What is the state of queerness in Caribbean literature and criticism in the early twenty-first century? Do Caribbean writers now find it possible to explore a more diverse range of sexual identities and experiences than formerly; is there a new wave of voices breaking the silence that Michelle Cliff both acknowledged and challenged in the 1980s? This panel will examine queer presences (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, androgynous, hermaphrodite) in Caribbean literature. It seeks both discussions of texts that explicitly present queer characters and engage queer experience, and interesting re-readings of texts not commonly placed within this rubric. Papers (in English) on texts from the francophone and hispanophone Caribbean particularly welcome. Please send 300-word abstracts in body of email to Rachel Mordecai, mordecai@english.umass.edu.

33129SPECIAL ISSUE: REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITIES IN SPANISH FILM: CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHESPost Script: Essays in Film and the HumanitiesInma_Lyons@tamu-commerce.edu1244119988cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanitiescontact email: Inma_Lyons@tamu-commerce.edu

POST SCRIPT CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE: REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITIES IN SPANISH FILM: CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities (Texas A & M University-Commerce) welcomes submissions on Representations of Masculinities in Spanish film for a special issue. Post Script encourages original manuscripts in this area from scholars and academics as well as filmmakers.

Topics related to the representation of masculinities may include, but are not limited to:

• Spanish film before 1936, the Postwar, and the political transition (1975-1980);
• Analysis/readings of individual films or film projects;
• Stereotypical representation of men in Spanish films as "Iberian machos";
• Deconstruction of patriarchal forms of masculinities;
• Representations of men by women;
• Masculinity and violence;
• Shifts in representations of traditional family structures;
• Masculinity, femininity, and androgyny;
• Masculinity in crisis;
• Masculinity and immigration;
• Men and sexuality;
• New gender and culture approaches to masculinity;
• Spanish male actors and masculinities;
• Images of a nation-state through representations of masculinities;
• Images of the bullfighter;
• Models of masculinity and the media;
• Masculinities and cultural productions;
• Masculinity and the Catholic tradition;
• Masculinity and film aesthetics;
• Substantive interviews with filmmakers (actors, directors, screenwriters);
• Reviews of recently (last two years) published books in the area;
• Bibliography of recent works (books, essays, etc.);
• Filmography of films and media;

Please note that Post Script does not reprint previously published material. Please submit proposals (of 250-750 words) to guest editor Inma Cívico-Lyons at the address below by September 15, 2009. Completed essays (of no more than 7,000 words, MLA format) will be due by January 31, 2010, and should be sent as both an attachment (virus free) and a hard copy. Manuscripts must be in English.

Inma Cívico-Lyons
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A & M University-Commerce
P.O. Box 3011
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
USA
Inma_Lyons@tamu-commerce.edu

For questions about Post Script not related to this special issue, contact the general editor: Gerald Duchovnay

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 33130The Scrutiny of the Public Eye in the Work of William FaulknerVictoria Bryan - SAMLAVictoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com1244121298african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesreligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Victoria Bryan - SAMLAcontact email: Victoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com

In keeping with SAMLA's theme for this year (Human Rights and the Humanities) this panel aims to examine the ways in which the scrutinizing view of the public eye impacts the construction of a character's identity in the work of William Faulkner. For example, in her book Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality (2003), Joane Nagel argues that race is a social construction rather than an inherent aspect of identity and writes that racial divisions are created in order to "form a barrier to hold some people in and keep others out, to define who is pure and who is impure, to shape our view of ourselves and others." How do racial divisions—or other socially constructed divisions, such as sexuality, nationality, ethnicity, etc.—impact relationships within a society? How does such an impact dictate the way in which a person is regarded/treated by the public in question? What does this suggest about Faulkner's view of human rights? Are these rights bestowed upon an individual by their community, or are they inherent but encroached upon via that community's scrutinizing eye? Deadline for 250-word abstracts, full contact information, and requests for A/V equiptment is June 20. Send electronically to Victoria.M.Bryan@gmail.com.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygraduate_conferencesreligiontheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33131Thinking the Sacred TodayNortheast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)sdbm22@gmail.com1244129356classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinternational_conferencespopular_culturereligionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)contact email: sdbm22@gmail.com

Call for Papers

Panel on "Thinking the Sacred Today"

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

The western twentieth century has been marked by a process of secularization that has corroded or at least radically transformed some of the traditional foundations, values and institutions proper to western societies. Without adopting a nostalgic point of view towards Christian tradition, we still have to admit that this decay leaves a relative emptiness – a moral, existential, spiritual metaphysical emptiness – where before was a sphere of the sacred allowing particular subjects to position themselves in regards to what may be called the universal. A clear symptom of this emptiness might be the immense popularity of Paolo Coelho, James Redfield, William Paul Young, among many others, whose books – turned bestsellers – aim to fill a spiritual void and invest life with a renewed meaning of sorts.
This weathering of traditional contents of the sacred inevitably leaves some remains, residues or traces that may serve as clues or symptoms and raise questions of great importance in the understanding of the sacred today. The interpretation of these clues can therefore help us achieve a better understanding of how the notion of the sacred has not only been transformed, but also how it continues to manifest itself in western literature and modern culture in general. Indeed, in a process that aims to diagnose this spiritual "malaise" of the past fifty years, these questions are no doubt central.
This panel seeks to discuss these remains of spirituality – that is, what is left of the sacred, how it has been reorganized in modern literary or theoretical discourse, and finally, in which new forms it is thought and how it has been affecting our experience in the last and the present centuries' literature.
Please send 250-500 words abstracts to Sara Danièle Bélanger M. (sdbm22@gmail.com) by Sept. 30, 2009.

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

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org.

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.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

cfp categories: classical_studiescultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgeneral_announcementsgraduate_conferenceshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinternational_conferencespopular_culturereligionscience_and_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33132"South Asia's Orients," 41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-11, 2010, MontreSuha Kudsiehkudsieh@gmail.com1244130391cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitypostcolonialreligiontheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Suha Kudsiehcontact email: kudsieh@gmail.com

"South Asia's Orients," 41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-11, 2010, Montreal. Deadline: 9/30/09

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Call for Papers: South Asia's Orients
41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). April 7-11, 2010, Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

Deadline for submitting abstracts or proposals: September 30, 2009

Panel description:

Many scholars have examined travel accounts and trans-cultural encounters between Westerners and non-Westerners (Edward Said, Stephen Greenblatt, Peter Hulme, Mary Louise Pratt, and Roxanne Euben); however, researchers have been reluctant to examine similar encounters that took place among non-Western cultures. Although some scholars have proposed moving away from Western hegemony in order to examine "places that seem most peripheral to the march of European history" (Dipesh Chakrabarty in Provincializing Europe, 35), researchers continue to privilege Western-subaltern encounters. Therefore, this panel will examine South Asian cultural encounters with the various parts of the East, a vast geographic area that includes the Middle East, South East Asia, and the Far East. The list of possible topics may include:

- South Asian travel accounts, memoirs, histories, and fictional narratives about the Orient (e.g. Vikram Seth's travels through Sinkiang and Tibet, Pico Iyer's reflections on Kyoto, Amitav Ghosh's experiences in Egypt, and the depiction of the East in Salman Rushdie's works and in Meena Alexander's short stories).

- The experiences of South Asians in the Gulf region: What are the experiences of South Asians in that region? How do they depict their lives there, and how do they negotiate their identity and the location of "home"?

- South Asians in the South East Asia and the Far East: How do South Asians depict their encounter with "other" Orientals? Do Western histories and narratives interfere with their interaction with the East? Do South Asians affiliate themselves with Eastern cultures, or do they uphold their own culture as superior?

- South Asian Diasporas in the East: What are the experiences of South Asians who have relocated to the East? How do they negotiate the concept of "home" and "homeland"? How do they interact with Eastern locals? How do Eastern cultures shape their ethnic, cultural, and political identity? How do South Asians, living in South Asia, regard those who have settled in the East? Are they treated in the same manner as South Asians living in the West?

- Role of race, caste, and ethnicity: To what extent does race, caste, or ethnicity play a role in depicting encounters with the East?

Please send 250-300 word proposals by July 30, 2009 to Suha Kudsieh at Trent University: kudsieh@gmail.com.

Please include with your abstract the following info:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The panel welcomes papers that examine works published in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, and similar South Asian languages, in addition to works written in Anglophone; however, it is important to note that all papers must be delivered in English at the conference.

