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College Book Arts Association First Biennial Conference
Call for Proposals
ART, FACT, AND ARTIFACT: THE BOOK IN TIME AND PLACE
January 8-10, 2009
hosted by the University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, Iowa
The University of Chicago
Department of English Language and Literature
Third Annual Graduate Conference
October 10-11, 2008
Call for Papers
Strange Reading
Practice, Audience, Theory
Keynote Speaker: Professor Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Uncovering the Scholarly Edition
Keele University
18 June 2008
A one-day conference to be held at Keele University for the presentation
of recent thinking on the relations between scholarship and publishing as
they are expressed in the scholarly edition
Since our first two conferences met with such success, The University of
North Carolina -Greensboro’s English Graduate Student Association again
asks, “What you working on?†for its third interdisciplinary conference in
English studies. We are each “Writing into the Profession†as we employ
the theories and practices of effective English scholarship. This is not
your usual CFPâ€"we’re not asking you to bend your interests to suit a
specific theme. Instead, we want you to use our conference as an
opportunity to explore and enact just what it means to be part of the
English profession. Bring whatever you are currently working on and engage
8th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
April 11-13, 2008
Objective Witness: Performance, Document, Memory
University of Iowa
This interdisciplinary session planned for Renaissance Society of America
2009 invites papers that link visual and verbal elements in specific
texts to broader concerns in 16th-century print culture. In 16th-century
literary texts in England and on the continent, how do visual and verbal
elements work together in the new medium to create new aesthetics and
modes of meaning? How do printers, artists, authors, and translators
collaborate to deploy the new technology in visual and verbal forms? How
does a new means of production reshape the interaction of the visual and
verbal? We welcome other such questions and the treatment of specific
subjects (e.g. the use of woodcuts, engravings, printers’ devices,
Please consider submitting a proposal for a multi-panel special session at the 2008 MMLA
(November 13-16, 2008, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) on the broad topic of American Studies-
Book Studies. Although I've posted specific panel cfp's, abstracts
falling under the general rubric of American Book History are equally welcome.
Call for Papers and Presentations
Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures â€" Past and Present,
Local and Global
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
27-30 August 2008
Saving the History of Printing
The American Printing History Association (APHA) welcomes proposals for its
33rd annual conference, Saving the History of Printing.
The conference will be held in New York City on October 10-12, 2008, with a
keynote address by James Mosley at the Grolier Club on Friday October 10
and the main proceedings on Saturday, October 11 at Columbia University.
Full conference details will be available at the APHA website,
www.printinghistory.org
The University of Chicago
Department of English Language and Literature
Third Annual Graduate Conference
October 10-11, 2008
Call for Papers
Strange Reading
Practice, Audience, Theory
CFP SAMLA 2008 Convention : “Readers, Writers, and Communities in Early
Modern English Literatureâ€
Textual and Bibliographical Studies Session
Papers are invited that explore the formation of communities of readers and
writers in English literature. How do writers respond to one another in
manuscript and print? How do groups of readers find community in the
textual features of books? How are the social, intellectual, or political
needs of communities met by the texts they read and write? This panel will
explore the textual means by which literature contributes to the formation
of community.
Call for Papers:
Textuality, Visuality and their Convergence
Submissions are invited for this Special Topic Session at the October 9-
11, 2008 Rocky Mountain MLA Convention in Reno, Nevada. Papers may
address but are not limited to the following topics:
Writing the visual
Seeing or not seeing texts
Cultural and/or theoretical approaches to textuality and visuality
The role of visual studies in literary scholarship
The role of literary studies in visual studies scholarship
Particular readings that blend these two approaches
Please send a 300-word abstract and a brief CV in .doc or .pdf format to
Susan Cook, susan.elizabeth.cook_at_gmail.com.
In recent years, nineteenth-century sensationalism has attracted much
attention among scholars of both American and British literature and
culture. Sensation literature, however, has yet to be examined in a
transatlantic context, despite the fact that the genre emerged within a
transnational publication system that shaped its development from the
early 1800s to the end of the century. This proposed MLA special session
seeks not only to map the development of the “sensation novelâ€â€"the
nineteenth century’s best-selling genre on both sides of the Atlanticâ€"but
also to account for the emergence of a new kind of writing that informed
19th Annual UCLA Southland Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers
Conference Title: Genre Matters
Conference Date: Friday, May 16, 2008
Keynote Speakers: Lowell Gallagher and Yogita Goyal, UCLA Department of
English
The 2008 meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association will
take place in San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8.
<a href="http://www.ou.edu/scmla"</a>.
In light of the theme of “Borders†for the 2008 conference of the
South Central Modern Language Association, I invite paper proposals for the
regular-session Bibliography and Textual Studies panel titled, "The Borders
of Textual Criticism."
The 2008 meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association will
take place in San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8.
<a href="http://www.ou.edu/scmla"</a>.
In light of the theme of “Borders†for the 2008 conference of the
South Central Modern Language Association, I invite paper proposals for the
regular-session Bibliography and Textual Studies panel titled, "The Borders
of Textual Criticism."
The Fiction of Nonfiction
This is a CFP for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the 15th
annual humanities conference at University of California Riverside on April
11-12, 2008. Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
literature that examine the often uncomfortably/ unclearly drawn line
between fiction and nonfiction. These papers can examine texts by authors
from a wide range of time periods, genres, and geonational origins.
