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CFP - NeMLA March 15-18 2012, Rochester, NY: The Jewish Experience in Contemporary Italophone Literature and Cinema.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 6:03pm
Philip Balma / Northeast Modern Language Association

Papers exploring the literary and cinematic representations of the Italophone Jewish experience will constitute the principal focus of this panel. Presentations on unstudied/understudied artists are especially welcome. This panel aims to move beyond the tendency exhibited in some academic circles to look at Primo Levi's experiences as emblematic of those of the Italkim in general, but also to properly contextualize the study of Italian-speaking, foreign-born authors such as Edith Bruck and Giorgio Pressburger who (among others) have had an undeniable impact on how audiences perceive the modern Italian Jewish experience.

Call for Papers: Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism, 4/19-22

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 2:11pm
joint conference of MELUS and USACLALS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US, and US chapter of Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)

THEME: Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Bill Ashcroft, Wlad Godzic, Francisco Jimenez, David Marriott

HUC 2011: Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 1:15pm
International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS)

HUC 2011: Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions
Mexico: 4 - 9 November 2011

Deadline for paper proposal submissions: 15 July, 2011
(Deadline has been extended for all sessions and sub-conferences)
Conference Languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl
Languages for presentation: English, Castilian.

[UPDATE] Materialist Readings of Children's Literature and Culture: Classic and Contemporary Essays

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 11:58am
Angela Hubler/Kansas State University

CFP

Materialist Readings of Children's Literature and Culture:
Classic and Contemporary Essays

Call for papers for an edited collection tentatively titled Materialist Readings of Children's Literature and Culture: Classic and Contemporary Essays. This collection will consist primarily of new analyses, but will also include previously published essays in order to chart the development of materialist criticism of children's and young adult literature, culture, and film. The aim of the collection is to demonstrate the significance of historical materialist approaches to children's literature and culture (i.e. Marx, Lukacs, Williams, Eagleton, Jameson, Ariel Dorfman, Jack Zipes, Ian Wojcik-Andrews, Gayatri Spivak, etc.).

Call for Articles: Diesis: Footnotes on Literary Identities (Submission Deadline October 1st))

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 8:46am
Diesis: Footnotes on Literary Identities

Diesis Volume 1, Issue 2: the Other Issue

Submission Deadline: October 1st, 2011

The Editorial Board of Diesis: Footnotes Literary Identities would like to welcome you to submit to its second issue. This second issue will continue the inaugural issue's study of identity, concentrating this time on the diesis, or double dagger, which indicates a footnote or point of reference.

[UPDATE] Extended deadline of Abstract Submission of the Fourth East Asian Conference on Comparative Literature

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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 11:45pm
English Department, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan

Conference Website: http://www.scu.edu.tw/english/complit

CALL FOR PAPERS

Obsession in Context

The Fourth East Asian Conference on Comparative Literature

Deadline of abstract submission has been extended to July 1, 2011

Soochow University,

Taipei, Taiwan

We take great pleasure in announcing that the Fourth East Asian Conference on Comparative Literature, sponsored by the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (CLAROC), will be hosted by Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 10, 2012. The theme for this conference is ¡§Obsession in Context.¡¨

Writing Into the Profession

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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 10:27pm
English Graduate Student Association at UNC-Greensboro

For its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference in English studies, we at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's English Graduate Student Association ask you to join us as we work to build a community of graduate scholars. Our conference provides forums for ongoing research in an encouraging and receptive academic environment. Additionally, the Writing into the Profession conference brings graduate scholars into contact with established professionals who can answer questions about best practices, research methods, and the field of English Studies.

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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 7:16pm
University of California Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal

To submit: http://ucb-cluj.org/submissions/

Call for Submissions!

The UC Berkeley Undergraduate Journal is currently accepting submissions for its inaugural Fall 2011 issue! We are looking for critical articles with subject matter that falls under the wide banner of Comparative Literature, from international literary trends to literary comparisons between two specific cultures to theoretical literary discourse. The (rolling) deadline to submit is June 15, 2011. Any undergraduate is encouraged to apply. Additional information for non-US students is at the bottom of the page.

