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Poverty 2010: An Interdisciplinary & Community-based Graduate Conference

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Friday, February 5, 2010 - 7:54am
Queen's University

Poverty 2010:
An Interdisciplinary & Community-based Graduate Conference

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
October 14-16, 2010

"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." (Article 25(1) of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

New Approaches to Richard Yates

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Friday, February 5, 2010 - 6:56am
Leif Bull/Goldsmiths College, University of London

5th June 2010

Recent years have seen a rediscovery of American novelist and short story writer Richard Yates (1926-1992), both within academia and among the reading public. His books are back in print, Blake Bailey has written an acclaimed biography of the author, and a Hollywood adaptation of Yates' first novel, Revolutionary Road, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, have raised his profile.

Death in Early Modern Literature

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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 11:11pm
The St. John's University Humanities Review

Death in Early Modern Europe

The Humanities Review, a literary journal published by the St. John's University English Department in New York, seeks scholarly compositions for the Spring 2010 edition. This issue will focus on the political, social and aesthetic machinery of death in Early Modern literature. Possible topics of interest include:

• The Functions of Textual Death
• Theatrical Death
• Death and the Human Body
• Death and the Supernatural
• Memento mori in period art
• The Plague / Executions

Submissions should be 10 pages single spaced. MLA style only. Endnotes preferred.

Document/Anti-Document in Asian/American Photography (Special Session proposal, 2011 MLA; 3/2/10)

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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 3:46pm
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, U of San Diego; Warren Liu, Scripps College

We seek papers about Asian/American art photography that explore the documentary function, which has all but defined photography from its inception, and interrogate the photograph's long-established function as a document of the "real" in the context of Asian American politics. Accordingly, for artists such as An-My Lê, Dinh Q. Lê, Nikki S. Lee, and Patrick Nagatani, photographic images are more made than found, and photography becomes a dynamic artistic medium rather than an act of recording the object world. In such artists, we are interested in the ways in which photographic aesthetics intersects with Asian American social issues, and in how photography becomes a mode of critical interrogation, beyond the paces of documentary social realism.

Sexology in Pre-World War II British Literature (3/15/10)

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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 10:37am
Special Sesssion proposed for MLA 2011

This special session being proposed for MLA 2011 held in Los Angeles seeks papers addressing the influence of British sexological writers—Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Marie Stopes, etc.—on the work of British and Irish writers from 1900-1940. Papers could address a literary author's entrance into "sexological" debates, over LGBT rights, reproductive freedoms, the functions of marriage, women's sexual pleasure,etc., or could examine the role of the work/ style of a particular sexologist in British and Irish literature of the early twentieth century.

[UPDATE] Alan Moore and Adaptation

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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 9:41am
ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies / University of Florida

ImageTexT is still accepting submissions for an upcoming special issue on the work of Alan Moore and adaptation.

Bridges and Borders: Exploring the Confluence of Languages, Disciplines, and Cultures

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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 9:26am
Andrew Keese / Journal of South Texas English Studies

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions until March 5 for its second issue, themed "Bridges and Borders: Exploring the Confluence of Languages, Disciplines, and Cultures."

Bridges are frequently built up and torn down, and borders often change. The boundaries between people, places and things blur and break. This happens with governments, but it is equally true in literature and rhetoric. Authors frequently challenge our notions of what is acceptable, they point out our close-mindedness, and they show us new paths.

Culture Code Nature Machine: Interdisciplinary Conference on Semiotics, UM-Ann Arbor, March 12-13, 2010

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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 4:42am
Semiotics Rackham Interdisciplinary Work Group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

**INAUGURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON SEMIOTICS**

The Semiotics Rackham Interdisciplinary Work Group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is excited to place a call for papers, media, and performance for our inaugural conference on Peircean semiotics. We invite contributions of multidisciplinary work that addresses or challenges the theme of sign activity as constitutive and constructive of nature and culture. In addition to scholarly papers, we invite submissions by artists, musicians, filmmakers, performers, and others whose work interrogates the processes and possibilities of sign activity and the making of meaning.

(inter)disciplinarities: The "New Relationality"? (April 24-25, 2010)

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Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 3:05am
University of Victoria's Cultural, Social, and Political Thought Graduate Conference

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The University of Victoria's interdisciplinary program in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought and Peninsula: A Journal of Relational Politics are pleased to present you with a joint call for papers. Click HERE to see the conference's poster or see below for its description.

CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

(inter)disciplinarities: The "New Relationality"?
April 24-25, 2010

Justice, Law, and Literature March-May

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 8:55pm
Changing Lives Through Literature

Changing Lives Through Literature is an alternative sentencing program founded in 1991 on the power of literature to transform lives.

In 2008 we launched a blog, Changing Lives, Changing Minds: http://cltlblog.wordpress.com.

We feature essays from professors, graduate students, judges, lawyers, and other scholars. Topics range from literature and its impact on people to alternative sentencing and issues in our justice system.

