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StoryTelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative invites submissions articles for its special issue devoted to popular narrative and the environment.
The Drawn Map.
March 13-14, 2010
Northeastern University's
English Graduate Student Association
Call for Papers
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Martin Brückner,
University of Delaware
Faculty Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University
& Professionalization Roundtable:
"Mapping the Archive"
Call for Papers: Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer, SW/TX PCA/ACA
The 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 30th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 10-13, 2010.
The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer. This year our area will be honored with special events, films, guests, and presentations!
Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, or 500 word panel proposals to
Ximena Gallardo
xgallardo@lagcc.cuny.edu
We live in a world that is dominated by fear. We are increasingly afraid to walk in our city streets, populated as they are by feral youths, drug-dealers and surveillance cameras. The threat of global warming and climate change is ever-present, and accompanied by the even greater fear that we'll be too late to do anything about it. Then of course there's terror: frightened of a Taliban invasion, apparently, we are still fighting in Afghanistan after eight years and pursuing a worldwide "war on terror". And if that's not enough, we are becoming ever more afraid of alcohol, of food, of being too fat, of being too thin; and afraid even of sex.
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is hosting its 108th Annual Conference, on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. Interested parties may propose special sessions on specific topics by December 15, 2009.
Watermark, an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking papers for our fourth volume to be published in May 2010.
Watermark is dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers concerned with literature of all genres and periods, as well as papers representing current issues in the fields of rhetoric and composition. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered.
WATERMARK CALL FOR PAPERS
Watermark, an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking papers for our third volume to be published in May 2010. Watermark is dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers concerned with literature of all genres and periods, as well as papers representing current issues in the fields of rhetoric and composition. As this
journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Portland Center for Public Humanities
Second Annual International Conference on:
"Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities"
May 20-22, 2010
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
Keynote Speakers:
Literature is related to everyday life in a subtle way. Everyday life often manifests itself as the textual Other outside the major narrative thrust, and, therefore, receives scant critical attention in literary studies. In fact everyday life can be seen as an arena of two-way negotiation: it is where power reproduces itself in daily practice, but it is also where both personal and collective creativity intervenes in the reproduction of power. Moreover, everyday life often emerges, becomes visible, or acquires meaning through its engagement with other social categories—gender, race, class, ethnicity, nature, and so on, whose different relations with dominant regimes of power call for different strategies of everyday life practices.
Call for Papers
International Conference
** CINEMA AND LANDSCAPE**
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
April 16-18, 2010
Following the publication of a major new edited book in Winter 2009, Cinema and Landscape (Intellect, 2009), featuring essays by notable film scholars from around the world, an international conference is to be held on the subject of cinema and landscape.
The conference will be hosted at the University of Sheffield, April 16-18 2010, with the aim of exploring the intersection between Film, Film Culture, Landscape, Place and Geography.
Proposals** (a 150 word abstract) are very welcome for:
Call for Papers:
8th Annual Concordia University Graduate English Colloquium
Communicating Illness: Diagnosing Disordered States
March 19-20th, 2010, Concordia University, Montreal
Abstracts due: January 4, 2010
Submit to: colloquiumconcordia@gmail.com
Literature is related to everyday life in a subtle way. Everyday life often manifests itself as the textual Other outside the major narrative thrust, and, therefore, receives scant critical attention in literary studies. In fact everyday life can be seen as an arena of two-way negotiation: it is where power reproduces itself in daily practice, but it is also where both personal and collective creativity intervenes in the reproduction of power. Moreover, everyday life often emerges, becomes visible, or acquires meaning through its engagement with other social categories—gender, race, class, ethnicity, nature, and so on, whose different relations with dominant regimes of power call for different strategies of everyday life practices.
The 4th graduate conference at McGill and the 1st in collaboration with Université de Montréal, this year's theme sees its justification in the steady rise of awareness toward environmental issues, a concern not solely limited to the political or scientific worlds, but also prevalent within the humanities. This awareness is corroborated, but at times also corrupted by the abundance of news coverage in the mainstream media that have increasingly presented climate change with an apocalyptic outlook.
A few spots are available for the "Sacred Nature to Environmental Policies" workshop at the annual congress of the French American Studies Association in Grenoble, France, May 27-29, 2010 – deadline November 20, 2009
From Sacred Nature to Environmental Policies
The Valley Humanities Review is currently seeking essays in the humanities for publication in its Spring 2010 Issue. We seek essays of high quality, intellectual rigor and originality that challenge or contribute substantially to ongoing conversations in the humanities. Topics may include but are not limited to: literature, history, religion, philosophy, art, art history and foreign languages. VHR is also currently seeking poetry submissions; students may submit up to three poems. VHR is committed to undergraduate research and scholarship in the field; therefore, we only accept submissions by current or recently graduated undergraduate students. Our reading period runs from September 1 to December 15 of each year.
The "breakage" of language, and the breakdown of communication that may ensue from this breakage, marks the borderlines between personal, social and cultural difference, but the defamiliarization and fragmentation of the self that this breakage may effect can also produce new visions of the self/other relationship and new communicative possibilities. The poet John Hollander begins a poem with the line, "nothing makes something happen." Language's failures and silences have been used as a starting place for epistemological possibility and recovery in literature from pre- to post-modernity, and are a main emphasis of writers as diverse as George Herbert, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Dionne Brand, and Judith Butler.
Seminar Organizers: Allison Carruth, University of Oregon; Heather Houser, Stanford University
We invite paper proposals for ACLA's 2010 Annual Conference, "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms," to be held 1-4 April, 2010 in New Orleans, LA.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Proposals are due Monday, November 23, 2009.
Hybrid Realism?
The 31th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX Popular Culture Assoc./ACA
February 10-13, 2010
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Conference Website: www.swtxpca.org
Graduate Student Awards The SWPCA offers numerous graduate student awards and the Rollins Book Award prize for our authors. Graduate students are encouraged to submit too these awards.
Train Trip All aboard to Santa Fe Sign up is limited and will be available on a first come, first serve basis. See the Web page under Local Activities (also a new feature with restaurants and activities):
Call for Papers and Proposed Sessions
34th Annual Conference
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature
to be held at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,
24-30 May 2010
Topic: CULTURES OF DIFFERENCES: national / indigenous / historical
For submissions and more information, please visit http://www.iapl.info/
Deadline for Submissions: 30 November 2009.
Seminar Organizers: Allison Carruth, University of Oregon; Heather Houser, Stanford University
We invite paper proposals for ACLA's 2010 Annual Conference, "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms," to be held 1-4 April, 2010 in New Orleans, LA.
Proposals are due Friday, November 13.
In the wake of the digital revolution and globalisation policies the whole world is witnessing formation of certain conditions which are having and will continue to have tremendous impact on the production, reproduction, access, dissemination and appreciation of visual arts. While the old art forms and artworks are being revisited and reproduced in wholly new ways and for a variety of purposes, new types in the forms of digital arts are surfacing not only on the internet but also every place of our visual culture. The place and workplace of the artist also has undergone a radical change.
In historical periods of intense political unrest or in calls for social reformation, the written word has encompassed the energy and fervor of such revolutionary moments. From the political pamphlets distributed during the French Revolution to the Industrial Revolution that marked a monumental shift in the United States and around the world in regards to labor laws and technological advancements, the idea of "progress" and pushing social expectations forward into a new mode of thought has permeated our culture for centuries. However, as scholars sit in the 21st century and contemplate the social reforms of the past, how do we recognize this notion of "progress"?
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Conference: "Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies"
November 19-20, 2010
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Conference Co-Chairs:
Sarah Brophy, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Janice Hladki, Associate Professor, School of the Arts, McMaster University
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2010
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS
38th Annual National Conference
April 8-10, 2010
L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.
WHO'S COUNTS & WHO COUNTING?
This event will be the sixth in the John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference & Seminar series. The 2010 conference will focus on the work of writers who contributed to the early conservation movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century, and the work of contemporary writers who are exerting an influence on the development of early twenty-first century environmentalism.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The editors of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary (glossator.org) invite submissions of COMMENTARIES for the next open issue, Fall 2010. Essays and articles relating to commentary will also be considered.
In this century, corporate cinema production has experienced an economic and technological crisis. Yet "glocal" productions featuring global topics, such as human rights, climate, conflict, migration, as well as sports and cultural patterns, have met with worldwide success and challenged the hegemony of Hollywood. Examples are "An Inconvenient Truth" (Davis Guggenheim, 2006), and "Lost Children" (Ali Samadi Ahadi/Oliver Stoltz, 2005).
SPECTRUM is an annual journal of art and literature published by UC Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies. Founded in 1957, it is the longest-standing literary magazine in the UC system. We accept art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction works from everyone, regardless of age or school affiliation. Art can be either black and white or in color. Any form of poetry and any genre of fiction is allowed; non-fiction works can range from interviews, personal essays, and creative or scholarly essays. We do not follow themes and no subject will be censored.
http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/spectrum/submissions.html
The William & Mary Policy Review is the student-run journal at the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William & Mary.
We are seeking papers, essays, and creative writing from professors, graduate students, and undergraduates on the topics of globalization and development, social policy, environmental policy, and health policy.
For more information, see www.wm.edu/policyreview.