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[UPDATE]"The Foreignness of Foreigners: Cultural Representations of Otherness in Britain", DEADLINE EXTENSION: 5 MARCH 2010

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 7:24am
Université Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle, (Lille, France)

Call for papers :

The foreignness of foreigners: cultural representations of Otherness in Britain (17th-20th centuries)

An international conference to be held at Université Lille 3 Charles-de-Gaulle, in Lille (France) on 17 and 18 March 2011.

Keynote Speakers: Professor Linda Colley, Princeton University and Professor Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Affecting Feminism: Feminist Theory and the Question of Feeling (5/15/10; 12/10/10 - 12/12/10)

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 7:07am
Newcastle University, UK

Newcastle University, U.K.
10-12 December 2010

Keynote Speakers: Ann Cvetkovich, Kate Chedgzoy,
Ranjana Khanna, Alison Light, Patricia Waugh

Over the past decade, there has been a notable turn to feeling or emotion across the humanities, social sciences and neurosciences. Affecting Feminism brings into focus the particular impact that feminist theory has played in this work on feeling and considers emotions from the mediaeval to the modern.

(dis)junctions 2010: 9/11 and the "War on Terror" as Sites of Crisis Submissions due 3/5; Conference 4/9-10

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 1:45am
(dis)junctions

This call for papers is for a proposed panel at (dis)junctions, the University of California, Riverside's 17th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference, which will be held on April 9-10, 2010. This year's theme is "States of Crisis." 
In keeping with that theme, this panel seeks papers that consider the events of 9/11, its aftermath, and the "War on Terror." As the conference encourages an interdisciplinary approach, the papers investigating this site of crisis from diverse fields of study will be given preference. Topics to consider alongside 9/11 and the "War on Terror":
• journalism, 24 hour news, and news parody
• the economy
• film and television
• popular culture
• performing arts

(dis)junctions 2010: Shakespeare and Popular Culture Submissions due 3/5/10; Conference 4/9-10

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 1:43am
(dis)junctions

This call for papers is for a proposed panel at (dis)junctions, the University of California, Riverside's 17th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference, which will be held on April 9-10, 2010. 
Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare and Modern Culture (2008) makes the following claim: "Shakespeare makes modern culture; modern culture makes Shakespeare" (xxxiii). Following this premise, this panel seeks papers that consider the works of Shakespeare as seen in modern popular culture, through adaptation, parody, and allusion. How does Shakespeare "write" modern culture? How and why are his works applicable today? What types of comments do these appropriations of Shakespeare make?

[UPDATE]

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Monday, February 22, 2010 - 7:01pm
Sharon Becker

Me, Myself, and Los Angeles: Narrating the Modern Self in the City of Angels

Word Meets Image: The Graphic Novel (4/5/2010; 11/13/2010-11/14/2010)

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Monday, February 22, 2010 - 6:09pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) is the western regional affiliate of MLA. The 2010 conference will take place November 13-14 at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii

This special session invites papers on the graphic novel and related genres of literature that combine graphic elements with textual elements. Papers that examine the history of the graphic novel, that theorize the rapidly evolving visual rhetoric of this form of literature or that investigate some other aspect of the genre are welcome.

Please submit paper title, 500-word proposal, and 50-word abstract online at www.pamla.org/2010/ by April 5, 2010.

ACIS-West 2010 - October 1-3, 2010: "(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern" - Call for Film

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Monday, February 22, 2010 - 1:25pm
American Conference for Irish Studies, Western Region Meeting (ACIS-West)

ACIS-West 2010

"(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern"

Call for Films for Panel

The 2010 western regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will be held on 1-3 October 2010 at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.

The conference organizers are currently seeking film submissions for a panel closely tied to the conference theme. Films submitted should include some aspect of the "(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern," but the inclusiveness of this theme is open to interpretation.

ACIS-West 2010 - October 1-3, 2010: "(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern"

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Monday, February 22, 2010 - 1:20pm
American Conference for Irish Studies, Western Region Meeting (ACIS-West)

ACIS-West 2010

"(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern"

Call for Papers

The 2010 western regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies will be held on 1-3 October 2010 at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Christopher Murray, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre History, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. Professor Murray's address is titled, "'The new thing that has happened, or the old thing that has happened again': Beckett and the Irish sensibility."

After the Wire (MLA, 6-9 Jan 2011 in Los Angeles - Deadline 2 March 2010)

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Monday, February 22, 2010 - 9:05am
MLA 2011

This panel at MLA 2011 in Los Angeles will discuss any and all aspects of the cultural and intellectual legacy of 'The Wire,' with a particular interest in its critique of neoliberal institutions and its place in the social-realist tradition. Please submit 250–500-word abstracts by 2 March 2010 to Gerry Canavan and Lisa Klarr at afterthewire@gmail.com.

Health/Care/Nation (10 April 2010; 14-17 October 2010)

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Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 10:53am
Christina Simmons / University of Windsor

Health/Care/Nation

A conference sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies and the University of Windsor

Windsor, Ontario 14-17 October 2010 (proposal deadline: 10 April 2010)

Rewriting Traditional Literature: Transformations of Fairy Tales, Folklore, and the Unearthed Undead, 5/15/10; 11/5-7

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Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 11:17pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association/Children's Literature Discussion Circle

Textual adaptations of traditional literatures have long been written and discussed. Recent incarnations, such as Disney's film The Princess and the Frog (2009) or Michael Buckley's The Sisters Grimm series illustrate our continued fascination with such literatures. Other authors, such as Ryan C. Thomas with The Undead World of Oz or W. Bill Czolgosz and his text Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim, have chosen to dig deep into the tales of the undead to breathe new life into such stories. This panel seeks to explore the transformations such tales have undergone and how such retellings impact the lore regarding such works.

MLA 2011 -- Liberal Learning Online

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Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 4:30pm
Tena Helton

Description: Papers may discuss the effect of online teaching on liberal arts education, examine implications of (a)synchronous methodologies, and determine effective assessment measures.
Submission Requirements: 1-page abstracts and 2-page vitae Deadline: 15 Mar. 2010
Organizer: Tena L. Helton (thelt2@uis.edu) and Donna Bussell (dbuss3@uis.edu)

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

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Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 3:59pm
University of Victoria’s English Graduate Student Society

[UPDATE]

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

The University of Victoria's English Graduate Student' 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.

[UPDATE] Final call - Cinema and Landscape Conference (3/15/10; 4/16/10 - 4/18/10)

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Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 2:21pm
Cinema and Landscape

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Final Call for Papers

International Conference

** CINEMA AND LANDSCAPE**

University of Sheffield
United Kingdom

April 16-18, 2010

An international conference is to be held on the subject of cinema and landscape. Keynotes include: Professor Phil Powrie (whose books include "Pierre Batcheff and Stardom in 1920s French Cinema", [with Eric Rebillard] Edinburgh University Press, 2009, and many more).

The conference will be hosted at the University of Sheffield, April 16-18 2010, with the aim of exploring the intersection between Film, Film Culture, Landscape, Place and Geography.

Proposals** (a 150 word abstract) are very welcome for:

Death in Early Modern Literature

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Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 12:20pm
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 / Executions
• Death and the Human Body
• Death and the Supernatural
• Memento mori in period art
• The Plague

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

Asian American Literature Session, PAMLA 2010 (4/5/10; 11/13-14/10)

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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 10:36pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

Papers (15-20 minutes) are invited for the Asian American Literature session of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) annual conference, to be held on Nov 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University in Honolulu, HI.

Submissions on any aspect of Asian American Literature are welcome for this open-topic session.

Please submit paper title, 500-word proposal, and 50-word abstract online at www.pamla.org/2010 by April 5, 2010.

[UPDATE] INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM "YOUTH & MYTH" 20-21 MAY 2010 DEADLINE EXTENSION 01 APRIL 2010

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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 7:12pm
EGE UNIVERSITY

Hey You(th)!

Stop! Take a deep breath and hear our call.

"Youth" has consistently been mythologized. People are always making comments about the new generation. Here you are given the chance to reflect your own perspective at Ege University's 1st International Undergraduate Symposium entitled Youth and Myth.

This symposium, co-organised by the undergraduate students of the Departments of American Culture & Literature and English Language & Literature, will be held on 20-21 May 2010 at the Faculty of Letters, Ege University.

Come and join us! Make your voice be heard!

Topics might include but are not limited to:

(dis)junctions 2010: States of Crisis April 9-10th, 2010

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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 2:58pm
(dis)junctions UC Riverside's Annual Graduate Student Conference

Call for Papers: General Topic, Humanities and Social Sciences
University of California Riverside's Seventeenth Annual Graduate Humanities Conference

States of Crisis: (dis)junctions 2010
April 9th and 10th

Abstract deadline: 3/5/10
General CFP-
(General Call for Papers)

Social Media and Literary Analysis, PAMLA 2010 (Deadline: Apr 5)

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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 2:26pm
Heather Wozniak / University of California, Los Angeles

PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) is the western regional affiliate of MLA. The 2010 conference will take place November 13-14 at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii.