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org.

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.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens; please get your passport application in early.

All presenters are expected to pay NeMLA's convention registration and membership fees. For more details, please check: http://www.nemla.org/about/membership.html

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitypostcolonialreligiontheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33133Due 9/1/09 OUr Monsters, Ourselves NEMLA 2010 Montreal, QuebecLizzie Harris McCormick / NEMLA ourmonstersourselves@gmail.com1244130500childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturescience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Lizzie Harris McCormick / NEMLA contact email: ourmonstersourselves@gmail.com

"Our Monsters, Ourselves"

This panel seeks papers on the historical significance and meaning of the monsters everywhere in our cultural moment. Following the line of thought that a society's supernatural monsters in many ways define them, "Our Monsters, Ourselves" hopes to open the discussion of the ways monsters in recent fiction and film represent the tacit panics, problems and pleasures of English-language, North American culture in 2010. Monsters are defined, for this panel, as those creatures presented as explicitly and literally "supernatural" or "artificial" by their authors.

A short list of dramatis personae might include vampires, ware-wolves, robots, ghosts, AI figures, witches and demons.

Topics might include papers on the symbolic/metaphoric power of the monster as:

* a dangerous stranger / social pollutant

* a repressed desire / compulsion

* an atavistic echo / animal force

* hybridity / miscegenation

* an avenging angel / force of justice

* a stereotype (for queer, female, aging, ethnic, etc. identity) or counter-stereotype

*all technological advance

*an individual / rebel /proto-humaniod

*a moral barometer

*a disease/ rhizome/ terrorist cell

Please send 200-400 word abstract to ourmonstersourselves@gmail.com by _______.

cfp categories: childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitypopular_culturescience_and_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33134[UPDATE] Call for Propoals: Mid-Atlantic College Student Literary Magazine Conference, October 9, 20092009 Mid-Atlantic College Student Literary Magazine Conferencelfriedberg@ccp.edu,mmyers@ccp.edu,dlauro@ocean.edu,hsheridan@ocean.edu1244131757general_announcementspopular_cultureprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_compositionfull name / name of organization: 2009 Mid-Atlantic College Student Literary Magazine Conferencecontact email: lfriedberg@ccp.edu,mmyers@ccp.edu,dlauro@ocean.edu,hsheridan@ocean.edu

The Call for Proposals/Presentations is being extended to August 1, 2009.
Please see earlier posting for details.
Conference brochures/registration forms will be mailed soon. Please contact us if you are not on our mailing list and wish to be.

cfp categories: general_announcementspopular_cultureprofessional_topicsrhetoric_and_composition 33135"Why do they hate us?": Teaching 9/11 Literature, NeMLA April 7-11, 2010, MontrealJustine Dymond, Seminar Chair, Northeast Modern Language Associationjdymond@spfldcol.edu1244132615americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitypostcolonialprofessional_topicstwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Justine Dymond, Seminar Chair, Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: jdymond@spfldcol.edu

"Why Do They Hate Us?": Teaching 9/11 Literature
NeMLA, April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec

In light of the enthusiastic response to the 2009 NeMLA session on "The Literature of 9/11," this seminar aims to extend that conversation and more pointedly focus it on the questions and challenges that emerge from teaching 9/11 literature.

As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, along with the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, writers from all over the world continue to create poetry, fiction, essays, and drama that explicitly depict the recent aftermath of 9/11 as well as the resulting violence. As teachers, we are faced with an ever-widening range of choices when considering which voices will represent the experiences of 9/11 and its aftermath in our classes. What accounts for our choices?

Some other questions that might be addressed by the seminar: How do teachers incorporate 9/11 literature into traditional survey courses that still separate the study of literature along national divisions? How do teachers develop a pedagogy that is responsive to the diversity of literary voices and attendant to the "living history" experienced by students in the classroom, such as family of 9/11 victims, U.S. veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq, and immigrants from the Middle East and South Asia? How do we address representations of Muslims and Arab Americans in multi-ethnic or culturally homogenous classrooms? How do we contextualize 9/11 literature—historically, sociologically, psychologically? How do our own identity-affiliations—-real or perceived—-influence our approaches to teaching 9/11 literature and student responses?

Because this is a seminar, rather than a panel or a roundtable, selected participants will be asked to present brief papers (approximately 5 pages) so that at least half of the session can be devoted to discussion.

Please send a 500-word abstract and a brief bio by September 30, 2009 to Justine Dymond at jdymond@spfldcol.edu.

cfp categories: americancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitypostcolonialprofessional_topicstwentieth_century_and_beyond 33136Public Spaces and Art (Collection of Essays; Deadline: 9/21/2009)College English Association - Caribbean Chaptercea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com1244134426cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: College English Association - Caribbean Chaptercontact email: cea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com

Public Spaces and Art

The Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association (CEA-CC) is preparing a collection of critical essays to be published on the topic of the 2009 Annual Conference, Art and the Artist in Society.

The 2009 Conference of the CEA-CC was a multidisciplinary conference that featured presentation on literature, fine arts, and even the performing arts. We are looking for essays to supplement the works presented in the conference on the specific topic of Public Spaces and Art. We are interested in papers that explore and/or discuss the artist relation to the community where he/she might perform or complete his work and the effects of his actions. More specifically, the papers can deal with the following subtopics, but are not limited to them:

*Art in the Private and Public Sphere*
*The Relation between the Spoken Word Artist and His/Her Audience*
*Ritual Art or Re-enactment of Culture as Artistic Performance in Public Spaces*
*Public Art as a Means of Education*
*Acceptance or Rejection of Graffiti as a Form of Art*
*Emergence of Graffiti Art and Its Relation to Different Groups*
*Censorship and the (il)Legality of the Artist Work*
*Public Art as Subversive and the Diffusing of Its 'Subversive' Nature*

Papers should be 10-15 pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman letter font, size twelve, and they should include a complete bibliography of the works used. If you are interested, you can submit your paper via e-mail to José Jiménez-Justiniano at cea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com by September 21, 2009. The papers should be submitted as an attachment in MS Word document. For more information you can visit our website at http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc and or write to us at the e-mail provided above.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetheatretheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33137The Exiled and Expatriate Artists (Collection of Essays; Deadline: 9/21/2009)College English Association - Caribbean Chaptercea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com1244134651cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytravel_writingfull name / name of organization: College English Association - Caribbean Chaptercontact email: cea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com

The Exiled and / or Expatriate Artist

The Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association (CEA-CC) is preparing a collection of critical essays to be published on the topic of the 2009 Annual Conference, Art and the Artist in Society.

The 2009 Conference of the CEA-CC was a multidisciplinary conference that featured presentation on literature, fine arts, and even the performing arts. We are looking for essays to supplement the works presented in the conference on the specific topic of the exiled and / or expatriate artist. We are interested in papers that explore and/or discuss the exiled and / or expatriate artist relation to his/her homeland and/or the communities from his homeland in his new home (new country of residence). More specifically, the papers can deal with the following subtopics, but are not limited to them:

*Reception of the artists in their homeland; in particular writer's that are writing in the language of their new home*
*Inclusion or exclusion of these artist in the artistic canon of their homeland*
*The artist's role in the formation and maintenance of a national identity in their new home*
*The artist and his work as a meeting points of two cultures (that of his homeland and his new home)*

Papers should be 10-15 pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman letter font, size twelve, and they should include a complete bibliography of the works used. If you are interested, you can submit your paper via e-mail to José Jiménez-Justiniano at cea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com by September 21, 2009. The papers should be submitted as an attachment in MS Word document. For more information you can visit our website at http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc and or write to us at the e-mail provided above.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytravel_writing 33138Mapping the Moral Domain in Alice McDermott's Novels (NeMLA April 7 - 11, 2010; due 9/30/09)Gail Shanley Corso/Northeast Modern Language Association, 41st Annual Conference, Montrealgcorso@neumann.edu1244137845americanfull name / name of organization: Gail Shanley Corso/Northeast Modern Language Association, 41st Annual Conference, Montrealcontact email: gcorso@neumann.edu

In Alice McDermott's novels, often teenage girls show disenchantment with their mothers' values and beliefs, and society in general. Carol Gilligan et al. in MAPPING THE MORAL DOMAIN explains that young girls "may see from different angles" as they develop into adolescence. McDermott portrays female characters in conflict over moral choices-- a morality of justice or a morality of caring. Gilligan claims in her analysis of the moral domain for girls, greater questions and concerns might emerge "about the society and culture in which [adolescents] are coming of age" (xxxv). Send 300 - 500 word abstract to Gail Shanley Corso at gcorso@neumann.edu by 9/30/09.

cfp categories: american 33139EC2ND 2009 CFP - 5th European Conference on Computer Network Defence, 12-13 Nov, 2009Politecnico di Milano/IEEE Computer Society - Italyfederico.maggi@gmail.com1244144110international_conferencesfull name / name of organization: Politecnico di Milano/IEEE Computer Society - Italycontact email: federico.maggi@gmail.com

The 5th European Conference on Computer Network Defence
will take place in November 2009 at the Politecnico di Milano technical university in Milano, Italy.

The theme of the conference is the protection of computer networks. The conference will draw participants from academia and industry in Europe and beyond to discuss hot topics in applied network and systems security.

EC2ND invites submissions presenting novel ideas at an early stage with the intention to act as a discussion forum and feedback channel for promising, innovative security research. While our goal is to solicit ideas that are not completely worked out, and might have challenging and interesting open questions, we expect submissions to be supported by some evidence of feasibility or preliminary quantitative results.

Topics include but are not limited to:

* Intrusion Detection
* Denial-of-Service
* Privacy Protection
* Security Policy
* Peer-to-Peer and Grid Security
* Network Monitoring
* Web Security
* Vulnerability Management and Tracking
* Network Forensics
* Wireless and Mobile Security
* Cryptography
* Network Discovery and Mapping
* Incident Response and Management
* Malicious Software
* Web Services Security
* Legal and Ethical Issues

The conference will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society - Italy Chapter.

*** Submitting a Paper ***

You are hereby invited to submit papers up to 6-8 pages, 8.5" x 11", two-column format. We particularly encourage position papers on preliminary work that shows promise, rather than mature and well-polished papers. Surprising results and thought-provoking ideas will be strongly favored. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Authors of accepted papers will be given the option of including their paper in the proceedings of the conference.

We suggest you to format your paper according to IEEE-CS guidelines:

http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html

*** Important Dates ***

Submissions due: September 15th, 2009
Reviews due: October 1st, 2009
Notification: October 15th, 2009
Final papers due: November 1st, 2009

*** Conference Location ***

The conference will be held at the Politecnico di Milano University in Milan, Italy.

*** Organizers ***

General chair: Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Publicity chair: Federico Maggi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Website manager: Manolis Stamatogiannakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece

Program Committee

Kostas Anagnostakis, I2R, Singapore
Davide Balzarotti, Eurecom, France
Wayne L. Bethea, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Marco Cremonini, University of Milan, Italy
Eric Cronin, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sandro Etalle, Eindhoven Technical University and University of Twente, Netherlands
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Thorsten Holz, University of Mannheim, Germany
Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Engin Kirda, Eurecom, France
Pavel Laskov, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Tieyan Li, I2R, Singapore
Paolo Milani Comparetti, TUV, Austria
George Mohay, QUT, Australia
Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series, UK
Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France
Michalis Polychronakis, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece
George C. Polyzos, AUEB, Greece
Carlos Ribeiro, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Panos Trimintzios, ENISA
Theo Tryfonas, University of Bristol, UK
Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

*** Steering Committee ***

Panos Trimintzios, ENISA
Kostas Anagnostakis, I2R, Singapore
Andrew Blyth, University of Glamorgan, UK
Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Evangelos Markatos, FORTH-ICS, Greece

cfp categories: international_conferences 33140Contemporary Women's Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies (7-9 July 2010; deadline 15 August 2009)Contemporary Women's Writing Network and San Diego State Universityeframpto@mail.sdsu.edu1244145249african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinternational_conferencespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Contemporary Women's Writing Network and San Diego State Universitycontact email: eframpto@mail.sdsu.edu

The Third Biennial International Conference of the
Contemporary Women's Writing Network

In Collaboration with San Diego State University

7-9 July 2010

Abstract Deadline: 15 August 2009

Organizers:

Edith Frampton, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature

Anne Donadey, Departments of European Studies and Women's Studies

How are women writers adapting to the twenty-first century? What new varieties of novels, poetry, plays, short stories, non-fiction, and other genres are emerging? What new topics, styles, and technologies are women adopting and transforming? What time-honored forms and techniques continue to be fruitful? How is the Internet, with blogging, e-books, ezines, and other possibilities, providing new opportunities for women's writing, publishing, and reading? Are scholars of women's writing adapting new critical and theoretical approaches to the study of texts and technologies that have appeared since the 1970s? Through which traditional or progressive modes is contemporary women's writing being taught by instructors and understood by students now?

Panels and papers in English are sought on all genres of literary and popular writing by women since the 1970s, including fiction, poetry, plays, autobiography, travel writing, graphic novels, blogging, etc., in any language. Panels and papers are also sought on the relation of this writing to new technologies, to teaching, and to theory and criticism.

Authors and key note speakers to be announced by 1 August 2009. Registration available beginning 1 Sept. 2009.

If you would like to propose a 20-minute paper or a panel of three papers, please send:

• email message with subject heading: CWWN conference

• 250-word abstract for papers
• name, postal address, and phone number
• brief bio, including any institutional affiliation
• audiovisual needs, if any
• for panels, a list of contributors and papers, with a
250-word abstract and a brief bio for each

to: eframpto@mail.sdsu.edu, or

Dr. Edith Frampton
Department of English and Comparative Literature
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, California 92182 USA

Submitters will be notified about whether their proposed papers and panels have been accepted on 1 September 2009.

For more information, please go to:
cwwn.sdsu.edu

Possible Topics:

New technologies: blogs, BlogHer, e-book publishing, e-book readers, Facebook and other social networking tools; how these interact with and affect contemporary women's writing;

New teaching modes: Webquests, wikis, student publishing, social networks; how these can facilitate the understanding of contemporary women's writing;

New texts by women writers: how these address issues of technology; the twentieth and twenty-first-century world; new genres and new literary media; ecology and global climate change; feminism; gender, race, and sexuality; labor, social class, and agency; disability, aging, and technology; migration and migratory subjectivity, language and culture; settlers and settlements; location and relocation; the politics of place, home, and exile; racism, colonialism, imperialism, globalization, and the digital divide; nation and national identity; hybridity, transnationalism, and minor-to-minor networks; multiculturalism; human trafficking; asylum; war, militarism, and trauma; north and south; East and West; South Asian diaspora; African diaspora; Caribbean diaspora; Chinese diaspora; Irish diaspora; Scottish diaspora; Jewish diaspora; queering diaspora; children's literature; travel writing and cultural encounter;

New critical and theoretical approaches: to literature that has recently appeared and texts from as far back as the 1970s.

Authors such as: Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar,Fatima Mernissi,Carol Ann Duffy, Kay Ryan, Andrea Levy, Monica Ali, Amy Tan, Anita Desai, Jackie Kay, Gloria Anzaldúa, Zadie Smith, Linda Grant, Leila Aboulela, Buchi Emecheta, Meera Syal, Bernadine Evaristo, Toni Morrison, Joan Riley, Yvonne Brewster, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rukhsana Ahmad, Anne Michaels, Grace Nichols, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Alice Walker, Winsome Pinnock, Joyce Carol Oates, Jamaica Kincaid, Kiran Desai, Imtiaz Dharker, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Patience Agbabi, Moniza Alvi, Bharati Mukherjee, Ahdaf Soueif, Shani Mootoo, Tess Gallagher, Octavia Butler, Ama Ata Aidoo, Rita Dove, Faiza Guene, Chimananda Ngozi Adichi, Allegra Goodman, Michèle Roberts, Doris Lessing, Eavan Boland, Pat Barker, Sherley Anne Williams, Mahasweta Devi, Erna Brodber, and others.

cfp categories: african-americanamericanchildrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementshumanities_computing_and_the_internetinternational_conferencespoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialscience_and_culturetheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 33141Pedagogy, Presentism, and Early Modern EcocriticsmLynne Brucknerlbruckner@chatham.edu1244147092cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisionjournals_and_collections_of_essaysrenaissancetheatrefull name / name of organization: Lynne Brucknercontact email: lbruckner@chatham.edu

Looking for submissions for a collection of essays on teaching early Modern literature, and Shakespeare in particular, from an ecocritical perspective.

The volume encourages essays that show how teaching early modern texts ecocritically can be a matter of engaging in political struggle on behalf of the environment. Presentist approaches and essays that look at Shakespeare in different historical moments (including contemporary performances/films) are particularly welcome. Those who are ecocritics who happen to teach Shakespeare or other early modern texts, in addition to those who would describe themselves as Shakespeare or early modern scholars, are equally welcome to submit.

Innovative, interdisciplinary, transgressive, and relevant approaches are encouraged. Please submit 300 word abstracts by January 15, 2010. Submit abstracts as electronically to lbruckner@chatham.edu
.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesfilm_and_televisionjournals_and_collections_of_essaysrenaissancetheatre 33142New Media and Democratization of Art (Collection of Essays; Deadline: 9/21/2009)College English Association - Caribbean Chaptercea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com1244147511cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetheoryfull name / name of organization: College English Association - Caribbean Chaptercontact email: cea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com

The New Media and the Democratization of Art

The Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association (CEA-CC) is preparing a collection of critical essays to be published on the topic of the 2009 Annual Conference, Art and the Artist in Society.

The 2009 Conference of the CEA-CC was a multidisciplinary conference that featured presentation on literature, fine arts, and even the performing arts. We are looking for essays to supplement the works presented in the conference on the specific topic of the new media and new artistic forms. We are particularly interested in papers that explore and/or discuss the use of new mediums and spaces to create different types of art and whether these have resulted in a democratization of art; allowing a greater number of people a chance at artistic expression and/or to have greater exposure to art.

This might include papers that talk about the "Internet artist and online publishing," "tattoo art and artists," "fashion as art," "the body as a work of art," etc.

Papers should be 10-15 pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman letter font, size twelve, and they should include a complete bibliography of the works used. If you are interested, you can submit your paper via e-mail to José Jiménez-Justiniano at cea.caribbeanchapter@gmail.com by September 21, 2009. The papers should be submitted as an attachment in MS Word document. For more information you can visit our website at http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc and or write to us at the e-mail provided above.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityhumanities_computing_and_the_internetjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetheory 33143[UPDATE] Call for Essay Proposals on Pedro AlmodovarMaria R. Matz and Carole Salmon. UMass LowellMaria_Matz@uml.edu1244152804film_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Maria R. Matz and Carole Salmon. UMass Lowellcontact email: Maria_Matz@uml.edu

Editors: Maria R. Matz and Carole Salmon, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Objective of the Book: The major objective of the proposed collection of essays on Pedro Almodovar is to provide a collection of multidisciplinary academic research and theoretical papers written by scholars and professionals of varied backgrounds.

Submission procedure: Potential authors should submit between 300-500 words proposal (Spanish or English) with a short reference list and a short bio by June 30th , 2009. This proposal should clearly state the objectives of the essay and its content. Submissions should be made electronically in Microsoft Word.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 1st ,2009. Upon acceptance of their proposals, authors will have until November 15th ,2009 to
submit their essay following the given format (maximum 20 pages including bibliography). All submitted essays will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Guidelines for preparing the essays will be sent upon acceptance of proposals.

Publication: This book has been accepted for publication by The Edwin Mellen Press.

Proposals submissions and inquiries should be sent electronically (Microsoft Word Format) to: Maria_Matz@uml.edu or Carole_Salmon@uml.edu

cfp categories: film_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 33144Female Absence and the Expression of Black Masculinity in African-American Literature (April 7-11, 2010;due 9/30/09)41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA);Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventurejohnsoly@dickinson.edu1244153448african-americangender_studies_and_sexualityfull name / name of organization: 41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA);Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventurecontact email: johnsoly@dickinson.edu

Expressions of black masculinity in African American literature have evolved significantly over the centuries. For instance, nineteenth-century male-authored slave narratives, such as Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, champions not only physiological strength against one's oppressor as a marker of black male subjectivity, but also the attainment of education that would inevitably clear the path to independence, political leadership, and American citizenry. Twentieth-century African American authors have expanded our considerations of black masculine agency. In Native Son, Richard Wright explores black masculinity in its performative and sexual contexts. Wright's Bigger Thomas gains a sense of agency, in part, when he accidentally murders a white woman and deliberately rapes and murders his girlfriend. Bigger's actions affirm bell hooks' assertion in Reconstructing Black Masculinity: "With the emergence of a fierce phallocentricism a man was no longer a man because he provided for his family; he was a man simply because he had a penis…his ability to use that… in the arena of sexual conquest could bring him as much status as being a wage earner and provider. A sexually defined masculine ideal rooted in physical domination and sexual possession of women could be accessible to all men." This ideal essentially established the foundation of a heteronormative masculine order.

Arguably, examinations of traditional male gender roles—provider, political leader, and sexual conqueror – have consistently marginalized the considerable influence that women have had on expressions of masculinity. Thus, this panel seeks to draw attention to the striking absence of the female subject in such masculinized discourses. In doing so, this panel will examine female absence as a trope, which throughout the African American literary tradition, problematizes the complex constructions and performances of masculinity. Papers will essentially explore the various ways in which female absence (whether through death, abandonment, marginalization, or travel) challenges monolithic characterizations of black masculinity, phallocentricism, and heteronormative masculinity in general. Papers which employ African-centered theoretical frames are highly encouraged. Please send a 250-500 word abstract to Lynn R. Johnson (johnsoly@dickinson.edu) by September 30, 2009. Also include your name, academic affiliation, a brief biography, and contact information.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

cfp categories: african-americangender_studies_and_sexuality 33145Press/Reject Essays for Rhizomes.net Special Issue September 1, 2009; December 5, 2009Richard Burt / Craig Saperburt@english.ufl.edu1244157248african-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_internetinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Richard Burt / Craig Sapercontact email: burt@english.ufl.edu

Call for Essays for "Press (R)eject" special issue of Rhizomes.net
issue 20 (Winter 2009/2010) http://www.rhizomes.net/

Co-edited Richard Burt and Craig Saper, co-operators of the
Rejectionist Movement

Description:
Richard Brooks, director of Faber & Faber in 1944, rejected George
Orwell's Animal Farm. Twenty five years later, The Times published the
rejection letter he wrote to Orwell. It was described as an
"extraordinary document." Walter Benjamin's infamous rejections by
editors and publishers had serious consequences; some have suggested
it was a matter of life and death. Yet the literary, cultural, and
historical value of rejection letters has received little serious
attention, partly due to their lack of availability because of
embarrassment.

Benjamin wrote that a sense of personal embarrassments is often a
productive occasion for criticism. Purge yourself of your
embarrassing rejections.

As a way of historicizing rejection, we invite authors to follow
Benjamin's lead and send us their own rejection letters, historical
rejection letters, and essays about the theoretical and historical
machinations of press rejections to be published in a special issue of
_Rhizomes_, co-edited by Burt and Saper, co-operators of the
Rejectionist Movement.

We invite essays from the author's point of view, the editor's, and
the mss. reader's. The theoretical issues may address the language of
rejection letters: "submission," "revise and
resubmit," "blind submission." Essays may also examine what rejection
means, how it differs from failure, data loss, deletion of data, and
other kinds of necessary [self]destruction; how it resembles romantic
rejection, abandonment, dejection, abjection, and so on since we are
what, and how, we write.

Perhaps this paraphernalia of publishing -- anacoluthon, supplement, a
(discarded) remainder of the process -- functions like a structuring
absence. Perhaps rejection letters mark the bridge between the current
interest in archival research (David Kasten, Pete Stallybrass et al)
and the sociopoetic theories of cultural production (D. LaCapra, M.
Bal, etc).

Please send us your rejections in the form of abstracts and inquiries by September 1, 2009 and completed
essays/letters/etc, up to
8k words, including notes, by late November or early December, 2009 at
csaper@mail.ucf.edu and burt@english.ufl.edu.
For more information on Burt and Saper, go to
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~burt/burtindex.html
and
http://www.readies.org/saper

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_internetinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33146CFP: Importance of Studying Oscar [Wilde]: Plays, Stories, Letters, and LecturesAnnette M. Magid / Northeast Modern Language Associationa_magid@yahoo.com1244171658childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitypoetrytheatrevictorianfull name / name of organization: Annette M. Magid / Northeast Modern Language Associationcontact email: a_magid@yahoo.com

I am seeking paper proposals for my 2010 panel for NeMLA in Montreal is "The Importance of Studying Oscar [Wilde]: Plays, Stories, Letters."

