popular culture

The buzz surrounding recent Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice and Zombies captures the ambivalence — equal parts horror and delight — evoked by the perpetual resuscitation of the nineteenth century. Leaving others to fight Austen's zombies, this seminar sets its historical sights slightly later, taking the figure of the zombie as a point of departure. Does Victorian Britain, like the zombie, refuse to remain quietly dead and buried? Or do we keep digging it up?

Autopsia is an online, international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that provides a diverse forum for scholars and professionals to interrogate and challenge the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of mass culture. Autopsia invites critical and/or theoretical examinations that further our understanding of the serial consumption and the circulation of ideas, images and objects that flow from numerous centers, margins and multiplicities of production from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The journal welcomes submissions for publication that perform autopsies on a broad range of media: film, literature, art, and philosophy with a particular emphasis on how these cultural productions function as commodities.

In a multicultural and multilingual context, immigration has been an integral part of the national identity of Canada.
Modern Canada constitutes of a large percentage of Diasporic population who contribute extensively to the making of Modern Canada. In the wake of globalization, the evolution of Canada as a Multicultural State has been receiving much attention from mass media. This again has been a contested terrain since the settlement of a chosen race in a promised land has resulted into the subjugation of the Peoples who have been residing in the geo-political entity which came later to be known as Canada.

Please note the following call for essays for the forthcoming 'Companion to Film Noir'.

Please send abstracts of 300 words by December 31st 2009 to  Dr Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England, UK) andrew2.spicer@uwe.ac.uk or Dr Helen Hanson (University of Exeter) h.m.hanson@ac.uk

Companion to Film Noir

edited by Andrew Spicer and Helen Hanson

Blackwell's 'Companions to Film Genre' Series

Overview

Welsh influences in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien

An academic conference held in conjunction with Festival in the Shire, August 13-15, 2010 at Plas Machynlleth in Wales.

Proposals for papers and presentations are welcome for a three-day celebration of everything Tolkien. This academic conference will be held at the same time and place as the new Festival in the Shire.

San Joaquin Valley Journal

A new journal devoted to the publication of graduate scholarship

CFP Guidelines

Fifteenth Conference On Baseball in Literature in Culture

March 26, 2010

On the campus of Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Keynote Address: Dr. Jim Carothers, U. of Kansas, "Baseball Fictions and Baseball Facts"

Luncheon Speaker: Lee Smith, former Major League pitcher and Hall of Fame candidate. 

Panel for 2010 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
April 1 through 4 2010, New Orleans
Deadline for papers: November 13, 2009
Submit proposal to http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php

ACLA site:  http://www.acla.org/acla2010/

First RoundDeadline: November 1, 2009

 AREA: "Lovecame first in my thought, therefore I forgot it naught": Medieval Love andSexuality in Film and Television

1st Global Conference

The Gothic - Exploring Critical Issues

Thursday 6th May – Saturday 8th May 2010

Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Papers

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project seeks to engage
and explore the cultural significance and enduring narratives within the
realm of the Gothic in culture at large. From its literary and
historical roots to its (post)modern incarnations as a cultural subgenre
present in popular fiction and film, this project seeks to explore the
territories of the Gothic in all of its manifestations.

Suggested topics and themes include (but are not limited to):

    * Classic Gothic Literature and its resurgence

Call for Papers: The Bond Girls: Sex and the Secret Agent
2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and History
November 11-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Second Round Deadline: November 1, 2009

AREA: The Bond Girls: Sex and the Secret Agent

31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010

Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association

http://swtxpca.org/

Submission Deadline: 12/01/09, Priority RegistrationDeadline 12/15/09

Conference Hotel:

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

330 Tijeras

Albuquerque, NM 87102

505.842.1234

Tenth Annual EGSA Conference at

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"That Which Moves: The Kinetic Nature of Language and Literature"  

January 29th, 2010 ● 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

~Ovid, 43 B.C.

This proposed collection of essays seeks to address the interplay between nationalism (or nationalisms) and cultural memory in a range of texts for or about young people, including books, periodicals, films, television series, games, tourism sites, websites, and archives. The overall collection will be concerned with the ways in which cultural memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and (re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national narratives, featuring young characters and/or targeting young readers who are often assumed not to possess any prior cultural memory. Submissions that examine the circulation of such texts across national borders are particularly welcomed.
Possible topics include: