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RENASCENCE: Essays on Values in Literature, invites
submissions (3,000 to 7,500 words) on any aspect of
Victorian literature -- from the perspective
of religion and/or values.
Please see our web site (www.Marquette.edu/renascence)
for exact guidelines.
Deadline for acceptance of spring, 2008 issue is January 1,
2008; for summer, 2008 issue; April 1.
RENASCENCE: Essays on Values in Literature, invites
submissions (3,000 to 7,500 words) on any aspect of
Romantic literature -- from the perspective
of religion and/or values.
Please see our web site (www.Marquette.edu/renascence)
for exact guidelines.
Deadline for acceptance of spring, 2008 issue is January 1,
2008; for summer, 2008 issue; April 1.
Papers are sought for an interdisciplinary seminar on Aurthorhip which
will be held in Aarus, Denmark in August 22-26 2008, as part of the IX
International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English
(ESSE).
The conference will take place at the University of Aarhus, Denmark,
August 22-26, 2008 (http://www.esse2008.dk/). Abstracts should fit the
following description:
The 2008 International Conference on Romanticism will be held on October 16-19 at Oakland
University in Rochester, Michigan.
We invite participants to consider the Work of Romanticism, interpreted as broadly as possible.
Thus, topics may include, but are not limited to, working (agricultural, industrial, political, social,
etc.); the text as work (e.g., editions, textual variants, the text per se, etc.); (re-)productive labor;
the work of Romanticists; responses to works (e.g., reception, intertextuality, etc.); literary, artistic
or intellectual labor; and leisure (including idleness, indolence, vacation, travel, retirement, etc.) We
welcome proposals for special sessions.
Despite the breadth of Irish artistic achievement across various media in
the decades surrounding the 1798 Rebellion and 1801 Act of Union, there is
still a comparative lack of sustained analysis of this foundational period
in Irish cultural history. While much critical work has been focused on
individual authors, there has, with notable exceptions, been little
cross-disciplinary work devoted to Irish writing and culture in the
‘Romantic’ period. In particular, Irish links with European literatures and
Irish language productions have been relatively neglected. This collection
seeks to redress this neglect and to complicate and extend our
Call for Papers
Studies in English
Third International IDEA Conference
Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
16-18 April 2008
Call for Papers Deadline has been extended to: 4 January 2008
The Third International IDEA Conference will be held at Ege
University, Izmir, Turkey on 16-18 April 2008. The Conference
will be jointly hosted by Ege University, Department of English
Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature
Research Association of Turkey (IDEA). The Conference will cover
the following four main areas of studies in English:
Literature
Language and Linguistics
Translation Studies
Cultural Studies
The 18th Annual EGSA Mardi Gras Conference
January 31- February 1, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Professor Cathy Davidson
We are pleased to announce the 18th Annual EGSA Mardi Gras Conference,
titled “Placing Poesis: The Work of Art and the Future of Literary
Studies,†to be held at Louisiana State University January 31 â€" February 1.
S.03. The House of Fiction as the House of Life: Representation of the
House in Literature and Culture, 1700-1900
Prof. Francesca Saggini Boyle (University of Tuscia / University of
Glasgow)
E-mail: fsaggini_at_unitus.it
Dr. Anna Enrichetta Soccio (University of Chieti)
E-mail: esoccio_at_unich.it
Click here to send an e-mail to the convenors
European Society for the Study of English Conference (ESSE) 9, August 22-
26, 2008 :: Department of English :: University of Aarhus :: Denmark.
Special Issue of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
Science and the Senses (1789-1914)
Call for Papers, Extended Deadline
"Science & Technology, 1500-1800"
March 14, 2008
University of California, Santa Barbara
The European Novel Between Reaction and Revolution, 1815-1848
ACLA
April 24-27, 2008
Long Beach, CA
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2007
Submit Proposals at: http://www.acla.org/submit/
Call For Papers: Power of Form and Forms of Power
Annual AEGIS Conference at SIUC
Carbondale Illinois
April 3rd-5th 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
George Herbert’s Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
10-11 October, 2008
Panel Topic: William Blake and George Herbert. We are seeking proposals for
papers relating William Blake to George Herbert and comparing their work.
Plenary Speakers:
Richard Strier of the University of Chicago, Elizabeth Clarke of the
University of Warwick, and Judith Maltby of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Two University Presses have expressed interest in publication of conference
proceedings.
PCA/ACA 2008
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
San Francisco Marriot,
San Francisco, California
March 19-22, 2008
Proposals are now being accepted for “Shakespeare, The Elizabethans and
the Early Modern World.†Any and all aspects of culture from this time
period are encouraged. The emphasis is on the “Early Modern World.â€
We are interested not only in the literature and drama but other art
forms, technology and material culture from this era. We are also eager
to open the conversation up to interests outside England. We encourage
those with an interest in areas such as Spanish Theatre and literature
before 1700 to make proposals.
Death is an arrival and a departure for the deceased, as well as for those left behind â€" who leave
one kind of life and arrive, like the dead, in uncharted territory. Culturally, we are awash in stories
of the dead, which signifies the desire to come to terms with death and loss as well as the refusal to
do so. We propose a seminar to investigate the various manifestations of death in narrative, from
corpses to caesuras, the death of the author to Diana Fuss’s conception of “last words,†and
surrealism’s exquisite corpses.
We are looking for submissions which address death and the bodily changes that accompany it from
Psychoanalysis in Context: Critical Readings of Literature and Theory
***CALL FOR PAPERS*** ***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
METRE MATTERS: NEW APPROACHES TO PROSODY, 1780-1914
University of Exeter: Thursday, 3 July - Saturday, 5 July 2008
An international conference hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies
Keynote speakers:
ISOBEL ARMSTRONG, TIM KENDALL, YOPIE PRINS, SUSAN WOLFSON
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Call for Papers
The Second Annual Making Books, Shaping Readers Conference
April 2nd â€" 4th 2008
University College Cork
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr
Conference Theme: Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing
Plenary Speaker: Professor Alistair McCleery, Co-Director of SAPPHIRE,
Professor of Literature and Culture at Napier University, and co-editor
of The Book History Reader
Translation in Literature
Fine literature does and should span centuries and continents. But have
you ever played telephone? Have you ever played operator?
What is lost in the translation of ancient texts or even contemporary
texts in different languages? How can the poems of Turgenev or the
initially oral tales of, say, The Iliad retain their meaning through time
and space? And if something is lost in translation, why must we strive
for transmission in this ever-shrinking, wi-fy connected world?
Interdisciplinary panel, paper, and creative submissions are invited for
the 14th annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium at Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, held Feb. 29-March 1, 2008.
Affectation from the Renaissance to Today. (Proposed Special Session for MLA Annual Convention,
San Francisco 2008.) What makes a person seem “affected†rather than natural, and why should it
matter? Since the concept of affectation became current during the Renaissance (in part thanks to
texts such as Castiglione's The Courtier) many playwrights, philosophers and novelists have tried to
codify and dramatize the difference between "affected" and spontaneous or natural behavior. This
distinction, however, is frequently blurred by the ambiguity of motives and gestures. Indeed, some
might argue that the effort to distinguish between truthful, heartfelt or natural feelings and
CFP: [20th] The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/6/06; National PCA/ACA Conference,
3/19/08-3/22/08)
NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE
March 19-22, 2008
San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco, CA
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 6, 2008
We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film, literature, or other
forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome.
You can propose an individual paper or a session of three or four presenters. Graduate students
are especially encouraged to submit papers or panels.
>From self-mutilation to the rise of plastic surgery; from the Gothic
genre to representations of pain in media and art, how has transgressing
the body yielded consequences for artists and audiences? This panel seeks
critical and creative presentations that explore these questions.
Submit 350-word paper proposals by October 15 to the Southwest Graduate
English Symposium, held at Arizona State University, February 29-March 1,
2008. Please include your name, professional affiliation, home and office
numbers, mailing address, and email address. Also, please include any A/V
requirements with your submission.
Are You Being Served? Servants, Service, and Servitude in Fictionalized Worlds
Call for contributions for an edited essay collection (11/30/07).
Call for Papers
Language and the Self: From Locke through the Romantics
Session for South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference, New
Orleans, February 21-23, 2008
All aspects of language and the self in the long eighteenth century,
including such issues as self-consciousness, self-identity, self-reference,
self-expression, autobiography, the authorial self, the politics of
language, institutional authority, language and gender, language and race,
and print culture. The official deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007,
but late submissions will be considered. Please send paper proposals by
e-mail to jhjones_at_jsu.edu.
Language and the Self: From Locke through the Romantics
Session for South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference, New Orleans, February 21-23, 2008
All aspects of language and the self in the long eighteenth century,
including such issues as self-consciousness, self-identity, self-reference,
self-expression, autobiography, the authorial self, the politics of
language, institutional authority, language and gender, language and race,
and print culture. The official deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007,
but late submissions will be considered. Please send paper proposals by
e-mail to jhjones_at_jsu.edu.
Call for Papers
6th International Student Byron Conference
Messolonghi Byron Research Center, Greece
18-25 May 2008
Theme: Byron's Other Selves
The Messolonghi Byron Research Center solicits 20-minute papers for this
conference to be held May 18-25, The theme will be "Byron's Other Selves."
Jasper Fforde’s popular series of literary detective novels, beginning
with The Eyre Affair, popularized a little-studied literary trope:
intertextual references and devices that subvert the linear master
narrative. From farting bookworms to the “footnoterphone,†Fforde
utilizes font types, footnotes, and misspellings to argue for a multi-
textuality in his novels. How have other writers done the same? For
what purpose? How does this practice affect us as readers? This panel
seeks critical and creative presentations that explore these questions.
Topics may include self-referencing, online hypertext, multiple
narrators, and much more.
In Elaine Scarry’s book Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the
World, she claims that pain is language destroying, essentially
establishing a barrier between the self and reality that eliminates
meaningful communication with the outside world. Therefore, not only is
it impossible to adequately describe pain, but the possibility of empathy
is all but destroyed. This panel seeks critical and creative
presentations that explore and engage the question: How can a subject
effectively communicate the experience of pain? How can a community
understand or empathize with that subject? Topics may include specific
writers â€" such as Sylvia Plath or Philip K. Dick â€" or a more general
theoretical study.
"Beautiful Objects: Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity"
The editors seek essays for a proposed collection on women’s commodification and celebrity
prior to the twentieth-century. We have already had preliminary conversations with a publisher
who has expressed interest in the volume.
What does it mean to be a woman celebrity? In what ways does a woman writer become
commodified, and how are those commodities publicized and marketed? Are women
commodified differently than men of the same period?
College English Association National Conference
March 27-29, 2008
St. Louis, Missouri
We invite papers on the Diodati Circle for the 39th annual meeting of the CEA.