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category: postcolonialFirst Women and the Politics of Looking: Gender, Indigeneity and Representation -- January 1, 2010full name / name of organization: Wendy Gay Pearson, Film Studies, University of Western Ontario contact email: wpearson@uwo.ca First Women and the Politics of Looking: Gender, Indigeneity and Representation Ed. Wendy Gay Pearson, Kimberly J. Verwaayen, Ernie Blackmore and Renée E. Bédard Description:
Polluted Places/Impure Spacesfull name / name of organization: ACLA contact email: reusti3@lsu.edu Participants in this seminar will examine the voices that emerge from polluted or impure sites. This “pollution” could take many forms, and comprise an array of relations.
New Directions in Critical Theory: Borders, Power, Community-- April 30-May 1 2010full name / name of organization: New Directions in Critical Theory contact email: ndconf@gmail.com
Caught in the Act: Performance and Performativity. Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. April 17th, 2010.full name / name of organization: UMass-Amherst English Graduate Organization contact email: umassengconf@gmail.com
CFP: The World and the Stage: Reassessing Theatrical Paradigms, Envisioning Global Rights (ACLA 1-4 April 2010; 13 Nov 2009)full name / name of organization: Florian Becker, Bard College contact email: fnbecker@bard.edu CFP for papers to be given as part a linked set of three panels at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, April 1-4, 2010, New Orleans, USA
CFP: Hot Metal Bridge, Confronting the Digital, Deadline Extendedfull name / name of organization: Hot Metal Bridge--Graduate Literary Magazine of the University of Pittsburgh contact email: criticism@hotmetalbridge.org Hot Metal Bridge would like to extend until November 17th its deadline for submissions. Also, at this point we would like to encourage submissions of a more general topical nature.
Global Nonkilling Working Papersfull name / name of organization: Center for Global Nonkilling contact email: jevans@nonkilling.org The Center for Global Nonkilling, an organization working to promote change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world, is launching in January 2010 its “Global Nonkilling Working Papers”
[UPDATE] Gender, Nature and Culture (May 20-22, 2010, Helsinki, Finland)full name / name of organization: 4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies / University of Helsinki contact email: christina-conference@helsinki.fi The 4th Christina conference explores the complex connections among gender, nature and culture.
Mediterranean Encounters- seminar ACLA 2010, New Orleans, April 1-3, 2010full name / name of organization: Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Yale University contact email: edwige.tamalet@yale.edu Papers are sought for the following seminar: Mediterranean Encounters
Updatefull name / name of organization: Popular Culture Association Southern Literature and Culture contact email: chris.bloss@gmail.com This year the conference will be held in lovely St. Louis, Missouri from March 31 to April 3 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis, 800 Washington Avenue, St.
Papers Wanted for Literary Journal on American Identity - 11/15/09 Deadlinefull name / name of organization: St. John's University Humanities Review contact email: sjuhumanities@gmail.com This is a call for papers for the fall 2009 Humanities Review, a literary journal for the St. John’s University English Department in Queens, NY.
[UPDATE] Politics and Literature: Winter Issue of PLJ - Deadline Extended - 11/10/09full name / name of organization: Pennsylvania Literary Journal contact email: pennsylvaniajournal@gmail.com The deadline for the Winter Issue, “Politics and Literature” of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal is extended until November 10th.
Asian American Literature - Ambivalent Precursors (ALA May 27-30, 2010 San Francisco)full name / name of organization: Circle for Asian American Literary Studies / American Literature Association contact email: merton733@gmail.com The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies invites papers for a panel on critical reevaluations of Asian American literature before 1970.
Green Literature: Ecocriticismfull name / name of organization: Bhavya Tiwari and Cynthia Francica ACLA 2010 contact email: bhavya@mail.utexas.edu Many cultures, literatures, and philosophies have systematically stressed the intimate relation between the human and the animate or inanimate “other.” The present threat to our planet and the spe
Literary London 2010, 7-9 July 2010full name / name of organization: Literary London contact email: contact@literarylondon.org Literary London 2010
Hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London
Re-defining art: Artistic genres in literary works.full name / name of organization: The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) contact email: medinaa@uhd.edu This seminar seeks to identify how and why contemporary literature uses visual works of art (murals, montages, sculpture, paintings, photography, etc) as a means of interpretation.
From Shore to Shore: Cultural Guides and Conveyorsfull name / name of organization: Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux 3 (Michel de Montaigne University, Bordeaux, France) contact email: schmitt.arnaud@orange.fr “From Shore to Shore: Cultural Guides and Conveyors”
Bodies in Motion: Corporeality & the Representation of Immigrants, Refugees & Other Diasporic Subjects (ACLA 11/13/09; 4/1-4/10)full name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Association contact email: kepitt@uwm.edu This seminar seeks to explore connections and tensions between discourses of the body and discourses of diaspora, migration, exile, and transnationality.
Consumption: Pleasures of the Text, Materiality, and Cultural Practicesfull name / name of organization: Epitextes contact email: epitextes@gmail.com The French Graduate Student Association of Columbia University is
Columbia Graduate Journalfull name / name of organization: Epitextes contact email: epitextes@gmail.com The Columbia French Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce the inaugural issue of its journal of graduate work, Épitextes, on the subject of:
[UPDATE] National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers - USF Tampa - March 25 - 27, 2010full name / name of organization: University of South Florida English contact email: usf.egsa.conference@gmail.com National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers
National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers - USF Tampa - March 25 - 27, 2010full name / name of organization: University of South Florida English contact email: etrauth@mail.usf.edu National Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Call for Papers
ACLA Seminar: Toward a Gendered Analytics of Diaspora (PROPOSALS DUE BY NOV. 13)full name / name of organization: ACLA 2010 Conference (April 1-4), New Orleans, LA contact email: soumitree.gupta@gmail.com ACLA Seminar: Toward a Gendered Analytics of Diaspora: Interrogating Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Diasporic Cultural Productions ACLA Annual Meeting, April 1-4, 2010
Sex, Death, and Boredom: An Academic Conference. Friday, February 12, 2010. Fordham Lincoln Center Campus.full name / name of organization: Will Fenton, Fordham Graduate English Association contact email: fenton@fordham.edu Calling All Papers Fordham University Sex, Death, and Boredom
“Longing in the Age of New Media” 2/19/10full name / name of organization: USC Comparative Literature Symposium/USC Department of Comparative Literature contact email: coltsymposium@gmail.com We invite you to submit paper proposals to the 2010 Comparative Literature Symposium at USC. We welcome submissions from all disciplines relevant to the conference theme:
New Anthology on African Traditional Religions/African Diasporic Religious belief systems [UPDATE]full name / name of organization: Cherie Ann Turpin and Anika Cazenave contact email: cturpin@udc.edu or cherieannturpin@mac.com; anikacazenave@yahoo.com Proposals are invited for an edited collection of scholarly essays and autobiographical essays on African Traditional Religions/African Diasporic Religious belief systems.
New Anthology on African Traditional Religions/African Diasporic Religious belief systemsfull name / name of organization: Cherie Ann Turpin and Anika Cazenave contact email: cturpin@udc.edu or cherieannturpin@mac.com; anikacazenave@yahoo.com Proposals are invited for an edited collection of scholarly essays and autobiographical essays on African Traditional Religions/African Diasporic Religious belief systems.
Postcolonial Literature and the Voice of the Subalternfull name / name of organization: Connecticut Review contact email: ctreview@easternct.edu Post-Colonial literature emerges from authors connected to countries that were at some point colonized by Europeans.
Ravenna, an online journal dedicated to the relationship between the British decadent movement and Italyfull name / name of organization: http://www.oscholars.com/Ravenna/Ravenna2/toc.htm contact email: luca.caddia@katamail.com I am pleased to announce the publication of the second volume of "Ravenna", an online interdisciplinary journal devoted to the relationship between the British Decadent movement and Italy.
Beyond Don Juan: Rethinking Iberian Masculinitiesfull name / name of organization: The Catalan Center at NYU (New York University) contact email: mary.ann.newman@nyu.edu (CC JoseMaria.Armengol@uclm.es) CALL FOR PAPERS BEYOND DON JUAN: The Catalan Center at New York University In collaboration with:
POLITICS, RELIGION, AND VIOLENCE | A Seminar with Simon Critchley | Tilburg Summer Philosophy School | July 15-24, 2010full name / name of organization: Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Department of Philosophy, contact email: Todd.kesselman@gmail.com POLITICS, RELIGION, AND VIOLENCE | A Seminar with Simon Critchley | Tilburg Summer Philosophy School | July 15-24, 2010 Tilburg Summer Philosophy School | The Netherlands
"Limits of the Human"full name / name of organization: Early Modern Center at Uninversity of California, Santa Barbara contact email: emcconference@gmail.com The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) invites paper proposals for our 2010 Winter Conference, "Limits of the Human." The conference will take place on Friday
Further call for papers: Afterlives: Survival and Revival, 2-5 September 2010, Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2010full name / name of organization: Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS) contact email: viljol@telkomsa.net We are pleased to announce that the 20th Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS) will be held at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 2-
Forming and De-Forming the Human Body, University of Wisconsin-Madison French and Italian Graduate Symposium, Apr. 16-17, 2010full name / name of organization: Graduate Association of French and Italian Students, University of Wisconsin-Madison contact email: gafissymposium2010@gmail.com The human body has continued to captivate intellectuals of the arts and sciences throughout history, whether through an aesthetic or physiological study of its structural form and internal mechanisms
Arab Culture in the U.S. (10-13, Feb. 2010)full name / name of organization: Popular Culture & American Culture Association contact email: lutfi.hussein@gmail.com 31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010
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