or World literature; film studies, women’s studies, and multicultural studies; pedagogical approaches: class discussion, online courses, computers and technology, teacher education, ESL; composition and rhetoric; creative writing; popular culture; as well as those topics that relate to our lives as academics: student advising,; grade inflation; assessment techniques (for student and teacher); administrative posts and service positions; or anything relating to the changing identity of the English department: how it is perceived, appreciated, or utilized by the university.

Submission Instructions

Submit proposals online at www2.widener.edu/~cea

Electronic submissions open on August 21 and close on November 1, 2009. Abstracts for proposals should be between 200 and 500 words in length and should include a title.

If proposing a panel with multiple speakers, organizers must create user IDs and submissions for each participant. If you are willing to serve as a session chair or respondent for a panel other than your own, please indicate so on your submission.

Though we prefer to receive proposals through the conference database, CEA will accept hard copy proposals postmarked starting August 21, 2009, but no later than October 21. Include the following information for each proposed participant:

Name and institutional affiliation
Mailing address
Email address
Title and abstract of 200-500 words
Audio-visual equipment needs
Special needs

Address paper submissions to:
Karen Lentz Madison, CEA Program Chair
331 Kimpel Hall
Department of English
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Important Information for Presenters
• If you need audio-visual equipment, please specify your needs as clearly as possible. CEA can provide overhead projectors, DVD players, audio tape/CD players, and computer data projectors (presenters must bring their own laptop computers to run data projectors.). CEA cannot provide Internet access.
• To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits all presentations to 15 minutes.
• Papers must be presented in English
• Notifications of proposal status will be sent around December 5th.
• All presenters must join CEA by January 1, 2010, to appear on the program.
• No person may make more than one presentation at the conference.
• Each presenter must make his or her own presentation; no proxies are allowed.
• CEA does not sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs.

Questions?
• For CEA 2010 program questions, contact Karen Madison, CEA 1st VP, at cea.English@gmail.com (put “Program Chair” on the subject line).
• For membership questions, contact Joseph Pestino, CEA Treasurer –Membership Center, Department of English, Nazareth College of Rochester, 245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618; phone (585-389-2645); cea.english@gmail.com (put “Treasurer” in the subject line).
• For general conference questions, contact Charles A.S. Ernst, Executive Director –CEA Headquarters, Department of Arts and Sciences, Hilbert College, 5200 South Park Avenue, Hamburg, NY 14075; phone (716-649-7900, ext. 315); cernst@hilbert.edu
• For technical questions, contact Miles Kimball, CEA President at cea.english@gmail.com (put “Technical” in the subject line).

CEA Awards
Conference presenters may be eligible for awards, such as the James R. Bennett Award for Literature and Peace or the Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award.

Special Topics
Academic Leadership During the “Big” Squeeze: The Budget Vice
Academic Leadership: Open Topic
Afro-Caribbean Literature
American Lit: early, 19th-century, 20th-century, African-American
Anatomy of Violence in Literature: Examining Conflict (NYCEA)
Anglophone Literature
Anniversaries & Commemorations
The Blackfriars Panel (American Shakespeare Center)
Book History and Textual Criticism (Rare Book School)
British Lit.: Medieval, Renaissance, 18th-century, 20th century
Children’s and Adolescent Literature
Close Reading [all issues around it] (NYCEA)
Composition and Rhetoric
Creative Writing: Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction
Film and Literature
Food and Literary Imagination
Graduate Student Concerns
Literature and Medicine and the Healing Arts
Hispanic, Latino, and Chicano Literature
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Writing and Literature (NYCEA)
Literature and Law/Literature and Criminal Justice (NYCEA)
Literature Pedagogy
Multicultural Literature
Native American Literature
Peace
Pennsylvania CEA
Pop Culture
Reconciliation in/and Literature (NYCEA)
Religion and Literature
Representing the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature (NYCEA)
The Sea at CEA
The Short Story
Teacher Education
Technical Communication (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing)
Thomas Merton (International Thomas Merton Society)
Trauma and Literature
War and Literature
Women’s Connection
World Literature

Note to Graduate Students
Graduate students must identify themselves in their proposals so we may later send information about CEA’s Best Graduate Student Paper Award (which carries a small prize). Submission instructions will be sent to accepted panelists after the membership deadline.

The UCSB Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is seeking submissions for the 2010 Music and the Written Word Graduate Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on 16-17 January 2010. Run by and geared towards graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on music, the written word, and their convergence. We welcome submissions covering the full spectrum of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and all genres of music.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Relationship between music and text
* Text setting
* Musical criticism
* Representations of music in literature and poetry
* Notation and transcription
* Music inspired by literature or poetry
* Music in print media
* Musical poetics
* Music as language/language as music

* Rhetoric and musical practice
* Musical analogy
* Music and grammar
* Music and worship/liturgy
* Language in performance practice
* Concrete words, "ineffable" music
* Music and political speech
* Music and code (C Sound, etc.)

Please send a 200-300-word abstract of your paper to musicandthewrittenword@gmail.com no later than 9 October 2010. Include the abstract as both a file attachment and in the email text. Paper presentations will be allotted twenty minutes, with ten additional minutes for questions and answers.

Details regarding the keynote address are forthcoming.

The journal “Jura Gentium Cinema” (www.jgcinema.org) is seeking reviews (between 5000 and 10000 words) for the following movies:

1) “Amreeka” by Cherien Dabis (AKA "Amerrika" (Fr)). Muna (Nisreen Faour), a divorced Palestinian woman, leaves the West Bank with Fadi (Melkar Muallem), her teenaged sun, to the city of Illinois. Both mother and son hope to start a new life in America but go through a difficult transition. Fadi must adapt to the hallways and classrooms of his new high school. And Muna must keep up with the pace cooking hamburgers at a local White Castle.

2) “Gamer” by Mark Neveldine (AKA “Ultimate Game” (Fr)). Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called "Slayers" looks to regain his independence while taking down the game's mastermind (Hall).

3) “The Time that Remains” by Elia Souleiman (AKA “Le temps qu'il reste” (Fr)). An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

4) “Capitalism: A Love Story” by Michael Moore. On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me, Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).

5) “Darbareye Elly” by Asghar Farhadi (AKA “About Elly” (USA), “À propos d'Elly” (Fr)). It's a story about three Iranian families who are traveling to North of Iran in order that they can introduce the teacher of one of these families daughters to one of their divorced friends who's coming from Germany to Iran but everything changes when the young teacher (Elly) disappears and no one knows if she's still alive or not?

6) “London River” by Rachid Bouchareb. After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks.

The review should be informative and evaluative, without being dismissive: that is, the reviewer should find some value in the work being reviewed.

Reviews in French, Spanish, Italian are welcome as well.

Please contact prof. Filippo Del Lucchese (f.dellucchese@gmail.com) for submissions.

Jura Gentium Cinema
www.jgcinema.org

Submissions are invited for publication in “Re-imagining Africa: Creative Crossings” edited by Simon Gikandi (sgikandi@Princeton.EDU) and Jane Wilkinson (fjwilkinson@alice.it). In its first issue devoted specifically to Africa, Anglistica opens to creative writing and artworks. The issue will include words, sounds and images by African artists, alongside interviews, theory and criticism. Deadline for completed articles: 28 February 2010.
Anglistica is an online peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Details at http://www.anglistica.unior.it. Articles, interviews, images, books for review and reviews should be sent to the editors (addresses above) and cc to anglistica@unior.it. All material submitted for consideration must comply with the journal’s guidelines (pdf available at http://www.anglistica.unior.it/content/forthcoming).
Contributions should be in English and should normally be between 5.000 and 7.000 words.

Submissions are invited for publication in “Violence in Paradise: the Caribbean” edited by Irline François (ifrancoi@goucher.edu) and Marie-Hélène Laforest (m.laforest@alice.it). “A Theatre of Violence Behind a Curtain of Paradise” is the title of an essay by Michelle Cliff which will appear in this issue. Paradise reconfigured as a site of abuse and violence refers to the Caribbean. Contributions should aim at exploring the way violence lingers in the memory of Caribbean women, the innovative ways they have found to tell their stories, and how their narrations help re-create a sense of self. Deadline: 15 December 2009.
Anglistica is an online peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Details at http://www.anglistica.unior.it. Articles, interviews, images, books for review and reviews should be sent to the editors and cc to anglistica@unior.it. All material submitted for consideration must comply with the Anglistica guidelines available in pdf at http://www.anglistica.unior.it/content/forthcoming.
Contributions should be in English and should normally be between 5.000 and 7.000 words.

Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity, a national journal published by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the Frederick Douglass Institute Collaborative, welcomes the submission of academic essays from any discipline, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction essays that explore cultural diversity issues for our spring 2010 issue. The deadline for this “general topic” issue is December 1, 2009. See our website at http://organizations.bloomu.edu/connect/ for more information about the journal and for recent issues. We prefer electronic submissions at connect@bloomu.edu. Manuscripts should conform to citation methods as described in the current MLA Handbook. Manuscripts will be peer- reviewed, and authors will be notified in two to three months.

The sixth biennial conference on Robert Louis Stevenson will be held 8-10 July 2010, at the University of Stirling (scene of the first conference in 2000).

This return to a Scottish starting-point may invite attention to origins and locality, but the restless motion of Stevenson’s writing exerts a different pressure. Our conference theme of Locating Stevenson is concerned with charting this motion rather than fixing Stevenson’s co-ordinates; with orientating, rather than merely positioning, his work within the fields of literary genre, period, movement and genealogy, for example, and within debates about nation, tradition, place and identity. This shift from the map to the compass seems suited to the mobility of Stevenson’s own writing and life.

Full details of the conference (including the social programme and registration details) can be found at the conference website below. Please submit your proposal by 1 March 2010.

http://www.rls2010.stir.ac.uk/

AlterNative is announcing a general call for papers to be published in Volume 6, 2010.

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. It aims to present Indigenous worldviews from native Indigenous perspectives. It is dedicated to the analysis and dissemination of native Indigenous knowledge that uniquely belongs to cultural, traditional, tribal and aboriginal peoples as well as first nations, from around the world.

Submissions responding to this general call for papers should relate to one or more of themes of the journal:

• Origins
• Place
• Peoples
• Community
• Culture
• Traditional and oral history
• Heritage
• Colonialism
• Power
• Intervention
• Development
• Self-determination

AlterNative particularly encourages Indigenous scholars to contribute submissions. Specialists and practitioners working on Indigenous issues are also welcome.

Submission and Deadlines
AlterNative primarily publishes substantive articles (up to 7000 words) that address a particular indigenous topic or theme. Each article should include a 100 -150 word abstract. Please visit our website for complete author guidelines and our online submission portal.

We also publish short, timely commentaries (up to 3500 words) that address critical issues, reviews of Indigenous books and edited volumes, and we aim to include one article published in a native language in each issue. Please contact us directly if you are interested in authoring these types of article.

We accept submission throughout the year through our online portal; however, for consideration in our first general issue of 2010, articles should reach us no later than 31st December 2009.
For all the details, author, please visit our website www.alternative.ac.nz. Or contact us directly on editors@alternative.ac.nz.

Please note: All submissions will be subject to our peer-review process and that the Editors retain the discretion at all stages of the publications process to accept or reject an article.

For the Spring 2011 special issue,INTERTEXTS invites interdisciplinary submissions on the topic of The Politics of Gay Identity. Essays might address (but are not limited to) such topics as racial politics and sexual orientation; theater and the performance of gay identity; AIDS, privacy, and literary biography; and rhetorical expressions of identity conflict. INTERTEXTS publishes articles that employ innovative approaches to explore relations between literary and other texts. Hybrid methodologies that combine elements from a range of disciplines are featured. Essays (25-40 pages) should employ MLA documentation style and be submitted electronically to the guest editor in Rich Text Format before May 1, 2010.

ROMANIAN CULTURE IN THE GLOBAL AGE

Workshop organized within the Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Str. Pitar Mos 7-13, Room Mark Twain
October 31, 2009, 9 a.m.
as part of the project Romanian Cultural Space in Transatlantic Perspective,
Center of American Studies, University of Bucharest
Project director: Prof. dr. Rodica Mihaila

In the Preface to his 1998 collection of essays The Cultures of Globalization, suggestively subtitled Post-Contemporary Interventions, Fredric Jameson describes globalization as a phenomenon that “reflects the sense of an immense enlargement of world communication, as well as of the horizon of a world market, both of which seem far more tangible and immediate than in earlier stages of modernity.” While the underlying force of globalization is the expansion of market economy, with multinational companies and international chains rapidly expanding, and outsourcing becoming the main profit-bouncing strategy, the social (as well as political and cultural) impact of globalization most visibly consists, in Anthony Giddens’ words in The Consequences of Modernity (1990) of “the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.”
By 2005, in Arjun Appadurai’s view as expressed in an article in his edited volume entitled simply Globalization, globalization had become a phenomenon with such wide implications that it had come to be perceived as a source of anxiety in the U. S. academic world (which has always led the theorizing discourse around the concept, given the American origin of the phenomenon), mainly due to the difficulty to conceptualize a “world without borders.” Postcolonial critics – such as Sankaran Krishna in Globalization and Postcolonialism, 2008 – show worry as globalization, initially perceived as an effective decolonization strategy, has posed real neocolonizing threats in more recent years as the world economic system has promoted exploitation of cheaper labor force in formerly colonized countries. This threat is certainly expanding in postcommunist Eastern Europe and has increased with EU accession and the easier circulation of labor force. If this intensification of communication at a distance, facilitated by the spectacular development of the Internet, was beginning to change Jameson’s “post-contemporary” world as early as the nineties, Eastern Europe – which in the nineties was struggling with the hardest phase of post-communist transition to a real market economy, with consequences that have still not entirely overcome the stage of savage capitalism – actually started to be part of the global world only after 2000, when EU accession became a valid promise and then a fact.
How does this increasingly fast flow of information and long-distance communication affect a country like Romania, whose visibility has increased dramatically since the country has been more part of the contemporary global world as a result of NATO and EU accession? How has the awareness of being part of the global world and participating in its current debates changed the way in which Romanian culture imagines and reinvents itself as it becomes increasingly freer from the mental manacles bequeathed by the communist regime, whose presence still makes itself felt in everyday life? How does the local/global dialectic intrinsic to the global world affect the re-shaping of a Romanian cultural identity?

We invite 20-minute presentations in English (to be later developed into 4000-5000-word articles for possible publication) along (but not limited to) the following topics:

- Romanian academia and the globalization debate
- Romania between postcommunism, postcolonialism and the global world
- Romanian literature and film as spaces of reflection for the country’s increased visibility in today’s global world
- The culture of the Romanian diaspora (with an emphasis on, but not limited to, the Romanian American diaspora)
- The role of printed media and the Internet in encouraging the fast flow of information and communication between Romania and the world
- Romanian labor force in the global world as reflected in the media, literature and film
- Romanian cultural institutions and the promotion of Romanian culture abroad
- Global/glocal effects of EU accession as seen from Romania

Please send 150-200 word abstracts to romanianculture1@yahoo.com by October 15, 2009.
The selected articles will be published in a separate volume. Should participation in the workshop be an issue, articles can be submitted directly in a final version to be considered for publication by December 1, 2009.

Home/sickness: Desire, Decay, and the Seduction of Nostalgia

The University of Florida’s 9th annual English Graduate Organization conference will explore nostalgia, focusing on the contradictory relations among desires for recovered pasts as well as deliberate attempts to manipulate the present through representations of the past. Of particular interest will be the extent to which both nostalgia and the desire for utopia are linked to historical trauma, as textual manifestations of an extratextual cause.

For full CFP see http://www.english.ufl.edu/ego/conference09/index.html

We welcome both creative and critical presentations on a variety of topics dealing with any aspect of nostalgia: desire, the past, representation, notions of home/identity. Please submit an abstract of 250 words to ego09atuf@gmail.com by September 28th. If accepted, plan on a presentation of 15 minutes. This year's conference will be held on November 12th and 13th, with a keynote speaker (TBC) on Friday evening with a reception to follow.

This panel will examine redefinitions of masculinity that challenge and intersect with global and national relations. Since conceptions of British masculinity had been shaped by a longstanding culture of empire and its agenda, the shift from an imperial to a decolonized Britain and the impact of the World Wars make the 20th-century a particularly ripe period for inquiries into concomitant reformulations of masculinity in popular culture and literature.Genres may include adventure tales, comics, war/espionage fiction, graphic novels, sci-fi, fantasy, and film. Please submit a 300 word abstract to mcartt@sage.edu.

Department of Comparative Literature
The Graduate Center - City University of New York

Call for Papers

Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference:
The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation
February 25th-26th, 2010

Keynote: Peter Brooks (Yale University)

Pain has always occupied a problematic space in any discipline investigating the human condition. The question of how to manage the unmediated experience of pain in the face of the social and ethical imperative to communicate it has spawned countless theories of and approaches to pain itself and its representation. This conference seeks to foster dialogue between a broad range of approaches to pain and suffering, including medical-scientific investigations of the neurological processes involved in the experience of pain, socio-historical analyses of the connection between individual pain and collective trauma and literary/linguistic inquiries into the possibilities and limitations of a poetics of pain. Theorists and thinkers will include, among others, Jean Amery, Elaine Scarry, Sade, Sacher-Masoch, Deleuze, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Ballard, Mirbeau and Kafka.

How can the ineffable sensation of physical torment be conveyed by its sufferer, or acknowledged by the other? How is individual suffering converted into collective experience? How, in turn, is an individual’s experience of pain socially determined? How do the varying discourses of pain bring the sufferer into contact with the world and break down the barriers between self and other? What are the conceptual mechanisms that guide our understanding of this physiological experience?

We invite papers from all disciplines approaching the subject from a variety of critical perspectives that explore the ways in which pain is articulated, narrativized, framed, interpreted, subjectivized, and imbued with meaning.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Torture, War
• Illness Narratives
• Medical and Diagnostic Language of Pain
• Sadomasochism - from Rousseau and de Sade to LGBT “Leather Scenes”
• Biopolitics
• Animality and Humanism
• Martyrdom and Religious Representations of Suffering
• Theaters of Cruelty
• Politicization of Pain and Collective Accounts of Past Suffering
• Violence and Politics
• Survivor Memoirs
• Victims of Crime and Assault
• Trauma and Testimony
• Physical Suffering in Light of the Cartesian Mind/Body Problem
• Religious and Secular Theodicies
• Victimhood, Voice and Agency
• Desire, pain and subjectivity.
• Technologies of Punishment
• Bioethics

Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by November 10th to painconference@gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional and departmental affiliation. We also welcome panel proposals (3-4 papers).
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309

S A R G A S S O
25th Anniversary Issue: 25 Interviews
Call for Interviews
suggested abstract deadline November 15, 2009
submission deadline February 1, 2010

Sargasso, A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture is currently accepting interviews to be published in an upcoming 25th anniversary issue. The special issue, which marks two and a half decades of the journal’s existence, will include 25 interviews with activists, artists, community leaders, researchers, writers, and others who are in or have links to the Caribbean. Contributors are asked to creatively explore ways in which the interview can complement the celebration of this anniversary. The editors suggest that it offers ample opportunity for innovation and a freedom of form and content that is often less accessible in other types of scholarly inquiry.

Of special interest to this project is interdisciplinary work that will later serve as a resource for students, teachers, and researchers. This volume aims to represent the social, cultural, geographic, and linguistic diversity of the Caribbean. Submissions can be in any Caribbean language, including English, Spanish, French, and Papiamentu. Interviews with persons from the smaller and less frequently studied parts of the region are particularly encouraged. An extended on-line version of the volume will be developed following print publication. It will be made available on the journal’s website, as have previously published interviews.

Interviews will be organized into 5 categories:

* Memory
* Writing and Art
* Activism
* Popular Culture
* Language and Linguistics

Interviews should be no more than 6,000 words in length. Photos, illustrations, electronic links, and other graphics are welcome. Potential contributors are asked to share ideas with the editor prior to the submission deadline. They should write a short abstract (max. 350 words) that describes the interview they would like to do and specify the category into which it fits. For more information, inquiries, abstracts, and submissions write to Don Walicek, at walicek@gmail.com. Please include Sargasso 25th in the subject line.

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Sargasso is a peer-reviewed journal that has been produced at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras since 1984. The journal features work on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Caribbean and its multiple diasporas. Please visit: http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/pubs/sargasso.htm

The 2010 national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will be held on 5 – 8 May 2010 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, PA. There will be an opening reception on Wednesday evening, May 5th, and concurrent panels will begin on Thursday morning, May 6th. The announced theme is intended to encourage a broad range of paper topics. Papers are welcome on any Irish Studies topic, including traditional concerns of the discipline and evolving areas of interest in the visual, literary, and interdisciplinary areas. We welcome proposals for individual papers, which, if accepted, will be placed within a relevant panel. Proposals for panels are especially welcome, and panels have been proposed on Reassessing Diasporic Studies within Irish Studies and Reassessing Irish Historiography. Additional papers are welcome on such topics as evolving literary and visual arts movements, the culture and literature of Northern Ireland, and other related topics. Plenary speakers confirmed to date are Dean John Harrington (Fordham University) and Dr. James Smith (Boston College). Moya Cannon will be reading from her poetry at a special session. U.S carriers offer frequent flights to State College, PA. Further details will be posted as they become available. A conference website is also under development. Due Date for Conference Paper Proposals: Tuesday, 24 November 2009. Please send your 250 word (or less) abstract to Dr. Tramble T. Turner at ttt3@psu.edu. If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact me at 215 868.5848 (mobile), 215 881.7532 (office), or via e-mail at ttt3@psu.edu. Dr. Tramble T. Turner Associate Professor of English Penn State Abington 1600 Woodland Rd. Abington, PA 19001

I am compiling a collection of "second generation" academic memoir essays by those who were born and raised in post-Second World War Eastern Europe, particularly Poland, and are now academics or scholars in US institutions.

If possible, we can begin by convening a group of scholars (Polish, Polish American, and others with East-European roots) who are descendants of victims of German crimes in German-occupied Europe. (Tri-state area?)Those who have already done research in this area are particularly welcome. The goal is to expand the dominant American narrative of WWII, shaped during the Cold War.

Contact: Krystyna T. Zamorska, Ph.D. at krystyna.zamorska@gmail.com

Death and Representation
Keynote Speaker: Dana Luciano, Georgetown University
Author of "Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America," winner of the 2008 MLA Prize for a First Book
Conference Date: March 26, 2010
Please submit abstracts (maximum 500 words) by November 15 via email to:
Jason Middleton, jmiddle2@mail.rochester.edu
Genevieve Guenther, vive@mail.rochester.edu

As Derrida has long since pointed out, in Western thought writing is seen as a dead thing: a being whose soul is absent, a corpse. Yet this very dead thing immortalizes both the people it represents and the authors for whom it stands as a metonym. Writing--and indeed representation itself--crosses the boundaries between death and life, absence and presence, loss and memory, time and eternity.

The Department of English at the University of Rochester invites
submissions for twenty-minute papers to be given at “Death and
Representation,” a one-day conference that will explore how
representational forms--uncanny things of death and life--confront their own ghosts in representing death itself. We welcome papers from scholars working in any historical period and on any genre or mode (poetic, narrative, dramatic, cinematic, digital, or intermedial).

Possible topics include: the corpse and the figure; tragedy, death, and closure; death and race, gender, class, and disability; memory, memorials, and the literary; death in the anti-social thesis in queer theory; representing funeral practices; mourning and ideation; representations of death and the construction of national identities; rottenness, decay, and the aesthetic; death and humor; necrophilia; suicide notes and autobiography; death on film and video: documentary indexicality and ethics, cinematic violence, etc.; representing the undead (zombies, vampires).

Praeger has contracted with us to publish a three-volume reference set titled “Muslims in American Popular Culture” (2010/2011). The first collection of its kind, MIAPC will be marketed mainly to university, public, and secondary school libraries. We are looking for articles of various lengths on a wide variety of topics within the categories of contemporary American Muslim entertainment, communities, social concerns, religious expression, and politics.

The second round of articles is due on January 1, 2010, and we will be reviewing abstracts on a rolling basis. Completed articles will be guaranteed a place in the collection based on dates received and accepted. Please send abstracts or questions to Anne_Richards@kennesaw.edu or to iomidvar@spsu.edu.

For a list of possible topics, see below. For information about Praeger, see http://www.praeger.com/greenwood_press.aspx.

Kindly forward to potentially interested scholars and programs.

