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[UPDATE]: Monstrous Spaces in Literature and Pedagogy -- March 9, 2013 (deadline extended)

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Sunday, January 13, 2013 - 6:12pm
St. John's University Graduate English Conference

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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Sicari

We welcome papers concentrating on 'spaces' that could be considered 'monstrous' or are in some way capable of creating 'monstrosity.' Spaces may be real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, psychological or material. Literal places may include sites of trauma, genocide, or biological experimentation; dystopias; colonized regions; mythical lands; etc. Psychological spaces may include memory, neurosis, philosophy, etc. Monstrosity may be perceived as depravity; social or sexual taboos; hegemonic power in the form of racism, classism, sexism; etc. Papers may challenge, call to light, or reinforce perceptions of monstrosity.

"European Cooperation/Cooptation: Ideas of Collaboration and Coordination"

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Sunday, January 13, 2013 - 3:54pm
Center for European Studies, Dalhousie University

For the third annual colloquium in European Studies (26-27 April 2013, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada), we invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes that deal with any aspect of cooperation in Europe. Papers are welcome from all disciplines and historical periods, from antiquity to the present. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

*Second Call*, The Return of the Text Conference, Sept. 26-28, 2013; 20-minute Paper Proposals Due March 1, 2013

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Sunday, January 13, 2013 - 1:00pm
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum

The Return of the Text: A Conference on the Cultural Value of Close Reading, Sept. 26-28, 2013
full name / name of organization:
Le Moyne College Religion and Literature Forum
contact email:
gurleyja@lemoyne.edu
Keynote Speakers: Branka Arsic, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Mitchell Breitwieser, English, U.C. Berkeley Charles Mathewes, Religion, University of Virginia Steven Justice, English, U.C. Berkeley Albrecht Diem, History, Syracuse University ---with a special reading and group discussion of Finnegan's Wake led by John Bishop

lemoyne.edu/ReturnoftheTextConference

[UPDATE] Border/lands: An Interdisciplinary Ecocritical Conference DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 25TH

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Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 9:29pm
University of Idaho, Department of English (Graduate Students)

University of Idaho Graduate Students of English Conference: BORDER/LANDS

The Graduate Students in the Department of English at the University of Idaho invite submissions for an conference focusing on issues relating to borders, boundaries, and the body. While this event is ecocritical in focus, we invite a wide interpretation of the theme. The conference will take place April 13th, 2013 and will feature a roundtable discussion with Dr. Scott Slovic (UI), Dr. Erin James (UI), Dr. Jenn Ladino (UI), Dr. Anna Banks (UI), Dr. Scott Knickerbocker (College of Idaho), and Dr. Tom Hillard (Boise State). The discussion will address the state of contemporary ecocriticism.

Extended CFP: Crossing Boundaries, Revealing Connections: Experiments in Interdisciplinary Studies

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Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 6:22pm
Battleground States Conference

Bowling Green State University Presents the 8th Annual Battleground States Conference
Title: Crossing Boundaries, Revealing Connections: Experiments in Interdisciplinary Studies
February 22nd – 24th 2013

Culture is mercurial and fluid. Thus research must create, but also dispute yet engage, a transformational and reflective understanding of our subjects. The examination of knowledge and epistemologies from varying perspectives reveals the interconnections of vastly varying subjects. But to find these connections we first need to explore and experiment.

Modernism and Aesthetics

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Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 1:12pm
Emerging Modernisms: Digital Modernism Collective

Call for Submissions: Modernism and Aesthetics
Emerging Modernisms: A Digital Modernisms Collective seeks contributions to an online journal relating to the broad topics of Modernism and Aesthetics. The purpose of Emerging Modernisms is to create a space for critical conversation, rigorous reading and collaborative discussion for emerging and established scholars of literary Modernism by taking innovative approaches to canonical Modernist texts and engaging with current debates in the field.

