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Imagining Chaos: States of Emergency in Law and Fiction December. December 8-9 2011

full name / name of organization:

University of Copenhagen

contact email:

agraae@stud.ku.dk

In recent years, the collapse of legal structures has been a prominent theme in legal studies as well as in cultural studies. Until now, however, there have been few attempts to unite the legal and the cultural studies approach to the state of emergency – and none on the field of disaster research.

The legal and the cultural studies approaches to the state of emergency converge on the level of social imaginaries rather than that of academic vocabularies. We suggest the concept of social imaginary – partly overlapping with the concepts of ideology, myth, phantasm, political theology etc. – as a name for the repertoire of cognitive schemes that structure our perception of and orientation in a given social order. In the case of the state of emergency, the underlying cultural assumptions about order and disorder, about security and violence, about predictability and contingency are vital to any assessment of the quantity and quality of the disaster.

However, the social imagination of disaster is not homogenous. At the one end of the spectrum, 'exceptionalists' perceive the state of emergency as a total breakdown of the social order; at the other end pole, 'non-exceptionalists' imagine the same kind of human tumult as a peripheral phenomenon only lightly touching a resilient social order. The task of the conference Imagining Chaos: States of Emergency in Law and Fiction is to explore how law and fiction negotiate the various ways of conceiving disorder on the following three levels:

Subject: How is the individual depicted in legal and cultural representations of disaster? Do we imagine extreme and deviant forms of behaviour on the part of the individual as 'natural' consequences of a disastrous context of action, or do we, rather, picture individual actions as basically predictable and trustworthy even under hazardous circumstances?

Society: How is social life represented in disaster law and disaster fiction? Do we imagine disasters as causing a violent and chaotic state of nature, a lawless void in which violence and contingency reign, or do we, rather, conceive the social order as a continuum in which social norms are adapted to the circumstances rather than simply suspended?

Nature: How is nature pictured in the legal and cultural imagination of disaster? Do we understand natural disasters as basically indeterminate events disrupting the routine functioning of the laws of nature, or do we envision a basically predictable and manageable world in which disasters can be predicted – and hence prevented – if only our knowledge about the world is increased?

The conference is interdisciplinary in its essence. Not only does it bring together papers from different academic disciplines (legal studies, cultural studies, sociology, political science, etc.), the individual papers themselves will also make an attempt at crossing the borders between law and fiction in order to explore the deep grammar of disaster imagination.

Keynote speakers:
Lisa Grow Sun. Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young University (BYU), Utah, US
Eyal Weizman. Architect and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmith's College, University of London, UK
Leonard Feldman. Associate Professor of Political Theory at Hunter College, The City University of New York, US
Manfred Schneider. Professor of Literature and Aesthetics at the German Institute, Ruhr University, GE
Oren Gross. Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International Legal & Security Studies, University of Minnesota Law School, US
Jörg Trempler. Associate professor of Art History at University of Greifswald, GE
Gerrit Jasper Schenk. Professor of History in the Middle Ages, Darmstadt University of Technology, GE

For participation, please send an abstract (200-300 words) and a brief CV to the conference secretary, Andreas Graae, agraae@stud.ku.dk. Paper presentations will be scheduled to 20 minutes.

Conference contacts: Professor, Dr. Henrik Palmer Olsen, Faculty of Law (henrik.palmer.olsen@jur.ku.dk) and Associate Professor Isak Winkel Holm, Faculty of Humanities (isak@hum.ku.dk).

The conference will take place at the Department of Law, University of Copenhagen, and is organized by the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Humanities in conjunction and is supported by the European Science Foundation.

41600SHAKESPEARE, TRANSLATION AND THE EUROPEAN DIMENSIONUniversity of Bucharestsabina.draga@americanstudies.ro1306762435cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinternational_conferencesrenaissancetheatretheoryfull name / name of organization: University of Bucharestcontact email: sabina.draga@americanstudies.ro

SHAKESPEARE, TRANSLATION AND THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION
October 1, 2011
Bucharest- English Department of the University of Bucharest
This conference is organized as part of the CNCSIS-funded project The European Dimension of Shakespearean Translations: Romanian Perspectives, ID_1978/2008
Keynote speakers:
Keith Gregor (University of Murcia)
Laura Tosi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Valerie Henitiuk (University of East Anglia)

Translations have proved highly effective in constructing communities of interests and beliefs both within and across national boundaries. Depending on the historical context they are produced in, these communities have varied in the degree of their ethnocentric or, to the contrary, their other-oriented, inclusive thrust. The latter type of community, reinforcing cultural difference rather than sameness has recently been strongly valorized, with Paul Ricoeur considering it a fit paradigm for the democratic public sphere of a future (utopian?) Europe.
However, translations , particularly of canonical texts, have often fostered more de-centred communities, in which source text and translation are treated as equally valuable, standing side by side rather than in a relation of subordination. "Free" translations and adaptations that give voice to the non-canonical, marginal other in a minority language have been particularly powerful in projecting alternative communities. Though post-colonial re-writings of European canonical texts have often been quoted in this respect, European translations have also been highly productive or supportive of this type of community.
The present conference would like to investigate the various types of cultural and political communities that translations have been constructing. Priority will be granted to European re-workings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, viewing the plays as both products and further objects of translation.
We invite papers around, but not restricted to the following issues:
a. Translations and the construction of transnational (European) cultural communities;
b. Shakespeare and the construction of European nationalist and /or transnational communities ;
c. Translations in the early modern period as productive of a globalized community;
d. Academic versus stage/movie translations of Shakespeare and the construction of communities;
e. Translations/adaptations of European canonical texts and the reinforcing/contesting of Eurocentric stereotypes;
f. Beyond the cultural turn in translation – what communities can be constructed?
Please send 200-word abstracts and short bios to Dr Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru (sabina.draga@americanstudies.ro) and Dr Oana Alis Popescu (oanaalispopescu@yahoo.com) by 1.08.2011.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinternational_conferencesrenaissancetheatretheory 41601Paper and Screen : the Inter-Art Work, NeMLA March 15-18, 2012 (la version française suit celle en anglais)Karine Abadie (Université de Montréal), Catherine Chartrand-Laporte (Université de Montréal / Université de Bordeaux 3)karine.abadie@umontreal.ca, catherine.chartrand-laporte@umontreal.ca1306766146film_and_televisioninterdisciplinarytheoryfull name / name of organization: Karine Abadie (Université de Montréal), Catherine Chartrand-Laporte (Université de Montréal / Université de Bordeaux 3)contact email: karine.abadie@umontreal.ca, catherine.chartrand-laporte@umontreal.ca

Paper and Screen : the Inter-Art Work
2012 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Rochester (NY), March 15-18, 2012

A literary work can be treated as a cinematographic object, and a cinematographic work can be treated as a literary object. That said, the modalities linked to the production of literary and cinematographic works are diametrically opposed, if only based on auctorial, linguistic and technical points of view. As such, while literature allows for an author to work alone, the preparation and production of a movie is a team effort. While words are the only tools of the writer, the film director can assemble spoken words, with sounds, music and images; while the space on a book page is essentially static, the movie screen is animated by movement. This session seeks to explore inter-art works, namely the ones that have been the object of both literary and cinematographic treatments under the impulsion of their author, meaning that the author participated in both works. Before questioning ourselves about the nature of the transformations implied by the passage from one medium to the other, we will reflect on why a given work would be treated by two different mediums. Does this double treatment result in two distinct works? Does the inter-art space allow an author to reach a whole that cannot be reached by exploiting only one medium? As such, can both works be thought of a sole entity, by way of studying the literary and cinematographic declension of the pair? In short, why does an author need to explore two languages to treat the same topic? What does the recourse to these two languages imply? This session aims to answer these questions. Participants may work on this topic without any restrictions in terms of time period or geographical limits.

Abstracts must be 200-500 words, and can be written either in English or French. Please send your abstracts by September 30th, 2011, to Karine Abadie (karine.abadie@umontreal.ca) and to Catherine Chartrand-Laporte (catherine.chartrand-laporte@umontreal.ca).

L'encre et l'écran à l'oeuvre
2012 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Rochester (NY), 15-18 mars 2012

Une œuvre littéraire peut faire l'objet d'un traitement cinématographique, tout comme une œuvre cinématographique peut faire l'objet d'un traitement littéraire. Or, les modalités liées à la production d'une œuvre littéraire et d'une œuvre cinématographique sont diamétralement opposées, ne serait-ce que sur les plans auctorial, langagier et technique. De fait, alors que la littérature permet à un auteur de travailler en solitaire, la production cinématographique ne peut être pensée que comme le travail d'un groupe ; alors que les mots sont les seuls outils de l'écrivain, le réalisateur, lui, peut avoir recours à l'image tout comme au son pour s'adresser à son public ; alors que l'espace de la page d'un livre est essentiellement statique, c'est le mouvement qui anime l'écran de cinéma. Cette session se propose d'explorer des œuvres intermédiales qui ont fait l'objet, sous l'impulsion de leur auteur, d'un traitement double, à la fois littéraire et cinématographique. Avant de s'interroger sur la nature des transformations que le passage d'un medium à l'autre implique, il s'agira de se demander pourquoi une œuvre nécessiterait d'être traitée par deux mediums. Ainsi résulte-t-il, de ce traitement double, deux œuvres distinctes ? Le traitement intermédial permet-il d'atteindre une totalité, difficile d'accès par le biais d'un médium unique ? Peut-on, par conséquent, penser les deux œuvres comme une seule entité en étudiant de paire ses déclinaisons littéraire et cinématographique ? En somme, pourquoi un auteur a‑t-il besoin de faire l'expérience de deux langages pour traiter un même sujet, et qu'est-ce que le recours à ces deux langages implique ? Ce sont à ces questions que la présente session se propose de répondre, et ce, sans imposer aux participants de limites historiques ou géographiques.

Les propositions de communication de 250-500 mots, rédigées en anglais ou en français, doivent être envoyées par courriel à Karine Abadie (karine.abadie@umontreal.ca) et à Catherine Chartrand-Laporte (catherine.chartrand-laporte@umontreal.ca), avant le 30 septembre 2011.

cfp categories: film_and_televisioninterdisciplinarytheory 41602CFP Maggie Gee Conference 30-31 August 2012University of St Andrews and University of Surreygee@gylphi.co.uk1306766279ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencestwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: University of St Andrews and University of Surreycontact email: gee@gylphi.co.uk

This two-day international conference aims to bring together scholars for the first academic conference dedicated to Maggie Gee's writing. Gee is one of Britain's most prolific and critically-acclaimed novelists: the author of 12 novels, as well as collections of short stories, edited anthologies of contemporary writing and, most recently, an autobiography – My Animal Life (Telegram Books, 2010).

The organisers welcome papers on any topic related to Maggie Gee's writing. Please send a title and 300 word abstract for a 20 minute paper along with your name, affiliation and 100 word professional biography to gee@gylphi.co.uk by 1st February 2012.

Further information can be found at the conference website: http://www.gylphi.co.uk/gee [live in July 2011].

cfp categories: ecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencestwentieth_century_and_beyond 41603Riding Beyond the Purple Sage: the 21st Century American Western, 9/30/11 [NeMLA: Rochester NY; March 15-18, 2012] Northeast Modern Language Associationjadonahu@potsdam.edu1306772385african-americanamericanethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturepostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: jadonahu@potsdam.edu

In 1912, Zane Grey published Riders of the Purple Sage, an important text in the development of the American western. Over the past 100 years, the western has increased in popularity, and undergone a number of significant developments. This panel will explore the American western in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. What changes characterize the ongoing development of the genre? Please submit 250-400 word abstracts by September 30, 2011 to James J. Donahue at donahujj@potsdam.edu. Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, A/V requirements.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturepostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 41604Special Session Topic "Seriously Different: Playing the Foreign in Early Modern Drama" November 3-6 St. Louis, Missouri2011 Midwest MLA Annual Convention "Play…No, Seriously"‎carol.mejia-laperle@wright.edu‎ and nunn@uakron1306787238interdisciplinarypostcolonialrenaissancetheatrefull name / name of organization: 2011 Midwest MLA Annual Convention "Play…No, Seriously"contact email: ‎carol.mejia-laperle@wright.edu‎ and nunn@uakron

People and commodities from abroad played a vital role in Renaissance London's urban scene, and their influence made their way into the era's theaters as well. The panel aims to explore how early modern dramas played with the foreign. How are foreign people, texts, and commodities represented in the Renaissance theater? How do these dramas play with the notion of foreigness, and to what effect? Papers can explore playhouse invocations, appropriations, and exploitations of the foreign, as well as ways in which early modern drama invited audience members to lay claim to the foreign. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Carol Mejia LaPerle at ‎carol.mejia-laperle@wright.edu‎ and Hillary Nunn at nunn@uakron.edu by July 11, 2011.

cfp categories: interdisciplinarypostcolonialrenaissancetheatre 41605CFP: Masculinity in superhero comic books and films (NEMLA, deadline 9/30/2011)Derek McGrath, SUNY Stony Brookderek.mcgrath@stonybrook.edu1306793025americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturescience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Derek McGrath, SUNY Stony Brookcontact email: derek.mcgrath@stonybrook.edu

CFP: Masculinity in superhero comic books and films

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15 to 18, 2012
Rochester, NY

Deadline: September 30, 2011.

Submit 250- to 500-word proposals to Derek McGrath (derek.mcgrath@stonybrook.edu).

With comic books becoming more mainstream, thanks to numerous summer blockbuster films focusing on superheroes—2011 bringing audiences Super, Thor, The Green Hornet, Captain America, X-Men: First Class, and Green Lantern—this session welcomes all papers looking at ongoing portrayals of masculinity in works of popular culture that focus on male superheroes. Possible topics include but are not limited to adherence or subversion of masculine archetypes in superhero comic books, graphic novels, films, plays, and other works in popular culture.

Please include with your abstract the following: Name, affiliation, email address, and A/V requirements if any ($10 handling fee with registration).

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists may only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. For more information, visit the NEMLA online at http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html.

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypopular_culturescience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 41606NOMe-IoT 2011 : International Workshop on Networking and Object Memories for the Internet of ThingsACMerwu.liu@gmail.com1306850549international_conferencesfull name / name of organization: ACMcontact email: erwu.liu@gmail.com

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NOMe-IoT 2011
International Workshop on Networking and Object Memories for the Internet of Things

September 18, 2011. Beijing, China
In conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2011)
Submission Deadline : June 14, 2011 [Extended]
http://www.dfki.de/nome-iot-workshop/2011/
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Following the prognosis that predicts 50 to 100 billion of Internet connected things by 2020, we are now at the cross section of a paradigm shift and observing the metamorphosis that everyday things are going through - from things that learned-to-do to things that are learning–to-think to things that will learn-to-perceive (sense and response).
The Internet of Things (IoT) technology is at the heart of this metamorphosis, and is rapidly gaining global attention from academia, industries, and governments. Manifold definitions of IoT trace back to the ITU vision, and also available from European Commission. In general, the IoT concept allows bidirectional communications among device, network, and backend data centers. It covers a wide scope of technologies including wireless/wired sensing, networking, computing and control, which together build feasible complex cyber physical systems (CPS) to support diverse applications, including smart grid, healthcare, intelligent transportation, and logistics, etc. An integral part of IoT systems is object memories, comprise hardware and software components that physically and/or conceptually associate digital information with real-world objects in an application-independent manner. Such information can take many different forms (structured data and documents, pictures, audio/video streams, etc.) and originate from a variety of sources (automated processes, sensors in the environment, users, etc.). If constantly updated, Digital Object Memories over time provide a meaningful record of an object's history and use.

NOMe-IoT seeks to provide a foundation for discussing these challenges and to layout the future roadmap for IoT research. NOMe-IoT is the successor of two successful workshop series, DIPSO/DOMe-IoT 2007-10 in conjunction with UbiComp 2007-10. By bringing in several system and networking experts from academia and industry, this year's event extends the workshop's scope and aims to provide a forum to discuss and exchange ideas on recent research work, point out the directions for future research, and seek collaboration opportunities on all aspects of the IoT Systems.

*** Goals and Topics

The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together technical experts, artists, designers, and possible end-users of IoT systems to discuss and to leverage cooperation in future activities. We are looking for
papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open problems spanning all aspects of an IoT system. The focus will cover both the
system-level solutions like software/hardware architectures as well as social, privacy, and legal implications of IoT systems. Furthermore, application-oriented demos and prototypes are also highly encouraged. The workshop will be organized around short technical talks and structured discussion.

Suggested topics that could be discussed at NOMe-IoT include (but are not limited to):

. IoT System and Functional Architecture
. Access Network Technologies for IoT
. Technology for enabling Digital Object Memories (e.g., Architecture, Represenation and Modelling)
. Protocol Designs for IoT (e.g., MAC, Routing, TCP, Admission control, etc.)
. Security and Privacy issues for IoT
. Performance Management and Evaluations for IoT systems (QoS, Scalability, Reliability, etc)
. IoT Network Operations, Management, and Optimizations
. IoT Naming, Address Management and End-to-End Addressability
. Real-time and Historical Data Management for IoT
. RFID, Sensors, Actuator technologies for IoT
. Green IoT
. Web Technologies and Cloud Computing for IoT
. Novel Interfaces and Interactions Techniques for IoT
. Social Implications and Studies reporting IoT Systems
. IoT Applications (e.g., Healthcare, Logistics, Smart Grid, Transportation Systems, etc.)
. IoT Standardization Activities

*** Format and Submission Guidelines

We accept two types of submissions to NOMe-IoT 2010 : Research contributions which must not exceed 6 pages in ACM SIGCHI Archival format and are expected to present novel concepts and new insights; Position statement may be up to 2 pages in ACM SIGCHI Archival format and should outline individual interest and experience on IoT. All accepted submissions will be included in the ACM Digital Library and the adjunct proceedings of the Ubicomp 2011 conference. We additionally plan to publish high-quality technical papers and descriptions of design studies in a special journal issue after the workshop. Contributions must be submitted through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nomeiot2011), no later than June 3, 2011, and should be in PDF format. Detailed format and submission instructions including style templates for MS Word and LaTex are provided at the workshopís website (http://www.dfki.de/nome-iot-workshop/2011/).

