American poetry and painting
3-4 July 2010
University of Kent Centre for Modern Poetry

Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric
University of Alaska Anchorage

"Hybridity: Intersections of History, Identity, and Technology"
February 26-27, 2010
Third Floor of the Consortium Library,
University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA)

Keynote Speakers
Dr. Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin - Madison, specializes in mass literacy studies, as well as diversity, equity, and access in literacy learning. She is the author of Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers and Texts; Literacy in American Lives; and Literacy and Learning: Reading, Writing, Society.

SPOTLIGHTED SCHOLARS AWARD

The Second Annual National Graduate Student Conference in Performance Studies, hosted by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies

Anxieties of Overexposure: Enlargements, Contagions & the Dark
April 30th & May 1st, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles

Featured Keynote Speaker: Professor Karen Shimakawa
Keynote Performers (TBD)

Applicants are invited to submit papers for a Spotlighted Scholarship panel. The selected scholars will be awarded stipends for travel and accommodation, as well as publication in the UCLA Center for Performance Studies journal Extensions.

Please note that the DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS for the conference 'Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking CinemaScope': The Spectacle of Technology in Screen Media has CHANGED due to overwhelming response.

The new deadline for abstracts is Monday 7 December 2009.

The date of the conference itself is the same. Please see the full CfP below.

Regards,
Anna Sloan

'Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking CinemaScope': The Spectacle of Technology in Screen Media
Saturday 27th February 2010
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

Scandal has long played an essential role in the critical and historical reception of art. Sometimes intentional and at other times unwanted, scandal erupts at almost every significant juncture in the history of art. When an artist is found in the midst of a scandal, he/she will either be lauded as a prophet shaking a reluctant society, or as an opportunist acting out of self-promotion. Controversies are equally certain to arise at the points of contact between the world of art and political power structures. Whatever its particularities, artistic scandal is often instrumental in challenging and reformulating the boundaries of social, moral, and artistic acceptability.

In 1994, T.C. Smout pointed to the concentric loyalties which go to make up the identity of those who see themselves as Scottish. Some of these loyalties were examined in the 1998 volume Image and Identity: the making and re-making of Scotland through the ages (Edinburgh, 1998). Building on that work and the last decade of new research, The Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph would like to continue this discussion by inviting proposals for the second volume in the Guelph Series in Scottish Studies, The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the World Beyond.

Women and Science in Performance Seminar

2009 Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference in Montreal

http://www.catr-acrt.ca/?page_id=11

Description:

Conflicting Views: Visual Culture, Conflict and Northern Ireland
Venue: Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
Dates: June 10th – 12th 2010.

The School of Creative Arts and the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, are pleased to announce that they will be hosting a three day conference on Visual Culture, Conflict and Northern Ireland in June 2010.

1st Global Conference
Revenge

Thursday 15th July 2010 – Saturday 17th July 2010
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
Revenge, so we are told, is a dish best served cold: a 'sweet' wreaking of vengeance on those who have – either in reality or in our minds – slighted, wronged or in some way 'injured' us and who are now 'enjoying' their just deserts by an avenging angel (or angels) on the great day of reckoning.

The Sixth International Women and the Silent Screen Conference will celebrate the diversity of women's engagement with silent cinemas across the globe through a series of scholarly panels, keynote addresses, and archival film screenings.

We invite papers and panels not only on the directors, screenwriters, producers, and actors of the era, but also on the role of women in modern mass culture, broadly considered. Continuing the dynamic spirit that characterized previous conferences in Utrecht (1999), Santa Cruz (2001), Montréal (2004), Guadalajara (2006), and Stockholm (2008) the conference will provide an open and friendly atmosphere for the exchange of research and insight into women's involvement in the first four decades of film history.

Call for Participation:

"Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures": Noise, Affect, Politics

University of Salford and Islington Mill, July 1-3 2010

Organising Committee:

Dr Michael Goddard, Dr Benjamin Halligan and Professor David Sanjek

"If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon and Garfunkel." – Lars Ulrich

Boston College's African and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) announces the inaugural year of its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any discipline in the Humanities or Social Sciences with projects focusing on any topic within African and/or African Diaspora Studies are eligible. We seek applicants pursuing innovative, preferably interdisciplinary, projects in dialogue with critical issues and trends within the field.

This 2010/2011 fellowship includes a $30,000 stipend, health insurance, a $1,500 research budget, and a fully equipped office. The fellow must remain in residence for the 9-month academic year, deliver one public lecture, and teach one seminar course.

The Carson McCullers Center at Columbus State University (Columbus, GA) seeks papers and panels on a wide range of topics related to McCullers' work and influence. The conference is especially open to multi-disciplinary perspectives and emerging works by scholars and graduate students. While the committee remains open to any topic related to McCullers, we especially encourage discussions of her influence, her plays, her novels, her short stories, gender implications of her work, film adaptations, issues of race class, and/or sexuality, regional perspectives, issues of disability.

When one thinks of quilters and quilting, computers, and especially Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking and virtual worlds, may be the very last thing to come to mind. After all, even in a culture boasting an increasing diversity of perspectives and voices, technology in the West continues to be constructed as a primarily masculine endeavor. And yet, women, including quilters, of all ages are using sundry digital technologies. Very little up to date work has been done in this area. Specifically, there has been a dearth of focus upon women in cyberspace.