category: international conferences

[UPDATE - deadline extended] 5th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference, September 20-21, 2013

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:27:39 -0400

The 5th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 20-21, 2013 at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The Conference Committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. The theme of this year’s conference is “Preserving Louisiana.”

This interdisciplinary conference will be accepting proposals from the following disciplines: American studies, anthropology, architecture, archival studies, communications, craft, creative writing, criminal justice, cultural studies, cultural tourism, dance, design, English and literary studies, environmental studies, ethnic studies, fashion design, film studies, fine arts, folklore, gender studies, geography, heritage resources, history, interior design, journalism, linguistics, museum studies, musicology, music performance, philosophy, photography, political science, preservation studies, psychology, queer studies, religious studies, Romance languages, social work, sociology, theatre, and vernacular architecture.

Although we are especially interested in proposals that deal with Preserving Louisiana, all papers, creative writing, and short performances (dance, music, or theatric) that address ANY aspect of Louisiana studies are welcome. Proposals are being solicited for fifteen minute presentations from scholars at all career stages as well as graduate students. Creative work (creative non-fiction, short fiction, and poetry) is welcome. Undergraduates are invited to submit, provided they are working with the guidance of a trained scholar. Proposals for panels and roundtable discussions are welcome. Registration for Conference attendees will be $40.

Abstracts (300 words max.) for scholarly proposals, creative writing, films, and short performances (dance, music, or theatric) should be sent as e-mail attachments to Dr. Shane Rasmussen, rasmussens@nsula.edu. Presentations should run no longer than 15 minutes. Briefly detail the audio / visual tools (laptop, projection screen, data projector, DVD or VCR player, etc.) or space (the stage in the Magale Recital Hall will be provided for short performances) your presentation will require, if any. Please include a separate cover page with your name, affiliation, mailing and e-mail address, and the title of your presentation. E-mails should be entitled: Louisiana Studies Conference Submission. We will send an e-mail acknowledgement of having received each abstract within one week of having received it. If you do not receive an acknowledgment please resend your submission as we may not have received it. The deadline for submissions is July 15. Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mail by July 31, 2013.

Read broadly, consider the following possibilities for presentation topics relating to Preserving Louisiana. (Note: The following list of suggestions is not meant to be comprehensive.)

Archaeology
Architecture (including Vernacular Architecture)
Archives
Art
Bridges and Structures
Built Environments
Cemeteries and Gravestones
Churches
Conservation
Crafts
Cultural Heritage
Cultural Landscapes
Curation
Dancehalls
Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
Farming and Agricultural Practices
Film
Folk Industries
Folk Traditions
Folklife Apprenticeships
Gardens and Arboretums
Historical Landmarks and Sites
Historical Significance
History
Industrial Sites (cotton gins, fisheries, sugar houses)
Language Preservation
Libraries
Main Streets
Material Culture
Monuments
Murals
Museums
Native American Sacred Spaces
Oral History
Photography
Plantations
Preservation and Heritage Advocacy
Preservation and Heritage Education
Public Art
Public Spaces
Roadside Attractions
Rural Life
Sculptures
Sense of Place
Signs
State and National Parks
Theaters
Threats to Preservation

A selection of scholarly and creative work presented at the conference will be solicited for publication in Louisiana Folklife, a peer reviewed academic journal produced by the Louisiana Folklife Center, Northwestern State University, General Editor, Dr. Shane Rasmussen.

Additional information is available on the website for the Louisiana Folklife Center at Northwestern State University: http://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/.

Dr. Lisa Abney, Provost, Vice President for Student and Academic Affairs, and Professor of English, Northwestern State University (Conference Co-chair)

Dr. Shane Rasmussen, Director of the Louisiana Folklife Center and Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern State University (Conference Co-chair)

The Conference is co-sponsored by the Folklife Society of Louisiana, the Louisiana Folklife Center, and the NSU College of Arts, Letters, Graduate Studies and Research.

World Congress on Education (WCE-2013)

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:39:51 -0400

The WCE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the
advancement of the theory and practices in education. The WCE
promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and
professionals from Education. The aim of WCE is to provide
an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various
educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the
knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of
pedagogy. The WCE-2013 invites research papers that encompass
conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance
evaluation.

The topics in WCE-2013 include but are not confined to the
following areas:

*Accessible World
- Aging and Disability
- Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC)
- Assessment and Early intervention
- Baby Boomers
- Building and Sustaining an Inclusive Community
- Cognitive Disabilities
- Curriculum Adaptation and Modification
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing Developmental
- Disabilities Disability and Diversity
- E-Accessibility
- Human Rights/Disability Rights
- Legal Issues (Legislative and Policy)
- Learning Disabilities
- Living In(ter)dependently
- Support Services
- Postsecondary Education
- Public Health, Diversity and Disability
- Resiliency Across the Lifespan
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
- Study Skills Development
- Sustainable Environment
- Climate Change

*Adult Education
- Competitive Skills
- Continuing Education
- Higher Education
- Adult education
- Vocational Education
- Transferring Disciplines

*Art Education
- Music Education
- Writing Education
- Imaginative Education
- Language Education
- History

*Business Education
- Educational Administration
- Human Resource Development
- Academic Advising and Counselling
- Education Policy and Leadership
- Industrial Cooperation
- Life-long Learning Experiences
- Workplace Learning and Collaborative Learning
- Work Employability
- Educational Institution Government Partnership
- Patent Registration and Technology Transfer
- University Spin-Off Companies

*Course Management
- Accreditation and Quality Assurance
- Academic Experiences and Best Practice Contributions
- Copyright
- Digital Libraries and Repositories
- Digital Rights Management
- Evaluation and Assessment
- E-content Management and Development
- E-content Management and Development. Open Content
- e-Portfolios
- Grading Methods
- Knowledge Management
- Quality processes at National and International level
- Security and Data Protection
- Student Selection Criteria in Interdisciplinary Studies
- User-Generated Content

*Curriculum, Research and Development
- Acoustics in Education Environment
- APD/Listening
- Counsellor Education
- Courses, Tutorials and Labs
- Curriculum Design
- ESL/TESL
- Bullying
- Social Networking
- Study Abroad Programmes
- Faculty Development
- Distance Learning: Assessment, Methods and Technologies
Teaching and Learning Experiences in Engineering Education

*Educational Foundations
- Early Childhood Education
- Elementary Education
- Geographical Education
- Health Education
- Home Education
- Rural Education
- Science Education
- Secondary Education
- Second life Educators
- Social Studies Education
- Special Education

*Interaction and Cultural Models of Disability
- Adaptive Transportation
- Augmented and Alternative Communication
- Gerontechnology
- Healthcare Specialists
- Hospitality and Tourism
- Labor Market Integration
- Medical Experts
- Sport, Fitness and Leisure
- Special Educational Centres
- Social Innovation and E-Service Delivery
- Social Workers
- Student and Adults with Disabilities
- Usability and Ergonomics

*Learning / Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
- Simulated Communities and Online Mentoring
- e-Testing and new Test Theories
- Supervising and Managing Student Projects
- Pedagogy Enhancement with e-Learning
- Educating the Educators
- Immersive Learning
- Blended Learning
- Computer-Aided Assessment
- Metrics and Performance Measurement
- Assessment Software Tools
- Assessment Methods in Blended Learning Environments

*Global Issues In Education and Research
- Education, Research and Globalization
- Barriers to Learning (ethnicity, age, psychosocial factors, ...)
- Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
- Indigenous and Diversity Issues
- Government Policy issues
- Organizational, Legal and Financial Aspects
- Digital Divide
- Increasing Affordability and Access to the Internet
- Ethical issues in Education
- Intellectual Property Rights and Plagiarism

Important dates:

Research Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress and Report Submission Deadline: June 20, 2013
Notification of Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress and Report Acceptance Date: July 01, 2013
Final Paper Submission Deadline for Conference Proceedings Publication: July 20, 2013
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: June 01, 2013
Notification of Workshop Proposal Acceptance/Rejection: June 20, 2013
Poster/Demo Proposal Submission: June 01, 2013
Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: June 20, 2013
Participant(s) Registration (Open): April 01, 2013
Early Bird Registration: May 20 to July 01, 2013
Late Bird Registration (Authors only): July 02 to August 09, 2013
Late Bird Registration (Participants only): July 02 to September 08, 2013
Conference Dates: September 2-4, 2013

For further information please visit WCE-2013 at www.worldconedu.org

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2013

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:43:39 -0400

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Apollon invites undergraduate students to get published in, review submissions for, or help edit a the third issue of our peer-reviewed eJournal, Apollon. By publishing superior examples of undergraduate academic work, Apollon highlights the importance of undergraduate research in the humanities. Apollon welcomes submissions that feature image, text, sound, and a variety of presentation platforms in the process of showcasing the many species of undergraduate research.

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Apollon, an undergraduate humanities eJournal, is a peer-reviewed publication for undergraduate humanities majors. Apollon features undergraduate research developed in humanities courses, and thus emphasizes faculty-student collaborations beyond the classroom. We invite interested students to join us by contributing leadership or original work to Apollon. Our student team participates at all levels of this ongoing project (design, review, and publication) to offer their peers a real outlet for intellectual work in the humanities. For more information you can go to the program website, www.apollonejournal.org, talk to your professors, or contact the Faculty Director, Jason Cohen, at (859) 985-3765 or cohenj@berea.edu.