This panel offers an opportunity to analyze the role Oscar Wilde has played and continues to play in literature, theater and other aspects of culture. Focus can be on his influential wit and wisdom and/or techniques used to present Oscar in the classroom. This topic calls for a diversity of approaches. Please send 200-400 word abstracts to Annette Magid at a_magid@yahoo.com.

Deadline for submission of paper proposal is September 10, 2009.

cfp categories: childrens_literaturecultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitypoetrytheatrevictorian 33147Indigenous Pop, a critical collection on contemporary music (abstracts due 9/1/09)Eds. Jeff Berglund, Kimberli Lee, and Janis (Jan) JohnsonJeff.Berglund@nau.edu1244177763americanethnicity_and_national_identityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Eds. Jeff Berglund, Kimberli Lee, and Janis (Jan) Johnsoncontact email: Jeff.Berglund@nau.edu

call for contributors to a new critical collection

Indigenous Pop

jazz, rock, rockabilly, folk, country western, blues, rap, reggae, metal, hip-hop, punk

Edited by Jeff Berglund, Kimberli Lee, and Janis (Jan) Johnson

This proposed collection of criticism examines the understudied and academically underappreciated varieties of musical traditions that emerged in Indigenous communities in Central and North America throughout the twentieth century and that continue to flourish. In particular, we'll trace the transition of musical expression from the era following World War I and beyond, looking at the way that blues, jazz, country/western, rock, rockabilly, folk, reggae, metal, punk, hip hop and rap performers fuse "non-Indigenous" and Indigenous musical modes.

The volume's three editors contend that contemporary musical expression deserves to be studied alongside the greatest works of literature, particularly if we want clear insights into the ways that art, audience and context interrelate in immediate ways; to not consider the impact of music and song is a political act in itself, not merely academic neglect. Our intended audience is the broad, interdisciplinary field of Indigenous Studies as well as American Studies, literary studies, and music studies. We have serious academic press interest.

We're especially interested in discussing the intersection of "tradition" and popular art, intercultural cross-pollinations, commerce, and activism. We are interested in essays that wrestle with terminologies such as "tradition," "popular," "Indigenous," "post-traditional" and question the ways that tradition is reinvented and passed on. Additionally, we're interested in essays that examine the way performers and their music expand on tribal archives of songwork—including their spiritual and social dimensions—as well as works that foreground how music functions as a form of activism and/or social commentary on the past or the present.

Please send a detailed abstract (at least two pages) with possible sources by September 1, 2009 to Jeff.Berglund@nau.edu.

cfp categories: americanethnicity_and_national_identityjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialtwentieth_century_and_beyond 33148Cfp Transcultural memory - a conference (abstracts by July 21, 2009; conference held on Feb 05-06, 2010)Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies and Goldsmiths, University of Londontransculturalmemory@gmail.com1244198509african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies and Goldsmiths, University of Londoncontact email: transculturalmemory@gmail.com

Transcultural Memory
A conference jointly organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, and The Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
This conference marks the inauguration of The Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory.
Date: 5-6th February, 2010.
Conference organizers: Lucy Bond, Rick Crownshaw and Jessica Rapson (Goldsmiths); Katia Pizzi and Ricarda Vidal (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies).
Venue: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
Keynote speakers:
Astrid Erll (University of Wuppertal)
Andrew Hoskins (University of Warwick)
Dirk Moses (University of Sydney)
Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Discussant:
Susannah Radstone (University of East London)

Skeptical reactions to the rise of memory studies have focused on the viability of concepts such as "collective" memory. Can societies really remember collectively? More to the point, can individuals really remember what they have not directly witnessed or experienced? Is to speak of collective memory simply to speak of ideology or political fantasy? The concept of cultural memory has overcome this binary opposition between the individual and the collective, attending to their reciprocal relationship and the cultural grounds on which their mediation takes place (Assman). How, though, does memory work when events are remembered across and between cultures? In an age of globalization, is it still possible to speak of local and national memory, or do the local and national always exist in implicit and explicit dialogue with the transnational? Holocaust- and memory studies have begun to address these questions in tracing the globalization of Holocaust memory as a trope by which other modern atrocities are shaped and remembered, and, of course, the Holocaust has been incorporated into national memories in order to forget indigenous genocides and shore up ideals of nation (Huyssen and Patraka). Conversely, theories of vicarious witnessing have posited an ethical dimension to the remembrance of events across cultural boundaries. The ideas of "prosthetic" and "post" memory conceive of the remembrance of events not witnessed by those born afterwards or elsewhere, and of mass- mediated memory as something that does not wholly belong to (and define) the familial, ethnic or national group (Hirsch and Landsberg). (The idea of witnessing across cultural borders has not been without controversy in the academy.) Recent innovations in comparative historiography (Moses, Stone, Moshman), laying vital groundwork for developments in memory studies, have sought to remove the "conceptual blockages" in comparing modern atrocities, moving beyond notions of the Holocaust's uniqueness that might inscribe a hierarchy of suffering across modernity, eliciting the structural continuities and discontinuities between atrocious events – between genocide and colonialism. Just as Moses has configured modernity in terms of a racial century, so in sociology and literary studies race has constituted an overarching narrative that brings together diverse modern spheres of both culturally creative and violent activity and identification (Cheyette and Gilroy). In postcolonial studies, concepts such as trauma have enabled a spatial rather than linear approach to the experiences of colony and postcolony (Durrant). In philosophy, conceptions of 'bare life' have allowed an international consideration of state sovereignties and their biopolitical regimes (Agamben). In architectural and urban studies, city development and its architecture is found to articulate a globalized vernacular, which has implications for spaces and places of memory and memorialization. All of these disciplines find that it is increasingly difficult and problematic to isolate representations of past, which in turn calls attention to the need for the comparative study of memory as it takes an increasingly transcultural form – as Rothberg's recent ground-breaking work on the multi-directionality of memory has shown. The conference organizers invite abstracts on the subject of transcultural memory from across the disciplines – English and Comparative Literary Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Architectural Studies, Cultural Geography, Film Studies, Media Studies, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, the Visual Arts, and so on – but recognize that the study of memory will often involve an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach.
Conference papers might address but are not limited to how concepts of transcultural memory might relate to:
new directions/new paradigms in trauma studies;
testimony studies;
new media;
new technologies of historical documentation and archivization;
memory as performed and embodied; memory and the senses;
conceptions of race; citizenship; 'bare life';
postwar, post-event, post-epochal 'structures of feeling' (e.g., post-1918, -1945, -1968, -1989 and -9/11);
the recent interest in the perspective of perpetrators;
memory and gender;
memory and religion;
colonial, postcolonial, and transatlantic studies;
the study of museums, monuments, and memorials, as well as the practical implications for heritage industries, memorialization and urban planning
issues of law, justice and reparations; legal definitions of genocide;
slavery;
the relationship between genocides and other modern atrocities;
memory and terrorism;
the social implications of natural catastrophes and disasters.
Abstracts (no more than 400 words) by July 21st, to transculturalmemory@gmail.com
Conference website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=377

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesecocriticism_and_environmental_studiesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencespopular_culturepostcolonialreligionscience_and_culturetheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33149Writing Faculties: Intersections of Creativity and Pedagogy (NeMLA April 7-11, 2010; due 9/15/09)Northeast Modern Language Association, 41st Annual Conference, Montrealnjs16@psu.edu1244205020americangeneral_announcementspoetryrhetoric_and_compositioncontact email: njs16@psu.edu

The purpose of this panel is to mark intersections between creativity and pedagogy, focusing on teacher-poets. How does working in a classroom inform the making of poetry?

Papers are invited on poetry by educators. Authors that might be considered include Philip Levine, Gerald Locklin, Tony Hoagland, and Nathan Graziano. While this will be a critical panel, presenters might also comment on their own creative compositions inspired by or about teaching.

Please send abstracts (250-350 words) to Noel Sloboda (njs16@psu.edu) between August 1st and September 15th, 2009.

