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category: gender studies and sexualityResponding to traumatic narrative in the context of the college writing classroomfull name / name of organization: Jeanie Tietjen contact email: jtietjen@massbay.edu Despite significant instructional counsel against disclosure of personal trauma, students in writing classrooms regularly choose to represent traumatic experiences in composition.
[REMINDER OF DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS ] Crossing the Line: Affinities before and after 1900full name / name of organization: University of Liverpool 28-29 January 2010 contact email: organisers@crossing-the-line.org.uk Crossing the Line is a student-led postgraduate conference that will explore and interrogate the multifarious affinities between Victorian and Modernist cultures.
Feminist Take On/Construction of the Enclosed Garden (Kalamazoo, 13-16 May 2010)full name / name of organization: M.C. Bodden and Jennifer Borland/ The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and The Medieval Feminist Art History Project contact email: mc.bodden@mu.edu; jrborland@gmail.com Feminist Take On/Construction of the Enclosed Garden (Kalamazoo 2010) International Congress on Medieval Studies
Women in Transit (1860- present day): Negotiating Public/Private Environmentsfull name / name of organization: Teresa Gomez Reus. University of Alicante, Spain contact email: mt.gomez@ua.es Contributions are sought for a book on women in spaces of transit in Anglo-American literature from 1860 to the present day.
NVSA cfp: FIGHTING VICTORIANS: DISUNION, POLEMIC, CONTROVERSY, April 16-18, 2010, Princeton Universityfull name / name of organization: Northeast Victorian Studies Association contact email: gmcweeny@williams.edu /The peace, that I deem`d no peace, is over and done. CFP: NVSA 2010 Princeton University: April 16-18, 2010
UPDATE Hanif Kureishi and His Work December 17-18, 2009, Ankarafull name / name of organization: 17th METU BRITISH NOVELISTS CONFERENCE Hanif Kureishi and His Work December 17-18, 2009 contact email: nbirlik@metu.edu.tr 17th METU BRITISH NOVELISTS CONFERENCE
Becomings, Misplacements, Departures: Butler & Whiteheadfull name / name of organization: Whitehead Research Project contact email: deena@whiteheadresearch.org Call for Student Papers
Lesbian Queer?: Investigating Eighteenth-Century Notions of Women’s Love, Homosociability, Homosexuality, and Queernessfull name / name of organization: American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Gay and Lesbian Caucus contact email: kkrumnow@aol.com When we talk about a queer eighteenth century, do we include women or is queerness only a male experience? Is there a femino-centric homosexual experience that occurred in the Eighteenth Century?
[UPDATE] “Global Citizenship for the 21st Century” Interdisciplinary Conf. Nov. 15-16, 09full name / name of organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona contact email: bkinder@csupomona.edu “Global Citizenship for the 21st Century” Interdisciplinary Conference
Criticism by Hispanic, Luso Brazilian & Latina Writers since 1900, Abstract 1 Sept 09, Conf Louisville KY 18-20 Feb 2010full name / name of organization: Kimberly Nance, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Illinois State University contact email: kanance@ilstu.edu Call for Papers: Criticism by Writers/Writing by Critics
Queer People 5: The uses of the history of sexuality; Christ's College, Cambridge, UK; July 14-17, 2010full name / name of organization: Caroline Gonda, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge and Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester contact email: cjg29@cam.ac.uk and CMouns@aol.com The link between theoretical approaches and historical approaches to the study of sexuality in history has undergone a huge transformation in the last five years.
Call for Papers: Ports of Call---Cultures of Exchange, UCLAfull name / name of organization: UCLA Comparative Literture Graduate Student Conference contact email: portsofcall2010@gmail.com As gateways to other worlds and world-systems, port cities, such as Tangier, Istanbul, London, Manila, and Kobe, one of Japan’s most important ports, are sites of economic and cultural exchange.
AHRC Postgraduate Colloquium 3rd December, 2009, Bad Behaviour in Medieval & Early Modern Europefull name / name of organization: Diane Heath, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK contact email: bad-behaviour@kent.ac.uk This is an excitingly different one day inter-disciplinary postgraduate Colloquium supported by the AHRC Beyond Text Programme.
Fifth International IDEA Conference: Studies in English (14-16 April 2010)full name / name of organization: ATILIM UNIVERSITY, ANKARA, TURKEY contact email: ideaconference@atilim.edu.tr, evrimdogan@atilim.edu.tr Fifth International IDEA Conference CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for Submissions: 1 December 2009
Frances Burney and Fashion, Burney Society Panel (ASECS, March 2010)full name / name of organization: ASECS - American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies contact email: engell784@duq.edu Frances Burney Society Panel for ASECS 2010 Burney and Fashion
Shirley Jackson Collection (Sept 30 deadline)full name / name of organization: Matthew B. Prickett contact email: Longwood University Proposed Collection: Beyond “The Lottery”: Critical Approaches to Shirley Jackson Editor: Matthew B. Prickett, Longwood University
"Explosive Past, Radiant Future", International Colloquium (submission deadline, 30 September)full name / name of organization: Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto contact email: colloquium2010@gmail.com The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto Explosive Past, Radiant Future an international colloquium, March 19-20, 2010
Reading *Twilight*: Analytical Essaysfull name / name of organization: Giselle Liza Anatol contact email: ganatol@ku.edu Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga, *Twilight*, has sold more than 42 million copies.
