19th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
Friday, October 26, 2007

CIRCULATION

Keynote address: Professor Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
We are all in the business of circulation: As scholars and educators,
we wrestle with an ever-evolving canon, we work to recover lost texts,
we launch websites and blogs to reach a wider audience. In the
classroom and with our colleagues, we publish, present, and stake our
claims. In short, we traffic in ideas.

Call for Papers: American Horror Film Today

Most film histories consider Wes Craven's Scream (1996) as either a high-point of American horror cinema, or as a turning-point that marked the steady decline of the genre. Compared to the celebrated "Golden Ages" of American horror cinema?from the "classic" Universal films in the 1930s, to auteurist neo-horror in the 1970s?horror films from the mid-1990s to today seem to be out of ideas, short on political relevance, and incapable of producing texts that promise longevity. Fans of the genre have lamented this slump. Reviewers tend to dismiss recent productions. And scholars have either returned to canonical American horror films or directed their attention toward international cinema.

Call for Papers: American Horror Film Today

Most film histories consider Wes Craven's Scream (1996) as either a high-point of American horror cinema, or as a turning-point that marked the steady decline of the genre. Compared to the celebrated "Golden Ages" of American horror cinema?from the "classic" Universal films in the 1930s, to auteurist neo-horror in the 1970s?horror films from the mid-1990s to today seem to be out of ideas, short on political relevance, and incapable of producing texts that promise longevity. Fans of the genre have lamented this slump. Reviewers tend to dismiss recent productions. And scholars have either returned to canonical American horror films or directed their attention toward international cinema.

Fall 2007 Graduate Student Conference of the UC Berkeley Department of
French

October 11 and 12th, 2007

Paths of Desire: Itineraries as Transgression.

Paths of desire: A term appearing in studies of landscape design as well as
architecture, which refers to the paths we trace when our desires lead us
off the beaten track and a trail forms behind us. This notion both
encompasses the incidental and manifests longing, and brings to light the
importance of both the traverser and the traversal. These figures are key
to the shaping of physical and theoretical topographies. No itinerary is
undertaken without motivation, or without leaving a mark.

Fall 2007 Graduate Student Conference of the UC Berkeley Department of
French

October 11 and 12th, 2007

Paths of Desire: Itineraries as Transgression.

Paths of desire: A term appearing in studies of landscape design as well as
architecture, which refers to the paths we trace when our desires lead us
off the beaten track and a trail forms behind us. This notion both
encompasses the incidental and manifests longing, and brings to light the
importance of both the traverser and the traversal. These figures are key
to the shaping of physical and theoretical topographies. No itinerary is
undertaken without motivation, or without leaving a mark.

Fall 2007 Graduate Student Conference of the UC Berkeley Department of
French

October 11 and 12th, 2007

Paths of Desire: Itineraries as Transgression.

Paths of desire: A term appearing in studies of landscape design as well as
architecture, which refers to the paths we trace when our desires lead us
off the beaten track and a trail forms behind us. This notion both
encompasses the incidental and manifests longing, and brings to light the
importance of both the traverser and the traversal. These figures are key
to the shaping of physical and theoretical topographies. No itinerary is
undertaken without motivation, or without leaving a mark.

Call for Papers: LGBT/Gender Studies

The LGBT/Gender Studies Area Chair of the Northeast Popular/American
Culture Association (NEPCA) seeks individual-paper proposals for
presentation at NEPCA's annual meeting, which will be held at Clark
University (Worcester, Massachusetts) October 26-27, 2007.

2nd and Final Call for Papers
Lesbian Lives XIV: Thursday 14 - Saturday 16 June 2007

Lesbian Existence and The Lesbian Continuum. CPF Deadline Extended to
05/11/07

A 3-Day, International, Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the
Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC), School of
Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland

Keynote Speakers

Call for Papers: LGBT/Gender Studies

The LGBT/Gender Studies Area Chair of the Northeast Popular/American
Culture Association (NEPCA) seeks individual-paper proposals for
presentation at NEPCA's annual meeting, which will be held at Clark
University (Worcester, Massachusetts) October 26-27, 2007.

*Second Call for Papers - extension of the deadline for proposals to May
30th. *
* *
*Conference
IRISH WOMEN WRITERS:
Irish and European Contexts

 **PLEASE NOTE THE CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS FOR
Chris Messenger is chrism1_at_uic.edu

Call for Submissions

(Re)Considering Mario Puzo: His Life and Works

Voices in Italian Americana is a semi-annual literary
and cultural review devoted to the dissemination of
information concerning the contributions of and about
Italian Americans to the cultural and art worlds of
North America.

We invite submissions of critical essays from scholars
on the texts of Mario Puzo to be published in a
special issue in the Fall of 2008.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 30 April 2007

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
            is calling for contributors to the 'home' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

 **PLEASE NOTE THE CORRECT EMAIL ADDRESS FOR
Chris Messenger is chrism1_at_uic.edu

Call for Submissions

(Re)Considering Mario Puzo: His Life and Works

Voices in Italian Americana is a semi-annual literary
and cultural review devoted to the dissemination of
information concerning the contributions of and about
Italian Americans to the cultural and art worlds of
North America.

We invite submissions of critical essays from scholars
on the texts of Mario Puzo to be published in a
special issue in the Fall of 2008.

Communities and Collectivities in Victorian Britain (5/18/07; collection)

UPDATE: Deadline for proposals extended until May 18, 2007