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Call for Personal Essays Set in Philadelphia

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 10:56am
PA Writing Project

This edited collection seeks 3,500-word narratives and non-fiction essays rooted in Philadelphia for a book that is under contract. A strong sense of place is required to be considered for possible publication. We seek essays from Philadelphia residents and/or those who have a connection to Philadelphia.

Interested writers should send an email to pawritingproject@gmail.com expressing interest by March 1. 500-word excerpts will be due by March 15. Final manuscripts will be due in May.

[speakers update] Singapore - The Contemporary: An International Conference of Literature and the Arts

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 7:14am
NTU~Singapore

The Contemporary
An International Conference of Literature and the Arts

June 24th-26th 2011
Division of English
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

A conference co-organised and supported by the Division of English (School of Humanities & Social Sciences) & the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), NTU.

*Main Speakers [Update]~ Brian McHale has been added to the list of main speakers:

Shirley Chew
Iftikhar Dadi
Reed Dasenbrock
Keith Hopper
Brian McHale
Brian Richardson
Lisa Samuels
Ronald Schleifer

CFP Cine-Excess V: Subverting the Senses

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 6:35am
Cine-Excess - Brunel University

The 5th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions Presents

Cine-Excess V: Subverting the Senses: The Politics and Aesthetics of Excess

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Locating George Herbert: Family, Place, Traditions--Wales--Oct. 13-16, 2011 (New Deadline April 21, 2011)

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 5:34am
George Herbert Society

The George Herbert Society announces its next international, interdisciplinary conference, which will seek to locate Herbert's Welsh origins and earliest influences. These include the gifted and competitive Herbert family; the Welsh border country around his Montgomery birthplace; and the literary, spiritual, and aesthetic traditions of Celtic culture. We also will locate Herbert's legacy among other Welsh poets, including Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Dylan Thomas, and R. S. Thomas.

Creative Writing: Creative or Critical Work (3/31/11)

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 5:26am
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

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New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing publishes both critical and creative work - offering a forum for debate, as well as an avenue for the publication of the best stories, poems, works of creative non-fiction or works for the stage or for the screen, in all its contemporary varieties. www.newwritingjournal.com

cfp Scritture migranti n.5/2011

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 4:09am
Scritture migranti: rivista di scambi interculturali - Dept. of Italian, University of Bologna

CALL FOR PAPERS N.5/2011
The Department of Italian Studies at the University of Bologna (Italy) is now accepting submissions for its next issue (n. 5/2011) of Scritture migranti, an international journal dedicated to writing on migration.
Interested scholars should send a complete essay or an abstract of approx. 20 lines by May 15, 2011 to the editorial committee: redazione.scritturemigranti@unibo.it.

CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Student Conference

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 10:52pm
Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association

The California State University, Long Beach
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Third Annual Student Conference
April 2, 2011
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California

The Medieval and Renaissance Students' Association at CSULB is seeking proposals for individual papers and group panels from graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines for its Third Annual Student Conference. Proposals should be sent as presentation abstracts of 250 words or less. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length, allowing 5-10 minutes for discussion and questions.

Law and Corporeality in Literature

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 10:35pm
MLA 2012

accepting paper proposals for a panel at the 127th MLA Annual Convention in Seattle (5–8 January 2012). Note that this proposal is for a guaranteed session sponsored by the Law as Literature Discussion Group.

Law and Corporeality in Literature

This panel considers how the law regulates the body/bodies in literature and other media. Papers considering gender, race, and ethnicity are especially encouraged. 300-word abstract and bio by 5 March 2011; April Miller (april.miller@unco.edu).

Documentary Film Panel

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 9:54pm
PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association

This year's PAMLA conference is at Scripps College in Claremont, California (November 5-6, 2011).

Documentary Film Panel

As Bertolt Brecht noted, "Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change." Perhaps for that reason, among others, Documentary Cinema has experienced a strong surge in the past decade. This panel will investigate recent documentary films from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives.

[UPDATE] Shakespeare and the Material World (March 2, 2011)

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 6:42pm
Early English Studies Journal

Early English Studies Journal is an online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department and is devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods. EES is published annually, peer-reviewed, and open to general submission.

Writing Programs

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 6:37pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

We are seeking participants for the Writing Programs session at the 2011 RMMLA Convention, which will take place from October 6-8 in Scottsdale, AZ.

