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Voices of the Renaissance (11/1/2009, CEA 3/25-27/2010)

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 10:00pm
Lynne Simpson and Kerri Tom, College English Association

"Voices of the Renaissance," CEA 2010 Annual Conference

March 25-27, 2010
San Antonio, Texas
Sheraton Gunter Hotel
209 East Houston Street
San Antonio, TX 78205

Polonius cautions, "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice" (Ham. 1.3). How does "voice" define—or confine--us? Whose voices emerge during the Renaissance? Whose are excluded or marginalized? And why should we still listen? We invite papers on Renaissance literature in relation to the theme of "voices" for the 41th annual meeting of the College English Association, a collegial gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies.

The Comic Satan

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 6:38pm
Popular Culture Assn/American Culture Assn National Conference 3/31 to 4/4/10

Popular Culture Assn/American Culture Assn 2010 National Conference
St. Louis, MO,
3/31/10 to 4/4/10
Comedy and Humor Area

Devilish Drollery: The Evil One as Comic Figure in
Modern and Contemporary Literature, the Arts, and Popular Culture.

We are seeking panel presentations that will examine Satan's many contemporary representations and inflections in American popular culture. Our purpose will be to explore complex, comic representations of evil and the new meanings that such images of Satan create within our culture.

Comedy and Humor, 3/31/10-4/4/10

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 6:33pm
Popular Culture Assn/American Culture Assn National Conference

Popular Culture Assn/American Culture Assn 2010 Nat'l Conference
St. Louis, MO, 3/31 to 4/4/10

Call for Papers—Comedy and Humor Area

We're seeking paper or panel discussion proposals examining comedy and the nature of humor wherever we find it in popular culture.

Possible topics include (although we're very open to any others you might want to explore) comedy in/and/of:

"Work Out the Ape": Popular Darwinism

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 3:59pm
Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference (Albuquerque, Feb. 10-13, 2010)

"'Work out the ape'": Popular Darwinism": The term "Darwinism" is a broad umbrella term in the late nineteenth century. Nevertheless, it is useful shorthand, expressing the preoccupation of British and American popular culture with a range of themes related to the Darwinian revolution in biology by the end of the nineteenth century: "degeneration," man's biological kinship with animals, the problem of aggression, the place of sexual pleasure in the psychic economy and its relationship to sexual selection, and the biological underpinnings of changing gender roles.

ATHE Theatre History Focus Group 2010 Call for Proposals

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 3:39pm
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Theatre History Focus Group

ATHE Theatre History Focus Group Call for Proposals

The Theatre History Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education invites proposals for next year's conference, to be held at the Hyatt Regency Century City in Los Angeles, August 3-6, 2010. The overall conference theme, "Theatre Alive: Theatre, Media, and Survival," advocates forging alliances with our colleagues in media studies. Thinking broadly about how we define "media," we invite proposals for panels and roundtables about histories of theatre that might engage the following questions:

American Conference for Irish Studies March 2010 Southern Regional Meeting

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 2:22pm
American Conference for Irish Studies

The Southern Regional Conference of ACIS will be held at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, March 4-7, 2010. Ireland's geographical, literary, historic, and artistic symbols and boundaries, like the Celtic knot or the Connemara coastline, are immeasurable and have been described as representations of infinity, hence the theme of the 2010 meeting: "Crafting Infinity: Struggle and Rebirth." We welcome paper and panel proposals of 250 words (to be sent as a Word attachment) that deal with the conference theme, as well as other aspects of Irish Studies. Please send abstracts and inquiries to Dr. Rory Cornish (cornishr@winthrop.edu) by November 6, 2009.

"Publishing an Edited Collection of Essays," 41st Anniversary Convention, (NeMLA). April 7-11, 2010, Montreal

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 1:58pm
Suha Kudsieh

Please feel free to circulate or post this CFP on relevant e-lists, websites, and newsletters

"Publishing an Edited Collection of Essays," 41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). April 7-11, 2010, Montreal.

Deadline for submitting abstracts or proposals: September 30, 2009

Panel description: This is a roundtable panel that aims to demystify the process of collecting and publishing an edited collection of essays. Participants will deliver a short presentation (6-7 minutes), in which they explain how they managed to publish an edited collection of essays. Participants will share their experiences, tips, suggestions, and advice with the audience.

PCA/ACA Gay, Lesbian, & Queer Studies Group

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 1:36pm
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

GAY, LESBIAN, AND QUEER STUDIES

Call For Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers

POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
2010 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis
Wednesday, March 31, through Saturday, April 3
For information on PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org
For information on the conference, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/
national.php

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2009

[UPDATE] American Indian/Indigenous Film Area The 2010 WS/TX PCA/ACA Conference

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 1:11pm
Southwest Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Meeting

The American Indian/Indigenous Film Area is looking for panels, papers, screenings of Indigenous films + discussion, and workshops on topics related to American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous film. We welcome proposals from all disciplines that examine, utilize, promote, or teach Native/Indigenous film and media are welcome. The American Indian/Indigenous Film Area is particularly interested in bringing together Native filmmakers and Native/non-Native academics to talk about the burgeoning field of Indigenous Film.

Buddhism and American Film

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 12:11pm
Gary Storhoff/University of Connecticut at Stamford and John Whalen-Bridge/National University of Singapore

This is an open call for submission of completed or nearly completed essays for inclusion in a volume on Buddhism and American film.

Buddhism and American Film

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 12:07pm
University of Connecticut at Stamford/National University of Singapore

This is an open call for submission of completed or nearly completed essays for inclusion in a volume on Buddhism and American film.

"'Pillars of Witness': Brontë Literature as Commentary" NEMLA (April 7-11, 2010)

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:04am
41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Anne Bronte's harassed governess, Agnes Grey, reflects that in stressful times poetry can provide solace, yet it also documents life experiences. She confides: "I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness…." Building on "pillars of witness", this panel will investigate the role of recording or witnessing in Brontë literature. How do the works bear witness to events or concepts? How does this affect their "art"? Consider the consequences or benefits of the Brontës' acts of bearing witness. Does gender inform the discussion? Please email 250-500 word abstracts to Kristin Le Veness at Kristin.LeVeness@ncc.edu by September 30, 2009.

RE(IN)VISION of Africa in Contemporary Spanish Texts

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Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 10:09am
Victoria Ketz, Iona College

Historically Spain has been blessed with the influx of different cultures. However, in recent years there has been an inversion of the Spanish migration flow brought about by the economic crisis of the 1990s. While the number of emigrants fell, the number of immigrants continued to increase at a steady pace. Common in the daily television programs is to see the small North African craft called pateras arrive filled with a dozen or so Arab or Berber laborers. Now the traffic has been industrialized and immigrants come in lothios--or cayucos, larger crafts which hold more than 150 people. These boats are overflowing with dozens of young men hoping to enter the European Union to work illegally.

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