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CFP DEADLINE: 1 MARCH
Keynote speaker: Professor Jennifer Doyle, UC Riverside.
The Emergence of the Posthuman Subject
An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Surrey
2-3 July 2010.
PAMLA 2010 Conference: "Picturing Oceania and the Pacific."
PAMLA will host its 108th Annual Conference on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. Please save the date. This is certain to be one of PAMLA's most beautiful conference sites ever.
Special Session Title:
"Lilo's O'hana: Mainland and Pacific children meet through media"
In light of the PAMLA drive to encourage works "Picturing Oceania and the Pacific," this special session seeks proposals that engage childhood representations of the Pacific through mass media.
This year's Latino/a Literature session seeks papers on literary or cinematic representations of the borderlands in cultural texts produced either north or south of the U.S./Mexico border. Ideally, the panel will consist of essays that diversely interrogate the shifting meanings of the border concept — and border identities -- throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Proposals of 500 words and a 40-word abstract must be submitted by April 5, 2010 using PAMLA's Online Proposal Submission Form at http://www.pamla.org/2010/.
Send inquiries to Lysa Rivera at lysa.rivera@wwu.edu
gnovis is Georgetown's online peer-reviewed journal devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of communication culture and technology. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share cutting edge research on the role of new technologies in politics, art, science, culture, and education. For further information please visit our website at gnovisjournal.org.
We are currently accepting submissions for our Spring 2010 issue. But don't delay -- the deadline is February 23. Click here to learn more about our submission guidelines: http://gnovisjournal.org/submit.
Please send abstracts addressing the narrative conflict induced by a fortune-teller in film, television and contemporary literature. In what way fortune-tellers compete with narrators? And how do they inferere with leading characters' actions? The medium deals with the future of the story. Why is he or she a powerful (and much used) narrative device?
"ETHICS OF TRADITIONS"
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND ANNUAL VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
LAW AND LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
September 30 – October 2, 2010
Villanova's Law School and Department of English will hold a law and literature symposium, the second in an annual series, beginning Thursday evening, September 30, 2010, and ending Saturday afternoon, October 2, 2010.
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Osa Mayor: No. 21, 2010
Call for Manuscripts
MEMORY AND TRANSGRESSION IN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN CULTURAL PROCESSES
Determining Form: Creative Non-Fiction Journeys is a two-day conference being held at Glasgow University (June 11-12) which will provide a venue for the exploration and discussion of creative non-fiction within (and outwith) academia. Creative non-fiction encompasses a wide range of genres, including biography, autobiography, travel writing, memoir, journalism and essay writing. Works such as In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers and The Next American Essay edited by John D'Agata investigate literary spaces with a focus on the journey rather than the destination.
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is hosting its 108th Annual Conference, on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association is looking for paper proposals for the Children's Literature Panel for the 2010 Conference. Proposals may address the theme for the conference, "Picturing Oceania and the Pacific," in relation to Children's Literature. General Children's Literature proposals will be accepted as well.
Please submit a 250 word summary of the proposed conference paper and a short abstract of 50 words with the paper title that would introduce the significance of your paper for the conference program.
Papers that de-universalize "the reader" by interrogating how the history of reading can influence contemporary critical methods and literary historiography. Approaches combining case study with methodological reflection especially welcome.
Papers that de-universalize "the reader" by interrogating how the history of reading can influence contemporary critical methods and literary historiography. Approaches combining case study with methodological reflection especially welcome.
Submissions of papers are invited to the international, peer-reviwed journal, Library & Information History, on any aspect of library or information history, from any time period or geographical region.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* histories of writing, the book or the communication of knowledge
* the cultural impact of knowledge
* the role of libraries/knowledge in times of conflict
* military or government libraries/collections of knowledge
* histories of the information age
* changing historiography of knowledge
* histories of censorship
* knowledge in popular culture
* gender related histories of knowledge
Presently receiving and reviewing submissions for the Spring & Summer 2010 issue
Authors are asked to examine meanings or perceptions of 'aid', 'relief' or 'bailout' that clash or align with conventional wisdom or common practices.
Possible themes, topics to be explored (in no way exhaustive):
1. How is aid, relief or bailout used as a political, cultural, economic, military, or hegemonic tool?
2. How does aid, relief or bailout communicate a political, cultural, military, economic, or hegemonic agenda?
3. What are the underlying, un-stated goals of those who supply aid, relief or bailout?
4. How is aid or relief itself a dyadic form of communication?
"Love came first in my thought, therefore I forgot it naught": Medieval Love and Sexuality in Film and Television
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television
November 11-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Second Round Deadline: March 1, 2010
Fat Studies: A Critical Dialogue
To be held 10 – 11 September, 2010
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
In these past years the musical genre has once again gained momentum and come back into the spotlight thanks to very successful projects. Be it cinema, theatre or TV, or even the web, singing and dancing are the new rallying cry. The influence of this genre on the media landscape can't be ignored.
The next Ol3Media issue seeks brief papers that can be the springboard for reflections on this topic regarding sundry productions, and about both those shows that are "pure" musicals and those that use some of the elements of the genre.
