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Film (General) Panels for 2011 SWTX PCA/ACA Annual Conference

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 10:46pm
Southwest Texas Popular & American Culture Association

Proposals are being reviewed for 20-minute presentations on film, ranging from critical essays to analyses employing recognized research methodologies.

Here are some examples that individual presentations could explore to demonstrate that a wide assortment of topic areas is sought:
> The black and white aesthetic: pre-1960s or post-1960s
> Ideological themes in contemporary films
> The film flashback: weak script device or important narrative tool?
> Subtext no more: special effects as the dominant message in contemporary films
> Horror film remakes

The 2011 SWTX PCA/ACA conference will be held jointly with the National PCA/ACA from April 20 - 23 in San Antonio, Texas.

Narrative Scale and the Limits of the Sensible

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 10:45pm
International Society for the Study of Narrative

We welcome paper proposals on narrative scale in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century fiction, film, or visual media for the 2011 International Conference on Narrative. We are specifically interested in essays exploring the relationship between narrative representation and what the selection of scale brings to view or obscures. For example, what is made legible if we imagine literary history in terms of blunt dates (like the annular study) rather than in terms of broad conceptual markers (like modernity)? Or what is the relationship between evolution as metaphor bounded by narrative and scientific evolutionary theory? Particular areas of interest might include:

Black Studies in the Age of Obama: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Black Identity: Undergraduate Student Research Conference

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 10:04pm
Dept. of Black American Studies--University of Delaware

The Department of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, in collaboration with Delaware State University, Morgan State University, and Bowie State University, extend a call for papers for an inaugural regional undergraduate student research conference to be held on March 19, 2011 at the University of Delaware related to the theme—broadly conceived—Black Studies in the Age of Obama: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Black Identity.

The Conference On The Conference - March 4th and 5th, 2011

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 9:54pm
Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts The Conference On The Conference Organization Committee

THE CONFERENCE ON THE CONFERENCE

March 4th and 5th, 2011

Simon Fraser University,
A School for the Contemporary Arts
Graduate Candidate's Symposium/Exhibition, Vancouver, BC. Canada

Call for Papers: The Conference on The Conference

The Tide that Binds: Exploring the Victorian Coast

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 9:29pm
Victorian Studies Association of Ontario/ Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English

Victorians flocked to coasts and shorelines to seek leisure, employment, escape, beauty, death, and the natural world, amongst other pursuits. For Great Britain, an island nation at the centre of an expanding empire, the relationship between natural edge and national border took on increasingly complex resonances as the nineteenth century progressed. This session seeks to explore the investments made by Victorians in coasts both symbolic and literal, including the various aesthetic, industrial, gendered, classed, patriotic, and religious meanings that inhered in representations of the line between land and sea.

What Were They Thinking?... Panel for ASLE Conference, Bloomington, IN, June 22-26, 2011

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 9:05pm
Eric Russell

What Were They Thinking?: The Vagaries of an Environmental Ethic among Naturalist Writers in North America before George Perkins Marsh

We seek proposals for papers that analyze the evidence that early naturalist writers struggled with the need for an environmental ethic in their work. That is, how did they represent their relationship to the animals they killed in the works they published? Upon what principles or literary strategies did they justify some actions and condemn others? To what extent was a biocentric vision possible for them? Naturalist writers of interest include, but are not limited to, Audubon, William Bartram, Crèvecoeur, Catlin, Godman, Holbrook, Nuttall, Townsend, Wilson.

Poverty and Whiteness in 20th Century American Literature Panel: ALA 2011

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 8:45pm
Jolene Hubbs / Veronica Watson

We are seeking a third presenter for a proposed panel at the American Literature Association in Boston (May 26-29, 2011). This panel aims to explore representations of poor whites and/or the intersections of whiteness and social class in twentieth-century works.  One confirmed paper will examine intertextuality as a form of poor white class consciousness in Barbara Robinette Moss's _Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter_; the other will explore white femininity and class mobility in Zora Neale Hurston's _Seraph on the Suwanee_.  Comparative approaches--across races, works, time periods--and papers examining individual works related to the panel theme are equally welcome.

Panel for ASLE Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, June 22-26, 2011

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 5:34pm
ASLE

What Were They Thinking?: The Vagaries of an Environmental Ethic among Naturalist Writers in North America before George Perkins Marsh

We seek proposals for papers that analyze the evidence that early naturalist writers struggled with the need for an environmental ethic in their work. That is, how did they represent their relationship to the animals they killed in the works they published? Upon what principles or literary strategies did they justify some actions and condemn others? To what extent was a biocentric vision possible for them? Naturalist writers of interest include, but are not limited to, Audubon, William Bartram, Crèvecoeur, Catlin, Godman, Holbrook, Nuttall, Townsend, Wilson.

Reading Transcendentalism after Cavell (ALA: 5/26-5/29/2011)

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 3:15pm
The Thoreau Society

A Session Sponsored by The Thoreau Society
American Literature Association--22nd Annual Conference, Boston, May 26-29, 2011
Kristen Case and Rochelle Johnson, Organizers

Reading Transcendentalism after Cavell: Anticipating the Fortieth Anniversary of The Senses of Walden (1972)

Transnational Women's Writing in Twentieth Century Europe

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 3:14pm
2011 Northeast Modern Language Association

2011 Northeast Modern Language Association
7-10 April
New Brunswick, NJ, Hosted by Rutger's University

Taking Natalie Clifford Barney's "Academy of Women" as an example of what Tirza Latimer characterizes as "women converging in Paris between the wars to establish the terms of on-going debates about representation, sexuality, and the politics of gender," this panel will explore works written by women in Barney's circle AND works written within the broader context of transnational women's writing in twentieth-century Paris. Please send 200-300 word abstracts to Chelsea Ray @ chelsea.d.ray@maine.edu. by 14 October.

[UPDATE] JANUARY 3 DEADLINE: Grad Conference: "ANIMAL.MACHINE.SOVEREIGN."

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 11:03am
Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo

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PLEASE VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION

http://animalmachinesovereign.wordpress.com

KEYNOTES:
Timothy Campbell (Cornell)
Catherine Malabou (Universite de Paris X-Nanterre, SUNY Buffalo)
David E. Johnson (SUNY Buffalo)

Contributors to the conference must be currently enrolled graduate students (in any discipline), and are encourage to engage in presentations that probe the political constitution of the human-animal divide as a condition for thinking sovereignty, the State, nation, law and politics in general.

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