[UPDATE] Irish Gothic Conference 5-6 December, 2013

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:35:56 -0400

Confirmed Speakers:

• Professor W. J. McCormack (Former Professor of Literary History at Goldsmiths College, University of London)
• Dr Laura Pelaschiar (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Università di Trieste)
• Dr Derek Hand (Senior Lecturer in English, Saint' Patrick's College, Dublin City University)

Gothic studies have recently been expanding previous limits of what was once thought to be an historically well defined genre. The extent of continual change in Gothic denotation is such that it is now approaching the status of an inter-genre inter-semiotic category. This is even more the case with Irish literature. Not only because a remarkable number of Gothic writers are Irish, but also, and more significantly, because Ireland has provided an extremely fruitful cultural background for the particular narrative forms and devices that are usually associated with the Gothic. Moreover, Irish literature presents a “gothicness” of its own, whereby it seems to simultaneously adhere to and reject the ideological and aesthetic models implied by the very notion of Gothic.

At this conference we will explore the ways in which Irish Gothic can/cannot be considered part of the mainstream Gothic tradition, as well as investigating the origins and evolution of the genre in an Irish context.

We welcome submissions addressing any topic relevant to Irish studies, and encourage papers, which explore any aspect of the Irish Gothic in literature, film, and other media.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Irish Gothic vs English Gothic
• The Birth of Irish Gothic
• Theorising Irish Gothic
• Irish Gothic Modernisms
• The Uncanny in Irish Fiction
• Victorian Irish Gothic
• Irish Gothic Geography
• Irish Gothic in the Media
• Irish Gothic Art
• Irish Gothic and Psychology
• Irish Gothic and Imperialism
• Irish Gothic and Science
• Irish Gothic and Technology
• Irish Gothic and Popular “Goth” Culture
• Irish Gothic and History

Abstracts (250 words max) for 20 minute papers and a short bio-sketch may be submitted to Enrico Terrinoni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) and Annalisa Volpone (Università degli Studi di Perugia): perugiairishgothic@gmail.com.
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2013.
Accepted speakers will be notified by September 20.
Conference fee: Euro 25; Euro 15 for students and the unwaged

(Re)thinking Global Connectedness: Critical Perspectives on Globalization

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:24:26 -0400

Proposals Due: 15 September 2013
Conference Dates: 26-28 January 2014
Location: Doha, Qatar

The Liberal Arts Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for its Second Annual Liberal Arts International Conference. Following the success of last year’s Ethical Engagement with Globalization, Citizenship, and Multiculturalism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, this second annual conference will explore the impacts of globalization from a variety of disciplinary lenses.

How has globalization transformed us individually and collectively? How is globalization shaping notions of ethics? Is globalization merely a shrinking of the world or is it transforming human experience? What challenges does globalization pose to understandings of the self and the other? How do we sustain a globalized world in terms of food, energy, and education? Are we already living in a post-globalized world?

We welcome submissions from across the spectrum of academic fields, including composition and rhetoric, linguistic, politics, history, technology, language studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, philosophy, ethics, law, religion, and cultural studies. We especially encourage contributions from PhD students and scholars working in non-western and/or underrepresented regions.

Possible Conference Panels and Discussions:
Conceptualizing Globalization
Connections: Globalization and Technology
(Re)Thinking Ethics in a Globalized World
Linguistic Perspectives on Globalization
Education in a Globalized World
Historical Perspectives on Globalization
Globalization: Comparative East-West Perspectives
Global Movements: Environment, Peace, Violence
Legal Concerns of a Bordered/Borderless World
Gendering Globalization

The conference can provide substantial travel bursaries for international participants who need funding.Submission of individual papers and complete panel proposals on these or other related themes are welcome. Select papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed volume or a special issue of an international journal.

In order to be considered, please submit a panel proposal or individual paper proposal to include author(s) names, institution affiliation, email address, and an abstract of 250 words with 5 keywords by September 15, 2013 to LAIC2014@qatar.tamu.edu

Organizing Committee:
Dr. Leslie Seawright
Dr. Hassan Bashir
Dr. Phillip W. Gray
Dr. Troy Bickham
Liberal Arts Program ,Texas A&M University at Qatar
LAIC2014@qatar.tamu.edu
liberalarts.qatar.tamu.edu

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama [July 15, 2013]

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:41:09 -0400

Special Issue on Contemporary Drama

In the past twenty years Irish society has experienced a range of cultural, political and, centrally, financial upheaval. To what extent has Irish theatre responded to these tumultuous events? How far have traditional forms and subjects maintained their position? Or have experiment and innovation become the new distinguishing features? The guest editors of this special issue of Breac, Lindsay Haney and Shaun Richards, invite submissions addressing any aspect of recent Irish drama. In keeping with Breac’s interdisciplinary goals and digital form, we encourage submissions informed by any approach to drama and theatre and rendered as conventional essays or works in any audio or visual medium.

The issue will include essays from Brian Singleton on ANU productions, Emilie Pine on theatre’s response to abuse revelations, Niamh Malone on theatre and urban regeneration, and Susan Cannon Harris on Conor McPherson’s supernaturalism; an interview with Colm Tóibín, conducted by Paige Reynolds; and a video feature from Róise Goan, director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, on incubators and space in New Theatrical Dublin.

Breac is a peer-reviewed, open-access, paperless journal that publishes critical and creative work relating to Ireland and Irish Studies. Among its many features is a forum section that seeks to cultivate a global conversation around the published articles among its readers, students, and scholars. It also periodically streams live events through the website’s BreaCam. Subscribing to the journal is entirely free, and we encourage you to visit the website at breac.nd.edu.

We suggest a length of 4000-5000 words, but will happily consider longer articles. Deadline is July 15, 2013.

Full submission instructions are available at http://breac.nd.edu/submissions/. Questions to breac.djis@gmail.com.

Memsahibs as Imagined and Imaged by Male Writers (Deadline: September 30, 2013)

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:09:22 -0400

Session Title: MEMSAHIBS AS IMAGINED AND IMAGED BY MALE WRITERS

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University

Session Description:
The memsahib is perhaps the most maligned figure among the Raj women. This panel invites scholarly articles on how male writers represent the memsahib in their writings, and how they depict her impact on and/or relationship with British India.

Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to:
• Critical analysis of literature on memsahibs
• Letters, memoirs, fiction and non-fiction about memsahibs (not by memsahibs)
• Memsahib’s relationship with and contribution to British India
• The Raj machinery and the role of the memsahib
• Home-building and Empire-building
• Memsahib’s role in the success and/or failure of colonization
• Memsahib and the trauma of the Indian Mutiny
• Memsahib and racism
• Memsahib and the ‘myth of the destructive female’
• Colonized and colonizer women
• Memsahibs as ‘maternal imperialists’
• Unconventional memsahibs; what makes them unconventional?
• Study of gender and imperialism
• Intra-racial tensions, if any, in the gaze of memsahibs
• Life at Home and out in the Colony
• Sense of exile and pain of alienation
• Femininity and/or feminism in memsahib’s female gaze

Please feel free to share your ideas for papers even if they are about literary depiction of white women in other British colonies.

Email: Dr Susmita Roye (sroye@desu.edu) with a 300-word abstract.

Deadline: September 30, 2013

Please include with your abstract:
• Name and Affiliation
• Email address
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 2014 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. This capitol city set on the Susquehanna River is known for its vibrant restaurant scene, historical sites, the National Civil War museum, and nearby Amish Country, antique shops and Hershey Park. NeMLA has arranged low hotel rates of $104-$124.

The 2014 event will include guest speakers, literary readings, professional events, and workshops. A reading by George Saunders will open the Convention. His 2013 collection of short fiction, The Tenth of December, has been acclaimed by the New York Times as “the best book you’ll read this year.” The Keynote speaker will be David Staller of Project Shaw.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2014/cfp.html

SAMLA Special Session on Creating or Expanding a BA Program in English During Uncertain Times (June 20th- Abstract Deadline)

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:05:03 -0400

This panel invites participants from any college or university where there is an interest in building a B.A. in English or establishing a new programmatic track within the discipline. Participants need not be at any particular point in the process, and we hope to incorporate a diverse array of experiences and viewpoints. In other words, participants may only be thinking about the possibility of creating a program or they might be on the other side of the process. This panel will also consider what types of programs should/need to be created to meet the changing needs of students in the 21st century. We hope that this session will produce a vibrant dialogue that will serve as a bridge to future cooperation.

Because of the collaborative nature of this panel, we would like to create a roundtable atmosphere in which the audience plays an active role. Participants will each provide an informal 5-10 minute talk about their experiences and the advice they have about the process and then the rest of the session will be dedicated to having an open dialogue.

Instead of traditional proposals, those interested should send a brief 250 word description of their experiences and what they would like to gain from participating in the panel. Accepted descriptions will be shared with all participants to help generate a productive discussion. In order to be considered, these descriptions should be sent to SOrtolano@Edison.edu by June 20th.

Featured Speaker: Dr. Kristie Fleckenstein, Professor of English at Florida State University; co-collaborator in the creation and administration of FSU's undergraduate program in Editing, Writing, and Media

Call for Papers - Patents for Humanity Special Issue - August 23 2013

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:08:55 -0400

In recognition of the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity program, Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, will be publishing a special issue highlighting influential humanitarian technologies, including the innovation and imagination seen in the Patents for Humanity contest submissions.

To this end, T&I is soliciting abstracts for articles or commentaries on humanitarian patents. We hope that all finalists of the Patents for Humanity contest will consider contributing to the issue.