The Institute of African American Research (IAAR) will offer a $1000 prize for the best cross-disciplinary, collaborative effort in the Arts and Humanities that yields a historically-grounded script on a topic of African American research. Established and aspiring scholars and writers with expertise in creative writing, literary criticism, philosophy, history, communications, performance studies, sociocultural anthropology, and other relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply. Submitted scripts will be considered for production. There are no limits on the historical time frame or genre of writing. Scripts should be submitted electronically and in hard-copy format to the IAAR by March 1, 2010.
"We must more than ever stand on the side of human rights. We need human rights. We are in need of them and they are in need, for there is always a lack, a shortfall, a falling short, an insufficiency; human rights are never sufficient." (Jacques Derrida, Philosophy in a Time of Terror)
If human rights are insufficient yet necessary, we must then ask what to do with "rights." This conference will explore historical and theoretical definitions, constructions, and performative notions of rights. How do texts challenge predominant conceptual narratives of rights? In what ways does literature explore notions of rights outside of the juridical realm? Can we have a discourse on rights that exceeds the anthropomorphic field?
[UPDATE] The inaugural issue of Red Feather Journal is now up and can be viewed at www.redfeatherjournal.org
Many women have written memoirs about their lives in the 1960s. How have they characterized these times? Was it a decade of optimism, hope, accomplishment, regret, anger, betrayal, or confusion? Papers analyzing women's memoirs from diverse perspectives especially welcome. 300 word abstracts by 12 March 2010; Donna S. Parsons (donna-parsons@uiowa.edu).
CFP - Negotiating (Jewish) American Ethnic Crossroads
MELUS and the Jewish American Literature Discussion Group are proposing a jointly sponsored panel to be held at the 2011 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. The focus of the panel will be on the confluence of Jewish writers and those from other American ethnic communities. Papers could include comparative literary analyses of specific texts as well as studies theorizing Jewishness within American ethnic studies as a whole.
CFP - Theorizing Jewish American Life Writing
The Jewish American Literature Discussion Group will be holding a panel at the 2011 MLA Convention devoted to Jewish American life writing. The Group welcomes papers concerning the representation, as well as the theorizing, of the Jewish American experience in such genres as autobiography, memoir, biography, journaling, blogging, and autobiographic fiction. Papers may concern these expressions in a variety of narrative forms such as traditional literature, film, comics, and new media.
Please send an abstract of 250 words to Derek_Royal@tamu-commerce.edu. Deadline for submissions is 15 March 2010.
GENDER & DIFFERENCE, 20-23 May 2010
Call for Papers
This interdiciplinary conference is organised by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University and tbe Englisches Seminar at the University of Cologne.
It will be held at Gregynog Hall. This is the University of Wales residential conference centre, which is situated near Newtown in Mid Wales. It is set in beautiful landscaped gardens and extensive grounds. http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/UniversityConferenceCentre/GregynogHall.aspx
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: CLAIRE COLEBROOK AND MANDY MERCK
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 forms and contents of the modernist (contemporary and past) arts and literature.
Central to an understanding of the global financial crisis 2007-2009 are both economic and epistemic forms of credit. Economic credit, on the one hand, has taken both new dimensions and forms: high levels of economic credit and debt are both a cause and consequence of the crisis – from the credit expansion through sub-prime mortgages, to highly leveraged banks and hedge funds, to the international credit imbalances and large fiscal deficits due to wide-spread state intervention. New forms of economic credit through securitisation and credit derivatives such as Collateral Debt Obligations (CDOs) and Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) also played a critical part.
Textual girls
The lives of girls are mediated in large part by the plethora of texts that surround them. Though adults often attempt to intercede, manipulate, or otherwise circumvent these texts, still the abundance of media and materials surrounding girls leaves them both vulnerable and savvy as they engage with texts that are either meant to address them directly or not.
Shakespeare Journal is accepting articles that are concerned with any aspect of Shakespeare and sports, athletics, or exercise for the 2011 issue, "Shakespeare and Sport." We welcome articles of 6,000 words (including notes) that examine the presence and nature of sport in Shakespeare's works. We are looking for a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches to Shakespeare and sport, which could include but is not limited to investigations of Shakespeare's use of sport, physical exercise, sporting events, physical fitness, and competitive games.
Narrating Lives behind Bars
Special Session at MLA 2011
in Los Angeles January 6-9, 2011.
Why write from or about prison? How do narratives of incarceration and torture inform notions of justice, liberty, and rights?
Especially welcome would be theoretical analyses of prison literature , of the conditions for writing prison narratives, and of the rhetoric of prisons writing.
Send all queries to Jonathan Abel at jonathan.abel@psu.edu. Abstracts of 500 words by March 1st.
SANE journal is now seeking submissions for works of research, practitioner-based articles, reviews, and rationales regarding its first two themed issues. Information about this new peer-reviewed, open access interdisciplinary journal covering all things comics-and-education-related, from pre-k to doctorate, can be obtained by visiting http://www.sanejournal.net/. For more information, e-mail James Bucky Carter: jbcarter2 at utep dot edu.
V1.1 (late 2010 release or per article as considered ready by review board): "Comics in the Contact Zone."