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Tuning Culture: Questioning the Transmission of the Everyday to the
Foreign Eye, Ear, and Mind
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.
Chetham’s Library, the University of Manchester, the Book History Research
Network and Martineau Johnson Solicitors are pleased to announce a one-day
interdisciplinary conference at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, entitled
‘Making Meaning from Material’.
We invite graduate students at either MA and PhD level from any discipline
to present 20 minute papers exploring the critical issues involved in their
research into the printed or the manuscript book. We particularly encourage
those wishing to discuss the intellectual, methodological and legal effects
of recent digitization projects, including EEBO and Google’s new
partnership with the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
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.
EARLY MODERN READING: BOOKS, COMMUNITIES, CONVERSATIONS
Newcastle University, UK, 11-12 April 2008
Keynote Speakers:
• Jason Scott-Warren (Cambridge)
• Cathy Shrank (Sheffield)
• Daniel Wakelin (Cambridge)
CFP: Archive Fervour / Archive Further: Literature, Archives, and
Literary Archives
9-11 July 2008
University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK)
Debating the Difference: Gender, Representation and Self-Representation
Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th September 2007, University of Dundee, Scotland
An interdisciplinary event hosted by the Scottish Word and Image Group (SWIG) and the Women, Culture and Society Programme (WCS)
The overall aim of this conference will be to generate a nuanced and critical dialogue for assessing constructions of gender in text and image via a multi-disciplinary approach relating literary and visual media, as well as theory and practice. In addition, an exhibition will accompany the conference. It is our intention that selected papers will be published in a themed collection.
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A major international conference to be held at the Institute of English=20
Studies, University of London
21-23 July 2008
Organised by the Open University and the Institute of English Studies
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Keynote speakers: Kate Flint, Jonathan Rose, David Vincent
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Studies centred on the history of reading have proliferated in the last=20
twenty years. They have sprung from several different disciplines, encompas=
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different periods and geographical locations and chosen divergent=20
methodologies, but their common quest has been to recover and understand th=
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SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION RESEARCH SPONSORED SESSIONS
43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 8-11, 2008
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
We invite Papers on Reformation Literature, History, Culture for the
following sessions
Reformation I: Difficult Texts
The texts of the Reformation frequently offer vexed questions which
impact the study of the Reformation across the disciplines. Session
One invites papers on scholarly and pedagogical issues involving
problematic texts of the Reformation.
Reformation II: Problematic Figures
UPDATE--DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 1
CALL FOR PAPERS
2007 RSS CONFERENCE ON RECEPTION STUDY
The University of Missouri at Kansas City,
Thurs, September 27th, through Sat., the 29th, 2007.
Suggestions for panels and papers in all areas of English, American, and
other literatures, media, and book history are welcome. Here are some
possible panels and topics:
THE COMICS GET MEDIEVAL 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS (San Francisco 19-22 March 2008)
SPECIAL SESSION OF THE MEDIEVAL POPULAR CULTURE AREA
PROPOSALS DUE TO ORGANIZER BY 15 Oct 2007
Now in its fifth year, proposals are being accepted for inclusion at "The
Comics Get Medieval 2008," a panel and roundtable sponsored by the Medieval
Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) for the 2008
Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations to be held from 19-22 March 2008 at the San Francisco Marriott,
San Francisco, California, USA.
FIRST CFP for Lawman/Layamon International Conference 2008
(1-6 July, at Gregynog, Wales, UK)
The Lawman/Layamon International Conference ('Lawman in his context') will take
place at
Gregynog Hall, Newtown,Powis (Wales) 1-6 July 2008.
Papers are invited on
-Lawman/Layamon
-other insular or continental verse or prose chronicles
- romances
- the historical and cultural context of the
twelfth/thirteenth century
DEADLINE: 30 SEPTEMBER 2007
Submissions (abstracts of up to 250 words) to the organisers:
Dr Raluca Radulescu (r.radulescu_at_bangor.ac.uk)
Dr Ros Allen (r.e.allen_at_qmul.ac.uk)
Canterbury Christ Church University &
Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library
Call for Papers for the Renaissance Colloquium:
Reading and Writing in Provincial Society 1300-1700
Saturday 22nd September 2007
'...To understand the use of the materials we are investigating within
the precise, local specific context that alone gave them meaning. This
context might be ritual, political or at once religious and national.'
Roger Chartier The Culture of Print (1989)
The "Picture Book" special issue of ImageTexT is accepting paper
submissions that address the history, form, narrative strategies, and
cultural uses of the picture book. Submitted essays should work toward
furthering ImageTexT's ongoing investigation of the material,
historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textuality.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Seventh Portsmouth Translation Conference
Conference Theme: Translation As Negotiation
Date: 10 November 2007
As translators and interpreters we engage in a range of negotiatory activities. We negotiate the frontiers and interfaces between languages and cultures; we negotiate translation issues and problems as we meet them; we negotiate rates, deadlines and briefs with clients. We also engage with the range of expectations and demands made of translators in our diverse cultures and working environments.
