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Editors: Derrais Carter & Nicholas Yanes
Publisher: McFarland
Deadline for Abstracts: May 25th, 2009
The 2009 Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish
Studies will be held October 17-19 at Southern Illinois University-
Carbondale. The conference theme is “Ireland: Medieval to Modern,†but
papers and panel proposals are welcomed on any topic related to Irish and
Irish Diaspora Studies, and presentations may be given in English or in
Irish. The plenary speakers are Mary O’Malley and Brian Ã" Conchubhair;
Louis de Paor will be awarded the Charles P. Fanning Medal for his
contribution to Irish Studies.
Please send 200-word abstracts to Beth Lordan, Director, Irish and Irish
Immigration Studies Program. The deadline for submission is May 1, 2009.
DASH, Cal State Fullerton's annual literary journal, seeks COVER ART
submissions for its 2009 issue. Our mission is to publish works of poetry,
fiction, creative nonfiction, criticism, and art (as well as hybrid texts)
that push the boundaries of short, emphatic expression. We aim to
communicate more with less. Waste not, want not. Submit.
Cover Art Submission and Style Guidelines
Remember when you were bored in school and doodled on your Pee-Chee
folder? Instead of getting in trouble, get published! We at DASH invite
you to deconstruct or remix our provided Pee-Chee template (perhaps to a
point beyond recognition). Colorwash. Erase. Doodle. Tag. Reinvent.
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush
stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger--but recognize the opportunity." -- John F. Kennedy
Call for Submissions
Dash, Cal State Fullerton's annual literary journal, seeks submissions
for its 2009 issue. It is our mission to publish works of poetry,
fiction, creative nonfiction, criticism, and art (as well as hybrid
texts) that push the boundaries of short, emphatic expression. We aim to
communicate more with less. Waste not, want not. Submit.
Boundaries (push at your own risk)
Poems
30 lines or less. Submit up to 5.
Fiction, Nonfiction, Criticism
2000 words or less, double-spaced.
Limit: 1 submission per category.
Art
Digital images, 300 dpi.
Email as TIFF attachment.
Do not send original artwork.
Hybrid
Surprise us.
CFP: D. H. Lawrence's Circle and Short Stories
(3/25/09; MLA 12/27/09-12/30/09)
The D. H. Lawrence Society of North American (DHLSNA) invites individuals
to submit abstracts for consideration for the 2009 MLA meeting in
Philadelphia (which will be held from December 27th through 30th).
The DHLSNA is organizing two panels: "D. H. Lawrence's Circle" and "D. H.
Lawrence's Short Stories."
We are interested in considering abstracts for the "D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories" panel of a
theoretical, biographical, literary or cultural nature that involve one or more of the short stories.
"Leaps of Faith: When Mania Meets Modernityâ€
This panel will interrogate the upsurge of the new(?) homicidal/suicidal
religiosity in the West. Possible perspectives are political,
sociological, activist, and philosophical. Approaches can cover the full
range from critical analysis to prescriptions for political action. Some
possible ideas, not intended to restrict ideas but just to spur thinking
on a few possible approaches:
- the suicide bomber as Kierkegaardian hero
- religious mania as a reaction to/ byproduct of Western modernity
- leaps of technological faith: the new high-tech cargo cults (Heaven's
Gate, etc)
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush
stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger--but recognize the opportunity." -- John F. Kennedy
Friday, 9 October 2009
Brandeis University
Department of English and American Literature
Seventh Annual Graduate Conference
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush
stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.†-- John F. Kennedy
CFP: D. H. Lawrence's Circle and Short Stories
(3/25/09; MLA 12/27/09-12/30/09)
The D. H. Lawrence Society of North American (DHLSNA) invites individuals to submit abstracts
for consideration for the 2009 MLA meeting in Philadelphia (which will be held from December
27th through 30th).
The DHLSNA is organizing two panels: "D. H. Lawrence's Circle" and "D. H.
Lawrence's Short Stories." For the "D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories" panel, we are interested in
projects of theoretical, biographical, literary, or cultural interest involving one or more of the
short stories.
CALL FOR PAPERS
ETUDES IRLANDAISES
French Journal of Irish Studies (PEER REVIEW)
Autumn 2009 issue Special issue
Representations of the intellectual in Ireland
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Editors: Prof. Carle Bonafous-Murat & Prof. Maurice Goldring
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 31 MAY 2009
IMAGINING AMSTERDAM: VISIONS AND REVISIONS
The editor of a collection on Language Anxiety invites quality papers
from practitioners of language teaching/ teachers/ scholars. Themes may
range from:
Language Learner and anxiety
Anxiety as an Impediment
Anxiety as a facilitator
Good language learners and their strategies
Anxiety as a Social/cultural/psychological construct
The role and Affect of anxiety in language learning
The editor expects empirical research, based on observation. Article
length may be between 3,500-8,000 words and I would prefger MLA style. I
am looking forward to reading papers across languages and cultures.
This call is for the Irish literature panel affiliated with the annual
South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference to be held November
6-8, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia.
This session seeks to explore the ways in which death, dying, or the denial
of death show up in modern to contemporary Irish literature. Papers may
include studies of the practices of and attitudes toward death and/or
memorialization, the link that exists between living and dying, the
contradictions and paradoxes that exist in attitudes towards death, the
ways in which the finality of death is denied, avoided, or confronted in
life, etc.
A full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, the
Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe is eligible for the Booker Prize. The
reputation of the prize is sure to transform the fortunes of the author
who receives it. This prestigious prize has been won by four Indiansâ€"
Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children, 1981), Arundhati Roy (The God of
Small Things, 1997), Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss, 2006) and
Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger, 2008). With the award of this prize to
Indians, Indian Writing in English (IWE) has become a force to be
reckoned with. The present anthology of critical essays proposes to
analyse the above Booker-winning novels and the general subject of the
eSharp, the University of Glasgow's postgraduate journal, is delighted to
announce it is receiving papers for its 13th issue on 'Atlantic Exchanges'
to be launched in June 2009. This issue emphasises cross-cultural Atlantic
exchanges, noting that the ocean has served not to separate but to connect
the peoples of the Atlantic continents - Africa, South America, the
Caribbean, North America and Europe - from 1492 to the present day.
'Atlantic Exchanges' seeks to encourage inter-cultural perspectives in a
variety of disciplines.
eSharp welcomes submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of
their research and contributors are invited to interpret the theme broadly.
Call for Papers Volume 24, 2009
Since 1985, the New German Review has been a medium for graduate students,
post-docs, and junior faculty to share their ideas with the academic
community worldwide.
We publish articles on German, Scandinavian and Dutch literature, but we
strongly encourage contributions within the broader field of Germanic
studies, including history, culture, philosophy and linguistics. Book
reviews, new translations, and interviews also form an essential part of
our publication.
**DEADLINE EXTENDED**CFP: [Collections] Domestic Violence in the Long
Eighteenth Century
I continue to seek submissions for an edited collection of essays
treating domestic violence in the long eighteenth century. Before there
was a category called "domestic violence," there were behaviors, ways of
speaking, issues of control, legal categories, economic conditions, and
occupational relationships that bordered on violence. The essays I seek
will consider early ways of representing, thinking and talking about what
will later be called domestic violence. I am especially interested in
essays that treat non-Western cultures, and/or medical, legal, or
religious ways of considering this topic.
CFP: Mark Helprin’s Worlds (grad) (2/27/09; (dis)junctions, 4/3/09-
4/4/09)
This call for papers is for a proposed panel at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside’s 16th Annual Humanities Graduate
Conference, which will be held on April 3-4, 2009. This year’s theme
is “Brave New Worlds.â€
Age and Affect: Fear, Denial, Fantasy
The Age Studies Discussion Group of the Modern Language Association seeks
papers on age and affect for a slotted panel at the 2009 MLA conference.
