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Invisible Culture, Issue 11, Fall 2007
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/
 
Deadline for Papers: May 20, 2007

Issue 11: Curator and Context

The East Carolina Humor Festival & Conference
November 1 - 3, 2007 - Greenville, NC
 
Humor as an art form rarely attracts the serious attention it deserves. East
Carolina University intends to correct this omission with an inaugural humor
festival and academic conference. In addition to offering an academic
conference in which scholars explore humor in literature, dance, film,
theater, therapy, and art, the three-day inaugural event will feature joke
contests and stand-up and improv comedy, and a film festival.
 
Featured presenters include North Carolina native and author Jill McCorkle,
Texas songwriter and author Kinky Friedman, and poet and NPR commentator
Andrei Codrescu.
 

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Invisible Culture, Issue 11, Fall 2007
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/
 
Deadline for Papers: May 20, 2007

Issue 11: Curator and Context

CCCC 2008
Feminist Workshop

(Post) Institutionalized Feminism: Defining the ?F-word?

Stuart Hall warned against the institutionalization of feminism saying
that once incorporated into the institution it would lose its vibrant
social and political activism. bell hooks ostensibly agrees with
Hall?s assessment in the 2004 film, ?Is Feminism Dead?? This workshop
seeks to interrogate the supposed ?death? of feminism in our cultural
moment, in which both Women?s Studies departments and ?I am not a
Feminist, but. . .? figure largely. We intend to strategizing
locations for political action from academic and social perspectives
and plot a course to reinvigorate the usefulness of The F-Word.

CALL FOR PAPERS -- 'Theory and Scottish Literature'

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Issue 3 of the International Journal of Scottish Literature

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(see URL below for a more detailed version of this CFP)

 http://www.ijsl.stir.ac.uk/CFPtheory.htm

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What is the state of Scottish literary studies 'After Theory'?

What was/is theory's impact in a 'structurally nationalist' field of study?

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Contribution are solicited for inclusion in a book on Literature of Exile of East and Central Europe. Essays may examine texts by any exiled writer from any country, dealing with the literary representation of exile. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to exile as a form of modern alienation, as a metaphor for psychic difference, as an allegory for separation; émigré conditions, remembrance and memory in exilic literature.
Submissions and Inquiries: Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy - agutthy_at_selu.edu
Send a 15-20 page paper along with a copy of your CV
Essays should be documented in MLA style and should be in Word format, 12 point typeface, Times New Roman.
Deadline for submission: September 30, 2007

Contribution are solicited for inclusion in a book on Literature of Exile of East and Central Europe. Essays may examine texts by any exiled writer from any country, dealing with the literary representation of exile. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to exile as a form of modern alienation, as a metaphor for psychic difference, as an allegory for separation; émigré conditions, remembrance and memory in exilic literature.
Submissions and Inquiries: Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy - agutthy_at_selu.edu
Send a 15-20 page paper along with a copy of your CV
Essays should be documented in MLA style and should be in Word format, 12 point typeface, Times New Roman.
Deadline for submission: September 30, 2007

CCCC 2008
Feminist Workshop

(Post) Institutionalized Feminism: Defining the ?F-word?

Stuart Hall warned against the institutionalization of feminism saying
that once incorporated into the institution it would lose its vibrant
social and political activism. bell hooks ostensibly agrees with
Hall?s assessment in the 2004 film, ?Is Feminism Dead?? This workshop
seeks to interrogate the supposed ?death? of feminism in our cultural
moment, in which both Women?s Studies departments and ?I am not a
Feminist, but. . .? figure largely. We intend to strategizing
locations for political action from academic and social perspectives
and plot a course to reinvigorate the usefulness of The F-Word.

CCCC 2008
Feminist Workshop

(Post) Institutionalized Feminism: Defining the ?F-word?

Stuart Hall warned against the institutionalization of feminism saying
that once incorporated into the institution it would lose its vibrant
social and political activism. bell hooks ostensibly agrees with
Hall?s assessment in the 2004 film, ?Is Feminism Dead?? This workshop
seeks to interrogate the supposed ?death? of feminism in our cultural
moment, in which both Women?s Studies departments and ?I am not a
Feminist, but. . .? figure largely. We intend to strategizing
locations for political action from academic and social perspectives
and plot a course to reinvigorate the usefulness of The F-Word.

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

BSECS 37th ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 3-5 JANUARY 2008
ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, U.K.

The annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is
Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference dealing with all
aspects of the history, literature, and culture of the long eighteenth
century.

We invite proposals for individual papers, for full panels of three papers,
and for roundtable sessions of five speakers, on any aspect of the long
eighteenth century, not only in Britain, but also throughout Europe and the
wider world.

Edited volume of essays seeks original and unpublished contributions cohering around the relationship between literature and music and its impact on the dynamics of cultural and historical memory. Possible subjects and approaches include: literary and musical texts as inherited cultural or historical artifacts; remembering, forgetting, re-invoking or repeating the past through popular, middle brow, elitist, or avant-garde artistic forms; writing and re-writing cultural or national histories through music and literature; indivdual and collective memories and their inscription in "lieux de memoires"; memorializing the lost or mourning the past in literary representation and musical expression; and so on.

Edited volume of essays seeks original and unpublished contributions cohering around the relationship between literature and music and its impact on the dynamics of cultural and historical memory. Possible subjects and approaches include: literary and musical texts as inherited cultural or historical artifacts; remembering, forgetting, re-invoking or repeating the past through popular, middle brow, elitist, or avant-garde artistic forms; writing and re-writing cultural or national histories through music and literature; indivdual and collective memories and their inscription in "lieux de memoires"; memorializing the lost or mourning the past in literary representation and musical expression; and so on.

Varieties of Experience: Views of the Two World Wars

The study of narratives and representations of the two World Wars has long
been a subject of considerable scholarly interest. Experience acquired over
the course of a number of conferences and seminars in Caen (France) and
elsewhere leads us to believe that a number of colleagues would welcome an
extension of existing multi-disciplinary approaches to the subject as well
as contributions on those areas of experience and theatres of war that are,
perhaps, less often discussed in a Western European academic context.

  Call for Submissions
Call for submissions for genre, for an issue on Women, Sexuality and
Early Modern Studies. We welcome submissions of papers on a full range
of topics addressing writings by and about women and the feminine in
the Medieval and Renaissance periods throughout the world, including
interchanges between East and West. Papers can be devoted (but not
limited) to: Medieval and Early Modern female authors and/or figures,
depictions of the feminine in Medieval and Renaissance European and/ or
other literatures, contemporary invocations of Medieval femininity,
women and hagiography, religious education and women, women and the