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Call for Participation

Institute for Comics Studies
Comic Book Convention Conference Series

DRAGON*CON ACADEMIC MINI-CONFERENCE

Atlanta, Georgia
August 29-September 1, 2008

The Institute for Comic Studies and the Comics and Pop Art division of
Dragon*Con are working together to develop an academic conference for
the studies of comics and pop art to take place at Dragon*Con, the
largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science
fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film
in the US.

Call for Papers: Interpreting the Poetry of American Transcendentalism (c.
1800-1860).

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---> Date of Publication: March 2009

---> Deadline for Submissions: 31 July 2008

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We welcome essays of interest to those concerned with the study of
the poetry of American Transcendentalism and their representatives. Due to
successful fundraising during the past weeks, we are happy to
announce that the two volumes which are to be published in March 2009 will
contain up to 46 scholarly articles on the poetry of the American
Transcendentalism.

UPDATED:
SPECIFIC ENTRIES SOUGHT
SMALL PAYMENT POSSIBLE

(Proposals due AUGUST 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:

1.) MEXICO
2.) PUERTO RICO
3.) HAITI
4.) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

5.) FRANCE
6.) ITALY

7.) SENEGAL
8.) ZIMBABWE
9.) NIGERIA

10.) COLOMBIA
11.) ARGENTINA

12.) IRAN

This is a call for papers for the regular session, Holocaust in
Literature and Film, at the SAMLA Convention scheduled for November 7-9,
2008, in Louisville, Kentucky.

HOLOCAUST IN LITERATURE AND FILM
This is an open session. Please submit a brief abstract on any topic
related to studies in the area of the Holocaust, particularly in
literature and film. The proposals should be sent by July 30, 2008, to
Lara Smith, Georgia State University, at ljsmith_at_gsu.edu.

20th Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the US

Westin Gaslamp, San Diego, CA
November 18-22, 2009

I invite papers that explore the reception of Canadian writers around the
world for a panel at the ACSUS conference. Canadian writers are getting
world-wide recognition, but their works are read differently in the various
countries as diverse cultural settings provide the context for literary
interpretation and literary reception.

Email abstracts of 300 words to Charlotte Templin (templin_at_uindy.edu) by
September 15, 2008

Include your name, affiliation, postal address and phone number.

The complete call for papers for ACSUS is at acsus.org

ACIS (American Conference for Irish Studies) Mid-Atlantic Regional conference

Enabling/Disabling Ireland: Law, Literature, Politics, and Historical Change.

TOLSTOY FILM ADAPTATIONS: CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
 
As the centenary of Tolstoy's death approaches (2010), proposals for
chapters in an international collection of essays on the cinematic
adaptation of Tolstoy's texts are being considered. All nationalities,
periods, and issues, including interdisciplinary connections with other
arts/media, cultural politics, economics, reception, translation. In
addition to the widely known films,proposals on neglected silents and
films not yet translated into English are encouraged. English language
collection. Send a statement of interest and brief bio to Dr. Lorna
Fitzsimmons: lfitzsimmons_at_csudh.edu 500-word proposals due by Oct. 25,

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Beyond _Green Gables_

Women in Country Music: At Home on the Road

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Books on Tape
As a Part of this year's emphasis on drama at SAMLA, this roundtable
session will explore oral dramatizations of literary textsâ€"better known as
audio books or books on tape. Among the issues participants might address
are pedagogical uses of audio books, comparative treatments of written and
oral texts, children's audio books and the acquisition of literacy, audio
books and reading disabilities, or other relevant topics. Presenters will
deliver a brief opening statement (4-6 minutes) and will then particpate in
a lively roundtable discussion. Please submit brief abstract and cv to
George Hovis (hovisgr_at_oneonta.edu) by July 10, 2008.

Echoes of the Past:Women, History and Memory in Fiction and Film

Newcastle University, June 26-28 2009

Keynote Speakers:
Kate Mosse (best-selling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre)
Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University)
Veronica Gregg (City University of New York)
Diana Wallace (University of Glamorgan)

'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman' ~ Virginia Woolf

The book review editors at /Green Theory and Praxis: The Journal of
Ecopedagogy/ 
(http://greentheoryandpraxis.ecopedagogy.org/index.php/journal), a
peer-reviewed, open-source academic journal, are looking for reviewers in
various areas of Green Studies. /GTP/ takes as its mandate critical
analysis of the root causes of various ecological crises and the linking of
theory to concrete prospects for social change through pedagogy, conceived
broadly. We are committed to publishing papers and reviews on more radical
ecological matters that will seldom if ever be found in many of the

Packingtown Review, an interdisciplinary literary journal, seeks essays on
the topic of genre and form. PR emphasizes experimental literature,
translation, and literature that crosses boundaries between genres and
forms. We are therefore soliciting submissions of scholarly and critical
essays that explore similar ground. What does it mean when poetry and prose
are indistinguishable? What is lostâ€" or foundâ€"in translation? When
literary form is entirely fluid, what is the relationship between art and
criticism? Between the creative and the scholarly?
While we are particularly seeking essays that explore the relationships
between genre and form in situations where both are indeterminate or

Arabic Literature Now: Between Area Studies and the New Comparatism
A Special issue of Comparative Literature Studies
Edited by Amal Amireh and Waïl S. Hassan