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Joking Apart: Gender, Literature and Humour 1850-Present
28th-29th June, 2007
Hosted by the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Maria DiBattista (Princeton University, author of Fast-Talking Dames,
2001.)
Prof Christopher Reed (Lake Forest College, author of Bloomsbury Rooms,
2004.)
CALL FOR PAPERS
42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI USA
May 10-13, 2007
Special session: "Reading the Breast: Medieval Writers and Artists."
This session focuses on secular materials, since so much work has already
been done with the breast in religious writing and art. Papers dealing
with one or more texts, visual or written as well as non-fictional secular
records, are welcome.
Presentations examining Medieval women "reading women's breast(s)" are
particularly sought; however, the session also open to papers focused on
secular texts with male or anonymous attribution.
CALL FOR PAPERS for a panel on
FEMINIST PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Sponsored by the Early Modern Women Interest Group
National Women’s Studies Association
28th Annual Conference
June 28 â€" July 1, 2007
Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois
Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to
ikerlee_at_unm.edu; Chicago manual style w/limited endnotes;
full guidelines at www.femtap.com
CFP: "Splintering studies?: Eighteenth-century studies and women's studies,
gender studies, queer studies, lesbian studies..."
ASECS 2007, Atlanta, GA (March 22-25)
Contact: Bonnie Latimer (engbl_at_leeds.ac.uk)
Deadline: 15 September 2006
The deadline for the panel has not changed, but the title and the parameters of the for submission have changed slightly.
Belles, Bitches, and Everything in Between: Reconstructing Southern Womanhood in Literature of the American South
38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland
The Literary History of Sexuality (panel)
This panel addresses the relationship between sexuality and literature in the long eighteenth
century. Critics and
historians, from a variety of perspectives, have suggested that "something happened" to
conceptualizations (and
practices) of the sexual and the literary in and around the eighteenth century--although what
that "something"
was remains an open question. Accordingly, this panel will explore the mutually shaping
relations between
sexuality and literature, from Restoration to Romanticism. Engagements with Foucault
(critical and/or
sympathetic) are welcome but not essential.
The conference is bilingual, but it will take place mainly in French.
Participants may give a paper in English but must understand French.
Call for papers / International Conference
"Elusive faces of the feminine. Writing and photography, face to face"
3-5 May 2007
This conference is about the relationship between photography and
writing, and the places where they meet, dialogue, cross and flee
each other. In this relationship between the photographic and the
literary, we are interested in the importance of the female face, an
alterity that neither medium can capture.
<BODY>"Post-Millennial Queer Pop Culture and the Construction of Community"<BR>A Panel at the 2007 NEMLA Convention in Baltimore Maryland, March 1-4 2007<BR><BR>This panel seeks papers that explore recent queer pop culture (including tv, film, art, comics, porn, music, theater, the internet) and how this pop culture cultivates and/or constructs community. To what extent do these pop culture products make and/or perpetuate assumptions about queer community? To what extent do they reflect the evolution of a queer community? Papers may examine representations of queer life in mainstream popular culture as long as the papers focus on the depiction of queer community.
Call for Papers:
College English Association of Ohio – Fall Conference
CEAO Fall Conference
When: Friday, October 27, 2006
Where: Bowling Green State University
Theme: (Re)Inventing English Studies
Keynote Speech provided by Dr. Dickie Selfe, Ohio State University
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Call for Papers
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*Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference Mar. 1 -4,
2007, Baltimore, Maryland*
*Panel: The Image of Women in the Films of Hitchcock & Fellini:
Comparison and Contrast*
Explore the images of women in the films of Hitchcock and Fellini:
REBECCA, NOTORIOUS, PSYCHO, THE BIRDS, MARNIE, FRENZY; LA STRADA, LA
DOLCE VITA, NIGHTS OF CABIRIA, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, CITY OF WOMEN.
Papers may be on one or more films of Hitchcock & Fellini, comparing &
contrasting OR on a single film of one of them, that can be compared or
contrasted during the discussion period.
Women and Violence (UK) (9/12/06; Return to Gender, 11/25/06)
Papers are invited for this special panel at 'Return to Gender', the
forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th
November, 2006.
Modern Masculinity: A Narrative of Heroism and Failure
Papers are invited for a special panel at ‘Return to Gender’, the forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th November, 2006. In a recent news item reviewing the latest ‘Superman’ film, the news anchor asked if the actor playing Superman was a ‘mincing metrosexual’. What does a modern masculine hero look like? Is the often discussed crisis in masculinity empowering or emasculating? Possible topics include:
Queer Mainstreams in Visual Culture
Papers are invited for a special panel at ‘Return to Gender’, the forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th November, 2006. The panel will address how queer identities have been constructed in visual culture (film, TV, magazines, pulp fiction, etc). How is non-heteronormative behaviour and identity portrayed? Have these identities become commodified or do they still have a ‘queer’ potential? Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Sponsored Sessions (2) of the 42nd International Congress on Medieval
Studies
10-13 May 2007
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Early Middle English Society I: Women and Devotion
Coordinator: Dorothy Kim (dorothyk_at_humnet.ucla.edu)
Myth, Femininity, and Violence: Appropriations of Ancient Myths in Twentieth
Century and
Contemporary Women's Aesthetic Production
Sanja Bahun-Radunovi?, Ph.D., and V.G. Julie Rajan, Ph.D., eds.
