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category: theoryPoints of Contact: Moving East to West,16th Annual Multicultural Conference, April 20-22, 2010full name / name of organization: Laurie Lopez Coleman, English/San Antonio College Multicultural Conference, San Antonio, TX contact email: lcoleman@alamo.edu The West has enjoyed a commanding supremacy in culture and world affairs for several centuries, but the 21st Century finds the East exerting a powerful influence on the West.
Literature and Criticism after Secularism, ACLA Seminar, April 1-4, 2010full name / name of organization: Thomas Dancer, U of Wisconsin Madison; Jack Dudley, U of Wisconsin Madison contact email: tgdancer@wisc.edu; jdudley@wisc.edu Much scholarship on modern and contemporary literature has taken it as an article of faith that writers either turned away from or actively rejected religion.
Spaces of Consumption and Disposable Culture: A Material Dialogue in Medieval Europe (c.1100-1500)full name / name of organization: Dr. Rebecca Flynn and Dr. Salvatore Musumeci contact email: Rebecca.Flynn@usd.edu, Salvatore.Musumeci@usiouxfalls.edu CALL FOR ESSAYS
ACLA: Allegories of Language (New Orleans 1-4 April 2010; abstract by 11/13)full name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Association contact email: machosky@hawaii.edu Allegory has long been situated in a metaphorical-metaphysical scheme that presumes a hierarchical relationship between word and meaning.
UPDATE: Adoption Poetry Collectionfull name / name of organization: Jesse Goolsby contact email: poetrycfp@gmail.com This is a call for poetry submissions for a collection thematically centered on adoption. All types of poetry and prose poems are acceptable up to 500 words.
[UPDATE] WORK – IOWA JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES [EXTENDED DEADLINE: 27 NOV]full name / name of organization: Sara Sullivan/Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies contact email: sara-sullivan@uiowa.edu The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies seeks essays on cultural representations and experiences of labor and work, from the perspectives of the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
Alternative Culture Now: The Politics of Culture at the Present Conjuncture (April 8-10, 2010)full name / name of organization: The International Alternative Culture Center contact email: alternativeculturenow@gmail.com Alternative Culture Now: The Politics of Culture at the Present Conjuncture Proposal Deadline: January 25, 2010
Disasters, Crises, and the Politics of Recreation--A Seminar/Panel at ACLA 2010 (New Orleans April 1-4), subm. deadline, Nov. 13full name / name of organization: American Comparative Literature Association contact email: jjmaer@aol.com Certain conditions have defined the beginning of the 21st century: imperialist war for control of the Middle East and Afghanistan, super exploitation of labor and global resources like the food crisis
“Invasive Species, Postcolonial and Critical Global Theory” (12/20/09 due) Crossroads in Cultural Studies (June 17-21, 2010)full name / name of organization: Chingling Wo/Sonoma State University, U.S. and Tsung-yi Huang/National Taiwan University, Taiwan contact email: wochingling@hotmail.com -----
[UPDATE] SW/TX PCA/ACA Chicana/o Literature/Film/Culture February 2010full name / name of organization: Jeanette Sanchez SW/TX Popular/American Culture Association contact email: jeannie8@u.washington.edu The final deadline for paper and panel submissions has been extended to Dec. 15, 2009. Early bird registration ends Dec.
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