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"Architecture in the Center and in the Margins" (MWASECS, 11/11-11/14/07)
I am looking for one more paper to complete a panel for the MWASECS conference this year, for a
panel on architecture in eighteenth-century art, literature, aesthetic theory, etc.
Possible topics may include:
--Uncanny architecture or haunted spaces
--Architecture and the body
--Seductive architecture (the pleasure house, the petite maison...)
--The architecture of madness and containment
--Unreasonable architecture
--Gardens and exotic spaces
Please send submissions by September 15th to pjy_at_georgetown.edu
Graduate students are welcome to submit.
Please note that the deadline has been extended to September 30th, 2007.
Call for Papers:
“The Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial Modernityâ€
39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York
Please note that the deadline has been extended to September 30th, 2007.
Call for Papers:
“The Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial Modernityâ€
39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York
Call For Papers:
MOTORCYCLE LIFE AND CULTURE
Annual Meeting of the PCA/ACA Southwest/Texas
February 13-16, 2008 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Popular Culture Association and American Culture
Associations is inviting papers on motorcycling
and its impact on American and other societies and cultures.
Suggested topics include:
Contributors are sought to pen entries for a work tentatively titled:
Icons of African American Literature. This reference work will be around
300,000 words, 2 volumes. It will have extended entries on 24 “iconicâ€
figures of African American literature. Those works are:
1. Angelou, Maya
2. Baldwin, James
3. Beloved
4. Black Arts Movement
5. Black Aesthetic
6. Blues Aesthetic
7. Color Purple, The
8. Ellison, Ralph
9. Harlem Renaissance
10. Hansberry, Lorraine
11. Langston Hughes
12. Hurston, Zora Neale
13. Invisible Man
14. Jazz Aesthetic
15. Morrison, Toni
16. Native Son
17. Raisin in the Sun, A
18. Signifying
19. The Souls of Black Folk
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Library Company of Philadelphia, in
cooperation with the Department of History of the University of Maryland, College Park and the
Department of English of the College of New Jersey, will convene a conference in Philadelphia,
April 3-4 2009, on the experience of the incarcerated in jails and prisons in early America.
The award-winning University Press of North Georgia invites submissions for
its second publication on the Artist as Activist in the Appalachian South.
North Georgia College & State University, our parent institution, is the
Leadership university of Georgia, and this publication will build on this
strength by examining leadership in the arts. For this publication, we
will consider art in terms of words and/or image. Also, we will consider
activism as work that tends toward achieving positive, sustainable social
change and/or justice.
Rethinking the Survey Course
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Buffalo, NY
April 10-13, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
PATAPHYSICA V: The Fifth Issue of the International Journal of all things Pataphysical.
We welcome submissions in any printable genre on topics related to the study of pataphysics.
Read more about pataphysics at the following addresses:
http://calclements.com/pataphysica.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataphysics
You can buy copies of Pataphysica I, II, and IV at Amazon.com. You can buy a copy of Pataphysica III at Lulu.com.
The Apothecary's Chest: Magic, Art & Medication
24th November 2007
University of Glasgow, UK
Deadline for Papers: 31 August 2007
This one-day symposium aims at bringing together experienced academics and
postgraduate students to discuss the evolution of the notions of mysticism,
knowledge and superstition in the way they are intertwined in both science
and literary imagination in the figure of healers such as the apothecary,
the alchemist, the shaman.
Race in the Writing Center: Towards New Theory and Praxis
We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the UIC Writing Center
and Public Space conference series on "Race in the Writing Center:
Towards
New Theory and Praxis" to be held at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, February 29 & March 1, 2008. We are seeking new and exciting
work that explores the relationship between writing, race, tutoring, and
writing center spaces and practices.
Race in the Writing Center: Towards New Theory and Praxis
We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the UIC Writing Center
and Public Space conference series on "Race in the Writing Center:
Towards
New Theory and Praxis" to be held at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, February 29 & March 1, 2008. We are seeking new and exciting
work that explores the relationship between writing, race, tutoring, and
writing center spaces and practices.