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Many women have written memoirs about their lives in the 1960s. How have they characterized these times? Was it a decade of optimism, hope, accomplishment, regret, anger, betrayal, or confusion?

CFP - Negotiating (Jewish) American Ethnic Crossroads

CFP - Theorizing Jewish American Life Writing

GENDER & DIFFERENCE, 20-23 May 2010
Call for Papers

Society for Philosophy and Literary Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal, and its reviewed "Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry," looks for articles for its Fall 2010 Special Issue on MODERNISMS.

Central to an understanding of the global financial crisis 2007-2009 are both economic and epistemic forms of credit.

Textual girls

Shakespeare Journal is accepting articles that are concerned with any aspect of Shakespeare and sports, athletics, or exercise for the 2011 issue, “Shakespeare and Sport.”

Narrating Lives behind Bars

Special Session at MLA 2011
in Los Angeles January 6-9, 2011.

SANE journal is now seeking submissions for works of research, practitioner-based articles, reviews, and rationales regarding its first two themed issues.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Naomi Morgenstern, University of Toronto.
"The University in Crisis: Teaching, Transference and Tenure in David Mamet's Oleanna."

Call For Papers—Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club and Beyond
October 14-16, 2010
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Please submit 200-word abstracts addressing the narrative conflict between foreseers and other characters in film, television, and contemporary literature for a special session to be held at the MLA 2

Poverty 2010:
An Interdisciplinary & Community-based Graduate Conference

Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
October 14-16, 2010

5th June 2010

Death in Early Modern Europe

We seek papers about Asian/American art photography that explore the documentary function, which has all but defined photography from its inception, and interrogate the photograph’s long-established

This special session will explore the role of ghosts and haunting in American literature and how they reveal, challenge, and remake narratives of the nation.

This special session being proposed for MLA 2011 held in Los Angeles seeks papers addressing the influence of British sexological writers—Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Marie Stopes, etc.—on th

ImageTexT is still accepting submissions for an upcoming special issue on the work of Alan Moore and adaptation.

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions until March 5 for its second issue, themed “Bridges and Borders: Exploring the Confluence of Languages, Disciplines, and Cultu

**INAUGURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON SEMIOTICS**

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The PhD in Humanities Program (http://louisville.edu/humanities) and the Association of Humanities Academics (http://ahalouisville.com) at the University of Louisville announces the annual University

Changing Lives Through Literature is an alternative sentencing program founded in 1991 on the power of literature to transform lives.

THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES: 3rd Biennial International,
Multidisciplinary Conference: "EROS 2010"
May 21-22, 2010
Nipissing University Muskoka Campus, Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada

Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen depicts five leading men, each performing masculinity differently.

The journal “Jura Gentium Cinema” (www.jgcinema.com) is seeking articles (between 4000 and 5000 words) for a special dossier on recent animated films.

‘Diggin’ Dancing Queens and Wedding Scenes: The Phenomenon of Mamma Mia!

Call for abstracts deadline: 19th April 2010
Full name: Louise FitzGerald

This panel will discuss the cultural and intellectual legacy of 'The Wire,' organized around its critique of neoliberal institutions and its place in the social-realist tradition.

Please forward to anyone with an interest in Fat Studies. Thank You.

2 CFPs from the Fat Studies Interest Group; NWSA Conference Nov. 11-14, 2010 in Denver (Proposal Due Feb 20)

CFP: New Media Discourse Communities

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions until March 5 for its second issue, themed “Bridges and Borders: Exploring the Confluence of Languages, Disciplines, and Cultu

There was a time, late 19th/early 20th century or thereabouts, when people, many of them the fashionable French, ventured out to public establishments to imbibe in, among other things, an herbal/li

Retroactive Listening: Perspectives on Music & Technology