popular culture

Essays are being solicited for an edited volume on the topic of trains, modernity and cultural production. The volume is intended to be interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, likely covering areas such as Europe, South and East Asia, Latin America and more, and spanning the period of the mid-to-late nineteenth century to the present day. Submissions of interest will not have been published elsewhere, and will deal with railroads, trains, subways, etc. from a perspective grounded in cultural studies or cultural history, either incorporating an analysis of cultural artifacts or dealing with train travel in a more theoretical sense in a specific regional, urban or area context. Comparative studies are also welcome.

Submissions are invited for an edited collection of scholarly essays on Indo-Caribbean women's literature. This is the first collection to focus specifically on the literature produced by Indo-Caribbean women, and it aims to offer critical and theoretical perspectives on novels, short-fiction, poetry, autobiography and memoir.

NWSA Conference: Nov. 11-14, 2010, at Denver, Colorado
Proposals Due by Feb 26

Performative Feminisms and Outsider Interventions

The PhD in Humanities Program (http://louisville.edu/humanities) and the Association of Humanities Academics at the University of Louisville announce the annual University of Louisville Graduate Conference in Humanities, April 16, 2009.

We welcome proposals that explore folklore, folklife, or traditional forms of expression. Papers may include, but are not limited to, examinations of oral traditions, music, material culture, folk festivals, ritual, dance, and folklore collectors. Proposals that investigate literary, filmic, or other interpretations of folklore are also welcome.

Please send a brief proposal (250 words) to Emily Kader (ekader@emory.edu) by May 15, 2010.

Paper proposals are invited for a panel at the 2011 MLA conference in Los Angeles on the topic of "Forms of Social Failure." In what ways have narratives explored the interarticulation of individual and social failure? When has failure become a formal device for representing an uneven, unequal, or otherwise problematic social world? What historical moments seem unusually preoccupied with social or political failure? Under what conditions might failure say more than success?

Society for Philosophy and Literary Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal, and its reviewed "Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry," looks for articles for its Fall 2010 Special Issue on MODERNISMS. We are looking for articles, which examine the historical and material conditions and philosophical or theoretical/experimental perspectives that influenced the form and content of the modernist (contemporary and past) arts and literature.

For its fifth annual interdisciplinary conference in English studies, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's English Graduate Student Association asks, "What academic work are you engaged in?" This conference is designed to build a sense of community among graduate scholars by providing a forum to present ongoing research in a non-threatening and receptive academic environment. Additionally, this conference is designed to bring graduate scholars into contact with established professionals who can answer questions about best practices.

The conference will be held this year on Saturday, Sept 25.

Graphic Aging: youth, ripening, and intergenerational relationships in _Love & Rockets_, _Likewise_, _Token_, etc. This panel explores how images and understandings of age inform each other in graphic no-vels, novel graphics, and related media.

Paper proposals might explore the following themes, but need not be limited to these ideas:

Papers considering how the composition classroom benefits from consideration and application of Sedgwick's work, particularly with nonoedipal psychologies, affect and Silvan Tomkins, and heteronormativities.

250-word abstracts and vitae due by March 8.

Jewish Music and Germany after the Holocaust
Colloquium at Dickinson College, 25–27 February 2011
Sponsored by Dickinson College
Keynote address by Philip V. Bohlman (to be confirmed)

2010 UTSA English Graduate Symposium

The 2010 UTSA English Graduate Student Symposium "Wild Tongues: Concepts of the Untamed in Scholarship, Teaching, Writing, and Beyond."

Sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio

May 1, 2010 at The University of Texas at San Antonio in San Antonio, TX

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Norma Alarcón

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010

How do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how do you bridle and saddle it? How do you make it lie down?
- Gloria Anzaldúa

The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be holding its 108th Annual Conference on November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University of Honolulu, Hawai'i. See PAMLA's website for more information: http://www.pamla.org/

PAMLA's CFP page (with a list of 100 different approved session topics) and the link to our Online Paper Proposal Submission Form is available here:
http://www.pamla.org/2010/session-topics

CFP DEADLINE: 1 MARCH

Keynote speaker: Professor Jennifer Doyle, UC Riverside.