Thank you,

Anne Richards, PhD, Department of English, Kennesaw State University, GA
Iraj Omidvar, PhD, Department of English and Technical Communication and Media Arts, Southern Polytechnic State University, GA

POTENTIAL TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED BY “MUSLIMS IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE”

The Entertainment Industry
 Comedy
o Dave Chapelle
o Muslim-American comic group The Arabian Knights
o Muslim-American comediennes such as Negin Farsad and Maysoon Zayid
o Muslim-American comedians such as Dean Obeidallah, Preacher Moss, Mohammed Amer, Azhar Usman
 Music
o Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens
o John Coltrane
o Mos Def/Dante Smith
o Q-Tip/Fareed Kamal/Jonathan Davis
o Erik Schrody (Everlast’s lead)
o Ghostface Killah
o T-Pain
o Nas
o Wu-Tang Clan
o Busta Rhymes and “Arab Money”
o Abdullah Ibn Buhaina/Art Blakey
 Film
o Portrayal of Muslim characters by Jewish and Christian actors, e.g., Anthony Quinn
o “Casablanca,” Michael Moore’s “9/11,” “300,” etc.
o Actors and directors such as Shohreh Aghdashlou, Tony Shalhoub, and Moustapha Akkad
o Cliches such as Persian carpets, deserts, harems, geniis, magic lamps, Baghdad, Bedouins, Oriental despots, the Crusades
o Muslim heroes and heroines such as Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Sinbad
o Anti-Muslim lyrics in “Alladin”
 Popular Literature
o Salman Rushdie (Satanic Verses)
o Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran)
o Khaled Hosseini (The Kiterunner)
o Muslim American women writers such as Maryam Jameela/Margaret Marcus, Mohja Kahf, Dilara Hafiz, Asma Gull, Reza Aslan, Samina Ali Samina Ali, Asra Nomani, and Yahiya Emerick
o 1001 Nights
o The mystic poetry of Rumi
Communities
 Places of Worship and Religious Accommodations
o U.S. mosques
o Islamic Center of America
o Footbaths and masjids at US airports
 Businesses
o Typical stores within large metro areas
o Famous businesspeople such as Anousheh Ansari (female Iranian space tourist) and Pierre Omidyar (creator of E-Bay)
 Cities
o “Tehrangeles”
o Muslim communities in Dearborn, Michigan
o Muslim communitities in the South End of Boston
o Muslim communities in Quincy, Massachusetts
o Muslim communities in Rose, North Dakota
o Fazlur Khan (structural engineer who designed the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center)
 Clothing and adornment
o Veils, headscarves, burkas, hejabs, etc.
o Henna, harquus
 Food
o Middle Eastern restaurants
o Hookah lounges
 Sports
Individuals
o Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
o Mohammed Ali
o Mike Tyson
o Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf /Chris Jackson
 Forms
o Belly dancing
Stereotypes
 Islamophobia
 Hate crimes against Muslims
 Popular confusions of Jews/Arabs, Arabs/Iranians, Muslims/Sikhs, and conflation of Arabs and Muslims

Religion
 Nation of Islam
o Malcolm X
o Louis Farrakhan
o Prison Conversions
o Million Man March
o Elijah Muhammad
o Silis Muhammad
o Wallace Fard Muhammad
o Warith Deen Muhammad
o American Society of Muslims
 Traditional Islamic Worship
o Asian American Muslims
o American Wahabis
o Hispanic Muslims
o Women imams
o Tablighi Jamaat
o Islamic Thinker Society
o The Society of the Muslim Brothers
o Hajjs by American Muslims
 Christians
o US Evangelical leaders’ responses to Islam
o George W. Bush’s call for a “crusade”
Politics
 U.S. Politicians/Politics
o Barack Obama’s Muslim patrimony
o Keith Ellison
o Zalmay Khalilzad
o The refusal of Tariq Ramadan’s visa and those of other Muslim intellectuals
 Muslim Political Organizations
o Muslim Public Affairs Council
o Muslim Women’s League
o Islamic Society of North America
o Islamic Students Association
o Council on American-Islamic Relations

Nebula 6.3 is now online with unrestricted access at http://www.nobleworld.biz . The editors now invite submissions for Nebula 6.4 (December, 2009) with a manuscript deadine of November 5, 2009. The current CFP is reproduced below the contents page for the current issue, provided here for your convenience.

NEBULA 6.3

Catherine Akca and Ali Gunes. “Male Myth-Making: The Origins of Feminism.” 1-15

Steve Redhead. “Hooligan Writing and the Study of Football Fan Culture: Problems and Possibilities.” 16-41

Kane X. Faucher. “Sphacelated Grammars (or: Language Likes to Hide).” 42-52

James Arvanitakis. “Surviving Neo-Liberalism: NGOs Under the Howard Years” 53-69

Omolola Ladele. “Reconstructing Identities Through Resistance in Postcolonial Women’s Writing: A Reading of Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones.” 70-84

Matthew Homer. “Beyond the Studio: The Impact of Home Recording Technologies on Music Creation and Consumption.” 85-99

John O’Carroll and Chris Fleming. “Is Nothing Sacred? Privatization and the Person.” 100-120

Emmanuel Folorunso Taiwo. “An Interface of the Old and the New: Creating the Conscious Nigerian via an Interrogation of Sophocles’ Antigone in Osofisan’s Tegonni.” 121-133

Victor Osaro Edo. “The 1897 British Expedition in Historical Perspective: Its Lessons and Challenges.” 134-142

Matthew Ingram. “Guitar Hero World Tour: a Creator of New Sonic Experiences?” 143-154
Thomas J. Roach. “Sense and Sexuality: Foucault, Wojnarowicz, and Biopower.” 155-173

The editors now invite submissions for Nebula 6.4 (December, 2009) with a manuscript deadine of November 5, 2009.

We encourage submission of academic articles from any discipline, covering any subject or topic, provided that the language used is non-specialist and appeals to a wide audience. Unlike many academic publications, Nebula is not limited to a specific school, faculty, or subject.
We are also interested in providing an alternative view to mainstream cultural and political ideologies. As such, we encourage non-fiction, intellectual writing, that does not follow the generic conventions of academic writing but which demonstrates substantial sophistication and which may be of interest to a broad audience. We encourage contributors to offer their political readings of a particular social/political or military crisis current in the world. We are particularly interested in writings that may be deemed marginal or seem to be against the grain of mainstream ideologies. Our project is to ensure the publication of writing of high calibre that may be rejected by conservative institutions. Nebula also accepts “free writing” that is not politically motivated, but which may be attuned to various other cultural, social or artistic concerns (including television, film, media or music studies).
Nebula also accepts creative work in any form which can be displayed on the world wide web. Poetry, graphics, cartoons, short stories are all welcome for consideration.
All claims within academic articles must be evidenced. We will not accept poorly researched material. We are very intolerant of plagiarism. All submissions must be accompanied by a short letter to the editors which will include some autobiographical information and any institutional affiliations. Please make all attachments in .doc wherever possible. Articles and reviews are not limited to any particular referencing style but MUST be consistent throughout each submission. Contributions intended for Nebula (6.4) must be received by November 5, 2009. Keep in mind that only the most original, well- presented and well thought-out pieces will be considered for publication.
Email articles in .doc or equivalent to nebula@nobleworld.biz or editors@nobleworld.biz, please also include a brief biographical note and a brief CV

Battleground States 2010: War(s) and Peace will be held February 26th and 27th, 2010 on the Bowling Green State University campus. The Culture Club: Cultural Studies Scholars’ Association hopes to elicit presenters who consider the conference theme from multiple perspectives and media. As our aim is to create a conference dedicated to interdisciplinarity, we invite proposals from graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, junior faculty, artists, activists, filmmakers, and educators.

Broadly speaking, any and all of the following subjects are welcome, and represent the breadth of interpretation rather than an exhaustive or exclusive list:
- Race, class, gender, and the body
- Media, rhetoric and society
- Community, activism, pacifism and protest
- Interpersonal communication and daily life
- Technology, automation, and biopower
- Interpretation, “truth,” and privilege
We welcome creative interpretations of the conference theme such as, but not limited to:
- How the rhetoric of conflict has been deployed in social and cultural debate, and to what ends
- Peace as a contested narrative and possible site of a hopeful future
- The impact of historical narrative on our understanding of conflict
- The discord and harmony of everyday life

Abstracts of 300 words or less should be sent to battlegroundstates@gmail.com and must be submitted no later than December 4th, 2009. Submissions should include the title, abstract, presenter’s name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), contact information, A-V equipment requests, and special needs, if any. Traditional and non-traditional panel proposals of 3-4 people are also welcome and should include information and abstracts for all participants and the panel as a whole. We ask that all abstracts be sent as .doc files (please no .docx) as follows: lastname_firstname.doc.

Additional information: http://www.battlegroundstates.org/cfp/

Moving Type: Consequence in Cultural Production
Free Exchange Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Calgary
March 11-13,2010
The Free Exchange Graduate Student Conference at the University of Calgary seeks abstracts for papers for our forthcoming conference on the roles of type in cultural production. We are most interested in work that engages with the topic of this multi-disciplinary conference in original ways, from material print culture to identity politics; from examinations of migration to site-specific textual analysis. Whether questioning existing methods of literary production or engaging with the gender/genre dynamics of cultural production, we embrace vigorous research on the complicated life, mobility, and circulation of text.

Please submit 250 word abstracts for original academic papers on the conference theme by January 8th 2010 to free_ex@ucalgary.ca. We invite participation from graduate students of any discipline, including but not limited to English literature, film studies, visual culture, gender studies, and cultural studies.

We also welcome creative writing submissions for our creative writing panel and events.

Topics might address but are not limited to the following:
• Type-writing
• Translation and typography
• Print culture
• Scribal handwriting
• Literary production
• Selected Letters
• Writing as object
• Travelling types
• Materiality and migration
• Space, place, time
• Encoding and memory
• Modes of performance
• Screen-life
• Site-specific text

34th Annual PAC Conference The College of Charleston—Charleston, S.C. 11-13 March 2010

“Literature as Bridge”

Call for Papers and Panels
The Philological Association of the Carolinas
(PAC) www.pachome.org

Email proposals along with a brief abstract and CV by 6 November 2009 to:

American / British Topics
Dr. Blake Hobby bhobby@unca.edu
Assistant Professor of Literature and Language University of North Carolina at Asheville

Foreign / Comparative /Linguistics / Pedagogy Topics
Dr. David Smith smithdav@ecu.edu
Assistant Professor of German
East Carolina University

Panel proposals must include a letter of justification along with the session title; brief abstracts in English of all proposed papers; and the names, email addresses, and institutional Affiliation of all participants. Each session should consist of presenters from more than one institution and contain no more than one paper by a graduate student.

We welcome papers and panels on any topic of interest to literature and language scholars. Past sessions have focused on English, American, world and multiethnic literatures, as well as on linguistics, composition, and pedagogy. Especially encouraged are proposals that consider literary works as a bridge to understanding. Several papers from each conference are published in Postscript, the peer-reviewed journal of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. The Don Joiner Award is given to the best manuscript published in Postscript, as is an award for the best graduate student submission. See http://www.unca.edu/postscript/ for more details.

Here is the final for critical writings and book reviews for the Second Issue (Autumn, Number 2, 2009) on Indian Writings in English. We also seek and original innovative works from artists whose artistic activities are influenced by colonial and postcolonial discourses.
* For submission of critical writings, please send:
Ø Completed article (3000-5000 words)
Ø Abstract (100-200 words)
Ø 3 to 5 Keywords
Ø Brief CV
* For submission of creative works, please send:
Ø Analytical Description of Works (2000-3000 words)
Ø Maximum 5 images in JPG format, at least 800 pixels wide or tall.
Ø Abstract (100 words)
Ø 3 to 5 Keywords
Ø Brief CV
Visit to know more about the journal and the submission process: http://www.rupkatha.com/submissionguidelines.php
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 30th September
Please send submissions and queries to: editor@rupkatha.com

"Going Green from the Black Perspective: The Significance of Environmental Issues in the Black Community" is a one-day conference devoted to exploring the various ways Black activists, scholars, agriculturalists, and politicians have been (and are) currently responding to environmental issues within communities of color. At this time we are accepting papers that examine a variety of issues linked to environmentalism such as 1. the impact of toxic dump sites in urban communities, 2. the black community's involvement with green initiatives from the grassroots level to the international stage, 3. the relationship between environmentalism and activism within the black community, or 4. educating children of color about the vulnerability of the planet. Other topics will be taken into consideration.

Please send your 300 page abstracts along with a cv by Dec 10, 2009 to:
Dr. Walters
Stony Brook University
Dept of Africana Studies
SBS 257
Stony Brook, NY 11794

or email to:

twalters@notes.sunysb.edu
or walterstracey@hotmail.com

"Going Green from the Black Perspective: The Significance of Environmental Issues in the Black Community" is a one-day conference devoted to exploring the various ways Black activists, scholars, agriculturalists, and politicians have been (and are) currently responding to environmental issues within communities of color. At this time we are accepting papers that examine a variety of issues linked to environmentalism such as 1. the impact of toxic dump sites in urban communities, 2. the black community's involvement with green initiatives from the grassroots level to the international stage, 3. the relationship between environmentalism and activism within the black community, or 4. educating children of color about the vulnerability of the planet. Other topics will be taken into consideration.