*** Important Dates

Paper Submission: June 14, 2011 [Extended]
Notification of Acceptance: June 24, 2011
Camera-ready due: June 28, 2011
Workshop: September 18, 2011

*** Organizers

General Chairs

Harold Liu, IBM Research, China.
Alexander Kroener, DFKI, Germany.
Chris Speed, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Scotland.
Pan Hui, Deutsche Telecom Laboratories, Germany.

Technical Chairs

Fahim Kawsar, Bell Labs, Belgium.
Wenjie Wang, IBM Research, China.
Dan Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Boris Brandherm, DFKI, Germany.
Thomas Ploetz, Newcastle University, UK / Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Michael Schneider, AGT Germany, Germay.

Technical Vice Chairs
Jens Haupert, DFKI, Germany.
Peter Stephan, DFKI, Germany.

Local Chair
Qi Yu, IBM Research, China

Publicity Chair
Erwu Liu, Tongji University, China

Program Committee
Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mathieu Boussard, Bell Labs, France
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway
Tao Jiang, Huangzhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China
Hengchang Liu, Univ of Virgina, USA
Yili Gong, Wuhan University, China
Lieven Trappeniers, Bell Labs, Belgium
Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK
Hedda Schmidtke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Frederic Thiesse,Uni Würzburg, Germany
Harold Liu, IBM Research, China
Erwu Liu, Tongji University, China
Dan Wang, Hong Kong Polytech Uni, Hong Kong
Carsten Magerkurth, SAP, Switzerland
Junichiro Mori, Tokyo University, Japan
Markus Miche, SAP, Switzerland
Paulo Mendes, Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
Jin Nakazawa, Keio University, Japan

*** Contact and Further Information

Email: nome-iot-workshop@dfki.de
WWW: http://www.dfki.de/nome-iot-workshop/2011/

cfp categories: international_conferences 41607Compendium2: Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the UniversityDalhousie Universitylyn.bennett@dal.ca1306855571interdisciplinaryprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositionfull name / name of organization: Dalhousie Universitycontact email: lyn.bennett@dal.ca

The editors of Compendium2: Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the University invite contributions for online publication in the spring of 2012. Compendium2 publishes theoretical and practice-based essays that address writing development in post-secondary education. For the journal's fifth issue, we are interested in hearing from a range of disciplines, and invite submissions that consider the integration of writing and critical thinking as well as those that describe more specific assignments and teaching techniques.

Recommended length is 3000-5000 words for articles and 500-2000 words for assignment and technique descriptions. Compendium2 accepts MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. Submissions received at www.compendium2.ca by 1 August 2011 will be considered for the next issue.

cfp categories: interdisciplinaryprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_composition 41608Whip Me, Beat Me: The Representation of Violence Against Women (NEMLA deadline: 9/30/11)Northeast Modern Language Association Convention Rochester NY Aprilvketz@iona.edu1306858242gender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementstwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association Convention Rochester NY Aprilcontact email: vketz@iona.edu

This panel invites papers that study the representation of violence against women in literary texts. Papers may focus on: How are these acts represented in the text, as a taboo or as a 'normal act'? Are these acts decried by the characters or accepted as 'normal' behavior? Do these acts affect the passions and sexuality of the characters? Please send 200-300 word abstracts and brief biographical statements to Victoria Ketz

cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementstwentieth_century_and_beyond 41609Serious Play in the Political Novel (Midwest Modern Language Association, Nov. 3-6, 2011, St. Louis)Samuel Cohen, University of Missouricohenss@missouri.edu1306858563african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurymodernist studiespostcolonialromantictwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Samuel Cohen, University of Missouricontact email: cohenss@missouri.edu

This already accepted special session--organized for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the MMLA, whose informal theme is "Play... No, Seriously"--will consist of papers exploring the ways in which fiction writers, when turning to the political, have made use of those resources available to novelists and short story writers interested in non-realistic, non-traditional, experimental, difficult—playful—forms and modes. While traditionally (and reductively) conceived "realism" has often been assumed to be the default mode for the politically engaged fiction-writer, we will examine those works that have taken alternative approaches. Among the array of questions our panelists might ask: How can writers engage the political? How have politically committed works used the resources of non-realistic narrative? How have particular historical circumstances motivated such narratives? How have such narratives responded to more general political truths?

Send brief abstract and CV to cohenss@missouri.edu by June 1.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurymodernist studiespostcolonialromantictwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41610Literature, Trauma, and Healing: Refusing to Silence the Discourse (abstract deadline: Sept. 30; conference: March 15-18)43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)traumahealing2012@gmail.com1306862212americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypoetryprofessional_topicstheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: 43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)contact email: traumahealing2012@gmail.com

Conference:
43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Panel/Session Description:

In 2000, Suzette Henke published Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing, where her introduction explores trauma and healing, elaborating on what Henke coined as scriptotherapy, "the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic reenactment" (xii). Focusing specifically on the ameliorative power of autobiography, which she believes "has always offered the tantalizing possibility of reinventing the self and reconstructing the subject" (xv), Henke's interdisciplinarity "may have struck a 1985 Modern Language Association audience as more psychoanalytic than literary, and even somewhat marginal to the field of critical theory" (xiii), a concern still lodged against approaches to literature and subjectivity.

Our panel seeks to explore theoretically-sound topics related to literature, trauma, and healing – topics that are all too often silenced, ignored in academia, giving space to a discourse that is commonly met with apprehension. Our aim extends the focus of trauma studies to encompass, recognize, and investigate roles of healing within literary criticism as well as within practices of reading, writing, research, and teaching. Linking theory and pedagogy, this panel intends to engage with possibilities and limitations of bringing healing to the forefront of trauma-related, academic conversations.

Some questions to consider may include the following: How does literature play roles in healing processes? How does reading affect, instigate, or hinder one's healing? What pedagogical strategies build skills that can turn readers of literature toward self-critique, increasing self-awareness and inculcating self-worth? What current scholarship related to healing through/with literature exists, and what are the pedagogical implications involved? What are some roadblocks, challenges when it comes to highlighting healing? How and why is this very topic being silenced today?

Papers may offer theoretical insights or may focus on pedagogical aspects. We encourage interdisciplinary connections and explorations of, references to specific texts, theories, and/or pedagogical philosophies.

Please send 250-500 word abstracts and one-page CV (as well as any questions) to Rachel N. Spear (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) and Ami Blue (Michigan State University) to the following email address: traumahealing2012@gmail.com. Materials should be submitted as attachments by September 30, 2011 with your subject line as "2012 NeMLA Abstract" and should include the following information: name, affiliation, email address, postal address, telephone number, one-page CV, and A/V requirements (if any, note A/V has $10 handling fee to be paid with registration).

Conference Information:

Building upon the excellence of past NeMLA conferences, the association continues to grow as a vibrant community of scholars, thanks to the wide array of intellectual and cultural opportunities at every venue. Compact yet diverse, Rochester also boasts important historical connections; it is the site of the home, publication operations, and orations of Frederick Douglass, where he edited the North Star, as well as his eponymous periodical, and delivered the speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?". Visitors can explore the houses of abolitionist, suffragette, and reformer Susan B. Anthony and the inventor of devices popularizing photography, George Eastman, as well as shopping and eateries; attendees will also be within reach of the beautiful Finger Lakes region, known for its local wineries.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypoetryprofessional_topicstheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41611Writing Queerly (Abstracts due 9/30/11)NEMLAjlewturn@temple.edu1306865299african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypostcolonialrenaissanceromantictheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: NEMLAcontact email: jlewturn@temple.edu

Call for papers for a panel on 'writing queerly' at the NEMLA 2011 session in Rochester, NY. For more information about the conference, please visit the NEMLA website: http://www.nemla.org/convention/

'Queer' is often understood as a form of resistance or destabilization. This destabilization is most frequently applied to temporal or spatial subjects: the queerness of the future or the past has been a popular subject, as has the queering of towns or streets. Scholars such as Judith Halberstam, José Esteban Muñoz, and Scott Herring have explored the term 'queer' as well as what queerness does to our understanding of time and space. Language has not been ignored in this theoretical history. Those scholars who have focused on language, however, have most often looked to the spoken word.

This panel seeks papers that explore the possibility of a queer style of writing, particularly what it might look like or mean to write queerly. Of particular interest are papers that closely read works published 'before' the advent of queer identification; however, this call is meant to be interpreted broadly. What might queer style reveal about literary interpretation, or the possibilities and problems of 'queer' as a mode of identification? Send inquiries or abstracts of no more than 300 words to Jessica Lewis-Turner at jlewturn@temple.edu before September 30, 2011.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypostcolonialrenaissanceromantictheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41612CFP:"Something imagined, not recalled?": Revisiting the Confessional Poets (NeMLA, 3/15-18, 2012; Abstracts due Sept. 30, 2011)Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)clarkeco@sunysuffolk.edu1306865333americanpoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)contact email: clarkeco@sunysuffolk.edu

"Something imagined, not recalled?": Revisiting the Confessional Poets

Roughly fifty years stand between scholars and the publications which form the core of what M.L. Rosenthal dubbed "confessional" poetry. This panel will revisit the work of these mid-twentieth-century poets, with an eye toward assessing how they are currently read and taught, and how they fit into various literary movements and trends of the twentieth century. In addition, this panel will explore the extent to which the influence of these authors is evident in contemporary poetry, and how we might revisit their works through fresh or perhaps unexpected critical lenses. Abstracts (300-500 words) to Colin Clarke at clarkeco@sunysuffolk.edu by September 30th, 2011.

Deadline: September 30, 2011
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad

cfp categories: americanpoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41613CFP: Storytelling and IdentityNeMLA 2012caccavai@msu.edu1306868080african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NeMLA 2012contact email: caccavai@msu.edu

March 15-18: Rochester, York.
http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/

This panel will investigate the connection between storytelling—the act of storytelling as well as the act of listening to stories—and identity construction. We welcome papers that explore the cultural origins and contemporary practices of storytelling, the narrative functions of storytelling, as well using storytelling as a mode of healing and/or education across cultures, and how storytelling can be used as a key mode of critical investigation in collegiate education. Please send all abstracts to Kate Caccavaio: caccavai@msu.edu by midnight September 30, 2011.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyond 41614Animals and / in Romance (December 1, 2011)Journal of Popular Romance Studiesexecutive.editor@jprstudies.org1306868622cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Journal of Popular Romance Studiescontact email: executive.editor@jprstudies.org

CFP: Animals and/in Romance (submit by December 1, 2011)

How and why do animals mediate, complicate, or facilitate romance narratives? What role do animals, both real and imagined, play in courtship rituals or the articulation of sexual desire? In fiction and film, the romance genre abounds with creatures of all kinds, from the leopard in Bringing Up Baby and the dogs in Jennifer Crusie's novels to the werewolves and dragons and undefined "Beasts" in fairy tale and paranormal love stories. Why does romance need animals, and what does this say about the relationship between love, desire, animals and human beings? How do invocations of the "animal" in romance differ from culture to culture, era to era? The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS) seeks essay submissions for a special issue examining the role of animals in popular romance media--fiction, film, TV, music video, etc.—from around the world.

Essays might explore a variety of questions and concerns, such as:

• How might recent Animal Studies theory be brought to bear upon popular romance media?
• Conversely, what do theories of popular romance have to contribute to Animal Studies?
• How are historical changes in petkeeping or animal rights activism reflected in romance media?
• If animals have traditionally been aligned with the oppressed (women, slaves, the lower classes), how might the representation of animals shed light on issues of gender, race and class?
• Conversely, since animal metaphors are often deployed to construct masculinity (the "alpha male") as well as femininity (woman as horse to be broken, or falcon to be tamed), how might the representation of animals shed light on those same issues?
• Are there similarities in the representations of love for an animal and romantic love between humans?
• How might recent scientific discoveries about the nature of animal sexual behavior (the flourishing of homosexuality among animals, for example, or new research into the non-monogamous behavior of species previously believed to mate for life) influence contemporary romance narratives?
• What does it mean to be human in a narrative world filled with animals? How does the representation of animals relate to the representation of human desire, emotion, and subjectivity?
• What role do Bestiality and Zoophilia, broadly defined, play in the genre of paranormal romance, or in romantic deployments of animals more generally?

Essays of up to 10,000 words (MLA citation style; Word documents preferred) should be submitted to An Goris, Managing Editor of JPRS, at managing.editor@jprs.org. Please note in your subject line that your submission is for the Forum on Animals in Romance Media. Suggestions of potential peer reviewers are welcome.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 41615[UPDATE] M/MLA Panel: Playing with Current Concerns in Young Adult Dystopian FictionKristi McDuffiekmcduff@ilstu.edu1306871209childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essaystwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Kristi McDuffiecontact email: kmcduff@ilstu.edu

Still seeking submissions!

The current popularity of The Hunger Games Trilogy has brought young adult dystopian fiction to the forefront of both readers' and scholars' minds this year. Yet this genre has always produced innovative novels that reflect contemporary hopes and fears in their playful (and often violent) explorations of the future. Many authors use potential future worlds to comment upon contemporary concerns, including the loss of literacy, gender roles, political participation, and more. Presenters are invited to submit papers that consider how authors explore current issues in future dystopian and utopian worlds and what those predictions reveal about perceptions of young adults today.

This panel is for the Midwest Modern Language Association conference in St. Louis, Missouri from November 3-6, 2011 at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott. http://luc.edu/mmla/

Please submit 250-word abstracts to kmcduff@ilstu.edu by June 3, 2011. Priority will be given to proposals submitted earlier.

cfp categories: childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essaystwentieth_century_and_beyond 41616[UPDATE] deadline extended: June 30, 2011. (mis)Representing Difference in Media and Everyday ItemsSusan Booker Morris, Interdisciplinary Humanities morrisus@ferris.edu1306871865americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Susan Booker Morris, Interdisciplinary Humanities contact email: morrisus@ferris.edu

Although reason and discourse are important in framing and communicating 'truths' about the human being, increasingly visual representation is serving to communicate attitudes, histories, beliefs, and values. This special issue on the representation of the 'other' invites your analysis of race, ethnicity, nationality, queerness, or gender as found in representations in television, ads, films, photographs, video games, computer images, etc. If these othernesses are constructed, the visual representation is one arena in which the construction takes place and is disseminated. Any theoretical bases are welcome. Use of the Jim Crow Museum at www.ferris.edu/jimcrow is particularly encouraged but not required.

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41618[UPDATE] NEMLA 2012: Infighting and Rival Texts in 20th Cent. African-American LiteratureNEMLAtim.griffiths84@gmail.com1306878514african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NEMLAcontact email: tim.griffiths84@gmail.com

From early on in the Harlem Renaissance, many black writers knew for a fact that there was a New Negro, but most differed on the nuances when creating such a character from text. African-American Literature in the early 20th century was marked not only by the spirit of cooperation and the feeling of community, but also by infighting and fevered debate over what constituted a proper direction for the movement(s). This panel seeks to reignite discussion over the ideas and histories of these debates between black writers during the formative and fluid period of 1920-1960. Divisive texts will be highlighted and discussed. By evaluating not only the texts, but also the historical reception of the opposing ideas, we may track how the representations of competing ideologies have been altered or filtered over the ensuing years. Papers should not merely chose sides or say who was ultimately correct or incorrect in such debates, but should allow for some measured or reasonable analysis of the competing arguments through synchronic and/or diachronic lenses. Some topics, debates, and divisive texts include, but are not limited to:

W.E.B. DuBois and Claude McKay
W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey
James Baldwin and Richard Wright ('Everybody's Protest Novel')
Carl Van Vechten's "Nigger Heaven"
Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes
Claude McKay's "Home to Harlem" or "Banjo"
Eldridge Cleaver and James Baldwin
Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston

The purpose of such a panel is to provoke a reappraisal of plurality during this period. Our interest is in exhibiting and discussing this widely varied canon prior to its representation as being homogenized in later eras. Further, we are seeking deeper understanding about the differences in opinion that have informed our broader opinions about African-American Literature in contemporary times.

300-word Abstracts may be sent to: Tim Griffiths, Brooklyn College, tim.griffiths84@gmail.com. Deadline is September 30th.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinarypostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 41619TEN YEARS ON – 9/11 IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE Call for Papers Svenja Frank / Oxford Universitysvenja.frank@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk1306881710cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinternational_conferencespostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Svenja Frank / Oxford Universitycontact email: svenja.frank@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

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TEN YEARS ON – 9/11 IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE Call for Papers
Oxford University, September 15-16, 2011

Special Guest: Thomas Lehr, currently holding the Heiner-Müller-Gastprofessur at Freie Universität Berlin, will be reading from his much acclaimed novel September. Fata Morgana (2010).

