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The Cartographical Necessity of Exile
Derek Walcott identified a cartographical necessity of exile in his 1984 collection of poetry, Midsummer, when he wrote:
So, however far you have travelled, your
steps make more holes and the mesh is multiplied –
… exiles must make their own maps
GOING CARIBBEAN!
New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art
Novas perspectivas sobre a literatura e a arte caribenhas
Nuevas perspectivas sobre la literatura y el arte caribeños
Nouvelles perspectives sur la littérature et l´art des Caraïbes
Nieuwe perspectieven op de Caribische literatuur en kunst
Centre for Comparative Studies.
University of Lisbon, November 2 – 3, 2009
5th Global Conference
The Erotic - Exploring Critical Issues
Friday 6th November - Sunday 8th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria
CALL FOR PAPERS
10th Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Conference, Philadelphia, December 26-27, 2009
Conference Theme: "The Sacred and the Secular in South Asian Literature and Culture"
Conference Call for Papers
the Tulsa/New York School
at the University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 5-7, 2009
Keynote Address: RON PADGETT
Poetry Readings and Roundtable Discussions by:
RON PADGETT,DICK GALLUP,
Alice Notley, Robert Harris, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan
Papers are being solicited on what John Ashbery once nicknamed the "soi-disant Tulsa School," including Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, and Dick Gallup—who met in Tulsa in the early 1960s and later moved to New York City. They shaped and were shaped by the artistic and literary milieu of that time and place and became integral parts of The New York School.
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
proudly announces
Issue 9.2
The Avant-Garde as Critical Practice, edited by Alan Clinton and John Sundholm
Features:
Tim Sharp—Traveler's Tale (video and cover image), "Notes and Queries on the Veiled Threats Installation"
"The Genealogy of Electracy (an Interview with Gregory L. Ulmer)
Special Feature:
Pack Observing Art Basel >< Miami Beach 2008
Edited by Walter K. Lew, with Alan Clinton
Design by Jeremy James Thompson
With special thanks to Rita K. Wong and 'a'a arts
Pete: "I've always wondered, what's the devil look like?"
Everett: "Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork."
Tommy Johnson: "Oh, no. No, sir. He's white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He loves to travel around with a mean old hound. That's right."
~O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Call for Proposals
Call for Papers or Abstracts for inclusion in an edited collection.
ICFA 31:Call for Papers. The 31st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts will be held March 17-21, 2010, at the Orlando Airport Marriott in Orlando, Florida. The theme for 2010 is "Race and the Fantastic." Papers are invited that explore this diverse topic. We especially welcome papers on the work of Nalo Hopkinson (Guest of Honor), Laurence Yep (Guest of Honor), and Takayuki Tatsumi (Guest Scholar). As always, we also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. The deadline is October 31, 2009.
Chicana/o Literature, Film, Culture
The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations will hold their 31st annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 10 through 13, 2010. The organizations have met there for several years, and members wanted to return because of the great location, the fine hotels, food, sights, museums, and more. Albuquerque is the home of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, which promises research and entertainment possibilities.
Present Difference: The Cultural Production of Disability
Manchester Metropolitan University In conjunction with BBC Northwest and the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network
Wednesday 6th – Friday 8th January 2010
CFP, Extended Deadline: July 1st 2009
5th Global Conference
Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship
Friday 6th November - Sunday 8th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria
States of Crisis
Friday, 9 October 2009
Brandeis University
Department of English and American Literature
Seventh Annual Graduate Conference
Plenary Speakers: Professor Edward Glaeser, Harvard University; Professor David Sherman, Brandeis University
THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE GOOD: EXPLORING THE BEAUTY CONTROVERSY IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION
In light of the current centrality of digital culture, we propose the necessity of a critical examination of the machine, understood in the broadest terms, from the machinations of
philosophy, to technologies of writing and war, to the criteria of humanity.
APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS / CALL FOR PAPERS
ETUDES IRLANDAISES
French Journal of Irish Studies
Spring 2010 issue/Numéro de Printemps 2010
DATE LIMITE POUR SOUMETTRE / DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 30 SEPT . 2009
Editions Bibliotekos, Inc. plans to publish contemporary, original creative prose works in collection format. We are looking for work that addresses themes such as Medical Humanities, Immigration, 9/11-2011, War and Peace, Adoption, Nature's World, Faith and Doubt.
Full CALL and guidelines: http://sites.google.com/site/ebibliotekos/
Periodic Updates: http://ebibliotekos.blogspot.com/
Risk!
New York College English Association
October 23-24, 2009
Niagara County Community College
The Fall 2009 NYCEA Conference will be held October 23-24, 2009, at Niagara County Community College, north of Buffalo, east of Niagara Falls
Call for Papers
NYCEA CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts of 250 words are requested by Wednesday, June 24, 2009 on topics related to the conference theme of RISK. Please send abstracts of 250 words to Jim Murphy, jmurphy@niagaracc.suny.edu
3rd Global Conference
Persons, Intimacy and Love
Friday 6th November - Sunday 8th November 2009
Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers
This research conference seeks to explore issues of intimacy and love within the context of persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical, contextual and cultural perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it is to be a person and what it means for persons to stand in individual, social and national relationships of intimacy, love, desire and friendship.
The Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies is launching a CALL FOR ARTICLES for its SECOND ISSUE, which will be published in SPRING 2010
The Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies (CJCS) is committed to publishing research and scholarship on the analysis of media and culture. The journal pays particular attention to the Catalan cultural and media systems or to any broader issue in this field of specific interest from a Catalan perspective.
Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Friday, October 2, 2009
Theme: In Times of Crisis
Speakers: Sari Adelson & Mary Heinen, Coordinators, Prison Creative Arts Project, a program that collaborates with incarcerated youth and adults, urban youth, and the formerly incarcerated to do creative expression, especially in theater, poetry, and art
Location & Co-Sponsor: Eastern Michigan University
Student Center at 900 Oakwood St., Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Ecocriticism and Canada
Pete: "I've always wondered, what's the devil look like?"
Everett: "Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork."
Tommy Johnson: "Oh, no. No, sir. He's white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He loves to travel around with a mean old hound. That's right."
~O Brother, Where Art Thou?
This call for papers is seeking submissions for Unity Institute's Lyceum 2009 - "Science and Religion: An Evolving Dialogue", September 30-October 3, 2009.
Theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and other students of religion are encouraged to submit papers. We are also interested in receiving papers for Lyceum 2009 by scientists and social scientists. Considerable thematic leeway will be allowed for high-quality, innovative work related to the main theme. Deadline for submissions of abstracts is June 30, 2009. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 15, 2009.
Quality academic presentations by graduate students will also be considered.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
41st Annual Convention
Gay/Lesbian Area Panel
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure
http://www.nemla.org/convention/montreal.html
Reflecting a disciplinary turn in the 1990s from studies in feminism to theories of gender, the grand performative shift from identity-based gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, and transgender studies to poststructuralist queer theory has in recent years been subject to scrutiny and reevaluation.
National Central University Journal of Humanities
Call for Papers
1. The National Central University Journal of Humanities is a purely
academic journal sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts of National
Central University. As of July 2007 it will become a quarterly journal, with
issues appearing in January, April, July, and October.
2. The main goal of the journal is to promote "interdepartmental,
interdisciplinary, and intercultural" humanities research, and we welcome
contributions from domestic and foreign scholars on related topics in
literature, history, philosophy, art, society, or culture.
Forum: The University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts
Call for papers: Issue 9 - Voice/s
This SAMLA special session panel welcomes papers on any aspect of the Steampunk genre. Papers could address literature, film, art, or other cultural manifestations of Steampunk. Of particular interest are discussions of the ways that Steampunk engages with notions of time and historical discourse, the materiality of Steampunk, and the intersections of technology and literature. By June 1, please send a one-page abstract that includes audio/visual needs and a short vita (with complete contact information) to Kathryn Crowther, Georgia Institute of Technology at kathryn.crowther@lcc.gatech.edu
Call for Papers
Fashioning the Neo-Victorian. Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture
(International Conference, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 8-10 April 2010)
keynote speakers: Prof Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke (Swansea University), Prof Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)