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The 41st Annual NeMLA Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org.

cfp categories: americangeneral_announcementspoetryrhetoric_and_composition 33150Literary Hostesses at NeMLA (April 7-11, 2010, Montreal)Meghan Gilbert-Hickey / Texas A&M Universitymegsg-h@hotmail.com1244205866gender_studies_and_sexualityinternational_conferencesfull name / name of organization: Meghan Gilbert-Hickey / Texas A&M Universitycontact email: megsg-h@hotmail.com

This NeMLA panel will address the role of the hostess in literature as a means to consider the gendered roles--social, domestic, political, economic, and otherwise--of women. Topics may include the figure of the hostess in literary works, as well as the writer as hostess. Please submit 250-500 word abstracts about the hostess as a literary figure to Meghan Gilbert-Hickey at mgilbert-hickey@tamu.edu by September 30.

cfp categories: gender_studies_and_sexualityinternational_conferences 33151[UPDATE] "Catastrophe and the Cure": The Politics of Post-9/11 Music (Deadline July 1, 2009)Anthology Theorizing Post-9/11 Musicpost911anthology@gmail.com1244207477african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Anthology Theorizing Post-9/11 Musiccontact email: post911anthology@gmail.com

In current debates about the War in Iraq, it has become commonplace for politicians and journalists to conjure the specter of the Vietnam War as a means of quantifying the impact of the current war in American culture and throughout the world. Surprisingly, though, few have scrutinized these comparisons to examine the differences between the popular music of the Vietnam era and the music of the current post-9/11 era. While the Vietnam era found countless bands and musicians responding in protest to that war, there has arguably been a significantly smaller amount of contemporary musicians who have taken overt stances, in their music, about the politics of post-9/11 life, in America and elsewhere.

_"Catastrophe and the Cure": The Politics of Post-9/11 Music_ is the title of a proposed anthology examining "post-9/11" music. Abstracts are sought for articles attempting to theorize what post-9/11 music is, if such a category can be said to exist, and what political action it takes (or needs to take), if any. Proposed articles should be theoretically engaged and should be written with an academic readership in mind. Of particular interest are abstracts that seek to extend discussions of post-9/11 music beyond the bands/musicians/albums—U2, _The Rising_, The Dixie Chicks, Toby Keith, etc.—typically associated with 9/11.
We are especially interested in abstracts on the work of underrepresented groups, such as non-white, LGBT, female, non-western, etc. bands and musicians. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

--The proliferation of post-rock/instrumental rock music in the post-9/11 era
--The widespread popularity and commodification of emo bands
--The work of non-Western bands and musicians
--The role of New York City-based bands—TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Animal Collective, Interpol, The Strokes, etc.—in constructing, or deconstructing, a politics of post-9/11 music
--The resurgent popularity of heavy metal
--The hybridization of country music and its recent embrace of hard rock and hip-hop
--The influence of _American Idol_ on popular American music
--Music representing/performing trauma and/or music as a form cultural healing
--Music as cultural/political noise or cultural/political warfare
--The significance and/or problematics of "apolitical" music in The Time of Terror
--Interrogating the "shut up and sing" ideology
--Complicating the protest/patriotism binary that informs contemporary discussions of 9/11
music
--The non-response of many musicians, particularly punk-pop bands like Blink-182, to 9/11 and
its aftermath (Also, the surprising political turn of punk-pop progenitors Green Day)
--The Internet, particularly blogging culture, supplanting music as a site of political activism
--The reunion tour, as undertaken by The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Buffalo Tom, and other pre-911 bands, as nostalgia (for a better time?)
--The live (re-)performance of "classic albums" (like Van Morrison's _Astral Weeks_, Slayer's _Reign in Blood_, Patti Smith's _Horses_, and Sonic Youth's _Daydream Nation_)

Send abstracts (no more than 500 words) of proposed articles to Dr. Joseph P. Fisher (The George Washington University) and Dr. Brian Flota (Oklahoma State University) at post911anthology@gmail.com by July 1, 2009. Abstracts should be sent as MSWord attachments in doc form, compatible with older and newer versions of Word. Please include a CV (1-2 pages) with abstract. Writers should plan for final articles to be roughly 4000 words in length.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisiongender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond 33152House Work: Masters and Servants in Post-Modern CultureNEMLAakmcclellan@plymouth.edu1244215309cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisionpopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: NEMLAcontact email: akmcclellan@plymouth.edu

House Work: Masters and Servants in Post-Modern Culture

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

While servant narratives have been popularized for centuries, there seems to be a resurging interest in these stories in recent decades. Many contemporary British and North American writers, filmmakers, and television executives have turned to canonical and contemporary master/servant relationships as their subject matter. Films like The Remains of the Day and Gosford Park garnered numerous Oscar nominations and substantial box office profits. PBS created such classics as Upstairs, Downstairs and Manor House, as well as revived P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels, not to mention the numerous servant roles reprised in various Masterpiece Theater productions. Even mainstream American television has piloted its own versions of the British servant in shows as wide-ranging The Fresh Prince of Bel Air to reality TV's more popular Supernanny.

The question remains: why are Americans so interested in stories about British servants? In Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson provides one possible answer. He argues that post-modern culture has "the obvious ideological mission of demonstrating, to their own relief, that the new social formation in question no longer obeys the laws of classical capitalism, namely, the primacy of industrial production and the omnipresence of class struggle" (3). However, while democracy's goal may be to convince us that we live 'beyond' class structures, those structures continue to influence our society in hidden ways. Perhaps one reason American audiences, in particular, remain interested in these servant narratives is because they make visible what we pretend isn't actually there: class structure and struggle. This panel will explore shows, films, and texts from both the past and present within a post-modern context. Possible topics and/or questions include:
• Why are contemporary American audiences interested in British servant narratives?
• How do British and North American texts interpret and explore servant characters differently or similarly?
• What role do gender and/or race play in servant narratives?
• Power dynamics in master/slave narratives
• The role of cleanliness, cleaning, cooking, and other forms of work in the home
• How have nanny narratives evolved from servant narratives?

Please send 300 word abstracts to akmcclellan@plymouth.edu.
Deadline: September 30, 2009

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

Participants must become members of NeMLA by December 1, 2009. Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesfilm_and_televisionpopular_culturetwentieth_century_and_beyond 33153Setting Agendas: text-setting and the libretto in contemporary British musicUniversity of Southamptonw.may@soton.ac.uk1244217051cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinternational_conferencespoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: University of Southamptoncontact email: w.may@soton.ac.uk

Confirmed speakers include: Ignacio Agrimbau, Richard Baker, Stephen Benson, Michael Finnissy, Lavinia Greenlaw, Michael Zev Gordon, John Habron, Irene Morra
Julian Philips

For many modern writers and composers, music and literature make an ungainly combination. Stravinsky notoriously regarded his text-settings as a sin, whilst T.S. Eliot refused to demean himself by working as a librettist for Michael Tippett. Yet recent years have seen British composers enlist a series of high-profile literary collaborators for operatic works, from Ian McEwan and Simon Armitage to Seamus Heaney and Vikram Seth. How might this change the relationship between the libretto and the performed work? What questions does the raise about the way modern operatic music is being listened to and disseminated? What are the pragmatics of interdisciplinary collaboration?

This unique conference will approach these questions in a variety of ways. A series of poets and composers who have worked together will offer their own perspectives on collaborative projects, academics whose work has focused on the British libretto will trace recent developments in the form, and leading British composers will explore how practical and aesthetic considerations inform their use of the written word. The conference will conclude with a short chamber performance
A limited amount of delegate places are now available for what promises to be a unique event. The conference fee is £25 and includes full lunch, refreshments, and an evening wine reception. In addition, five postgraduate bursaries are available to subsidise the costs of conference registration and travel. To register or for conference enquires please email Will May(w.may@soton.ac.uk).

For more information about the conference location, please see chawtonhouse.org.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesinternational_conferencespoetrytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33154(En)Gendering Literary TranslationNorth Eastern Modern Language Association Conference Montreal 2010marko.miletich@hunter.cuny.edu1244228439cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitytheoryfull name / name of organization: North Eastern Modern Language Association Conference Montreal 2010contact email: marko.miletich@hunter.cuny.edu

This panel seeks papers on the role of gender in literary translation. How is gendered behavior translated? What are the translator's options when dealing with a noticeable patriarchal language? Special emphasis will be placed on translations of literature from Spanish into English. Please send 300-500 word abstracts and brief biographical statements to Marko Miletich, (via snail-mail or email) marko.miletich@hunter.cuny.edu, Hunter College, Continuing Education, 695 Park Avenue, Room East 1025, New York, NY 10065.