2008 MLA (San Francisco): Special Session Call For Papers
What is an Explorer?
How have different dimensions of authorship (authorization, individualization,
print and manuscript circulation, institutional domains, material production)
intersected with and informed those of exploration and voyaging (whether
commercial, scientific, enslaving, imperial) in the 18th and 19th centuries?
Email 250-word abstracts by March 10 to Adriana Craciun (a.craciun_at_bbk.ac.uk).
Dr. Adriana Craciun
Reader in Literature and Theory
School of English and Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
Call for Papers
The Second Annual Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference
April 2nd â€" 4th 2008
University College Cork
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr; mbsr@ucc.ie
Conference Theme: Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Alistair McCleery, Co-Director of SAPPHIRE, Professor of
Literature and Culture at Napier University, and co-editor of The Book
History Reader
Professor Nora Crook, Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin
University, and co-general editor of the multi-volume Complete Poetry of
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Printing Shakespeare: From the First Folio to Nicholas Rowe.
MLA 2008 - San Francisco
The 14th Annual Southern Writers, Southern Writing is a University of
Mississippi Graduate Student Conference held in conjunction with the Annual
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.
The Graduate Students in the Departments of English and Southern Studies
invite you to submit abstracts exploring Southern culture. Accepted
submissions will be presented in Oxford, Mississippi, July 17th-19th, 2008.
The keynote speaker will be John T. Edge, director of the Southern
Foodways Alliance and author of numerous books on Southern cuisine,
including Fried Chicken: An American Story.
Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature. They may include:
Papers for this proposed special session will consider the significance of
the audiobook. The growing popularity of audiobooks over the last decade
means that literary critics may no longer be able to turn a blind eye -- or
a deaf ear, in this case -- to the ways in which oral delivery influences
the reception of literature. This panel will explore the extent to which
the audiobook not only enables us to hear literature but to hear it in new
ways. While audiobooks are still responsible for only a small fraction of
the total book publishing market, their use is among the minority of
reading practices found to be increasing as the number of overall readers
Call for Papers:
Textuality, Visuality and their Convergence
Submissions are invited for this Special Topic Session at the October 9-
11, 2008 Rocky Mountain MLA Convention in Reno, Nevada. Papers may
address but are not limited to the following topics:
Writing the visual
Seeing or not seeing texts
Cultural and/or theoretical approaches to textuality and visuality
The role of visual studies in literary scholarship
The role of literary studies in visual studies scholarship
Particular readings that blend these two approaches
Please send a 300-word abstract and a brief CV in .doc or .pdf format to
Susan Cook, susan.elizabeth.cook_at_gmail.com.
Print Networks and Texts, Ma(r)kers, Markets III
Conference
Call for Papers,
July 22nd-24th 2008
Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln
Two long-running and regular conferences join together in 2008 at Bishop
Grosseteste University College Lincoln. The 25th Print Networks
conference and the 3rd Texts, Ma(r)kers Markets Conference will be held
in Lincoln, UK from 22nd -24th July, 2008.
This call for papers invites abstracts on any aspect of print culture
ranging from their production, through circulation to reception. Topics
might include but need not be limited to:
Fifteenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference
March 13-15, 2008, Editorial Institute, Boston University
Program Chair, Professor Archie Burnett, Editorial Institute, Boston
University, Boston, MA 02215
burnetta_at_bu.edu
Conference title: "Editing Across the Disciplines"
The English Graduate Organization at the University of New Hampshire
would like to announce that it has extended the deadline for proposal
submissions to its 2008 Graduate Conference entitled “Challenging Faith:
Intersections of Belief and Doubt in Literature, Composition, and the
Profession†to be held March 7-8. The new deadline will be December 22,
2007. Papers on both religious and non-religious topics are encouraged.
We intend the conference to cover all matters of “faith,†understood in
its broadest sense and look forward to a rewarding conference experience
for all. Speakers at this year’s conference will be Patricia Bizzell,
The Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) is organizing the following panel for the
American Literature Association conference to be held in San Francisco from May 22-25th in
2008.
RESEARCH METHODS IN AMERICAN PERIODICALS:
How do you do it?
The University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the 2008
UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels: "ImageSexT: Intersections of Sex, Gender, and
Sexuality," which will be held in Gainesville, Florida, on March 21-22, 2008.
The 20th Annual Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate Conference
Sifting Through Lies: Toward an Aesthetic Impunity
February 15th and 16th, 2008
Stony Brook Manhattan Campus
Featuring a showing of "a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert" by Coco Fusco
Keynote Speaker: Arlene Dávila, Professor of Anthropology, Social and
Cultural Analysis at NYU, Friday, February 16th at 6 p.m.
Call for Papers
Studies in English
Third International IDEA Conference
Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
16-18 April 2008
Call for Papers Deadline has been extended to: 4 January 2008
The Third International IDEA Conference will be held at Ege
University, Izmir, Turkey on 16-18 April 2008. The Conference
will be jointly hosted by Ege University, Department of English
Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature
Research Association of Turkey (IDEA). The Conference will cover
the following four main areas of studies in English:
Literature
Language and Linguistics
Translation Studies
Cultural Studies