CFP: Gothic Science Fiction (graduate) (UK) (1/31/07; 4/28/07)

Organised by the School of Creative Industries, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

This one-day conference looks to bring together graduate students and early career researchers to discuss science fiction with a gothic slant. We invite short (20 minute) paper proposals focusing on identifying, untangling, or savouring gothic elements in science fiction, both past and present, and across a range of media - written texts, film, graphic novels, and visual media are all invited.

Teaching Toni Morrison

Calls for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

This panel seeks papers that address pedagogical responses to Toni Morrison. Proposals should
explore/discuss the following issues:

·Representations of black male masculinity
·Sexuality
·Whiteness
·Class difference
·Gender
·Community
·Canon formation: Where do we situate Morrison in the teaching of American and/or African-American
literatures?

Email 200 word abstracts, full-length papers, or questions by March 31, 2007 to:

Melissa Daniels
PhD Student
Department of English,
Northwestern University
m-daniels_at_northwestern.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Documentation, Demonstration, Dematerialization:
American Art and Cinema of the Late 1960s and 1970s

Keynote address by J. Hoberman, cultural critic & author

April 27-28, 2007 (rescheduled from November 2006)
University of California, Berkeley

The late 1960s and 1970s mark a period of dramatic change in the visual
culture of the United States, from avant-garde art and filmmaking
practices to documentary, Hollywood cinema, and the dissemination of
video. This is, after all, the period when:

Teaching Toni Morrison

Calls for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

This panel seeks papers that address pedagogical responses to Toni Morrison. Proposals should
explore/discuss the following issues:

·Representations of black male masculinity
·Sexuality
·Whiteness
·Class difference
·Gender
·Community
·Canon formation: Where do we situate Morrison in the teaching of American and/or African-American
literatures?

Email 200 word abstracts, full-length papers, or questions by March 31, 2007 to:

Melissa Daniels
PhD Student
Department of English,
Northwestern University
m-daniels_at_northwestern.edu

Teaching Toni Morrison

Calls for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
8-11 November 2007
Cleveland

This panel seeks papers that address pedagogical responses to Toni Morrison. Proposals should
explore/discuss the following issues:

·Representations of black male masculinity
·Sexuality
·Whiteness
·Class difference
·Gender
·Community
·Canon formation: Where do we situate Morrison in the teaching of American and/or African-American
literatures?

Email 200 word abstracts, full-length papers, or questions by March 31, 2007 to:

Melissa Daniels
PhD Student
Department of English,
Northwestern University
m-daniels_at_northwestern.edu

Final call for papers.

Deadline for submission of abstracts now 31st March 2007.

Notification of acceptance by 27th April 2007.

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Digital Poetry
 
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.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
digital poets and poetry. These papers can examine
texts by the authors and/or relevant critical works.
How have new technologies influenced and changed the
poetic genre? How has digital poetry called for a
questioning of traditional understandings of poetic
texts?

Potential topics include:

Digital Poetry
 
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.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
digital poets and poetry. These papers can examine
texts by the authors and/or relevant critical works.
How have new technologies influenced and changed the
poetic genre? How has digital poetry called for a
questioning of traditional understandings of poetic
texts?

Potential topics include:

The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference will soon be opening for registration on the 22nd of January 2007. Until then why not check out the website for details of guest speakers, Stratford-upon-Avon and last year's conference programme?

www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/britgrad2007

 The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference
 21-23 June 2007
The Shakespeare Institute
Mason Croft, Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon, WARKS
CV37 6HP England

The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference will soon be opening for registration on the 22nd of January 2007. Until then why not check out the website for details of guest speakers, Stratford-upon-Avon and last year's conference programme?

www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/britgrad2007

 The Ninth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference
 21-23 June 2007
The Shakespeare Institute
Mason Croft, Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon, WARKS
CV37 6HP England

"EMBODYING SHAKESPEARE."
        Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference
        7-10 February 2008
        University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Confirmed Speakers:
        Bruce Smith, University of Southern California
        Gail Kern Paster, Folger Shakespeare Library
        Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL SESSIONS

CFP: Imaginary Worlds: Utopias and Dystopias in Literature

McGill University Annual Graduate Conference, March 10-11, 2007.
Montreal, Quebec.

This panel invites papers that focus on the representation of utopias
and dysopias in literature. Papers may address the social, political,
economical, economic, and cultural locations of ideal worlds or
nightmare worlds from a wide variety of periods and places and from all
parts of the world. Possible topics may include, but are not limited
to:

-Plenary speakers announced
-Submission deadline extended
-Conference website now online

The Fourth Annual English Department Graduate Conference at Brandeis
University
?Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places?

March 9, 2007

Plenary Speakers
Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis University
Marina Leslie, Northeastern University

?Utopian Spaces, Utopian Places,? an interdisciplinary conference,
will interrogate the concept of utopia across a broad spectrum of
historical, theoretical, and literary contexts.

Call for Papers

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REROUTING THE POSTCOLONIAL

The University of Northampton, UK, 3-4 July 2007 (07/03/07 - 07/04/07)

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To mark the re-launch of the journal World Literature Written in English =
as the Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Centre for Contemporary =
Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton, and the Journal of =
Postcolonial Writing, in association with Taylor and Francis publishers =
and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, hosts:

Keynote Speakers -=20

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Simon Gikandi =20

Patrick Williams=20

Elleke Boehmer=20

Alastair Niven