"Ils ont souffert 102 minutes – la durée moyenne d'un film hollywoodien."
(Frédéric Beigbeder: Windows on the World)

Ten years after 9/11 this conference seeks to offer a European perspective on the September 11 attacks. Current research on topics such as the novels of the outsider looks at 9/11 as a "European event" (Versluys), thereby pointing to strands that are worthy of further investigation. The attacks have been described as the act of "performance artists" (Rushdie), a "semiotic event" (Versluys) and "the greatest work of art" (Stockhausen). However morally questionable these terms might be when applied to the deaths of thousands of people, they draw our attention to the fact that 9/11 concentrates and catalyses questions of aesthetic representation and the virtuality of reality in the 21st century in an unprecedented way. Symptomatically, theorists such as Derrida, Baudrillard and Žižek have commented on the attacks. It thus seems promising to focus on a literary corpus that is unencumbered by incorporating "national trauma" into cultural memory, but more likely to take 9/11 as a starting point for meta-reflection on representational conditions challenged by a transnational media event. With recent calls to release the photograph of the dead al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the question of who is in power of iconographic coinages in a modern war of information has become more topical than ever.
One of the authors to address these questions is Thomas Lehr, who will read to us from his novel September. Fata Morgana, one of the most intriguing literary reactions to the attacks; certainly the most important in the German language. His text alternates between the depiction of the attacks and the war in Iraq, and analogizes literary references to One Thousand and One Nights and the fictionality of modern mediaspaces.
As it is one major goal of the conference to enlarge the corpus of researched texts, papers providing access to texts in less widely spoken and researched languages are especially welcome.

Possible topics for papers include the following, but are not restricted to them:

MEDIASPACE AND THE SIMULACRUM
9/11 highlights questions about the relationship of literature to other systems of representation as well as the absorption of reality by the simulacrum. It is not the attacks themselves but the medially transmitted images that are shared by the vast majority. Thus, the undeniable symbolism and the utter surreality of the attacks are recurrent themes. Deliberately blurring the boundaries between the "raw Real of a catastrophe" (Žižek) and mediaspace, some of the texts – in a deeply problematic way – locate the attacks in the realm of the aesthetic or even the sublime. How do the representations deal with this intermediality and second order observation and how do they "frame the framing" (Butler)? How is an unprecedented pictorial over-representation turned into text? How do the virtuality of the real and the reality of the virtual come together?

AESTHETICS OF ATROCITY
The depiction of the September 11 attacks will be looked at within the aesthetics of atrocity. In how far do these representations draw on an existing iconography of war, violence and catastrophe or create their own? Have the texts found media-specific ways of reproducing shock (Benjamin) in the urban experience? How do terrorism and state violence interrelate in these texts? When is life framed as grievable (Butler) and when is it not?

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
With the transnational nature of the media coverage on the one hand, 9/11 on the other heightened the perception of national, ethnic and religious otherness, presumably even triggered a turn in postcolonial theory (Schüller). How do the European 9/11-texts perceive cultural difference such as Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism in their depiction of the attacks and the resulting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Are these texts in themselves representations of cultural difference? The restriction to a European corpus allows us both to investigate the European perspective, as distinct from the reception of the events elsewhere, especially in US literature and also to look at nationally specific paradigms, one of which has been put forward in the case of several French novels (Porra). How do the representations of the semiotic event vary depending on the national literary tradition and to what extent are they deliberately reminiscent of the national memory of war or state oppression?

Please send abstracts of 300-500 words by Friday, 1st of July 2011, to Svenja Frank (svenja.frank@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk)

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinternational_conferencespostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41620The Queerness of Hip Hop/ The Hip Hop of Queerness Symposium and Special Issue of Palimpsest [Due: Dec. 15, 2011]Harvard University and Palimpsest, A Journal of Women, Gender and the Black Internationalqueernessofhiphop@gmail.com1306899212african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturefull name / name of organization: Harvard University and Palimpsest, A Journal of Women, Gender and the Black Internationalcontact email: queernessofhiphop@gmail.com

The Queerness of Hip Hop/ The Hip Hop of Queerness

Call for Papers for a One-Day Symposium at Harvard University and Special Issue of Palimpsest, A journal of Women, Gender and the Black International

Conveners/ Editors: Scott Poulson-Bryant and C. Riley Snorton, Ph.D.

Abstracts due December 15, 2011

Harvard University Symposium
September 21, 2012

As Queer Theory has developed as a discursive space in which to investigate and find intellectual engagement with issues of citizenship, nationalism, globalism, and race, hip hop studies has increasingly become an important site of the study of sexuality, gender and the body.

"The Queerness of Hip Hop/The Hip Hop of Queerness" project seeks to make a critical intervention in both areas of study by placing the fields alongside each other. In other words, "The Queerness of Hip Hop" looks to engage the ways that queer theory can (re)frame various disciplinary approaches in the rapidly growing field of Hip Hop Studies. One of the main goals of the project will be to focus on the emergence of Queer Theory as a viable analytic in the academic areas of hip hop cultural studies and African American cultural production while also and conversely examining hip hop's roots in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender activism and intellectual growth.

We are particularly interested in scholarship that makes use of cross-disciplinary approaches that sustain attention to both the discursive linkages and slippages that may result from bringing hip hop epistemologies to bear on contemporary queer theory and queer canonical texts. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

- hip hop's queer historiography
- queer iconography in hip hop music videos and performance
- hip hop's queer aesthetics
- sampling and remixing as queer sonic promiscuity
- hip hop and gender performance
- style and fashion as modes of hip hop discourse
- queer readings of specific hip hop productions, personalities and performances
- queer Diaspora/ hip hop Diaspora

Submitted abstracts will be considered for inclusion in both the special issue of Palimpsest and the symposium. All submissions will be acknowledged by January 1, 2012 and decisions will be made by February 1, 2012. Essays must be previously unpublished work, and symposium participants are required to pre-circulate their essays with other panelists. Please submit 300 word abstracts, CV, and contact information to Scott Poulson-Bryant and C. Riley Snorton via queernessofhiphop@gmail.com.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culture 41622The Ethics of Pleasure in Early Modern Literature and Philosophy (MMLA, Nov. 3-6, 2011)Melissa M. Caldwell mcaldwell@eiu.edu1306931339classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinaryreligionrenaissancefull name / name of organization: Melissa M. Caldwell contact email: mcaldwell@eiu.edu

Reflecting the 2011 MMLA conference theme "Play…No, Seriously," this interdisciplinary panel seeks to bring together scholars interested in examining the value and uses of pleasure in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and philosophy, especially in texts in which the two disciplines intersect. The panel welcomes submissions from the European tradition widely construed and beyond. Submissions might include, but are not limited to, topics on any of the following:

• Philosophical play, speculation, and skepticism
• The pleasure of discovery and invention
• Playful uses of philosophical modes and genres, e.g. paradox,
dialogue, dialectic, etc.
• Theories of/about pleasure
• The relationship between virtue and pleasure
• Pleasure and the senses, the imagination, or reason
• Playful appropriation of classical philosophies

Please submit abstracts not exceeding 250 words to Melissa Caldwell at mcaldwell@eiu.edu by July 11th.

This year the MMLA Convention will be held in St. Louis, MO, November 3-6, 2011.

cfp categories: classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinaryreligionrenaissance 41623Children's Periodical panel at NeMLANortheast Modern Language Associationptcox@camden.rutgers.edu1306931657african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturereligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu

Panel: "Fun With a Purpose": Periodical Pedagogy and Early Edutainment

43nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 15-18, 2012
Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester
Host Institution: St. John Fisher College

Panel Description:
Children's periodicals published in the US over the last 300 years provide a wealth of textual and visual insight into US culture, pedagogy, and conceptions of childhood. This panel will engage with this under-examined body of texts in their most salient mode: as pedagogy. Children's magazines have been used as instructional tools with subject matter spanning literacy, manners, morality, crafts, citizenship, "mental hygiene," and beyond, transmitting enduring lessons in an ephemeral format. By packaging their lessons in an entertaining and disposable blend of fiction, non-fiction, images, activities, games, jokes, and riddles, these magazines can be considered a print medium precursor to "edutainment" or, as the motto of *Highlights for Children* calls it, "Fun with a purpose." This panel is open to explorations of particular mechanisms, contents, and contexts of periodical pedagogy past and present, including examinations of child-readers' participation in, subversion against, or re-creation of, that pedagogy.

Possible topics from all disciplines may include:
histories or analysis of particular children's periodicals
pedagogies in periodicals (ideological, curricular, religious, etc.)
convergences of traditional magazines and digital media
pedagogy, periodicals, and power
magazines produced by children
fiction and poetry in magazines
use of periodicals in classrooms
transnational periodicals
production, distribution, and circulation of pedagogy
cross-cultural comparisons of periodical pedagogy
marginalia and ephemera
pedagogy in the home (or doctor's office waiting room)
periodical pedagogy as pop culture
children's responses to and uses of magazines

Please send 500-word abstracts to Patrick Cox at ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu by Sept 30. Thanks.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturereligionrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheatretravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41624Spiritualist Manifestos: Writing the Seance (NEMLA, deadline 9/30/2011)Anne DeLong/Kutztown Universitydelong@kutztown.edu1306937171americangender_studies_and_sexualityvictorianfull name / name of organization: Anne DeLong/Kutztown Universitycontact email: delong@kutztown.edu

Spiritualist Manifestos: Writing the Seance
This panel seeks papers that examine nineteenth-century British and American writing about the Spiritualist Movement, including manifestos, essays, pamphlets, articles and novels containing actual or fictionalized accounts of seances. Papers that examine the Translatlantic Spiritualist dialogue and/or women's involvement in Spiritualism are particularly welcome. Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Anne Delong at delong@kutztown.edu.

The Spiritualist Movement began in Hydesville, NY in 1848 with the rappings heard by the Fox sisters and traveled across the Atlantic in 1852 with Mrs. Maria Hayden, the first Translatlantic medium, beginning a long literary conversation about spirit communication. This dialogue takes place in the letters, articles, essays, pamphlets, and novels of British and American spiritualists. Given its proximity to Hydesville and to Lily Dale, a spiritualist mecca where the haunted Hydesville home of the Foxes now resides, Rochester, NY seems a perfect venue for discussing the Spiritualist Movement.

Deadline: September 30, 2011
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester, New York at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.
Building upon the excellence of past NeMLA conferences, the association continues to grow as a vibrant community of scholars, thanks to the wide array of intellectual and cultural opportunities at every venue. Compact yet diverse, Rochester also boasts important historical connections; it is the site of the home, publication operations, and orations of Frederick Douglass, where he edited the North Star, as well as his eponymous periodical, and delivered the speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?". Visitors can explore the houses of abolitionist, suffragette, and reformer Susan B. Anthony and the inventor of devices popularizing photography, George Eastman, as well as shopping and eateries; attendees will also be within reach of the beautiful Finger Lakes region, known for its local wineries.

cfp categories: americangender_studies_and_sexualityvictorian 41625A Child Called It: Analysis of psychological trauma in a child and societyAp Literature91081077@mvusd.gaggle.net1306937383twentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Ap Literaturecontact email: 91081077@mvusd.gaggle.net

A Child called it is a book based on true experiences of the author Dave Pelzer. As a child he was physically and mentally abused by his mother. He was singled out from his siblings and things were not what a child in a loving household would go through. The traumatic effect of the abuse marked Pelzer's life. Through a psychological view it is clear that Dave Pelzer's behaviors reflected his situation with his mother.
Through a psychological point of view it is visible that there are many different ways the abuse affected Dave. As well as other abused kids are affected by child abuse, Dave was mistreated in ways that made him wonder why. In the world today there are different types of child abuse including physical, emotional, sexual and also neglect. Each form of abuse is a contribution to a child's future being unsuccessful. Dave's form of abuse was mentally, physically, and emotionally. His mother was an abusive alcoholic that did not care about his feelings or what he had to say. Through bruises and scars on his body it was found that he was being abused by his mother. Today it is known of many effects of child abuse. These are low self esteem, withdrawal from friends, insecurities, anger, poor relationships with others as well as many other things. Dave faced many if not all of the effects due to his mother's treatment toward him. The psychological scars left on his memory and even on his body will be with him for the rest of his life. Since his mom was an alcoholic he falls into the category of children who have trouble coping with problems. Also do very poor academically and are more likely to abuse their children in the future. Statistically abused children are 25 percent more likely to be teen parents. Dave only had one child and it is known he is a very good father therefore instead of becoming abusive himself, so much abuse caused him to strive to become a better person. Everything that happened in his childhood is reflected on his actions as an adult.

cfp categories: twentieth_century_and_beyond 41626CFP - Justified (FX) Television ReaderBärbel Göbel, PhD / University of Kansas Brian Michael Faucette/ Coldwell Community Collegebgoebel79@gmail.com / brfaucette@gmail.com1306939204americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturereligionfull name / name of organization: Bärbel Göbel, PhD / University of Kansas Brian Michael Faucette/ Coldwell Community Collegecontact email: bgoebel79@gmail.com / brfaucette@gmail.com

We are seeking submissions for a collection of essays on the popular and critically acclaimed series Justified (FX). Topics can include but are not limited to the following:

• Issues of class in American Television
• Depictions and interpretations of the current financial crisis on TV
• Religion and religiosity in American TV series
• Depictions of contemporary race issues in the U.S. South
• Representations of the U.S.
• Depictions of the "hillbilly"/mountain culture
• The myth of the American West and its representation in television culture
• Representations of women (workplace/motherhood/class related)
• American masculinities
• Generational difference in American gender stereotypes
• Foreign interpretations of the American depiction of crime/justice and class
in Justified

If interested please submit a 250 word abstract of your proposal, including a working title, and a short C.V. to both:

Michael Brian Faucette
brfaucette@gmail.com
and
Bärbel Göbel
bgoebel79@gmail.com

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturereligion 41627Fair Play: Reading Sports ConTexts (MMLA, Nov. 3-6, submission deadline July 11)Noah Cohan, Washington University in St. Louisncohan@wustl.edu1306940907americanfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypopular_culturefull name / name of organization: Noah Cohan, Washington University in St. Louiscontact email: ncohan@wustl.edu

53rd Annual M/MLA Convention
November 3-6, 2011
St. Louis, MO
Convention Theme: "Play…No, Seriously"

Fair Play: Reading Sports ConTexts explores the rich semiotic play of sports texts. Temporally, geographically, and disciplinarily flexible, this session is geared toward those interested in the humanistic interpretation of sports texts, attracting work that may have difficulty finding a home on more conventionally-configured panels. Welcoming papers on a broad range of topics, from athletes to fans, from sports fiction to autobiography and nonfiction, from films and televisual texts to interpretations of sporting events themselves as texts, this session is aimed at a broad spectrum of presenters and audiences.

Please e-mail abstracts not exceeding 250 words to ncohan@wustl.edu by July 11th.

http://www.luc.edu/mmla/callforpapers.html

cfp categories: americanfilm_and_televisioninterdisciplinarypopular_culture 41628Mother/Nature Conference - March 16-18, 2012 - Hattiesburg, MSUniversity of Southern Mississippi English Graduate Organizationmothernatureconference@gmail.com1306943037americanchildrens_literatureecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryscience_and_culturevictorianfull name / name of organization: University of Southern Mississippi English Graduate Organizationcontact email: mothernatureconference@gmail.com

Mother/Nature Conference

March 16-18, 2012
Thad Cochran Center
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. BARBARA GATES

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
John Muir

We live in a time of crisis in our homes and in our natural environment. From hurricanes to oil spills, we are linked to each other through the loss and degradation of regional and national habitats. Our selfhoods and the place we make for ourselves in the world are ultimately rooted in both our biological and ecological families.

The theme for this conference, Mother/Nature, seeks to discover interconnectedness and meaning through a study of shifting influences on the changing definition of motherhood. We welcome submissions that consider the conceptions of the intersection of motherhood and the natural world. Interdisciplinary approaches to motherhood and nature, especially interactions between the humanities and sciences, are invited. We encourage scholars to think creatively about this conference theme and invite papers and panel proposals that consider topics including but not limited to:

THE SCIENCE OF MOTHERHOOD
-Theories of childbirth in the United States
-Psychologizing nature: nature deficit disorders
-Health and motherhood

CONTEMPORARY SUSTAINABILITY
-Finding balance in the modern world
-Conceiving renewable energy
-Domesticated landscapes

THE NATURE OF MOTHERHOOD
-Nature vs. nurture
-Biological determinism
-Single parenting

NON-BIOLOGICAL MOTHERHOOD
-Foster/adoptive parenting
-Masculinity and motherhood
-Educators as "mothers"

INTERROGATING CONSERVATION
-Parenting the natural world
-Protecting endangered species and landscapes
-The birth of the modern environmental movement

MOTHER/NATURE IN LITERATURE
-Literary Darwinism
-Defining women's health through ecocriticism
-Representations of mother/nature in children's literature

MODERN MOTHERHOOD
-Redefining motherhood in pop culture
-Representing mother/nature in film

We welcome papers from faculty members and graduate students. Strong undergraduate submissions will also be considered. Please send abstracts (250-300 words) and a brief biography (100 words) to mothernatureconference@gmail.com by October 15, 2011. Include abstracts and biographies in the main text of the email and attach as a .rtf or .doc file. Also indicate whether you have any technology needs. Individual sessions will last 15-20 minutes.

We also welcome the submission of creative works (a selection of 3-5 poems or 3,000 words for fiction or creative non-fiction). Please submit these works following the above guidelines by October 15, 2011.

