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Special session for MLA 2011 in Los Angeles.
Papers addressing masochism, self-punishment, religious mortification, rituals and communities of self-abnegation, self-loathing, and/or askesis in literature and/or theory.
300-word abstracts and CVs by March 5 to both Deanna Kreisel (Deanna.Kreisel@ubc.ca) and Bo Earle (Bo.Earle@ubc.ca).
Literature of an Independent England
6th November 2010, University of Warwick
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick
Energized by cross-disciplinary investigations, the new field of intimacy studies generates epistemological sites akin to what Foucault, writing on the instrumentality of sexuality, identifies as "dense transfer point[s] for relations of power." To scrutinize the affective orientations that shape habits of everyday living is not to dislodge local and contemporary coordinates of gestures from global and historical ones; rather, this close examination re-textures our understandings of the complex regulation of bodily subjectivity (Butler; Fanon; Grosz; Mbembe; Ahmed) and makes it possible for us to re-imagine interpersonal interactions (violence, conviviality, attraction, dis/comfort, humour) and their entangled attachments to macro-histories of belonging,
Applications are invited from established scholars for being Referees with Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935, www.rupkatha.com). Please consult the detailed guidelines at www.rupkatha.com/reviewers.php
RECONSTRUCTION 11.3: POPULAR FICTION
Edited by Cameron Leader-Picone and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
Me, Myself, and Los Angeles: Narrating the Modern Self in the City of Angels
Proposed Special Session for MLA 2011, Los Angeles
Free Exchange Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
English Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2010 March 13-14 with evening performance March 12th.
Submit abstracts (critical or creative) to freeex@ucalgary.ca.
He's the Silent Type: Modern Masculinity in Silent Film
Special Session Proposal for MLA 2011, Los Angeles
CALL FOR PAPERS
SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
2010 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services (179 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115), Saturday 23 October 2010
Proposals by 1 June 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
MONSTROUS MEDIEVALISMS 2010
A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
Sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages: http://popularcultureandthemiddleages.blogspot.com/
2010 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American
Culture Association (NEPCA)
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services (179
Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115), Saturday 23
October 2010
Proposals by 1 June 2010
Power and Politics
The conference is sponsored by Valdosta State University's English Graduate Student Association.
The complexities of literature and language studies can fragment graduate students to the degree that they lose sight of the commonalities among the components of their discipline. This conference seeks to reconnect us to the common allure of language, literature, and the contingent sub-disciplines that likely drew us to this multi-faceted field. We encourage submissions, especially from graduate students, on topics related to the conference theme.
Labor and Migration in the Americas: Mercyhurst College Colloquium on the Americas, April 16-17, 2010
The Mercyhurst College Colloquium on the Americas invites submissions of papers, presentations and panels from any discipline on topics discussing the peoples of the Americas and how they perceive/relate to issues of work and labor.
The event begins on the evening of Friday, April 16 with a reading by Mexican-American Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist Ana Castillo.
Papers will be delivered on Saturday, April 17 in a colloquium style (only one panel at a time to allow for greater participation by attendees).
The American Humor Studies Association seeks proposals for this panel at the American Literature Association Conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero Center, on May 27-30, 2010.
Humor and the Great Divide
The American Humor Studies Association seeks proposals for a round-table session at the American Literature Association Conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero Center, on May 27-30, 2010.
Session 1—
With Laughter for All: Toward a New Anthology of American Humor
Roundtable Session
For a long time, many humor scholar-teachers have been frustrated by the lack of a humor anthology that serves our teaching needs. Blair's survey/anthology is a great work, but it is now 75 years old. Cohen and Dillingham have done the Southwest, but there are other American humor traditions equally deep and rich; a comprehensive anthology would bring together pieces that are currently difficult to find or simply inaccessible.
2010 PNASA Conference Call for Papers
***Deadline Extended***
Proposals for individual papers or full panel presentations are now being accepted for the annual PNASA conference, April 15-17, 2010, at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park in Spokane, Washington. Papers on topics related to the conference theme, "Citizenship and Belonging," are especially encouraged. Proposals on other topics in American studies are also welcome.
In order to be considered for inclusion in the conference program, please submit an abstract of around 250 words by January 31, 2010, via e-mail to Dr. Brian Donahue, PNASA president. (Previous deadline was January 15.)
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH US: Exploring the Poetics of Place
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven, PA
Inspired by the host university's setting on the banks of the Susquehanna River, between the Alleghenies and Appalachians, the 2010 EAPSU conference theme "A River Runs through Us" invites exploration of the possibilities and permutations of place and its representations wherever we live.
In Susquehanna, River of Dreams, Susan Stranahan recognizes the dynamic intersections of the local with the global when she observes:
Call for Papers: "Time and Space in Words and Music"
The 1st Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, November 4-6, 2010
The Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF), founded in 2009 under the auspices of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), offers 'emerging scholars' additional opportunities to present papers – including but not limited to work in progress – and establish a scholarly network of those who share an interest in word and music studies. The central event of the Forum will be a biennial conference, held in alternating years with the WMA international conferences.
4th Global Conference
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging
Thursday 23rd September – Sunday 26th September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford
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 University of Texas San Antonio in San Antonio, TX
Keynote Speaker: 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 Institute of African American Research (IAAR) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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.
epiphany
Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
International University of Sarajevo
ISSN 1840-3719
CALL FOR PAPERS
epiphany is a refereed online academic journal edited at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, devoted to publishing articles related to the fields of English Literature, Political Science, Psychology, and Visual Arts. Indexed in DOAJ, epiphany publishes bi-yearly authentic articles that promise to contribute to the study of these disciplines.
Rape in Crime Fiction – Call for Papers
Katarina Gregersdotter and Berit Åström of Umeå University in Sweden and Tanya Horeck of Anglia Ruskin University in the UK invite contributions for a collection of essays, which will discuss and theorise the various roles that rape plays in contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction.
American Studies Association of Turkey
34th International American Studies Conference
The Art of Language: Cultural Expressions in American Studies
November 3–5, 2010
Alanya, Turkey
Confirmed Speakers:
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Cherrie Moraga
Celia Herrera Rodriguez
REMAKE │REMODEL
New Perspectives on Remakes, Film Adaptations and Fan Productions
Interdisciplinary Conference
June 30-July 2, 2010
University of Göttingen (Germany)
DIGITAL ROMANTICISMS
Conference at Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, May 22-23 2010
Currently accepting submissions: Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is an online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. JMMS is published twice a year with provision for other special editions. JMMS seeks to be as inclusive as possible in its area of inquiry. Papers address the full spectrum of masculinities and sexualities, particularly those which are seldom heard. Similarly, JMMS addresses not only monotheistic religions and spiritualities but also Eastern, indigenous, new religious movements and other spiritualities which resist categorization. JMMS papers address historical and contemporary phenomena as well as speculative essays about future spiritualities.
Presidents of the United States and presidential candidates have a long history of "writing" autobiographies which skillfully enact and construct a piece of political theater. The public's complicity in desiring a "war hero" president enables such posturing. However, the political performance ultimately becomes restrictive and the public becomes confused when the president or candidate betrays expectations. The politician's desire to manipulate inauthentic portrayals is itself subject to contradiction.
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Ethnic Studies
Harvard University
Committee on Ethnic Studies
Friday, April 9, 2010
Proposals due: March 8, 2010
Hosted by the Committee on Ethnic Studies, Harvard University
Proposals for the "Practical Approaches to Teaching Film" Regular Session at the 2010 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from October 14-16, 2010, are being solicited. Any topics related to teaching film will be considered, though concrete advice on teaching films in undergraduate classrooms are of special interest. Please email abstracts and either a cover letter or CV by March 1, 2010 to James Grove, jgrove@mtmercy.edu