religion

CFP: Mapping Emergent Arab and Muslim Literatures in English

Call for Papers:

The Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Anglo-Arab and Muslim Writing
(jointly hosted by University of Nizwa, Oman and University of Sunderland,
UK):

Mapping Emergent Arab and Muslim Literatures in English (University of
Nizwa, Oman, April 11-12, 2009)

Confirmed Speakers:

Prof. Stuart Sim (University of Sunderland)
Dr. Layla Al Maleh (University of Kuwait)
Dr. Syrine Hout (American University of Beirut)

The 2009 North Texas Federation Rhetoric Symposium will be held February
6, 2009 at Texas A&M University-Commerce. The conference theme
is “Memory: Rhetoric’s Forgotten Canon.” Proposals may be related to the
theme, but it is not required. Please submit your 250 word (one page)
proposal for the “Religion: Open Topic” session by email to
rhetoric_symposium_at_tamu-commerce.edu. Include the session
topic "Religion: Open Topic" on the subject line of your email.

Final Deadline for submission: December 19, 2008.

Call for Papers

The Religious Turn in Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies
A Two-Day Conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 6-7, 2009

Keynote Speakers: Sarah Beckwith (Duke University) and Arthur Marotti
(Wayne State University)

The Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the
University of Michigan, is requesting submissions for its conference on the
religious turn in late medieval and early modern studies, to be held
February 6-7, 2009.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Sigma Tau Delta â€" Xi Alpha
Chapter present:

The First Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference on
Literature, Composition and Rhetoric

March 27-28, 2009

Call for Papers:

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and creative
submissions for a National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Conference entitled "Transmission, Translation, Relocation" to be held
at Indiana University in Bloomington from March 26-28, 2009.

Call for Submissions
Religion and Popular Culture
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Deadline: 15 May 2009

At a time when many in the U.S. and around the world encounter religion as
a polarizing subject, one especially revered by some and utterly contested
by others, this issue of Reconstruction seeks to explore questions arising
at the intersection of religious experience and popular culture. To engage
the relationship of religion and popular culture requires discipline-based,
trans-disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary approaches in order to interpret
these broad ranges of human experience.

9th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
April 3-5, 2009

Love, Loss and Empire
University of Iowa

CRAFT CRITIQUE CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the
intersections among critical and creative approaches to writing both
within and beyond the academy. This year’s conference will examine the
imbrication of affect and empire and will explore the ways in which
affect blurs the lines between presence, absence, past, present, future,
coloniality, postcoloniality and other liminal or ephemeral textual and
identity positions within the increasingly globalized experience of our
present moment.

"Bodies in Motion"
The University of Rhode Island’s Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate
Conference.
Saturday, March 28th, 2009.
Submission Deadline, Friday, November 28th, 2008.

"Second Comings and Strange Goings On"

A call for papers for a special double issue of Postscripts: The Journal
of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds

Deadline: 2/1/09

Guest editor: Jay Twomey, University of Cincinnati
Journal editor: Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Sigma Tau Delta â€" Xi Alpha
Chapter present:

The First Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference on
Literature, Composition and Rhetoric

April 10-11, 2009

Call for Papers:

Festivals & Faires
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Festivals & Faires area
of the Popular Culture Association
invites abstracts for the next annual meeting:
APRIL 8th-11th 2009
New Orleans Marriott
NEW ORLEANS, LA
The Festivals & Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes
submissions on any festival or faireâ€"modern or historical. Scholars of
theatre / theater, drama, performance studies, American studies, popular
culture, religion, history, and non-western traditions are encouraged to
apply. Since the conference is in New Orleans, any papers relating to
festivals and faires in the city or Louisiana are greatly appreciated.

Please accept the enclosed the enclosed original, as yet not published
work
written by G. David Schwartz - the former president of Seedhouse, the
online
interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of
Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati,
Schwartz continues
to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in
stores
or can be ordered.
Check out my book on Midrash:

Due to unforeseen scheduling problems, we have had to move the date of
the conference. Instead of April 10-11, our conference will now take
place April 3-4. We are sorry about the inconvenience.

I am reposting the entire CFP in this update with all the correct and
current information. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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The Graduate English Organization of Truman State University is proud to
announce the call for papers for their annual conference April 3-4, 2009!

CALL FOR PAPERS

Childhood in its Time:
The Child in British Literature

A two-day international conference to be held at
Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK

Saturday-Sunday 28-29 March 2009
Keynote Speakers:

Professor Warren Chernaik, University of London
Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent
Professor Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University