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CFP: [Medieval] Fame and Fortune in the Middle Ages (grad)(UK)(02/15/08-02/16/08)

updated: 
Friday, October 26, 2007 - 12:20pm
Gareth Griffith

CALL FOR PAPERS
Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of Bristol, UK
14th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Conference
15th-16th February 2008

‘Fame and Fortune’

We are pleased to invite papers from postgraduate medievalists of any
discipline on the theme of Fame and Fortune. We welcome papers that
interpret this theme in any illuminating way, such as (but not limited
to) the following:

CFP: [Medieval] CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 3:48pm
Making.Books_at_sas.upenn.edu, Shaping Readers

Call for Papers
The Second Annual Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference
April 2nd â€" 4th 2008
University College Cork
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr

Conference Theme: Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing

Plenary Speaker: Professor Alistair McCleery, Co-Director of SAPPHIRE,
Professor of Literature and Culture at Napier University, and co-editor
of The Book History Reader

CFP: [Medieval] Southwest GRADUATE English Symposium Feb.29-Mar 1, Deadlines Nov 1st, Translation in Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 11:51pm
Marqueshia Wilson

Translation in Literature

Fine literature does and should span centuries and continents. But have
you ever played telephone? Have you ever played operator?

What is lost in the translation of ancient texts or even contemporary
texts in different languages? How can the poems of Turgenev or the
initially oral tales of, say, The Iliad retain their meaning through time
and space? And if something is lost in translation, why must we strive
for transmission in this ever-shrinking, wi-fy connected world?

Interdisciplinary panel, paper, and creative submissions are invited for
the 14th annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium at Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, held Feb. 29-March 1, 2008.

UPDATE: [Medieval] Conference for Medieval Studies at Purdue University (grad) (11/1/07; 2/15-2/16/08)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:47pm
Karen Robinson

Deadline has been extended.

The sixth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student
conference sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies student
organization, will be held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
from February 15-16, 2008. The theme for this year’s conference will be
"Authority, Authorship, and Audience in the Middle Ages."

Eve Salisbury, Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan
University, will be the plenary speaker for this year’s conference.

CFP: [Medieval] premodern surplus

updated: 
Friday, October 12, 2007 - 7:44pm
Andrea Denny-Brown

Call for papers on medieval and early modern notions of surplus and excess for a group of
interdisciplinary sessions on *Premodern Surplus* at the AESA conference on Surplus/Excess (see
call below). Proposed paper topics due to Professor Andrea Denny-Brown by November 1, 2007.
Contact Andrea Denny-Brown at andreadb_at_ucr.edu.

AESA Conference: Surplus/Excess
Call for Papers

April 3, 4, 5, 2008 The University of California, Riverside

Surplus: quantity of some thing that remains after activity relating to the production of that thing
has been completed or where the requirement to produce or possess the thing has been met.
Anything that is redundant or no longer useful may be described.

CFP: [Medieval] Indo-Caribbean conference

updated: 
Thursday, October 11, 2007 - 10:51am
Letizia Gramaglia

Indo-Caribbean Literature and Culture
A Conference to Celebrate the 170thAnniversary of the Arrival of
East Indians in the Caribbean
University of Warwick
9th-10th May 2008

UPDATE: [Medieval] VAGANTES Conference 2008 (grad) (10/15/07;2/28-3/02/08) - Last Call

updated: 
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 2:48pm
Ryan Judkins

Dear all,

The below CFP may be of interest to graduate students, and it
would be much appreciated if you would forward it to interested
parties. We look forward to seeing the attendees in March!

