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Contemporary Irish Fiction Panel
48th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
November 9-12, 2006
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
Call for Papers: Minstrelsy, Passing, and the
Location of American Racial Identity
In an essay subtitled "Native American Voices and Postcolonial Theory," Louis Owens criticizes postcolonial theorists
who claim to represent a wide panoply of minority voices yet fail to recognize the existence of a resistance literature
arising from "indigenous, colonized inhabitants of the Americas." Owens asks rhetorically what the indigenous Native
American must do "to be allowed a voice like Shakespeare's cursing Caliban" without resorting to mimicking the
language of the "colonial center" that determines legitimate discourse (in Gretchen Bataille, ed., NATIVE AMERICAN
REPRESENTATIONS, 13, 22). Elizabeth Cook-Lynn has argued for the development of a nationalistic, Third World
Papers are invited for the 2006 panel of the MLA Discussion Group “Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English†(MLA Conference, Philadelphia, December 2006). Panel title: “The Languages of Diaspora Drama and Performance.†Papers on U.S. diasporic dramatic texts and performances (theater, music, performance art etc.) that are in any languages other than English or are multi/bi/lingual. Please e-mail abstracts and c.v. to Dalia Kandiyoti by March 15: kandiyoti_at_inbox.com
Thank you.
Dalia Kandiyoti
Department of English, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
CALL FOR PAPERS 2006 SAMLA meeting Charlotte, NC 10-12 November 2006
Submissions are invited for a collection of essays analyzing the novels =
=3D
and short stories of black British author Zadie Smith. The main focus of =
=3D
the collection will be to explore the various ways Smith approaches =3D
issues of race, identity, and post colonialism.=3D20
Suggested topics for discussion include:
Black British/British identity in a global community
Exploring Biracial identity in a British context
Interracial relationships
The utopian view of "race mixing"
A comparative view of post colonialism: immigrant vs. British born =3D
children
Cultural alienation and displacement
Inaugural English Literature Conference:
IRRESPONSIBILITY
Division of English, NTU, Singapore, 28-30 September
2006
Invitation for Proposals on Interdisciplinary Scholarly and
Creative Work
Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: .Dangerous
Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and
Activisms in Local and Global Contexts.
University of Maryland
May 24-26, 2006
Website: www.freewebs.com/wsgo2006conference
Featuring plenary sessions and workshops by feminist educator
Dr. Peggy McIintosh, feminist postcolonial theorist Dr.
Sangeeta Ray, and Black feminist scholar Dr. Beverly Guy-
Sheftall.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Native American Students in Advanced Academia Present:
The 5th Annual Showcase of Native Scholarship At the University of Washingt=
on
Transcending Boundaries: Implications of Indigenous Graduate Research
The 5th Annual Showcase of Native Scholarship at the University of Washingt=
on
will be held on FRIDAY, April 7th, 2006 from 9am-4pm in the Walker Ames Roo=
m,
Kane Hall, at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. The symposium=20
will take place during the annual UW Native Voices Film Festival. =20
Students are invited to communicate their research in one of the following=20
formats:
The Jewish Cultural Studies Discussion Group seeks papers on the following
topic for the 2006 MLA Annual Convention:
Jewtastic: Marketing Jewish Culture
The commodification of Jewishness and the circulation of Jewish images and
icons from Streisand to "faux mitzvahs," from comics to kabbala. We
especially encourage papers focusing on aspects material culture,
celebrity culture, and mass media. Period open.
Abstracts of 250 words to sabraun_at_ucdavis.edu by March 15.
Apologies for Cross Postings.
The MLA Scottish Literature Discussion Group would like to invite you to
submit an abstract for their 2006 MLA panel.
The Panel Title is -Orality, Literacy, Print: Technologies of the spoken and
written word in Scotland-.
We welcome papers on the topic centered on Scottish oral or written works in
any historical period.
Abstracts accepted through 10 March 2006. Please send abstracts to Sharon
Alker at alkersr_at_whitman.edu
Best
Sharon Alker
Dr. Sharon Alker
Dept. of English
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA.
HOMELAND IN/SECURITY:
Race and Citizenship in the United States
New England American Studies Association
September 15-16, 2006
University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine
The current political moment presents new opportunities and imperatives to examine historical and contemporary formations of race and citizenship in the United States.
A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS
READING CALLALOO, EATING CALLALOO
M E S T E R
2006 Call for Papers, General Issue
Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department
of Spanish and
Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming 35th anniversary
issue to be
published in June 2006.
Our new volume will be open to any topic related to the scope of the
journal. Mester publishes critical articles, interviews, and book
reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish-American,
Brazilian, Chicano, and Latina/o literatures and linguistics. Mester
also welcomes articles in other disciplines such as Comparative
Literature, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Articles may be
written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
Deadline Extended: Submit Abstracts by March 1, 2006.
8th Annual Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone
Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
May 12-13, 2006
"CALL FOR PAPERS"
Rethinking Identity: Perspectives on Identity in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures.
We would be most grateful if the attached call for papers could be
post on the CFP site. With many thanks: Dan Wylie.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd Literature & Ecology Colloquium
6-8 October 2006
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Toxic Belonging?:
Ecology and identity in southern Africa
=93My fate binds me indissolubly to this place=94
(James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of Kruger National
Park)
Submissions are invited for a collection of essays analyzing the novels =
and short stories of black British author Zadie Smith. The main focus of =
the collection will be to explore the various ways Smith approaches =
issues of race, identity, and post colonialism.=20
Suggested topics for discussion include:
Black British/British identity in a global community
Exploring Biracial identity in a British context
Interracial relationships
The utopian view of "race mixing"
A comparative view of post colonialism: immigrant vs. British born =
children
Cultural alienation and displacement
> CFP: Scottish crime fiction, spec issue of _CLUES: A Journal of Detection_
> Guest Editor: Gill Plain, University of St. Andrews (UK)
>
> From Ian Rankin to Val McDermid to Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish writers have dominated the British crime fiction market for the past twenty years. The Scottish crime fiction issue of _CLUES_ (the only US academic journal on mystery fiction) seeks to examine this phenomenon. Is the success of Scottish crime fiction attributable to a literary history stretching back to the nineteenth century and beyond, or is it the result of more recent cultural and political developments?
UPDATE: CFP: The Literature of Trauma: Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal
Perspectives
(3/15/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)
Call For Papers
The Literature of Trauma: Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal perspectives.
October 12-14, 2006
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 60th Annual Convention,
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona.
Call for Submissions
=20
Outsights: Images of Italian Americans in Other Literatures
=20
"Voices in Italian Americana" is a semi-annual literary and cultural =
review
devoted to the dissemination of information concerning the contributions =
of
and about Italian Americans to the cultural and art worlds of North =
America.
=20
We invite submissions of critical essays from scholars in all ethnic
literatures and films to be published in a special issue in the Fall of
2006.=20
=20
Racing Across Borders:
National and Transnational Narratives
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Centennial House, UC Santa Barbara
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2006
Website: http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/grad2006/
Keynote Speaker: Shelley Streeby, Professor of Literature, UC San Diego;
Winner of the 2003 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize for
_American Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production of Popular
Culture_ (UC Press, 2002).
Deadline extended:
IASIL Sydney - Thursday 20 July to Sunday 23 July 2006 inclusive
http://www.iasil.org/sydney/
Reply to irish_at_unsw.edu.au
This is a Second and FINAL Call for Papers for the 2006 meeting of the
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.
Proposals are warmly invited on the general conference theme: exploring
'intertextuality' in all its forms in Irish literature and culture. Papers
on any other aspect of Irish writing (in English and/or Irish) are also very
welcome.
Please submit a title and 200 word abstract to irish_at_unsw.edu.au by 18
February, 2006.
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes duration.
*Response, Remembrance, Representation:
A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures*
Universities of Antwerp and Ghent, 6-7 November 2006
*Extended deadline for submission: 20 February 2006.
Speakers: Emily Budick, Michael F Bernard-Donals, Bridget Kevane,
Phyllis Lassner, Cheryl Malcolm, Thomas Nolden, Ranen Omer-Sherman,
Derek Rubin, Sue Vice, and others.*
Papers are invited for a two-day comparative literature conference on
postwar Jewish writing in North America and Western Europe.
Please send abstracts by Feb. 1, 2006.
DIS-UNITED EMPIRES
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON BRITISH AND UNITED
STATES IMPERIALISM
IN AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE
MIDDLE EAST
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA
MAY 15-18, 2006
Call for Papers
Folklore in post-colonial or ethnic literature
The American Folklore Society sponsors a special session at the annual
meeting of the MLA. For 2006, we seek papers that consider how works of
literature define, maintain, or defend ethnic or group identity through the
incorporation of folklore.
In life, folklore is often used to maintain, create, or defend culture. As
we know, sometimes it is even ³invented² to fulfill this purpose.
Post-colonial populations and ethnic minorities in particular may employ
folklore for political ends.
CFP: Native American Literature and Memory (2/20/06; SCMLA October 28-30,
2006 Fort Worth, Texas)
Native American Literature Panel:
Individual and Collective Memory in Native American Literature
Call For Papers
Luci Tapahonso: Land, Memory, and the Power of Words in Contemporary
Diné (Navajo) Poetry.
October 12-14, 2006
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 60th Annual Convention,
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona.
Grounded in traditional Navajo oral tradition and storytelling, the
poetry of Luci Tapahonso celebrates the complex interrelationships
between words, memory and the vast and beautiful landscape of the
American Southwest. Through her work published in A Breeze Swept
Through (1987), Sáanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing (1993) and Blue
Horses Rush In (1997) she has bridged the gap between traditional Diné
oral tradition and modern poetic form.
The Latina/o Literarature and Culture Society of the American =
Literarature
Association
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
May 25-28, 2006
The Latina/o Literature and Culture Society is seeking papers on any =
aspects
of Latina/o poetry. Please submit a short abstract and short vita with
contact information and affiliation to the session chair, Eliza =
Rodriguez y
Gibson at eliza_rodriguezygibson_at_redlands.edu by January 29, 2006.
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Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Redlands
1200 E. Colton Blvd=20
Redlands, CA 92373
(909) 793-2121 x4342
Where Is White Culture … Other Than at the Gap?
Call for Papers
Midwest Modern Language Association
9-12 November 2006
Chicago, Illinois
Elaine: You're black. You said we were an interracial
couple.
Darryl: We are. Because you're Hispanic.
Elaine: I am?
Darryl: Aren't you?
Elaine: No. Why would you think that?
Darryl: Your name's Benes, your hair, and you kept
taking me to those Spanish restaurants.
Elaine: That's because I thought you were black.
Darryl: Why would you take me to a Spanish restaurant
because I'm black?
Elaine: I don't think we should be talking about this.
CFP: The Literature of Trauma: Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal Perspectives
(3/1/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)
Call For Papers
The Literature of Trauma: Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal perspectives.
October 12-14, 2006
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 60th Annual Convention,
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona.