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[UPDATE] Renaissance of Roland Barthes Deadline 3/1/13

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Friday, February 22, 2013 - 3:54pm
CUNY Graduate Center Comparative Literature and English Departments

The Renaissance of Roland Barthes
Speakers: Jonathan Culler, Diana Knight, Rosalind Krauss, D.A. Miller, and Lucy O'Meara

Salman Rushdie in the 21st Century

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Friday, February 22, 2013 - 10:15am
Dr. Charlie Wesley

How do we assess Rushdie's 21st century fiction (and nonfiction) while grappling with his previous output and changing political beliefs? 200 word abstracts or more by 15 March 2013. Contact Dr. Charlie Wesley (cwesley@daemen.edu)

*Final Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 11:52pm
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum

*Final Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013; 20-minute Paper Proposals Due March 1, 2013
full name / name of organization:
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum
contact email:
gurleyja@lemoyne.edu
The Return of the Text: A Conference on the Cultural Value of Close Reading, Sept. 26-28, 2013
full name / name of organization:
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum
contact email:
gurleyja@lemoyne.edu

The Sacred and the Sexual in South Asian Literature , South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group, MLA Chicago 2014

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 6:39pm
Indrani Mitra/ Mount St. Mary's University

This Modern Language Association panel invites papers that interrogate gender and the constructions of sexuality in relation to one or more of the religious traditions of South Asia, and their local, regional, historically varied expressions. I envision this panel as a response to the needs of a truly secular culture where serious engagement of religious traditions is the minimum first step to addressing patriarchal and other form of violence in the name of faith. Essays may engage texts in any genre--fiction, poetry, drama, film, and popular culture. Please submit 250 word abstract and short bio by March 15, 2013 to Indrani Mitra (mitra@msmary.edu).

Mythology and Popular Culture Area at the MPCA/ACA

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 2:28pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association

Call for Papers: MYTHOLOGY and POPULAR CULTURE
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
St. Louis, MO
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis Union Station Hotel
Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2012
Submissions.mpcaaca.org

The Mythology and Popular Culture area of the Midwest PCA invites papers and panels on any aspect of the intersection of myth and popular culture. For example, presenters may wish discuss the role and reconfiguring of religious myth in movies, TV, books or music; alternately, papers may focus on the ways in which popular culture creates new or different mythologies outside of traditional religious discourse.

Marxism..."That is the Question"

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 1:49pm
Marxist Literary Group/South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 8-10, 2013

Taking a cue from Shakespeare's Hamlet, this panel focuses on a critical examination of the act or state of calling one's self a Marxist, that is to say, it asks the question, "What does it mean to be a Marxist in the 21st century?" For instance, what are the challenges that arise when reflecting on individual access to digital archives in relation to others who may rely only on printed materials? What are the advantages or disadvantages of Marxist articulations across various media such as print, digital, or film, concerning their selection of viewpoints for defining one's self as "Marxist?" How does "being Marxist" differ across ethnic, gendered, racial, sexual, and religious lines?

"English Renaissance Literature," 2013 Meeting of the RMMLA, Vancouver, WA, USA, October 10-12, 2013.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 12:55pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Twenty-minute papers that address any theme pertaining to English Renaissance Literature. Topics of interest include gender, religious, and race studies in early modern literature. Submit a 300-500 word abstract to Ruben Espinosa at respinosa2@utep.edu. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 10, 2013.

Arguing Religion in Early Modern England (MLA 2014)

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Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 11:39am
Melissa M. Caldwell

This panel will focus on the creative uses of various types of religious argument—satire, polemic, animadversion—their innovations, interplay, and relationship to humanism and print culture.

Please submit 250-word abstracts to mcaldwell@eiu.edu by March 10.

Makurdi Journal of Communication Research (MJCR)

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 3:38pm
Communication Research Circle (CRC), Makurdi, Nigeria

The Makurdi Journal of Communication Research (MJCR) is a refereed biannual International Journal (located in Makurdi, Nigeria in the department of Mass Communication, Benue State University) that publishes original papers on human communication research, theory and practice. Interdisciplinary or specialist papers are also welcome. All submissions to the MJCR should be empirical. Submissions are solicited for the next edition of the journal which is due Late June, 2013.

Deadline for submission is April 5th 2013

"Feminism and Nationalism": The Case of South Asian Women

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 11:02am
MLA (Modern Language Association) 2014 Convention, Chicago

Do women and men have equal opportunities for agency within nationalist movements? Seeking proposals for a roundtable on the creation of the nation-state and the role of women in South Asia. Please send an abstract of 250 and a short bio by 15 March.

Studia Europaea: Ethics of International Relations

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 9:23am
Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University

Academic journal Studia Europaea is pleased to invite submissions for upcoming issue: Ethics of International Relations.
Deadline for Submission: 1st of May 2013

Since 1996, the academic journal Studia Europaea, issued by the Faculty of European Studies within Babeş-Bolyai University, has been representing an open arena for promoting research endeavours. By launching the Call for Papers, Studia Europaea welcomes to receive articles that will be grouped in six sections: International organizations and the meaning of "progress"; Peace and human security; Citizenship, otherness and migration; Ethics of sustainable development; Gender in global politics; and Varia.