Rorschach's Masculine Mask and The Moral Vigilante: Analyzing Masculinity in Alan Moore's Watchmen

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 4:11pm
Laura McGrath

Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen depicts five leading men, each performing masculinity differently. Through the eyes of media criticism scholars, there are five traits to hegemonic masculinity: power in physical force, occupational success, daring romantic/adventurous outdoorsman, patriarchy, and heterosexuality. Through this lens, the five leading men in Watchmen can have their masculine performance dissected and analyzed to the end of determining positive/heroic and negative/destructive attributes about masculinity in America.

Recent Animated Films

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 2:49pm
Jura Gentium Cinema

The journal "Jura Gentium Cinema" (www.jgcinema.com) is seeking articles (between 4000 and 5000 words) for a special dossier on recent animated films. The overarching goal of the dossier will be to analyze recent animated films through the lens of the following themes: the relationship between the individual self and a global society ("Up"; "WALL-E"; "The Incredibles"; "Fantastic Mr.

Mamma Mia! edited collection

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 5:30am
Louise FitzGerald, University of East Anglia, UK

'Diggin' Dancing Queens and Wedding Scenes: The Phenomenon of Mamma Mia!

Call for abstracts deadline: 19th April 2010
Full name: Louise FitzGerald

Contact email: louise.fitzgerald@uea.ac.uk

CFP Fat Studies (NWSA Conference, Nov 11-14; Abstracts Due 2/20)

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 7:03pm
Joelle Ruby Ryan / Michaela Null

Please forward to anyone with an interest in Fat Studies. Thank You.

2 CFPs from the Fat Studies Interest Group; NWSA Conference Nov. 11-14, 2010 in Denver (Proposal Due Feb 20)

#1: Fatness, Gender and Popular Culture: Critical Interventions, Creative Resistances

New Media Discourse Communities (MLA 2011 special session)

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 5:52pm
Al Harahap/SFSU, Robert Cedillo/UNR

CFP: New Media Discourse Communities

We are looking for other projects to complete our roundtable special session proposal for the MLA 2011 conference in Los Angeles, CA, Jan 6-9, 2011. We are not looking to read our papers to a passive audience, but to have a roundtable discussion, as well as engage the audience (with or without new media demonstrations).

Bridges and Borders: Exploring the Confluence of Languages, Disciplines, and Cultures

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 2:14pm
Journal of South Texas English Studies

The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions until March 5 for its second issue, themed "Bridges and Borders: Exploring the Confluence of Languages, Disciplines, and Cultures."

Bridges are frequently built up and torn down, and borders often change. The boundaries between people, places and things blur and break. This happens with governments, but it is equally true in literature and rhetoric. Authors frequently challenge our notions of what is acceptable, they point out our close-mindedness, and they show us new paths.

Pop Past – It's 'Past', But It's Never 'Over'

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 12:44pm
PopMatters.com

There was a time, late 19th/early 20th century or thereabouts, when people, many of them the fashionable French, ventured out to public establishments to imbibe in, among other things, an herbal/licorice/mind-bending brew distilled from the essence of the inelegantly named 'wormwood' plant, which resulted in the poetically named 'absinthe' cocktail. Deep within absinthe's perplexing, complex concoction the "Green Fairy" resided. She is named the "Green Fairy" due to her glowing color and the muse-like inspirations she cast upon some suggestible minds (many quite famous minds, at that). Indeed, absinthe was a fashionable drink among the Parisian artist and intellectual class.

8th Global Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous (September 2010: Oxford, United Kingdom)

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 5:43am
Dr Rob Fisher/Inter-Disciplinary.Net

8th Global Conference
Monsters and the Monstrous

Sunday 19th September – Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history. In particular, the project will have a dual focus with the intention of examining specific 'monsters' as well as assessing the role, function and consequences of persons, actions or events identified as 'monstrous'. The history and contemporary cultural influences of monsters and monstrous metaphors will also be examined.

Edited Book: Documentary, Politics and Social Processes in Portugal

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Monday, February 1, 2010 - 8:54pm
Patrícia Vieira, Georgetown University

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED BOOK:

FOUND IMAGES: Documentary, Politics and Social Processes in Portugal

Editors:
Patrícia Vieira (Georgetown University / CEC, University of Lisbon)and Pedro Serra (University of Salamanca).

Mediating Objects, Remediating Texts: Reading Material Culture in Transition (May 13-15, 2010)

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Monday, February 1, 2010 - 12:57pm
University of Victoria’s English Graduate Student Society

Mediating Objects, Remediating Texts: Reading Material Culture in Transition (Grad)

The University of Victoria's English Graduate Students' Society invites proposals for this year's graduate conference: Mediating Objects, Remediating Texts: Reading Material Culture in Transition. The conference will be held at the University of Victoria from May 13 to 15, 2010.

Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies Abstracts March 5

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Monday, February 1, 2010 - 9:31am
Binghamton University

Conference Title: Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in American Studies

Conference Dates: April 23-24, 2010

Keynote Speaker: Donald E. Pease, Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, Dartmouth College

Conference Description:

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