All best,

Ryan Judkins
Vagantes Planning Board
Ohio State University

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VAGANTES Graduate Student Conference 2008
February 28-March 2, 2008
The Ohio State University

CFP: [Medieval] Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference

updated: 
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 1:33pm
Brent E. Kinser

21st Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference

Asheville, North Carolina
April 24â€"26 2008

Sponsored by the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, the University of
Central Florida, and Western Carolina University

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of over 250 members
worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related both directly and
indirectly to Rawlings’s life and works. Paper topics might include but
are not limited to the following categories:

CFP: [Medieval] Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe (Denmark) (1/31/08; ESSE, 8/22/08-8/26/08)

updated: 
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 10:04am
Gerd Bayer

Seminar Title: “Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe”
Seminar Organisers: Ebbe Klitgård (Roskilde, Denmark) and Gerd Bayer
(Erlangen, Germany)

Proposals are invited for a conference seminar (6-10 speakers) to be held
at ESSE 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, August 22-26, 2008. Further information
about the conference is available at: http://www.esse2008.dk/

CFP: [Medieval] Fat Studies Sociological Paper Session

updated: 
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 9:01pm
Jason Whitesel

I am currently seeking abstracts in the area of Fat Studies for the 2008
North Central Sociological Association Conference (March 27-29; Hilton
Netherland Hotel Cincinnati). Sociologists and other sociologically
inclined academics and activists, in any stage of their career, are
welcome to submit an approximately 250-word paper proposal or a completed
paper. Topics may include, but are not limited to fat phobia, size
discrimination and group-based inequality; issues of fat embodiment,
sexuality and experiences of everyday shame; and possibilities for fat
personhood and the creation of a livable life. If you are interested in
presenting a research paper, email an abstract of your work to

CFP: [Medieval] Acad. Admin. Leader.: Create Communication.: Administrators/Administrated (11/1/07; CEA 3/27-29/08)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 1:21pm
Joseph Pestino

The College English Association (CEA)
Call for Papers on Academic Administrative Leadership at the Department
Level The 39th CEA Conference, St. Louisâ€"27-29 March 2008

We welcome submissions on the following topics as they relate to
administrative leadership on the departmental level (Chairing, Program
Directing, etc.):

1. Developing and Coordinating Internships for Literature and Writing
Majors: Issues, Tips and Guidelines.
2. “Can You Hear Me Now?”: Creating Lines of Communication between the
Administrator and the Administrated.

CFP: [Medieval] The Pretty that Hurts: The Cult of Pain and Violating the Body (Grad Panel, 10/15/07; 2/29/08-3/1/08

updated: 
Monday, October 1, 2007 - 5:25pm
Want Chyi

>From self-mutilation to the rise of plastic surgery; from the Gothic
genre to representations of pain in media and art, how has transgressing
the body yielded consequences for artists and audiences? This panel seeks
critical and creative presentations that explore these questions.

Submit 350-word paper proposals by October 15 to the Southwest Graduate
English Symposium, held at Arizona State University, February 29-March 1,
2008. Please include your name, professional affiliation, home and office
numbers, mailing address, and email address. Also, please include any A/V
requirements with your submission.

CFP: [Medieval] Hermesâs Tongue: Validity & Challenges of Art as Messenger (Grad Panel, 10/15/07; 2/29/08-3/1/08)

updated: 
Monday, October 1, 2007 - 5:07pm
Want Chyi

What are the challenges of using art to translate a message? How does art
function as a language? What is lost or gained when it is transmitted to
the audience? How does visual/ performance art fit into academia? This
panel seeks critical and creative presentations, including visual and
performance art, which explores these questions.

Submit 350-word paper proposals by October 15 to the Southwest Graduate
English Symposium, held at Arizona State University, February 29-March 1,
2008. Please include your name, professional affiliation, home and office
numbers, mailing address, and email address. Also, please include any A/V
requirements with your submission.

CFP: [Medieval] Medieval Identity Politics: Landscaping the Community

updated: 
Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 5:28pm
Jeanne Provost

Seeking submissions for a panel for the July 2008 International Medieval
Congress in Leeds on the following topic:

During the Middle Ages, the texture and topography of the landscape were
integral elements of a community's sense of identity. Natural features such
as rivers, ridge-lines, and forests served as territorial boundaries of a
region; man-made interventions like burial mounds and agricultural tracts
marked the necessary ties between a community and its land.