Papers that deal with assessment topics are especially welcome, but all papers that discuss any aspect of the administration of writing programs will be given serious consideration.

Specifically, assessment and reflective practices are the only way we can know whether students are achieving outcomes that programs are designed to produce. Reflective practices that lead to course and program changes require good research designs and cooperative faculty.

Screenplay Translation: ALTA, Kansas City, Nov. 16-20, 2011

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 3:39pm
proposed session, American Literary Translators Association

Seeking panelists for a proposed American Literary Translators Association session on the literary translation of film screenplays. Translators who work in this genre as well as interested screenwriters, scholars, and members of the publishing industry are invited to participate. Panelists will present their topics (10-15 minutes each) in a communicative fashion rather than reading directly from papers. Please send a 100-word abstract and a 100-word bio to lakanost@ksu.edu by April 11.

The Olive Oil Culture in the Mediterranean, November 10-11, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 3:23pm
The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies

The purpose of this conference is to bring together a group of scholars interested in examining the role of the olive tree and olive oil in the history of the Mediterranean, from antiquity to the present. Its perspective is interdisciplinary and its scope is multicultural. Among the topics to be examined are the symbolic value of the olive tree and olive oil in the religious, artistic and literary history of the nations surrounding the Mediterranean basin. The conference also intends to explore the cultivation of olive trees, the production history of oil, its economic history, its centrality in the food culture of the Mediterranean, and, finally, the movement of oil and its symbolism to other areas of the globe as part of the Mediterranean diasporas.

Matrix / Meretrix : Fertile and Corruptive Bodies in French Literature (MLA 2012 Proposed Special Session)

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 3:10pm
Stefanie Goyette / Harvard University / (MLA 2012 in Seattle)

We would like to see papers exploring the intersection of fertility, purity and corruption - e.g. angelic prostitutes, perverse mothers, monstrous births.

This CFP is for a PROPOSED special session at the 2012 MLA in Seattle. The session is not guaranteed.

500 word abstract by March 15, 2011.

Essay Collection: Mexican Horror Films: Studies in the Horror Film.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 2:42pm
Dr. Gerardo Tonatiuh Cummings Rendón

Essays for a forthcoming collection on Mexican Horror Films: Studies in the Horror Film
Due: July 4, 2011
Edited by Dr. Gerardo Tonatiuh Cummings Rendón

Proposals are sought for an edited collection entitled Mexican Horror Films: Studies in the Horror Film, a collection slated to be published by Centipede Press in their long-established Studies in the Horror Film series.

UPDATE: Integrating Lit and Culture (MLA 2012 Jan 5-8, Seattle) abstracts by 15 Mar

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 1:46pm
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA and MLA

Community College Humanities Association Panel at the 2012 MLA in Seattle.

What Works? Integrating Literature and Culture

Innovative strategies for integrating literary and cultural studies in English and Foreign Language lower division and continuing education courses. Roundtable. Stacey Donohue sdonohue@cocc.edu. 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2011; George Louis Scheper (shepbklyn@aol.com) and Stacey Donohue (sdonohue@cocc.edu).

Contemporary Musicals on Film, Television and the Internet (due March 31, 2011)

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 12:07pm
Kenneth Chan and Aviva Dove-Viebahn

In recent years, the musical genre has seen a revival on American screens, with television shows like GLEE (2009-present) and AMERICAN IDOL (2002-present) and a litany of cinematic adaptations from CHICAGO (2002) and DREAMGIRLS (2006) to FAME (2009) and BURLESQUE (2010). Even before the wild popularity of GLEE, myriad television shows, including BUFFY: THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003), ALLY MCBEAL (1997-2002), EVEN STEVENS (2000-2003), SCRUBS (2001-2010), and HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (2005-present), used musical interludes or aired special musical episodes to garner ratings and entertain fans. Web series and one-off celebrity skits like "Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog" and "Prop 8: The Musical," respectively, have also jumped on the musical bandwagon.

[UPDATE] Virginia Woolf: The Individual and the Group, PAMLA 2011 (deadline Mar 25)

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 12:02pm
Session organizer: Judith Paltin, UC Santa Barbara

*Corrected submission deadline: March 25, 2011*
Woolf's novels and essays often sustain a central tension between individuals' freedoms or agency and what they perceive groups to demand of them. For example, A Room of One's Own displays the tensions between intellectual freedom and the mind of the crowd, while Orlando wrestles in ambushes set up by means of unstable identity categories. This approved session looks for papers that discuss Woolf's concerns about the impact of group life on her characters, or that place her literary agonists in proximity to group-driven events and trends between the wars.

CFP: 2nd Annual Gender and Sexuality Symposium

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 11:32am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

We are excited to invite you to join a multi-disciplinary dialogue on gender and sexuality. Although formal research projects and papers are welcome, the symposium is designed to encourage meaningful dialogue amongst the community; thus, we encourage you to submit semester projects and papers that will add to the conversation.

Exploring the Global Caribbean through Literary and Theoretical Texts Conference, 5-7 July 2012, Kingsville, Texas

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 10:32am
Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Keynote Speaker:
Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Columbia University

Call for papers:
Because the Caribbean represents the confluence of peoples and cultures—from Europe, Africa, and the Americas—first through trade routes and colonization and then through the dispersion of its literature and culture in a contemporary diaspora back out to the larger world, it provides a paradigm for studying the processes and effects of globalization. A culturally and linguistically rich region of the world that includes English, French, Spanish, Dutch and native creoles, the Caribbean also provides a fascinating literature that is complicated by its history and location.

American Literature Before 1865 (standing panel) PAMLA, Claremont, CA, Feb 5&6, 2011

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 9:35am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

The 2011 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) annual conference will be held on November 5-6 at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

Submit proposals and abstracts for the standing session on American Literature Before 1865 via PAMLA's online submission process by March 18, 2011. Contact Liam Corley (wccorley@csupomona.edu) with questions.

PAMLA's Online Submission Process In-Depth:

1). The Online CFP List of all approved Conference Sessions is available at: http://www.pamla.org/2011/session-topics

1st Global Conference on Evil and the Nature of the Beast

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 7:43am
Global Research Studies

Call for Papers!
1st Global Conference on Evil and the Nature of the Beast

www.globalresearchstudies.com/research_studies/evil_and_the_nature_of_th...

September 12-14, 2011 – Washington Univ. – Charles F. Knight Center – St. Louis, MO

Abstract Deadline: March 31, 2011

"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
THOMAS HARDY, Far from the Madding Crowd

Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland. 8-9 July, 2011.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 7:29am
University College Dublin

Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland Conference

University College Dublin, July 8-9, 2011
Hosted by The Humanities Institute of Ireland

"Famous throughout the civilised world and the Irish Free State"
Murphy

"I have also decided to remind myself of my present state before embarking on my stories. I think this is a mistake."
Malone Dies

Generations. Themed Issue.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 6:05am
LiNQ Literature in North Queensland

Society is in the balance a significant generational flux. As the baby boomers face retirement—sandwiched between caring for their elderly parents and encouraging their adult children to leave the nest, Gen X, now at the helm with Gen Y biting at their heals close behind, is rapidly resisting its entry into middle-age. In the last American election, this generational transition played a key role in electing Barrack Obama, and in the rest of the world as Twitter Revolutions unfold, the significance of this demographic shift is yet to be fully understood.

PAMLA November 5-6: Special Session: Teaching Big Novels in Developmental Writing? Seriously (proposals 3/25/11)

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 12:12am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

This panel considers the role a challenging, lengthy (perhaps canonical) novel might play in the developmental, pre-collegiate writing course. Papers should address pedagogical praxis rather than re-hash perennial theoretical questions of literature's role in teaching composition. Proposals must be submitted electronically at the following address: http://www.pamla.org/2011. Queries only to the contact email in this post.

[UPDATE] Converting Cultures, Building the Empire: American Missionaries in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Nov. 5-6, 2011)

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 11:49pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association

CFP: Missionaries Panel - PAMLA 2011
Scripps College in Claremont, CA (near Los Angeles)

American missionaries spread more than religious ideology as they sought to convert "others" around the world. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which American cultural expansion occurred as a consequence of the American foreign mission movement in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Possible broad paper topics are not limited to:
Architecture
Art
Children
Class
Education
Fashion
Food
Gender
Leisure
Literature
Missionary presses
Music
Race
Topic of your choosing

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