interdisciplinary

[UPDATE] If you are a doctoral candidate interested in presenting at the colloquium but in need of travel funds assistance, please send the organizers a brief statement of your interest and your funding needs at the time of submitting your proposal and CV. The Swiss Consulate in Boston (Swissnex) has offered to support the travel costs of one US graduate student and the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures (Oxford) has offered a limited fund to support the travel costs of graduate(s) without country of origin restrictions.

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"BETRAYALS"

Theme: global tales

The Georgia State New Voices 2010 conference is interested in an academic exploration of the role of humor in literature, rhetoric, and all its other myriad permutations. This conference will feature scholarship from graduate students across the state and nation. Interdisciplinary and collaborative submissions are not only welcomed, but encouraged, and we look forward
to hearing from you all!

***UPDATE: The deadline for submissions has been extended until September 15th***

PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Joint Conference
April 20-23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: October 15, 2010
Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio
101 Bowie Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205 USA
Phone: 1-210-223-1000

Panel Title: François Ozon and French Queer Cinema

Papers are now being accepted on all topics related to the work of director François Ozon as well as other directors or topics connected to French queer cinema.

PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Joint Conference
April 20-23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: October 15, 2010
Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio
101 Bowie Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205 USA
Phone: 1-210-223-1000

Papers are now being accepted on topics related to European popular culture and literature. All approaches and time periods are welcome.

CFP: Book collection: Health, Illness, & (Dis)Ability in the Works of Joss Whedon

Editors: Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford

Call for Papers Science Fiction and Fantasy Area: Special Area: True Blood

PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Joint Conference
April 20-23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010
Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio
101 Bowie Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205 USA
Phone: 1-210-223-1000

CFP: True Blood SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/15/10; 4/20-23/11)

CFP: Ventures into the Unknown: The Writing of City Spaces (NeMLA, New Brunswick, NJ April 7-10, 2011)
In his essay "Walking the City" (1984) Michel de Certeau speaks of the experience of walking through a city as a "trace structure of movement, exchange, and quotidian practices", a perspective which cannot be reproduced by looking down from a high rise building as if onto a map. For the pedestrian, the city presents itself like a text that is rendered ambiguous by the very process of walking, a little in the way that waking life is displaced by dreaming- to take one of de Certeau's analogies.

Our theme for 2011 is North and South: Constructing and/or Crossing the Cultural, Geo-Political or Metaphorical Divide. This topic can be construed broadly, and applied to literature and culture, historical and contemporary, British and American--among others. Since our conference is located in the Deep South, this would be a good location for those scholars writing about Southern lit and culture. But we also intend to foreground a recognition that simply by labeling Southern lit as such, one is setting up a binary; such literature is Southern "in opposition to" literature of the North and all that that implies. As well as the North/South divide within the US, geo-political and cultural divides would include Canada/US, North America/South America.

Call for Papers – NeMLA 2011

42nd Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, New Jersey

ROUNDTABLE: Translation: The 'Next Big Thing' to Revitalize the Humanities?

REA: A Journal of Religion, Education and the Arts (http://rea.materdei.ie/) invites contributions for its second online issue to be published in Spring 2011. Research in the areas of religion or theology, education or the humanities will be considered for publication and contributors are also welcome to submit multi or inter-disciplinary articles that span two or more of these areas.

Echoes: Across Disciplines, Texts and Times
March 18-19, 2011

When an echo sounds, be it spoken, written, or acted, the repeated content takes on a new character. The Echoes Graduate Student Conference at Duquesne University seeks to engage academic communities in polyvocal dialogues, exploring echoes as they appear across disciplines, texts, and times.

The William Dean Howells Society is sponsoring two panels at the upcoming American Literature Association conference, which takes place over Memorial Day weekend in Boston. For one of the panels, we are interested in papers that touch upon any topic in Howells's work. We are especially keen to hear about new directions in Howells scholarship and/or texts that often get overlooked.

Please send your brief (1-2 page) abstract and a current CV as a Word attachment to Lance Rubin at lance.rubin@arapahoe.edu by October 1, 2011. Inquiries welcome!