L'immigration maghrébine en France a conduit, dès les années 80, à la naissance d'une nouvelle littérature, faite par les enfants des immigrés. Issus de France et d'ailleurs, ces «intrangers» – d'après la précieuse définition de l'écrivain Y.B. – sont pourtant difficiles à classer sans les stigmatiser. De la «littérature beure» à la «littérature urbaine», les étiquettes se sont succédé au fil des années. Mais comment a changé cette littérature, au-delà des définitions? Quelles sont les différences qui marquent le passage des romans des initiateurs, dont ceux d'Azouz Begag, à ceux des auteurs plus récents, comme Faïza Guène?

"Utopian Spaces of British Literature and Culture, 1890-1945"
18 September 2009
University of Oxford

***NOTE: The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended until 15 July. Registration will open after this date; the registration form will be available for download on the conference website.***

Deadline extended to July 14.

Call for Papers
Early Modern Culture, 1450-1850

The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS)

"Tracing Footprints"

October 22-25, 2009
Dallas, Texas

GEMCS was formed in 1993 to promote the study of literature, history, art history, and material culture from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.

This year's theme, "Tracing Footprints," is intended to be suggestive rather than prescriptive. As always, GEMCS welcomes panels and proposals on all aspects of culture between 1450 and 1850.

Department of Childhood Studies
Rutgers University, Camden

Call for Papers – Exploring Childhood Studies

The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden invite submissions for papers and poster presentations for their first formal graduate student conference on April 9, 2010. Graduate students from all disciplines who are engaged in research relating to children and childhood are encouraged to submit proposals.

Seventeen years after her death, Audre Lorde's work continues to have influence despite—or possibly because of—inevitable shifts in dialogues about feminism and racism in American literary scholarship. Lorde dedicated much of her prose and poetry to complicating discussions of race, gender, class, and sexuality and to what she called "the transformation of silence into language and action." This panel seeks papers which analyze elements of Lorde's work which have remained silent in critical discussions yet and which question how her work may continue to help others "survive" in the 21st century.

Deadline extended

Pedagogy in a digital age or digital pedagogy? The SAMLA special session on pedagogy in the digital age welcomes paper, panel, and performance proposals on topics that deal with all aspects of pedagogy in the digital age, such as the uses of the term "digital pedagogy," defining the term, if that's possible; best digital pedagogical practices in the classroom; the tools of digital pedagogy; digital pedagogy and student writing; the politics of digital pedagogy; digital pedagogy and literacy (or multi-literacies); digital pedagogy and globalization; and other relevant topics.

Amnesia and Memory in Contemporary Spanish Cinema:
This panel invites papers that analyze, discuss, and interrogate the use and effects of amnesia and memory in contemporary Spanish films, and how all the voices related to identity, race, gender, age, or religion negotiate their own space within the Spanish, European, and global society. Please, send inquiries or 250-500 word abstracts in English or Spanish to Javier Venturi .
Abstract deadline for this session: September 30, 2009
Link: http://www.nemla.org/convention/index.html

New Media, New Narrative: Technological Effects on Student Writing Roundtable

Because our students are so immersed in electronic communication, their sensibilities about writing have undergone radical changes. The new narrative they are creating is a very public, shared experience. This roundtable seeks to foster discussion on how composition instruction can capitalize on the collaboration, resource sharing, and creativity that is redefining the act of composing in the 21st century. Please submit inquiries or 250 word proposals along with a brief biographical description in English to Kim.Ballerini@NCC.Edu. Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2009.

This panel will examine the appearance of "apparitional lesbians" in various works of fiction in order to question whether the apparitional, the unseen, and the invisible can be rendered visible, and how such a new visibility readjusts our understanding of those works. The panel will also consider papers on newer lesbian texts that employ the ghostly or empower it explicitly. Please send abstracts of 250-500 words.

Northeast Modern Language Association 2010 Annual Convention
Hilton Bonaventure, Montreal, Quebec; April 7-11, 2010

Panel: Indigenous Literatures of Native North America

The Indigenous Literatures of Native North America panel welcomes papers that address the works of indigenous North American writers. Special consideration will be given to papers that address the work of Thomas King, Louise Halfe, Lee Maracle, Rita Mestokosho, Armand Ruffo, and Richard Van Camp, and other indigenous Canadian writers. Submit abstracts of 500 words to Benjamin Carson at benjamin.carson@gmail.com.

Abstract deadline: September 30, 2009

Please include with your abstract:

Literature of Africa and the Diaspora Session; African Diasporic Differences [nov. 6-8, 09; 6/30/09]
full name / name of organization:
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email:
collinsw@sc.edu
cfp categories:
postcolonial
African Diasporic Differences

Passions: Promises and Perils

Conference hosted by the Graduate Program in Communication
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date: October 16-17, 2009
E-mail: passions_conference@googlegroups.com to contact organizers

Deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to Monday, June 29, 2009.

Abstracts need not explicitly engage "passions." The conference theme is used to organize panel discussions of the scholarly investments that inform our work. While this is the organizing theme, we use it to signify broadly the social, cultural, and economic investments that organize the things we study, and how we study them,

Concept

"Methodological Challenges of Medieval Literatures in Contemporary Literary History".

This is a workshop for the XIXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (August 15-21, 2010. Seoul, Korea).

The aim of the workshop is to reflect on the methodological challenges medieval literatures pose to comparative literary history. As non-national cultural formations, medieval literatures ask specific questions about the historiographical activity that, however, have been either overlooked or dealt with according to the national paradigm.

Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance littéraire

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

7 – 11 avril 2010

Montréal, Québec - Hilton Bonaventure