general announcements

Sifting Through Lies: Toward an Aesthetic Impunity?

Philament, the online journal of the arts and culture affiliated with the
University of Sydney
(http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament), invites
postgraduate scholars to contribute articles, fictocriticism, reviews,
and opinions for…

Issue 12: Habits and Habitat

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 21st DECEMBER, 2007
Send to: philament_at_arts.usyd.edu.au

Last days to submit proposals for Virtual Caribbeans in New Orleans!

The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University, in
conjunction with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, is pleased
to announce Virtual Caribbeans, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana
February 28 - March 1, 2008.

The University of New Hampshire English Graduate Organization is proud to
announce the speakers for our upcoming 2008 Graduate
Conference “Challenging Faith: Intersections of Belief and Doubt in
Literature, Composition, and the Profession” to be held March 7-8. This
year’s speakers will be Patricia Bizzell, Meredith Hall, and Sharon
O’Dair. We are thrilled that they have all agreed to speak on various
aspects of the conference theme. See below for more detailed information
about each speaker.

We are also announcing a change to our proposal deadline; the new
deadline is Monday, December 10th by noon.

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Sociology and
Folklore in the Fantastic for the 29th Annual International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 29 is on the sublime in the fantastic, and while papers
relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to
this call will be considered. The conference will be held in Orlando,
Florida, from March 19 - 23, 2008 at the Orlando Marriott Airport Hotel.
For more information and updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Hypertexts, New
Media, and Convergence in the Fantastic for the 29th Annual International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 29 is on the sublime in the fantastic, and while papers
relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to
this call will be considered. The conference will be held in Orlando,
Florida, from March 19 - 23, 2008 at the Orlando Marriott Airport Hotel.
For more information and updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

Participants are being sought for paper sessions on Video Game Theory and
Culture for the 29th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in
the Arts.

The focus of ICFA 29 is on the sublime in the fantastic, and while papers
relating to this theme are welcome, proposals on any topics related to
this call will be considered. The conference will be held in Orlando,
Florida, from March 19 - 23, 2008 at the Orlando Marriott Airport Hotel.
For more information and updates about the conference, please visit
www.iafa.org.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

DOWNBEAT: PLURALIZING RHYTHM

Editor: Jan Hein Hoogstad
Book Series: Thamyris / Intersecting: Place, Sex, and 'Race'
Publisher: Rodopi (Amsterdam / New York)
Series Editor: Ernst van Alphen
Deadline for Proposals: December 15, 2007

This volume wishes to draw attention to rhythm as an alternative for the use of textual
metaphors in analyzing cultural objects.

Call For Papers: Power of Form and Forms of Power

Annual AEGIS Conference at SIUC
Carbondale Illinois
April 3rd-5th 2008

Now accepting proposals for a panel at:
The American Literature Association Conference
May 22-25, 2008
San Francisco

A VONNEGUT RETROSPECTIVE

Since Kurt Vonnegut’s death in April of 2007, the popular media has made numerous tributes
and launched a few attacks, most notably Fox News’ vituperative April 16, 2007 obituary. It
seems time for a more scholarly retrospective on Vonnegut’s life and work. This panel will
explore Vonnegut’s influence on contemporary literature as well as new directions for Vonnegut
criticism in the 21st Century. Papers may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

CFP: Literature and Law: A Celebration
April 11, 2008 (Friday)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) (59th Street and 10th Avenueâ€"
near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)

Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Andrew Majeske,
ajmajeske_at_gmail.com

This conference aims to bring scholars of literature and law into an
interdisciplinary setting to share the fruits of their research and
scholarship. The conference celebrates the restoration of John Jay’s
English major with its unique literature and law emphasis.

Human Rights and/in Global Literary Production: Pedagogical and
Theoretical Perspectives

Elizabeth Goldberg & Alexandra Schultheis, co-chairs

Please submit proposals through the ACLA Conference website. Deadline
11/15/07.
http://www.acla.org/acla2008

"Departures That Remain: Political Violence and the Witness from Within"

Panel for 2008 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
April 24-27, 2008
California State University, Long Beach
Deadline for Papers: November 15, 2007
Submit proposal to http://www.acla.org/submit/

Satire Today: Transhistorical, Transcultural Dialogues
UK Network for Modern Fiction Conference
Marymount Manhattan College
New York City, June 12-13, 2008