Chronological age and the processes of aging often elicit strong emotions
from individuals at any stage of life. We are interested in papers on
affective responses to age in literature, film, popular culture, or any
other media. Some possible topics might include:
CFP: D. H. Lawrence's Circle and Short Stories
(3/25/09; MLA 12/27/09-12/30/09)
The D. H. Lawrence Society of North American (DHLSNA) invites individuals
to submit abstracts for consideration for the 2009 MLA meeting in
Philadelphia (which will be held from December 27th through 30th).
The DHLSNA is organizing two panels: "D. H. Lawrence's Circle" and "D. H.
Lawrence's Short Stories." We welcome abstracts of 250 words that address
either topic and that demonstrate an innovative scholarly approach to
primary texts while simultaneously addressing important critical approaches
to Lawrence.
The American Name Society (ANS), a professional organization devoted to
the study of names and their role in society, invites précis and
abstracts for papers for its annual meeting to be held in conjunction
with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) and other allied,
professional organizations.
The Humanities Review, a graduate publication of the St. John's University
English department, seeks artistic cover art submissions for its Spring
2009 edition. The theme is Relocating the Avant-Garde, especially in
regards to the concept of Hope. Pieces should reflect whatever currently
defines the avant-garde or experimental in subject or technique.
Submissions for the cover of the journal can be in any 2D visual medium:
photography, drawing, painting, etc. Black and white or limited color
palate is encouraged.
The due date is March 15, 2009. Please submit .tiff images of the piece
electronically to sjuhumanities_at_gmail.com or ship to the following address:
Representing the British Civil Wars 1660-2009: Adaptation, Reflection, Transmission, Debate
University of Manchester, 4-6 December, 2009
This conference considers the ways in which the conflict period of the 1640s and 1650s have
been manifest in culture, political thought, historiography and popular imagination, from
Southey’s Life of Oliver Cromwell to Clarendon, from To Kill a King to the imminent film of
Paradise Lost. The conference looks at cultural appropriation and the ways in which particular
representational tropes have been developed and perpetuated.
Panel at the 2009 MLA in Philadelphia.
This panel investigates the metafictional and metacritical opportunities created by using writers, the
author or otherwise, as characters in fiction. It is open to any period or approach. Contributors
must be MLA members.
Please send 250-word proposals for 20 min. papers by 10 March 2009 to Malcah Effron
(malcah.effron_at_ncl.ac.uk).
Call for Ideas
Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands
April 24-26, 2009, University of Minnesota
NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FEBRUARY 17, 2009
Issue 14: Sense & Sensation
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Extended to 8th March, 2009
Send to: slamphilament_at_usyd.edu.au
“Ah well! It means much the same thing,†said the Duchess, digging her
sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of
THAT is â€"‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of
themselves.â€
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
"To the senseless nothing is more maddening than sense."
Aldous Huxley, Island
Call for Papers
17th Annual English and American Literature Association Conference
Conference Theme: Literature and Senses
Host: Taiwan’s English and American Literature Association,
Department of English, Soochow University
Venue: Soochow University (Waishuanghsi Campus), Taipei, Taiwan
Date: November 14, 2009
Dates for the symposium on Resistance: The Literature of Social Protest
have been changed to April 8-9 in observance of Good Friday, April 9.
Resistance: The Literature of Social Protest
And Struggle: Classical to Contemporary
Eleventh Annual Interdisciplinary McCleary Symposium
April 8-9, 2009
A full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth, the
Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe is eligible for the Booker Prize. The
reputation of the prize is sure to transform the fortunes of the author,
who receives it. This prestigious prize has been won by four Indiansâ€"
Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children, 1981), Arundhati Roy (The God of
Small Things, 1997), Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss, 2006) and
Arvinda Adiga (The White Tiger, 2008). Since the award of this prize to
Indians, IWE has become a force to reckon with. The present anthology of
critical essays on the Booker Prize winners, hailing from India proposes
to analyze the works of these masters. The book will include the papers