UPDATE: [Medieval] Holy Women, Holy Places: Gender, Publics, and Religion (grad) (9/28/07; 12/06/07-12/07/07)

updated: 
Monday, September 24, 2007 - 3:48pm
Judith Anderson

Deadline extended to September 28, 2007.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Holy Women, Holy Places: Gender, Publics, and Religion in Medieval and
Early Modern Europe
An interdisciplinary graduate student colloquium hosted by the Medieval and
Early Modern Institute at the University of Alberta, December 6-7, 2007
Deadline for submissions: September 28, 2007

CFP: [Medieval] Pleasure in Anglo-Saxon England

updated: 
Saturday, September 22, 2007 - 8:21pm
Jordan Zweck

Pleasure in Anglo-Saxon England

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference

Saturday, February 16, 2008

 
Yale University, in partnership with the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
(Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, NYU), invites submissions for the fourth
annual graduate student conference sponsored by the Colloquium.

CFP: [Medieval] War & the (Re)Invention of Communications & Communities (10/15/07; 2/29/08-3/1/08) Arizona State U.

updated: 
Friday, September 21, 2007 - 7:16pm
Cambria Stamper

War and the (Re)Invention of Communications and Communities: Transmission,
Translation, Transgression (10/30/07; 2/29/08-3/1/08)

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,
and transgression against the nation-state, religion, gender, violence, etc.

CFP: [Medieval] 5th Annual Tolkien Conference

updated: 
Friday, September 21, 2007 - 5:14pm
Christopher Vaccaro

The 5th Annual Tolkien Conference at the University of Vermont will be
held April 2008 from Friday the 11th to Sunday the 13th. This year’s
theme is Celtic and Norse influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien.

The conference organizers seek 20-minute papers on any topic related to
Tolkien or his work, but topics relating to the theme of the conference
will be given priority consideration.

UPDATE: [Medieval] VAGANTES Conference 2008 (grad) (10/15/07;2/28-3/02/08)- 2ND CALL

updated: 
Friday, September 21, 2007 - 2:33pm
Ryan Judkins

Dear all,

The below CFP may be of interest to graduate students, and it
would be excellent if you would forward it to interested
parties. We look forward to seeing the attendees in March! (Speaker update
below, as well.)

All best,

Ryan Judkins
Vagantes Planning Board
Ohio State University

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VAGANTES Graduate Student Conference 2008
February 28-March 2, 2008
The Ohio State University

UPDATE: [Medieval] extended deadline: 10/10/07

updated: 
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 2:57pm
Rebecca Lartigue

"Old Gems in New Settings"
NEMLA, Buffalo, NY, April 10-13, 2008

This panel invites papers on the teaching of early British literature in
survey courses. Practical pedagogical explorations are welcome, as well as
papers addressing theoretical concerns. How are concerns about manuscript,
generic, and cultural contexts transformed when medieval texts are placed
in the context of a survey course for modern students? How are medieval
works changed when seen in the contexts of post-medieval works? Send one-
page abstracts to Rebecca Lartigue at rlartigu_at_spfldcol.edu . DEADLINE
EXTENDED TO 10/10/07.

CFP: [Medieval] After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England

updated: 
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 12:22pm
Annie Sutherland

CALL FOR PAPERS

After Arundel: Religious Writing in
Fifteenth-Century England

An international conference organised by the Faculty of English,
University of Oxford, in association with the Bodleian Library,
marking the 600th anniversary of the publication of Arundel’s
Constitutions.

16th â€" 18th April 2009
University of Oxford

* Mapping Chronologies
* The Dynamics of Orthodox Reform
* Humanism and Intellectual History
* Literary Self-Consciousness and Literary History
* Discerning the Discourse: Language and Spirituality
* Heresy and its Textual Afterlife

CFP: [Medieval] Medieval British Literature (11/1/07; CEA, 3/27/08-3/29/08)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 7:50pm
James M. Palmer

College English Association National Conference
March 27-29, 2008; St. Louis, Missouri

CEA invites papers on Medieval British Literature for its 39th annual
meeting in St. Louis. The conference theme this year is "Passages."
Proposals addressing this theme are especially encouraged, but any topic
addressing Medieval British literature will be considered.

Papers might address the following:

1) Rites of Passage
2) Spiritual Passages
3) Passage as Journey
4) Passages to/through cities, shrines, etc.
5) Literary Passages

Proposals should be submitted by November 1st via the online database at
http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/conftool

CFP: [Medieval] CDE May 2008 Adaptations - Performing across Media and Genres

updated: 
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 7:35pm
Eckart Voigts-Virchow

17th Annual CDE Conference 2008,
University of Siegen, Akademie Biggesee, Attendorn, Germany, May 01-04,
2008
“Adaptations â€" Performing across Media and Genres”
The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
announces its 17th Annual Conference (May 01 to 04, 2008). It will be
organized by the Chair of English Literature at the University of Siegen
and held between Siegen and Cologne at the Akademie Biggesee, Attendorn .
Call for Papers:
Translation, transformation, appropriation, assimilation, adaptation â€"
these processes of intertextual and intermedial contact have been part
and parcel of theatre and drama since their very beginnings. In various

UPDATE: [Medieval] Women Authors in the Middle Ages (panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 3:07pm
Cristian Bratu

Women Authors in the Middle Ages (panel): Deadline was extended to
September 30, 2007.

THE 2008 WOMEN IN FRENCH CONFERENCE
April 10-12, 2008

In medieval France, the word "author" referred primarily to Latin auctores.
It was therefore considerably more difficult for vernacular writers to be
considered "authors," and even more so for women writers. However, women
such as Marie de France and Christine de Pizan effectively established
themselves as medieval authors. This session will explore the relationship
between gender, authorship, and authority in the Middle Ages (we also
welcome submissions about Early Modern women writers).

UPDATE: [Medieval] new 09/25 deadline: NEMLA, Buffalo, 04/10-13/08: Poetics of Place, Region and Nation

updated: 
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 3:13am
Randy Schiff

The Poetics of Place seeks to bring together critical voices working on
the various ways in which spatial self-conceptions shape the formation of
regional and national identities in medieval British literature. Papers
sought on topics related to geography, to region), and to the vexed and
discontinuous process of writing Britain as a cultural unity. Send 500-
word abstracts to Randy Schiff at rpschiff_at_buffalo.edu.

CFP: [Medieval] Hypertext and Intertext: Recasting the Master Narrative (grad panel, 10/15/07; 2/29-3/1/08)

updated: 
Monday, September 17, 2007 - 5:09pm
Cynthia Calhoun

Jasper Fforde’s popular series of literary detective novels, beginning
with The Eyre Affair, popularized a little-studied literary trope:
intertextual references and devices that subvert the linear master
narrative. From farting bookworms to the “footnoterphone,” Fforde
utilizes font types, footnotes, and misspellings to argue for a multi-
textuality in his novels. How have other writers done the same? For
what purpose? How does this practice affect us as readers? This panel
seeks critical and creative presentations that explore these questions.
Topics may include self-referencing, online hypertext, multiple
narrators, and much more.

CFP: [Medieval] To (Un)Make the Pain: The Language and Empathy of Suffering (grad panel, 10/15/07; 2/29/08-3/1/08)

updated: 
Monday, September 17, 2007 - 4:59pm
Cynthia Calhoun

In Elaine Scarry’s book Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the
World, she claims that pain is language destroying, essentially
establishing a barrier between the self and reality that eliminates
meaningful communication with the outside world. Therefore, not only is
it impossible to adequately describe pain, but the possibility of empathy
is all but destroyed. This panel seeks critical and creative
presentations that explore and engage the question: How can a subject
effectively communicate the experience of pain? How can a community
understand or empathize with that subject? Topics may include specific
writers â€" such as Sylvia Plath or Philip K. Dick â€" or a more general
theoretical study.

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