Submission guidelines:

[UPDATE] Extended deadline for "Strange New Today": Victorians, Crisis and Response

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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 5:50pm
University of Exeter

"Strange New Today": Victorians, Crisis and Response

Postgraduates in the University of Exeter's Centre for Victorian Studies will be holding a one-day interdisciplinary conference for postgraduates and early-career researchers on the 17th of September, 2011. The conference is in collaboration with the Reader Organisation and will take place in the historic setting of the Devon and Exeter Institution,
which was founded in 1813 as a private library.

Keynote speakers:
Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Professor Philip Davis (University of Liverpool)

Plenary: "The Reader Cure", hosted by the Reader Organisation of the University of Liverpool

Crossings, Frictions, Fusions / Traversées, frictions, fusions [UPDATE]

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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 3:18pm
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium California State University, Long Beach

ANNOUNCEMENT COLLOQUIUM 2012 / ANNONCE COLLOQUE 2012

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
California State University, Long Beach

Crossings, Frictions, Fusions / Traversées, frictions, fusions
Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, CA
29-31 March, 2012

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (as of June 2011):

Alain MABANCKOU, UCLA, Prix Renaudot, 2006
Odile CAZENAVE, Boston University

"The Power of Poetry in the Modern World of Print," South Atlantic Modern Language Association (11/4-11/6, Abstracts Due 6/27)

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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 1:06pm
Bartholomew Brinkman

In keeping with SAMLA's 2011 special focus, "The Power of Poetry in the Modern World," this special session seeks papers that address the ways in which poetry has derived, ceded, and wielded power in a modern world mediated by print. Possible topics include: the power of print to shape poetic form and meaning; the power of such print outlets as the anthology and modern magazine to popularize or restrict the audience for poetry; the bibliographical means by which poetry has expressed or challenged power; the ways in which poetry questions the power of modern print through an emphasis on orality or through an embrace of the digital.

ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS; 31 August 2011

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Monday, June 6, 2011 - 6:09am
Editor

Critical / analytical / interpretive essays are invited from scholars across the world for an Anthology to be brought out on the GEETANJALI of the noted Indian Poet Nobel Laureate RABINDRANATH TAGORE. The anthology will be published by a reputed Publisher based in India and having its distribution network the world over.
The essay must be within 2500 and 4000 words, typeset with 1.5 paragraph space and must be according to the latest MLA Stylesheet.
An Abstract of the essay is desirable possibly before 15 July 2011.
The last date for submission of complete essay is August 31, 2011.
For further details, please write to Editor of the Anthology at editorial.india@yahoo.com

The Materials of American Studies

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 11:38pm
Australian Journal of American Studies

AJAS Call for Papers

The Materials of American Studies, December 2012.

Bill Brown observes that by the end of the nineteenth century, "the invention, production, distribution and consumption of things rather suddenly came to define a national culture" [Sense of Things 4]. This issue of the Australasian Journal of American Studies, "The Materials of American Studies," explores the role of objects in understanding, representing, tracing and conceptualising America, its past and present. We invite essays that explore the material of American Studies: the production, reproduction, consumption and circulation of objects from the colonial period to the present.

Possible topics:

Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature (Bamberg, 24 - 25 May 2012)

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 5:02pm
University of Bamberg (Germany)

Ever since the publication of Appadurai's groundbreaking study Modernity at Large (1996), concepts like "multiculturalism", "globalisation" and, more recently, "cosmopolitanism" have contributed to raise questions about the future of Postcolonial Studies – opening up to issues of "canon expansion" and "rerouting", among others (Madsen 1999; Wilson et al. 2010). From a somewhat counter-perspective, attempts at turning Europe itself into a highly problematic region of postcolonial analysis have also been made.

The Pedalto Report: A Journal for Incorporated Art (submissions deadline 8/15/2011)

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Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 2:00pm
The Pedalto Report

The term "incorporated art" might be used to describe art that exists in the form of an institution, company, or other organization. In contrast with art that takes incorporation as its subject, incorporated art begins with the act of incorporation and exists only to the extent that the incorporated entity remains in operation.

WOMEN AND TEXTS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES (SPECIAL SESSION), MMLA ANNUAL CONVENTION, SAINT LOUIS, NOVEMBER 03-06

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 - 10:25pm
BONCHO DRAGIYSKI, MMLA

THE SPECIAL SESSION SEEKS SUBMISSIONS THAT FOCUS ON HOW CERTAIN MEDIEVAL WOMEN NEGOTIATED THEIR PLACE IN THE WORLD THROUGH THEIR WRITINGS, THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF OTHERS ABOUT THEM, OR THROUGH THE IMITATION OF TEXTUAL FEMALE MODELS. PAPERS MAY FOCUS ON ANY HISTORICAL OR FICTIONAL FEMALE FIGURE FROM THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD.

FACULTY MEMBERS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE WELCOME TO SUBMIT A DETAILED ABSTRACT TO: DRAGIYSKI@WUSTL.EDU

DEADLINE: JULY 10, 2011

Call for Indian English Poetry Anthology

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 - 7:18pm
Call for Indian English Poetry Anthology 1970s-Present

Call for Indian English Poetry Submissions
Project editors:
Dr. Paula Hayes, Strayer University, Memphis TN, USA and
Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi,Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College(Calcutta, University), Kolkata(India).

English V (Modern British): Food & Socialization in Modern British Literature (SAMLA, Nov. 4-6, 2011)

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 - 3:49am
Rebecca Brown

Twentieth- and twenty-first century British writers have evinced an overwhelming interest in depicting communal cooking scenes, unsavory solitary meals, lavish dinners with family members, struggles with eating disorders, and WWII rationing in their works. Recent literary studies and articles focusing on food and gender, food and cultural identity, food and social class, and food and children's literature attest to this burgeoning critical interest.  This panel seeks proposals for papers that explore the intersections between food and socialization in the twentieth- and/or twenty-first century British novel, short story, poem, and/or play.

IMAGINING MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURE

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Friday, June 3, 2011 - 8:18pm
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea (MEMESAK)

The Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Association of Korea and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Seoul National University will co-host an international conference under the title of "Imagining Magic and Witchcraft in Medieval and Early Modern Literature." In medieval and early modern society, magic and witchcraft provided sources of popular and literary imagination and objects of both sheer fascination and collective anxiety, as well as pretexts for political and religious persecution. They also marked the frontier of scientific inquiry and human understanding. Imagining magic and witchcraft was an attempt to map the unmappable—the supernatural, the unknown, and the prohibited.

Cultural Studies and Its Discontents: Reconsidering Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century

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Friday, June 3, 2011 - 7:49pm
English Language and Literature Association of Korea

The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) invites papers for an international conference to be held in Onyang, Korea, November 17–19, 2011. The theme for special sessions is "Cultural Studies and Its Discontents: Reconsidering Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century."

MMLA COMP LIT: The Politics of Guilt and Neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 Era DEADLINE JUNE 20TH

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Friday, June 3, 2011 - 6:01pm
MMLA Comparative Literature Permanent Section

We are seeking abstracts for the following permanent session for the 53rd Annual MMLA Convention that will be held in St. Louis, Missouri at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott from November 3-6, 2011. The 2011 informal convention theme is "Play...No, Seriously."

The Blame Game: The Politics of Guilt and Neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 Era

CALL FOR PAPERS: MULTI-ETHNIC POETRY IN ENGLISH FROM NORTH-EAST INDIA: A CRITICAL SPECTRUM (DEADLINE FOR PAPERS:AUGUST 31, 2011)

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Friday, June 3, 2011 - 1:01pm
PG Department of English, Assam Central University:: Diphu Campus, Diphu-782 460, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India

The term 'North-East' is a form of geographical, linguistic and ethnic stereotyping that clubs together eight disparate states comprising of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and Sikkim, that happen to lie in the Northeastern periphery of the Indian union. The body of works by English-language writers from this region refers to the North-East Indian Writings in English. Some of the most interesting Indian writing in English today is coming from this region. Intense political conflict and complex issues of identity along with some of the psychological and social perplexities of the present provide much fodder for storylines.

[30th October, 2011] Journal. Film, literature and philosophy. Sesión no numerada

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Friday, June 3, 2011 - 7:45am
Sesión no numerada

"Sesión no numerada" is a scientific journal that publishes original articles whose subject is part of the editorial of the journal: Studies linking film and television series with any of the humanities (literature, philosophy, history...). It also publishes original translations of relevant articles, reviews of books relevant to the field of audiovisual fiction and reviews of films released in the year preceding the publication of each issue. The periodicity of the review is annual, published the number for the year in January. The publication languages are Spanish and English.

http://www.ucm.es/info/sesionnonumerada

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