Please send your 300 page abstracts along with a cv to
Dr. Walters
Stony Brook University
Dept of Africana Studies
SBS 257
Stony Brook, NY 11794

or email to:

twalters@notes.sunysb.edu
or walterstracey@hotmail.com

Keynote Speaker: Hazel V. Carby

University of Florida, March 25-27, 2010

In the context of global capital, developing countries have been referred to as the “Global South.” The term can be understood as a hemispheric replacement for the three-worlds model that emerged from area studies during the Cold War. However, this pointedly geographic designation does more than simply reaffirm capitalism’s exploitation of developing countries. Beyond dividing the world in half economically, it divides the world racially between the Euro-American and the rest. This model also encodes a regionalism upon developing or economically disadvantaged areas, given capital’s political, cultural, and economic marginalization of them as primarily working-class or provincial places—tendencies that manifest from as early as the triangle trade and colonization to today’s movement of manufacturing jobs and affective labor to Southeast Asia and Latin America. These trends indicate a long existing economic, racial, and regional fault line along which the power may dramatically shift in the near future.

The twelfth annual conference of the Marxist Reading Group seeks to investigate from a Marxist perspective how regional, marginalized, or racialized identities, practices, cultures, histories, and economies form within and influence global affairs. Has the hemispheric bifurcation of north and south always existed? How do the political and social circumstances of the Cold War lead to our conceptions of today’s economies along hemispheric lines? How is race a factor in the split? How does “south”—a term fraught with regional problems for the U.S.—become a global term? How has the current economic recession refigured the balance of the hemispheres? And finally, how might these inquiries renew or revise models of centers and peripheries?

Hazel V. Carby is Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization at Yale University. She is the author of Reconstructing Womanhood (OUP, 1987), Race Men (Harvard, 1998), and Cultures in Babylon (Verso, 1999). Her current project in progress is called Child of Empire.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Histories of the Global South, both geographically and as a cultural context
• Finance capital and the global recession
• Indigenous decolonialization
• Gender and the informal sector of the global economy
• Migration of laborers
• Historical (re)constructions of the Global South
• Commodification of regional identities
• Exceptionalisms, American, regional, or otherwise
• Postcolonial feminism—domestic, cross-regional, and international
• Critical Cartographic representations of developed or undeveloped countries or both
• Literature, film, culture, or politics of the Global South
• Red states and blue states, in the U.S. and globally
• Unions and labor practices in the Global South

Please submit a 250-word abstract (and some subject keywords) for a 20-minute presentation along with a short biography and contact information to theufmrg@gmail.com by January 22, 2010. Please indicate any a/v requirements (DVD player and data projection available). Authors of accepted papers will be notified by February 5, 2010. For questions concerning the conference, please contact us at theufmrg@gmail.com. For information on previous conferences, please check out our site: http://www.english.ufl.edu/mrg/

The English Graduate Organization at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL, is currently accepting abstracts for this year's conference, "Questioning Identity: Representations of Class."
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to: Globalization, Commodities, Economics, Gender, Nationalism, Class Conflict, Marxism, Representations of Labor, Consumption and Capitalism. Please send your 250-300 word abstracts to SJ-Naslund@wiu.edu. The final deadline for all abstracts is October 15th, 2009.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The editorial staff of Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture seeks high quality manuscripts, literature, poetry, book reviews and artwork for a general topic issue to be published in July 2010. We invite innovative submissions that consider hip-hop music and culture from a wide range of critical perspectives. In-depth studies of individual artists and texts are welcome. In particular, works from the fields of ethnomusicology, gender studies, interdisciplinary studies, cultural studies, technology and sociology are encouraged. We also accept research on areas that influence our work as academics, including hip-hop pedagogy and curriculum, as well as the place of hip-hop studies in the university. Additionally, Words. Beats. Life welcomes provocative essays that will stimulate thought on the current and future role of hip-hop culture and music in the 21st century.

Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture is a peer-reviewed, hybrid periodical of art and hip-hop studies published by the 501(c)(3) non-profit, Words Beats & Life, Inc. The Journal is committed to nurturing and showcasing the creative talents and expertise of the field in a layout that is uniquely hip-hop inspired. We publish issues twice a year with the intention of serving as a platform where the work of scholars and artists can appear in dialogue with one another. Since 2002, Words. Beats. Life has devoted its pages to both emerging and established intellectuals and artists. As the premier resource for hip-hop theory and practice, we hope that the scholarship we publish will serve as a resource for the field of hip-hop studies and the work of hip-hop non-profits, helping each to elevate to the next phase of their respective growth in America and around the globe.

Words. Beats. Life adheres to APA style. The maximum length for articles is 5,000 words. Complete guidelines for contributors can be found in each issue of the journal as well as on our Web site at http://wblinc.org/Journal_callforsub.htm.

Please send any questions and submissions to submissions@wblinc.org.

Deadline: January 4, 2010

Graham Eng-Wilmot
Editor-in-Chief
Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture
1525 Newton St. NW Washington, D.C. 20010
T 202-667-1192 | E graham@wblinc.org
http://wblinc.org/Journal.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS for SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN DRAMA
AND THEATRE, SPRING 2010

The Publications Committee of the American Theatre and Drama Society invites submissions for the Spring 2010 issue of The Journal of American Drama and Theatre which it is guest editing. You do not need to be a member of the Society to submit an article, but submissions from the membership are particularly encouraged. (For more information about the American Theatre and Drama Society, see www.atds.org.)

The aim of The Journal of American Drama and Theatre is "to promote research on theatre of the Americas and to encourage historical and theoretical approaches to plays, playwrights, performances, and popular theatre traditions." For the Spring 2010 issue, we invite colleagues to explore comedy, spectacle, and theatrical diversions, both in the United States and Latin America. This fall, Broadway audiences will see eagerly awaited revivals of Bye Bye Birdie and Finian’s Rainbow, alongside new stagings of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound. Will this model be reflected around the Americas? Why do comedy and light entertainments remain resilient? How do we account for the popularity of these forms? An 1858 commentator in the Boston Courier argued, “What we want in our busy, bustling, hurried city life is such relaxation as will smooth the brow and lighten the spirit. . . . He who goes to an evening place of entertainment after a day of mental toil, desires not an additional entanglement of brain, but perfect and entire relief.” Over 150 years later, does this sentiment still dominate audiences’ theatrical preferences? When certain forms (such as tragedy or satire) fall out of fashion, what accounts for those trends? How have playwrights, producers, and performers responded when audiences have demonstrated clear preferences for “perfect and entire relief” rather than emotional catharsis or calls to social or political action? How have these cycles shaped the development of American theatre?

