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CFP: [Cultural-Historical] call for proposals on "Women and Work": deadline 4-8-08

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 5:19pm
Susanne Weil

Call for proposals: deadline April 7, 2008
Special Session: Women and Work
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Conference at Pomona College, Pomona, California
November 7-8, 2008

Presiding Officers: Christine Mower, Seattle University, and Susanne
Weil, Centralia College
Please send proposals to Susanne Weil, sweil_at_centralia.edu
Mailing address: Department of English, 600 W. Centralia College
Boulevard, Centralia, Washington, 98531. Telephone: (360) 736 9391,
ext. 239.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Animal Bodies of Knowledge: Understandings of Species Difference Across Disciplines

updated: 
Monday, March 24, 2008 - 2:33pm
Vincent J. Guihan

Over the twentieth century, a number of key works of cultural theory,
social and biological science have effectively exposed and challenged
domination on the basis of race, gender, class, age, and national
difference, as social and discursive constructs that suit the needs of the
political status quo But what about species differences? For the hundreds
of thoughtful essays, books, collections on race, gender, nationality, age
and other bases for domination, the academy has been reluctant to raise
similar questions about what we presuppose to be the differences, real or
imagined, between human and non-human animals. Although the scientific and

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Book: The Politics of Cultural Programming in Public Spaces

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2008 - 9:54pm
Robert Gehl

In our digital media saturated lives, where we spend increasing amounts of
time in “virtual worlds” such as Second Life or online on blogs and video
sites, it can be easy to forget about public spaces. Unlike content in
virtual worlds, cultural programs in public spaces are events that are
lived and experienced bodily and sensuously. Museum exhibits, public music
performances, sports, art festivals â€" these events are truly immediate,
which is to say that they are lived bodily by those that participate in and
produce them. The editors are seeking contributions of approximately 5,000
words to a new book, already under contract, which examines the peculiar

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Affective Aesthetics: Representations of Emotion

updated: 
Friday, March 21, 2008 - 7:53pm
Rice University

Æffective Æsthetics: Representation of Emotion

Rice Graduate Symposium, September 26-27, 2008
Rice University, Houston, Texas

Affective representation in both artistic and lived experience is
frequently explained in terms of competing social, political, and
cultural systems that often nullify one another. Compounding the problem
is the tendency for affect to complicate how we think about
representation; it seems that the two are inextricable. Through
investigating representations of affect within a variety of fields, this
conference proposes to find inroads that will bring the competing claims
of various discourses together into productive dialogue.

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] History of American Literary Criticism 1900-50âs

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 9:53pm
Alfred J. Drake

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
November 7-8, 2008
Pomona College
Claremont, California

"The History of American Literary Criticism 1900-50's."

Paper proposals sought for an approved special-session panel on the history
of American literary criticism from around 1900 through the 1950's.
Proposals may address the theory, practice, and institutional / pedagogical
impact of any movement or group active during the era specified:
philological and historical critics, New Critics, Marxist critics, Chicago
School, New York Intellectuals, myth critics, etc.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] "In the Shadows of Empires"

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 5:43am
andy wang

“In the Shadows of Empires”:
The 2nd International Conference on Asian American and Asian British
Literatures

Date: November 28-29, 2008
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Organizer: Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Asian and Asian American Literature Panel-PAMLA 2008 (4/15/08; PAMLA, 11/7/08-11/8/08)

updated: 
Monday, March 17, 2008 - 9:25pm
Wenji Zhou

Asian and Asian American Literature Panel-PAMLA 2008 (4/15/08; PAMLA,
11/7/08-11/8/08)
Proposals for individual presentations are invited for the Asian and Asian
American Literature panel at the 2008 meeting of the Pacific Ancient and
Modern Language Association (PAMLA). The panel topic is open, but I am
especially interested in papers that explore relationships between Asian
American experiences, writing, identity, and so on and the larger Asian
diaspora and even postcolonial study of Asian and Asian American
experience. These relationships might include, but are not limited to

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Urban Studies (4/30/08; MPCA/ACA; 10/3-5/08)

updated: 
Monday, March 17, 2008 - 6:57pm
Brendan Kredell

Midwest PCA/ACA Conference
October 3-5, 2008
Cincinnati, OH

Proposals are now being accepted in the area of Urban Studies for the 2008
MPCA/ACA annual conference. Papers may include any and all topics related
to the field of urbanism, but given the nature of the conference, should
work at the interface of urban studies and popular culture. Proposals are
especially welcome that root their analyses of popular culture texts in the
historical and theoretical specificities of particular places and spaces.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Writing into the Profession: Enacting and Exploring Roles of the English Scholar (Grad)

updated: 
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 7:45pm
Kimberly Reigle

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

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] New Radical Subjectivities: Re-thinking Agency for the 21st Century

updated: 
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 9:58am
Caroline Edwards

New Radical Subjectivities: Re-thinking Agency for the 21st Century

The University of Nottingham, UK
Friday, September 19th, 2008

Keynote Speaker â€" Professor Peter Hallward (Middlesex University)

Peter Hallward is the author of Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between
the Singular and the Specific (Manchester, 2001), Badiou: A Subject to
Truth (Minnesota, 2003), Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of
Creation (Verso, 2006), and most recently, Damming the Flood: Haiti,
Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (Verso, 2007).

