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Queer Relations: Revising the Victorian Family (proposal deadline: 1 April. 2013)

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 7:13pm
Dr Duc Dau, University of Western Australia and Dr Shale Preston, Macquarie University

We invite contributions for an upcoming volume of essays which examine the Victorian family through a queer lens. The Victorian family can be taken to mean the nineteenth-century nuclear or extended family, or the family of texts associated with the Victorian period (e.g. nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian texts). We are looking for exciting interrogations into the discourse of the Victorian family. These interrogations can focus on untraditional familial arrangements, non-normative relationships, polyamorous attachments, queer families in disparate communities/locations (e.g.

[UPDATE] Giving Voice to the Dead: Haunted Histories and Living Landscapes in Literature

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 6:25pm
PCEA

[UPDATE] The Pennsylvania College English Assoc. has extended the submission deadline for our 2013 conference. We will accept individual and panel submissions until Feb. 15, 2013.

Giving Voice to the Dead: Haunted Histories and Living Landscapes in Literature
Pennsylvania College English Association Annual Conference
March 14-16, 2013
Eisenhower Hotel & Conference Center
2634 Emmitsburg Rd, Gettysburg, PA

[UPDATED] Watermark Journal — Submission Deadline Extended: 3/1/2013

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 1:53pm
California State University, Long Beach

Watermark, an annual scholarly journal published by graduate students in the Department of English at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking papers for our seventh volume to be published in March 2012. Watermark is dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers concerned with the fields of rhetoric and composition and literature of all genres and periods. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

Modernism, Memory and Media: Ireland 1913-1916

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 5:01am
National University of Ireland Maynooth

Call for proposals: March 15th deadline
A hundred years ago, Ireland was marked by a series of events that proved fundamental to the making of its modern memory. Those events – from the passing of the Home Rule Bill to the Lock-Out of 1913, from the slaughters on the battlefields of the Great War to the Easter Rising – occurred during a period of unparalleled modernist innovation, and in a mass media age. A subsequent history of national foundation and decolonization can be traced in part to this moment of Irish history, when Ireland's struggles proved paradigmatic of what was to come in other places.

[UPDATE] -All Irish Issue of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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Monday, February 4, 2013 - 6:39pm
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is seeking articulate and well-reasoned articles exploring any element of Irish women's writing and experience. Articles from any discipline are welcome and articles embracing a transdisciplinary methodology are of particular interest. As well, book reviews of academic texts, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama are of interest.

The deadline for submission is March 17th, 2013. Please send either an abstract or full paper. Submissions should be emailed to Brian F. McCabe, Special Editor at mccabeb@cgu.edu.

Thinking Verse volume III: Scansion

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Monday, February 4, 2013 - 12:03pm
Thinking Verse - www.thinkingverse.com

Call for Contributions, Thinking Verse vol. III, 'Scansion'.

Is It All About the Text? Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizing

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Monday, February 4, 2013 - 11:46am
Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University

The Annual Graduate English Conference at Southern Connecticut State University

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT

April 21, 2012
9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
English Department
Engleman Hall
(D-Wing)

Is It All About the Text?
Reading, Writing, Teaching, Technologizing, Theorizing

Approaches:
We are soliciting papers and panel proposals from graduate students in English studies and other related fields. We welcome a range of perspectives including:

New Critics: Undergraduate Literature and Composition Conference--April 20, 2013

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Monday, February 4, 2013 - 10:05am
SUNY Oneonta

We are now accepting abstracts for the fourth annual New Critics: Undergraduate Literature and Composition Conference, which will be held on the SUNY Oneonta campus (Oneonta, NY) on Saturday, April 20, 2013. The deadline for abstract submissions (sent to me via email attachment)is Monday, March 4. We are solicting abstracts for critical undergraduate papers on any subject in literature or composition. Film and other popular culture critical work is also of interest. Accepted papers must be readable in no more than 15 minutes. This conference is free to attend. This year, we are very proud to have noted scholar, Dr. Jonathan Culler (Cornell), as our keynote speaker.

CfP: The Common Denominator -- A Postgraduate Conference in British Cultural Studies, 20-22 MArch 2014

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Monday, February 4, 2013 - 9:05am
British Cultural Studies in the Institute for British Studies of Leipzig University

In ancient Greece, the Pythagoreans worshipped perfect numbers and turned them into musical scales. Two thousand years later, Nicolaus Copernicus still heard their sound in the perfection of the universal spheres. Numerologists, alchemists and the Gnostics all attempt to explain the mysteries of the universe with the precision and beauty of mathematics. And what would the voluptuous garments displayed in Renaissance painting be without the clear lines and structured order of geometry? Already these few examples show that mathematics has always been more than is commonly represented in popular culture in the wider British context.

