international conferences

The Clinton Institute for American Studies invites paper proposals for
a one day conference on

Terrorism, the City and the State

to be held at University College Dublin on 26 February 2007

Keynote speakers include Professor Mike Davis (University of California
Irvine), author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums, who will speak
on 'The History of Car Bombing'

Culture & Power Seminar - Call for Papers

"THE PLOTS OF HISTORY"

12th International Conference Culture & Power
University of Oviedo, Spain
September 26 - 28, 2007

Cultural theory at the end of the 20th Century claimed that there would be an end to all metanarratives.
That end does not seem to be forthcoming in the present age, as new and old forms of manufacturing truth and emplotting history continue to affect our representations of the world.
This conference invites papers that address this topic from a variety of positions within Cultural Studies. We welcome papers dealing specifically with issues such as the following:

Strange Attractors: Unpredictable Combinations in Historical and
Cultural Contexts

In chaos theory, strange attractors can describe provisional patterns
emerging from chaos as terms are brought together in equations.
Applied to the humanities, the term 'strange attractors' not only
suggests the influence of chaos theory and intersections with
scientific theory, it also raises images of unlikely combinations,
emerging connections and unstable meanings.

The deadline for paper proposals for the following conference has been
extended to 31 January 2007.

*Collectors and Collecting: Private Collections and their Role in
Libraries*

Proposals are invited for papers for a conference to be held at Chawton
House Library on 19 and 20 July 2007. The event is jointly organised by
Chawton House Library, the University of Southampton English Department,
and Goucher College, Baltimore.

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Call for Papers

Title of conference: "Stories of Empire: Narratological Directions in =
Postcolonial Theory and Practice"
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Time: 13-15 September 2007

Venue: University of Vienna

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15 April 2007

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Convenors: A/Prof. Christa Knellwolf and Prof Margarete Rubik

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CFP: AHRC Postgraduate Conference

Redefining Conflict in Post-Cold War Media
 
School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
 
March 29-30th, 2007

UPDATED CFP: PLEASE NOTE AMENDED DEADLINE 1 FEBRUARY.

Plenary Speaker: Professor John Tulloch
John Tulloch, a Professor of Sociology at Brunel, has been a vocal critic of
Blair's political uses of 7 July London bombings and was himself a survivor
of the attacks.

Exhibiting Artist: Dan Williamson
There will be an exhibition and talk by artist Dan Williamson, whose recent
mixed media work on the 'War on Terror' was one of the most popular
installations at the British Art Sideshow 2006.

MODERNISM ON SEA
Thursday 5th July 2007
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Sussex
A one day conference exploring creative responses to the seaside in
20th century Britain.

Hosted in collaboration with the Universities of Oxford and Sussex and
the AHRC

Literature - Painting - Cinema - Design

Speakers include:
Professor Laura Marcus (Sussex)
Dr Frances Spalding (Newcastle)
Dr Alan Powers (Greenwich)
Dr Fred Gray (Sussex)
Dr Paul Rennie (Central St Martin's, London)

Plenaries announced:

The Idea of the City: Early modern, Modern, and Post-Modern
Locations and Communities

A two-day international conference at the University of Northampton
UK, 8-9 June 2007 Call for Papers

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Call for Papers

"Celebrating Memories & Visual Cultures"

ZIFF Conference, Zanzibar July 2-4, 2007

ZIFF will be celebrating its tenth anniversary with another grand
cultural festival from 30th June to 8th July, 2007, under the overall
theme of "Celebration of Waters and Dreams." It is a moment of
reflection on where we have come from, where we are at, and where we are
going.

As part of what has become a tradition, ZIFF will organise another
conference to celebrate the occasion on the conference theme focusing
specifically on "Celebrating Memories & Visual Cultures."

> > THIRD INTERNATIONAL GEORGE GISSING CONFERENCE
> > "WRITING OTHERNESS:
> > THE PATHWAYS OF GEORGE GISSING'S IMAGINATION"
> > LILLE, FRANCE
> > 27-28 MARCH 2008
> > (Thursday & Friday following the Easter weekend)
> >
> > CALL FOR PAPERS
> >
> > The efforts of scholars in the last half-century have served to confirm

Call for Papers
ESF Exploratory Workshop on
Medieval Memories: Case Studies, Definitions, Contexts

Date: September 3-5, 2007
Location: Vila Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic
Organizer: Center for Theoretical Study, Prague (www.cts.cuni.cz)

"Questioning Interdisciplinarity"

Nancy-Université (France)
28-29 September 2007
Organized by IDEA (Interdisciplinarité dans les études anglophones)

Renewed CFP

Swietokrzyska Academy in Piotrkow Trybunalski (Poland)

English Philology Department

Invites all the interested scholars to participate in an international
two-day conference:

Cultural representations of psychiatry and mental illness

18th – 19th May 2007

The suggested topics might include but are not limited to:

Representations of the mentally ill in cinema and literature (shell-shock
and other posttraumatic shock disorders, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder, eating disorders, substance-abuse related illnesses, suicide)

Representations of the doctor-patient relationships

Gender and madness

Writing as a symptom/writing as a cure