Negotiating the Mediascape - Theory and Practice Interchange in
Contemporary Media.

A one-day conference exploring the relationships between theory and
practice in a changing media environment.

Friday 2 May 2008
Department of Media, Canterbury Christ Church University

Recent developments in film, radio, television, the press and the
internet have radically transformed the mediascape. This has brought
about various challenges to established modes of critical enquiry, and
our understanding of the relationship between media theory and practice.
Negotiating the Mediascape seeks to address these changing relationships.

The Society of Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship Presents
 
First Annual Meeting of the Graduate Students’ Conference of Early
English Studies
Entitled
 
The Elizabethan World and its Contexts.
 
May 2nd, 2008
At University of Texas
Arlington, Texas
Sponsored by the Department of English
University of Texas, Arlington
         We cordially invite you to our First Annual Meeting for graduate
students interested in all aspects of Elizabethan culture, politics, and
literature. Those interested in submitting proposals for papers should
send abstracts of less than 300 words and titles by December 1, 2007 to:
 
William Rogers
Department of English

Ernest Hemingway's commitment to realistic representation gave us works
that are raw, graceful, vigorous, and unexpectedly complex. In the
citation for the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, the committee claimed
that Hemingway had "set a standard as easy to imitate as it is difficult
to obtain. After the writer’s death, one critic similarly wrote that
Hemingway was “the inventor of a style that has influenced other writers
more than any other in our time.” This panel will explore that legacy of
influence on Hemingway’s contemporaries and subsequent writers, including
John O’Hara, Norman Mailer, Raymond Carver, Tim O’Brien, Charles

The Hemingway Society invites proposals for a panel at the 2007 American
Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA
entitled “Interactive Hemingway”.

This panel aims to explore interactive approaches to teaching and/or
presenting Hemingway’s life, novels, short stories (including The Nick
Adams Stories collection), newspaper dispatches, as well as his work as a
war correspondent using new media and/or technologies. Panelists might
explore teaching Hemingway with film (films made from his writings and/or
documentary pieces generated for teaching), the use and/or creation of
websites, you-tube resources, etc., the use of PowerPoint, audio files,
performance, etc.

This is a final call for articles for 'Vitalpoetics: A Journal of Critical Literary Theory' Issue 1, 2008.
Articles are sought (up to 5000 words - negotiable on individual basis) that engage any aspect of
critical literary theory, with an emphasis on close analysis.
Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.
All articles must be in English and provide English translations.
'Vitalpoetics' is a new online-journal that will be launched in January, 2008, and will be issued
quarterly.
Please contact via e-mail with any queries and for submission guidlines.

Call for Papers
The Kate Chopin International Society at
The American Literature 17th Association Annual Conference
22-25 May 2008
San Francisco, CA

The Kate Chopin International Society invites submissions focusing on “New
Directions in Chopin Scholarship” for two panels at the ALA Conference in
San Francisco in May. Approaches may include but are not limited to:

• Chopin and New Southern Studies, such as reconsiderations of
subjectivity, objectivity, nationality, regionalism, identification and
selfhood.

• Chopin and transnational Southern studies, especially connections to
Caribbean literature

• Chopin and the grotesque

• Chopin and disability studies