Abstracts should be submitted by June 8, 2013. The abstract submission should contain: title, author affiliation, abstract of no more than 250 words, key words, and corresponding author’s contact information. Upon approval, full manuscripts will be due by August 23, 2013.

All submissions should meet Technology and Innovation’s author instructions and should be submitted through T&I’s website, http://submissions.academyofinventors.org/index.php/journal/about/.

Articles should concern patented technologies or innovations that have made/have the potential for making significant contributions to humanity. Articles may include commentaries by field experts concerning patents, original articles describing the development and research towards a technology or patent, and/or narrative-like stories that emphasize the societal benefits of select innovations.

Submissions may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
• Economics of a technology, governmental and policy action, and innovation
• Environmental impact of various technologies/patent types
• Health impacts of technologies and innovations
• Analyses of the distribution and access to technology

If you have any questions, please contact Editorial Assistant Diana Vergara at TIJournal@research.usf.edu.

Technology and Innovation is published by Cognizant Communication Corporation.

Call for Creative Writing Articles

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:34:04 -0400

Award-winning Writing Commons (http://writingcommons.org/), a global, peer-reviewed, open-education resource for college students invites the submission of creative writing articles intending to help college students to understand the concepts of creative writing and to improve their writing practice.

Audience
The readership for your article/submission includes undergraduate students in creative writing courses. To address such an audience, avoid difficult theories or complex discussions of research and issues or detailed discussions of pedagogy; rather, consider the interests and perspectives of students, with various levels of expertise, working through college-level creative writing projects.

Length
The typical Writing Commons submission will be approximately 750 to 1,000 words long, although longer webtexts may be submitted. For longer pieces, the use of headings within the piece is highly encouraged.

Submissions
Please email submissions to Dianne Donnelly at dianne@writingcommons.org as a doc or docx by September 15, 2013. Authors should include a brief byline and email. Any included citations should follow the current edition of The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. The incorporation of multimedia components is also encouraged (e.g., images, hyperlinks). For more details, see our guide for authors at http://writingcommons.org/writers-wanted/guide-for-authors.

Review
Because webtexts are more concise than traditional academic essays, we intend to have a quick turn-around time; from initial submission to notification of the submission’s status, please allow approximately four weeks.

Submission Topics

Fiction
• Writing Fiction – an overview
• Point of view
• Concrete vivid details/images
• A story’s arc
• Voice
• Conflict
• Setting
• Tone and style
• Characterization
• What your character wants
• Dialogue
• Tension
• Scenes and summary
• Flashbacks (and flashforwards)
• Metaphor and analogy
• Beginning and endings
• Flash fiction
• The long story

Nonfiction
• Writing creative nonfiction – an overview – by Ira
Sukrungruang
• Creative nonfiction forms
o Memoir
o Personal essay
o Travel narrative
o Nature essay
o Scientific writing
o Literary journalism

• The tenets of narrative
o Voice
o Setting
o What your character wants
o What your narrator wants
o Dialogue
o Writing exposition and the retrospective voice
o Considering the double “I”

Poetry
• Writing poetry – an overview
• Where do poems originate?
• The major forms of poetry
o Acrostic
o Ballad
o Cinquain
o Clerihue
o Diamante
o Didactic
o Free verse
o Ghazal
o Haiku
o Limerick
o Sestina
o Sonnet
o Villanelle
• Creating images
• Lines and stanzas
• Meter and rhythm
• Sounds of language
• Metaphor

Playwriting
• Writing Plays – an overview – by Mark E. Leib
• Action and plot
• Characterization
• Dialogue
• Concept
• Stage directions

Screenwriting
• Writing films – an overview – by Mark E. Leib
• Action and plot
• Characterizations
• Dialogue
• Format
• Description

Digital Creative Writing
• Considering Digital Writing – an overview
• Other topics are open for consideration

International Conference ICT for Language Learning

Mon, 13 May 2013 05:25:09 -0400

International Conference ICT for Language Learning

The 6th edition of the “ICT for Language Learning” Conference will take place in Florence, (Italy), on 14 – 15 November 2013.
The objective of the ICT for Language Learning conference is to promote the sharing of good practice and transnational cooperation in the field of the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to Language Learning and Teaching. The ICT for Language Learning conference will also be an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current language learning projects and innovative initiatives.

The ICT for Language Learning conference focuses on the following topics:
• ICT based language teaching and learning approaches
• E-learning solutions for language teaching and learning
• Quality and innovation in language teaching and learning
• Monitoring and evaluation of language teaching and learning
• Recognition and validation of language skills
• Language teacher training
• Language learning to support international Mobility
• Multilingualism
• Language learning for specific purposes
• Studies in Second Language Acquisition
• CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning
• The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
• The European Language Label for the promotion of quality in language learning

The Call for Papers, within the ICT for Language Learning Conference, is addressed to language teachers and experts as well as to coordinators of language projects and initiatives.
Experts in the field of language teaching and learning are invited to submit an abstract of a paper to be presented during the ICT for Language Learning conference. The abstract should be written in English (max 500 words) and sent via e-mail to conference@pixel-online.net no later than 24 June 2013.

Important dates
• 24 June 2013: Deadline for submitting abstracts
• 22 July 2013: Notification of Acceptance / Rejection
• 09 September 2013: Deadline for final submission of papers
• 09 September 2013: Deadline for speakers registration
• 14 – 15 November 2013: Dates of the conference

There will be three presentation modalities: Oral and poster presentations (in-person) and virtual (for those who can not attend in person)

All the papers presented during the conference will be published on an ISBN publication.

For further information, please contact us at the following address: conference@pixel-online.net or visit the ICT for Language Learning conference website: http://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2013.

Jazz and Cinema

Sun, 12 May 2013 08:45:12 -0400

The conference will gather academic scholars and others with an interest in the relationship between jazz and cinema from across a range of disciplines.

Possible themes could include:

Analysis of the use of pre-existing jazz recordings to soundtrack films
Analysis of purpose-made jazz soundtracks
The social implications of the use of jazz in cinema
The historical development of jazz in cinema
Jazz musicians on the screen, an exploration of jazz musicians’ appearances in filmOther topics around the broader theme of Jazz & Cinema are also invited for submission.
We are delighted to confirm our keynote speaker will be Dr Nicolas Pillai from Warwick University. Dr Pillai is currently researching jazz in British film and television, as well as teaching more widely on music and visual culture. He has given papers on European jazz culture as an invited speaker at the National Jazz Archive and at Rollins College, Florida.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in The Soundtrack special issue on jazz and cinema in 2014.

Please send an abstract of 300 words and a short bio to jazzandcinema@gmail.com.

Deadline for abstract submission: 1st June 2013

Successful submissions will be notified no later than 1st July 2013

http://jazzandcinema.wordpress.com/

International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013 ( LLL 2013)

Sat, 11 May 2013 06:30:43 -0400

Language plays an important role in the modern society and represent diverse aspirations and needs ,cultures, traditions, and practices. Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. Literature introduces us to new worlds of experience. We learn about books and literature; we enjoy the comedies and the tragedies of poems, stories, and plays; and we may even grow and evolve through our literary journey with books. Linguistics offers different approaches to the study of how communities, groups and individuals communicate with one another.
To promote the importance of language learning and facilitate our understanding of literature, and broaden our knowledge of linguistics, ICRD is organizing the LLL 2013 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which is the most vibrating city in South Asia.

The LLL 2013 will look into various issues in relation to the use and learning of different languages. This conference covers topics pertaining to applied linguistics and theoretical linguistics in various institutional, social, and cultural contexts. The conference also welcomes presentations based on studies conducted from inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives, involving research into language/s in different academic disciplines. LLL 2013 hopes to provide an interesting platform for researchers, academics, language practitioners, policy makers and postgraduate candidates, to share knowledge ,exchange ideas and establish academic relationships.

Culture Identity Diversity: The Challenge of Multicultural Classes

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:05:51 -0400

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
Deadline: September 30, 2013

This session explores effective ways of integrating different identities in the language class and considers the question of how diversity can successfully contribute to language learning.
Diversity comprises a variety of concepts, ranging from basic ways of communicating to cultural and social behavior. Language instructors need to recognize who they are, as well as who their students are and what they bring to the table, in terms of ethnicity, language, country of origin, and religion. If identity is complex and the result of a multiplicity of aspects, how can instructors succeed in both recognizing the students’ identities and promoting their diversity in order to establish a comfortable environment in the classroom?
Instructors should find ways to acknowledge diversity, without assimilating it, to integrate diversity, without stigmatizing it, and to valorize each student’s identity as a precious asset in the learning process. Students should be seen not as stereotypical representatives of a cultural group, which only creates a misconception of diversity and an affective filter against students of other ethnicities, but rather as fundamental resources for language and cultural learning, so as to facilitate the learning process and improve language skills.
This session will provide instances of the challenges that instructors face in a diverse teaching environment, in addition to offering practical examples of how to integrate different cultural systems in the lesson plan. It will question how the acts of identifying, describing, and sharing different cultures may lead students to interact inter-culturally with each other and, most importantly, contribute to the learning process.
Please, submit a 250-word abstract to Daniela D’Eugenio, Graduate Center (CUNY) at ddeugenio@gc.cuny.edu by September 30, 2013. Please include with your abstract: name and affiliation, email address, A/V requirements.

VI International Gothic Congress ‘Gothic Convergences’, UNAM, Mexico City, April 1, 2 & 3, 2014

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:43:57 -0400

During the last years, Gothic Literature has just begun to be accepted as a literary field worth of study among Mexican scholars. The doors remain open to deepen into the study of a style whose manifestations go beyond the barriers represented by time, culture, genre, and art modes.

