Reading and Writing Recipe Books: 1600-1800
University of Warwick
8-9 August 2008
 
Keynote Speakers:
Margaret Ezell (English, Texas A&M University)
Mary Fissell (History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)
Gilly Lehmann (Universite de Franche-Comte)
Janet Theophano (Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania)
 
 
This international interdisciplinary conference will provide a much-
needed environment that allows recipe book scholars to meet and discuss
important issues such as comparative methodologies and periodization,
thereby offering a key opportuninity to shape the course of future
research on this genre.
 
CALL FOR PAPERS:

Reading and Writing Recipe Books: 1600-1800
University of Warwick
8-9 August 2008
 
Keynote Speakers:
Margaret Ezell (English, Texas A&M University)
Mary Fissell (History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)
Gilly Lehmann (Universite de Franche-Comte)
Janet Theophano (Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania)
 
 
This international interdisciplinary conference will provide a much-
needed environment that allows recipe book scholars to meet and discuss
important issues such as comparative methodologies and periodization,
thereby offering a key opportuninity to shape the course of future
research on this genre.
 
CALL FOR PAPERS:

Call for Papers
SCIENCE FICTION IN BRITISH FILM AND TELEVISION Area
2008 Film & History Conference
“Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond”
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
www.filmandhistory.org
First-Round Deadline: November 1, 2007

AREA: Science Fiction in British Film and Television

CFP Bucknell University Translation Conference (undergrad/grad)
(10/14/07; 11/9-10/07)
 

Translation: Comparative Perspectives (A Conference for Emerging
Scholars)

American Literature After the “American Century”

Co-editors Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College and Gioia Woods,
Northern Arizona University

“American Literature after the American Century” begins a critical
discussion of how American literature has responded to the highly charged
social and political climate during the early years of the 21st century.
What characterizes literary preoccupations after the 20th century,
the “American Century?” How has American fiction incorporated or resisted
social, cultural, and political events in the 21st century? How are
American writers responding to nationalism and American identity?

Possible topics for exploration may include:

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

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