The conference on “Modernism and Unreadability” aims to explore a major
literary movement, Modernism in the English-speaking world, from the
perspective of one of its most obvious though rarely mentioned effects:
unreadability. Modernism will be approached through the lens of various
texts known to be particularly resistant to interpretation. Several
“borderline” Modernist texts fall de facto under the category of the
unreadable. For a number of reasons and following various modalities and
individual procedures which call for description and analysis, those texts,
now part of the literary canon, raise problems of deciphering as well as

Cultural Studies Association, 2008 Conference
New York University
May 22-24
Seminar CFP, Deadline 20 January 2008

Replications: Performing and Re-staging America at Home and Abroad

Co-conveners:
Barbara Lewis, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Susan Tenneriello, Baruch College, CUNY

CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rhythmic Rituals of Performance: Revisiting the Past and Realizing the
Present in the Gulf South and Circum-Caribbean Musical Discourses”
March 6-7, 2008
The Hill Memorial Library
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA

The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State
University invites the submission of papers and presentations that
explore the convergences of Gulf South and Circum-Caribbean Musics for
its annual conference to be held March 6-7, 2008, in Baton Rouge.

Despite the breadth of Irish artistic achievement across various media in
the decades surrounding the 1798 Rebellion and 1801 Act of Union, there is
still a comparative lack of sustained analysis of this foundational period
in Irish cultural history. While much critical work has been focused on
individual authors, there has, with notable exceptions, been little
cross-disciplinary work devoted to Irish writing and culture in the
‘Romantic’ period. In particular, Irish links with European literatures and
Irish language productions have been relatively neglected. This collection
seeks to redress this neglect and to complicate and extend our

(Proposals due February 28, 2008. Essays due July 15, 2008)

Call for contributors for Hip Hop Around the World: An Encyclopedia, a
two-volume reference set under contract with Greenwood Press. This
collection will consist of 10,000-word essays on the most important hip hop
scenes around the world. I am currently seeking contributors interested in
writing chapters on the following countries and themes:

* North America
1. Aztlan/Chicano
2. Mexico
3. Native (North) America

* The Caribbean
4. Puerto Rico
5. Haiti
6. Cuba
7. Dominican Republic

* Europe
8. The U.K.
9. France
10. Germany
11. Italy

Whither Culture?: Toward Histories, Futures, Theories, and Productions of
the Social

The Tenth Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group

Keynote Speakers: Michael Denning, Paula Rabinowitz, and Andrew Ross

University of Florida, March 27-29

e-Media, a new media studies website produced by Ohio Northern University
and devoted to the intersections of new media and the liberal arts,
invites contributions from all disciplines on media studies topics for
its inaugural issue, whose theme is Gaming. Contributors can interpret
the theme however they wish. Scholarly articles, multimedia work,
creative work, are all welcome. E-Media’s tentative launch date is May
21, 2007.