general announcements

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.

Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Symposium is pleased to announce the
release of its Call for Proposals. The symposium, to be held June 25-28,
2009 in Forks, WA, will offer two full days of academic and fan
programming for adult fans and scholars of the Twilight Saga novels.

Call for Papers, Anniversaries and Commemorations at CEA 2009
70th Anniversary Conference | March 26-28, 2009 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219; (412) 281-7100

PCA/ACA National Conference April 8th-11th, 2009 New Orleans. Deadline
November 30, 2008.

For more information see here: http://www.pcaaca.org/areas/fan.php

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Call for Papers
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Rethinking Configurations of Knowledge and Evidence in Literature and
Literary Theory

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---> Date of Publication: November 2009
---> Date of Conference: 26-30 November 2009 (Miami)

---> Submissions beginning NOW, ending: January, 5th 2009 (deadline)
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The 2009 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association
30th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque,
NM, February 24-28, 2009.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to
invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of science fiction and
fantasy.

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, or 500 word panel
proposals to

Ximena Gallardo
xgallardo_at_lagcc.cuny.edu

Include with the submission full contact information for each presenter
including email, phone, snail mail, and institutional affiliation.

The Cultures of Rebuilding in Post-Katrina New Orleans
An interdisciplinary conference at the University of New Orleans and the
Louisiana State Museum, 6-8 November 2008