“My little crazy beloved was serving me dinner, and through the dining
room’s open window I was contemplating the moving architectures that God
fashions from vapors, the marvelous constructions of the impalpable. And
I was saying to myself, through my contemplation, ‘All those
phantasmagorias are almost as beautiful as the eyes of my beautiful
beloved, my little green-eyed monstrous madwoman.’
        And suddenly I received a violent punch in the back, and I heard
a hoarse and charming voice, a hysterical voice and husky as if from
brandy, the voice of my dear little beloved, which was saying, ‘Will you
ever eat your soup, you goddamn cloud peddler!’”

Call for Papers
American Comparative Literature Association Conference
April 24-27
Long Beach, California USA
www.acla.org

Re-Writing the Promised Land: Comparative Diasporas

Revisiting Historicism
Panel for 2008 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
April 24 - 27, 2008
California State University, Long Beach
 
Panel organizers: Carolyn Betensky, Department of English, University of
Rhode Island, and Susan Hiner, Department of French, Vassar College

Historicism is no longer new. In many disciplines across the humanities
and social sciences, once-iconoclastic historicist approaches now
constitute a dominant (and in some disciplines, the dominant)
methodological and theoretical paradigm. Nowadays, the injunction “Always
historicize!” can sound less like an urgent call than a demand to toe the
line.

MAWSA 2008 Student Essay Contest

The Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association is pleased to announce the
seventh annual Student Prize for Scholarly Excellence in Women's Studies.

Two awards, underwritten by the Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association
and the Susquehanna University Honors Program, are given annually to one
undergraduate and one graduate student who submit the best previously
unpublished essays on any aspect of women's studies scholarship. Writers of
the winning essays will each receive a $50 cash award and be recognized at
the 2008 MAWSA conference on March 29, 2008, at Penn State University,
Abington College.

Submissions must be received by November 12, 2007.

Please note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to December
1, 2007.

Call for Papers: ELN 46.1, “Time and Literature.”
 
A respected forum since 1962 for English literary studies, ELN (English
Language Notes) has undergone a change in editorship and an extensive
makeover. It is now a biannual journal devoted exclusively to special
topics in all fields of literary and cultural studies. The new ELN is
particularly determined to revive and reenergize its traditional commitment
to shorter notes, often no more than three to four pages in print. This
attribute of the journal provides a unique forum for cutting-edge scholarly
debate and exchange in the humanities.

Deadline has been extended.

The sixth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student
conference sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies student
organization, will be held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
from February 15-16, 2008. The theme for this year’s conference will be
"Authority, Authorship, and Audience in the Middle Ages."

Eve Salisbury, Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan
University, will be the plenary speaker for this year’s conference.

Philosophy and the Event is a graduate student conference that will be held at Emory University
from 02/29/08-03/01/08 focusing on the notion of the event in postmodern thought and its roots
in the history of philosophy. The keynote speaker will be John D. Caputo. We are calling for papers
that deal with the notion of the event in such thinkers as Caputo, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze,
Badiou, Benjamin, Zizek, etc. Especially, we are looking for papers that tie the notion of the event
to postmodernism as a whole movement and attempt to show how an emphasis on the event
characterizes philosophy today as distinct from or fundamentally similar to other movements in the