The American Studies Graduate Student Association of the State University
of New York at Buffalo would like to respectfully request submissions for
this new publication (print/and web interface). Articles and papers in the
humanities, Poetics, Visual Studies, (etc.) are welcome. Those articles
that relate to the local/global exchange of ideas and production, and those
localized studies that subvert the presumption of the primacy of global
connections, are of a particular interest. But as this is both an
investigation of the local and the global, all categories and methods of
engagement will be considered; the pivot/point of engagement, process, and

THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 3

"Philip Roth: A Global Perspective"
Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
April 24-27; Long Beach, California

The past decade has witnessed Roth’s canonization as an American classic.
This seminar is dedicated to examining his impact from a comparative
perspective. Panels will engage issues pertaining to Roth in translation
and his reception in other parts of the world; his novels read alongside
international authors (some possible examples: Dostoevsky, Céline, Kundera,
Bernhard, Appelfeld, O’Brien) or vis-à-vis the visual arts (Rembrandt,
Guston, Freud, Kitaj).

Call for Papers
THE APOLLO PROGRAM Area
2008 Film & History Conference
“Film & Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond”
October 30-November 2, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Second-Round Deadline: May 1, 2008

AREA: Film and the Apollo Program

AFRICAN ATHENA: BLACK ATHENA 20 YEARS ON...: A CONFERENCE
6-8 NOVEMBER 2008, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK.

AFRICAN ATHENA: BLACK ATHENA 20 YEARS ON...: A CONFERENCE
6-8 NOVEMBER 2008, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK.

AFRICAN ATHENA: BLACK ATHENA 20 YEARS ON...: A CONFERENCE
6-8 NOVEMBER 2008, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK.

AFRICAN ATHENA: BLACK ATHENA 20 YEARS ON...: A CONFERENCE
6-8 NOVEMBER 2008, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK.
 
This is a Call for Papers from scholars of African Studies, Black British
Studies, African American Studies, of South Asia, of the Middle East, of
classicists, philologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and any
intellectual beyond these borders.
 
African Athena was Bernal's original title for Black Athena,
his "infamous" work that has confronted the modern academy with some of
the most challenging questions it has faced over the last twenty years.
This interdisciplinary conference seeks neither to demonize nor lionize