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesgender_studies_and_sexualitytheory 33155Philip Roth Society Panel for the ALA Symposium on American Fiction 1890-Present at Savannah, October 8-10Philip Roth Societyd.brauner@reading.ac.uk1244294512americanethnicity_and_national_identityinternational_conferencestwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Philip Roth Societycontact email: d.brauner@reading.ac.uk

The Philip Roth Society is sponsoring a panel at this year's ALA Symposium on American Fiction 1890-Present, October 8-10. The conference is taking place at the De Soto Hilton in Savannah, Georgia. Proposals of no more than 250 words are invited for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Roth's work. Please send your proposals by email to d.brauner@reading.ac.uk, remembering to include details of your university affiliation/status. Proposals must reach me by July 3.

Dr David Brauner
Reader in English and American Literature
School of Arts, English and Communication Design
University of Reading
Whiteknights PO Box 218
Reading RG6 6AA
Tel. (+44)01183787838

cfp categories: americanethnicity_and_national_identityinternational_conferencestwentieth_century_and_beyond 33156Reconsidering Consolation in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Elegiac Writing - NeMLA 7 - 11 April 2010, Montreal, QuebecDaniel Moore, Panel Chair, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)4dwm5@queensu.ca1244313412african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitypoetrypopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Daniel Moore, Panel Chair, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)contact email: 4dwm5@queensu.ca

41st NeMLA Annual Convention
American/British Panel Category

One line from Wilfred Owen's unfinished preface to his posthumous Poems (1920) can be read perhaps as a synecdoche for much elegiac writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Anticipating the disconsolate tenor later elegies sound and the resistances they levy to socially and politically sustained practices of mourning, Owen warns readers the elegies in his book "are to this generation in no sense consolatory."

Scholars working in the field of American and British elegiac traditions tend to agree with Owen and also see his claim as a way of grappling with the intense psychical and political upheavals about which many modern and contemporary elegies speak. Like the soldier-poet, Jahan Ramzani (1994), Melissa Zeiger (1997), and Sandra M. Gilbert (2006) have each used consolation as a foil to the processes and strategies of grieving they find in writings inspired by loss from the current and the previous century (Ramazani 365; Zeiger 14; Gilbert 372). Ramazani's influential terms "anti-elegies" and "resistant mourning" and Zeiger's 1997 title Beyond Consolation imply the modern elegy continues to be read, defined, and conceived through a negative dialectic with consolation.

"Reconsidering Consolation" requests abstracts planning to carry on and to enrich this critical tradition. The panel's premise is that consolation has long been an essential term in the modern elegiac tradition—given express attention in Owen's 1920 preface—but also that there is still much ground to be covered in order to understand (1) what we mean by consolation and (2) how it might play a more active role in modern and contemporary elegies than extant scholarship suggests. The arguments made by the scholars above seem to risk taking consolation altogether out of critical discussions by insisting that modern and contemporary elegies are known best by their resistance to consolatory methods of coping with grief; however, these critics also imply modern elegists cannot do away completely with acts and languages of consolation since, at the very least, they usually write with them in mind, if against them.

But might we couple consolation and elegiac writing over the past century in British and American traditions in a less oppositional relation? How do postures, gestures, and dictions of consolation persist in elegiac traditions, even within politically daring and psychically distressing elegiac writing, after WWI? What kinds of ambivalent relationships with consolation do we find in elegies from the modernist period and later?

Other avenues to consider might include:

* Does consolation typify a specific conservative strain of the modern elegiac tradition? If so, by what kinds of logic—religious, political, social, or other—does this tradition validate consolatory mourning?

* Zeiger suggests that the "modernist crisis in poetry is particularly strongly marked in elegy through the failure of religious belief and consolation" (14). If recent scholarship reconsiders the secular spirit of modernity as in fact a failure to break wholly with systems of faith, does the corollary for criticism on mourning mean that we need to examine how the modern elegy might not fully eschew consolations offered, or imposed, by religious dogma and beliefs?

* Can new styles or forms of elegiac writing surprisingly imply efforts to offer those in mourning with consolation for loss? For example, when Ramazani says the "traditional mechanisms of elegy no longer afford consolation or closure" (4-5) he does not exclude the possibility that new modes of elegiac writing may also offer consolations for grief.

* Is resistant mourning (Ramazani 4-5, for example) always robbed of its potential for social change and political disruption if it allows itself, even temporarily, consolation after a grievous loss?

* Among the many nuances of 'consolation', Zeiger suggests it marks a temporary hiatus in the work of mourning (44). If so, does consolation provide another way of talking about the deferrals of mourning?

* Is there a way of reinvigorating critical discussions about consolation (as in solace, comfort, or relief) via recent emphases upon affects of grief in mourning literature?

Although this panel is primarily interested in American and British traditions of consolation, abstracts considering the influence upon these traditions from other countries or languages are welcome.

Please send 300-word abstracts before 30 September 2009 to Daniel Moore at 4dwm5@queensu.ca

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitypoetrypopular_culturetheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33157CFP: Second Issue of Digital DefoeDigital Defoe; eds Katherine Ellison and Holly Faith NelsonHolly.Nelson@twu.ca1244323038eighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisionhumanities_computing_and_the_internetfull name / name of organization: Digital Defoe; eds Katherine Ellison and Holly Faith Nelsoncontact email: Holly.Nelson@twu.ca

"Strangers, Gods, & Monsters": Encountering the Other in Defoe & His Contemporaries"

Digital Defoe is a new peer-reviewed and multi-media online journal http://www.english.ilstu.edu/digitaldefoe/)celebrating the works and culture of Daniel Defoe and his contemporaries. We welcome multimedia submissions that push the boundaries of scholarship in our field as well as more traditional essays, reviews, notes, and dissertation and conference abstracts.

In Strangers, Gods, and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness, the philosopher Richard Kearney writes, "Strangers, gods and monsters represent experiences of extremity which bring us to the edge. They subvert our established categories and challenge us to think again. And because they threaten the known with the unknown, they are often set apart in fear and trembling: exiled to hell or heaven; or simply ostracized from the human community into a land of aliens." For the second issue of Digital Defoe, we seek to publish works on the treatment of "strangers, gods and monsters," or the "experience of alterity," in the works of Defoe and his contemporaries.

Submissions should be e-mailed to Katherine Ellison (keellis@ilstu.edu) and Holly Faith Nelson (Holly.Nelson@twu.ca) by October 15, 2009. Please send print manuscripts as Word.doc files following the style guide on our website. For multimedia submissions, please send inquiries about file size and format to Katherine.

Holly Faith Nelson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Acting Chair and Graduate Stream Coordinator
Co-Director, Gender Studies Institute
Co-Editor, Digital Defoe
English Department
Trinity Western University
7600 Glover Road
Langley, British Columbia
Canada V2Y 1Y1
Telephone: 604-888-7511, Local 3241
Email: Holly.Nelson@twu.ca; hnelson@sfu.ca
http://www.twu.ca/academics/faculty/profiles/nelson-holly.html

cfp categories: eighteenth_centuryfilm_and_televisionhumanities_computing_and_the_internet 33158Press/Reject!Richard Burt and Craig Saperburt@english.ufl.edu1244379702african-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_internetinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Richard Burt and Craig Sapercontact email: burt@english.ufl.edu

Call for Essays for "Press (R)eject" special issue of Rhizomes.net
issue 20 (Winter 2009/2010) http://www.rhizomes.net/

Co-edited Richard Burt and Craig Saper, co-operators of the
Rejectionist Movement

Description:
Richard Brooks, director of Faber & Faber in 1944, rejected George
Orwell's Animal Farm. Twenty five years later, The Times published the
rejection letter he wrote to Orwell. It was described as an
"extraordinary document." Walter Benjamin's infamous rejections by
editors and publishers had serious consequences; some have suggested
it was a matter of life and death. Yet the literary, cultural, and
historical value of rejection letters has received little serious
attention, partly due to their lack of availability because of
embarrassment.

Benjamin wrote that a sense of personal embarrassments is often a
productive occasion for criticism. Purge yourself of your
embarrassing rejections.

As a way of historicizing rejection, we invite authors to follow
Benjamin's lead and send us their own rejection letters, historical
rejection letters, and essays about the theoretical and historical
machinations of press rejections to be published in a special issue of
_Rhizomes_, co-edited by Burt and Saper, co-operators of the
Rejectionist Movement.

