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Desire, Literature, Culture Postgraduate Symposium, 29-30 March, Malta

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Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 4:12pm
University of Malta

The present pleasure,
By revolution low'ring, thus become
The opposite of itself
- Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

If, in the near future, all data, movies, etc., were to become instantly available, if the delay were to become minimal so that the very notion of "searching for" (a book, a film …) were to lose meaning, would this instant availability not suffocate desire?
- Žižek

[d]o not give way on your desire
- Lacan

New Perspectives on German Ecocritical Prose, Due 03/01/2012

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Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 2:33pm
128th MLA Convention, January 3–6, 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts

The rise of the ecologically-oriented approaches to literature and the development of ecocriticism as a scholarly discipline in the 1970s did not remain very long the prerogative of the Anglo-American literature and scholarship. Other national literatures and literary studies have been rapidly developing their views on the connections between literature and ecology; these are oftem based on different premises and follow their own respective literary traditions.

[UPDATE] Extended Deadline March 8, 2012

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Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 12:44pm
Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature 1744-1845

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Following various requests, the new deadline is March 8, 2012

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO ESSAY COLLECTION
Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature 1744-1845.

International Conference on Macau Narratives

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Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 7:46am
CETAPS and CHAM (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon)

Call for Papers

International Conference on Macau Narratives

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities/New University of Lisbon

Fundação Oriente

Lisbon, Portugal

8, 9, 10 May 2013

Venue: Orient Museum (Lisbon, Portugal)

In 2013, to mark the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of Jorge Álvares in China and of Sino-Portuguese relations, the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) and the Centre for Overseas History (CHAM) of the New University of Lisbon, and the Fundação Oriente will organise an interdisciplinary International Conference on Macau Narratives.

Reviving and Revisioning Work: Examining Class

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Monday, December 5, 2011 - 10:06pm
Second Annual University of Houston Graduate Literature Conference March 31, 2012

Between the recession, partisan rhetoric about class war, and the current Occupy movement, class has moved to the forefront of American political consciousness. Class is also something we can't avoid in the academy--whether we're talking about the relative place of men and women (Schell); WPAs, professors, and TAs (Bousquet, Scott); literature and composition (Miller); the university and the community (Mathieu); undergraduate students; or the literary canon and authors that we study. This is a kairotic moment to reexamine our assumptions about class and look more deeply at the class implications in our literature, our languages, our classrooms, and our communities.

english language and literature

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Monday, December 5, 2011 - 9:49am
milind shivaji desai

i am a research student. the information related below mentioned clicks are useful, particularly information related to afro-American literature i am also interested in language and English language learning and teaching.

[UPDATE] - CFP – So What?: Exploring the Implications of Humanities Studies in the 21st Century (DEADLINE EXTENDED - 12/15)

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Monday, December 5, 2011 - 9:21am
North Carolina State University (NCSU) Association of English Graduate Students

Call For Papers – "So What?: Exploring the Importance and Implications of Humanities Studies in the 21st Century"

Third Annual Graduate Student Conference

The Association of English Graduate Students at North Carolina State University is pleased to announce the call for papers for our third annual graduate student conference, which will be held February 24-25, 2012 in Raleigh, NC.

In this conference, we wish presenters and participants to examine and explore the continued need for humanities studies, and the place of humanities studies in societies that increasingly value technological advances in communication.

Status Quaestionis-Online Journal of LInguistic, Literary, and Interdisciplinary Studies

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Monday, December 5, 2011 - 5:40am
University of Rome La Sapienza

Status Quaestionis is an open access journal devoted to the study of European and American languages, literatures and cultures. It welcomes philological, linguistic, cultural, interdisciplinary and intersemiotic analyses. Each issue is divided into three sections: Articoli (articles), Rendiconti critici (bibliographical or exploratory essays), and Recensioni (book reviews). The essays submitted to Status Questionis are peer reviewed. Submissions of book reviews are evaluated by the editorial committee. Status Quaestionis is open to a variety of methods and theories and encourages combined submissions of articles and accounts as long as they focus on related subjects. Submission deadlines are November 30 (June issue) and March 30 (December issue).

Violence in Theory and Practice (March 16-18th, 2012)

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Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 7:42pm
University of Ottawa English Dept. - Graduate Students' Association

VIOLENCE
In Theory and Practice
March 16-18, 2012

The Seventh Annual University of Ottawa English Graduate Conference

"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is often crude and distorted."
– Ellen Glasgow

Violence is an ever-present phenomenon in literary texts. From Homer's graphic descriptions of infantry combat in the Iliad, to Wilfred Owen's haunting portrayal of the war-torn fields of Europe, to Edith Wharton's subtle critique of Old New York as a place of ruthless social warfare, representations of violence powerfully call our attention to questions of authority, agency and power.

MEMORY REMAINS. Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, March 31 - April 1, 2012

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Friday, December 2, 2011 - 12:09pm
Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Keynote Speaker: Marita Sturken, Professor and Chair, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Faculty Speaker: Erika Boeckeler, Assistant Professor of English, Northeastern University

March 31 - April 1, 2012

ENVIRONMENTAL UTTERANCE 1-2 Sep 2012

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Friday, December 2, 2011 - 9:13am
University College Falmouth incorporating Dartington College of Arts

University College Falmouth inc. Dartington College of Arts

invites you to

"ENVIRONMENTAL UTTERANCE"
1st-2nd September 2012

Deadline for proposals: 31st March 2012

Across disciplines academics and artists are researching and creating practices that are highly contextual (determined by the environment in which they are located), exploring ways of articulating specific environments, spaces or places. This conference examines a specific problematic that attends the dissemination of this work: how to engage with 'being there' when 'there' is not here?

7th Global Conference: The Erotic (September 2012: Oxford , United Kingdom)

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Friday, December 2, 2011 - 6:34am
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net

7th Global Conference
The Erotic

Tuesday 11th September – Thursday 13th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers

Mapping the field of the erotic is a complex and frustrating endeavour; as something which permeates lived experience, interpersonal relationships, intellectual reflection, aesthetic tastes and sensibilities, the erotic is clearly multi-layered and requires a plethora of approaches, insights and perspectives if we are to better to understand, appreciate and define it.

[UPDATE] European Popular Culture and Literature at SW/TX PCA/ACA

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Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 10:50pm
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations

33rd Annual Conference-February 8-11, 2012
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2011
Conference hotel: Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505.842.1234

Papers are now being accepted on topics related to European popular culture and literature. All approaches, areas, and time periods are welcome.

CFP: NAVSA 2012 -- Victorian Networks

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Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 9:18pm
North American Victorian Studies Association

The North American Victorian Studies Association Conference for 2012, in Madison, Wisconsin, September 27-30, invites papers on the theme of networks. Keynotes include Amanda Anderson, Adam Phillips, and a visual networks panel with Caroline Arscott, Tim Barringer, Julie Codell, and Mary Roberts. Participants will also be able to sign up for networks seminars of 15 presenters of precirculated 5-page position papers on the topic.

[UPDATE] Graduate Student Mardi Gras Conference at LSU (Deadline December 9th) Feb. 16-17th

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Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 8:41pm
English Graduate Student Association 22nd Annual Mardi Gras Conference at LSU

Major Minors: Neglected and New Issues in Literary Studies

The 22nd Annual Graduate Student Mardi Gras Conference at Louisiana State University

LSU Student Union

February 16th & 17th, 2012

Keynote Address by Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers University

[UPDATE] Festivals and Faires Area

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Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 8:29am
Popular Culture Association

The Festivals & Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions for the 2012 PCA/ACA conference in Boston, MA (April 11-14, 2012) on any festival or faire—modern or historical. Scholars of theatre / theater, drama, performance studies, American studies, popular culture, religion, history, anthropology, folklore, English, theory, and non-western traditions are encouraged to apply. Since the conference is in Boston, MA, any papers relating to festivals and faires in the city or state are greatly appreciated. Other specific areas of interest for this year's panels include, but are not limited to:

Bondage and Power : 15 January 2012 (journal issue)

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 12:49pm
Schuylkill Graduate Journal

Bondage and Power

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. -- Aldous Huxley

Agora: Texas A&M University-Commerce Graduate Student Conference [Literature] April 12-13, 2012

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 12:47pm
English Graduates for Academic Development (EGAD)

Panels are now being formed in the Literature area of the Agora Conference at Texas A&M-Commerce. Scholars, researchers, professionals, teachers, graduate students and others interested in this area are encouraged to submit an abstract. Given that our conference theme, Agora, focuses on an area where a plethora of people and ideas intersect, proposals on fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or cross-genre topics are invited.
Our keynote speaker is Roberta Seelinger Trites, children's literature scholar and author of Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature and Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels.

6th Global Conference,Fear, Horror and Terror (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 7:15am
Dr. Rob Fisher/ Inter-Disciplinary.Net

6th Global Conference
Fear, Horror and Terror

Friday 7th September 2012 – Sunday 9th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers:
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues which lie at the interface of fear, horror and terror. In particular the project is interested in investigating the various contexts of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social, (geo) political, philosophical, psychological and religious significance of them, both individually and together.

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