Objetive: After the great response received in the previous Gothic Congresses (2008 - 2012), the aim is to keep encouraging the interest in the Gothic among both students and scholars at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and other Mexican institutions. To achieve this, we propose to start from the study of the plural presence of the Gothic in various modes of art, as well as time and space contexts.

Dates: March 1, 2 & 3, 2014 (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).

Place: Salón de Actos I, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature (FFyL), UNAM (Nacional Autonomous University of Mexico), Mexico City.

Call for Papers: We are calling for papers centered upon the idea of the Gothic as a timeless and intertextual plural phenomenon in literature and other arts.

Other Possible topics:
. History and evolution of Gothic Literature
. Gothic elements in Mexican and Latin-American Literature
. National Gothic Literatures (British Gothic, Scottish Gothic, American Gothic,
etc.)
. Gothic Literature and Postmodernism
. The future of Gothic Literature
. Gothic in Film and Art

Those interested in taking part in the congress are asked to send an abstract of their paper in 200 words, including its title; as well as a short summary of their academic background (50 words) with full name of the participant.
The proposals will be received until December 31, 2013.

The participants will be given around 20 minutes to read their papers. The works can be presented in either English or Spanish.
Keynote speakers will be given 50 minutes to read, with 10 minutes to answer questions from the public.

Those whose papers get accepted to participate in the congress can send a version of the paper to be included in the congress yearbook between April 4 and April 30, 2014. Such version must include both reference footnotes and the corresponding bibliography.

All proposals, papers and questions are to be sent to:

coloquio_gotico@hotmail.com / antonio.alcala@itesm.mx

Blog: http://gothiccongress.blogspot.com/

Literature and/in illness Bordeaux (France) December 19-20, 2013

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:02:03 -0400

Appel à communications

19-20 décembre 2013

Colloque international à l’université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3/International Conference University Michel de Montaigne-BOrdeaux 3 (France)

Illness and/in Literature and the Arts

EA CLIMAS-CLARE (ERCIF)

“Like anyone who has had an extraordinary experience I wanted to describe it . . . My initial experience of illness was a series of disconnected shocks and my first instinct was to try to bring it under control by turning it into a narrative.”

Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death

In his book The Normal and the Pathological, Georges Canghilem, a French physician and philosopher, writes that “disease is not a variation on the dimension of health, it is a new dimension of life.”

For centuries illness has been talked about mostly in medical literature. But since the beginning of the 20th century, it has increasingly become a subject for literature and the arts (painting and cinema in particular)—whether it be physical, mental or moral. Even if it is still perceived, experienced, as a “disaster”, it is no longer a secret belonging to the private sphere. Ill people (or their family) tell their stories, writers write personal or invented stories of illness, moviemakers show it on screen. A. W. Frank mentions “the need of ill people to tell their stories, in order to construct new maps and new perceptions of their relationship to the world” (The Wounded Storyteller, 1995). Anne Hunsaker Hawkins uses the term “pathography” to refer to this subgenre of autobiography, even if the narrator is not always the ill person.

However, quoting Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill”, Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain points out that pain is difficult to express, let alone describe: “Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it.” In The Gay Science, Nietzsche gives it a name and calls it “dog,” explaining: “I can scold it and vent my bad mood on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives.” It is a means for him to regain control, at least to try to do so, thanks to a metaphor; others use “as if” structures to describe their pain—but all need images “to externalize, objectify, and make shareable what is originally an interior and unshareable experience” (Scarry). While the body speaks in symptoms that require deciphering, the “Wounded Storyteller” “talks around”, “obliquely”, and his narrative needs decoding.

Following Canghilem’s theories, Gilles Deleuze developed a so-called “vitalist” philosophy. He examined a certain number of literary texts presenting the same “crack-up” (Fitzgerald, 1936), and he managed to explore the worst and find the best in it. Does it mean that health is “asphyxiating” as Philippe Godin puts it? And that literature is “restorative”, as suggested by Deleuze?

The conference will address the above-mentioned questions. Papers can focus on all artistic forms in the English-speaking world. Cultural studies and gender studies are welcome.

Abstracts of about 300 words, in English or in French, are to be sent with a short biography (200 words maximum) to Pascale Antolin (pascale.antolin@u-bordeaux3.fr) and Marie-Lise Paoli (marie-lise.paoli@u-bordeaux3.fr) before July 10, 2013.

Notification of acceptance will be sent within the following week.

A conference on the counter culture and contemporary art practices November 6-8, 2013, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, Fr

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:47:18 -0400

A conference on the counter culture and contemporary art practices

November 6-8, 2013, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France.

Proposals (Times 12, 3500 signs, including spaces, in French or in English) must be either uploaded on the conference site at http://art-contre-cult.sciencesconf.org or sent to valerie.arrault@univ-montp3.fr under the following subject “colloque pratiques plastiques contemporaines et contre-culture 2013” before May 31, 2013. They shall feature a title, the author’s first and last name, status, affiliation, snail and electronic addresses and telephone number, highlight the methodology adopted, and include a thesis statement, 5 key words and a maximum of five bibliographical references.

Organized by the IRIEC research center, the conference partakes of the research undertaken by ECART (Études culturelles des Arts et technologies) on the connection between dominant culture and contemporary artistic creation, more specifically between what is called contemporary art and mass culture (comics, video games). The conference will examine the links that tie contemporary creation to the counter culture, bearing in mind that the concept, inherited from the 60s, may have lost its validity when used both as the testimony of a protest movement, and the symptom of adaptability to the dominant cultural ideology.

On the basis of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s definition of the counter culture as “a set of symbolic actions that challenge and criticize official or dominant culture, often by suggesting alternative practices”, one must be able to identify today’s dominant culture before being able to focus on the counter culture. A central issue is that the concept of a dominant culture remains paradoxically tied to the idea of an outdated culture, bound to a rigid, coercive society, dominated by totalitarianism, and authoritarian and punitive Taylorist constraints whereas for more than fifty years, a postmodern culture has made its way and imposed a historical process based on ruptures, transgressions, and the challenging of artistic and social codes. If in the early ’60s, the counter culture could be understood as a refusal, a stance against the dominant political order, a transgression of moral and cultural limits, a potent criticism based on individual freedom, by the end of the century and the beginning of the following one, such notions have come to be appraised positively. The figure of the dissenting rebel, whose fluid practices, mobile state of mind, and constant demands for more freedom characterized the original counter culture, has become the current mentality. Isn’t today’s dominating feature what used to be subversive in the ’60s? Isn’t the present distinguished by the abolition of hierarchies, by interchangeability, indifference, and the exaltation of the individual, all that used to give the Sixties their distinctive flavor?

As we can see, the counter culture as a concept cannot be taken for granted when it is used both as the testimony of a protest movement, and the symptom of adaptability to the dominant cultural ideology. It consequently becomes problematic to keep on dubbing “counter cultural” (i.e., challenging dominant social values) attitudes and practices that belong to by-gone days, if we agree on the emancipating function of art. Furthermore, the issue has become all the more pressing for artists as these values have been co-opted and adopted as its motto by the neo-liberals responsible for the current and future human and environmental disasters. The equation between postmodernist and neo-liberal values cannot but worry those who still found the legitimacy of their subversion on counter cultural principles.

Consequently, if we follow Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, the following questions have to be addressed: what is a counter culture today? For whom does it matter to be creatively free? Shouldn’t we connect the issue of socio-constructive values to the definition of the counter culture given by artists to their practice? How can the implicitly subversive dimension of the counter culture be maintained? What alternative artistic practices still bear witness of such awareness?

Four directions can be explored:
• the counter culture today;
• counter cultural utopias;
• artistic forms offering a counter cultural dimension, in the realm of contemporary art, mainstream, subcultural or mass culture;
• intermedia and transfer –based counter culture.

International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:45:56 -0400

To promote the importance of language learning and facilitate our understanding of literature, and broaden our knowledge of linguistics, ICRD is organizing the LLL 2013 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which is the most vibrating city in South Asia.

http://www.languages3000.com/

conference CULTURE(S) AND RESISTANCE TODAY June 19-21, 2014, Nîmes University (France)

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:45:08 -0400

6th Cultural Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies International Conference in Languedoc-Roussillon (France)

A joint production
UMR 5281 ART-Dev- Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 – Route de Mende – 34199 Montpellier cedex 5 artdev@univ-montp3.fr – http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/artdev/

EMMA EA 741 Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 – Route de Mende – 34199 Montpellier cedex 5 isabelle.ronzetti@univ-montp3.fr – http://pays-anglophones.upv.univ-montp3.fr/

CULTURE(S) AND RESISTANCE TODAY

June 19-21, 2014, Nîmes University (France)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 6th Cultural Geography, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies International Conference in Languedoc-Roussillon will focus on culture(s) and resistance today. What is the nature of the connections between the various forms of culture and the various forms of resistance? Dialogues, oppositions, transformations? The conference will investigate anthropology (nature and culture), history (civilization and culture), geography (territories, identities, landscapes and cultures) as well as the contemporary representations given of these connections by various art forms.

