“Becoming Indigenous: The Aesthetics of Place and Community in
Twentieth-Century American Literature” (9/15/07; NEMLA 4/10/08 - 4/13/08)

This panel seeks papers that investigate the importance of indigeneity in
twentieth-century environmental literature. We are especially interested in
texts that use aspects of Native American culture to establish ethical and
sustainable relationships to the land. Questions we hope to address
include: What does it mean to be a native of a particular region? How do
specific aesthetic forms facilitate a greater awareness of the natural
world? Why might indigeneity be indispensable to an ecological perspective?

I am looking for scholars who would be interested in forming a 3-4-person
panel on storytelling conventions for the International Conference on
Narrative at Austin, May 1-4, 2008. The focus of this panel would be genre,
not just in the traditional sense of form (poetry, drama, and prose, or
tragedy, comedy, and melodrama), but also more broadly construed in terms
of media conventions (Hollywood films, graphic novels, and oral
testimonies). How do these traditional and contemporary storytelling
practices shape (positively or negatively) the story, the storyteller and
the audience? How have various authors or media sought to influence
(successfully and unsuccessfully) the audience’s response to particular

I am looking for scholars who would be interested in forming a 3-4-person
panel on storytelling conventions for the International Conference on
Narrative at Austin, May 1-4, 2008. The focus of this panel would be genre,
not just in the traditional sense of form (poetry, drama, and prose, or
tragedy, comedy, and melodrama), but also more broadly construed in terms
of media conventions (Hollywood films, graphic novels, and oral
testimonies). How do these traditional and contemporary storytelling
practices shape (positively or negatively) the story, the storyteller and
the audience? How have various authors or media sought to influence
(successfully and unsuccessfully) the audience’s response to particular

I am looking for scholars who would be interested in forming a 3-4-person
panel on storytelling conventions for the International Conference on
Narrative at Austin, May 1-4, 2008. The focus of this panel would be genre,
not just in the traditional sense of form (poetry, drama, and prose, or
tragedy, comedy, and melodrama), but also more broadly construed in terms
of media conventions (Hollywood films, graphic novels, and oral
testimonies). How do these traditional and contemporary storytelling
practices shape (positively or negatively) the story, the storyteller and
the audience? How have various authors or media sought to influence
(successfully and unsuccessfully) the audience’s response to particular

The CFP below has been updated with a new submission deadline of SEPTEMBER
15, 2007 to give students more of a chance to hear about the conference
once Fall classes resume.

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Call for Papers and Films:

Shoot, Rip & Burn:

Cinema's Digital Insurgency
San Francisco State University

November 1-2, 2007

Presented by the SFSU Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association

Keynote speakers: Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Call for Papers:
Early Native American Literature
39th convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Dates: April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, NY

In his recent book, The People and the Word, Robert Warrior speaks of
a "strengthening of the historical arc of Native writing" to consider how
Native American literatures of the past might be of use to us today. This
panel invites papers that focus on pre-twentieth century Native writers
(or writers on the cusp of the 20th century)examining, among other things,
how these authors negotiated their private ambitions and needs alongside
traditional concerns and the demands of print discourse.

Over the past thirty years, considerable scholarship has been produced on
the subject of confession in the Middle Ages, from Thomas N. Tentler's
volume on Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation, to Peter Biller
and A.J. Minnis's collection of essays entitled Handling Sin. However,
apart from Peter Brooks's work on confession (which does not have the
Middle Ages as its focus) and recent work by Dyan Elliott, few works have
considered the counterpart of confession: inquisition. Inquisition and
confession may profitably be read as two sides of the same coin, a
relationship highlighted by the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council, which