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One-day seminar : "The Screenplay in English-Speaking Cinema: The Invisible Visible Text"
Université de Bretagne Sud, January 26th, 2012
Organized by Shannon Wells-Lassagne (Université de Bretagne Sud) and Isabelle Roblin (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale)
Indiana College English Association 2011 Conference
Anderson University – Anderson, Indiana
Spiritus Loci
October 7, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Scott Russell Sanders
The Indiana College English Association is pleased to announce Scott Russell Sanders as the keynote speaker for our 2011 conference. Sanders is a noted essayist and the author of more than 20 books, including his most recent A Conservationist Manifesto; A Private History of Awe; and Wilderness Plots: Tales About the Settlement of the American Land. Common themes in his work are the human place in nature, social justice, and the search for a spiritual path. He retired from Indiana University in 2009 as Distinguished Professor of English.
The paper proposal deadline for RMMLA has passed, but one more presenter is needed for the Science Fiction Literature and Film panel. Consider the following topics:
posthumanism, utopia/dystopia, cyberculture, adaptation, postcolonial sci-fi, technology, steam punk, gender, sexuality, apocalypse, othering, ecocriticism, archetypes, the hero's journey, identity, time travel, film & television, etc.
Don't feel limited by the topics above; ALL proposals will be considered. Send abstracts to hqrq@iup.edu by April 15th.
The second of these related sessions focuses on ideas about insularity in late-medieval texts and artworks, including Chaucerian ones. What were the correspondences between ideas of religious isolation and geographical insularity? How were islands imagined in relation to each other within archipelagos? What were the distinctions between islands and continents? How was the shoreline an interactive space? Proposals are invited for 15 or 20 minutes papers that examine how people thought about insularity in geographical, political, religious, and artistic discourses.
The main title of these two related session refers to the influential twentieth-century ideas of Epeli Hau-ofa, who reimagined the Pacific in terms of plentitude, networks, and routes. For the first panel, proposals are invited for 15 or 20 minute papers that use recent theoretical ideas about aquatic spaces to examine late-medieval texts and artworks, including Chaucerian ones. What does Britain, Europe, and the world look like from the sea? What shapes did medieval oceanic or inland water routes, vectors, and forces take? How did writers imagine (trans)maritime networks of exchange? What texts or topoi acted as agents of archipelagic and regional integration? What aquatic discourse were familiar to medieval writers, including Chaucer?
Die Wunderkammer (German for "the wonder-room" or "the miracle chamber") was merely one incarnation of the phenomenon of the "cabinet of curiosities" that first appeared in Europe in the 16th century. The cabinet of curiosities was based in the collection of objects, specimens and artifacts that inspired curiosity and wonder, and sometimes defied the terms classification. In many ways, the Cabinet of Curiosities was a precursor to the modern museum.
In keeping with the theme of "Structures of Innovation," this panel seeks papers that demonstrate an innovation on rather than a rupture from tradition, and question the so-called radical break from nineteenth-century standards for form, content, and the place of poetry or fiction in society. This panel welcomes submissions that demonstrate concrete connections between modernist American or British texts and the nineteenth-century through formal, political, and cultural modes of inquiry.
In keeping with the theme of "Structures of Innovation," this panel seeks papers that demonstrate an innovation on rather than a rupture from tradition, and question the so-called radical break from nineteenth-century standards for form, content, and the place of poetry or fiction in society. This panel welcomes submissions that demonstrate concrete connections between modernist American or British texts and the nineteenth-century through formal, political, and cultural modes of inquiry.
Please include a brief bio note with your abstract.
Lifewriting Annual seeks critical and scholarly essays on lifewriting in all forms: biography, autobiography, memoir, journals, diaries, graphic "novels" and new media. We look especially for articles describing and assessing scholarly resources for biographical writing, such as manuscript collections and letters. For the "Crossings" section, hybrid essays combining one or more lifewriting genres with another genre are welcome. We publish reviews of recently published biographies, autobiographies, and other works of lifewriting, but do not publish reviews of critical works on lifewriting. Submissions may treat works in any language or period but must be written in English.
New Deadline: June 1, 2011
Jewish American Writers
Deadline Extended
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
109th Annual Conference
November 5-6, 2011
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
This panel will explore the tradition of Jewish American literature. Proposals are welcomed on subjects historical or contemporary, serious or comic, highbrow or lowbrow, any genre.
Please submit paper title, 500-word proposal, and 40-word abstract online at www.pamla.org/2011/session-topics by April 18, 2011.
Send inquiries to Jaime Cleland at jaime.cleland@gmail.com.
This panel examines the role of memory and imagination in the construction of identity and nationhood in contemporary poetry of the diaspora. It welcomes papers that go beyond a traditional historicist approach to reading poetic texts, and re-think what it means to read the text against the grain of history. Proposals may address any relevant topic and should be addressed to a wide audience. Themes may include but are not limited to:
The role of the poetic body
Text, subtext and context
Poetry as a culture of resistance
Cultural shifts created by migration/immigration
Performance poetry
Language and identity politics
Neglected poetry performances
Animation Explosion 2011
A Multidisciplinary and Multimedia Event
Weds, 14th September 2011
Birmingham City University
A Screen Cultures Research Group Event
Sponsored by Society for Animation Studies
The Online Mainline 2011
Alternative Media and Remediation
Thurs, 15th September 2011
Birmingham City University
A Screen Cultures Research Group Event
Hospitality & Society Journal: Call for Papers
Hospitality & Society is a new international multidisciplinary social sciences journal that focuses upon academic perspectives on hospitality and addresses all aspects of hospitality and its connections with wider social and cultural processes and structures.
Aims and scope
- To consider issues associated with hospitality leading to its advancement and understanding, including developing new approaches to the study of hospitality.
- To serve as a multidisciplinary forum encouraging interdisciplinarity with contributors coming from a wide variety of disciplinary bases.
Scholarly essays are invited for an anthology of critical essays on Aesthetics of Haiku Poetry to be published by a reputed publisher from India. The essays may include the traditional as well as contemporary trends in Haiku poetry with special focus on evolution and development of Haiku in English language across the world. For further details, please write to Editor of the anthology at editorial.2008@indiatimes.com.
DEADLINE for ABSTRACTS: 31 MAY 2011.
DEADLINE for FULL PAPER: 31 JULY 2011.
Call For Papers for the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA., November 3-5, 2011. The deadline for proposals is June 15th, 2011. http://www.mapaca.net/confer/conferHome.html
The Religion and Popular Culture area of the conference seeks presentations on the following topics:
While evoking Benedict Anderson's idea of "long distance nationalism" to underscore the diasporic concept of Englishness, Robert J. C.
We are looking for a third contributor to round out a proposed panel on empathy and modernism for the 2011 Modernist Studies Association conference in Buffalo. Please send 250-word abstracts for papers exploring problems of "thinking with" or "feeling with" others in modernism, along with a short cv, to mmh340@nyu.edu by Monday, April 11. We welcome papers on any modernist topic, but especially those treating the visual arts. Please note if you are not already a member of the MSA you will have to join for the 2011-2012 membership year (starting July 1, 2011) in order to participate.
Travel and Tourism Studies continues to gain popularity as an academic field, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that explore and discuss any aspect of travel and tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:
- heritage tourism
- travel and gender/race/class
- material culture and tourism
- writing travel
- spatial relations and tourism
- politics and tourism
- personal travel narratives
International Conference
Barbarism Revisited
:
New Perspectives on an Old Concept
Organizing institutions: Leiden University (Netherlands) & The University of Bonn (Germany)
Location: Leiden
Date: May 31 - June 1, 2012
Organizers: Prof.Dr. Christian Moser (Bonn) & Dr. Maria Boletsi (Leiden)
Confirmed keynote speakers:
- Terry Eagleton
- François Hartog
Transcultural/Transmedia Adaptations of Shakespeare
full name / name of organization:
Outerspeares
contact email:
gems@uoguelph.ca
Outerspeares: Transcultural / Transmedia Adaptations of Shakespeare
The 1st Annual Conference of the Guelph Early Modern Studies Group
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario - November 1, 2011
Deadline for Proposals: May 1, 2011
Conference Announcement / Call for papers
The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom
10 to 12 June 2011
Osaka, Japan
International Conference on Techonlogy and its use
in the Classroom, and in the virtual environments
related to teaching: Conference Theme: Technology
and Education: Finding the Right Tool for the
Right Job
The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 1 May 2011.
Conference Announcement / Call for papers
The Asian Conference on Language Learning
10 to 12 June 2011
Osaka, Japan
Organized by the International Academic Forum and
its Global Partners
International Academic Conference on Language
Learning and related fields of study. Conference
Theme: Connecting Theory and Practice
Conference Chair: Professor Steve Cornwell, Osaka
Jogakuin College
The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 1 May 2011.
Recasting the Past: Early Modern to Postmodern Medievalisms
A Conference supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) at the University of Exeter
7-8 September 2011
Inviting abstracts for a panel on "South Asian Cultural Productions and Everyday Life" at the 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), 25-28 July, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal. Areas of focus:
- Cultural productions (literature, film, music, visual culture etc.) and its representation of everyday life in South Asia
- Cultural productions and Everyday Islam in South Asia
- Everyday life as a space of negotiation between the sacral and the secular
- Relation between anthropology and cultural productions in the depiction of everyday life
If interested in being part of the panel, please contact with a tentative proposal (150 words) no later than 13 April, 2011:
NeoAmericanist, an online multi-disciplinary journal for the study of America, is issuing a CALL FOR PAPERS to interested Undergraduate and Graduate students. We are accepting any PAPERS, PHOTOGRAPHY, ART WORK, or POETRY, as well as REVIEWS of music, architecture, movie, books and multimedia from Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level students on the topic of the United States of America.
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE INCONVENIENT POLITICS OF MODERN EUROPEAN ARTISTS AND WRITERS
FOR: Modernist Studies Association conference, Buffalo, NY, October 6-9, 2011
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: April 7, 2011
CFP: Walter Mosley's World
PAMLA Conference, November 5-6, 2011, Claremont, California
Deadline: 18 April 2011
Submit to: www.pamla.org
This session will examine Walter Mosley's fiction. Papers that examine any aspect of Mosley's fiction may be submitted. Particularly welcome are papers that explore Mosley's use of setting and his exploration of the city, especially Los Angeles. Also encouraged are papers that explore Mosley's use and adaptation of genre.
Call for Chapters – Edited Volume
Working Title: Reclaiming the Soul: Thinking Beyond the Body in Renaissance England
The English Graduate Student Organization at Middle Tennessee State University is requesting submissions for its 4th Annual MTSU EGSO Conference. The theme of this year's conference is "Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends." Presentations of scholarly research in all areas of literature and literary studies are welcome. Some suggested topics include:
•Children's Literature
•American Literature
•British Literature
•Popular Culture, Folklore, Graphic Novels and Film Studies
•Composition, Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Critical Theory
Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted by email to the MTSU EGSO Conference Selection Committee: submissions@mtsuegso.org