The goal is to grasp the notion of resistance in its plurality and complexity. From a semantic perspective, one has to differentiate between close but distinct notions: rebellion, revolt, protest. Likewise, resistance must not be confused with its manifestations: riots, demonstrations, strikes, or Brazilian invasiaoes. Resistance is an individual or collective form of refusal that summons the mind as much as the body. It springs wherever there is oppression, in places of power or in everyday places: urban or rural environments, places of work, education, coercion. However, it always has a political dimension. Resistance can adopt material or immaterial forms. It can be characterized by words or gestures, or the absence thereof, by action or inaction, violence or non-violence. It is distinct from overworked discourse, the resigned acceptance of daily routine.
Resistance is also an ambiguous concept, based on a dual dialectics: between the resistant and the power he resists, but also between movement and conservation. Thus, in 1840, a conservative “Parti de la Résistance” was created in France to challenge the “Parti du mouvement”. Though some claim that a conception of resistance as reaction is no longer valid, the conference may address from a critical perspective the various forms of conservatisms, identity closure, refusals of modernity, and what determines them. It will also have to ask to what extent the forwarding of the past, ancient customs, and traditional values can be taken as a progressive and positive form of resistance. What impact such an understanding of resistance could have on the very notion of modernity? One could also examine the new methods used to control resistance. How is resistance prevented, checked, or bypassed, when it is understood as infringing upon the good management of territories?

Resistance can also be taken as a form of strong ethical involvement, against potentially threatening norms. The point is then to understand why specific groups, on specific territories have chosen to resist: to challenge evolutions of the social world, of modes of production, of territorial policies they consider threatening, to fight back exclusion or globalization, or on the contrary to prevent microcosmic projects (the NIMBY syndrome). Various concepts should be approached, such as autochtony, local identities, or infrapolitics, to the extent that they stand apart from traditional political practices. A reflection on the links that tie culture to resistance should also acknowledge the development of a social consciousness: consciousness in terms of class, or socially marginalized group.

The analysis of cultural resistance can be done at the level of territories and communities, focusing on why resistance can reveal cultural stakes and bear an impact on territorial dynamics.

On the long run, the region of the Cévennes, in central France, offer a striking example of a “territory of resistance”, as embodied by the “camisard”: the Cévennes War opposed between 1702 and 1704 the royal troops against an overwhelmingly Protestant population who prided itself on its freedom of consciousness. We can thus deem legitimate to study how images of resistance are territorially built and transformed. What is the role of commemorations and memory in the qualification and requalification of such territories? Similar questions can be asked about events closer to us, such as what took or is still taking place in Larzac, at Notre-Dame des Landes, or in the Chiapas highlands. Through its representation in books or songs, resistance can be turned into a label, a marketing tool, which raises the related issue of the manipulation of sentiments, emotions, convictions, certainties, on which resistance relies.

Eventually, the American counter culture of the ’60s offers a model of cultural resistance that became adopted in various contexts. Case studies could explore the contradictory appropriations of the notion, from its conception as a site of avant-gardes to its co-optation by conservative forces.

To analyze the complex interaction of culture and resistance today, one must also examine the words, behaviors and representations it adopts, its temporality, from the short to the long term, the individual or collective risks it entails. Papers may focus on one of the following axes:
• the definitional and terminological issues of the concept of resistance.
• the ambiguity of resistance, between progress and conservatism.
• the cultural and territorial stakes of movements of resistance.
• the social uses and political appropriation of movements of resistance.
• counter cultures and avant-gardes.
The papers can be delivered either in French or in English

Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2013

Proposals (between 2000 and 4000 signs, 1 to 2 pages, in English or in French) must be sent in Times New Roman 12, 1.5 line spacing, in Word. They shall feature the first and last name, field, status, affiliation, and electronic address of the author, as well as 5 key words.

The document will be saved under the following name: LASTNAME.firstname.doc, and sent exclusively to christiane.lagarde@univ-montp3.fr

Summer 2013: evaluation of the proposals by the Scientific Committee.
October 15, 2013: notification of the decision to the authors.

Organizing committee
Catherine Bernié-Boissard, catherine.bernie-boissard@wanadoo.fr, Geography, Université de Nîmes, UMR 5281 ART-Dev, Université Montpellier 3
Claude Chastagner, claude.chastagner@univ-montp3.fr, Cultural Studies, EMMA, EA 741 Etudes anglophones, Université Montpellier 3
Dominique Crozat, dominique.crozat@univ-montp3.fr, Geography, UMR 5281 ART-Dev, Université Montpellier 3
Laurent-Sébastien Fournier, laurent.fournier@univ-nantes.fr, Ethnology, EA 3260 CENS, Université de Nantes

Scientific Committee
Valérie Arrault, Professor, visual arts, Montpellier
Jean-Pierre Augustin, Professor, geography, Bordeaux
Alain Bertho, Professor, anthropology, Paris
Dominique Chevalier, Lecturer, geography, Lyon
Paul Claval, Professor, geography, Paris
Robert Deliège, Professor, anthropology, Université Catholique de Louvain
Guillaume Faburel, Professor, urbanism, Lyon
Isabelle Garat, Lecturer, geography, Nantes
Peter Geschiere, Professor, anthropology, Amsterdam
David Giband, Professor, geography, Perpignan
Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Professor, American literature, Bordeaux
Aline Hémond, Lecturer, anthropology, Paris
David Howard, Lecturer, geography, Oxford
Régis Keerle, Lecturer, geography, Rennes
André Micoud, Research Director, CNRS, Saint-Etienne
Emmanuel Négrier, Research Director, CNRS, Montpellier
Dorothy Noyes, Professor, English and Comparative Studies, Ohio State University
Claire Omhovère, Professor, Canadian literature, Montpellier
Jean-Noël Retière, Professor, sociology, Nantes
Matthieu Remy, Lecturer, French Literature, Nancy

A CONFERENCE ON LOVE AND ROCK MUSIC, April 16 & 17, 2014, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 (France),

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:43:13 -0400

“STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART”

A CONFERENCE ON LOVE AND ROCK MUSIC

Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 (France)

April 16 & 17, 2014

A joint production University of Chester (United Kingdom) – Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 (France)

Sponsored by Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone (EMMA)
and The Chester Centre for Research in Arts and Media (CCRAM) (to be confirmed)

Call for Papers

Music historians have often associated archetypal rock music with rebellion and social unrest - political protest, generational conflict, individualism, narcissism, and sexual liberation. Likewise, the press, public authorities, medical and religious institutions have routinely considered rock music as a more or less overt, dangerous form of opposition to established order, crystallizing teenage revolt. Rock has been construed as a language of resistance and grammar of protest, embodying the spirit as well as the letter of subversion.

Rock songs, however, have often taken love as a central theme – love between men and women, brothers and sisters, parents and children, or friends; sometimes for a dog, a car, a bike, or even a pair of shoes; sometimes universal, spiritual love.

Exploring the place and role of love in rock may open up new perspectives from which we can analyze the genre and its audience. We invite papers from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives that explore themes associated with the many roles of love in rock music, from all periods and geographical areas.

The papers must be unpublished and can be delivered either in French or in English.
Proposals (300 words in French or in English + a short biography) must be sent either to Mark Duffett (m.duffett@CHESTER.AC.UK) or to Claude Chastagner (claude.chastagner@univ-montp3.fr). They shall feature the first and last name, field, status, affiliation, and electronic address of the author, as well as 5 key words.
The document will be saved under the following: LASTNAME.firstname.doc.

Deadline for proposals: July 15, 2013.
Summer 2013: evaluation of the proposals by the Scientific Committee
October 2013: notification of the decision to the authors

Organization
Mark Duffet, University of Chester
Claude Chastagner, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3

Scientific Committee
Andy Arleo, Université de Nantes
Paul Carr, School of Cultural & Creative Industries, Cardiff
Stan Cuesta, Écrivain, Journaliste (Rolling Stone, Rock & Folk), Montpellier
John Dean, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Magalie Dumousseau, Université d’Avignon
Vincent Dussol, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3
Charlotte Gould, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
Elsa Grassy, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg
John Mullen, Université Paris Est, Créteil-Val de Marne
Christophe Pirenne, Université Catholique de Louvain
Simon Warner, University of Leeds

[UPDATE] CFP Four Nations Fiction: Women and the Novel 1780-1830 - Deadline Extended

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:44:05 -0400

In Blackwood’s Magazine in September 1819, John Wilson reflected on the towering fame of three contemporary women poets in the following terms: ‘Scotland has her Baillie – Ireland her Tighe – England her Hemans.’ The work of these women in fact represents all four parts of Britain in 1819, but who would replace them if fiction was the focus, rather than poetry?

Recent book-length studies of women writers who have, until now, occupied more peripheral positions within accounts of the period – Anna Seward, Elizabeth Hamilton, Joanna Baillie, Margaret Holford Hodson – and republications of lesser-known novels by major writers, such as Lady Morgan, have moved these writers into new zones of reception and criticism. But as literary canons continue to be contested and reconfigured by new readings and scholarly editions, where should we be looking next? Who will move into the spaces formerly occupied by familiar-but-peripheral writers? How, in the case of Welsh, Scottish and Irish novelists, might they be viewed within a comparative but often problematic four nations framework? What about regional or provincial English writers, and the ways in which identity may be shaped or played out in these contexts? What do form and narrative contribute to the creation of national fictions, or representations of Wales, Ireland or Scotland in the period?

Proposals are sought for 20-minute papers on fiction by women in the period 1780-1830, including but not limited to the following: the national tale; representations of local, regional or national identities; depictions of place, especially in Welsh, Irish, Scottish and regional English contexts; history and historical fiction; national Gothic and the novel; emerging or little-known women writers; the role of modern editions; digitising novels by women.

