Call for Papers-Silent Film SWTXPCA 2009
 
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2008
Online: http://swtxpca.org/documents/home.html
The 30th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture
Associations February 24â€"28, 2009
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
 
 The Area Chair for Silent Film is seeking papers and presentations on ANY
aspect of Silent Film.
 
Some topics to consider:
 
D. W. Griffith’s art
Garbo
Modern Silent Films and Filmmakers
Bronco Billy and the Rise of the Western
Studios and companies during the silent age
The birth of Talkies
Al Jolson

Call for Papers, Literature and War at CEA 2009
70th Anniversary Conference | March 26-28, 2009 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219;
(412) 281-7100
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English
studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Literature and War for
our 40th annual conference, celebrating the organization’s 70th anniversary.
War is part of the fabric of American culture, but there is often a gap
between the public myth and the private truth of war. This panel will use
literature to bridge this gap. Topics may include but are not limited to:

Papers are invited for a proposed panel on the fourth dimension for the
upcoming British Society for Literature and Science at the University of
Reading, 27-29 March 2009.

http://www.bsls.ac.uk/?p=88

The fourth dimension is a concept that arises frequently in literature,
philosophy and science. Papers on any aspect of this topic are warmly
encouraged, from a pre-Relativity or post-Relativity perspective.

Please send a 400 word abstract, along with an 100 word biography, to
e.throesch_at_yorksj.ac.uk by 15 Novemember.

Feel free to contact me with any questions in the meantime.

Points of Exit: Biographies on the Move
On Thursday, March 19, and Friday, March 20, 2009, the Centre for Gender
and Diversity, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, will mark its ten-
year anniversary with a conference entitled Points of Exit: (Un)
conventional Representations of Age, Parenting, and Sexuality. The
conference aims to examine the potential deconstruction of conventional
scripts of age, parenting, and sexuality.

For one of the panels, entitled Biographies on the Move, we invite papers
that deal withthe following theme:

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS
 
The Caribbean Short Story: Contexts, Theory, Practice [working title],
ed. by Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt & Emma Smith. Forthcoming with Peepal Tree
Press (Winter 2009/10)
 
According to Kenneth Ramchand, 'the history of Caribbean prose fiction
before 1950 is essentially the history of the short story'. This
collection posits the Caribbean short story not only as vitally
influential in the development of the region's literary tradition, but
also as a site of continuing reinvigoration. It investigates the
significance of short stories to Caribbean cultural production in the

Seventeenth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers
Conference
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Call for Papers

"Fresh Threads of Connection"
April 2â€"5, 2009