A monetary prize will be offered to the best student paper. To be considered for this award, please submit the full copy of your paper by February 1, 2012.

Registration fee: none.

For more information, please visit our website: http://www.usm.edu/english/mothernature.html.

cfp categories: americanchildrens_literatureecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryscience_and_culturevictorian 41629[UPDATE] Gabriel JOSIPOVICI (LISA e-Journal, special number) Marcin Stawiarski - ERIBIA, Université de Caen-Basse Normandiemarcin.stawiarski@unicaen.fr1306944218classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiesrhetoric_and_compositiontheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Marcin Stawiarski - ERIBIA, Université de Caen-Basse Normandiecontact email: marcin.stawiarski@unicaen.fr

Gabriel JOSIPOVICI (LISA e-Journal, special number)

LISA e-Journal seeks contributions for its special issue devoted to Gabriel Josipovici to appear in February 2012.

Gabriel Josipovici is a contemporary British novelist, playwright, and literary critic. He was born in Nice in 1940, lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, and then came to England where he currently lives. He has written numerous works of fiction, literary criticism, and plays that have been performed and broadcast on radio. His works have already received critical attention for their innovative and experimental nature, but so far they have not been sufficiently analyzed. Possible studies could include, but are not restricted to, narratology, poetics, or cultural approaches. Submissions related to comparative studies are also encouraged.

We welcome original articles in English or French addressing any aspects of Josipovici's works (fiction, plays, criticism, biographical aspects). Contributions should be from 4,000-10,000 words in length and should be accompanied by a short abstract (200 words). Please mail submissions or send inquiries to Marcin Stawiarski (marcin.stawiarski@unicaen.fr).

Contact: marcin.stawiarski@unicaen.fr
Website: http://lisa.revues.org/index.html
Deadline: 30 June 2011

Gabriel JOSIPOVICI (Revue LISA, numéro spécial)

La Revue LISA lance son appel à contribution pour un numéro dédié à Gabriel Josipovici à paraître en février 2012.

Romancier, dramaturge et critique contemporain britannique, Gabriel Josipovici est né à Nice en 1940. Il a vécu en Egypte de 1945 à 1956, puis s'est installé en Angleterre où il vit actuellement. Son œuvre comprend de nombreuses œuvres de fiction et de critique littéraire, mais également des pièces de théâtre, jouées et diffusées à la radio au Royaume-Uni. Ses écrits ont déjà attiré l'attention de la critique grâce à leur caractère innovant et expérimental, mais elles sont loin encore d'avoir été suffisamment étudiées. On pourra s'intéresser, par exemple, à des questions de narratologie, de poétique ou d'influences culturelles. Des études comparatives sont également bienvenues.

Nous accueillerons des articles originaux en anglais ou en français. Les contributions peuvent porter sur tout aspect lié à l'œuvre de Josipovici (romans, pièces de théâtre, essais, biographie). Vous êtes priés d'envoyer vos articles, entre 4 000 et 10 000 mots, accompagnés d'un bref résumé (200 mots) à Marcin Stawiarski (marcin.stawiarski@unicaen.fr).

Contact: marcin.stawiarski@unicaen.fr
Site Web: http://lisa.revues.org/index.html
Date limite: 30 juin 2011

cfp categories: classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiesrhetoric_and_compositiontheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41630CFP: Oscholars Special Issue on Salomé, Fall 2012 (abstracts before Dec.1st 2011)The Oscholarsvirginie.pouzet-duzer@pomona.edu1306944596cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionromantictheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: The Oscholarscontact email: virginie.pouzet-duzer@pomona.edu

Oscholars Special Issue Fall 2012

Salomé: unveiling the myth

Only briefly mentioned in the Bible, censored during the Middle-Ages and everywhere to be seen in the fin-de-siècle era, the myth of Salomé has never ceased to fascinate. In 1892, Oscar Wilde's play – prelude to Richard Strauss's opera – has hence been a worldwide hit, with cinematic, choreographic, lyric, literary and pictorial repercussions. Is this myth in fact to be understood as one of joyful movements, of dancing overcoming the surface of "images" to become a language? Or could it be summarized as a tragedy of gazes? It is surrounded by her seven veils, and through the whole spectrum of her multiple persona, epochs, ethos and skins, that Salomé – also sometimes named Hérodias or Hérodiade – shall be considered. This special issue of Oscholars, a widely read electronic journal devoted to Wilde and the fin de siècle, solicits original essays (in English or French) on any aspect of the myth of Salomé.

Please submit 300-word abstracts in English or in French to Virginie Pouzet-Duzer by December, 1st 2011.

You will know by February 2012 whether your proposal has been accepted or not. The deadline for submission of completed essays (1500-2500 words) is May 1st 2012.

For more information about Oscholars and to view previous special issues please consult http://www.oscholars.com

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionromantictheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41631But Seriously, Times Are Tough: Comedy in Recession and DepressionMidwest Modern Language Associationprg@uwm.edu1306945209americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarypoetrypopular_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Midwest Modern Language Associationcontact email: prg@uwm.edu

In keeping with the informal theme of the 2011 conference of "Play..No Seriously", this session invites papers on the roles of comedy in times of economic distress and financial crisis. While comedy has often been considered as "escapist" art in times of economic calamity, this panel will explore how comic works in literature, film, television, and music function in more serious terms than providing relief from the rigors of economic hardship. Possible avenues of exploration include how comedy can critique or subvert culture or government in a recession or how comedy can reinforce reactionary perspectives during a time of depression. Papers from all time periods and contexts are welcome. Of particular interests are papers addressing the "Great Recession" and / or non-American topics..

Please e-mail abstracts not exceeding 250 words to Paul Gagliardi, prg@uwm.edu by July 11th.

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarypoetrypopular_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyond 41632[Update] Deadline Extended: 2011 M/MLA: No, I'm Not American/Je ne suis pas français: Canadian Writers Playing With IdentityMid-West Modern Languages Association Permanent Section on Canadian Literaturelee.bessette@gmail.com1306947333ethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinternational_conferencespostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Mid-West Modern Languages Association Permanent Section on Canadian Literaturecontact email: lee.bessette@gmail.com

Canadian witers in both French and English have historically been defined by who they are not: British, French, American. This uncertain and unstable national identity has now been embraced by many writers and is expressed in a great deal of playfulness in their writing. With works like Souvenirs from Canada by Douglas Coupland, Est-ce que cette grenade dans la main du Nègre est-il une arme ou un fruit? by Dany Laferrière, or Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King, Canadian writers have posed a critical eye on Canadian and American cultural and aesthetic norms. This panel invites papers that discuss how Canadian writers have played with the idea of being Canadian (in the broadest possible sense) in opposition to how others attempt to label them.

This year's theme of the M/MLA is "Play...No, Seriously" and is being held in St. Louis from November 3-6, 2011. For more information on the conference and membership in the M/MLA, visit http://luc.edu/mmla/annualconvention.html or visit the CFP at http://luc.edu/mmla/callforpapers.html#ps

The abstract should be 250 words and be submitted to the Chair, Lee Skallerup Bessette (lee.bessette@gmail.com) before June 15, 2011. Any questions can also be directed to the chair. We are particularly interested in papers dealing with literature from Canada written in French.

cfp categories: ethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesinternational_conferencespostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 41633[UPDATE] Espionage: Love and War. Aphra Behn Society. ASECS March 23-25, 2012ASECS/Aphra Behn Society Nbgarret@gmail.com1306948750african-americanamericaneighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitypostcolonialreligionromantictheatretravel_writingfull name / name of organization: ASECS/Aphra Behn Society contact email: Nbgarret@gmail.com

Spies, allegations of spying, voyeurism, double agents, and the buying, trading, and coveting of intelligence abounds in the work of the former royal spy, Aphra Behn. Both morally dubious and exceptionally effective, spies are deployed, in disguise or in the person of a bosom friend, as a means to win battles of love and war. The Aphra Behn Society invites paper proposals on espionage, in all its permutations, in women's literature and art, 1660-1830. How do the women of this period investigate and participate in various forms of espionage? How do their texts explore the uses of espionage, and anxieties over the potential infiltration of the spy into private spaces, and the communication of intelligence to external or hostile parties? How do guile, disguise, deception and the bartering and withholding of information—all of the methods of the spy-- translate across forms, genres and styles and inform techniques? Send 500 word abstracts for 20-minute papers to Nicole Garret, Stony Brook University, English Department, Humanities Hall, Stony Brook, NY 11794, or Nbgarret@gmail.com, by September 20, 2011.

cfp categories: african-americanamericaneighteenth_centurygender_studies_and_sexualitypostcolonialreligionromantictheatretravel_writing 41634La Fontaine: Power of the FablesSAMLA 2011 Conference - South Atlantic Modern Language Association - November 4-6, 2011 in Atlanta, GAhadrien01@gw.hamline.edu1306965115international_conferencespoetryrhetoric_and_compositionfull name / name of organization: SAMLA 2011 Conference - South Atlantic Modern Language Association - November 4-6, 2011 in Atlanta, GAcontact email: hadrien01@gw.hamline.edu

"Au moment que je fais cette moralité, / Si Peau d'âne m'était conté, / J'y prendrais un plaisir extrême [...]", said La Fontaine in "Le Pouvoir des Fables". This special session seeks papers that will explore the pertinence or the connivance of the Lafontainian savoir-faire rhétorique that is concretized in the power of representation/representation of power in the "Fables". Proposals are due by June 15, 2011. Abstracts should be submitted to Max Adrien at hadrien01@gw.hamline.edu.

cfp categories: international_conferencespoetryrhetoric_and_composition 41635Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images 400 years after the Lancashire Witches, 17-19 Aug 2012, deadline 1 Dec 2011Lancaster University, UKcapturing witches@lancaster.ac.uk1307013682americanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Lancaster University, UKcontact email: capturing witches@lancaster.ac.uk

Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images
400 years after the Lancashire Witches

Lancaster University, UK
17-19 August 2012

Confirmed Keynote speakers: Diane Purkiss (Oxford); Robert Poole (Cumbria)

In 2012, a year-long programme of events in Lancaster and the surrounding area will mark the 400th anniversary of the trial and execution of the first group of Lancashire Witches. A second trial occurred in 1634 and although pardoned, the accused were re-imprisoned in Lancaster Castle. The case of the Lancashire Witches and their supposed crimes interwove fact and fiction, local hostilities and more exotic ideas of witches' sabbats that were usually associated with continental witchcraft. They became a cause célèbre, like the witches of Trier and Fulda (Germany), Torsåker (Sweden) and Salem (North America).

This interdisciplinary conference uses the Lancashire witches as a focal point to engage with wider questions about witchcraft: its definitions as maleficium (evil doing) or demonology in trials, the various traditions of witchcraft across centuries and continents, and the ways in which contemporary practice engages with these.

Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images will focus particular attention on how witchcraft is theorised and represented in and through history and across cultures. We particularly encourage considerations of literary, musical, artistic and filmic representations of witchcraft.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and panels on witches and/or witchcraft which might address - but are not limited to - the following themes:

− antiquity;
− religion and belief;
− Neo-Paganism;
− the developing world;
− human rights;
− gender;
− corporeality;
− location;
− ritual (ceremony, performance, magical practice);
− childhood;
− language;
− law;
− consumption ( dress, fashion, food);
− the arts (literature, music, film, painting, dance, theatre, graphic novels);
− the Gothic;
− new media

Proposals for contributions which go beyond the conventional academic format are also welcome.

Proposals (paper: 250 words, panel/other format: 500 words) including a 50-word bio for each contributor should be sent to the conference team by 1 December 2011 to capturingwitches@lancaster.ac.uk. Decisions on submissions will be made by 31 January 2012.

Conference team: Charlotte Baker, Alison Findlay, Liz Oakley-Brown, Elena Semino, Catherine Spooner

cfp categories: americanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmedievalmodernist studiespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissanceromanticscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41636Update/ "Science, Art, and Gender in the Global Rise of Indigenous Languages" (26-29 October 2011,university of jendoubaaa_sassou@yahoo.com1307015702african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: university of jendoubacontact email: aa_sassou@yahoo.com

Call for Papers:
"Science, Art, and Gender in the Global Rise of Indigenous Languages" (26-29 October 2011,
Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Jendouba, Jendouba University).
Deadline for proposals extended to July 10th 2011
CFP: In an extension of the extremely successful symposium held at the University of Haute Alsace, France 18-20 March 2011, titled "Asian American Literature and Maxine Hong Kingston's Legacy", the University of Jendouba co-organizes with UHA an International Conference, titled "Science, Art, and Gender in The Global Rise of Indigenous Languages" to be held in Jendouba, 26-29 October 2011, paying homage to the Tunisian Revolution in January 2011 and honoring the presence, participation and related works of Noam Chomsky and Maxine Hong Kingston (on the usage board of The American Heritage Dictionary of The American Language). The aim of the conference is to address indigenous issues, while also remaining within the continuity of Maxine Hong Kingston's gender-sensitive literature.
The encounter shall examine the contemporary rise of fully indigenous languages and dialects surviving up and through colonial, technological, mercantile, religious and other dominating languages. All suggestions in relation to these issues are welcome, though we are particularly interested in papers falling under the following panels:
-What makes an indigenous language indigenous?
-Legacy and residuals of indigenous languages from Britain to Brittany, Turkey to Tunisia, Algeria to America.
-Relationship between Arabic and Berber in North Africa.
-Gender issues and representations in literatures about indigenous languages and people.
-Indigenous resistance.
-The School of Genetic Linguistics/ Linguistic Genetics and new colonialism.
-The colonial language layers on indigenous linguistic treasures.
-Similarities between Algonquian Blackfoot and Cree with Hawaiian and Uto-Aztecan.
-Perils and promises of Indigenous languages of the Americas.

Confirmed speakers and paper-providers include Noam Chomsky (who will be at the conference by way of his paper, and possibly by way of a teleconferencing or skyping process), Maxine Hong Kingston, Louis Buff Parry, Yann Kerdiles, Sämi Ludwig, Edward Sklepowich, Mounir Triki, Abderrezak Dourari, Nessima Tarchouna, Leona Makokis/Leona Carter, Lynn Hannachi, Crystal S. Bull and Lewis Cardinal.
To submit a proposal, please email in a word format an abstract (150 words including the title) and a brief biography (50 words) no later than July 10th 2011 to the following contacts:
-Louis Buff Parry: info@louisbuffparry.com
-Sihem Arfaoui Abidi: aa_sassou@yahoo.com
June 512th notification of selection.
October 24th complete papers.
Please visit the website of the University of Jendouba here www.uj.rnu.tn or also http://www.uj.rnu.tn/
Confirmed sponsors (to date): Jendouba University, Tunisia; University of Haute Alsace, France; the Indigenous Media Institute, Canada; and the Turkish Canadian Society, Alberta, Canada.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41637Women in the Geosciences (GSA Northeast Mtg, March 18-20, 2012)Kristine Larsenlarsen@ccsu.edu1307017944gender_studies_and_sexualityscience_and_culturefull name / name of organization: Kristine Larsencontact email: larsen@ccsu.edu

I am organizing oral and poster sessions on "Women in the Geosciences: Past, Present, and Future" for the Northeast Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America (March 18-20, 2012, Hartford, CT). I am looking for contributions on any aspect of women and the geosciences, including (but not restricted to): the role of women in geoscience fields in the past; impediments to women as both students and professionals in the geosciences in the past and present; recruiting and retaining women in the geosciences; gender issues in the teaching of geosciences; gender and geosciences in public outreach programs. Interested persons should email me at Larsen@ccsu.edu ASAP with their ideas. Formal abstracts will be required at a later date.

Many thanks,

Kristine Larsen
Physics and Earth Sciences Dept.
Central Connecticut State University

cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualityscience_and_culture 41638[UPDATE] Treatment of Medieval Poetry in the Modern World (SAMLA Nov. 4-6, 2011)Carola Mattord / Kennesaw State Universitycmattord@kennesaw.edu1307023592cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisionmedievalpoetrypopular_culturereligiontheoryfull name / name of organization: Carola Mattord / Kennesaw State Universitycontact email: cmattord@kennesaw.edu

In the wake of Peter Ackroyd's prose translation of The Canterbury Tales, Dante's Inferno video game, and Baba Brinkman's The Rap Canterbury Tales, this session will explore the various treatments of medieval poetry in the modern world and/or the value (or cause for concern) that these treatments, whether visual, textual, audio, etc., bring to producing access for a wider modern audience. Perspectives or reflections on various treatments of medieval poetry in the university classroom setting are also welcome. The 250-word proposal submission has been extended to June 20.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisionmedievalpoetrypopular_culturereligiontheory 41639Special Issue: Carson McCullers and the New Southern Studies, Submissions due by May 15, 2012ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviewsross_daniel@columbusstate.edu1307024284americangender_studies_and_sexualitymodernist studiespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviewscontact email: ross_daniel@columbusstate.edu

ANQ: American Notes and Queries is sponsoring a special issue on Contemporary Irish Writing for Fall, 2012. We would be interested in short articles or notes dealing any aspect of Carson McCullers' work, especially McCullers' influence on other writers, or their influence on her. Also, we seek contributions on McCullers and the Global South, McCullers and Film, McCullers and Music, and International Perspectives on McCullers.