This special session invites papers addressing the role of social media (Twitter, Facebook, wikis, blogs, tags) in researching, analyzing, and writing about literature. Presenters may discuss specific applications, case-studies, or general theories about online collaboration and research. Submit proposals online by April 5 at http://www.pamla.org/2010

[UPDATE] Extended deadline for 2010 'Writing Urban Space' Creative Writing Conference

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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 9:44am
University of Surrey

Deadline for submission of abstracts for 'Writing Urban Space' Creative Writing Conference at University of Surrey extended by two weeks until the 5th March 2010.

This is a one-day conference to be held on the 23rd April 2010 in Guildford, UK. Submissions are invited for presentations exploring the relationship between writing (poetry/prose/scriptwriting) and urban spaces. Papers can comprise creative, critical or a hybrid. Topics for inclusion might address graffiti, murals, urban art, Nature and the urban, architecture, psychogeography, and the impact of urban environment on human psychology.

Contemporary Comics

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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 7:19am
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 May 2010

This academic conference is presented in collaboration with Copenhagen's comics biennial, the international comics festival komiks.dk in Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, 22-23 May.
As an independent part of the festival's programme, it aims to present the status of international research in contemporary comics both to an academic and a general audience, and will form part of a broader range of programming in the city in the days surrounding the festival, celebrating comics and comics culture.

Contributions might be within the following subjects, but we welcome other suggestions:

South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans, April 16-17, 2010; deadline for proposals March 15, 2010

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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 2:19am
Dr. Claudia M. Champagne/South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

South-Central Conference
on Christianity and Literature
April 16-17, 2010
Doubletree Hotel at 300 Canal Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130

Conference Theme:
"Is April Really 'the Cruelest Month'?
Images of Springtime, Easter, and the Wasteland in Literature and the Arts"

Dr. John D. Cox,
DuMez Professor of English at Hope College,Past President of the Conference on Christianity and Literature,and author of Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith(in the Studies in Christian Literature series)will deliver the keynote address:
"Ambiguous April: Shakespearean Comedy and the Gift of Spring."

INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM "YOUTH AND MYTH" 20-21 MAY 2010 DEADLINE 15 APRIL 2010

updated: 
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 2:35pm
EGE UNIVERSITY

Hey You(th)!

Stop! Take a deep breath and hear our call.

"Youth" has consistently been mythologised. People are always making comments about the new generation. Here you are given the chance to reflect your own perspective at Ege University's 1st International Undergraduate Symposium entitled Youth and Myth.

This symposium, co-organised by the undergraduate students of the Departments of American Culture & Literature and English Language & Literature, will be held on 20-21 May 2010 at the Faculty of Letters, Ege University.

Come and join us! Make your voice be heard!

Topics might include but are not limited to:

Special Issue: SAFE

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Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 2:31pm
WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly)

Call for Papers: WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly)

Special Issue: SAFE

Guest Editors: Alyson M. Cole & Kyoo Lee

[UPDATE - NEW DATE] Forgotten Bodies: Identities, Practices and Representations - PG Conference 9th APRIL 2010

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Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 9:35am
Caroline Walters, The University of Exeter

Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe
Third Annual Postgraduate Conference
The University of Exeter

Forgotten Bodies: Identities, Practices and Representations
Friday 9th April 2010

Forgotten Bodies will provide a forum in which postgraduate researchers can explore often overlooked discourses, representations and practices relating to embodiment, sexuality and gender. Previous research into this field has often urged overly simplistic hegemonic models of practices, desires and identities, which this conference hopes to reassess. Our main objective is to explore the challenges of not only researching, including but also re-positioning so-called 'forgotten bodies' in academic programmes.

Death and its rites in contemporary art & culture_Abstract delivery: 15th April 2010 (amonline@unimi.it)

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Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 3:55am
Altre modernità/ Otras modernidades/ Autres modernités/ Other Modernities (Online Journal ) Università degli Studi di Milano

Other Modernities, Issue #4

Death and its rites in contemporary art & culture

A critical reflection on the contemporary forms of artistic, literary and cultural expressions reveals an ever-growing difficulty in coming to terms with death: death understood as the end of the body, as absence, as total loss, as a break that cannot be mended within any spiritual framework. From a sociological point of view, this seems to have produced an array of highly diversified attempts to 'fill in' this ideal blank outside the reach of traditional symbolic forms.

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