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category: gender studies and sexualityCFP: 18th- and 19th-C. British Women Writers Conference (Abstracts due Oct. 15, 2009)full name / name of organization: 18th- and 19th-C. British Women Writers Association /Texas A&M University contact email: BWWC18@tamu.edu The 18th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference "Journeys"
Queer Transformations: From Page to Screen (and Back) (NeMLA 2010)full name / name of organization: Elizabeth McClure contact email: emcclure@umd.edu BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Much has been written on how queer characters in novels are “straightened” in mainstream television and film adaptations. This panel seeks to investigate the opposite practice: the queering of straight or coded characters in the process of adaptation from written text to film, television, or fan fiction.
Philosophy as Critical Theory: The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisitedfull name / name of organization: Daniel White contact email: dwhite@fau.edu In The Dialectic of Enlightenment (Dialektik der Aufklärung, 1944) Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno invoked the voyage of Odysseus—especially his encounter with the Sirens—as a sustained metapho
Boundaries and Bridges: English Studies in the Borderlands -- March 19 & 20 San Juan, Puerto Ricofull name / name of organization: The Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association contact email: cea.cc.conference@gmail.com Call for Papers
Politics and Literature: Controversial and Revolutionary Fiction - Due Date: October 30full name / name of organization: Pennsylvania Literary Journal contact email: pennsylvaniajournal@gmail.com This online journal is for critical and creative works.
c pracsis International Theatre Conference Jan 15-16, 2010full name / name of organization: cpracsis.org contact email: director@cpracsis.org , cpracsis@gmail.com c pracsis International Theatre Conference on
Publishing and Professional Developmentfull name / name of organization: Letizia Guglielmo contact email: lgugliel@kennesaw.edu We are seeking short anecdotes for inclusion in a forthcoming book (Tentative Title: Publishing for Profit and Promotion) addressing publishing and professional development opportunities for non-tenured faculty (graduate students, part-time faculty, adjuncts, assistant professors, academic professionals, lecturers, and other contingent faculty).
UPDATE: Cinema and Landscape International Conferencefull name / name of organization: Cinema and Landscape International Conference contact email: conference@cinemalandscape.co.uk Call for Papers International Conference ** CINEMA AND LANDSCAPE** University of Sheffield April 16-18, 2010
Call for Papers on Indian Writings in Englishfull name / name of organization: Rupkatha Jounal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities contact email: editor@rupkatha.com Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities: An Online Open Access E-Journal (www.rupkatha.com, ISSN 0975 – 2935) invites critical writings and book reviews from writers for the S
Imagining Religion, Imagining the Americas (c19 Americanists, 5/20-23, 2010) [9/15/09]full name / name of organization: Toni Wall Jaudon / Ithaca College contact email: toni.wall.jaudon@gmail.com Imagining Religion, Imagining the Americas c19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists This panel stages a conversation between two keywords in nineteenth century studies—-"religion" and "the Americas."
Zoontotechnics (Animality / Technicity) conference, Cardiff University, 12-14 May 2010full name / name of organization: Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University contact email: zoonto@cardiff.ac.uk Plenary Speakers:
[UPDATE] Enterprising Creativity: Innovation and the Future of Arts and Humanities Research (Graduate Conference)full name / name of organization: University of Leeds contact email: innovationconference@me.com (Please note the extended deadline, now 31 August 2009.) ENTERPRISING CREATIVITY: INNOVATION AND THE FUTURE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH [Student-led postgraduate conference]
Papers Wanted on American Identity - 11/01/09 Deadlinefull name / name of organization: St. John's University Humanities Review contact email: sjuhumanities@gmail.com Greetings fellow scholars, This is a call for papers for the fall 2009 Humanities Review, a literary journal for the St. John’s University English Department in Queens, NY.
Caribbean Enlightenment conference, University of Glasgow, 8th-10th April 2010full name / name of organization: University of Glasgow contact email: caribbeanenlightenment@googlemail.com Caribbean Enlightenment Keynote Speakers
[UPDATE] Transnational Feminisms Conference, December 4-5th 2009full name / name of organization: University of Manchester contact email: transfem09@yahoo.co.uk There is less than two weeks to go to the 28th August deadline for submissions for the Transnational Feminisms Conference.
Update: Queer Wales - edited collection - Deadline January 15 2010full name / name of organization: Huw Osborne contact email: osborne@rmc.ca Queer Wales, a collection of essays on sexuality, identity, and Wales
9th Global Conference: Violence - Probing the Boundaries (Salzburg, Austria: March 2010)full name / name of organization: Dr Rob Fisher/Inter-Disciplinary.Net contact email: v9@inter-disciplinary.net This conference is one of a continuing series that aims to bring together people from a wide range of disciplines to focus on a centrally significant aspect of our social lives: violence.
