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Melancholia as a Central European Discourse in English Literary and
Cultural History
An International Conference at the University of Augsburg, 25-28th June 2009
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Martin Middeke and Dr. Christina Wald
Why are all outstanding philosophers, politicians, writers, and artists
melancholic?
Current Call: Technologies
Guest Editors: Karen Throsby and Sarah Hodges
*Deadline for Abstracts: April 15*
As forms of knowledge, as practices, and as artefacts, technologies
have reshaped, and continue to reshape, the ways we think, write,
create, and perceive the self, the body and the community. This
special issue of WSQ invites feminist work that considers the concept
of technology, conceived broadly, and explores the multiple
technologiesâ€"whether high-tech or low-tech, futuristic, contemporary,
or historicalâ€"that are influencing us.
We would like to invite you to submit the conference proposal for the
International Conference on Symbolism, Symbolism: Its Origins and Its
Consequences which will take place at the University of Illinois Conference
Center, Allerton Park, between April 15-18. The keynote speaker for the
conference is Madame Genevieve Lacambre, a curator of Musee d'Orsay in
Paris. The purpose of the conference is to explore the origins of
Symbolism, a variety of Symbolist manifestations in art, literature, music
and philosophy, its consequences in art and literature, and to understand
how ideas moved from one European country to another.
Æffective Æsthetics: Representation of Emotion
Rice Graduate Symposium, September 26-27, 2008
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Affective representation in both artistic and lived experience is
frequently explained in terms of competing social, political, and
cultural systems that often nullify one another. Compounding the problem
is the tendency for affect to complicate how we think about
representation; it seems that the two are inextricable. Through
investigating representations of affect within a variety of fields, this
conference proposes to find inroads that will bring the competing claims
of various discourses together into productive dialogue.
Call for Papers
Literary Essays
New publishing program seeks to commission a variety of literary essays
related to frequently taught authors and literary works. All essays will
be published as chapters in anthologies on these authors and works and
will be featured in a prominent reference database. Essays are to be
approximately 5000 words in length and should be researched and
documented according to MLA style. Compensation includes an honorarium
along with publication credit. PhD or current enrollment in PhD program
required.
For details concerning deadlines, topics, and general guidelines, please
contact the program editor at:
editorial_at_yardleybooks.com
CALL FOR ESSAYS. For a Special Issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and
Postcolonial Studies on Modern and Contemporary Pakistani Literature, the
guest editors seek essays of between 6,000 and 8,500 words in length.
Deadline for complete essays is October 1, 2008. Suggested topics for the
essays include but are not limited to the following: movements and
trends in Pakistani poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; politics and
literature; Pakistani literature in English; Diasporas and the immigrant
experience; essays, memoirs, and travel writing; culture and cultural
productions. The Journal is devoted to and welcomes scholarly submissions
on all aspects of colonial narratives and postcolonial texts and theory:
Midwest Modern Language Association
50th Annual Convention
November 13-16, 2008
The Minneapolis Marriott City Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
General abstract deadline is April 15, 2008. Some permanent sections are
also seeking chairs.
CFP: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/call_2008.html
Homepage: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/
Asian and Asian American Literature Panel-PAMLA 2008 (4/15/08; PAMLA,
11/7/08-11/8/08)
Proposals for individual presentations are invited for the Asian and Asian
American Literature panel at the 2008 meeting of the Pacific Ancient and
Modern Language Association (PAMLA). The panel topic is open, but I am
especially interested in papers that explore relationships between Asian
American experiences, writing, identity, and so on and the larger Asian
diaspora and even postcolonial study of Asian and Asian American
experience. These relationships might include, but are not limited to
THE NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES
2008 ANNUAL MEETING, BOSTON
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS) will hold its annual
meeting this year in Boston on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th November
2008. The conference will be hosted by Boston College and take place on
its Chestnut Hill campus.
Spaces of Utopia: Call for Papers
Special Issue on “Women Scientists in Utopiaâ€
Science has always played a fundamental role in utopian/dystopian texts. The majority of
scientists, however, even in those texts, were men. The questions this special issue of Spaces of
Utopia wishes to raise are the following:
- Why are there so few women scientists in the utopian genre?
- Is that still the case?
- When did that situation change and why?