Animals and Twentieth Century Literature

This deliberately broad panel title hopes to attract a range of innovative
papers that explore the role animals play (and the uses to which they are
put) in twentieth century literature. All theoretical approaches are
welcome.

The work of scholars in ecofeminism and posthumanism (as well as other
areas) continue to demonstrate how animal representations serve a range of
purposes as well as “masters” with all that the term entails and help to
raise both epistemological and ontological questions, including the nature
of subjectivity, agency, the construction of race, gender, and culture

Call for Papers

39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York

(Un)Safe as Houses: Architecture and the Unhomely in American Fiction

8th ANNUAL TEACHING MEDIEVAL LITERATURE CONFERENCE: ITALY AND THE MIDDLE
AGES

May 14-17, 2008, in Vogogna, Italy (1 hour north of Milan)

Proposals requested on teaching any aspect of medieval Italy for college
classes ranging from freshmen to graduate. Suggestions include:
*Translations of such Italian writers as Dante and Boccaccio
*Representations of Italy by Chaucer or other non-native Italian authors
*Italian medievalisms--e.g., Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
*History, religion, and interdisciplinary approaches

Deadline for Proposals: Nov. 1, 2007

Many studies of the feminist canon have focused largely on either late
eighteenth-century or mid to late nineteenth-century feminism. While
worthwhile, this focus has drawn attention away from the contributions of
those working between these two seminal periods. This panel seeks papers
addressing the feminism of the early Victorian Era. What are its
distinctive qualities? How was it influenced by eighteenth-century
feminism? How did it affect forthcoming feminist thought? What writers,
particularly those traditionally underappreciated, expressed feminist
leanings in this relatively conservative period? Email 250-500 word
abstracts by October 7, 2007 to Kristin Le Veness:
Kristin.LeVeness_at_ncc.edu.

This conference is based on invited presentations from scholars working
on Winifred Holtby and is open to the wider academic community.
Postgraduate students are welcome. The event is one of a series on early
twentieth-century women writers held at Anglia Ruskin University and
follows successful colloquia on Nancy Cunard in 2001, Storm Jameson in
2005 and Sylvia Townsend Warner in 2006. Winifred Holtby is remembered
for her posthumously published novel, South Riding (1936) and for her
friendship with Vera Brittain. She was a director of Time and Tide,
wrote the first critical study of Virginia Woolf (1932), and Women and a
Changing Civilisation (1934), as well as poetry, drama, short stories and

Submissions are solicited for the following panel, to be held at the NEMLA
Convention in Buffalo, NY, April 10-13, 2008. The submission deadline has
been extended to October 15, 2007

This panel focuses on representations of memory (both traumatic and
ordinary) in the contemporary African American novel or short story. The
goal of the panel is to gain new perspectives on the varied approaches
African American writers have taken to represent collective and private
recollections of historical events. At the same time, the panel encourages
comparisons of contemporary depictions of memory to classic portrayals such
as the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass or Harriet Jacobs.

CFP: GEORGE MOORE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

Third International George Moore Conference
5-6 September 2008, University of Hull, UK

Keynote speakers: Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway) and Elizabeth Grubgeld
(Oklahoma State University)

This international conference is presented by The Ruskin Centre at
Lancaster University,
INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Department of
European and Postcolonial Studies of University of Ca' Foscari Venice. It
will open at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in the afternoon of 25th
September 2008. On the 26th and 27th, all events will be held at the
campus of the Venice International University. The plenary speakers will
be James Buzard on Cultural Travel, Robert Hewison on Ruskin and Venice,
and Anna Laura Lepschy on the reception of Tintoretto in the nineteenth-
century.

As Lev Manovich writes, the construction of space is a defining principle
of both cinema and digital media, unifying them not just as audio-visual
culture, but as audio-visual-spatial culture (The Language of New Media ,
2001). Cinematic works create spaces out of juxtaposed, sequential
images, using mise-en-scène, production design, cinematography, editing,
and sound to guide spectator navigation through them. Television series
and multiplatform franchises generate ongoing diegetic spaces, building
identifiable and consumable worlds out of the gradual accumulation of
narrative detail. The interactive, programmable nature of digital media

Wanderings in India: Australian Perceptions
Celebrating Links between Australia and India

Edited by: Rick Hosking and Amit Sarwal

Dedicated to the memory and works of the first Australian-born author
John George Lang (b. 1816 â€" d. 1864)

“The bread we eat comes from India.” â€" Governor Lachlan Macquarie

Why Am I Me? On Being Born in the Middle Ages

Call for Papers, Kalamazoo 2008

Ethical Criticism After Barthes

39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York

Travel Narratives: East and West in the Holy Land, 1660-1740
ASECS Portland Oregon - March 27-30, 2008

Call for Papers

University of Oxford Fin de Siècle Seminar, 1870-1930