general announcements

CFP: Call for Papers SW/TX PCA/ACA Comics, Graphic Novels, and Popular Culture
 
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2007
Online: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html
 
 
 
The 29th Annual Meeting of the
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations
February 13â€"16, 2008
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque , New Mexico
 
The SW/TX PCA/ ACA invites papers on Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga, and
Popular Culture Any Aspect of Comics, and Graphic Novels in Popular Culture
will be considered.
 
Some topics could include
 
The Rise of the Graphic Novel
What is a Graphic Novel?

Each arrival presupposes a departure. Who ever sets out on a journey
seeks to re-enact the sacredness, the enthusing power, of the places of
his/her arrival, be it profane or religious. In order to capture such an
experience, in order to live through the moment of arrival as a
meaningful caesura, as a moment of exception, a moment of relief from the
time-bound conditions of regular life, preparation is necessary.

Call for Papers
The Sixth Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference
Honolulu, Hawai'i
June 23-26, 2008
Abstract Deadline: EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Conference Topic: Life Writing and Translations

The Center for Biographical Research and the International Auto/Biography
Association invite scholars from around the world to attend the sixth
IABA conference, which will be held at the East-West Center, next to the
campus of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, in Honolulu.

The National Coalition of Independent Scholars will hold its 2008 Biennial
Conference from October 24-26, 2008, at the Graduate Theological Union in
Berkeley, California. We welcome participation by all scholars whose
research is not supported by employment in an academic or research
institution; this includes adjunct faculty and graduate students.
Presenters need not be members of NCIS.
The Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers, formal
sessions, and short panel discussions for either the practical track, on
independent scholarship itself; or the scholarly track, focusing on
presenters’ individual research and findings.
           

CFP for ACLA Conference Panel, Long Beach, CA (April 24-27, 2008).

Panel: "Arrivals and Departures: Homer's Epics and Modernity"
Organizer: Nicole M. Jowsey, SUNY Buffalo

Language and Literature Section of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts,
and Letters

Call for papers in British, American, Ethnic, Comparative literature,
literature and film; Literature and popular culture; Interdisciplinary
approaches to Literature; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Literature
and culture; Shakespeare and the Renaissance. All periods and genres of
literature are welcome.

Send 200 Word Abstracts by email to Maureen Thum, Chair, Lang
mthum_at_umflint.edu

Abstract due date: November 6, 2007

Date of Conference: March 7, 2008
Location: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan U.S.A.

Fashioning Postmodern/Postcolonial Bodies

Westminster University,

5-6 September 2008

Call for Papers

We are seeking papers exploring the intersections of fashion and
literature in postmodern/postcolonial cultures. Possible topics include
(but are not limited to):

•Hybridity
•Parody
•Performativity
•Size 0
•Cyberpunk
•Simulation
•Margins
•Self-reflectivity
•Alienation
•Fetish
•Identity
•Otherness
•Camouflage
•Global Fashions
•Dress Policies
        

Please send 500 words abstracts and any queries to:

Dr Monica Germanà, M.Germana_at_derby.ac.uk

and

War & the (Re)Invention of Communications & Communities (11/01/07;
2/29/08-3/1/08) Arizona State U.

Paper Submission Deadline Extended to Nov. 1, 2007

How does the (re)invention of communications and communities intersect with
issues of war? How can war, totalitarianism, or torture be reconsidered
regarding transmission, translation, and transgression? Examples could
include transmission of information to communities about war via media and
visual images; translation of trauma to the body into writing or speaking;
how literature, art, creative writing, rhetoric, etc. might translate war;
and transgressions against the nation-state, religion, gender, violence, etc.

“I am enjoying this Hotel life. There is a kind of feeling of
irresponsibility about it that is fascinating. Would you not like to try
all sorts of lives â€" one is so very small â€" but that is the satisfaction of
writing â€" one can impersonate so many people.” Katherine Mansfield

Seeking abstracts for a proposed panel focusing on literary texts that
frame reading as a transitional/transformative experience. Abstracts of
200-500 words are due by October 30, 2007.

The proposed panel will take place at the College English Association’s
Annual Conference on March 27-29, 2008 (in St. Louis, Missouri). A full
description of the CEA conference theme can be accessed at
http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/conference2008.htm.

American Comparative Literature Association
"Arrivals and Departures"
Long Beach, CA
April 24-27, 2008

Seminar: Displacements of the War Itself

The paper and abstract deadline has been extended to November 1, 2007!

asu2008symp_at_gmail.com

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Myth and Fairy Tale Call for Papers
Abstract/Proposals by 15 November 2007
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 29th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 13-16, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
Panels now forming on topics related to all areas of myth and fairy tale
and their connections to popular culture.
Special Areas of Interest Include:
Fairy Tale and Myth in Film, Revisionist Myth and Fairy Tale, The Works
of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Fairytale, Fairy Tale in
Contemporary Poetry, Myth in Contemporary Poetry, Fairy Tale and the

Sifting Through Lies: Toward an Aesthetic Impunity