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[UPDATE] Deadline Extended "Working Toward Leisure": University of Calgary Free-Exchange Conference March 4-6 2011

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 8:31pm
University of Calgary Free-Exchange Committee

University of Calgary's Free-Exchange Committee will be hosting its annual, interdisciplinary graduate student conference March 4-6 2011 at the University of Calgary and is looking for contributors to critically engage with and explore this year's theme of "working toward leisure."

"We give up leisure in order to have leisure." —Aristotle

3rd Media Fields Conference: Contested Territories

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 7:34pm
Media Fields Research Collective

Contested Territories

A conference of the Media Fields Research Collective and the Film and Media Studies Graduate Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara

March 31 – April 1, 2011

Santa Barbara, California

[Update] The Crisis of the Confined Body: A Conference in Romance Studies / Abstract Deadline 1/24/10

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 7:06pm
University of California, Berkeley

The Crisis of the Confined Body is a graduate student conference that will join five Romance languages (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish), fostering a comparative approach to studies of the body in confinement, isolation and extraction. The conference will offer critical examinations of the body and its contingent relationship to spatial, temporal, cultural and/or linguistic parameters. A theme that lends itself to multiple fields, The Crisis of the Confined Body will promote interdisciplinary collaborations between the humanities, visual arts, and sciences, engaging points of overlap as well as lines of divergence. We encourage presentations that engage a comparative and/or interdisciplinary approach.

Sonic Doom: Decay, Disease, and Destruction in Music

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 6:58pm
Echo: A Music-Centered Journal

2011 Echo Conference – Sonic Doom: Decay, Disease, and Destruction in Music
May 13-14, 2011
University of California, Los Angeles
Submission deadline: March 1, 2011

Keynote Speakers: James Deaville (Carleton University) and Mitchell Morris (University of California, Los Angeles)

Co-op Mode: Interactivity and Narrative, May 21-22

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 3:25pm
University of Ottawa English Graduate Student Association

Co-op Mode
Interactivity and Narrative
The Sixth Annual University of Ottawa English Graduate Conference
May 21-22, 2011
Call for Papers

"Games can't tell their stories through disconnected segments of gameplay strung together by cut scenes. Games need to tell their story through the gameplay. Narrative should drip from every texture and be integrated into every facet of the world. It should come through in the menus and the interface and in every loading screen."
- Daniel Floyd and James Portnow

Women Writing the Natural World, deadline 3/15

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 3:23pm
Nineteenth Century Gender Studies

This special issue of Nineteenth Century Gender Studies will explore the way in which nineteenth-century women wrote about the natural world. This special issue is designed to cover writings on landscape and on plant and animal life. It aims to emphasise women's participation in scientific discussion of Darwinian ideas, and also in a broader range of scientific and aesthetic engagements with nature.

3rd Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference on Literature, Rhetoric and Composition - April 1-2, Chattanooga TN

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 2:31pm
Sigma Tau Delta - Xi Alpha chapter and The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

We are welcoming graduate and undergraduate student papers or full panel proposals that address any area of literature (British, American, world, colonial and post-colonial, medieval, modern, contemporary, etc.), rhetoric, composition, or pedagogical studies. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract to xialpha.utc.conference@gmail.com. Submissions must include name, institutional affiliation, student status (graduate or undergraduate), contact information (name, phone number, address, email address), and a list of any audio/visual equipment needed for your presentation. Presentation time should be limited to 20 minutes (usually about ten pages). Abstracts should be received by January 30, 2011.

3rd Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference on Literature, Rhetoric and Composition - April 1-2, Chattanooga TN

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 2:30pm
Sigma Tau Delta - Xi Alpha chapter and The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

We are welcoming graduate and undergraduate student papers or full panel proposals that address any area of literature (British, American, world, colonial and post-colonial, medieval, modern, contemporary, etc.), rhetoric, composition, or pedagogical studies. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract to xialpha.utc.conference@gmail.com. Submissions must include name, institutional affiliation, student status (graduate or undergraduate), contact information (name, phone number, address, email address), and a list of any audio/visual equipment needed for your presentation. Presentation time should be limited to 20 minutes (usually about ten pages). Abstracts should be received by January 30, 2009.

Paperback Originals and the Origins of Contemporary Gay Literature

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 12:55pm
Jaime Harker/ University of Mississippi

Novels known collectively as "out gay pulp"—paperback originals published with accelerating frequency in the 1960s—have received increasing attention, from popular collections like John Preston's Flesh and the Word, Michael Bronski's Pulp Friction and Susan Stryker's Queer Pulp to the circulation of pulp covers in postcards, address books, and posters. Scholarly attention to this phenomenon has been more sporadic; an excellent bibliography by Tom Norman, essays by David Bergman and John Howard, and those by the various contributors to The Golden Age of Gay Fiction haven't yet spurred a deeper, more engaged critical interest.

CFP: _genre_: A Thematic Journal, vol. 31 - Visual Cultures

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 12:40pm
Associated Students of Comparative World Literature, Cal State Long Beach

genre, a journal published the Associated Students of Comparative World Literature at Cal State University Long Beach, is soliciting papers for its volume on "Visual Culture & Global Practices." We are interested in works that examine literature (across time periods and languages), images, visual objects and mechanisms, and events from diverse cultures, across national boundaries, and within global contexts . Among the questions to be explored are:

** What are the visual codes of cultural works?

** What is the relationship between these works and their conditions of consumption, production and reception?

** How do images function within political, social, and economic forces?

** What is the cultural work that images do?

[UPDATE] Wide Screen 3.1

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 12:18pm
Wide Screen

CFP: Wide Screen Vol.3 No.1

Wide Screen is a peer-reviewed, open access journal. It is devoted to the critical study of cinema from historical, theoretical, political, and aesthetic perspectives. With radical changes in the modes of production, distribution, and exhibition, the journal aims to combine the best of academic and journalistic critique of cinema to inform readers about the various critical vantage points from which to understand cinema in this dynamic environment. Contributions to the journal can be in the form of essays, reviews, interviews, opinion pieces etc.

Third International Maroon Conference. June 22-25 2011

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 12:05pm
Third International Maroon Conference," The Return."

This multidisciplinary conference seeks papers and panels that explore representation of Maroon culture in history, literature, art, music, political theory, cultural studies, film, linguistics, and theatre. With its theme "The Return," it strives to revisit the roots of Maroon values and practices, considering the ways they have endured, transformed and resonated in the Caribbean, Canada, South America, Europe, the United States and Africa. Offering a unique combination of scholarly panels and cultural events, the third international Maroon conference aims to increase awareness of Maroon contributions to contemporary societies, bringing together descendents of Maroons with scholars interested in Maroon heritage and indigenous cultures.

Challenges of Space and Place, June 9th-10th

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 9:58am
Challenges of Space and Place, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona Sweden

The school of Planning and Digital Media at Blekinge Institute of Technology is pleased to announce a symposium for PhD students and young scholars entitled "Challenges of Space and Place," taking place June 9th and 10th, 2011.

The symposium is accepting abstracts for submission under its theme in three broad themes: The Intangible City, discussing issues such as the digital media and the city, representation and image construction, and image of the city; the Public City encompassing topics such as democracy and place, production and consumption of public spaces, diversity, and private-public; and the Political City encompassing issues of politics and power in planning, and decision-making over space and place.

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