CFP: eclogafull name / name of organization: University of Strathclyde contact email: levelsix@strath.ac.uk ecloga, a peer-refereed journal run by English Studies postgraduates at the University of Strathclyde, invites papers for the next issue.
REGISTRATION OPEN -- Conference: "Utopian Spaces of British Literature and Culture, 1890-1945"full name / name of organization: English Faculty, University of Oxford (UK) contact email: utopianspaces@ell.ox.ac.uk "Utopian Spaces of British Literature and Culture, 1890-1945", 18 September 2009, University of Oxford
CFP: ‘Disclose’, M/C Journal Vol 12. No. 6 (December 2009) (due October 23 2009)full name / name of organization: M/C Journal contact email: disclose@journal.media-culture.org.au CFP: ‘Disclose’, M/C Journal Vol 12. No. 6 (December 2009) (due October 23 2009) ‘Disclose’ – Call for Contributions
UPDATE: ASECS 2010 Defoe & His Contemporariesfull name / name of organization: Dr. Holly Faith Nelson / Daniel Defoe Society contact email: Holly.Nelson@twu.ca “Strangers, Gods, and Monsters”: Encountering the Other in Defoe and His Contemporaries
Conference on Exiled Writers October 22-23, 2009full name / name of organization: Dr. Karen Tatum/Norfolk State University contact email: ketatum@nsu.edu Conference Theme: “SINGING THEIR SONGS IN A STRANGE LAND: The Impact of Exile on Diasporan Writers”
CALL FOR PAPER FOR PARSOMEN'S RETURNING AND RENEWED ISSUEfull name / name of organization: PARSOMEN - THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY contact email: bilgiparsomen@gmail.com Parsomen, the quarterly periodical of the department of Comparative Literature in Istanbul Bilgi University, seek submissions of papers for its returning issue in November, 2009 after its interval of
With Great Pleasure: Sentimentality and Form in Early African-American Literature NEMLA Conference April 7-10, 2010full name / name of organization: T. Bynum, Towson University contact email: tbynum@towson.edu This panel (for NEMLA Conference 2010--April 7-11, 2010) invites proposals that reexamine early African-American literature from a perspective that emphasizes the means by which these early authors (s
The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest (Symposium 5 Dec 09; CFP Deadline 5 Oct 09)full name / name of organization: Berkeley Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley contact email: adekosnik@berkeley.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) Symposium The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest
"Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora" 4/22-24/2010; deadline 12/15/09full name / name of organization: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; The City College of New York contact email: culturaljourneys2010@gmail.com “Let Spirit Speak!
John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (10th July 2010)full name / name of organization: Kate Macdonald and Nathan Waddell contact email: buchan-conference@hotmail.com An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2010/Buchan/index.htm Saturday 10 July, 2010
Re-Orienting English: Paradigms in /of Crisis; date 2009/12/05; deadline 2009/09/01full name / name of organization: Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University contact email: htjian@ntu.edu.tw What is English studies in the early decade of the 21st century, when the national boundaries are being crossed and redrawn thanks to the international flight, the Internet and people flows, when the
CFP: Guest Editors for Special Issues: Women's Writing 8/1/2009 (initial proposals) 12/15/2009 (final publication)full name / name of organization: WomenWriters.net contact email: kimwells@womenwriters.net Women Writers scholarly zine seeks proposals for guest editor CFP’s for our yearly Scholarly Special Issue on any aspect of Women's Writing.
The Works of Joss Whedon, SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 2/10-13/10)full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations contact email: tamy.burnett@gmail.com CFP: The Works of Joss Whedon, SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 2/10-13/10)
True Blood, SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 2/10-13/10)full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations contact email: tamy.burnett@gmail.com CFP: True Blood SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 2/10-13/10)
Merlin and Re-imaginings of Arthurian Legend(s), SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 2/10-13/10)full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations contact email: tamy.burnett@gmail.com CFP: Merlin and Re-imaginings of Arthurian Legend(s), SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 2/10-13/10)
_Eureka_full name / name of organization: Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association contact email: abuckman@saclink.csus.edu SW/TX PCA/ACA: Science Fiction and Fantasy Area Special CFP: Eureka (11/15/09; 02/10-13/10) The 31st Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA (at which the SF and F Area will be honored!)
UPDATE: In Derrida's wake: a Symposium on Deconstruction After Jacques Derridafull name / name of organization: La Trobe University, Australia contact email: Derrida2009@latrobe.edu.au In Derrida's Wake ANNOUNCING: Keynote Speaker ANDREW BENJAMIN: ‘JUSTICE, LAW AND PLACE: DERRIDA AND THE UNCONDITIONAL’
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