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Hip-Hop Around the World (Collection, 4/15)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 4:33pm
George Ciccariello-Maher

(Proposals due April 15th, 2008)

Call for contributors for Hip Hop Around the World: An Encyclopedia, a
two-volume reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This
collection will consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important hip hop
scenes around the world. I am currently seeking contributors interested in
writing chapters on the following countries and themes:

* North America
1. Aztlan/Chicano
2. Mexico
3. Native (North) America

* The Caribbean
4. Puerto Rico
5. Haiti
6. Cuba
7. Dominican Republic

* Europe
8. The U.K.
9. France
10. Germany
11. Italy

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] International Comic Arts Forum 2008 (5/01/08; 10/09-10/11/08)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 9:14pm
Cecile Danehy

The Thirteenth Annual INTERNATIONAL COMIC ARTS FORUM (ICAF)

October 9-11, 2008

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.saic.edu)

The International Comic Arts Forum invites scholarly paper presentations
for its thirteenth annual meeting, to be held at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, from Thursday, October 9,
through Saturday, October 11, 2008. The deadline to submit proposals is May
1, 2008 (see below for proposal guidelines and submission information).
Proposals will be refereed via blind review.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] American Cultural Studies Panel, Midwest Modern Language Association Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 7:15pm
Elizabeth Klaver

American Cultural Studies. Papers welcome on any aspect of American
Cultural Studies from any time period in US history. Particularly relevant
are papers that speak to the conference theme of “fame/infamy.” Papers may
address material culture in the U.S. (automobiles, clothing, toys, etc.),
popular culture (television, movies, music, fashion, etc.), media
(journalism and the internet), and others. Papers may also investigate high
culture through the lens of cultural studies. Please send abstracts and
queries to Elizabeth Klaver, etklaver_at_siu.edu, by April 15, 2008. MMLA
Conference, November 13-16, 2008, Minneapolis.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Hauntings: Spectres, Spectrality and Spectatorship

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 2:43am
Deirdre Linkiewicz

Philament, the peer-reviewed online journal of the arts and culture
affiliated with the University of Sydney, invites postgraduate scholars
to contribute articles, ficto-criticism, reviews, and opinions for a
special issue produced in conjunction with the convenors of UNSW’s School
of English, Media and Performing Arts Symposium. Revised papers from the
Symposium as well as new submissions are encouraged. Possible themes
include but are not limited to:

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] The Future of Bisexuality

updated: 
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 5:56am
Jonathan Alexander

“The Future of Bisexuality”
A special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality
Edited by Jonathan Alexander, PhD, University of Cincinnati
This special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality will explore the
future of bisexualityâ€"as an identity, as a community grouping, as a flash
point for activism, as a critical way to interrogate and understand hetero-
and mono-sexualities, and as an erotic inspiration for a variety of art
projects. The editor, Dr. Jonathan Alexander, invites scholarly, personal,
and experimental articles that explore what the future of bisexuality might
be in shifting cultural, social, and political climates. Collectively,

UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Bisexuality and Queer Theory

updated: 
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 5:54am
Jonathan Alexander

Call for Contributions
Please Distribute Widely
  
“Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Diversions, and Connections”
A special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality
Edited by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
and Jonathan Alexander, PhD, University of California, Irvine
  
This special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality invites scholarly
and research-oriented essays that explore potential theoretically or
empirically understood connections and intersections between bisexuality
and queer theory.
Queer Theory has emerged in the West as one of the most provocative

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Literature of the Cold War and the Nuclear Threat

updated: 
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 12:50am
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Call for papers: Literature of the Cold War and the Nuclear Threat

This proposed session is for the interdisciplinary conference, “John F.
Kennedy: History, Memory, Legacy” to be held on the University of North
Dakota’s campus September 25-27, 2008.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Literature, the Peace Corps, and Public Service

updated: 
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 12:48am
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Call for papers: Literature, the Peace Corps, and Public Service

This proposed session is for the interdisciplinary conference, “John F.
Kennedy: History, Memory, Legacy” to be held on the University of North
Dakota’s campus September 25-27, 2008.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Literature, Media and Presidential Politics

updated: 
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 12:47am
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Call for papers: Literature, Media and Presidential Politics

This proposed session is for the interdisciplinary conference, “John F.
Kennedy: History, Memory, Legacy” to be held on the University of North
Dakota’s campus September 25-27, 2008.

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Film Adaptation and the Coming of Sound

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 11:22am
Deborah Cartmell

Papers are invited for a panel on 'Film Adaptation and the Coming of Sound'
for the 3rd Annual Studies in Literature on Screen Conference, Amsterdam,
26-27 September, 2008. Abstracts to Deborah Cartmell
djc_at_dmu.ac.uk by 6th June, 2008.

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CFP: [Cultural-Historical] MSAX panel: Modernism and the Network Narrative

updated: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 3:52am
Wesley Beal

Over the last quarter-century, the fields of critical theory have converged
on a common buzzword, connectivity, which has acted as the linking
mechanism for a constellation of divergent fields converging onto a common
objective. Corresponding to this surge of “connectivity theory” we also
see arise a distinctive “network narrative”â€" a subgenre that represents
human connectedness and its accompanying group formations. Together with
the boom in connectivity theory, these narratives mark a “connectivity
turn” that has defined the theoretical and literary production of the late
1900s and 2000s, with the network narrative exemplified in works like Don

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Authorship and Auteurism (4/30/2008; MPCA/MACA, 10/3/08-10/5/08)

updated: 
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 3:23am
Leonard William Scheibel Jr.

The “Authorship and Auteurism” area of the Midwest Popular Culture
Association/Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals
for its upcoming conference. The MPCA/MACA conference will be held
Friday-Sunday, October 3-5, 2008 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza
in Cincinnati, OH.

This panel seeks papers that analyze any aspect of auteur theory or
authorship studies. Topics may explore any popular medium or cultural
production from any time period or country. Of particular interest are
papers that focus on film authorship reexamining classical auteurist
frameworks pioneered by the French critics of the Cahiers du cinema.

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