general announcements

Due dates have been extended on this project. Please see website for
details.

Facts on File, Inc is putting together an ambitious, three volume
reference work entitled General Themes in Literature. Contributors are
sought for a variety of themes and works of literature. All information
may be found at

http://staff.kings.edu/jamcclin/general.htm

For information, you may contact Jennifer McClinton-Temple at
jamcclin_at_kings.edu.

ETUDES IRLANDAISES
French Journal of Irish Studies
Spring 2009 issue

 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 30 SEPT . 2008

The Editorial Board of Etudes Irlandaises is seeking submissions for the
Spring 2009 volume of the journal.

Pascal’s Pensées and Literature

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

Pascal’s Pensées and Literature. Is Pascal’s Pensées a literary text? The
goal of this panel is to think about the essence of literature and the
interpretations and appropriations of Pensées. Comparative works between
Pascal and other writers are also welcome (in French, English, or Spanish).
Send abstracts (200-300 words) by email to Dr. María Cristina Campos
Fuentes, DeSales University: camposcristina_at_hotmail.com.

Deadline: September 15, 2008

Please include with your abstract:

Bibliography and Textual Studies: "People of the Books: Christianity and
Islam in Book Studies." Participants will consider elements of two
religions and cultures especially concerned not only with the contents
but the paratextual elements of their respective books. This panel is
particularly interested in the intersection of Christianity and Islam in
textual studies, although abstracts on any aspect of either religion as
it relates to bibliography will be considered. Please send 250-word
abstracts to Erin Mann, erin-mann_at_uiowa.edu, by June 15, 2008.

Call for Papers
“Women Producers and the Politics of Form in the
Interwar Period”
40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language
Association (NeMLA)
February 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency, Boston, MA
Continuing to engage Rita Felski’s question, asked
over a decade ago in The Gender of Modernity, of what
happens when gender is the central lens through which
we view modernity, this panel will ask how the
aesthetics of women producersâ€"including novelists,
short story writers, filmmakers, journalists, and
poetsâ€"in the 1920s and 1930s might be conceived as
left-wing, right-wing, or an entirely different kind
of political activism or social vision. How might

2008 TOLKIEN SOCIETY SEMINAR
Freedom, Fate and Choice in Middle-earth

Saturday 28th June 2008

The theme for this year's seminar is "Freedom, Fate and Choice in the
Middle-earth writings of J. R. R. Tolkien". Papers are sought on a wide
range of topics related to this theme, including concepts such as free will
and doom. The Middle-earth material ranges from The Silmarillion and The
Children of Hurin through the twelve volumes of the History of Middle-earth
and Tolkien's Letters to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

If you want to offer a paper, please contact Christopher Kreuzer as soon as
possible at seminar AT tolkiensociety DOT org.

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

Deadline Extended (note new email address):
Essays are sought for a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology,
“The New American Poetry,” an anthology that Marjorie Perloff called in a 1995 essay, “[…] the
fountainhead of radical American poetics.” Such an edition should be very well received and will
add greatly to poetry scholarship today due to the monumental influence the original collection
has had. Allen’s anthology was the first to widely distribute the poetry and theoretical positions
of poets such as Charles Olson and Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, and it was the first to
categorize these poets by the schools (Black Mountain, New York, San Francisco, etc.) by which

EAPSU 2008
Call for Papers

(Re)Connections: Bridging Boundaries and Creating Byways

The 2008 EAPSU (English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities) Conference will be held
at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania October 17-18, 2008.

We invite proposals from faculty and graduate students for presentations, roundtable
discussions, and workshops that address attempts to decrease fragmentation, create
connections, and bridge together unique and creative themes in academic work and life in higher
education.

New Radical Subjectivities: Re-thinking Agency for the 21st Century

The University of Nottingham, UK
Friday, September 19th, 2008

Keynote Speaker â€" Professor Peter Hallward (Middlesex University)

This one day conference for postgraduate students and early career
researchers explores recent articulations of subjectivity and political
agency in critical theory and cultural studies. The continued ascent of
neo-liberalism and economic globalisation, along with postmodern and
poststructuralist theorising around subjectivity, potentially sets a
dangerously de-politicised subject against the expanding forces and
inequalities of contemporary capitalism.

Welsh Women’s Writing in English: Voice, Space, Identity

A postgraduate day-seminar supported by The Feminist and Women’s Studies
Association (FWSA) and hosted by the School of English, Communication and
Philosophy at Cardiff University, 7 July 2008

Keynote speakers:
Professor Jane Aaron and Dr. Katie Gramich

Including a roundtable discussion attended by: Professor Jane Aaron
(University of Glamorgan); Dr. Katie Gramich (Cardiff University); Dr.
Becky Munford (Cardiff University); Dr. Vike Plock (Cardiff University)

FORUM: The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts

Issue 7: HAUNTING

The idea of haunting points to a residue or surplus of meaning that cannot be affirmed in the
present and nevertheless makes itself known in unexpected and disruptive ways. The haunting
traces of the forgotten, the disavowed and the effaced fundamentally undermine and trouble
what we have come to know and rely on as, or in, the present. In this sense, haunting opens up
the complex possibility of spectral knowledge and emerges as a powerful tool of
conceptualisation and representation.

The CEA Critic, the official journal of the College English Association,
publishes scholarly articles that focus on textsâ€"fiction, poetry, drama,
nonfiction, and filmâ€"that English professors read, study, and teach and
professional articles that apply other critical approaches to issues
pertinent to the discipline of English in higher education.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Conference on Nineteenth
Century Transatlanticism

1st Annual Graduate Conference of the American Studies and Victorian
Studies Associations
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York November 7-8, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown University

Panel Topic: