cfp.english.upenn.edu

While we have many accounts of reading and the emerging middle class in eighteenth-century England, our understanding of literacy for domestic servants is less clear.

We have received requests to extend the deadline for abstracts and panel proposals. The new submission deadline is May 28.

SEDERI welcomes contributions on topics related to the language, literature, and culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century England for its next issue (number 21) to be published in autumn 2011.

Call for Submissions

Conference:
Origins, theories and representations of disobedience and dissidence in the British Isles and Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.

FORUM ON CONTEMPORARY THEORY
Centre for Contemporary Theory
C-304 Siddhi Vinayak Complex
Faramji Road, Behind Railway Station
Vadodara 390 007, Gujarat, India

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Great Writing 2010

As researchers we ‘consume’ texts, reading, interpreting and reusing material found in archives or specialist electronic resources. Libraries are a key tool in this process.

MTSU EGSO CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

Please circulate widely!

CALL FOR PAPERS

Anti-Democracy Agenda Symposium 2010

Location: Gottfried-Semper Villa Garbald, part of the Collegium Helveticum

Text, Transmission, Reception

Call for papers

Radboud University Nijmegen
October 28 and 29, 2010

LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS STUDENT CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA
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In his essay “Walking,” Henry David Thoreau says, “We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future

TETYC is pleased to announce a special issue devoted to second language learning and teaching in the context of the first two years of college, community college, and intensive academic ESL programs.

ASTR/TLA/CORD 2010 WORKING SESSION CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Session Title:

New Cartographies: Mapping Identity Politics in Theatre and Dance

Session Leader(s):

The Purdue Comparative Literature Program presents the 2010 Conference

Graphic Engagement: The Politics of Comics and Animation

This is a roundtable session that aims to explain the process of proposing, collecting, publishing, editing, and marketing an edited collection of essays, particularly as a book.

International Conference
1-2 April 2011
Université Nancy 2

London-New York: Exchanges and Cross-Cultural Influences in the Arts and Literature

Call for paper

The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices presents a unique forum for the community of professionals engaged in post secondary education and research.

DEADLINE JUNE 1st!

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Piracy
Friday, 15 October 2010
Brandeis University
Department of English
Eighth Annual Graduate Conference

Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is an interdisciplinary journal celebrating the current resurgence in short-story writing and research.

Seeking a third (and maybe fourth) panelist.

The following is a brief description of the panel:

This panel will discuss the various ways that film, illustration, and visual rhetoric can be used to enhance and enrich the effective teaching of English to non-native speakers.

We are seeking a third panelist for a proposed session on representing and evaluating 3D spaces in technical communication for the 2011 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Atlanta.

CALL FOR PAPERS

3.6 zettabytes. 34 gigabytes. 100,500 words a day. 11.8 hours a day. 350% increase over three decades.

Activity systems and genre theory are increasing being used as tools to study various communication acts and to create new and exciting pedagogical practices.

Please consider joining a panel to explore the question: "Do mission statements really matter?" Currently, we have two presenters exploring the role of mission statements in Higher Education, but we

Seeking one additional paper for a session on Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom.

Call for Papers:
“Textual Evolution: Assessing Changes in Textual Production and Interpretation in the Classroom, Workplace, and Cyberspace”

It's been nearly eighteen years since College English published the point/counter-point between Erika Lindemann and Gary Tate over the place of literature in the composition classroom. The debate has shown no signs of slowing. Scholars continue to weigh in on what Peter Elbow has aptly described as "sites of conflict" between literature and composition. We have seen withering critiques of literary studies, encomiums to literature’s salvific potential, and appeals to reconcile the rhetorical and poetic strands that characterize every act of reading and writing.

(Re)Constructing the American West

I am seeking one additional article to include in a paperback edition of Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film and Television.

"In epideictic oratory, the speaker turns educator": decades ago, Chaim Perelman and Lucy Olbrechts-Tyteca suggested this powerful tie between education and epideictic.

Please note, the proposal deadline for the GLITS Goldsmiths Literature Seminar Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference has been EXTENDED to 26 APRIL 2010.

While we have many accounts of reading and the emerging middle class in eighteenth-century England, our understanding of literacy for domestic servants is less clear.