Contributors should be mindful of the journal's niche as one which publishes short articles and notes. We cannot consider any manuscripts of more than 3,500 words. While ANQ does not publish explications per se, we are open to textual analyses that challenge common readings or open new avenues of discussion. As a general practice, we especially welcome submissions that focus on archival materials, analyses of fluctuations of literary reputation, identifications of allusions and literary indebtedness, and readings supported by biographical information.

ANQ uses MLA format with parenthetical notes and a Works Cited. Submissions should be sent electronically to:

Daniel W. Ross, ANQ Executive Editor
Columbus State University
Columbus, GA 31907
USA
Email: ross_daniel@columbusstate.edu

cfp categories: americangender_studies_and_sexualitymodernist studiespopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 41640Shakespeare and the Natural World (Chapel Hill: March 29-31) Jennifer Park and Katie Walker; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilljennifer.m.park@gmail.com and walkerkn@email.unc.edu1307028655cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgraduate_conferencesrenaissancescience_and_culturetheatrefull name / name of organization: Jennifer Park and Katie Walker; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillcontact email: jennifer.m.park@gmail.com and walkerkn@email.unc.edu

"Shakespeare and the Natural World"

A graduate student conference jointly sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kings College London
March 29-31, 2012

Recently, Shakespeare studies have taken a "natural" turn. With the advent of ecocriticism and posthumanist thinking, a "green Shakespeare" has begun to emerge. The purpose of this conference is to consider the construction, politics, and history of the trope of "nature," both in Shakespeare's works and in current Shakespeare scholarship. Papers for this conference may consider animal studies, early modern zoology, bio-politics, climate theory, geohumoralism, food, medicine, botany, demonology, and more. Our aim will be to discuss a variety of questions: What constitutes early modern environmental studies? How did early modern writers define "nature," as opposed to supernature, or preternature, or culture? In what ways did travel, global exchanges, or economic shifts affect the construction of early modern "nature"? What role does gender play in conceptions of "nature"? What was natural knowledge? Who had access to it? How do these questions, and others, inform the worlds represented in Shakespeare's plays?

Faculty speakers will include Wendy Wall, Mary Floyd-Wilson, David J. Baker, and Gordon McMullan.

Please submit abstracts (500 words maximum) to Jennifer Park jennifer.m.park@gmail.com and Katie Walker walkerkn@email.unc.edu by October 1, 2011.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgraduate_conferencesrenaissancescience_and_culturetheatre 41641Contemporary Women's Writing: (Wo)Man and the Body, 11-13 July 2012Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwancww2012.taiwan@gmail.com1307033198gender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespopular_cultureprofessional_topicstwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwancontact email: cww2012.taiwan@gmail.com

The Fourth Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Association

Contemporary Women's Writing: (Wo)Man and the Body
11-13 July 2012
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

'Bodies have all the explanatory power of minds. Indeed, for feminist purposes, the focus on bodies, bodies in their concrete specificities, has the added bonus of inevitably raising the question of sexual difference that mind does not' – Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism (1994)

It is in order to raise the question of sexual difference that women must construct a textual space to allow their bodies to be heard. Textual representations of corporeal specificities and the various inscriptions on raced, classed, gendered and sexualised bodies have always been central to women's writing. The study of bodily discourses and the affective responses of the body to physical environments and societal mandates are also central to feminist literary scholarship. In view of the significance of corporeality in women's textual productions, the Contemporary Women's Writing Association and Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan invite submissions of papers on the theme of '(Wo)Man and the Body' for the fourth international conference on contemporary women's writing, to be held in Taipei from 11th to 13th July 2012.

Papers and panels in English are sought on all genres of literary and popular writing since the 1970s, including fiction, poetry, plays, autobiography, travel writing, graphic novels etc. in any language. Papers and panels are also sought on the relation of this writing to theory, criticism and teaching. Please note that all presenters are required to be members of the Contemporary Women's Writing Association (http://www.the-cwwa.org/). Possible topics might include: bodies and bio-politics; bodies and environment; bodies and identities; bodies and migration; bodies and sexualities; bodies and space; bodies and spirituality; bodies and textuality; bodies and work; the medicalisation of bodies; (post)human bodies.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS OR PANEL PROPOSALS

E-mail the conference contact person (below) with the following information:

Your full name as you would like it to appear in the conference booklet
Contact information (e-mail and mailing address)
A short biography including academic affiliation and area(s) of study
A 250-word abstract in MS Word (doc or docx) format
Any audiovisual equipment required

DEADLINES

Applications and abstracts: 1 September 2011

Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2011

CONTACT PERSON:

Dr. Pin-chia Feng
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
National Chiao Tung University
Hsin-chu, Taiwan
cww2012.taiwan@gmail.com

CONFERENCE VENUE:
International Conference Hall of Center for Condensed Matter Sciences
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan

cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespopular_cultureprofessional_topicstwentieth_century_and_beyond 41642Women's & Gender Studies--Call for Papers, 2012 NeMLA, March 15-18, Rochester, NYNortheast Modern Language Associationblavin@optonline.net1307033751african-americanamericanecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: blavin@optonline.net

For detailed cfp, visit:
http://nemla.org/community/caucuses/womens.html

-20th Century Irish Women Writers
-Best Practices in Women's & Gender Studies Programs (Roundtable)
-Corporeal Borderlands: Food Narratives and the Female Body
-Diasporic Dreams: Women Writing Waters (Roundtable)
-From Xena to the Powerpuff Girls: The Gender Politics of the Female Action Hero
-Gender in a Postnational Context
-International Eating: Women's Global Food Stories
-Issues of Mobility and Confinement in Women's Literature
-Masculinity and Consumerism
-Masculinity in Superhero Comic Books and Films
-Maternal Hauntings: Feminine Spectral Identities in Asian-American Literature
-Middlebrow and Alternative Modernisms
-New Approaches to Old Texts: Studying Medieval and Early Modern Women and Gender
-No Man Left Behind: Homosocial Masculine Obligations in American War Literature
- 'Of Queen's Gardens': Victorian Ecofeminism
-The Panic Over Motherhood: Transnational Labor Migrants
-The Postmodern Dandy
-Postmodern Fiction and Gender Equality
-Re-Assessing the 'Crisis of Masculinity' in American Culture and in the Academy (Roundtable)
-Representations of Femininities and Masculinities in Translation
-Revisiting 'The Red Record': Black Women's Lynching Texts (Seminar)
-Speechifying Women: Multi-Pronged Legacy from the Rochester Circle
-Teaching literary Studies in the Women's and Gender Studies Classroom (Roundtable)
-Wartime Sexual Violence in Literature, History and Film
-Women and Spirituality: Ministries

cfp categories: african-americanamericanecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarymedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromantictwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41643Shakespeare and the Natural World, March 29-31, 2012 (Abstracts due Oct. 1, 2011)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kings College Londonjennifer.m.park@gmail.com, walkerkn@email.unc.edu1307034571cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryrenaissancescience_and_culturetheatrefull name / name of organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kings College Londoncontact email: jennifer.m.park@gmail.com, walkerkn@email.unc.edu

"Shakespeare and the Natural World", Call for Papers
A graduate student conference jointly sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kings College London
March 29-31, 2012

Recently Shakespeare studies have taken a "natural" turn. With the advent of ecocriticism and posthumanist thinking, a "green Shakespeare" has begun to emerge. The purpose of this conference is to consider the construction, politics, and history of the trope of "nature," both in Shakespeare's works and in current Shakespeare scholarship. Papers for this conference may consider animal studies, early modern zoology, bio-politics, climate theory, geohumoralism, food, medicine, botany, demonology, and more. Our aim will be to discuss a variety of questions: What constitutes early modern environmental studies? How did early modern writers define "nature," as opposed to supernature, or preternature, or culture? In what ways did travel, global exchanges, or economic shits affect the construction of early modern "nature"? What role does gender play in conceptions of "nature"? What was natural knowledge? Who had access to it? How do these questions, and others, inform the worlds represented in Shakespeare's plays?

Faculty speakers will include Wendy Wall, Mary Floyd-Wilson, David J. Baker, and Gordon McMullan.

Please submit abstracts (500 words maximum) to Jennifer Park (jennifer.m.park@gmail.com) and Katie Walker (walkerkn@email.unc.edu) by October 1, 2011.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinaryrenaissancescience_and_culturetheatre 41644NEMLA: March 15-18, 2012. Call for papers – Approaches to Adventure in the Late 19th CenturyRebekah Greene/University of Rhode IslandRebekah_greene@my.uri.edu1307037194childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementspostcolonialtravel_writingvictorianfull name / name of organization: Rebekah Greene/University of Rhode Islandcontact email: Rebekah_greene@my.uri.edu

This panel examines the burgeoning interest in adventure during the years 1880-1901. Joseph A. Kestner in his recent _Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880-1915_ has suggested that adventure texts are filled with 'codes' such as 'rescue, heroism, survival, courage, duty, isolation, voyaging' for audiences to 'live up to' (1). Papers that scrutinize late Victorian literary treatments of these codes, in addition to tropes such as travel, sailing, mountain climbing, and camping are warmly welcomed.

Possible questions to examine include:
What is the cultural or historical significance of this attention to adventure and why should it be celebrated?
Why are the codes of adventure important, for both the individual and for the state?
How do Victorian authors of adventure texts use their works to problematize empire?
Can adventure texts function as pedagogical tools for younger readers, colonial administrators, or emigrants?
Do adventure texts function at different levels for colonizing or colonized audiences?
How do female authors treat the codes of adventure?
What does this intense engagement with adventure reveal?

Please submit 250-500 word abstracts (as an MS Word attachment, please) to Rebekah Greene, rebekah_greene@my.uri.edu, with NEMLA 2012 as the subject heading by August 1st, 2011.

Information for the convention can be found at http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/

cfp categories: childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementspostcolonialtravel_writingvictorian 41645Women's Studies Quarterly: EnchantmentWomen's Studies QuarterlyWSQEnchantmentIssue@gmail.com1307037786african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturereligionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Women's Studies Quarterlycontact email: WSQEnchantmentIssue@gmail.com

Call for Papers
WSQ Special Issue: Enchantment
Special Editors: Ann Burlein & Jackie Orr

This issue of WSQ attempts to intervene in the present moment by conjuring the power and seductions of enchantment. How to find and create places of allure when things seem impossible, when the world seems impassable, when survival becomes a question for too many? What possibilities might be needed to imagine a world in which one could flourish? And what might be the serious and playful role of enchantments in materializing that world? In queer and feminist kinship with multiple sites of enchanted practice that already exist both inside and outside the university, we seek to intensify and proliferate transformative forms of enchantment that devise escape routes that are not escapist.

Yet enchantment is a contested strategy, whose ambivalence requires exploration and investigation. Enchantment is regularly used by the state and various civil, disciplinary, and capitalist agencies, from cultures of resistance to corporations to professors. In light of recent theorizations of "occult economies," "the magic of the state," "queer temporalities," and "the enchantment of everyday life," we invite post-disciplinary re-thinkings that move beyond social logics and political rationalities toward the magic allurements of power that captivate and capture. How to negotiate these ambivalent registers so as to enchant a different series of connections, a different scene of collective and individual possibilities?

One animating ambition of this issue is to help redefine and expand critical notions of what 19th century Anglo European societies came to call 'the occult.' Without an understanding of diverse historical sedimentations of "occult forces," it is difficult to trace what is happening with religion, race, sexuality, politics, gender, militarisms, and commodity cultures at this particular moment in time. Deeper historical and contemporary accounts of the charmed vitality of 'the occult' in so many realms of imaginal culture provide a crucial contribution to the expanded and revised conceptions of materialism demanded by the politics of this time.

• Collective effervescence, contagious revolutions
• Enchanted icons (children, animals, the dark, secrets, divas, mermaids, saints, dungeons, hybrids, islands)
• Haunting and ghostly matters
• Allure of utopias and utopian thought
• Racialization of figures and spaces of magic
• Mysticisms—historical and contemporary, everyday and ecstatic, affective and political
• Seductions of capital (speculative finance, occult ontologies of value)
• The sacred and its popular re-purposings
• Erotics of power; powers of the erotic
• State 'magic' (disappearances, torture, terror, rendition, public secrets)
• Militant politics of play
• Pagan religiosities, new age spiritualities, new age Orientalisms
• Contemporary psychoanalytics of fantasy and the imaginary
• Queer practices of be/longings and bondings
• Politics of the dead and of death
• Science fiction, urban fantasy
• Imperialism, colonization, cultural appropriations and 'enchantment'
• Politics and aesthetics of evil
• 'When Things Speak' (speculative realisms, agential realisms, actor network theory and other animist assemblages)
• Yoga, meditation, bodywork, alternative healing practices
• Popular cultures of secular enchantment
• Drugs and the pharmacologics of ecstasy (legal and non-legal)
• Uncanny technologies of vision and embodiment (puppets, avatars, digital animation)

If submitting academic work, please send articles by October 1, 2011 to the guest editors, Ann Burlein and Jackie Orr at WSQEnchantmentIssue@gmail.com. Submission should not exceed 20 double spaced, 12-point font pages. Full submission guidelines may be found at: http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/submission-guidelines. Articles must conform to WSQ guidelines in order to be considered for submission.

"Classic Revisited" submissions: Two of Audre Lorde's influential essays, "Poetry is Not a Luxury" (1978), and "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" (1981) will be the classic texts we revisit for this special issue. Please send a short commentary (1-2,000 words) on how you continue to read, teach, re-think, and re-enchant these essays to the guest editors, Ann Burlein and Jackie Orr, at WSQEnchantmentIssue@gmail.com by October 1, 2011.

Poetry submissions: Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please note that poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please paste poetry submissions into the body of the e-mail along with all contact information. Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor, Kathleen Ossip, at WSQpoetry@gmail.com by October 1, 2011.

Prose submissions: Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting prose. Please note that prose submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the prose editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please provide all contact information in the body of the e-mail. Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's fiction/nonfiction editor, Jocelyn Lieu, at WSQpoetry@gmail.com by October 1, 2011.

Art submissions should be sent to WSQ's art editor, Margot Bouman, at WSQArt@gmail.com, by October 1, 2011. After art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be sent to the journal's managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturereligionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41646[UPDATE] CFP Justified (FX) Television ReaderBärbel Göbel PhD (University of Kansas) and Michael Brian Faucette PhD (Coldwell CC)bgoebel79@gmail.com / brfaucette@gmail.com1307050666americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityreligionfull name / name of organization: Bärbel Göbel PhD (University of Kansas) and Michael Brian Faucette PhD (Coldwell CC)contact email: bgoebel79@gmail.com / brfaucette@gmail.com

We are seeking submissions for a collection of essays on the popular and critically acclaimed series Justified (FX). Topics can include but are not limited to the following:

If interested please submit a 250 word abstract BY AUGUST 15th and a short C.V. to both:

Michael Brian Faucette
brfaucette@gmail.com
and
Bärbel Göbel
bgoebel79@gmail.com

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityreligion 41647[UPDATE] Playing Across Borders: Katherine Mansfield and the Margins of the Modern--NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE 1 July 2011Todd Martin/ Katherine Mansfield Society--for Midwest Modern Language Societytmartin@huntington.edu1307050826gender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsmodernist studiesfull name / name of organization: Todd Martin/ Katherine Mansfield Society--for Midwest Modern Language Societycontact email: tmartin@huntington.edu

Panelists are invited to submit abstracts (250 words) for papers on Mansfield's difficult relations with the transnational scene of the modern, modernism, modernity. Submissions might consider facets of Mansfield's ambivalences about national and imperial affiliation or other modernists or modernisms or literary professionalism. Send abstracts to Todd Martin, tmartin@huntington.edu by 1 July 2011. EXTENDED DEADLINE

The panel will be part of the Midwest Modern Language Association's Convention which will be held on November 3-6 in St. Louis, MO. For more information about the Convention go to http://www.luc.edu/mmla/annualconvention.html

cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsmodernist studies 41648Happiness and Sadness: Taiwan society and its emotional textures (8-9 December 2011)The Asia Institute, the University of Melbournetaiwan-studies@unimelb.edu.au1307056005cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: The Asia Institute, the University of Melbournecontact email: taiwan-studies@unimelb.edu.au

We invite submissions for papers for a workshop to be held at the University of Melbourne in December 2011 that explores the varying emotional textures of Taiwan life. It takes the dyad of Happiness and Sadness as its point of departure, but also examines other emotional registers and how these might relate to Taiwan's social and historical structures. These emotional textures can be seen as both products of particular kinds of social, political, cultural and economic structures and as ways in which those structures are experienced and interpreted. We hope that an exploration of Taiwan society through the paired themes of happiness and sadness (while not excluding other emotions) will offer new ways to approach the study of Taiwan.

This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for intensive and collaborative discussion of the participants' work. It is envisaged that during the two days of the workshop each paper will be presented in turn, and each presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion. Participation in the workshop offers the opportunity to refine ideas and develop working relationships that will facilitate publication of the papers, either as a collection or as individual articles. Papers will be circulated prior to the workshop to facilitate dialogue between papers and exploration of the workshop's themes.

