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Determining Form: Creative Non-Fiction Journeys

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:57am
University of Glasgow

Determining Form: Creative Non-Fiction Journeys is a two-day conference being held at Glasgow University (June 11-12) which will provide a venue for the exploration and discussion of creative non-fiction within (and outwith) academia. Creative non-fiction encompasses a wide range of genres, including biography, autobiography, travel writing, memoir, journalism and essay writing. Works such as In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers and The Next American Essay edited by John D'Agata investigate literary spaces with a focus on the journey rather than the destination.

[UPDATE] 108th PAMLA Conference, "Picturing Oceania and the Pacific," November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, H

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:44am
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is hosting its 108th Annual Conference, on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii.

The Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association is looking for paper proposals for the Children's Literature Panel for the 2010 Conference. Proposals may address the theme for the conference, "Picturing Oceania and the Pacific," in relation to Children's Literature. General Children's Literature proposals will be accepted as well.

Please submit a 250 word summary of the proposed conference paper and a short abstract of 50 words with the paper title that would introduce the significance of your paper for the conference program.

[UPDATE] GASC 2010: "The Anthropology of Modernity: The Sacred, Science, and Aesthetics" (SLC; 6/24-6/26)

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 10:22am
Robert J. Hudson, Peter Goldman/ Generative Anthropology Summer Conference

NEW Deadline for submissions: 15 MARCH

NEW Conference website up-and-running: http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/pgoldman/GASC_2010/index.ht...

Keynote Speaker: Professor Eric Gans of UCLA and Professor Vincent Pecora from the University of Utah.

Conference Time and Place: June 24-26, 2010, at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. (Brigham Young University is co-hosting the conference, and selected activities will be spent
at their Provo campus, located south of Salt Lake City. Bus transportation will be provided.)

[UPDATE] Transgressing Boundaries, Enacting Difference: April 2, 2010

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 9:02am
7th Annual Miami English Graduate and Adjunct Association (MEGAA) Symposium

Transgressing Boundaries, Enacting Difference

The Seventh annual symposium will be held Friday, April 2, 2010 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaims, "The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others." Nasser positions boundary as material, psychological, and ideological constraint, and yet he demonstrates the instability of the boundary to enact division.

Open call for papers

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 8:26am
Dr Toni Weller, De Montfort University

Submissions of papers are invited to the international, peer-reviwed journal, Library & Information History, on any aspect of library or information history, from any time period or geographical region.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

* histories of writing, the book or the communication of knowledge
* the cultural impact of knowledge
* the role of libraries/knowledge in times of conflict
* military or government libraries/collections of knowledge
* histories of the information age
* changing historiography of knowledge
* histories of censorship
* knowledge in popular culture
* gender related histories of knowledge

Aid, Relief or Bailout: Differing Aims, Ways, and Ends, Vol. 1, No. 3 Spring & Summer 2010

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 8:14am
Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Okinawa Christian University

Presently receiving and reviewing submissions for the Spring & Summer 2010 issue

Authors are asked to examine meanings or perceptions of 'aid', 'relief' or 'bailout' that clash or align with conventional wisdom or common practices.

Possible themes, topics to be explored (in no way exhaustive):

1. How is aid, relief or bailout used as a political, cultural, economic, military, or hegemonic tool?

2. How does aid, relief or bailout communicate a political, cultural, military, economic, or hegemonic agenda?

3. What are the underlying, un-stated goals of those who supply aid, relief or bailout?

4. How is aid or relief itself a dyadic form of communication?

SOUTHERN LITERATURE CFP - RMMLA 2010 - Deadline March 1

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 10:19pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

SOUTHERN LITERATURE SESSIONS RMMLA 2010
Albuquerque, New Mexico
October 14-16, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: March 1, 2010

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association invites submissions for two sessions on southern writers at the 2010 convention to be held in Albuquerque, October 14-16. For more information about RMMLA or calls for papers in other areas, see www.rmmla.org.

Society for the Study of Southern Literature Roundtable.
Practical approaches to teaching southern writers outside the South. Submit descriptions appropriate for ten-minute remarks and 2-page CV to Tara Powell at tfpowell@gmail.com.

Books to Review: Summer 2010

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 1:05pm
Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South

The editors at Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, a peer reviewed journal published quarterly from the Southern Studies Institute, invite scholars of southern literature, culture and history to consider reviewing books for the journal. Please send book title, mailing address and a C.V. to our book review editor, Dr. James A. Crank at cranka@nsula.edu

Our books available for review for the Spring/Summer of 2010 are:

What Virtue there is in Fire by Edwin T. Arnold ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2891-1

The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston by Maria Elizabeth Ausherman ISBN: 9780813032955

Gender edited by Nancy Bercaw and Ted Ownby ISBN: 9780807859483

Shakespeare Session, 2010 RMMLA Convention, October 14-16, 2010 (Albuquerque, NM)

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 11:41am
Ruben Espinosa, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Twenty-minute papers that address any theme pertaining to Shakespeare. Topics of interest include gender, religious, and race studies in Shakespeare. Submit a 300-500 word abstract to Ruben Espinosa at respinosa2@utep.edu. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 1, 2010. Notification will be given by March 15.

Re-thinking the Anglo-French Renaissance (MLA 2011 special session)

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 10:49am
Timothy Duffy, University of Virginia

Proposed panel on new methods of theorizing and rethinking the complex instances of literary translation, imitation, and confrontation between France and England during the 16th century. 200–400-word abstracts by 12 March 2010

October 2010 "Mrs Gaskell in Context"

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 4:32am
Trevor Harris, Université François-Rabelais, Tours (France)

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of the novelist, the October issue of GRAAT Online will be devoted to Mrs Gaskell and her place in Victorian thought and culture.

www.graat.fr (follow link to CFP)

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