category: interdisciplinary

Why Comics Are and Are Not Picture Books

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives
contact email: 
charles.hatfield@gmail.com

Proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 5-8 Jan. 2012, Seattle, Washington.

The Material History of Spider-Man

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Language Association (MLA) Discussion Group on Comics & Graphic Narratives
contact email: 
derek@derekroyal.com

The Material History of Spider-Man: A 50th Anniversary Observance

[UPDATE] Mediascape Spring 2011 Issue: Space in Cinema, Media, and Digital Culture - Submission Deadline Extended

full name / name of organization: 
Mediascape, UCLA's Online Journal for Film, Television, and Digital Media
contact email: 
mediascape@tft.ucla.edu

Space is constructed within the cinematic text, and the space of spectatorship is an ever-changing beast.

Neil Gaiman and Feminism Essay Collection (01 April 2011)

full name / name of organization: 
Tara Prescott and Aaron Drucker/Claremont Graduate University
contact email: 
gaimanandfeminism@gmail.com

Call for Essays:

Death, Desire, Fury, and Delirium: Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman

Edited by Tara Prescott and Aaron Drucker

Call for Panel Participants (ISEA 2011): “Brain Drain–Brain Gain: Art, Science and Technology Programs”

full name / name of organization: 
2011 International Symposium on Electronic Art
contact email: 
tanfer.emin@gmail.com

Participants are sought for a panel tentatively entitled “Brain Drain–Brain Gain: Art, Science and Technology Programs,” which will be held at the 2011 International Symposium on Electronic Art

Call for Papers for Panel on American Humor October 6-8, 2011

full name / name of organization: 
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
contact email: 
jsneller@sdsmt.edu

Abstracts are being solicited for a panel on American Humor for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Assn. meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, October 6-8, 2011.

CFP EXTENSION: Feb. 15th. Attending (to) the Party: Orientations and Simulacra of Public and Private Sites

full name / name of organization: 
9th Annual Concordia University Graduate English Colloquium, Montreal
contact email: 
attendingtheparty@gmail.com

Throughout history, the notion of ‘party’ has served as a site for exploring prevailing liminalities: from ideological display to decorous intimacies to social multitudes, the party has served as

The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms (Proposals due May 15)

full name / name of organization: 
Andrew Reynolds & Bonnie Roos
contact email: 
areynolds@wtamu.edu, broos@wtamu.edu

The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms

Proposal deadline: May 15, 2011.

Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences (Abstracts Due March 31st)

full name / name of organization: 
Central Michigan University
contact email: 
Dr. Maureen Eke <eke1mn@cmich.edu>

CFP: Reading with Kristeva: Philosophy, Literature, Psychoanalysis and the 20th century Women Writers

full name / name of organization: 
Dr Rossie Artemis
contact email: 
artemis.r@unic.ac.cy

I am looking for paper submissions for a thematic issue of a literary journal dedicated to the work and influence of Julia Kristeva on the twentieth- and twenty-first century women writers.

UPDATE CALL FOR PAPERS ON CIVIC EDUCATION

full name / name of organization: 
Dorsía Smith Silva and Jamila Lyn
contact email: 
civiceducationproject@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are seeking submissions for an edited collection on

Civic Education

Editors: Dorsía Smith Silva and Jamila Lyn
Publication Date: 2012

Collin College Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Student Research Conference

full name / name of organization: 
Collin College
contact email: 
LRDavis@collin.edu

Call for Undergraduate Student Research Papers
For presentation at The 2nd Annual Collin College Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Student Research Conference – April 28 & 29, 2011 Plano, Texas

UPDATE: Great Writing - Creative Writing Conference [UK] (3/30/11; 6/18/11 - 6/19/11)

full name / name of organization: 
Great Writing International Creative Writing in Universities Conference
contact email: 
conference@greatwriting.org.uk

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****Limited Call for Papers****

Great Writing 2011

The UK’s 14th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Imperial College London

Thinking other-wise with/in English Studies. 13 & 14 May, 2011.

full name / name of organization: 
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh
contact email: 
juengconfc@yahoo.com and shamsadm@yahoo.co.uk.

Thinking other-wise with/in English Studies

13 & 14 May, 2011
Department of English
Jahangirnagar University
Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh

Convener
Dr. Shamsad Mortuza

[Update] Chitrolekha International Magazine [28.11.2011]

full name / name of organization: 
Chitrolekha International Magazine
contact email: 
editor@chitrolekha.com

Chitrolekha International Magazine on Art and Design has been conceived of as an attempt at exploring the world of art and design, as a platform dedicated to the artists and designers, design lovers,

CFP: 6th Nordic-Celtic-Baltic folklore symposium. June 4-7 2012,Tartu, Estonia (deadline for abstracts January 20, 2012)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Tartu. Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore and Department of Scandinavian Studies
contact email: 
pihla.siim@ut.ee

CALL FOR PAPERS
6th Nordic-Celtic-Baltic folklore symposium

SUPERNATURAL PLACES

Telling Photography (MLA, January 2012; 3/10 Deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
Kevin Riordan & Julia Faisst
contact email: 
riordan@umn.edu, julia.faisst@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

This session poses photography as a formal inquiry, a provocation, and a "wound" for literary and cultural studies. What is a photograph, and how do we continue to read and write with it?

[UPDATE] (dis)junctions2011: En route to a Nueva Movida

full name / name of organization: 
Graduate Department of English, University of California, Riverside
contact email: 
disjunctions2011@gmail.com

Here are a few additional topic-specific panels for our event scheduled for April 1-2, 2011. The deadline for submissions is February 18, 2011.

Early Modern Movements and Spaces

Animating Realities: Animation, Documentary and the Moving Image, Edinburgh, June 23 - 24 2011

full name / name of organization: 
Jonathan Murray/Edinburgh College of Art
contact email: 
jonny.murray@eca.ac.uk

Animating Realities: Animation, Documentary and the Moving Image
Thursday June 23rd and Friday June 24th, 2011

Literature: Its Pain, Its Pleasure

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of South Texas English Studies
contact email: 
southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its third issue, themed “Literature: Its Pain, Its Pleasure."

Call for Papers - Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conference - JUNE 13th - 14th, 2011

full name / name of organization: 
Brock University, St. Catharines, ON Canada
contact email: 
mdanahay@brocku.ca

REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS

Interacting with Immersive Worlds: Third Brock University Conference on the Interactive Arts & Sciences

BROCK UNIVERSITY, ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO

The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices. Deadline July 1

full name / name of organization: 
The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices, an electronic publication of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
contact email: 
General Editor, Nancy Riecken nriecken@ivytech.edu

The past issues of The Atrium have dealt with broad issues that connect classroom to culture and to community.

Call for Cultural Columnists: Brainy, Artful Generalists, Rejoice!

full name / name of organization: 
PopMatters
contact email: 
zarker@popmatters.com

Deadline for Applications: Saturday, 19 March 2011

Modernism and Picture Writing (Modernist Studies Association, October 6-9, 2011)

full name / name of organization: 
Modernist Studies Association
contact email: 
gw12@queensu.ca

How and why do modernist writers and artists write with images or pictorialize with words, whether in experimental literature and fine arts, or in popular arts such as children╒s literature or comic

Women and Lexicography (MLA 2012, Seattle)

full name / name of organization: 
Lindsay Rose Russell
contact email: 
russellr@uw.edu

Call for papers: Lexicography Discussion Group session, MLA 2012, Seattle

[UPDATE] CFP on Environmental Performance (abstracts 3/1)

full name / name of organization: 
R. Besel and Jnan Blau - California Polytechnic State University
contact email: 
rbesel@calpoly.edu and jablau@calpoly.edu

Call for Chapter Proposals: Collection on Environmental Performance

‘Minorités en vue’

full name / name of organization: 
Lancaster University
contact email: 
c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk

‘Minorités en vue’

A one day colloquium organised by the
Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University

UPDATE: Dreaming of Babylon: The Work of Richard Brautigan (Deadline: March 1)

full name / name of organization: 
Jill E. Anderson
contact email: 
drjillelizabeth@gmail.com

Seeking papers to fill out a panel proposal on Richard Brautigan's work for MLA 2012.

SAMLA 2011- Abiding Disturbance: Dystopias in Children's Culture (5/1/2011 abstracts, 11/4-6/2011 conference)

full name / name of organization: 
Lisa Dusenberry
contact email: 
ldusenbe@ufl.edu

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE DISCUSSION CIRCLE (SAMLA)
Abiding Disturbance: Dystopias in Children's Culture

"The Rest is Silence" Graduate Student Conference May 6th and 7th

full name / name of organization: 
York University, Graduate English Department
contact email: 
tanya81@yorku.ca

The Rest Is Silence

Sometimes silence is not golden – just yellow.
Anon.

When they hold their tongues, they cry out.
Cicero

ACIS-West 2011 (San Jose, CA ) - Oct. 21-23: "Ireland and Globalization"

full name / name of organization: 
American Conference for Irish Studies, Western Region Meeting (ACIS-West)
contact email: 
spanglermatthew@yahoo.com

Submissions due May 15, 2011 to aciswest2011@gmail.com

Reading Langston Hughes in the Age of Barack Obama (January 5-8, 2012)

full name / name of organization: 
The Langston Hughes Society (MLA Convention-Seattle, Washington)
contact email: 
sharon.jones@wright.edu

Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle , Washington
Special Session: Reading Langston Hughes in the Age of Barack Obama

Graduate Symposium, May 14: From Portraits to Pinups: Women in Art and Popular Culture

full name / name of organization: 
Brooklyn Museum
contact email: 
academic.programs@brooklynmuseum.org

From Portraits to Pinups: Representations of Women in Art and Popular Culture

History and American Women Writers

full name / name of organization: 
Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers
contact email: 
lina.geriguisatcgu.edu

PAMLA Conference 2011, November 5 and 6, 2011, at Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Panel Title: History in the Hands of American Women Writers

[UPDATE] The Importance of Kitsch, extended deadline March 1, 2011

full name / name of organization: 
Modern Horizons Journal
contact email: 
editors@modernhorizonsjournal.ca

For the April 2011 edition of Modern Horizons we invite essays that explore the various intellectual, artistic, emotional, and political manifestations of kitsch in our time.

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