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[UPDATE] Unexpected Agents: Considering agency beyond the boundaries of the human (1800 — the Present)

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 3:10pm
University of Birmingham (English Department)

Online Registration is now open for:

'Unexpected Agents: Considering agency beyond the boundaries of the human (1800 — the Present)'

A One-day Postgraduate symposium at the University of Birmingham (English Dept.), June 24th 2011

Keynote Speaker: Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Online Registration: https://www.bhamonlineshop.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&...

Materialist Readings of Children's Literature and Culture: Classic and Contemporary Essays [9/18/2011]

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 10:42am
Angela Hubler/Kansas State University

Materialist Readings of Children's Literature and Culture:
Classic and Contemporary Essays

Call for papers for an edited collection tentatively titled Materialist Readings of Children's Literature and Culture: Classic and Contemporary Essays. This collection will consist primarily of new analyses, but will also include previously published essays in order to chart the development of materialist criticism of children's literature, culture, and film.

Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

• the way in which children's literature supports or, conversely, challenges class hierarchies, especially as they intersect with gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity

[UPDATE] Extended Deadline: Edited Volume on Women Writers and Psychoanalysis (June 15th Deadline)

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Monday, May 16, 2011 - 4:21pm
Cambridge Scholars Press

I'm seeking article submissions for a volume of critical essays, which will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press. The collection will focus on twentieth-century female writers' responses to the work of Sigmund Freud with a particular emphasis on alternative models of the psychoanalytic process posed by women. The book will move beyond critiques of Freud and his influence on twentieth century ideas about gender, demonstrating instead the ways women writers have reclaimed agency through the artistic process. With that in mind, the essays selected for publication will address the following topics:

Journal of Empire Studies

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Monday, May 16, 2011 - 9:47am
Journal of Empire Studies

The Journal of Empire Studies

Deadline for Fall 2011 submissions: July 10, 2011
Deadline for Winter 2012 submissions: October 15, 2011

A new open-access scholarly journal on global studies, The Journal of Empire Studies, is looking for articles on topics within the broad range of empire studies:

Science and Technology / Literature / Military Studies / Art and Architecture / Gender

Of particular interest are examinations of topics comparing eastern and western empires.

For specifics, we welcome you to visit the journal web site:

www.empirestudies.org

[UPDATE]

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Friday, May 13, 2011 - 12:30pm
The Rest is History: Ireland, Performance and The Historical Imagination

apologies for cross postings.

Call for Papers for an edited collection:

the rest is history

ireland, performance and the historical imagination

A chronicler who recites events without distinguishing between

major and minor ones acts in accordance with the following

truth: nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history.

-Walter Benjamin
Illuminations

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Once and Future Kings? The Return of King Arthur in the Post-medieval World

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Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 8:07pm
Michael A Torregrossa / The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

ONCE AND FUTURE KINGS?
THE RETURN OF KING ARTHUR IN THE POST-MEDIEVAL WORLD
Session Sponsored by The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
For the 33rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University (Plymouth, NH)
20-21 April 2011
Proposals by 12/1/11

Savagism and Civilization- Friday October 14, 2011

updated: 
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 2:34pm
University of Oklahoma: Student Association of Graduate English Studies and Native American Studies

"Savagism" and Civilization

"In plain truth, these men are very savage in comparison of us; of necessity, they must either be absolutely so or else we are savages; for there is a vast difference between their manners and ours." - Michel Montaigne, "Of Cannibals"

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