THE DECAYING SENSE OF LEVIATHAN:
A CRITICALLY CREATIVE CONFERENCE

Departement d'etudes anglaises
Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
March 16-18, 2007

  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
    Contributors are currently sought for a collection of scholarly essays devoted to the films of Guy Maddin, one of the most distinctive, outlandish, and personal filmmakers. Though Maddin's international reputation has grown steadily over the past two decades, in-depth academic analyses of his work have been relatively few in number. This collection will attempt to redress that deficiency by bringing new material alongside several previously published essays, offering multiple perspectives on all things Maddin.
    Possible topics include:
  * postmodernism and its relatives (pastiche, irony, ambivalence, etc.)
  * themes of amnesia/incest/necrophilia

  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
    Contributors are currently sought for a collection of scholarly essays devoted to the films of Guy Maddin, one of the most distinctive, outlandish, and personal filmmakers. Though Maddin's international reputation has grown steadily over the past two decades, in-depth academic analyses of his work have been relatively few in number. This collection will attempt to redress that deficiency by bringing new material alongside several previously published essays, offering multiple perspectives on all things Maddin.
    Possible topics include:
  * postmodernism and its relatives (pastiche, irony, ambivalence, etc.)
  * themes of amnesia/incest/necrophilia

Call for Papers: Upcoming Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies
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Levinas and Narrative

Guest Editors: Sandor Goodhart and Monica Osborne

Deadline for Submissions: 30 March, 2007

To date, there have been two major ways of understanding the work of Emmanuel
Levinas. In the philosophical tradition, Levinas first attracted the attention
of Jean-Paul Sartre as a reader of Husserl and the phenomenological tradition;
later, thanks to the work of Jacques Derrida and other poststucturalists,
Levinas acquired caché for his work on ethics and his critique of Heidegger.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

What is a gay/lesbian novel? How is this defined? Is it more useful to use the term "queer," or does this erase the constructed identity that gay/lesbian implies? This call for papers is for academic work that explores these questions or others that center on what labels a book gay and/or lesbian and why.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

What is a gay/lesbian novel? How is this defined? Is it more useful to use the term "queer," or does this erase the constructed identity that gay/lesbian implies? This call for papers is for academic work that explores these questions or others that center on what labels a book gay and/or lesbian and why.

Internet Histories
a pre-AoIR 8.0 workshop
October 16, 2007
Vancouver, Canada

Despite the fact that the Internet is entering its fifth decade, the =
understanding and writing of its histories is very much in its infancy. =
In this one-day workshop, to be held 16 October 2007 directly before the =
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 8.0 conference =
(http://conferences.aoir.org), we aim to explore the questions, =
assumptions, investments, frameworks, concepts, methods, biases, =
opportunities, archives, narratives, tropes, and logics that underlie =
the Internet's diverse histories.

Internet Histories
a pre-AoIR 8.0 workshop
October 16, 2007
Vancouver, Canada

Despite the fact that the Internet is entering its fifth decade, the =
understanding and writing of its histories is very much in its infancy. =
In this one-day workshop, to be held 16 October 2007 directly before the =
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 8.0 conference =
(http://conferences.aoir.org), we aim to explore the questions, =
assumptions, investments, frameworks, concepts, methods, biases, =
opportunities, archives, narratives, tropes, and logics that underlie =
the Internet's diverse histories.

Division 33 (Literature in English other than British and American)
plans a panel for the Chicago convention (12/27-30/07) on the following
topic: "Resistance to English in Anglophone Literature." Is English a
viable postcolonial language? Where does the Asmara Declaration of 2000
stand today? Can we speak meaningfully of "Englishes," and what might
their existence facilitate: Indian English vs. American English vs.
Nigerian English, etc. How does translation theory relate to questions
of authorial voice, authenticity, opposition to master discourses,
globalization of literary standards, choice of audience(s), etc.
250-word abstracts to John Hawley by March 15.

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

(dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
April 6th and 7th 2007
            
Call for Papers: general topic, humanities and social
sciences University of California Riverside’s
Fourteenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

Abstract deadline: 2/16/07

UPDATE: deadline extended until February 7, 2007
UPDATE: conference website now at http://web.uvic.ca/~englgrad/con.html

CFP: Intersections, Margins, and Parallels in Cultural Production
(Grad; 02/07/07; 03/9-10/07)

We are pleased to invite proposals for an interdisciplinary graduate
student conference organized
by the Department of English at the University of Victoria to be held
March 9-10, 2007. This
year's keynote speaker will be Marshall Grossman of the University of Maryland.

UPDATE: deadline extended until February 7, 2007
UPDATE: conference website now at http://web.uvic.ca/~englgrad/con.html

CFP: Intersections, Margins, and Parallels in Cultural Production
(Grad; 02/07/07; 03/9-10/07)

We are pleased to invite proposals for an interdisciplinary graduate
student conference organized
by the Department of English at the University of Victoria to be held
March 9-10, 2007. This
year's keynote speaker will be Marshall Grossman of the University of Maryland.