We invite essays from the author's point of view, the editor's, and
the mss. reader's. The theoretical issues may address the language of
rejection letters: "submission," "revise and
resubmit," "blind submission." Essays may also examine what rejection
means, how it differs from failure, data loss, deletion of data, and
other kinds of necessary [self]destruction; how it resembles romantic
rejection, abandonment, dejection, abjection, and so on since we are
what, and how, we write.

Perhaps this paraphernalia of publishing -- anacoluthon, supplement, a
(discarded) remainder of the process -- functions like a structuring
absence. Perhaps rejection letters mark the bridge between the current
interest in archival research (David Kasten, Pete Stallybrass et al)
and the sociopoetic theories of cultural production (D. LaCapra, M.
Bal, etc).

Please send us your rejections in the form of essays approximately
7-8k words, including notes, by September 1, 2009 at
csaper@mail.ucf.edu and burt@english.ufl.edu.

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~burt/burtindex.html
http://www.readies.org/saper

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_internetinternational_conferencesjournals_and_collections_of_essaysmedievalpoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialprofessional_topicsreligionrenaissancerhetoric_and_compositionromanticscience_and_culturetheatretheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33159UPDATE: Transnational American Studies (6/15/2009; journal issue)Journal of Transnational American Studiesjtas.editor@gmail.com1244391590african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisionjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyondfull name / name of organization: Journal of Transnational American Studiescontact email: jtas.editor@gmail.com

Deadline for full consideration: June 15, 2009
(Manuscripts accepted on a rolling basis)
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/cfp.html

The Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) invites submissions for its second issue, scheduled to be released in September/October 2009. JTAS is a peer-reviewed online journal that seeks to broaden the interdisciplinary study of American cultures in transnational contexts. The journal functions as an open-access forum for Americanists in the global academic community, where scholars are increasingly interrogating borders both within and outside the nation and focusing on the multiple intersections and exchanges that flow across those borders. JTAS is a new critical conduit that seeks to bring together innovative transnational work from diverse but often disconnected sites in the U.S. and abroad. In order to facilitate the broadest possible cultural conversation about transnational American Studies, the journal will be available without cost to anyone with access to the Internet. Sponsored by UC Santa Barbara's American Cultures and Global Contexts Center and Stanford University's Program in American Studies, JTAS is hosted on the eScholarship Repository, which is part of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library.

In her 2004 presidential address to the American Studies Association, Shelley Fisher Fishkin noted the growing recognition that understanding the United States requires looking beyond and across national borders. This "transnational turn" has emphasized the multidirectional flows of peoples, ideas, and goods, and in the process has thrown into question the "naturalness" of political, geographical, and epistemological boundaries. The Journal of Transnational American Studies seeks new and innovative scholarship that mines and pushes the plural and global possibilities of American Studies. We encourage contributions from a variety of fields and disciplines, including cultural studies, media studies and new media, literature, visual arts, performance studies, music, religion, history, politics, and law.

We particularly welcome scholarship—both from within and beyond the U.S.—that engages in American Studies in a critical and self- reflective manner. For instance, how does one distinguish transnationalism from past and present discourses of internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalization? Has American Studies always been transnational, or has this "turn" come about through the pressures of global capitalism? What are the implications of the transnational turn for theorizing ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class? Can one speak of a set of reading practices and of concepts that compose a research methodology for transnational American Studies?

Submission Guidelines

Please submit manuscripts electronically at the Journal of Transnational American Studies website by June 15, 2009 to allow full consideration for our second issue. Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words, including endnotes, and are accepted on a rolling basis. Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style and include an abstract (not to exceed 250 words) and keywords. Submission guidelines and the style guide for JTAS can be found on our website at http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas.

Authors retain copyright for all content published in the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS). However, authors grant to the journal the right to make available such content, in any format, in perpetuity. Authors may reproduce, in other contexts, content to which they possess the copyright, although in any subsequent publications JTAS should be acknowledged as the original publisher.

cfp categories: african-americanamericancultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identityfilm_and_televisionjournals_and_collections_of_essayspopular_culturepostcolonialtheorytwentieth_century_and_beyond 33160"South Asia's Orients," Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). April 7-11, 2010, MontrealSuha Kudsiehkudsieh@gmail.com1244394062cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitypoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorianfull name / name of organization: Suha Kudsiehcontact email: kudsieh@gmail.com

Panel "South Asia's Orients," 41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). April 7-11, 2010, Montreal.

Deadline for submitting abstracts or proposals: September 30, 2009

Panel description: Many scholars have examined travel accounts and transcultural encounters between Westerners and non-Westerners (Edward Said, Stephen Greenblatt, Peter Hulme, Mary Louise Pratt, and Roxanne Euben); however, researchers have been reluctant to examine similar encounters that took place among non-Western cultures. Although some scholars have proposed moving away from Western hegemony in order to examine "places that seem most peripheral to the march of European history" (Dipesh Chakrabarty in Provincializing Europe, 35), researchers continue to privilege Western-subaltern encounters. Therefore, this panel will examine South Asian cultural encounters with the various parts of the East, a vast geographic area that includes the Middle East, South East Asia, and the Far East. The list of possible topics may include:

- South Asian travel accounts, memoirs, histories, and fictional narratives about the Orient (e.g. Vikram Seth's travels through Sinkiang and Tibet, Pico Iyer's reflections on Kyoto, Amitav Ghosh's experiences in Egypt, and the depiction of the East in Salman Rushdie's works and in Meena Alexander's short stories).

- The experiences of South Asians in the Gulf region: What are the experiences of South Asians in that region? How do they depict their lives there, and how do they negotiate their identity and the location of "home"?

- South Asians in the South East Asia and the Far East: How do South Asians depict their encounter with "other" Orientals? Do Western histories and narratives interfere with their interaction with the East? Do South Asians affiliate themselves with Eastern cultures, or do they uphold their own culture as superior?

- South Asian Diasporas in the East: What are the experiences of South Asians who have relocated to the East? How do they negotiate the concept of "home" and "homeland"? How do they interact with Eastern locals? How do Eastern cultures shape their ethnic, cultural, and political identity? How do South Asians, living in South Asia, regard those who have settled in the East? Are they treated in the same manner as South Asians living in the West?

- Role of race, caste, and ethnicity: To what extent does race, caste, or ethnicity play a role in depicting encounters with the East?

Please send 250-300 word proposals by July 30, 2009 to Suha Kudsieh at Trent University: kudsieh@gmail.com

Please include with the abstract the following info:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The panel welcomes papers that examine works published in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, and similar South Asian languages, in addition to works written in Anglophone; however, it is important to note that all papers must be delivered in English at the conference.

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org .

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.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens; please get your passport application in early.

All presenters are expected to pay NeMLA's convention registration and membership fees. For more details, please check: http://www.nemla.org/about/membership.html

cfp categories: cultural_studies_and_historical_approachesethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitypoetrypopular_culturepostcolonialreligiontravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondvictorian 33161Post/Imperial Encounters between Spain and Portugal and East Asia (NeMLA April 7-11, 2010; due 9/30/09)Northeast Modern Language Association, 41st Annual Conference, Montrealgaster@uchicago.edu, dgeorge@bates.edu1244400198ethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencespostcolonialtheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyondcontact email: gaster@uchicago.edu, dgeorge@bates.edu

Seminar style session that explores Spain and Portugal's colonial and post/imperial encounters with East Asia as registered in writings in Spanish and Portuguese by peninsular and post/colonial authors from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Papers might focus on, but are not limited to, an analysis of fiction and non-fiction narratives of colonial adventures and political resistance, missionary travails, and travel through Japan, China, Korea, Philippines, to mention just a few examples.

Please note that the session is in "seminar" format which means that the 5-10 participants will complete and circulate their papers of no more than 20 pages in length prior to the convention. Instead of reading papers, participants give a brief presentation of 5-10 minutes of their work, with the session focused on structured exchange between the participants. Respondents may be invited by the chair.

Send 250 word abstracts in Spanish, Portuguese or English to David George at dgeorge@bates.edu and Timothy Gaster at gaster@uchicago.edu.

cfp categories: ethnicity_and_national_identitygender_studies_and_sexualitygeneral_announcementsinternational_conferencespostcolonialtheorytravel_writingtwentieth_century_and_beyond