Please send abstracts (c. 250 words) to Elizabeth Edwards: e.edwards@wales.ac.uk

Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2013

http://www.wales.ac.uk/Resources/Documents/Centre/Four-Nations-Fiction-p...

Intersecting Gender - 22nd - 23rd November 2013, Queen's University Belfast

Thu, 09 May 2013 05:26:57 -0400

The idea of intersectionality in the field of feminist and gender studies has increasingly been used to facilitate deeper understandings of contemporary gendered identity and experience. Intersectionality in this usage seeks to speak to the coinciding of gender with other biological, social and cultural categories of personal identity and/or oppression, but also to the intersections which can be observed between gender and other apparently “gender-neutral” areas and experiences.

The Sibéal Irish Postgraduate Feminist & Gender Studies Network will hold their annual conference in Queen’s University Belfast on 22nd and 23rd November. The conference invites engagement with the intersections of gender as they can be detected in a range of locations, spaces and manners. The conference seeks to stimulate a wide and inter-disciplinary approach to the theorisation and everyday practice of gender identity. To that end, paper, panel and performance proposals are sought on, but not limited to:

Practice-based and theoretical perspectives on gender, sexuality and LGBTQI concerns as they relate to:
• The Arts, Literature and Performance
• Law, Politics and Development
• Health and Bodies
• Community and Activism
• Conflict and Nationality
• Economy, Poverty and Welfare

We highly encourage postgraduate students at the MA and PhD level from any area or discipline with an interest in feminist or gender studies to submit proposals.

Abstracts or proposals of no more than 250 words should be submitted to sibealbelfast@gmail.com

All selected papers should be twenty minutes long.

Deadline for submission is 16th August 2013.

A number of travel bursaries and a best paper prize will be available to conference presenters, further information on these will be made available after the close of the call for papers. Further information on the conference can be found at www.intersectinggender.wordpress.com

[UPDATE] L.M. Montgomery and War (26–29 June 2014)

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:00:21 -0400

Please note that the deadline for submissions is now 15 June 2013

“And you will tell your children of the Idea we fought and died for—teach them it must be lived for as well as died for, else the price paid for it will have been given for nought.” — Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

“I am thankful now, Jem, that Walter did not come back … and if he had seen the futility of the sacrifice they made then mirrored in this ghastly holocaust …” — The Blythes Are Quoted (2009)

The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, a global conflict that would prove life-changing for L.M. Montgomery and millions of her contemporaries. For the eleventh biennial conference hosted by the L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island, we invite proposals for papers that consider war in relation to L.M. Montgomery’s fiction, poetry, life writing, photographs, and scrapbooks, and the range of adaptations and spinoffs in the areas of film, television, theatre, tourism, and online communities.

Montgomery’s 1921 novel Rilla of Ingleside is one of the only contemporary accounts of Canadian women’s experience on the homefront during the First World War, but the War is evoked and implied in direct and indirect ways in many of the novels, short stories, and poems that precede and follow it. The Blythes Are Quoted, Montgomery’s final published work, bridges the years between the First World War and the Second World War, complicating Montgomery’s perspectives and thoughts about war and conflict. Montgomery’s work has met with a variety of responses world-wide during times of war and rebellion, from post-WWII Japan to today’s Middle Eastern countries. Different kinds of wars and rebellions also permeate her fiction and life writing—class conflicts, family disputes, gender and language wars—sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic. This conference seeks to take stock of the complex ways in which war in all its forms has influenced Montgomery’s works and their reception, both in Canada and around the world.

Possible topics include: the Great War anticipated, revisited, remembered, and re-imagined; the politics of gendered witnessing; Montgomery’s reception in times of war and conflict; chivalry, patriarchy, conflict, and romance in poetry and fiction; war as an agent of change; internal and external rebellion in relation to war; the psychology of war in battle and on the homefront.

Proposals should clearly articulate the proposed paper’s argument and demonstrate familiarity with current scholarship in the field (please see http://lmmresearch.org/bibliography for an updated bibliography). For more information, please contact the conference co-chairs, Dr. Benjamin Lefebvre (ben@roomofbensown.net) and Dr. Andrea McKenzie (acmcken@gmail.com). Submit a proposal of 200–250 words, a biographical statement of 70 words, and a list of A/V requirements by 15 June 2013 by using our online form at the L.M. Montgomery Institute website at http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/. Proposals for workshops, exhibits, films, and performances are also welcomed. Since all proposals are vetted blind, they should include no identifying information.

Secular Shakespeares - 21-27 April 2014, Paris

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:32:10 -0400

The last decade has seen a return to religion in early modern studies. A previous generation of scholarship had sublimated questions of theology and religious identification in favor of the cultural studies "holy trinity" of race, class, and gender. However New Historicist criticism began to embrace and understand Renaissance texts through the lens of Reformation theological disputation and the religious environment in which individual texts were created. Shakespeare, the most towering figure of English Renaissance writing is no exception. As a case in point Stephen Greenblatt’s popular biography of the author Will in the World spends ample time investigating the evidence for possible recusant sensibilities in that most English of writers. This panel invites papers that return to a more secular understanding of Shakespeare. How much of Shakespeare’s continued popularity is precisely because he largely avoids antiquated doctrinal concerns that occupied other playwrights? In what ways does Shakespeare both negotiate and negate the perilous dichotomy between Catholic and Protestant? How is the metaphysic engaged in his drama and verse materialistic, Epicurean, or even atheistic? Does Shakespeare mock religion, exult it, or largely ignore it? What can critics make of his avoidance of writing a biblical play while still mining English translations of scripture for rhetorical and thematic tropes? Is there any way in which it is fair to say that Shakespeare is the first of the moderns, the primogeniture of the secular human? The panel would also be considered in proposals that consider the opposite possibility, that even with a seeming lack of interest in theological disputation, how does Shakespeare inevitably seem to embrace particular theological positions? And perhaps more widely, how do we conceptualize secularism as a construct, category, and discourse in the early modern period? Is it possible to speak of any text as "secular," or do even the most profane of works reflect and suggest some sort of theological commitment? Is secularism even possible in representation, literature, or culture? And how does Shakespeare enter into these particular questions? Special attention will be paid to abstracts which look at productions or interpretations of Shakespeare in the modern world, and the ways in which religion is side-stepped or embraced.

Please send 300-400 word abstracts by August 1st 2013 to Ed Simon of Lehigh University at ens310@lehigh.edu. This panel is planned for Shakespeare 450 commemorating the 450th anniversary of the author’s birth by the Société française Shakespeare and to be held in Paris 21-27 April 2014.

The Medium, Before and After Modernism (EXTENDED: 13 May)

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:17:41 -0400

The medium and its specificity have oriented the discourse on the arts throughout various historic and historiographic periods. For modernism, for example, Clement Greenberg advocated the specificity of the medium as the legitimate drive of artistic production for the avant-garde. The critical discourse that emerged around Greenberg and his followers was oriented around the various articulations and possibilities of the medium, an investigation played out across the history of the twentieth-century’s art and its historiography. While the advent of performance, installation, and new media art challenged these particular narratives and developed new spaces of investigation, the discipline of art history as a whole still bears traces of these divisions along areas of specialization and study, given that the question of the medium emerged alongside the birth of the discipline, specifically in G. E. Lessing’s Laocoön (1766), itself a response to the work of Johann Winckelmann.

In past years, the revitalized interest in phenomenology, materiality, and object-oriented ontologies have drawn attention back to the aesthetic and material underpinnings of the arts. These trends evidence a burgeoning return to the notion of the medium and its various ontological and phenomenological specificities. However, these methods have become predominant in moments outside of modernity, such as the Ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern period. Likewise, the same questions have been brought to bear on investigations concerning the recent past in spaces normally excised from a certain history of art, such as popular culture, technology, and videogame studies. Therefore, the medium and its specificity, while a necessary investigation, can no longer be addressed in terms of flatness or opticality alone, but must rather be developed from both its historiographic tradition in modernity along with its own specificities within each area of study. Thus, this panel engages the fundamental questions that emerge in such a global project: How does one articulate a notion of the/a medium in periods outside of a Euro-American modernism, or where the term itself is wholly inexistent? Is the medium a technical, material support for art, or is it an epistemological field for artistic production? This session seizes such questions as a shared discursive space for art historians of various fields to engage with what constituted a medium for their respective areas of study and how these orienting concepts construct notions of disciplines and subfields.

For submission details:
http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2014callforparticipation

CFP: Post-medium Condition of Moving Image (June 29–30, 2013)

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:32:40 -0400

CFP: Post-medium Condition of Moving Image

The Program Committee of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation invites proposal submissions for an interdisciplinary panel titled “Post-medium Conditions of Moving Image.” The panel will be held at the 8th Annual Meeting on June 29–30, 2013 at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan. Submissions must be 20-minute presentations that cover the theoretical and historical issues of moving image from various disciplines and methodologies.

In A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of Post-medium Condition (1999) and other writings, Rosalind Krauss proposed the idea of “post-medium condition” in order to describe a series of artworks after modernism that seek to reinvent medium in their own new ways. Although Krauss’ critical interest lies in seeking for alternative critical terminology against Clement Greenberg’s understanding of modernism as a tendency toward medium specificity, the idea of “post-medium” can have a broader scope than that of her own intention. Especially, it is helpful to rethink the current state of moving image, now that the medium of moving image cannot be attributed to a specific technological condition; this is clear when considering the current state of so-called “film,” which is not about the celluloid film as its material support. As such, we invite contributions that address this post-medium condition of moving image: its diverse variety of medium, from YouTube and smartphone screen to 3D movie and gigantic urban screens; its simultaneous complicated technology and cheap availability; and also the counterpart of this social diffusion of moving image in practices of contemporary art and other cultural representations.

