"Rum, Sodomy and the Lash":
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Piracy
Friday July 13th, 2007
Graduate Centre University of Melbourne

"Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" is a one-day symposium organised by the
editors of antiTHESIS and postgraduates in the School of Culture and
Communication at the University of Melbourne.

To mark the creation of the new School of Culture and Communication,
which includes the areas of Cultural Studies, English Literary
Studies, Creative Writing, Cinema Studies, Art History, Theatre
Studies, and others, the symposium will bring together scholars across
disciplines for a day of debate and academic exchange.

Call for Critical and Creative work.

"New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative
Writing", notes two important university Creative Writing anniversaries in
2008: 40 years of "The Association of Writers and Writing Programmes" (USA) and
20 years of the "National Association of Writers in Education" (UK).

Thus, celebrating the development of Creative Writing in Higher Education, New
Writing seeks high quality critical and creative work for its forthcoming
issues.

About the journal

Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
Renaissance Hotel, Cleveland OH November 8-11

"Teaching Film and Literature Together." Whether teaching a "film and
literature" course or simply pairing a novel with its film adaptation in a
literature course, many instructors find themselves teaching film and
literature together. This panel seeks submissions that explore the complexities
of teaching film and literature together. Topics might include specific topics
or pairings that worked well or didn't work well in the classroom, syllabus
approaches to film and literature courses, approaches to specific genres, etc.
What are the difficulties, possibilities, and/or joys to teaching word and
image?

The Modern Drama division of SAMLA invites papers or proposals
on*Gender Spies/Gender Traitors in Modern Drama* for the
annualconvention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association,
November 9-11, 2007 in Atlanta, GA, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown.
When Martha Dobie, accused of lesbianism (of being "unnatural"),
inLillian Hellman*s The Children*s Hour loses her trial,
audiences*perhaps,for the first time--recognize the extent of the
tension between the schoolteacher and her aunt, Lily Mortar, who prefers
traipsing after Sir Henry and his acting troupe rather than remaining in
town to testify on her niece's behalf. One might argue that Mrs.

The Modern Drama division of SAMLA invites papers or proposals
on*Gender Spies/Gender Traitors in Modern Drama* for the
annualconvention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association,
November 9-11, 2007 in Atlanta, GA, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown.
When Martha Dobie, accused of lesbianism (of being "unnatural"),
inLillian Hellman*s The Children*s Hour loses her trial,
audiences*perhaps,for the first time--recognize the extent of the
tension between the schoolteacher and her aunt, Lily Mortar, who prefers
traipsing after Sir Henry and his acting troupe rather than remaining in
town to testify on her niece's behalf. One might argue that Mrs.

Please note: the deadline for this issue has been extended to June 1. The
issue will be launched July 1.

Please note: the deadline for this issue has been extended to June 1. The
issue will be launched July 1.

The Sublime in the Modern World: Too Much, Too Late, or Too Soon?

Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
Renaissance Hotel, Cleveland, OH
November 8 - 11, 2007

Abstracts welcomed on all aspects of the Sublime experience in the modern world.

D E A D L I N E E X T E N D E D !

THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE
    Graduate-Student Conference
      University of Chicago
         Department of English

OCTOBER 19-20, 2007

    ABSTRACTS DUE APRIL 20, 2007
         --> ucgradconf_at_gmail.com

Keynote Speaker:
    Sianne Ngai,
       Stanford University

CALL FOR PAPERS

CFP: The Gothic Body as Romantic Object (6/1/07; ICR, 10/18/07-10/21/07)
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Approved special session for the International Conference on =
Romanticism, Oct. 18-21,2007, Baltimore, MD
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Despite recent studies exploring and contesting the canonical division =
between Romanticism and the Gothic, scholars have yet to address the =
central role of the gothic body in Romantic-era texts. From early =
monsters, such as Byron's Giaour, Polidori's vampire, Keats's Lamia, =
Coleridge's Geraldine, Percy Shelley's monster in Julian and Maddalo, =
and Mary Shelley's monster in Frankenstein to the gothic monstrosity of =
Eugenia and the trope of the mad woman in Burney's Camilla and Charlotte =

UPDATE: Ian Duncan has been added to the list of plenary speakers due to
the unfortunate and untimely passing of Malcolm Bowie. Thanks for your
understanding.

The Novel and its Borders

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
in association with the AHRC Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies

University of Aberdeen
 8-10 July 2008

www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture <
http://reconstruction.eserver.org>, an on-line journal of culture studies,
is to publish a special issue on film in the third quarter of 2007. Original
essays and reviews of films or text about film are invited for a collection
tentatively entitled "Transgressing the Frontier: Modernity, American
Ideology, and Cinema." The purpose of this issue is to explore the role of
ideology in current film works with an emphasis on boundary breaking and
exploration from a variety of scholarly approaches and perspectives. Ideally
this collection will explore the critical intersection between film and
culture.

Postmodern Culture Call for Reviews

The online journal Postmodern Culture solicits reviews for the
following books. We also welcome proposals for reviews on any aspect
of postmodern culture and theory. Please send either reviews of
2000-3500 words or proposals for a review, along with a short
professional bio, to: Ellen McCallum, Reviews Editor, PMC, email:
emc_at_msu.edu. Word attachment files are best.

Anderson, Perry. Extra Time: World Politics Since 1989. Verso, December 2006.

Armstrong, Nancy How Novels Think. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Becker, Ron. Gay TV and Straight America. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

This call for papers posted on behalf of Professor Geoffrey V. Davis

(University of Aachen, Germany)

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Call for Papers

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CHOTRO

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Indigenous Peoples in the Post-Colonial World

Language - Literature - Culture - History

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Bhasha Resarch and Publications Centre,

Vadodara, India

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in association with

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Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts

National Manuscript Mission of India

European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies =
(EACLALS) and

Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies =
(IACLALS)

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