The editors invite papers for an innovative collection of essays that
explores aesthetic reflections on violence through the refiguration of
ancient myths by twentieth century and contemporary female artists. The
essays may address a variety of aesthetic female productions, including
literature, performance, and visual art. The scope of the collection is
global, and we are looking for pieces representing a wide range of cultures,
languages, geographic spaces, and social contexts.
Gender Technologies and Utopias
Papers are invited for this special panel at ‘Return to Gender’, the forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th November, 2006. The panel will address how technological, scientific and medical advancements have affected perceptions of gender both culturally and socially. Are traditional notions of masculinity and femininity becoming irrelevant given the present diversity of possible alternative identities? How might we envisage gender utopias/dystopias in the later 21st century? How has technological/scientific research opposed or contributed to the existence of gendered power structures? Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Gender Balance/ Gender Bias
Gender and Education Association Conference 28th, 29th and 30th March 2007
Special Issue of Gender and Education dedicated to the Conference
Trinity College Dublin
Second Call for Papers: deadline 17th November 2006
Email abstracts to: cgws.conferences_at_tcd.ie
Call for Papers
Women's History Association Ireland
Annual Meeting
Friday Evening, November 17
and
Saturday, 18 November, 2006
Trinity College, Dublin
Hosted by
The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Theme: Doing Gender History: Methods and Models
This conference will explore the shape and content of gender history – moving
beyond men's history (traditional ) history and women's history to develop a
new holistic paradigm that includes and values the actions/experiences and
ideas of both men and women. We ask: How do we do gender history? What would
it look like? Do we have specific examples of doing gender history?
Rooms of Their Own: Women in the Knowledge Economy and Society
A Royal Society of Canada Conference
2-4 May 2007 At the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Call for Papers
Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global
4-6 May 2007
At the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
CFP: "Splintering studies?: Eighteenth-century studies and women's studies,
gender studies, queer studies, lesbian studies..."
ASECS 2007, Atlanta, GA (March 22-25)
Contact: Bonnie Latimer (engbl_at_leeds.ac.uk)
Deadline: 15 September 2006
CFP: Feminist Film & Media and Pedagogy (8/6/06;collection)
Call for Papers: Gender & Technology Plenary Session
2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 14-17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The 2007 SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency downtown. Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) can be found at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/ <http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/> .
3rd Global Conference
Sex and Sexuality - Exploring Critical Issues
Wednesday 29th November - Saturday 2nd December 2006
Cracow, Poland
Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)
This research conference seeks to examine issues of sexuality across a range of critical and cultural perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative inter- and multidisciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to anthropology, cultural studies, education, gender studies, history, law, literature, medicine, psychology, religion, sociology and social work. We also welcome contributions from queer activists and professionals in non-profit and non-government organizations.
MEN AND MADNESS: Representing Male Psychopathology, Mental Disorder and
Deviancy in Modern and Contemporary Culture
English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
28 - 30 June 2007
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky
Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
Richard Collier, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mark Micale, University of Illnois
Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford
Call for Paper Abstracts, proposal deadline: September 15
Session:
Sex with God: monotheism and the eroticized framing of the human-
divine relation
Sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
May 10-13, 2007
Sex with God: monotheism and the eroticized framing of the human-
divine relation (9/15/06; Kalamazoo, SMFS, 5/10/07-5/13/07)
This panel will explore the ways in which the human-divine
relationship is imagined through the gendered, transgendered, and
sexualized human body, and the cultural currents and contradictions
informing this relation.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
CONTEMPORARY MEDIATED MASCULINITIES
The 2007 Gender and Medieval Studies Conference Committee is now accepting
proposals of c.250 words for 20 minute papers addressing this year's theme
of Models of Medieval Gender, as outlined below.
Deadline for submission: Friday 1 September 2006
E-mail proposals in word format to: gms2007_at_uea.ac.uk
'Models of Medieval Gender: Paragons, Pariahs and Paradigms'
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England 9-11 January 2007
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Roberta Gilchrist (Department of Archaeology, University of
Reading)
Professor Clare Lees (English Department, King's College London)
Please note date of conference is 23 and 24 of February 2007 and not 2006 as in
the first CFP.
IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
5th Annual Conference
'Re-evaluating Gender in Children's Literature'
23 and 24 FEBRUARY 2007
Venue: Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, Dublin 6
Call for Papers
Proposals are welcome relating to the above and associated topics, including in
the areas of poetry, drama, and film for children. Proposals relating to
masculinities will be especially welcome.