(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.

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

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.

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.

Call for Papers: Critical Essays on Lorna Dee Cervantes.

Published by Wings Press, Cervantes's latest collection, Drive: The First
Quartet was widely anticipated and met with abundant praise from poets and
critics alike. Her first publication in fifteen years, it marks the return
of a major poetic voice.

Wings Press will publish a collection of critical essays that speaks to the
significance of the poet and her work, both within and beyond the
Chicana/Latino literary movements.

Possible topics/areas of focus include, but are not limited to:

(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

Alan Hollinghurst won the 2006 Man/Booker prize for his novel, "The Line of Beauty." All of his works have a gay character that are central to the novel. What are common themes that appear in his books? Can these stories be told through a narrative/main character who is heterosexual? All presentations that center on Hollinghurst and his novels are welcome.

UPDATE: The Fiction of Nonfiction (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation at the University of California Riverside’s 14th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7, 2007.

The recent controversy around James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces has exposed several key concerns around the writing of nonfiction. Considering the fact that many “fictional” books contain autobiographical details and that “nonfiction’s” claims to truth have been undercut by poststructuralist criticism of many stripes, has the fiction/ nonfiction binary been rendered useless?

UPDATE: The Fiction of Nonfiction (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation at the University of California Riverside’s 14th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7, 2007.

The recent controversy around James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces has exposed several key concerns around the writing of nonfiction. Considering the fact that many “fictional” books contain autobiographical details and that “nonfiction’s” claims to truth have been undercut by poststructuralist criticism of many stripes, has the fiction/ nonfiction binary been rendered useless?