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Design Research with RMIT University Press: Call for Proposals

Our aim is to promote the publication of design research. Design is a core activity in many disciplines, yet there are few publishers who specialise in design-driven research. Research can be conducted through designing, and the process of designing also parallels "traditional" research in interesting ways. Designers have a way of thinking and communicating that is different to traditional researchers, but which is equally robust when applied to its own kind of questions.

Panel CFP: Walter Pater's Poetics
at
Decadent Poetics, a conference at the University of Exeter
1st-2nd July 2011 (& not in 2010 as I previously wrote!)

I am seeking abstracts on Walter Paters Poetics for a panel proposal at Decadent Poetics, next summer. The general conference CFP can be found here: http://www.essenglish.org/cfp/conf1103.html
The confirmed keynote speakers are Stephen Arata (Virginia), Joseph Bristow (UCLA), Regenia Gagnier (Exeter), Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, London).

This panel discussion will explore how aesthetics might be understood not only as an end in literary form/production, but also as a means by which medieval artists (poets, writers, illuminators, jewelers, smiths, etc.) attempted to establish a rhetorical or authoritative stance.

The session will examine aesthetics more as 'techne' than 'telos' (though not necessarily excluding the latter). I particularly seek contributions from scholars in areas outside of literary study, that is, from such disciplines as manuscript studies, art history, philosophy, and theology.

Presenters should present a brief (5-7 minutes) introduction of their work in this area. This will be followed by an open discussion between panel members and the audience.

Seeking 15-minute papers for a panel on dead or dying animals in literature, science, film, art, or new media, or in relation to any other aspect of human culture. Proposals on any relevant topic are welcome, but I am especially interested in innovative subject matter and perspectives that engage with ecocriticism and/or animal studies.

Send the following by e-mail attachment no later than October 1, 2010:

1. An abstract of no more than 300 words.

2. Either a C.V. or a brief biographical statement that gives a sense of your academic background and research interests.

Please send abstracts (and any questions) to Christopher Anderson (Pittsburg State University) at cta@fusemail.net.

Call for Papers, CEA 2011—Conference Theme, FORTUNES

The 42nd Annual College English Association Conference
March 31 – April 2, 2011 – St. Petersburg, Florida
The Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront, 333 First Street South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701; (727) 894-5000

NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE at CEA:
The Native American Literature panel at CEA welcomes submissions on any aspect of Native American Literature, including papers on individual authors, Native American literary separatism, the Native American Renaissance, native sovereignty, indigenous rhetorics, etc. Of particular interest will be papers that address the conference theme, FORTUNES, from an indigenous perspective or worldview.