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Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2008
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
will sponsor several panels at the Renaissance Society of America's
annual meeting in Chicago from 3-5 April 2008. Organized by Steven W.
May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP @ RSA links the RSA
with scholars studying the creation, dissemination, and reception of
script and print. Since 2001 we have organized 21 panels at RSA meetings.
We will have two themes in 2008 (although more than two panels), and
invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and
manuscripts from 1350 to 1700 in relation to either of them:
19th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Organization Conference
Friday, October 26, 2007
CIRCULATION
Keynote address: Professor Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
We are all in the business of circulation: As scholars and educators,
we wrestle with an ever-evolving canon, we work to recover lost texts,
we launch websites and blogs to reach a wider audience. In the
classroom and with our colleagues, we publish, present, and stake our
claims. In short, we traffic in ideas.
Shakespearean Surfaces
(panel session)
The British Shakespeare Association Conference
31st August to 2nd September 2007
University of Warwick, UK
Connecting the Renaissance Senses: Image Space Text Music
This interdisciplinary panel or series of panels will consider the
representation of sensory experience in the arts broadly defined. The early
modern experiences of vision and touch have received significant attention
in recent studies, while those of hearing, taste and/or smell, outside
thematic treatments of the five senses or the formalized hierarchy of the
senses, remain to be more fully described. Though our particular interest
is in the sense of hearing and ideas about sound and sounding objects in the
Renaissance, we invite papers that illuminate connections among the senses
New Approaches to Teaching the Emblem in Early Modern Courses
Shakespeare's presence in the 18th century—in book form, on the stage, in art—is overwhelming. This session will explore how artists have transformed Shakespeare's plays in painting or any of the visual arts. By April 30, 2007, please send proposals/abstracts to Chantelle MacPhee, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cayey, PR 00736. Email submissions are also welcome: englitgirl_at_yahoo.com.
"Rum, Sodomy and the Lash":
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Piracy
Friday July 13th, 2007
Graduate Centre University of Melbourne
"Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" is a one-day symposium organised by the
editors of antiTHESIS and postgraduates in the School of Culture and
Communication at the University of Melbourne.
To mark the creation of the new School of Culture and Communication,
which includes the areas of Cultural Studies, English Literary
Studies, Creative Writing, Cinema Studies, Art History, Theatre
Studies, and others, the symposium will bring together scholars across
disciplines for a day of debate and academic exchange.
UPDATE: Ian Duncan has been added to the list of plenary speakers due to
the unfortunate and untimely passing of Malcolm Bowie. Thanks for your
understanding.
The Novel and its Borders
3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
in association with the AHRC Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies
University of Aberdeen
8-10 July 2008
EAPSU 2007
Call for Papers
Literacy & Performance
The 2007 EAPSU (English Association of Pennsylvania State
Universities) Conference will be held at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania (IUP) October 26-28, 2007.
We invite abstracts for papers or panels from all disciplines of
English study—-literature, composition, TESOL, education, and creative
writing—-that interrogate issues of literacy and performance. Possible
topics may include (but are not limited to):
Reading: Images, Texts, Artefacts (Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference)
Date: 28 - 29 June 2007
Text . Landscape . Identity
An Inter-disciplinary Conference for Scholars in the Arts and Humanities
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
September 13th-15th 2007, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn
UPDATE: NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS - 13TH APRIL 2007
Transatlantic Fiction, Transatlantic Readers:
The Audience for the Novel in the US and Britain 1750-1860
Panel proposal for Reception Study Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, 9/27
- 9/29/2007
The audience for the novel in English in the period 1750-1860 was
global, a result of the Anglophonic diaspora around the Atlantic basin. Yet
it remains to be demonstrated whether and how this fact influenced
individual writers or how best to understand the ways geography, nation,
gender, race, and class produced specific communities of readers-and to what
extent such communities for Anglophonic novels could be considered
transnational.
Call for Papers
Modernist Studies Association 9 in Long Beach, CA
November 1-4, 2007
Modernism and the Comics
While contemporary graphic narratives in comic strip, book, and novel=20
form rapidly gain scholarly attention, the great age of comics, from=20
the birth of the strip genre at the turn of the 20th century to the=20
censorship clampdown of the 1950s, remains all but a dark continent in=20=
relation to other popular and avant-garde cultures of modernism. =20
Building on the interest generated by the Early Comics panel at MSA 8,=20=
MMLA Panel on English Literature 1800-1900
The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Cleveland, Ohio
November 8-11, 2007
UPDATE: deadline for proposals extended until April 16
Fragments in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
Call for Papers
New Voices Graduate Student Conference September 27-29, 2007
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007
New Voices Maps/Boundaries
Call for papers and special sessions
The New Voices Graduate Student Conference invites proposals considering
the presence, (de)construction, maintenance, persistence, (re)imagining
of Maps/Boundaries.