[ONE MONTH REMINDER OF DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS ] Crossing the Line: Affinities before and after 1900full name / name of organization: University of Liverpool contact email: organisers@crossing-the-line.org.uk A TWO DAY INTERDISCIPLINARY POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote Speaker: Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Confessions of a Fictionistafull name / name of organization: A.J.Race contact email: a.j.race@cox.net Four friends lives will be forever changed, when their long time companion Alex Kitt is gunned down during the Los Angeles Pride Parade, leaving them and his now widowed lover to try and cope with the
October 16-17 -- Second Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference on Literature, Composition, and Rhetoricfull name / name of organization: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Sigma Tau Delta - Xi Alpha chapter contact email: xialpha.utc.conference@gmail.com We are welcoming graduate and undergraduate student papers or full panel proposals that address any area of literature (British, American, world, colonial and post-colonial, medieval, modern, contempo
Imagining (and Prescribing) the Future: Archetypes and National Identity (C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists)full name / name of organization: Brett Wiley, MVNU contact email: bwiley1@mvnu.edu Panel for C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Obsolescence. (2/13-2/15/2010)full name / name of organization: Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference contact email: grad-conference@uwm.edu The fifth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for “Obsolescence,” a graduate student conference to be held February 13-1
[UPDATE] Collection: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile (abstracts, 9/1/09)full name / name of organization: Karen Elizabeth Bishop (Harvard University) contact email: kebishop@fas.harvard.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE CARTOGRAPHICAL NECESSITY OF EXILE
[UPDATE] anthology of essays, Human Geographies: Towards an understanding of Diasporic Subjectivityfull name / name of organization: Aparajita De contact email: de.aparajita@gmail.com In this anthology of essays, tentatively titled Human Geographies: Towards an understanding of Diasporic Subjectivity, we are interested to explore the importance of “positionality and location” (
CFP: Representations of Domesticity and LGBTQ Life, 3/18-20/2010 at CSAfull name / name of organization: Ed Chamberlain contact email: edachamb@indiana.edu CALL FOR PAPERS for the 8th Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference at Berkeley, California CONFERENCE DATES: March 18th-20th 2010
John Updike and Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick: In Memoriamfull name / name of organization: Packingtown Review: A Journal of Arts and Scholarship from the University of Illinois at Chicago contact email: ljohns56@uic.edu The editors of Packingtown Review, published by the University of Illinois Press, invites creative and critical submissions on the life, work, and influence of John Updike and/or Eve Kosofsky Sedgewic
[UPDATE] Approaches to the Late Medieval City - 10/30/09full name / name of organization: Columbia University Medieval Guild contact email: latemedievalcity@gmail.com The Columbia University Medieval Guild with the support of Columbia Department of English and Comparative Literature is pleased to announce its 20th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conferenc
Scriptural Politics: Re-Imagining the Bible in 19th C. U.S. Culture [C19: Society of 19th C. Americanists, May 20-23]full name / name of organization: Phillip Maciak contact email: maciak@sas.upenn.edu We are soliciting papers for a panel on uses of the Bible in 19th century U.S.
Male Femininity in Twentieth Century Literature of the Americas (09/15/09; NeMLA 4/7-11/2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)full name / name of organization: Harry Thomas / NeMLA: Northeastern Modern Language Association contact email: harryothomas@gmail.com This panel aims to identify representations of male femininity in twentieth century literature of the Americas, and to examine the cultural work done by the appearance and circulation of these represe
[EXTENDED DEADLINE10 September, 2009] Fantasy Ireland:13-15 November 2009full name / name of organization: North East Irish Culture Network/University of Sunderland contact email: Alison.younger@sunderland.ac.uk Fantasy Ireland: Imaginings and Re-Imaginings An international conference held at the University of Sunderland 13-15 November 2009 Organised by the North East Irish Culture Network
Women in Higher Education (October 01, 2009)full name / name of organization: Studies in the Humanities contact email: stilwell@iup.edu; mcdevitt@iup.edu The December, 2009 issue of Studies in the Humanities is seeking essay submissions for a special issue on the subject of "Theoretical Perspectives on Women in Higher Education.” The editors will cas
Reality Television at Southwest Texas Popular and American Culture Association [deadline: 12/15/09]full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association contact email: bell@cofo.edu Reality Television Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association 31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010 Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 18-20, 2010full name / name of organization: William Harmon, T. S. Eliot Society contact email: wharmon03@mindspring.com The T. S. Eliot Society will present two sessions of two or three papers each, with a substantial amount of time for discussion.
Queer Wales - edited collection - Deadline January 15 2009full name / name of organization: Huw Osborne contact email: osborne@rmc.ca Queer Wales, a collection of essays on sexuality, identity, and Wales
(Re)Writing Anaïs Nin and Her Diaries (April 7-11, 2010, Montreal)full name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association contact email: rspear1@tigers.lsu.edu ---
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