Manuscripts (5000-6000 words) should be prepared in conformity with The Chicago Manual of Style, using footnotes rather than endnotes. Articles should be submitted as e-mail attachments, using Microsoft Word format. Please note that all correspondence will be conducted by e-mail. Submissions must be received no later than December 1, 2009; please email articles to Mark Cosdon, mcosdon@allegheny.edu.

Authors will be notified about the status of their submissions during the week of December 28. The final manuscript revisions of accepted submissions (complete with rights, permissions for images, etc.) must be received by the Publications Committee no later than February 22, 2010.

ATDS Publications Committee:

Robin Bernstein
Dorothy Chansky
Mark Cosdon, Chair
Harley Erdman
Anne Fletcher
Michelle Granshaw
Kim Marra
Peter Reed
Ilka Saal
Sarah Stevenson
Bob Vorlicky
Barry Witham

Call for Papers, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 2010
Section: Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences

Accepting panel & paper proposals on any topic in the social sciences. Special interest in interdisciplinary studies and in studies that discuss/employ humanities and/or natural sciences with social sciences.

Conference: March 26, 2010 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Abstracts are due by November 30, 2009. Abstracts should be submitted on line at the Michigan Academy website: www.alma.edu/michiganacademy

See full call at http://www.alma.edu/repository/michiganacademy/Interdisciplinary_Studies...

Section Leader/Chair: Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Ph.D., Oakland University (Michigan) | 248 854 8340 | bennettc@oakland.edu

Sponsored by the “Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire, Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires” (LISST-Interdisciplinary Laboratory, Solidarity, Societies, Territories), the “Association Toulousaine pour la Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Amériques” (ATRIA-Toulouse Association for Interdisciplinary Research on Americas) invites the scientific community to the International Conference: CREATIVE AMERICAS. Crossed perspectives on discourses and practices.

This cross-disciplinary and trans-American meeting will bring together all sorts of specialists of the topic of creativity in the Americas. This theme will be discussed through several perspectives - artistic, cultural, political, economic, social, etc. - as the Americas offer a favorable field of analysis. In addition and due to its subject matter, this meeting will enable the presentation of both scientific papers and visual and audiovisual creative expressions such as documentaries and an exhibition.

This conference is aimed at introducing these different perspectives and will be organized over two days around three thematic workshops : “Creativity and Power”, “Imagination and Identity” and “Creativity and Environment”. Each workshop will include eleven presentations and one scientific documentary which will launch the debate.

Consequently, the structure, which includes both papers and documentaries, can lead to great exchanges, enabling a dialogue between scientific discourse objectivity and image subjectivity. Interweaving creative discourses and practices, on a theoretical level as well as a methodological one, is the main goal of this international conference.

Papers will have to be submitted before January 15th, 2010 (from 5 000 to 6 000 characters including spaces, with title and general topic) and sent to the following email address: ameriquescreatives@gmail.com.
On the same file, paper submission must include a brief presentation of the author (position, institution/laboratory/organization, publications and/or recent papers, valid email address).

The call for papers is opened to the entire America-oriented research scientific community (PhD candidates, young researchers, researchers, professors, etc.) from all disciplines. Paper submissions should preferably be written in French but papers submitted in English and in Spanish will be accepted.

Chosen papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be read by the author(s) in French, in English or in Spanish, followed by 10 minutes of questions. Paper presentations in English or in Spanish have to come with a slide show (like “powerpoint”) in French. A discussion will close each workshop session.

Answers to the paper submission will be addressed on March 15th, 2010. The texts of the chosen papers must be sent to the organizing committee before the September, 1st 2010 (30 000 characters including spaces). Eventually, they will be published in French.

REGISTRATION FEES

Presenters :
Laboratory/organization/institution affiliate researchers, professors : 60€
Doctorate students, non affiliate researchers : 20€

Visitors : 20€

Fees include coffee breaks and lunches (for presenters). A leaflet with the paper summaries as well as a USB pen containing details of conference proceedings will be given to each participant.

In agreement with ATRIA's objectives and in order to promote the participation of foreign researchers as well as the relationship between young researchers, the participation of two affiliate researchers and of two non affiliate researchers will be funded by a trip grant including a fee exemption. General criteria of evaluation and application procedures will be clarified subsequently.

For more information about this conference : ameriquescreatives@gmail.com
http://www.atria-amdoc.org/

For more information about ATRIA : info.atria@gmail.com

Please circulate. Apologies for cross-posting.

STYLE IN THEORY/STYLING THEORY (26-28 November, 2009)

Inaugural Event, International Literary Criticism and Theory Conference
Series
University of Malta, Old University Building, Valletta, Malta

*FINAL CFP – 30 SEPTEMBER DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS*

WEBSITE: http://www.um.edu.mt/events/styleintheory2009

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
*Catherine Belsey
*Simon Critchley
*Stefan Herbrechter
*Fiona Hughes
*Giuseppe Mazzotta
*Laurent Milesi
*Jean-Michel Rabaté
*Stuart Sillars

Organizers:
Ivan Callus, James Corby, Gloria Lauri-Lucente

CONTACT E-MAIL: styleintheory2009@um.edu.mt

WEBSITE: http://www.um.edu.mt/events/styleintheory2009

The automobile has had an immense influence upon our lives in innumerable ways. This area seeks to examine the role of automobility in American society. The affinity of the automobile has been reflected in our music, art, sport, and in the construction of our identity. This section of the PCA/ACA seeks to provide an understanding of this influence within the social and historical context of our collective cultural lives.
Submission requirements are as follows:
Title with author’s name and institutional
affiliation (if applicable)
Abstract only (recommended) or full paper
Number of words required for either (usually 100 –
250 words for abstract).
Electronically sent via email is preferred
ALL SUBMISSIONS DUE BY DECEMBER 15, 2009