CFP: "After the World: New Possibilities for Comparative Literature"

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Monday, February 4, 2013 - 7:47am
The Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

International Conference on Comparative Literature, Taipei, Taiwan
Keynote speaker: Professor Samuel Weber (Northwestern University, USA)

We take great pleasure in announcing that the Eleventh Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Literature, sponsored by the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and hosted by the English Department at Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan, will be held on December 13-14, 2013. The general theme of the conference is "After the World: New Possibilities for Comparative Literature."

[UPDATE] Asian Conference on Social Sciences 2013

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Monday, February 4, 2013 - 12:22am
IAFOR

Special Theme: "Society, Environment and Trust: Towards Sustainable Systems of Governance"

The conference theme is "Sustaining the Future" and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this question from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to the Social Sciences, including the following streams:

Examining Public Voice, Human Rights, and Social Justice Across Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Symposium Florida Atlanti

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Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 3:42pm
Comparative Studies Student Association Florida Atlantic University

Deadline for abstracts: February 11
The Comparative Studies PhD Student Association (CSSA) is welcoming abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference to be held at Florida Atlantic University, with a focus on public voice, human rights, and social justice. The conference will include key-note speakers addressing conference themes with a special focus on filmmaking, human rights, and public voice. Special screenings of award-winning documentaries and feature-length films will be a highlight of the symposium.

RENT ASSEMBLY: Call for Proposals

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Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 2:04pm
The Kootenay School of Writing and The Mainlander

Rent Assembly: Call for Proposals
a gathering of renters in a time of siege

Deadline for Proposals: March 31, 2013
Rent Assembly: May 24, 25, 26, 2013

Vancouver, BC – Unceded Coast Salish territory

'The rentiers reap what they do not sow.'
–Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)

CFP: Identity and Conflict in Cultural and Geo-Political Contexts

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Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 11:40am
HYPERION UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

HYPERION UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

THE

"LETTERS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES" DEPARTMENT

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE DEPARTMENT OF "LETTERS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES" OF
THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL, HUMANISTIC AND NATURAL SCIENCES

INVITES YOU
TO SEND PAPER PROPOSALS TO OUR CONFERENCE ENTITLED

Identity and Conflict in Cultural and Geo-Political Contexts

Date: 13-14 June, 2013
Venue: The Faculty of Social, Humanistic and Natural Sciencies, Department of "Letters and Foreign Languages"
Str. Calea Călăraşilor, nr. 169, Bucharest, Romania

[UPDATE] South Central MLA Biography/Autobiography/Memoir panel

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Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 10:08am
South Central Modern Language Association

The 2012 South Central MLA Conference is accepting paper proposals for its Biography/Autobiography/Memoir panel. Literary paper proposals on any aspect of biography, autobiography, and memoir are welcome. Papers should be no longer than 15-minutes when read aloud. Please submit a 200-word abstract by 4/1/13 to mge1108@gmail.com.

The SCMLA conference will be held in New Orleans, LA from October 3-5, 2013.

20th/21st Poetics, a panel at the 20th Annual (dis)junctions Graduate Conference, Apr 5-6. DEADLINE Feb. 11

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Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 5:27pm
Sarah Lozier and Josh Pearson, University of California Riverside

The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen the explosion of new, experimental poetic forms within literary circles. From the highly restrictive forms of the Oulipo movement, to the blurring of lines between prose and poetry, to the rejection of the Lyric or narrative poem in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, sound, and concrete poetry movements, encounters with(in) this period's poetry offer fruitful sites for critical interrogation.

20th Annual (dis)junctions Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Conference, Apr 5-6. DEADLINE Feb. 11

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Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 5:08pm
Co-Chairs Josh Pearson and Sarah Lozier, University of California, Riverside

This year's (dis)junctions conference at UCR invites papers that contribute to conversations around notions of "encountering," with particular focus given to the operation of texts, understood as representational media objects, within "scenes of encounter."

Encounter: transitive verb
1 a: to meet as an adversary b: to engage in conflict with
2: to come upon face-to-face
3: to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly

The Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition

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Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 3:47pm
The Journal of Victorian Culture

The Journal of Victorian Culture is pleased to announce the 2013 JVC Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition. The aim of the JVC Essay Prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad. Past winners include Louise Lee, Tiffany Watt-Smith, and Bob Nicholson whose essays appear in issues 13.1 (2008), 15.1 (2010) and 17.3 (2012).

[UPDATE] MSA 15 UPDATE & CFP DEADLINE REMINDER (Seminar deadline: 15th Feb)

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Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 10:52am
MSA 15: “Everydayness and the Event”



Dear Colleague,

I'm writing to update you on the upcoming Modernist Studies Association conference, MSA 15: "Everydayness and the Event," which is scheduled to take place between 29 August and 1 September 2013 at the University of Sussex, Brighton. Sussex is co-hosting with Queen Mary, University of London.

You can see our newly revamped website here: http://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa15/

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics invites works in poetry, creative non fiction, art/book/fil review & research papers on "travel"

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Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 4:33am
Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (www.coldnoon.com)

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics [(www.coldnoon.com)_ISSN: 2278-9650] invites writers and researchers to submit their works in original poetry, creative non-fiction, art/book/film reviews or research papers on "travel" for publication in Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, Mar '13, Issue VI (online). The works published in the forthcoming issue will be republished in Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, Summer 2013 (print_ISSN – 2278-9642), along with the previous online issue, Nov '12, Issue V, in April-May, 2013. The last date of sending submissions is 17th February, 2013.

Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities

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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 3:33pm
Euroacademia

Euroacademia cordially invites you to
The Euroacademia International Conference
'Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities' to be held in Zagreb, Croatia
Esplanade Zagreb
18 – 20 April 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 1st of March 2013

Conference description:

San Joaquin Valley Journal Submission Deadline Extension -- May 1, 2013

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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 2:43pm
Andrew Dorsey / San Joaquin Valley Journal

The San Joaquin Valley Journal is seeking articles for its fourth issue. SJVJ is an online, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Department of English at California State University, Stanislaus. The annual journal offers a forum for the discussion of literature, critical theory, rhetoric and composition, pedagogy, and issues relevant to teaching in academe. SJVJ is particularly interested in scholarly essays that engage issues and ideas in connection with the literature and culture of the San Joaquin Valley. In view of its regional emphasis, SJVJ also welcomes profiles on San Joaquin Valley writers, creative nonfiction, book reviews, faculty interviews, and commentaries related to the southern portion of California's Central Valley.

2nd International Conference on Dialect and Literature 10-12 July 2013

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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 11:41am
University of Sheffield, UK

This conference invites papers that explore the representation of dialect in literary texts. We welcome papers from across different periods, different genres and different geographical locations. Questions that might be addressed include, but are not restricted to:

"Cultures in movement , 19th-21st centuries. The Stakes of Changing Cultures." 10-11 October 2013, La Rochelle, France.

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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 2:47am
Faculté de Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines (FLASH), Université de La Rochelle, France.

This conference is part of a larger research project, focusing on societies, exchanges and power in the Americas and the Asia / Pacific region, as well as questions of identity representation on an international scale. More precisely, it might be useful to re-think the very notion of culture by examining the experiences / situations and the representations of those who chose – or were forced – to change cultures. The primary goal is to study a cultural displacement within the geographical confines of the Americas / Asia Pacific region, in which the CRHIA (Research center, international and Atlantic history) specializes.

[UPDATE] The Politics of African Contemporary Art - submission deadline March 8, 2013

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Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 4:38pm
Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics

Recent approaches to African contemporary art often celebrate the advent of a global contemporary art scene in which they see an abolition of the provincialist and historicist concepts that were imposed by the West during the colonial period. One assumes that by taking part in new and post-historical/ post-national networks of exchange, facilitated by large-scale international exhibitions, biennials and fairs, artists can express themselves more truly as they are no longer doomed to wrestle with the notions of the pre-colonial/ colonial; to be measured against Western art-historical paradigms, or to be defined via enduring fictions about their own parochialism.

The Politics of African Contemporary Art

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Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 3:47pm
Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics

Recent approaches to African contemporary art often celebrate the advent of a global contemporary art scene in which they see an abolition of the provincialist and historicist concepts that were imposed by the West during the colonial period. One assumes that by taking part in new and post-historical/ post-national networks of exchange, facilitated by large-scale international exhibitions, biennials and fairs, artists can express themselves more truly as they are no longer doomed to wrestle with the notions of the pre-colonial/ colonial; to be measured against Western art-historical paradigms, or to be defined via enduring fictions about their own parochialism.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY & THE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP (June 21-22, 2013)

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Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 3:43pm
MFA Program, Manhattanville College

Keynote Speakers:

• Bill Ayers, author of To Teach: The Journey, in Comics

• Joy James, editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings

• Poets from the workshops with Justice for Domestic Workers (J4DW, London)

The MFA program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College will host an international conference aimed at bringing into dialogue key figures and debates in the fields of creative writing and critical pedagogy with the hope of establishing frameworks for the development of a critical creative writing pedagogy, i.e., a more committed (emancipatory) teaching praxis within the field of creative writing. The conference will be held June 21-22, 2013.

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