Examples of possible topics include:

• Livelihood: the emotional textures of economic life
• Identity: the happiness and sadness of being Taiwanese
• The culture and literature of happiness and loss
• Politics and emotional intensity
• Urban design, transportation and the sense of emotional security
• Media: representing the emotional textures of everyday life
• Construction of social collectivity through emotional ideologies
• Food and commodities: consuming happiness and sublimating sadness

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words with a brief CV to
taiwan-studies@unimelb.edu.au
by 15 July 2011. If the paper is accepted, the contributor will be invited to submit a full text of around 5000 words. The due date for the full text will be 1 November 2011. All papers should be submitted in English.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheatretwentieth_century_and_beyond 41649Call for Submissions: Publishing Quartly Poetry and Short Stories / Monthly Short Story ContestA Few Lines MagazineJFoster.Editor@gmail.com1307067913general_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetryfull name / name of organization: A Few Lines Magazinecontact email: JFoster.Editor@gmail.com

A Few Lines Magazine is an up-and-coming literary magazine that publishes Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Creative Non-Fiction/Essays, and Artwork. We just released our first issue and are currently looking to print it. All contributors receive one free contributor's copy (once we have printed the issues).

Aside from the main quarterly issue, we host a monthly short story contest. The contest includes publication, an interview, and a spot in the annual anthology, "The Best of A Few Lines."

We accept unpublished simultaneous submissions all year round, so please feel free to send us your work at any time. To submit, follow this link:

http://afewlinesmagazine.submishmash.com/Submit

Take a look around our first issue to get an idea of what we publish, then send in your best work. We would love the chance to read it.

Jack Foster
Editorial Manager
www.afewlinesmagazine.com
JFoster.Editor@gmail.com

cfp categories: general_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essayspoetry 41650Motherhood and Loss AnthologyMelissa Miles McCarter/Fat Daddy's Farmfdfarmpress@gmail.com1307083686americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetheoryfull name / name of organization: Melissa Miles McCarter/Fat Daddy's Farmcontact email: fdfarmpress@gmail.com

Call for essays, creative writing and art for a new anthology dealing with motherhood and loss:
The topic of motherhood has been addressed in terms of feminism, politics, pedagogy and other issues particular to the experience of raising a child as a woman. There have also been many nonfiction explorations of the topic of infertility and the problem caused by the thwarted desire for having a child. However, there is a lack of examination of the experience of loss and motherhood. To counter this void, the emerging press Fat Daddy's Farm will be publishing a collection of essays, creative writing and art that address the experience of motherhood and loss. To this end, this anthology will reflect the myriad experiences woman have with this topic, expressed in many different forms.

Specifically, this anthology will include:
First person essays from 500-1500 words
Copies of drawings, cartoons, paintings, graphic art or photography in jpg format
Poems (no longer than two pages, doublespaced)
Academic writing (MLA format) from 1500-2500 words
Creative non-fiction or fiction pieces from 1000-1500 words

Here are some questions that may help spark your submission:

1. How have you experienced loss and motherhood? Has it been through death, divorce, abandonment, infertility, estrangement, unfulfilled expectations or some other way? Has it involved adoption, step-parenting, medical intervention or biological birth?

2. What have the challenges been in terms of this loss? Have you had physical, emotional, legal, public or other challenges? How have you overcome, dealt with or accepted those challenges?

3. How have social expectations of mothering affected or complicated your loss? What experiences of guilt or shame have you experienced? Or how have you rebelled against these social expectations in terms of your experience of loss?

4. What historical, political, social, biological, or medical dimensions of various types of loss of motherhood do you find interesting? What does your personal loss or more general experiences of loss say about these complex dimensions?

5. What psychological or therapeutic dimensions of loss and motherhood have you or others experienced? What spiritual or religious dimensions have you experienced? What have you learned because of this loss? What larger lessons can other people learn from the issue of motherhood and loss?

6. What are you still struggling with? What moved you and made you laugh in dark moments? What are your goals for the future? What is your particular process when it comes to motherhood and loss?

Above all, we are looking for writing that moves, teaches, inspires laughter, surprises and gives unique insight into motherhood and loss.

The anthology will be edited by Melissa Miles McCarter, the author of "Insanity: A Love Story." For specific questions about the content of the anthology, please contact her at melissa_miles@yahoo.com.

Please submit essays to fdfarmpress@gmail.com by August 1, 2011. We prefer google docs, but pdf is also reliable. For images, please submit in a pdf or as an attached jpg. MS Word is the least reliable--if you need to, we would prefer to get your document in the body of the email, rather than send it as a word attachment. If you have questions about how to send a submission, feel free to email fdfarmpress@gmail.com. Simultaneous and previously published submissions are allowed--please let us know in this case.

The Fine Print:

Submission of an essay does not guarantee publication in the book. Several factors will be considered when determining which works will be selected for publication by the editor and publisher.

1. Electronic submissions only, please. Essays will not be returned to the author.

2. No contributors will receive financial compensation for their work whether or not it is selected for publication. Contributing authors will be recognized in the book and in the book publicity for their published work.

3. If selected for publication in the book, authors agree to terms in a consent agreement (e.g., permission to publish the work in the book, use in promotional materials, use of name in the book, release of copyright).

4. Fat Daddy Farm's will retain the "nonexclusive right to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit and sell digital reproductions." Specifically, we ask for NORTH AMERICAN SERIAL RIGHTS, including electronic rights. You can submit previously published material to us as long as you retain reprint rights. Since we are not giving any monetary payment, we want to allow you to be able to sell/publish your material elsewhere.

4. Authors affirm that submitted work was not previously published and/or discloses where it has been published.

5. The editor and publisher reserve the right to reject any submissions and to edit the writing for grammar, style and space.

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetheory 41651KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND CONTINENTAL EUROPEGERRI KIMBER/ KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETYkms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org1307089416general_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespostcolonialtravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: GERRI KIMBER/ KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETYcontact email: kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org

KATHERINE MANSFIELD
AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE

An International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Letters,
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
in association with the Katherine Mansfield Society

27-29 June 2012

Keynote Speakers:

Angela Smith, C. K. Stead, Maurizio Ascari,
Gerri Kimber, Claire Davison-Pégon

Having arrived in London from New Zealand in 1908 to commence her life as a writer, Katherine Mansfield travelled widely in Europe during the 1910s and early 1920s. Rarely was this for pleasure; the notion of escaping from a situation, people, and later her search for a cure for tuberculosis, predetermined much of her journeying. The resonances of this constant travelling and immersion in foreign cultures can be perceived in both her personal writing and her creative endeavours.

Possible topics for discussion might include, but are not limited to:

• KM and Germany
• KM and Russia
• KM and Poland
• KM and Belgium
• KM and France
• KM and Italy
• KM and Switzerland
• Notion of expatriation and displacement in KM's stories
• Responses to, and reception of, KM in Europe
• KM's influence on continental writers
• KM as (post)colonial traveller

A highlight of the conference will be an optional trip on 30 June to nearby Krakow, the home of Poland's most celebrated artist, Stanislaw Wyspianski, with a visit to see the internationally renowned Wyspianksi museum and the stained glass window in the Franciscan church, the inspiration for two of KM's poems.

Please send 200 word abstracts for individual papers of 20 minutes, or 500 word proposals for panels of 3 papers to Dr Janka Kaščáková at janka.kascakova@ff.ku.sk by 1 November 2011. Decisions will be announced by 15 December 2011.

cfp categories: general_announcementsgraduate_conferencesinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesmodernist studiespostcolonialtravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 41652[30th October, 2011] Journal. Film, literature and philosophy. Sesión no numeradaSesión no numeradasesionnonumerada@filos.ucm.es1307101520film_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaystwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Sesión no numeradacontact email: sesionnonumerada@filos.ucm.es

"Sesión no numerada" is a scientific journal that publishes original articles whose subject is part of the editorial of the journal: Studies linking film and television series with any of the humanities (literature, philosophy, history...). It also publishes original translations of relevant articles, reviews of books relevant to the field of audiovisual fiction and reviews of films released in the year preceding the publication of each issue. The periodicity of the review is annual, published the number for the year in January. The publication languages are Spanish and English.

http://www.ucm.es/info/sesionnonumerada

The deadline for submitting papers for the second issue of the journal is by October 30th. All contributions must be sent by e-mail to sesionnonumerada@filos.ucm.es

Publisher: Grupo de investigación "Teoría y retórica de la ficción"
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

cfp categories: film_and_televisioninterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaystwentieth_century_and_beyond 41653CFP: Urban Culture Area, MAPACA, Nov. 3-5, 2011, Philadelphia, PA (June 15th, 2011, deadline for proposals)Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Associationbmm202@nyu.edu1307105081cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturetravel_writingfull name / name of organization: Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Associationcontact email: bmm202@nyu.edu

CFP: Urban Culture Area, MAPACA, 11/3-11/5/2011, Philadelphia, PA (June 15th, 2011, deadline for proposals)

As natural and man-made disasters continue to physically eradicate people and places around the world, questions of destruction, perseverance, resistance, and rebirth ring louder than ever. Can the city make it in such challenging times? Can citizens make it in such challenging times? And at what price, and to what end? Simultaneously, companies compete to release their latest technological wonders: Ipads, Blackberries, Smart Boards, Double-decker planes...wonders that eradicate physical distances. We are all LinkedIn and friended by countless others on Facebook. Does it not matter where and how we live physically anymore because of our addiction to the non-place of virtual existence? This year, we want to pay attention to what happens post-city, when the city is gone or no longer matters, due to both physical disasters and technological inventions. Now, more than ever, we wonder, what is a city? How and why does a city come to be, continue to be, and cease to be? And what happens to the urban self, in the face of economic, geographic, social, technological change? As in previous years, please send your proposals about these and related issues to the Urban Culture Area of MAPACA. Historical or ethnographic studies of public sites and events, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city are welcome, as are studies of particular cities. If interested in participating in a workshop on "writing the urban," in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so. June 15th, 2011 is the deadline by which you can send your virus free proposals and short recent bios to Dr. Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association meets from November 3rd till November 5th, 2011, in Philadelphia, PA. For further information, check www.mapaca.net.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarypopular_culturetravel_writing 416553RD NECS GRADUATE WORKSHOP BLURRED BOUNDARIES/CONTESTED GEOGRAPHIES BELGRADE, SERBIA, 29‐30 SEPTEMBER 2011NECS Graduatesgraduates@necs-initiative.org1307119651film_and_televisionfull name / name of organization: NECS Graduatescontact email: graduates@necs-initiative.org

After the success of the first NECS Graduate Workshop in Istanbul (Summer 2010) and in anticipation of a successful second workshop in London (Summer 2011) we are now organizing a
two-day intensive workshop in Belgrade this Autumn focusing on the topic Blurred Boundaries/Contested Geographies. The aim of the NECS workshops is to bring young researchers and graduate students together in fruitful debate creating a sustainable international network that meets regularly throughout the year. Participants will find a platform where they peer review
works-in-progress and practice presentation and discussion skills in preparation for academic conference participation.

While seeking to address the dissolution of traditional boundaries that mark contemporary visual culture, with Blurred Boundaries/Contested Geographies we hope to bring together a variety of research on the intersection between mediation, representation and globalization. Blurred Boundaries/Contested Geographies takes inspiration from the workshop's location to encourage discussions on the cinematic representations of divided and damaged landscapes. The breadth of the workshop encompasses the geographies of both the shifting frontiers in
political/geographical/cultural landscapes, as well as those of changing media ontologies which impact on the morphology of representational space and image‐migration. Papers are invited on, but are not limited to: (inter)media modes of resistance to, transgression and blurring of frames and fixed demarcations; interstitial spaces open to dialogue and transformation; migratory aesthetics; distance and closeness; image appropriation; genre‐hybridity; globalization and its changing geographies.

Candidates are asked to submit a proposal (max. 300 words) with a short biographical note (max.150 words) to graduates@necs‐initiative.org. The deadline for submissions is 1 July 2011. The
NECS graduate organizers will select participants (max. 15) who will then be asked to provide a 3000‐word paper (excluding bibliography) by no later than 1 September 2011, to be distributed among other participants in advance of the workshop. In order to allow for a sufficient amount of discussion time, papers will not be read; instead, participants will be asked to provide a short pitch of their argument for a maximum of 10 minutes. Respondents will be assigned to each paper.
Discussion will take off from the basis of the papers and peer-feedback. In addition to the workshop our program will include a film screening and introductory keynote address. We
explicitly encourage candidates to develop their submitted papers further in view of a graduate panel proposal for the 2012 NECS conference.

The site of our workshop is the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, which was founded in 1946 and exists as one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the area of film studies. There is no fee for participation in the workshop other than a NECS membership. Lunch will be provided. Participants are expected to arrange their own travel and accommodation. For more information on NECS please visit www.necs-initiative.org.

cfp categories: film_and_television 41656CALL FOR PAPERS: MULTI-ETHNIC POETRY IN ENGLISH FROM NORTH-EAST INDIA: A CRITICAL SPECTRUM (DEADLINE FOR PAPERS:AUGUST 31, 2011)PG Department of English, Assam Central University:: Diphu Campus, Diphu-782 460, Karbi Anglong, Assam, Indiainduswamionline@yahoo.com1307120503cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionromantictwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: PG Department of English, Assam Central University:: Diphu Campus, Diphu-782 460, Karbi Anglong, Assam, Indiacontact email: induswamionline@yahoo.com

The term 'North-East' is a form of geographical, linguistic and ethnic stereotyping that clubs together eight disparate states comprising of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and Sikkim, that happen to lie in the Northeastern periphery of the Indian union. The body of works by English-language writers from this region refers to the North-East Indian Writings in English. Some of the most interesting Indian writing in English today is coming from this region. Intense political conflict and complex issues of identity along with some of the psychological and social perplexities of the present provide much fodder for storylines. And the subsoil of myth and folklore, coupled with scenic landscapes, make it a fertile ground for literary ferment.

Today, there is a profusion of literature from the North-East India. Of this resourceful group, the poets have always commanded a special attention and appeal owing to the ubiquity of the form and the profound intensity of the creative expression. The sense of place, history and society comes across through their poems beautifully and in very evocative language. Mostly, they hail from the multifarious ethnic groups. Obviously, ethnicity is a major concern in their poetry.

The proposed anthology is intended to focus on some of the latest perspectives of the region presented by noted North-East Indian poets such as Temsula Ao, Mamang Dai, Easterine Iralu, Tiamerenla Monalisa Changkija, Nini Vingurian Lungalang, Esther Syiem, Mona Zote, Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, Robin Singh Ngangom, Desmond L. Kharmawphlang, Anjum Hasan, Bhaskar Roy Barman, Arbind Kumar Choudhary, Rajendra Bhandari, Niranjan Chakma, Jogamaya Chakma, Nabanita Kanungo, Yumlam Tana, Mrs. Lakshahira Das, Dayananda Pathak, Umakanta Sarma, Bhupati Das, R. K. Madhubir, Ananya S. Guha, H. Ramdinthari, Rajendra Bhandari, Chandra Kanta Murasingh, Kalyan Brata Chakraborty, Nanda Kumar Debbarma, Swapan Sengupta, Shefali Debbarma, Niranjan Chakma Yogmaya Chakma, Ganghini Sorokkhaibam, Sudhanwa Tripura, etc. etc.

Interested scholars are requested to submit a 200-250 words abstract along with short bio through e-mail as MS Word attachment to Dr. Indu Swami at induswamionline@yahoo.com latest by July 31, 2011. The deadline for submission of full length unpublished quality papers (3000-7000 words) in the latest MLA style is August 31, 2011. The anthology will be published by a renowned International Publisher with ISBN in the month of December 2011.

Dr. (Mrs.) Indu Swami
PG Department of English,
Assam Central University:: Diphu Campus,
Diphu-782 460 Karbi Anglog, India

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligionromantictwentieth_century_and_beyond 41657Crime in Flannery O'Connor (ALA Symposium on American Fiction, Savannah, GA, Sept. 22-24, 2011)The Flannery O'Connor Societyschroedm@savannahstate.edu; vandebrake_timothy@roberts.edu1307127202americantwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: The Flannery O'Connor Societycontact email: schroedm@savannahstate.edu; vandebrake_timothy@roberts.edu

The Flannery O'Connor Society is sponsoring panels at the ALA Symposium on Crime Fiction in American Culture on new perspectives and "The Displaced Person":

1. Crime in O'Connor: New Perspectives
Crime takes many forms in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor: prostitution; larceny of a mummified man from a museum or of a wooden leg; arson in a woman's woods; homosexual rape; intentional failure to warn a man about to be run over by a tractor; murder in various forms, whether the drowning of a developmentally disabled child, the smashing of a granddaughter's head into a rock, or, of course, the shooting of an entire family on their way to vacation in Florida. The question is what to make of all this criminality. This session is intended to provide a forum for exploring new views of the role of crime in O'Connor. Proposals or abstracts for contributions to a panel should be sent by June 30 to Michael Schroeder at schroedm@savannahstate.edu.

2. Crimes Intended and Committed in O'Connor's "The Displaced Person"
"The Displaced Person" is arguably the most subtle of all the stories in O'Connor's body of work that deal with crime. From crimes against humanity to malicious thoughts and words, this story has a great deal to say about crime in both its legal and its biblical senses. This session is intended to provide a forum for identifying and exploring the various kinds of crime that this story treats. Proposals or abstracts for contributions to a panel should be sent by June 30 to Tim Vande Brake at vandebrake_timothy@roberts.edu.

cfp categories: americantwentieth_century_and_beyond 41658CFP: Aldous Huxley: Fifty Years After (NeMLA 2012; abstracts due 9/30/11)Bill Harrison/SUNY Geneseoharrison@geneseo.edu1307128987international_conferencesmodernist studiestwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Bill Harrison/SUNY Geneseocontact email: harrison@geneseo.edu

2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Aldous Huxley's final novel, _Island_ (1962), and 2013 will observe the half-century since his death. The panel session will reexamine Huxley's work (of any genre) in light of its influence on and relevance to contemporary culture, ideas, and movements. The panel's scope intends to be broad and inclusive, to encourage new North American scholarly attention on Huxley and his works. Of particular interest are new approaches that place Huxley in dialogue with other artists and intellectuals within and beyond Anglo-American traditions.

Send 250-word abstract to Bill Harrison, harrison@geneseo.edu. Subject line: NeMLA 2011. Deadline: 30 September 2011.

Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 43rd annual convention will be held 15-18 March 2012 in Rochester, New York at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.
Visit the website at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html

cfp categories: international_conferencesmodernist studiestwentieth_century_and_beyond 41659Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other WorksLaura Wrightlwright@email.wcu.edu1307129304bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essayspostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Laura Wrightcontact email: lwright@email.wcu.edu

The MLA has approved a the volume Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works for its Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. The full volume has gone through a round of peer review, and the MLA board has asked that the editors -- Laura Wright (Western Carolina), Jane Poyner (Exeter), and Elleke Boehmer (Oxford) -- solicit some additional essays for inclusion.

We are looking for one additional essay on Coetzee and the history of the novel. We ask that authors interested in being considered for inclusion submit a 300 word abstract on any aspect of this topic to lwright@email.wcu.edu by August 20, 2011.

Information about the Approaches to Teaching World Literature series can be found here: http://www.mla.org/pub_guidelines_twl

cfp categories: bibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essayspostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41660MMLA COMP LIT: The Politics of Guilt and Neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 Era DEADLINE JUNE 20THMMLA Comparative Literature Permanent Sectionbhakman@ilstu.edu1307138467african-americancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialrenaissancetravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: MMLA Comparative Literature Permanent Sectioncontact email: bhakman@ilstu.edu

We are seeking abstracts for the following permanent session for the 53rd Annual MMLA Convention that will be held in St. Louis, Missouri at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott from November 3-6, 2011. The 2011 informal convention theme is "Play...No, Seriously."

The Blame Game: The Politics of Guilt and Neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 Era

"In the post-9/11 era there has been a surge of discourse about the "East-West conflict" and the responsible actors behind this phenomenon which has no doubt already defined the new century. Was it extremist Islamism, which motivated the new age terrorists, was it the hate for the Western ideals and lifestyles, or was it the neoconservative, right-wing political agenda, which was guilty for unilaterally using this momentum in the Iraq war? Have we really gotten into the realm of the "clash of civilizations" as was indicated by Huntington and Lewis, or is the neo-conservative doctrine of "fight for freedom and democracy" the new phase of neo-colonialism? Writers from myriad cultures, which these issues directly affect, such as Rushdie, Hosseini, Pamuk and Updike have expressed their perspectives in many novels written in the last decade. In this session we will thus try to analyze the politics of blame in the context of postcolonial scholarship. As it is impractical and incomplete to try to understand this discourse without discussing the nineteenth century colonial practices of the British and the French in the Middle East, we also invite proposals which discuss earlier centuries from this perspective.

Chair: Beyazit Akman, Illinois State University, bhakman@ilstu.edu

cfp categories: african-americancultural_studies_and_historical_approacheseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinarypostcolonialrenaissancetravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41661Cultural Studies and Its Discontents: Reconsidering Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First CenturyEnglish Language and Literature Association of Koreaconference@ellak.or.kr1307144969cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesfull name / name of organization: English Language and Literature Association of Koreacontact email: conference@ellak.or.kr

The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) invites papers for an international conference to be held in Onyang, Korea, November 17–19, 2011. The theme for special sessions is "Cultural Studies and Its Discontents: Reconsidering Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century."

Half a century after the foundation of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham in 1961, the invasion of culture into the stronghold of literature is all but complete; we feel and breathe the power of "culture" all over in university curricula, general trends of literary scholarship, and theoretical discourses on the future of humanities. While this cultural turn has widened the parameters of literary studies, it has also contributed to the dismantling of the once sacred mystique of literature per se. The ELLAK opens a forum for re/assessing the legacies of cultural studies and discussing its future in the twenty-first century. How has cultural studies transformed and set new agenda for literary and linguistic studies? What contributions has cultural studies made, and what limitations/distortions has it created? How has cultural studies erased the boundaries between popular and "high" culture? How does cultural studies operate on a global stage and address questions of global citizenship and responsibility? Where can cultural studies go from here? Topics for consideration may include (but not limited to):

Cultural Studies and the Canon
Cultural Studies and Critical Theories
Cultural Studies in Global Contexts
Cultural Studies in Classroom
Cultural Materialism
Literature and Popular Culture
Literature and (New) Media
Culture and Diaspora
Culture and Hybridity
Culture and Public Space
Culture and Sociolinguistics

For general sessions, we welcome papers on all possible topics from all disciplines of English Studies, including British Literature, American Literature, Literatures in English, Comparative Literature, Critical Theories, Theater and/or Film Studies, Gender Studies, Translation Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and English as a Second Language. Proposals for panels are also welcome.

To apply for participation, email a brief proposal (250–500 words) and a brief biodata to the organizing committee at conference@ellak.or.kr by July 15, 2011. The authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 15, 2011. Please visit the ELLAK website at www.ellak.or.kr for additional information and updates.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferences 41662IMAGINING MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATUREMedieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea (MEMESAK)hyonjin@snu.ac.kr1307146732cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarymedievalrenaissancefull name / name of organization: Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea (MEMESAK)contact email: hyonjin@snu.ac.kr

The Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Seoul National University will co-host an international conference under the title of "Imagining Magic and Witchcraft in Medieval and Early Modern Literature." In medieval and early modern society, magic and witchcraft provided sources of popular and literary imagination and objects of both sheer fascination and collective anxiety, as well as pretexts for political and religious persecution. They also marked the frontier of scientific inquiry and human understanding. Imagining magic and witchcraft was an attempt to map the unmappable—the supernatural, the unknown, and the prohibited. It was also inseparable from imagining (and policing) alterity because stigmatizing the supernatural was in a nutshell concomitant with supernaturalizing the stigmatized. The discourse of magic and witchcraft thus inevitably overlapped and colluded with ideological discourses on gender, sexuality, race, and religion. The conference will explore how medieval and early modern texts—either European or non-European—imagine/represent magic and witchcraft and how such imagining/representation interacts with the ideologies and mentalities of the periods. It will be a small yet lively forum accommodating a maximum of fifteen speakers. Travel grants (covering three-day hotel expenses) will be available on a limited basis. To apply for participation, email your title, abstract, and CV to the conference organizer by July 15, 2011. Graduate students are welcome to participate.

Conference Organizer:
Hyonjin Kim
Associate Professor of English Literature
Seoul National University
Seoul 151-745, Republic of Korea
Email: hyonjin@snu.ac.kr
Phone: +82-2-880-6086
Fax.: +82-2-887-7850

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarymedievalrenaissance 41663English V (Modern British): Food & Socialization in Modern British Literature (SAMLA, Nov. 4-6, 2011)Rebecca Brownrbrown@tamusa.tamus.edu1307173775cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Rebecca Browncontact email: rbrown@tamusa.tamus.edu

Twentieth- and twenty-first century British writers have evinced an overwhelming interest in depicting communal cooking scenes, unsavory solitary meals, lavish dinners with family members, struggles with eating disorders, and WWII rationing in their works. Recent literary studies and articles focusing on food and gender, food and cultural identity, food and social class, and food and children's literature attest to this burgeoning critical interest. This panel seeks proposals for papers that explore the intersections between food and socialization in the twentieth- and/or twenty-first century British novel, short story, poem, and/or play. Please email abstracts of 250 words to Rebecca Brown, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, at rbrown@tamusa.tamus.edu by the extended deadline of June 27, 2011.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinterdisciplinarypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 41664Call for Papers: The Second National Conference on African/Black PsychologyDeReef Jamison, Savannah State University(africanblackpsychconference@gmail.com)1307181976african-americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarytheoryfull name / name of organization: DeReef Jamison, Savannah State Universitycontact email: (africanblackpsychconference@gmail.com)

Call for Papers:

The Second National Conference on
African/Black Psychology
at
Florida A & M University
October 14-15, 2011

The Second National Conference on African/Black Psychology is dedicated to the life's work of Amos Wilson. Amos Wilson was a scholar/activist who heeded the call of Bolekaja, which means to come on down and fight. Given his unwavering commitment and dedication to a psychology of liberation for African people, Wilson centered his focus on psycho-historical and social analysis that sought to not only interpret and understand Africana realities under Western oppression, but to ultimately change them. Thus, in the spirit of Amos Wilson, we solicit papers that attempt to challenge scholars to continue the task of offering models of psychological functioning that demonstrate how the acquiring of cultural consciousness translates into practical solutions that impact the social, economic and political conditions confronting people of African descent. We seek papers on topics that include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Sociological, psychological, historical, educational, literary, political or economic analyses, critiques, and/or applications of the following works of Dr. Amos Wilson:

o The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy
o Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children
o Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination
o Understanding Black Male Adolescent Violence
o Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century
o African-centered Consciousness versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the age Globalism

The selection criteria will involve: relevance to theme, clarity of paper, intellectual significance, and originality. Participants must send a 50 word abstract by August 15, 2011 along with a 2-3 page synopsis of your paper. DO NOT include your name on the synopsis; only the title. If accepted, the final paper should be submitted by September 16, 2011 (the paper and abstract must include participant name, affiliation, paper title, and e-mail address). Notification of acceptance will be provided by August 30, 2011. Presenters whose papers are accepted must submit a vitae and an outline of your presentation identifying your learning objectives.

Contact: DeReef F. Jamison; Email: africanblackpsychconference@gmail.com

cfp categories: african-americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinarytheory 41665[UPDATE] Edith Wharton in Florence: A Sesquicentennial Conference Sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society, 6-8 June 2012Edith Wharton Societymgoldsmith@ursinus.edu; ejorlando@msn.com 1307202077americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityinternational_conferencesmodernist studiestravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Edith Wharton Societycontact email: mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu; ejorlando@msn.com

Edith Wharton in Florence: A Sesquicentennial Conference Sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society, 6-8 June 2012

Please join us for the international conference of the Edith Wharton Society in Florence, Italy, celebrating the sesquicentennial of Wharton's birth. "Edith Wharton in Florence" will be the third Wharton Society conference held in Europe and the first in Italy. The conference directors seek papers focusing on all aspects of Wharton's work, and we especially welcome submissions dealing with the international contexts of her writing. Papers might offer readings of any of Wharton's texts, including the short fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and travel writing, in addition to the novels; Wharton's work in relation to any of its nineteenth- and twentieth-century contexts; Wharton in a transatlantic literary context; Wharton and her contemporaries, both male and female, canonical and non-canonical, European and American; Wharton in Italy, Morocco, and elsewhere in Europe; Wharton and the other arts, including painting, photography, theatre, and film (adaptations of her work during her lifetime and those that have appeared more recently); Wharton and cosmopolitanism, globalization, and the various forces of modernity; Wharton and art history. All theoretical approaches welcome, including feminist, psychoanalytic, historicist, marxist, queer, and ecocritical, among others.

Through the generosity of Marist College, the conference will be held at Marist's Lorenzo di Medici campus, in the heart of Florence. In addition to panels, there will be a keynote speaker and opportunities for tours of the area.
Please submit 250-500-word abstracts and brief CV to EdithWhartoninFlorence2012@gmail.com by 15 July 2011.
All conference participants must be members of the Edith Wharton Society at the time of registration.
For more information about the conference, contact Conference Directors Meredith Goldsmith (Ursinus College; mgoldsmith@ursinus.edu) and Emily Orlando (Fairfield University; eorlando@fairfield.edu). Please feel free to visit our website, http://wharton2012.wordpress.com/.

cfp categories: americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesgender_studies_and_sexualityinternational_conferencesmodernist studiestravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41666"Science, Art, and Gender in the Global Rise of Indigenous Languages"sihem arfaoui abidiaa_sassou@yahoo.com1307203052african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: sihem arfaoui abidicontact email: aa_sassou@yahoo.com

Update/extended deadline "Science, Art, and Gender in the Global Rise of Indigenous Languages" (26-29 October 2011,
full name / name of organization:
university of jendouba
contact email:
aa_sassou@yahoo.com

Confirmed speakers and paper-providers include Noam Chomsky (who will be at the conference by way of his paper, and possibly by way of a teleconferencing or skyping process), Maxine Hong Kingston, Louis Buff Parry, Yann Kerdiles, Sämi Ludwig, Edward Sklepowich, Mounir Triki, Abderrezak Dourari, Nessima Tarchouna, Leona Makokis/Leona Carter, Lynn Hannachi, Crystal S. Bull and Lewis Cardinal.
To submit a proposal, please email in a word format an abstract (150 words including the title) and a brief biography (50 words) no later than July 10th 2011 to the following contacts:
-Louis Buff Parry: info@louisbuffparry.com
-Sihem Arfaoui Abidi: aa_sassou@yahoo.com
July 15th notification of selection.
October 24th complete papers.
Please visit the website of the University of Jendouba here www.uj.rnu.tn or also http://www.uj.rnu.tn/
Confirmed sponsors (to date): Jendouba University, Tunisia; University of Haute Alsace, France; the Indigenous Media Institute, Canada; and the Turkish Canadian Society, Alberta, Canada.

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cfp categories: african-americanamericanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookchildrens_literatureclassical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 416672nd International Conference on Human and Social SciencesSapienza University of Rome/MCSER-Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Researchconference@mcser.org1307215467interdisciplinaryinternational_conferencesfull name / name of organization: Sapienza University of Rome/MCSER-Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Researchcontact email: conference@mcser.org

The Conference will be held on March 23-25, 2012 in Tirana Albania in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Human Sciences.

Link of the conference: http://www.mcser.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Item...

In the spirit of interdisciplinary interchange, the Conference will involve scholars, teachers and researchers working in a broad range of areas including: Education, Anthropology, Applied Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Science, Literature, Language, Communications, History, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, Law, Management, Media, Politics, Public Policy, Psychology, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Social Welfare, Sociology and Technology, and other areas related to the themes of this Conference. For any other information about the Conference please contact the team on the mail conference@mcser.org

cfp categories: interdisciplinaryinternational_conferences 41668Call for Indian English Poetry Anthology Call for Indian English Poetry Anthology 1970s-Present phpoetry@gmail.com1307229509cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Call for Indian English Poetry Anthology 1970s-Present contact email: phpoetry@gmail.com

Call for Indian English Poetry Submissions
Project editors:
Dr. Paula Hayes, Strayer University, Memphis TN, USA and
Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi,Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College(Calcutta, University), Kolkata(India).

Seeking poetry submissions from Indian poets writing in English who began their careers in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and/or more recently in the 2000s (and who are still currently writing and publishing today). The purpose and objective of these submissions is to gather contemporary poems in Indian English for a scholarly anthology to be published by a reputable academic publisher in either America or India. In addition to submitting poems, poets selected to be included in the anthology will need to include a short author-bio that gives a general overview of their career as a poet.

This anthology is tentatively to be divided according to poets who began their career in the 1970s/1980s and poets who began their careers more recently in the 1990s/2000s.

Before submitting poems consider the general interests of this anthology:
o Aesthetically engaging (experimentations in language, diction, syntax, sound, imagism/imagery)
o Postcolonial Themes
o Feminist Themes
o Diaspora Themes
o Deconstructionist Themes
o Modernist and/or Postmodern Aesthetics

To submit poems, send between 5-10 poems as an attached Word document in an email to both editors of this anthology; email addresses are listed below. The subject line of the email should read "INDIAN ENGLISH POETRY SUBMISSION and your last name." The body of the email needs to include your name and a short author-bio. Do not include your author-bio as a separate attachment. Include the author-bio in the body of the email. The project is purely academic and the for the benefits of the academic fraternity.

DEADLINE for submissions is September 1, 2011.
Those accepted for the anthology will be notified by January 31st, 2012. There is no monetary payment; however, those poets whose work is included in the anthology will receive a complimentary copy WITHIN TWO MONTHS OF PUBLICATION of the anthology. Looking forward to your whole hearted co-operation in the project.

Email Submissions are to be directed to both editors:
Dr. Paula Hayes (phpoetry@gmail.com) AND
Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi
(sarangij@rediffmail.com and "cc" Jaydeep_sarangi@rediffmail.com)

About the project editors:
Dr. Paula Hayes ( A BRIEF BIO)
Teaches college composition/professional business writing at Strayer University in Memphis, TN; holds a doctorate in Textual Studies/Literature from the University of Memphis (2008), masters degree in Comparative World Religions/Philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2000). She has published articles and poems in various college and interdisciplinary journals.

Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi (A BRIEF BIO)
Author of twenty three books and several articles, and has been taken on the editorial board of Cavalcade (Nigeria), Pegasus (Agra), The Okigbo Review (Nigeria), Unheared Melody , Parnassus (RaeBarelly) Prosopisia (Ajmer), Mascarapoetry (Australia), 'Labyrinth'(Gwalior)Indian Journal of World Literature and Culture (Bhubaneswar), Ms Academic, IJPCL (Kerala), Scholastic International Journal of Language and Literature (Chennai), Cherisma(Hyderabad) and Reflections (Tezu). He is the Editor, WRITERS EDITORS CRITICS (Kerala) and New Fiction Journal(Mumbai). He is (and he has served) on the executive panel in several academic and literary bodies, member of the executive committee of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC)

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41669WOMEN AND TEXTS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES (SPECIAL SESSION), MMLA ANNUAL CONVENTION, SAINT LOUIS, NOVEMBER 03-06BONCHO DRAGIYSKI, MMLADRAGIYSKI@WUSTL.EDU1307240730gender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarymedievalreligionfull name / name of organization: BONCHO DRAGIYSKI, MMLAcontact email: DRAGIYSKI@WUSTL.EDU

THE SPECIAL SESSION SEEKS SUBMISSIONS THAT FOCUS ON HOW CERTAIN MEDIEVAL WOMEN NEGOTIATED THEIR PLACE IN THE WORLD THROUGH THEIR WRITINGS, THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF OTHERS ABOUT THEM, OR THROUGH THE IMITATION OF TEXTUAL FEMALE MODELS. PAPERS MAY FOCUS ON ANY HISTORICAL OR FICTIONAL FEMALE FIGURE FROM THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD.

FACULTY MEMBERS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE WELCOME TO SUBMIT A DETAILED ABSTRACT TO: DRAGIYSKI@WUSTL.EDU

DEADLINE: JULY 10, 2011

cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualityinterdisciplinarymedievalreligion 41670TWC (Transformative Works and Cultures) Special Issue CFP: Transnational Boys' Love Fan Studies (March 2013)Kazumi Nagaikenagaike@oita-u.ac.jp1307267747cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturefull name / name of organization: Kazumi Nagaikecontact email: nagaike@oita-u.ac.jp

TWC (Transformative Works and Cultures) Special Issue CFP: Transnational Boys' Love Fan Studies (March 2013)

Edited by Kazumi Nagaike and Katsuhiko Suganuma, Oita University

http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/1...

'BL' (Boys' Love), a genre of male homosexual narratives (consisting of manga, novels, animations, games, films, and so forth) written by and for women, has recently been acknowledged, by Japanese and non-Japanese scholars alike, as a significant component of Japanese popular culture. The aesthetic and style of Japanese BL have also been assumed, deployed and transformed by female fans transnationally. The current thrust of transnational BL practices raises a number of important issues relating to socio/cultural constructs of BL localization and globalization.

Scholarly endeavors in relation to BL can be enriched by further research concerning the activities of transnational BL fans, fan communities, fandom, and the production of fan fiction. Most previous BL fan studies have remained circumscribed to Japan and North America. Therefore, in order to further develop transnational BL fan studies, we are seeking contributors who are engaged in the exploration of non-Japanese and non-North American contexts (e.g. Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, and others). Transnational BL fan studies may also be incorporated into the broader socio/political critical frameworks offered by studies in economics, gender/sexuality, race/class, and other areas.

We welcome submissions dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics:

1) Case-studies and ethnographic examinations of BL fans, specifically examining fans' sex/gender, age, occupation, class, race/ethnicity, et cetera.
2) Local ethnographies relating to BL fans' production, distribution, and use of these materials.
3) Discussions concerning the ways in which broadly framed socio/political issues or forms of consciousness (e.g. gender/sexuality formations, authorities' interference, censorship, and so forth) impact fans' BL activities.
4) Media and social responses to fans' involvement in BL activities.
5) Commercial aspects of BL and fans' contribution to the development of BL economics.
6) The integration of research on BL fans into a wider discussion of social theory, differing cultural discourses, and globalization.
7) Discussions concerning the ways in which BL fans' forms of production, distribution, and consumption might challenge traditional notions of Author, Reader, and Text.
8) Theoretical overviews reflecting traditional/contemporary ideas of fandom, fans, fan communities, and fans' means of communications, demonstrating how these ideas specifically relate to BL fans.
9) Explorations of the ways in which BL participants are motivated to become involved in other fan-oriented activities (e.g. cosplay; female fans' cross-dressing as male BL characters).

Submission guidelines
TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms that embrace the technical possibilities of the Web and test the limits of the genre of academic writing. Contributors are encouraged to include embedded links, images, and videos in their articles or to propose submissions in alternative formats that might comprise interviews, collaborations, or video/multimedia works. We are also seeking reviews of relevant books, events, courses, platforms, or projects.

Theory: Often interdisciplinary essays with a conceptual focus and a theoretical frame that offer expansive interventions in the field. Peer review. Length: 5,000-8,000 words plus a 100-250-word abstract.

Praxis: Analyses of particular cases that may apply a specific theory or framework to an artifact; explicate fan practice or formations; or perform a detailed reading of a text. Peer review. Length: 4,000-7,000 words plus a 100-250-word abstract.

Symposium: Short pieces that provide insight into current developments and debates. Editorial review. Length: 1,500-2,500 words.

Submissions are accepted online only. Please visit TWC's Web site (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or e-mail the TWC Editor (editor AT transformativeworks.org).

Contact
We strongly encourage potential contributors to contact the guest editors with any inquiries or proposals:

Kazumi Nagaike, nagaike AT oita-u.ac.jp

Katsuhiko Suganuma, suganuma AT oita-u.ac.jp

Due dates
Contributions for blind peer review (Theory and Praxis essays) are due by March 1, 2012. Contributions that undergo editorial review (Symposium, Interview, Review) are due by April 1, 2012.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culture 41671New Issue of Wide ScreenWide Screenkuhutanvir@gmail.com1307268481film_and_televisionjournals_and_collections_of_essaysfull name / name of organization: Wide Screencontact email: kuhutanvir@gmail.com

New Issue of Wide Screen is now online
Go to: http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/issue/current

Table Of Contents
*Militants and Cinema: Digital Attempts to Make the Multitude in Hunger, Che, Public Enemies- Joshua Aaron Gooch

*Minnelli's Yellows: Illusion, Delusion and Impressionism on Film- Kate Hext

*Trauma, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction & the Post-Human- Anirban Kapil Baishya

*Drôle de Félix : A Search for Cultural Identity on the Road - Zelie Asava

*An Analysis of the Technoscientific Imaginary in the Remake of The Stepford Wives - Jessica Johnston, Cornelia Sears

*Home Sweet Home: The Cautionary Prison/Fairy Tale - Paul Tremblay

*Handling Financial and Creative Risk in German Film Production - M. Bjørn von Rimscha

*Opening Pandora's (Black) Box: Towards A Methodology Of Production Studies - Graham Roberts

*Introduction: Cinemas of the Arab World - Latika Padgaonkar

*Cinema "Of" Yemen And Saudi Arabia: Narrative Strategies, Cultural Challenges, Contemporary Features - Anne Ciecko

*Director Profile: Mai Masri - Latika Padgaonkar

*Salah Abu Seif and Arab Neorealism - Ouissal Mejri

*Review: London River - Latika Padgaonkar

*Identity Construction and Ambiguity in Christopher Nolan's Films - Erin Hill-Parks

*Book Review: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro: Seriously Funny Since 1983 - Radha Dayal

cfp categories: film_and_televisionjournals_and_collections_of_essays 41672[REMINDER] CFP: InterTexts: a conference on interdisciplinarityDurham University, Durham, UKkaja.marczewska@durham.ac.uk1307280341americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Durham University, Durham, UKcontact email: kaja.marczewska@durham.ac.uk

Call for papers: InterTexts – a conference on interdisciplinarity
Durham University, Durham, UK
Friday, 23rd September 2011
Abstract submission deadline: 10th June 2011

The tradition of working across disciplinary boundaries has a long history: literature and visual arts, literature and philosophy, literature and psychology, all feature prominently in the field of literary studies. At present, when humanities face escalating funding challenges and a constant requirement to justify and validate the research carried out, literary scholars increasingly look at other disciplines, expanding their field of inquiry and contributing to a proliferation of research in areas such as literature and law, literature and science, literature and medicine, literature and ecology.

This conference aims to give postgraduate and early career researchers working on interdisciplinary projects an opportunity to present their work and contribute to the discussion on the developments of interdisciplinary research within literary studies. Alongside traditional panels, we will be offering workshops that deal with practical issues, resources and challenges of conducting interdisciplinary research within one of the five interdisciplinary fields at the core of the conference (Literature and Law, Literature and Science, Medical Humanities, Literature and Visual Arts and Literature and Music).

We invite papers focusing on any issue within one of the following interdisciplinary fields:

Literature and Law
Literature and Science
Medical Humanities
Literature and Visual Arts
Literature and Music.

We also welcome proposals discussing challenges and demands of conducting interdisciplinary research. These could include, but are not limited to: proliferation of interdisciplinary research, the value of interdisciplinarity, the future of interdisciplinarity, traditional humanities vs. interdisciplinary research, implications of interdisciplinarity for literary scholarship, traditional methodologies and interdisciplinary research, interdisciplinarity and canonisation or how, if at all, do we define canons within interdisciplinary fields.

Authors of selected proposals will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for consideration by the editorial board of Durham's Postgraduate English journal. The papers will be considered for publication in the special issue of the journal focusing on interdisciplinarity, celebrating ten years of the journal, and coinciding with the launch of its new website.

Please send 250-300 word abstracts proposing 20 minute papers to Kaja Marczewska (kaja.marczewska@durham.ac.uk) by 10th June 2011.

Notifications of acceptance, together with more information about Postgraduate English publication opportunities will be sent by 17th June 2011

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Enquiries: kaja.marczewska@durham.ac.uk
Website: http://intertexts.wordpress.com

cfp categories: americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studieseighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinarymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialrhetoric_and_compositionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41673Teaching Languages and Literature: Revisionist Mythmaking in the Classroom (due June 15, 2011)South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention in Atlanta, GA Nov. 4 - 6, 2011jennmartinsen@hotmail.com1307292250americanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialrhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention in Atlanta, GA Nov. 4 - 6, 2011contact email: jennmartinsen@hotmail.com

"Statues Talking Back, Beauties Becoming Beasts, and Little Red Riding Hood Laughing at Wolves: Revisionist Mythmaking in the Classroom" (Teaching Languages and Literature Panel at the annual SAMLA Convention)
Alicia Suskin Ostriker defines "revisionist mythmaking" as "Whenever a poet employs a figure or story previously accepted and defined by a culture, the poet is using myth, and the potential is always present that the use will be revisionist: that is, the figure or tale will be appropriated for altered ends, the old vessel filled with new wine, initially satisfying the thirst of the individual poet but ultimately making cultural change possible." As instructors, when we ask students to put traditional myths and fairytales in conversation with modern retellings or re-visions of those conventional texts, we create opportunities for them to think about not only the stories we tell ourselves about how the world came to be, how men and women should act, and what is acceptable for the community as a whole but also what role literature and writing play in shaping how we understand and respond to the world. This panel aims to investigate how modern texts that "re-vision" traditional myths, fairytales, etc., such as poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and WB Yeats or short stories by Angela Carter and Garrison Keillor can be productively included in undergraduate literature as well as literature and composition courses. Please send proposals of no longer than 250 words along with a brief biographical sketch by June 15th to: Jennifer Martinsen (jennmartinsen@hotmail.com) Email submissions are preferred, but paper proposals may be mailed to: Jennifer Martinsen, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208

cfp categories: americanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitymodernist studiespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialrhetoric_and_compositiontwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 41674The Pedalto Report: A Journal for Incorporated Art (submissions deadline 8/15/2011)The Pedalto Report rmcott096@pedalto.org1307296826americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_cultureprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: The Pedalto Report contact email: rmcott096@pedalto.org

The term "incorporated art" might be used to describe art that exists in the form of an institution, company, or other organization. In contrast with art that takes incorporation as its subject, incorporated art begins with the act of incorporation and exists only to the extent that the incorporated entity remains in operation.

With that definition in mind, The Pedalto Report invites contributors to consider literal and conceptual manifestations, antecedents, and related activities of incorporated art for its inaugural edition, to be published in October, 2011. Editorial decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis according to thematic (rather than formal) concerns; essays, reviews, interviews, or historical studies are preferred, but submissions that assume the form of so-called creative writing will also be considered. There are no length requirements; however, for this inaugural "report," the editors would prefer contributions that fall within the range of 2,000-5,000 words. The following questions are provided as provocations; submissions might address these queries, or use them to generate new questions, issues, artists, and topics for discussion under the rubric of "incorporated art":

• Must incorporated art be practiced as collaboration, or can sole-proprietorships be works of incorporated art?
• Are works of incorporated art necessarily service-oriented?
• Is an archive a work of incorporated art in and of itself? Is an archive a perquisite for a work of incorporated art?
• How do oft-discussed artists and thinkers such as Guy DeBord, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, etc., fit into the discussion of incorporated art? How might Acéphale, the name of George Bataille's secret society, as well as its journal, shape present and future discussions of incorporated art?
• What is the significance of intentionality in incorporated art?

Please submit manuscripts electronically, in MS Word (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf), to Ramsey Scott (rmcott096@pedalto.org) by August 15, 2011. Inquiries and proposals may be directed to the same address.

In October, 2011, members of the editorial team will be attending CIncArt—the Convention on Incorporated Art—in Dallas, TX, managing a conventioneer's booth for, and celebrating publication of, The Pedalto Report.

cfp categories: americanbibliography_and_history_of_the_bookcultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetinterdisciplinaryjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_cultureprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 41675Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature (Bamberg, 24 - 25 May 2012)University of Bamberg (Germany)conviviality@englit.de1307307749cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: University of Bamberg (Germany)contact email: conviviality@englit.de

Ever since the publication of Appadurai's groundbreaking study Modernity at Large (1996), concepts like "multiculturalism", "globalisation" and, more recently, "cosmopolitanism" have contributed to raise questions about the future of Postcolonial Studies – opening up to issues of "canon expansion" and "rerouting", among others (Madsen 1999; Wilson et al. 2010). From a somewhat counter-perspective, attempts at turning Europe itself into a highly problematic region of postcolonial analysis have also been made. Significantly, Paul Gilroy has coined the concept of "convivial culture" to signal a possibility for the development of a new cosmopolitan dimension to European culture, namely one of "radical openness" to its colonial past and postcolonial present (Gilroy 2004).

Rising to the challenge of Gilroy's intuition, the conference seeks to be a first step towards the mapping of individual literary paths into such "radical openness". The aim is to bridge European colonial past "abroad" and current issues of migration, race and ethnicity "at home". Ideally, this should involve seeking out the transformative potential of individual experiences of cohabitation and interaction across European borders – geographical, economic, literary, historical, etc. Such individual practices of "cosmopolitan conviviality", as they take place in literature written in Europe especially over the last twenty years, represent the main focus of this project.

Examples of this literary attitude towards "radical openness" can be found interspersed in the works of several contemporary European authors. Among these are, for instance, the novels Soul Tourists (2005) and Oltre Babilonia (2008), by British author Bernardine Evaristo and Italian writer Igiaba Scego respectively. Other European migration novels to tackle – if sideways – this issue are Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo's El metro (2007) and Tahar Ben Jelloun's Au Pays (2009). According to the conference organizers, all of these can be considered attempts towards the redefinition of European convivial spaces in literature.

From an institutional point of view, the conference also sets out to blur borders between distinct national discourses on so-called minority literatures in Europe. In fact, while a considerable number of studies has been published over the last fifteen years which testify to a renewed historical interest in Europe's shameful colonial past (especially with regard to lesser colonial powers like Italy and Germany), wider literary approaches to the same subject matter are still a rare sight (noteworthy exceptions are Lindner et al., Hybrid Cultures – Nervous States, 2011; Sandra Ponzanesi and Daniela Merolla, Migrant Cartographies, 2005).

Opening up to contributions from the fields of Literary, Cultural, Art and Media studies, conference organisers hope to 1) stimulate dialogue across distinct colonial and migration histories in Europe, as well as 2) chart new routes out of the impasse which has been holding sway over postcolonial studies since the emergence of notions of "multiculturalism" and "globalisation", around the end of the 1990s (cf. Appadurai, 1996; Lazarus, 2004; Wilson et al, 2010).

Possible topics may consider, among others, the following aspects:
• refashioning Europe as a postcolonial region of literary, historical, artistic and cultural analysis;
• negotiations of colonial memory from a wider European – rather than national – perspective;
• migration to and travelling across Europe as a postcolonial operation of historical recovery;
• debating the need for convivial approaches to national or cosmopolitan canon(s) in Europe;
• defining the concept of the "European" in literature, particularly in connection with issues of cosmopolitanism and the individual;
• convivial boredom as complementary to racial/ethnic/religious fear and their relation to representations of colonial and postcolonial European violence in literature and popular culture;
• how the notion of "intercultural dialogue" in social and political sciences is synergized across different generations, particularly with respect to European literature and the "politics of recognition" (Taylor 1994);
• the Mediterranean as the topical site where European stories of conviviality and violence meet;
• new and forgotten "isms": Eastern European cosmopolitan "provincialism" and Irish postcolonialism.

We welcome proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes. The official language of the conference is English. Selected contributions will be submitted for publication in an essay collection. Postgraduate students are also welcome to present their proposals for a special postgraduate panel to host up to five papers, each to last 15 minutes in length.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to conviviality@englit.de. Include your name, affiliation, email address and a brief biography (max 100 words). You will receive an email of confirmation shortly after your submission. The deadline for abstracts is: 17 October 2011.

If you have any questions concerning either the application process or the conference itself, please get in touch with the conference organizers via email or at the following address:

Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka and Federico Fabris, M.A.
Department of English Literature
University of Bamberg
An der Universität 9. Raum 202
D-96045 Bamberg
Germany

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityinterdisciplinaryinternational_conferencespostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond