GOING CARIBBEAN! New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art

!Extended deadline! JUNE 15, 2009

New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art
Novas perspectivas sobre a literatura e a arte caribenhas
Nuevas perspectivas sobre la literatura y el arte caribeños
Nouvelles perspectives sur la littérature et l´art des Caraïbes
Nieuwe perspectieven op de Caribische literatuur en kunst

Centre for Comparative Studies.
University of Lisbon, November 2 – 3, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
Classical Receptions Journal
Edited by Professor Lorna Hardwick

LAUNCHING IN 2009!
Classical Receptions Journal covers all aspects of the reception of the texts and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome from antiquity to the present day. It aims to explore the relationships between transmission, interpretation, translation, transplantation, rewriting, redesigning and rethinking of Greek and Roman material in other contexts and cultures. It addresses the implications both for the receiving contexts and for the ancient, and compares different types of linguistic, textual and ideological interactions.

The J.R.R. Tolkien/C.S. Lewis panel of the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference seeks abstracts of papers (250 words) that address various aspects of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Discussion of the film versions of Rings and Narnia are welcome. The chair is open to a wide variety of topics and critical approaches. The aim of the panel is to identify and characterize the recent wide acclaim given to both authors as serious thinkers and artists who have gained broad and deep appeal as popular entertainers.

Choices of AV equipment are limited to DVD/VCR/monitor/audio cassette player/carousel and overhead projector/screen.

CFP: 38th Annual Medieval Studies Workshop, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada, 13-14 November 2009

Writing the World: Representation of the Cultural, Political and Natural World in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

'What can we know of the world? What quantity of space can our eyes hope to take in between our birth and our death? How many square centimetres of Planet Earth will the soles of our feet have touched?' (Georges Perec, Species of Spaces, p. 78).

'… perceiving that the earth is a form of writing, a geography of which we had forgotten that we ourselves are the authors.' (Georges Perec, Species of Space, p. 79).

Seeking previously unpublished scholarly manuscript contributions for an anthology relating to the "Gen-X experience" from a librarian perspective, or, the "librarian experience" from a Gen-X perspective. Also welcome are critical perspectives of Gen-X librarians and interesting perspectives on Gen-X librarians from non-Gen-Xers.

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Our Editor are looking for cutting edge articles, hybrid texts, ficiton, poetry, as well as satire, comedy, and current events pieces. Localized Southern California issues, as well as wider geographically represented pieces are welcome.

Deadline is continuous

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are pleased to announce the second volume of the journal Scritture Migranti of the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Bologna, Italy.
Scritture Migranti is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the literature of migration, both in Italy and elsewhere.
We accept contributions in Italian as well as in many other languages.
Our web site contains the index of the second volume, a more detailed description of the journal, and information about submitting work for our next issue or purchasing the journal.

The Editorial Board, Scritture Migranti
L'Università degli Studi di Bologna, ITALY

http://www.aber.ac.uk/myth2010/

The organisers of Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations would like to invite proposals for panels and papers that explore myth and myth-making in all its guises. The conference will bring together scholars working across creative and critical disciplines, historical periods and theoretical approaches in order to explore the links be-tween story-telling, mythology, histories, identities and ideologies.

Key note speakers include Professor Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow) who will be speaking on the theme "What is a National Culture".

The Center of Interdisciplinary Research in Languages, Arts and Humanities (CRILLASH) of the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, welcomes proposals for papers for the 3rd Symposium of the Young Caribbean Researchers to be held October 15-16, 2009 on the campus of Schoelcher in Martinique, French West Indies. The conference is a biennual event for the fostering of innovative research among academics, artists and writers who either belong to the Caribbean Diaspora or have dedicated an important part of their studies to the "Sixth Continent".

In what ways does Shakespeare imagine the natural world in his plays and poems, and how do those depictions set the stage on which his characters act? In a tragedy like King Lear, Shakespeare envisions a nature that can strip away the layers and accretions of culture that have blinded the protagonist. Is that the same nature as the "green world" of his comedies? Or is the Forest of Ardenne not just a different space but a different kind of nature than the heath? How might we read the island environment of The Tempest, and Prospero's control over the elements? Do Shakespeare's histories posit a sense of the land itself, and if so, do they conceive of a workable way to live in harmony with nature?

Submissions are invited for the Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 2009. Articles (approx. 6000 words)on any aspect of Warner's life and works (including her music) should be sent to H.Sutherland@educ.gla.ac.uk by 18 September 2009.
Further information about the Journal (including contents of previous issues) can be found at
http://www.townsendwarner.com/publications.php

Seminar style session that explores Spain and Portugal's colonial and post/imperial encounters with East Asia as registered in writings in Spanish and Portuguese by peninsular and post/colonial authors from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Papers might focus on, but are not limited to, an analysis of fiction and non-fiction narratives of colonial adventures and political resistance, missionary travails, and travel through Japan, China, Korea, Philippines, to mention just a few examples.

Deadline for full consideration: June 15, 2009
(Manuscripts accepted on a rolling basis)
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/cfp.html

"Strangers, Gods, & Monsters": Encountering the Other in Defoe & His Contemporaries"

Digital Defoe is a new peer-reviewed and multi-media online journal http://www.english.ilstu.edu/digitaldefoe/)celebrating the works and culture of Daniel Defoe and his contemporaries. We welcome multimedia submissions that push the boundaries of scholarship in our field as well as more traditional essays, reviews, notes, and dissertation and conference abstracts.