Adam's Dream: Imaginative Incarnations in the Long Eighteenth Century, 13th-14th April 2013, University of Cambridge

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Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 12:28pm
University of Cambridge, Faculty of English

The annual Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Graduate Conference, hosted by the Cambridge Faculty of English, will take place over the weekend of the 13th-14th April 2013. The conference will consist of six panels, chaired by Cambridge faculty members, during which graduate students will deliver papers of roughly twenty minutes in length.

The Dada App (MSA 15, August 29 - September 1, Brighton)

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 8:09pm
Merrill Cole / Western Illinois University

What contemporary uses can we make of Dada methods, techniques, innovations, and ideas? Should Dada inform our politics? Can it help to break us out of the postmodern ever-same, or is it the already-been-done, as Peter Bürger'€™s Theory of the Avant-Garde might suggest? Where is the Dada apparatus today?

Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment - March 1 & June 2013

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 6:14am
University of York & Birkbeck, University of London

Postgraduate Funding Opportunity

Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment

An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York and Birkbeck, University of London

A number of travel bursaries are available for postgraduates and early career researchers to participate in this project, which uses Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to explore the relationship between arts and science research through two workshops in 2013.

Workshop 1

Friday 1st March 2013

Humanities Research Centre, University of York, BS/008

Deadline for Travel Bursary Applications: Monday 28th January 2013, 5:30pm

Workshop 2

[REMINDER] Victorian Play(s): Excess and Expression

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 7:46pm
Victorian Studies Assoc. of Ontario

The VSAO executive invites proposals for 20-minute papers to be presented at the Association's 46th annual conference on 27 April 2013. The conference theme will be "Victorian Play(s): Excess and Expression." The venue will be Glendon College, York University, Toronto.

Call For Participants to Build a PLOS-style Model for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 3:13pm
Martin Paul Eve, University of Lincoln

For quite some time, I have been interested in/incensed by the scholarly publication system; the exclusions, iniquities and absurdities of it can be clearly seen from only a brief survey of the economic field. I have watched with despair as the sciences have made projects work while the humanities and social sciences have almost sleepwalked into a disaster. The Finch Report published in the UK and accepted by the government will wreak havoc on our modus operandi and work to stratify an already split field.

[UPDATE] Craft Critique Culture: Into the Void, March 29-30, 2013

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 1:53pm
University of Iowa

The 13th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
"Into the Void"
March 29-30, 2012
University of Iowa

***DEADLINE EXTENDED to February 8, 2013***

But in the midst of the long row there hangs a canvas which differs from the others. . . . on this one plate no name is inscribed, and the linen within the frame is snow-white from corner to corner, a blank page.
— Isak Dinesen, "The Blank Page"

'Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars': Exploring the Virtues in Literature

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 12:15pm
Houston Baptist University

'Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars': Exploring the Virtues in Literature
Southwest Region Conference on Christianity and Literature
Where:
Houston Baptist University, Houston TX
When:
Sept. 20-21, 2013
Proposals:
We welcome both individual paper abstracts and session proposals relevant to the conference theme. Please send paper abstracts (no more than 200 words) and/or session proposals by April 1, 2013 to the Conference Chair, Dr. Holly Ordway, at hordway@hbu.edu.
Description of Conference:

Surface/ Depth

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 7:29pm
Philament - The University of Sydney Journal of the Arts and Culture

Issue 19: Surface/Depth

'There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.'
- Friedrich Nietzsche

'The world thereby momentarily loses its depth and threatens to become a glossy skin, a stereoscopic illusion, a rush of filmic images without density. But is this now an terrifying or an exhilarating experience?''
- Fredric Jameson

Philament, the peer-reviewed online journal of the arts and culture affiliated with the University of Sydney, invites postgraduate students and early-career scholars to submit academic papers and creative works for a forthcoming issue on the theme of Surface/Depth. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Great Plains Emerging Tribal Writers Award

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 3:17pm
Great Plains Writers' Conference, South Dakota State University

The Great Plains Writers' Conference, in cooperation with South Dakota State University's American Indian Studies Program and American Indian Education and Cultural Center, announces the inaugural competition for a new annual award to encourage tribal writers in the early phases of their writing careers and to honor those of extraordinary merit and promise.

The winner, judged by AIS and AIECC, will receive an award of $500 and be invited to read at the Great Plains Writers' Conference at SDSU March 24-26, 2013. This year's conference focuses on examining the legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr.

WHO CAN SUBMIT: Writers from the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Minnesota who have not yet published a book of creative writing.

"Negotiation & Renegotiation" Graduate Student Conference, March 1-2, 2013

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 1:40pm
IU Department of French & Italian

This conference will examine the themes of Negotiation and Renegotiation in any area of French or Italian Studies. We shall examine such questions as: How do authors negotiate between seemingly
conflicting themes or positions? How do texts negotiate between genres, periods, and styles? How do speakers negotiate meaning within and across languages/dialects? How do language learners negotiate acquisition?

Peer English 9

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 7:06am
Dr Ben Parsons, University of Leicester

Peer English (ISSN 1746-5621) is a refereed, open-access online journal produced by members of the School of English. Issued once a year since 2006, its remit is to publish leading research from academics at the very beginnings of their careers (graduate study, post-doctoral research) through to those already established within the community. This approach also includes the notion of 'work in progress' and we welcome contributions of high academic standards from those currently involved in active research, be they doctoral candidates or Heads of Departments.

[UPDATE]"Heroes & Villains" University of Calgary Free-Exchange Graduate Conference March 8-10, 2013

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Monday, January 7, 2013 - 5:13pm
Free-Exchange Conference

**SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 21, 2013**

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." – Harvey Dent, Batman: The Dark Knight

Keynote Speakers:

Richard Harrison, Mount Royal University

Aruna Srivastava, University of Calgary

[UPDATE] 9th Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

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Monday, January 7, 2013 - 3:11pm
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium

New York University
April 4-5, 2013
Keynote by Asa Mittman (California State University, Chico) on April 4
Conference on April 5

Humans/Animals/Things

[Update] Tourism, Heritage, Identities (01/25/2013; ALA 05/23-26/2013)

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Monday, January 7, 2013 - 9:11am
Lucas Tromly / American Literature Association

[Update] Tourism, Heritage, Identities (01/25/2013; ALA 05/23-26/2013)

Papers are invited for a proposed panel at the 2013 meeting of the American Literature Association in Boston (23-26 May, 2013).

I seek papers that explore heritage tourism, or tourism motivated by the desire to recover a lost cultural identity, either the traveler's own or that of another group. I welcome papers that deal with non-fiction travel writing, fiction, film, poetry, or theory.

Relevant issues may include:

Heritage and objectification: museums, photographs, souvenirs, etc.

Heritage and the touristic gaze

The usable or invented past

Globalization, diaspora, long-distance nationalism

Jane Martin National Poetry Prize 2013

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Monday, January 7, 2013 - 5:39am
Girton College, University of Cambridge

The Jane Martin National Poetry opens for 2013, open to all UK residents who are 18 and over. The competition, now in its third year, will be judged by a panel of eminent poets including Gillian Beer and Caroline Bergvall. The winner will receive £1000 and an opportunity to read at a high profile poetry event.
For further information and how to enter see our website www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/599-jane-martin-poetry-prize-opens-for-2013

[UPDATE] Postgraduate Conference on English Literature and Translation Studies 17-18 May 2012

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Monday, January 7, 2013 - 3:59am
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies and Dept. of English Language and Literature at Cankaya University in Ankara, Turkey

Translation Studies and Literatures in English:
An interdisciplinary/international postgraduate conference
13-14 May 2013
Cankaya University Ankara
Translation and Interpreting Studies and English Language and Literature Departments at Cankaya University in Ankara warmly invite our colleagues/students to send 300-word abstracts/proposals for a 20-minute paper on English Literature and Translation Studies. This conference welcomes papers centering upon English Language, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Literary Translation, English Literature and Culture, American Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature and Literary and Cultural Theories.

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