While our interest lies in the contemporary situation and discourses of moving image, we welcome a wide range of topics across media, genres, historical periods and geographical locations in order to produce a locus for critical dialogue. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Digital/analog
Immersive experience and sensory dimension of moving image
Archive and conservation of moving image
Historical background in the 19th century
Video art, media art and wide use of moving image in contemporary art
Meta-narrative expression of post-medium conditions in film and other narrative-based genres
Moving image in performing arts and other genres of cultural production
Tension between still and moving images
Confrontation between cinema and photography
Moving image in cityscape
Amateur practices of moving image
Surveillance and moving images
Possibility of theorization from practices in Japan and other Asian countries

Please submit your proposal by email to conference@repre.org
Your submission email should include the following:

1) Your name
2) The title of your paper
3) A 200–250 word abstract
4) Your institutional affiliation and position
5) A brief Bio (limited to 50 words)
6) Your contact information (email address, phone number and physical address)

The deadline for proposal submissions is May 17, 2013.

About the Conference:

As part of the 8th Annual Meeting, we will hold a symposium on contemporary art and moving image. The symposium will include Akira Mizuta Lippit, Sakamoto Hirofumi and Takehisa Yu as featured speakers. For updated informations, please visit our website:

http://www.repre.org/conventions/

About the Association:

Founded in 2006, the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation is an organization dedicated to interdisciplinary research and teaching of humanities. Our main interest lies in the critical analysis of culture through the multi-faceted concept of “representation.” Through the mechanism of “representation,” ideas and objects are produced, circulated, and received in society. We examine various modalities of cultural production and their functions in social, political and economic contexts, while going beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and exploring areas that connect diverse fields of research and practice.
For further information about the Association, please visit the below site:
(English) http://www.repre.org/association/english/
(Japanese) http://www.repre.org/association/about/
For information on past symposiums, events and panels, please see:
(Japanese) http://www.repre.org/conventions/

Membership:
The presenter must be a member of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation. There is no conference registration fee for Association members. For more information about the general membership procedure for those based in Japan, please see:
(English) http://www.repre.org/association/english/

On-site Membership Application:
If you do not have a Japanese bank account, you may become a member by filling out a form and paying the admission and membership fees (in Japanese yen, cash only) at the conference itself.
The “Reference” section in the form asks you to provide an Association member’s name and signature. If you do not have a reference or have difficulty in finding one, you may leave it blank.

Access to the Kansai University’s Senriyama campus:
http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/English/about_ku/location.html

If you have any further questions, please email us at: conference@repre.org

‘Bibliography in the Digital Age’ conference: Sydney, Australia, 20–22 November 2013 [CFP deadline 26 July]

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:25:07 -0400

The annual conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand will be held at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 20–22 November 2013 on the theme of ‘Bibliography in the Digital Age’.

The Society invites abstracts for presentations relevant to the theme of the conference, ranging from digital scholarship, digital scholarly editions, digitising and promoting collections online through to antiquarian dealers and the material book in the digital age.

Abstracts should be of approximately 250 words for 20 minute presentations and should be received by the conference convenor, Maggie Patton, Manager, Original Materials, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 2000 (mpatton@sl.nsw.gov.au) by Friday 26 July.

See www.bsanz.org for further information and updates.

1st ULICES Conference on Translation Studies “Voice in Indirect Translation”, 10-11 July 2013

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:55:26 -0400

Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Date 10-11 July 2013

Translation takes place in an international field strongly marked by power relations between dominant and dominated national languages and cultures. In order to understand each translation, it is necessary to take into account the positions of both source and target languages as well as the standing of a wide range of possible intervening agents – author, translator, editor, publishing houses, television channels, distributors, academia and industry, to name but a few – within national cultures and the international cultural market.

This conference offers a forum for the joint discussion of the concepts of voice and indirect translation. Voice is a frequently used concept since Schiavi and Hermans used it to study translation in terms of the presence of the translator’s voice in both text and paratext (Target 8:1. 1996). Indirect translation is defined as “based on a source (or sources) which is itself a translation into a language other than the language of the original, or the target language” (Kittel and Frank eds. 1991. Interculturality and the Historical Study of Literary Translations. Berlin: Erich Schmidt.3.).

Research on indirect translation and voice has focused mainly on interpreting (relay interpreting) and literary translation. However, indirect translation is a phenomenon verifiable in other areas such as scientific, technical and audiovisual translation, always involving the negotiation of a plurality of voices, be they textual, paratextual or contextual.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers offering case studies various text types, language pairs and translation directions as well as theoretical, methodological and terminological oriented studies.

Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:

· Mapping intercultural transfers

· The analysis of voice(s) in (in)direct translation

· Indirectness in interpreting, literary, technical, scientific and audiovisual translation

· The role of agents, their choices, and interventions

· The consecration of languages, cultures, genres, authors

· Profiling a (trans)national literature (in periodicals, volumes, film, radio, TV)

· Presenting a (trans)national literature (in prefaces, collections, anthologies national historiography, literary historiography)

· Theoretical, methodological and terminological issues in researching indirect translation

Keynote Speakers

Lieven D’hulst, KU Leuven, Belgium

Cecilia Alvstad, University of Oslo, Norway

Organization

Research Group on Translation and Reception Studies, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, ULICES, Portugal

Partners

International Research Group “Voice in Translation”, University of Oslo, Norway

Film, History and Public Memory Conference, 4 October, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:13:17 -0400

Film, History and Public Memory
Date: 4 October 2013
Nerve Centre, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

This AHRC-funded one-day international conference, part of the Derry/Londonderry UK City of Culture 2013 programme, is hosted by Queen’s University Belfast and will explore the relationship between history and film in a global context. The keynote speaker is Professor Robert Rosenstone (California Institute of Technology).

How should film as a medium frame the past and represent historical events? What is the role of film in shaping public perceptions of the past? How have film-makers addressed contested histories and divided societies in different parts of the world, including Ireland? Can film enhance historical understanding and post-conflict reconciliation?

These questions will be addressed in a series of discussions between historians, film and media scholars, community organisers, educators and film-makers. We invite proposals for twenty-minute presentations on these and related aspects of film and history.

We encourage cross-disciplinary discussion, and invite proposals from diverse subject areas and approaches, including from film makers themselves, together with other creative practitioners.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- The representation of historical narrative on film
- The relationship between film, popular memory and historical knowledge
- The moving image archive as historical source and critical challenge
- The representation of international conflict and contested histories on film
- The boundaries of fiction and documentary film-making and the dramatization of history
- Local events/global import: the media and history
- History, memorialization and film

Please submit abstracts of 300 words, along with a brief bio, to the conference organisers at JCarlsten01@qub.ac.uk. Please note that the deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 June, 2013. It is anticipated that selected conference papers will be published.

For further information, see http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/frankryan/FilmHistoryEducationProject/2013Con...

2013 Global Information and Management Symposium (GIAMS)

Sat, 04 May 2013 04:19:21 -0400

2013 Global Information and Management Symposium (GIAMS)
December 05-07, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan

The second year of Global Information and Management Symposium (2013 GIAMS) is scheduled to take place in Taipei, Taiwan from 5th to 7th of December in 2013. This conference aims to provide a communication platform for academics, researchers, graduates and industry professionals to not only present their recent and latest researches but also share their thoughts and discuss the future development in the field of global information and management. We sincerely invite contribution in the field of information and management. Papers submitted will be reviewed and notified in groups and in sequence.

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: September 15, 2013
Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2013
Deadline for registration: October 25, 2013
Conference dates: December 5-7, 2013

Paper Requirements:
1. All submitted papers must be original works of the authors and have never been presented, published or made known in national and international conferences and events.
2. All submitted papers must not be contributed to other organizations and events. Authors must provide works without plagiarism and confidential issues and shall take fully responsibilities when issues as such arouse.
3. Without any particular proclamation to the conference beforehand, the authors are deemed to agree with the conference’s editing and revising works for the use of index organizations.
4. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers by the submission deadline. Please see the template on the web site for the required format. All papers must have an English title, an English abstract, and a list of English references. The main body of the papers can be either in Chinese or in English.
5. Authors whose papers are acknowledged and adopted will need to sign an agreement of copyright transfer.
6. Each abstract or full paper is required to submit by WORD format.

Topics are solicited in following areas (but not limited to): Information and Management Symposium

Post-Medium Condition of Moving Image, June 29-30, 2013 at Kansai University, Osaka

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:04:14 -0400

CFP: Post-Medium Condition of Moving Image

The Program Committee of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation invites proposal submissions for an interdisciplinary panel titled “Post-Medium Conditions of Moving Image.” The panel will be held at the 8th Annual Meeting on June 29–30, 2013 at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan. Submissions must be 20-minute presentations that cover the theoretical and historical issues of moving image from various disciplines and methodologies.

In _A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of Post-Medium Condition_ (1999) and other writings, Rosalind Krauss proposed the idea of “post-medium condition” in order to describe a series of artworks after modernism that seek to reinvent medium in their own new ways. Although Krauss’ critical interest lies in seeking for alternative critical terminology against Clement Greenberg’s understanding of modernism as a tendency toward medium specificity, the idea of “post-medium” can have a broader scope than that of her own intention. Especially, it is helpful to rethink the current state of moving image, now that the medium of moving image cannot be attributed to a specific technological condition; this is clear when considering the current state of so-called “film,” which is not about the celluloid film as its material support. As such, we invite contributions that address this post-medium condition of moving image: its diverse variety of medium, from YouTube and smartphone screen to 3D movie and gigantic urban screens; its simultaneous complicated technology and cheap availability; and also the counterpart of this social diffusion of moving image in practices of contemporary art and other cultural representations.

Digital/analog

Immersive experience and sensory dimension of moving image

Archive and conservation of moving image

Historical background in the 19th century

Video art, media art and wide use of moving image in contemporary art

Meta-narrative expression of post-medium conditions in film and other narrative-based genres

Moving image in performing arts and other genres of cultural production

Tension between still and moving images

Confrontation between cinema and photography

Moving image in cityscape

Amateur practices of moving image

Surveillance and moving images

Possibility of theorization from practices in Japan and other Asian countries

Please submit your proposal by email to conference@repre.org
Your submission email should include the following:

The deadline for proposal submissions is May 17, 2013.

About the Conference:

http://www.repre.org/conventions/

About the Association:

Access to the Kansai University’s Senriyama campus:
http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/English/about_ku/location.html

If you have any further questions, please email us at: conference@repre.org

CREATING MYTHS AS NARRATIVES OF EMPOWERMENT AND DISEMPOWERMENT

Fri, 03 May 2013 08:52:45 -0400

Call for Papers: CREATING MYTHS AS NARRATIVES OF EMPOWERMENT AND DISEMPOWERMENT from 10 to 12 March 2014.
LDC of the High Institute of Human Sciences of Jendouba, University of Jendouba, Tunisia and the Institut de Recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes, ILLE of the University of Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France are pleased to announce the organisation of an international conference on ʻCreating Myths as Narratives of Empowerment and Disempowermentʼ to be held at the High Institute of Human Sciences of Jendouba from 10 to 12 March 2014.

Literacy, the advance of philosophical inquiry and Plato’s separation of ‘mythos’ from ‘logos’ signaled the birth of an intellectual hierarchy that caused the association of myth with implausibility, something that was later corroborated by the growth of scientific inquiry and rationalism. Yet, while myths seem to become distinctively associated with fantasy, their impact can still be contemplated with respect to every aspect of human history that implicates narration and (dis)empowerment. The discourses that have accompanied rising and waning orders and monarchies have shaped national feeling and identity as ‘myths’, whereby private and public narratives intersect. Whether we try to think of narratives related to the Arthurian tradition, the birth of Rome or the founding of Carthage out of an oxen skin, national identity is shaped as a space where myths of beginnings overlap with history and power. Political narratives turn into mythical accounts in the sense that they interfere between leaders and social groups to shape, explain and justify ideologies. In politics, mythologizing the narrative produces narratives that are repeatedly replicated to spawn an illusion of truth. Thus, terms such as the ‘Cold War’ or the ‘Arab Spring’ may lead us to think of uniform patterns that guided a complex set of events, disregarding their complexities and discounting alternative narratives. Moreover, as nationalism consolidated the mythologization of narratives, alternative histories started to acquire mythological significance, borrowing mythical names and imports, a trend postmodern thinking has supported.
Branches of the social sciences like anthropology and sociology have equally lent attention to myth as a space through which unrepresented groups can tell their stories in non-linear patterns, hence, for instance, the growing interest in myth in relation with gender studies and folk studies. With the works of De Saussure and Levi Strauss, linguistics and structuralism acquired a novel interest in myth. Believed to be a big vessel for collective consciousness in the Jungian sense, structuralism contends that myths of the ancient times are still present with little variations in their essential structures. While it is believed that the fading of religion and spirituality in contemporary times led to the obliteration of myth, it is not difficult to find traces of myth within the recurrence of symbols and paradigms in media and popular culture. This recurrence is akin to the telling and retelling of narratives, serving, as Hanno Hardt argues, ‘the new gods of mass culture.’

Starting from these assumptions, the organizers invite proposals for papers (of 20 minutes duration) addressing ‘Creating Myths as Narratives of Empowerment and Disempowerment.’ They particularly welcome interdisciplinary contributions, especially ones that bridge the domains of literature, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalysis and linguistics, but they equally encourage submissions on all aspects of myths that involve the ideas of narrativity, empowerment and disempowerment. To encourage innovative dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from diverse disciplines, falling within the scope of one of the following themes, among others:
Redefining myths
The Arab world, change and myth
Myth and narratives in the postcolonial context
Postmodernism and myth
Myth and folk studies
Myth and the politics of race and ethnicity
Myth as resistance and/or perpetuation
Myth in popular culture
Responses to myths
Myths, rewriting history, and power
Creating new myths
Myths of political reform and/or political repression
Myth and national identity
Feminist approaches to myths
Revisionism and myths
Science vs. myths
Myth and rhetoric
Myths and oral traditions of the Americas
(Dis)empowering myths and visual arts

PROPOSALS should be about 400 words, including the abstract and a brief biography and sent to myth.creation2014@gmail.com NO LATER THAN 30th November 2013.

CONFERENCE FEES: -Either 70 Euros for international participants and 100 Tunisian dinars for local participants (including publication, accommodation, food, refreshments, printing services, and cultural programme).
-Or 35 Euros for international participants and 50 Tunisian dinars for local participants (including presentation, lunch, coffee break, and publication).

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE is English, but proposals in French can also be accepted.

NOTIFICATION: Acceptance of proposals will be notified by December 2013.

CONTACT: For questions, please write to myth.creation2014@gmail.com

[UPDATE] PERSPECTIVES, 2013 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline 31st May)

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:36:07 -0400

PERSPECTIVES ON PROGRESS 2013
An interdisciplinary postgraduate and early career researcher conference.
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. November 27-29, 2013.

In 1968, historian Sidney Pollard defined the Victorian ideal of ‘progress’ as, “the assumption that a pattern of change exists in the history of mankind... that it consists of irreversible changes in one direction only, and that this direction is towards improvement.” Despite the increasingly problematic nature of this ideal, the ‘progress myth’ still remains pervasive in the Western cultural tradition.

This postgraduate and early career researcher conference seeks to promote innovative interdisciplinary dialogues interrogating the concept of progress by bringing together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences.

The conference committee invites proposals for papers in the form of an abstract of between 250 and 300 words to perspectivesonprogress2013@gmail.com by 31 May 2013.

Paper format is a 20 minute paper with a 10 minute period for questions and answers.

[UPDATE]
The organising committee is pleased announce that Dr. Alastair Blanshard, Dr. Sarah Pinto, and Dr. Catherine Mills have each agreed to deliver Key Note Addresses at Perspectives on Progress, 2013.

More information about the keynotes and the conference is available on our website - http://perspectives2013.org/

For periodic updates please subscribe to our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/perspectives2013

Link to full CFP: http://perspectives2013.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Perspectives2013-...

Apollon eJournal - Undergraduate Submissions deadline 6/15/2012

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:37:24 -0400

Check the website, apollonejournal.org, for submission details on publication, or for an application to work with us

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Apollon, an undergraduate humanities eJournal, is a new peer-reviewed publication for undergraduate humanities majors. Apollon features undergraduate research developed in humanities courses, and thus emphasizes faculty-student collaborations beyond the classroom. We invite interested students to join us by contributing leadership or original work to Apollon. Our student team participates at all levels of this ongoing project (design, review, and publication) to offer their peers a real outlet for intellectual work in the humanities. For more information you can go to the program website, www.apollonejournal.org, talk to your professors, or contact the Faculty Director, Jason Cohen, at (859) 985-3765 or cohenj@berea.edu.

[UPDATE] Call for Papers: Symposium on Temporality in Performance and Performing Arts, 18 June 2013

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:29:57 -0400

Call for Papers

International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia
Symposium: JMC Cultural Centre, Grožnjan, Croatia, 18 June 2013

Papers: submit abstracts of up to 300 words to ivaw.groznjan@gmail.com by 20 May 2013.

Reflections: submit discussion topics to ivaw.groznjan@gmail.com by 10 June 2013.
(including Workshop participants)

Playing in Time: Temporality in Performance and Performing Arts

Performance takes place in time and space. This symposium seeks to focus on the intricacy of temporality in performance by inviting submissions that address this theme in its many manifestations. At the International Vocal Arts Workshop, artists grapple concretely with issues of music and time—experimenting with tempo and pacing, bringing times past and future into the present, and interacting time with the performance narrative as well as the performance venues in the village of Grožnjan. We invite you to explore the corroborations and tensions between temporality and these and other aspects of the performing arts. We welcome papers and reflections from a variety of disciplines including theatre, performance studies, aesthetics, musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, literature, history, sociology, psychology, cognitive sciences, and physics. Possible topics may include:

Immediacy and affect in performance
Time perception: subject time and objective time
Performing history in communities
Musical temporality in literature
Relationships between materiality and temporality
Sound, music, tempo
Synchronicity, simultaneity
Ephemerality and documentation of performance
Extemporization and improvisation in performance
Music composition and choreography practices, structure and form, architecture
Physics of sound, acoustics
Processuality, instantaneity, movement, and immobility

Decisions regarding the status of submitted proposals will be made and communicated via email as quickly as possible following the submission deadline, and certainly no later than 1 June for papers and 15 June for reflections.

Program Director: Jane McMahan (Barnard College, Columbia University)

International Vocal Arts Workshop
Jeunesses Musicales, Croatia
www.artsynergy.net/symposium.html