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Confirmed keynote speakers:
Tom Moylan (Emeritus, University of Limerick)
Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Phillip Wegner (University of Florida)
website: cyprusconferences.org/uss2011
Working Through Psychoanalysis:
Freud's Legacy in Art, Cinema, Literature and Popular Culture
An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Leeds, UK
15th-17th April, 2011
Guest speaker, D.M. Thomas,
author of The White Hotel
Call for Papers
The Ukrainian Quarterly invites scholarly articles on Ukrainian history, literature, politics, sociology, culture, linguistics and international affairs related to Ukraine.
The UQ is a refereed journal and follows a policy of review of all submissions.
The language of publication is English. Submissions should be made electronically, formatted in Microsoft Word for Windows, and submitted as an email attachment. Manuscripts should be in Times Roman font, 12-type, double spaced. Notes and any required bibliographic information should be formated as footnotes, not endnotes. The UQ uses a modfied MLA standard for all references and footnotes.
The journal welcomes submissions from graduate students as well as established scholars.
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2010 University of Florida Graduate Conference
October 21-22
Keynote Speaker: Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire. Author of _Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture_ (2002)
The English Graduate Organization of the University of Florida invites papers from across the discipline(s) concerning textual adaptation or appropriation. Adaptation and appropriation, regarding questions of performance, translation, and occasionally plagiarism, concern both new and old media. The process of becoming or the process of naming a text are formulated on sometimes vague thresholds or border lines when one text becomes another.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Ian Buchanan, Cardiff University & Professor Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam
The University of Glasgow's journal eSharp invites papers for the forthcoming themed issue. For Issue 16, Politics & Aesthetics , we will welcome articles which engage with issues of the politics of (re)presentation, as well as those investigating the (re)presentation of politics. We encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research and early career authors within one year of graduation.
Picturing Women's Health 1750-1910
A One-Day Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Warwick, Saturday 22nd January, 2011
It has become increasingly difficult to conceive of our culture as following a dialectical progression from a shared past into a collective future, whether utopian or dystopian. We find ourselves instead at a point at which "The Future," a key concept in all branches of Western thought, creativity and experience, is replaced by myriad "Futures" of immediate relevance and consequence. How is our relationship to the future changing, and how do we actualise these potential futures?
The editors of antiTHESIS are seeking papers exploring the concept of futures to be published in Volume 21 of the journal. Graduate students and researchers from all disciplines within the arts, humanities and social sciences are invited to submit.
Title: Interrogating Complicities: Postcolonial, Queer and the Threat of the Normative
Date: November 15th - 16th, 2010
Call for Papers and Participation
Reimagining the Archive:
Remapping and Remixing Traditional Models in the Digital Era
November 12, 13, 14, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles, James Bridges Theater
Symposium - Screenings - Speakers
Opening keynote - Rick Prelinger, archivist, filmmaker, founder Prelinger
Archives.
The 2011 Festival of Original Theatre conference sponsored by the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto will focus its discussion and praxis entirely on the field of Post-Colonial theatre. The 2011 F.O.O.T. festival is designed to reflect the multi-cultural diversity of the city we inhabit, and to encourage an integrative approach between the theoretical and practical. The festival intends to promote and discuss contemporary trends in the emerging field of post-colonial performance studies as it relates to contentious issues ever-present in various cultural/multi-racial communities (such as race, marginality, migration, agency and hegemony).
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The fourth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr. Beth Palmer (University of Surrey), will explore the various ways in which the Victorians related to concepts of performance and theatricality. The theatre held a central place in the Victorian imagination. Nineteenth-century investments in theatrical culture, as well as in theatrical modes of marketing and consuming literature, reflect in particularly interesting ways on the diverse performances – of class, gender, racial and national identities etc. – which shaped Victorian everyday life. We are therefore inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words investigating any aspect of this theme. A prize of £50, which we reserve the right to withhold, will be awarded for the best paper submitted.
Second Call for Papers, Presentations and Works: CINESONIKA 2010
Venue: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
Keynote Speaker: Don Ihde
CINESONIKA: The First International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design is extending its deadline for the conference component.
Limina is an online, refereed, academic journal of historical and cultural studies based in the Discipline of History at The University of Western Australia.
We are especially committed to publishing the work of postgraduate students and early career researchers, realising the importance of developing an early publication record, as well as the difficulties in doing so.
Recognising the fact that many articles get bogged down in the review process, at Limina we guarantee initial feedback on articles and the review process within 4 – 6 weeks, (ensuring your work is not buried somewhere for months on end).
While Hemingway's fiction remains a focus for many critics, not every piece of fiction Hemingway wrote engenders ample criticism. Susan Beegel, in Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction: New Perspectives, outlines a few ways in which certain short works of Hemingway continue to be the subject of criticism ranging from sentence-length dismissals scattered throughout book length studies to full-length essays lacking meaningful contributions to the work's scholarly cache. Beegel's explanation of neglected short fiction including works featured in essays which have lacked critical stature is the starting point for this panel proposal.
Call for Papers
42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, NY – Hyatt New Brunswick
Host Institution: Rutgers University
Deadline: September 30, 2010
The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 360 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers, cultural events, and pre-convention workshops. The complete Call for Papers for the 2011 Convention is available at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2011/cfp.html
Please include with your abstract:
This is a two-day interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium that will explore the relationships between feminism and teaching.
Keynote workshops/sessions by: Professor Gina Wisker (Brighton), Professor Sara Mills (Sheffield Hallam) and Dr. Louise Mullany (Nottingham), Professor Ruth Holliday (Leeds), Dr. Ben Brabon (Edge Hill), Annette Foster (Performance Artist).
The CRILA short story research group (JE2536) of the Université d'Angers, France, will be hosting an international conference in collaboration with Edge Hill University, U.K. on "The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in English," 8-9 April 2011 at La Maison des Sciences Humaines, Université d'Angers, France.
Plenary speaker: Charles E. May, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Long Beach.
Feminisms and modernities have had a long and interlocked history. Now that we are, arguably, in a post-feminist, post-modern era, is it a fitting moment to stop and take stock of this critical encounter?
This provocation emerges out of a particular trajectory of debates, controversies and confrontations in gender studies over the past two decades. Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (1990) destabilised understandings of these interlocked categories about two decades after feminism emerged as a serious tool of critical inquiry. In 1990, also, Gayatri Spivak in The Postcolonial Critic re-located critical feminisms outside the Anglophone world.
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/index.html)
is now seeking article and review submissions for its 9th issue. We will consider articles between 6,000-8,000 words. They should be written in endnote format (see previous articles). Reviews should be approximately 1,000 words with full publication/release/transmission dates and details of the subject discussed.
Dr Claire Nally and Dr Angela Smith have been asked by the publisher I.B.Tauris to edit a proposed series of high quality monographs (each about 70,000 words in length) under the general title of 'Gender in Fact and Fiction'. We would welcome abstracts from any interested academics under the following headings:
Single women
Witches
Neo-Victorian literature
Masculinities in fan culture
Sexualities.
Other topics will be considered. Please send us your abstract (about 200 words) by 30th September, 2010.
Centre for Adaptations
Adaptations and the New Technologies: A One-Day Symposium
Venue: Centre for Adaptations, Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH
Date: 10.00 am - 5.00 pm, Tuesday 25 January 2011
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This panel will explore those figurations of child that do not fit within the normative geography of child representation--what Jacqueline Rose refers to as the "impossibility" of childhood.
The transgressive child challenges deeply-held convictions about the naturalness of childhood, particularly as childlike bodies are defined as "vulnerable," "dependent," "innocent," and simultaneously asexual/heterosexual. Indeed, childhood is frequently haunted by the spectre of of its own failure, and this panel examines those troubling children who, by their transgression, trouble the boundaries of childhood.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 AUGUST 2010
Length: 2,500-7,500 words with maximum 10,000 WORDS
Call for papers for a collection of critical essays on various aspects of or approaches to Dave Sim's comic book Cerebus, both a scholarly and popular, though coherent, companion (and introduction) to the series.
Any subject matter is welcome, so long as it pertains to Dave Sim and/or Cerebus.
Some recommendations of subjects that in which I am most interested:
Discussion of 1970's comics scene in which Sim first started to contribute together with a discussion of the various influences on Cerebus (Howard the Duck, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja)
Cerebus as satire of the comics medium (The Roach, "reads," etc)
In keeping with this year's conference theme of "Media Citizenship," this panel aims to consider the relationship between media and cultural notions of what it means to be a senior citizen. This panel seeks to address the particular relationship between aging and the media, be this in terms of aging audiences or older demographics, aging media producers, aging stars, or representations of aging in film, television or new media.
This is a broad call for presentations that examine this important but underrepresented topic.
Please send a 250-300 word abstract along with 3-5 bibliographic sources by August 10 to nanmcv@umich.edu.
We seek 500-word proposals for essays to appear in a book collection tentatively entitled "Up Jumped the Devil: Explorations of Evil in Popular Music." The project will be a collaborative study of the aesthetic, ethical, and philosophical dimensions of popular music since the beginning of the twentieth century, including such genres as blues, folk, country, rock, and rap, and focusing especially on the way popular music engages such issues as evil, violence, God, Satan, existentialism, terrorism, sensibility, and others.
Call for Papers: Film & History
Final-round Deadline for Abstracts/Proposals: 15 December 2010
PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations' Joint Conference
San Antonio, TX, April 20-23, 2011
[CFP] ImageTexT Special Issue -- Invisible Art: Lettering, Coloring, Publication Design and Other Invisible Elements of Comics
Guest Editors, Zach Whalen and Aaron Kashtan