general announcements

Call for Papers: InterCulture (e-journal) for volume 6, issue 1
Media Ecologies
Deadline for Submission: December 1, 2008

InterCulture is a peer-reviewed e-journal seeking academic papers (3,000 to
6,000 words), reviews (1,000 to 3,000 words) and creative work pertaining
to the theme "Media Ecologies" due on December 1, 2008.

North Central Sociological Association
2009 Conference (http://www.ncsanet.org/)
April 16-18
Hyatt Regency â€" Dearborn, Michigan

Session on "Body, Culture and Society"
Organizer: Jason Whitesel
Ohio State University
whitesel.10_at_osu.edu

SFRA 2009: Engineering the Future and Southern-Fried Science Fiction and Fantasy
June 11-14, Atlanta, GA (Wyndham Midtown Hotel)
Guest of Honor: Michael Bishop
Special Guest Authors: F. Brett Cox, Paul di Filippo, Andy Duncan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and
Jack McDevitt

SFRA is currently accepting individual abstracts and panel proposal for its 2009 conference. We
welcome paper and panel submissions that explore any aspect of science fiction across history
and media and are particularly interested in those that engage one or both of the conference
themes, "Engineering the Future" and "Southern-Fried Science Fiction and Fantasy," or the work
of one or more of the conference's guest authors.

PLEASE NOTE WEBSITE ADDRESS AND MAIN SPEAKERS

Identity and Form in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature
Sheffield Hallam University, UK ~ 3rd-4th July 2009

www.shu.ac.uk/identityandform

Weaving Worlds: Interconnecting Literature, Culture and Community
19th Annual Louisiana State University English Graduate Student Association Mardi Gras
Conference
February 18-20, 2009
Panel Proposal Deadline: 15 November 2008
Paper Proposal Deadline: 15 December 2008

Festivals & Faires
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Festivals & Faires area
of the Popular Culture Association
invites abstracts for the next annual meeting:
APRIL 8th-11th 2009
New Orleans Marriott
NEW ORLEANS, LA
The Festivals & Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes
submissions on any festival or faireâ€"modern or historical. Scholars of
theatre / theater, drama, performance studies, American studies, popular
culture, religion, history, and non-western traditions are encouraged to
apply. Since the conference is in New Orleans, any papers relating to
festivals and faires in the city or Louisiana are greatly appreciated.

Issue 14: Sense & Sensation
 
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31st January, 2009
Send to: slamphilament_at_usyd.edu.au

“Ah well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her
sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of
THAT is â€"‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of
themselves.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

"To the senseless nothing is more maddening than sense."
Aldous Huxley, Island

Call for Papers

Sounds of Silence: Silence and Speech in Cultural, Political and Ethical
Contexts (ACLA 2009, Harvard University, March 26-29)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Animation Area of the Popular Culture Association
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
National Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana
April 8-11, 2009

Due to unforeseen scheduling problems, we have had to move the date of
the conference. Instead of April 10-11, our conference will now take
place April 3-4. We are sorry about the inconvenience.

I am reposting the entire CFP in this update with all the correct and
current information. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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The Graduate English Organization of Truman State University is proud to
announce the call for papers for their annual conference April 3-4, 2009!

We are looking for paper submissions for the following panel/seminar at
the annual American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference
to be held at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (March 26-29, 2009)

Abstracts should be submitted by November 1, 2008, using the form on this
website: http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?page_id=7

Limited travel grants available (For details, see
http://www.acla.org/travelgrants.html)

Contact panel organizer:
Ana Olenina (olenina_at_fas.harvard.edu)

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Images of Order: Catalogs, Maps, Archives [Panel at ACLA Conference]

Shakespeare & the Golden Age

PCA 2009
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
New Orleans Marriott Hotel
Wednesday, April 8, through Saturday, April 11

Proposals are now being accepted for “Shakespeare and the Golden Age.”
Any and all aspects of culture from or about this time period are
encouraged. The emphasis is on the “Early Modern World.” We are
interested not only in the literature and drama but other art forms,
technology and material culture from or about the era. We are also
eager to open the conversation up to interests outside England. We
strongly encourage those with an interest in areas such as Spanish
Theatre and literature before 1700 to make proposals.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Childhood in its Time:
The Child in British Literature

A two-day international conference to be held at
Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK

Saturday-Sunday 28-29 March 2009
Keynote Speakers:

Professor Warren Chernaik, University of London
Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent
Professor Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University

The Cartographical Necessity of Exile

Panel Organizer: Karen Elizabeth Bishop, Harvard University
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Derek Walcott identified a cartographical necessity of exile in his 1984
collection of poetry, _Midsummer_, when he wrote:

     So, however far you have travelled, your
     steps make more holes and the mesh is multiplied â€"
     â€¦ exiles must make their own maps