Postcolonial Studies in the Public Sphere, 17th May 2013.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 8:56am
Postcolonial-Public

An AHRC funded project in association with Durham University & Queen's University Belfast

'Postcolonial Studies in the Public Sphere' is an innovative training event on public engagement and Postcolonial Studies. It brings together researchers working in the field of Postcolonial Studies and individuals and organizations involved in a wide range of political, cultural, and community oriented endeavours outside of the academy. This interactive colloquium is aimed at Early Career Researchers and Postgraduate Researchers, whose research is situated within the field of Postcolonial Studies or shares its interests.

[Deadline Extended] Worlds Between: Exploring the Borders, Boundaries, and Gaps that Divide and Bind

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 3:12am
Sigma Tau Delta, Iota Chi Chapter / California State University, Northridge

"Worlds Between: Exploring the Borders, Boundaries, and Gaps that Divide and Bind"

Saturday, April 27, 2013
California State University, Northridge
Graduate Conference
"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge." – Lord Byron

This conference is interested in exploring the concept of the spaces between – genres, cultures, times, people, movements, nations – the possibilities are endless. How do these spaces confine? How do they enable? What moves between? What exists within?

Call for articles

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 1:44am
International Journal of Communication and Health

The International Journal of Communication and Health is an on-line peer-reviewed journal interested in any aspect related to health communication. The International Journal of Communication and Health is ready to receive manuscripts on all aspects concerning health communication, particularly those of international relevance.

Contribution exploring any context of health communication are welcomed. The journal welcomes high-quality research and analyses from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches from all fields of communication, media, and health.

Essay Collection: Teen Wolf (June 1)

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 9:57pm
Dr. Kamille Stone Stanton

Articles are invited for an essay collection on the new MTV serial remake of Teen Wolf. In "Upright Citizens on All Fours: Nineteenth-Century Identity and the Image of the Werewolf," Chantal Bourgault du Coudray notes that 'an ever-growing body of scholarship utilises the concept of hybrid or heterogeneous identity. The hybrid identity is theorised and celebrated as a response to the demands of a fragmented, multi-dimensional, postmodern world, one in which shifting boundaries and a multiplicity of subject positions make it impossible to assume a homogeneous or stable subjectivity.' Theorists such as Katherine Hayles and Donna Haraway discuss the implications of hybridity in the posthuman. Asa Simon Mittman and Peter J.

Panel on Princesses in Popular Culture, 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013 [UPDATE]

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 9:53pm
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

And they lived happily ever after, or did they?

This special session seeks to explore the impact of burgeoning princess culture in literature, film, and media on young girls. The panel on popular culture will also examine the multi-faceted way in which girls imagine, perform, and conceptualize feminine identity via princesses. A specific approach to the topic of princess culture is not expected, so please submit what you're working on to be considered for this panel. This is an approved special session for the 2013 annual conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in the beachfront city of San Diego, California.

CFP: Anemoi, Undergraduate Journal of Pre-Modern Studies - Deadline: March 18, 2013

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 6:19pm
Anemoi, New College of Florida Journal of Pre-Modern Studies

Anemoi is a new peer-reviewed undergraduate journal of pre-modern studies being published by students at New College of Florida in Sarasota. We are looking for submissions and team members. We aim to provide a voice and CV opportunities to undergraduates.

This is an opportunity for new scholars to be published or involved in the facilitation of the journal. In addition to submitting papers for publication, students who would like to be more involved may apply on the website to be reviewers; students are also encouraged to take part in our publicity efforts as part of our outreach team. In return anyone on the outreach team will be given credit for their efforts.

Corporeality Panel - PAMLA 2013 San Diego

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 5:52pm
Sören Fröhlich / University of California, San Diego

Special Session: Ew! Gross! Abjection, Affect, and Bodily Fluids

Deadline: April 15, 2013

From the bloody birth in Hemingway's "Indian Camp" and Rosasharn Joad's breast milk to Douglass' "cold sweat of death" and Albee's incontinent, old woman A, bodily fluids are liminal markers of transitions in life. This panel invites papers on the affective dimension of bodily fluids in literature and popular culture. Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

- Bodily fluids and commodification
- Medical discussions reflected in literary texts
- Historical development of one fluid across genres or periods
- Embodied fluids, fluid embodiment

MMLA 2013 Special Session (Proposed): Is the Artist Present?: Post-Modern Conceptions of the Author (Milwaukee; Nov. 7-10, 2013)

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 2:19pm
W Brett Wiley (MVNU)

This is a CFP for a proposed special session at the 2013 M/MLA Conference in Milwaukee, to be held Nov. 7-10.

In 2010, performance artist Marina Abramović presented a retrospective show at MOMA entitled Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present that included one new performance. From March 14 to May 31, Abramović performed a solo piece in the museum's atrium; she invited visitors to sit silently across from her for as long as they chose. In this way, she was "present" in more ways than one; being present was her piece, she was present in her piece, and she presented her piece all simultaneously. This unique and profound performance, and the title of the show itself, raises questions about the conception of the artist in contemporary art.

Text and Context—An Interdisciplinary Symposium

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 2:13pm
Michael Sollars/Texas Southern University

Introductions: Text and Context—An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Spring 2013 – 15th Annual McCleary Interdisciplinary Symposium

The Department of English at Texas Southern University will host the Fifteenth Annual Interdisciplinary McCleary Symposium on April 18th .

Short-Term Research Fellowships, NYPL, 2013-2014

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 2:07pm
New York Public Library

I am glad to be able to announce the NYPL Short-Term Research Fellowships, though sorry that again they are only for people who can legally work in the US.

If anyone is interested in applying for a Food Studies Fellowship at the Pforzheimer Collection, we have Thomas Love Peacock's ms. recipe books, a manuscript of his entitled "The Science of Cookery," in addition to a number of published cookbooks (including vegetarian cookbooks and volumes promoting vegetarian diet).

Best,

Liz Denlinger

Short-Term Research Fellowships 2013

[UPDATE] CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conference

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 1:54pm
University of Glasgow

CFP DEADLINE APPROACHING, Friday 1st March 2013

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Professor Pierre Joris (SUNY at Albany)
Ruth Washbrook (Scottish Screen Archive/NLS)

The University of Glasgow's Graduate School of the College of Arts is delighted to announce Assembling Identities, an international and cross-disciplinary conference focusing on how we understand identity and the process of identity formation.

Eighteenth-Century English Literature Session

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 10:54am
Rocky Mountain MLA (RMMLA)

We would like to announce a call for papers for the Eighteenth-Century English Literature session(s) that will be held at the 2013 RMMLA Convention in Vancouver, WA from October 10-12.

[UPDATE] STILL LOST IN THE COSMOS: Walker Percy and the 21st Century / October 11, 12, 2013

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Monday, February 18, 2013 - 3:37pm
Loyola's Walker Percy Center / New Orleans

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: April 1, 2013

WHERE: The campus of Loyola University in uptown New Orleans

WHEN: October 11, 12, 2013

DESCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE:
Inspired by Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos, the second biennial Walker Percy Conference seeks to explore the themes and issues generated by Percy's lively analysis of the modern condition.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. It is a biography of 4 American Catholic writers: Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" Catholic; and Walker Percy a doctor who wrote fiction and philosophy.

Fashion Panels at 2013 MPCA/ACA Conference, October 11-13

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Monday, February 18, 2013 - 2:11pm
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Call for Papers:
FASHION
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel, A Doubletree by Hilton

Deadline: April 30, 2012
Submissions.mpcaaca.org

Topics can include, but are not limited to fashion as it is represented in literature, film, television, or music, fashion as it pertains to current popular culture or popular culture of any time period of the past, the fashions of celebrities, or sociological implications of fashion in our culture.

Panel on Princesses in Popular Culture, 1-3 November 2013, abstract deadline - 15 April 2013

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Monday, February 18, 2013 - 1:03am
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

Panel -- Once Upon a Time: The Impact of Princess Culture on Girls

And they lived happily ever after, or did they?

This special session seeks to explore the impact of burgeoning princess culture in literature, film, and media on young girls. The panel on popular culture will also examine the multi-faceted way in which girls imagine, perform, and conceptualize feminine identity via princesses. A specific approach to the topic of princess culture is not expected, so please submit what you're working on to be considered for this panel. This is an approved special session for the 2013 annual conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in the beachfront city of San Diego, California.

[UPDATE] The Place of Literature: Fictional Geographies and Literary Constructions of Space ($125 award for the best essay)

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Sunday, February 17, 2013 - 5:28pm
Southern Methodist University's English Department (Graduate Students)

Describing Kokovoko, the mysterious island home of Queequeg in Melville's Moby Dick, Ishmael states, "It is not down in any map; true places never are." The idea of "place" has haunted and inspired the literary imaginations of countless writers and readers. This conference panel seeks papers that explore the significance of space, place, and geography in literature.
Possible paper topics include:
- Evolving geographies (both material and abstract)
- National boundaries & the formulation of national identities
- Spatial categories: public and private; urban and rural; natural and civilized; sacred and secular
- Gendered spaces: domestic space and female interiority

MLA 2014 -- Cognitive Approaches to Literature Division -- Call for Papers

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Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 11:22pm
Julien J. Simon

Call for Papers -- MLA 2014, Chicago
Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature
(Guaranteed sessions)

PANEL 1
Cognitive Approaches to Film
Theory; new interpretations; unexpected angles. We invite papers at the intersection of cognitive studies and the moving image. Send 300-word abstract and CV by March 15th; Julien Simon (jjsimon@iue.edu) and Lisa Zunshine (lisa.zunshine@gmail.com).

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