general announcements

"Boston and the New Atlantic World"

The 7th Biennial Symbiosis Conference

June 25-28, 2009

Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts

Plenary speakers:
Richard Brantley (University of Florida)
Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia)
Mark Peterson (University of California, Berkeley)

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE
"THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 30, 2009 ● 10 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC) ● 3rd Floor Salons

. . . So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new . . . - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Department for American Studies at the University of Cologne is
pleased to announce that it will be holding The Second International
Deleuze Studies Conference on Aug 10-12 2009:

CONNECTdeleuze:TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

The Conference aims at building transdisciplinary assemblages that
involve Deleuze in a wider range of thought, i.e. at constructing, from
different 'modules of thought,' innovative conceptual arrangements that
integrate Deleuzian philosophy into the larger field of contemporary
knowledge production and practices of living.

Speakers include:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University
is pleased to announce that it will be holding an international and
inter-disciplinary conference on JUNE 19-20 2009

Remarkable Irish Women:
Radicals, Republicans and Writers…

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Maria Luddy, Warwick University, UK
Dr. Jason Knirck, Washington State University, USA
Professor Christine Kinealy, Drew University, USA

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Sigma Tau Delta â€" Xi Alpha
Chapter present:

The First Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference on
Literature, Composition and Rhetoric

April 3â€"4, 2009

Call for Papers:

2009 Call for Papers

The 15th Annual Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference is a
University of Mississippi Graduate Student event held in conjunction with
the university’s Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.
Participants are encouraged to remain in Oxford after the SWSW Conference
to attend the Faulkner Conference. More information about the 2009
Faulkner Conference will be available at
www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner/.

CALL FOR PAPERS

"HORROR"

30th Anniversary Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and
American Culture Association at the Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel in
downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 24 -28, 2009

The area chair for Horror of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and
American Culture Association invites all interested scholars to submit
papers on any aspect of horror in literature, film, television, or
general culture.

Atlantikos seeks articles, position pieces, and book reviews for its
Spring 2009 issue.

As a resource for young scholars new to the field of transatlantic
studies, Atlantikos is particularly interested in publishing the work of
advanced graduate students and new professors. We encourage submissions
that join an ongoing conversation about the current status and evolution
of transatlantic scholarship, both generally and in relation to specific
texts, figures, and concepts.

Articles should be 12-24 pages in length and must be in MLA style.
Further submission guidelines are available on our website:
http://www.msu.edu/~atlantik.

Myth and Fairy Tale Call for Papers

The deadline for submitting proposals to our Spring 2009
conference "Obliterature: The Art of Creative Destruction" has been
extended to midnight on January 15, 2009. Notices of acceptance will be
sent out mid-to-late February. Please refer to the original call for
papers for details on submission requirements.

Be sure to check out information on our conference in the December issue
of The Writer's Chronicle or online at
www.geocities.com/graduate.english/conference.html.

As usual, any questions or concerns may be sent to Tamara Sack at
tsack_at_truman.edu.

Thank you.

Presentations on any aspect of folklore are invited for the 30th annual
meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture meeting in Albuquerque the
last week of February. Presentations of approximately 15 minutes are
welcome. Please send proposal and short cv by November 15 to Dr. Phyllis
Bridges, Department of English, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
76204. Full details regarding registration, hotel, etc. can be viewed at
the website of the Southwest Popular Culture Association.

CFP: 30th Anniversary Conference (12/1; SW/TX PCA/ACA; 2/25-28/09)

Deadline for submission: December 1, 2008 (Reduced Fee Deadline 11/15/08)

Online: http://SWTXPCA.ORG

Keynote Speaker: Former New Mexico Governor David F. Cargo (1967-1971)

30th Anniversary Meeting!
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations
February 25â€"28, 2009
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

This is a call for submissions to be considered for publication in The
St. John's University (Queens, NY) literary journal, The Humanities
Review.

The journal has published several notable academics in their
respective fields over the last few years such as: Gayatri Spivak, Amy
King, Nick Brandt and Peter McLaren.

The working themes of this edition are modern social flourishes,
exemplary figures and post-9/11 Noir. However, we will not discriminate
if your paper fails to converse with these ideas. Please send any and
all.

Please note: The submission deadline is November 1st 2008.

Call For Submissions--Specs

“Faux Histories”

Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College that
aims to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical practices.