ASA 2015 CFP: Reproductive Monsters: Wretched Mothers' Resistance

Transgressions. When we think of transgressions, we may think of crossing borders—geopolitical, linguistic, cultural, ethical—circulations through or circumventions of boundary states, the perturbation, violation or abolishment of regulating functions, or the exploration of the forbidden, the taboo, unethical or the criminal. Transgressions can also be, however, the revolutionary spirit, subversive fortitude, a generative force, the problematizing of categories of difference, the frontier locations of codeswitching, hybridization, and the repurposing of genres, of words. Transgressions both inflict trauma and emerge out from it.

We wish to announce an extension to our previous cfp-submission deadline.

cfps for this conference may now be submitted until 22 February 2015.

The conference information is as follows:

The Fourth International Conference on Literary Juvenilia will be held in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, from 17-20 June, 2015.

In association with the Juvenilia Press (University of New South Wales, Australia), the conference will bring together researchers, teachers and students to discuss aspects of literary juvenilia and to share insights and ideas into the study of young writers and their works.

Even as late as 1928, Ella Lonn found it necessary in _Desertion During the Civil War_ to offer the qualified hope that the question of desertion, "which could scarcely have found a tolerant reading a few decades ago," might be received by a more generous audience. This panel echoes Lonn's qualified hope as it asks for papers that consider desertion not in terms of cowardice, but in terms of allegiance. To whom or to what is the deserter allied, and how might that allegiance operate as a way of resistance? Does the willingness to leave one site of misery for another, potentially more miserable, site provide an alternative logic of desertion?

Call for Abstracts
This call is for abstracts for a collection of new essays on George Eliot and her work. This volume is part of the Critical Insights series published by Salem Press, and the intended readers include undergraduate students and their teachers.
Interested individuals should submit an abstract of approximately 300-400 words to Katie Peel (peelk@uncw.edu) for an unpublished essay that takes the approach described in any one of the following areas:
"Critical lens" chapter (4,000-4,500 words): a close reading of the author from a particular critical standpoint,

Sixth Annual SoTL Conference, May 18-19, 2015
The University of Findlay

We invite you to share your emerging, on-going, and completed research in the scholarship of teaching and learning including but not limited to face-to-face, online, hybrid, or clinical settings. You might consider answering: "How has the definition and/or application of SOTL evolved as the spaces in which higher education is delivered have expanded?"

Possible topics might include:

In 1844, Canada and the USA played a cricket match at the St. George's Club in New York, which is now the site for NYU's Medical Centre. This long-forgotten match was the first international sporting event of the modern era, predating the revival of the Olympic Games by more than 50 years. Since then, cricket's place in the cultural imaginary of North America has been displaced by the emergence of baseball and hockey as the national sports of the USA and Canada. This piece of historical trivia serves as a line of departure for the panel to investigate how sports have engaged with—by perpetuating, resisting, institutionalizing—the hegemonic narratives of the nation-state.