In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes claims that some men are born with minds that
move too quickly (1648). Supposedly, such swift-minded men are in danger of
being “snatched from their purpose by everything that comes in their
thought, into so many and so long digressions and parentheses that they
utterly lose themselves.” Almost a century later, however, David Hume
claims that rapid-moving thoughts are an essential part of human nature:
men are “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which
succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity; and are in a perpetual
flux and movement.” What, then, does it mean to think “too fast” in the

Call For Papers: “Chick Lit.” Area
Abstract/Proposals by 1 November 2007
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 29th Annual
Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 13-16, 2008
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710

Proposals are now being accepted for the “Chick Lit.” Area, and all those
interested are encouraged to participate. (Graduate students/future
teachers are particularly welcome to participate or register to attend the
conference.) Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations,
but topics not included here are also welcome.

THE IDEOLOGY OF POETICS AND POETIC FORM AND PRACTICE IN THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY

8-9 December 2007

Institute for Cultural, Social, and Policy Studies

University of Salford, UK

The historicising of eighteenth-century literature in recent years has
culminated in highly contextualised studies of expository prose and
fiction; eighteenth-century poetry has too often been seen as a remote
medium that did not respond to the social, political, and cultural
changes that society underwent. With the (re-)discovery of an alternative
literary canon, more attention is paid to the interaction between form
and ideology.

Hawthorne and the Ethical

NeMLA, 39th Annual Convention. April 10-13, Buffalo, NY

CFP: Queer Masculinities (11/1/07; PCA/ACA, 3/19/08-3/22/08)

2008 Popular Culture/American Culture Associations National Conference

March 19-22, 2008
San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco, California

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to http:www.h-net.org/~pcaaca. The
conference website is http:www.pcaaca.org

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE UPDATE: NOVEMBER 1, 2007

We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or
individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1 hour slots, usually with 4 papers/speakers per
session.