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CFP: [Gender Studies] "Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom" (deadline 3/1/08; 10/9/08-10/11/08, RMMLA in R

updated: 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 7:17pm
Reid T. Sagara

"Teaching Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom" session
RMMLA (Rocky Mountain MLA) Convention in Reno, Nevada
October 9-11, 2008

The session chair seeks paper proposals that address innovations,
problematics, and/or insights about teaching feminism (or about teaching
as a feminist) in literature, language, cultural studies, or composition
classes. Papers that focus on particular strands of feminism and feminist
theory ("third-world feminisms"; queer feminisms; post-structural
feminism; and others) are especially encouraged.

CFP: [General] Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse, NY; [5/1/08; 10/2-4/08]

updated: 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 7:16pm
Roger Hallas

Visible Memories Conference
Syracuse University
Oct. 2-4, 2008
 
Call for Papers
 
Conference Theme: The Visible Memories Conference at Syracuse University
invites papers for competitive selection. The conference will explore the
intersections between visual culture and memory studies with particular
focus on the ways in which memories are manifested and experienced in
visible, material, or spatial form.
 
Examples of especially relevant and desirable research topics include:
local sites of memory; memorials and archives; environmentalism and
representations of nature; regional, national, or global tourism;

CFP: [Film] Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse, NY; [5/1/08; 10/2-4/08]

updated: 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 7:15pm
Roger Hallas

Visible Memories Conference
Syracuse University
Oct. 2-4, 2008
 
Call for Papers
 
Conference Theme: The Visible Memories Conference at Syracuse University
invites papers for competitive selection. The conference will explore the
intersections between visual culture and memory studies with particular
focus on the ways in which memories are manifested and experienced in
visible, material, or spatial form.
 
Examples of especially relevant and desirable research topics include:
local sites of memory; memorials and archives; environmentalism and
representations of nature; regional, national, or global tourism;

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse, NY; [5/1/08; 10/2-4/08]

updated: 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 7:14pm
Roger Hallas

Visible Memories Conference
Syracuse University
Oct. 2-4, 2008
 
Call for Papers
 
Conference Theme: The Visible Memories Conference at Syracuse University
invites papers for competitive selection. The conference will explore the
intersections between visual culture and memory studies with particular
focus on the ways in which memories are manifested and experienced in
visible, material, or spatial form.
 
Examples of especially relevant and desirable research topics include:
local sites of memory; memorials and archives; environmentalism and
representations of nature; regional, national, or global tourism;

CFP: [Graduate] Panel CFP on Race and Identity in American Literature for UCR (dis)junctions graduate conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 6:39pm
Alicia Cox

RACE AND IDENTITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Contributors are invited to submit critical works that examine issues
surrounding race and identity in any period or genre of American
literature, film, media, etc.

Potential topics include:

National identity, nationalism as race

Conjunctions/disjunctions between race, gender, and socioeconomic status

Constructions/constrictions of racial identity

Notions of race, space, form, and the aesthetic

The non-race: constructing, securing, troubling, and problematizing whiteness

The black-white dyad

Miscegenation: Mestizas, Mulattoes, and other Mixed-"breeds"

Multiculturalism

CFP: [Graduate] Panel CFP on Empire for UCR (dis)junctions graduate conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 6:34pm
Alicia Cox

EMPIRE

Contributors are invited to submit critical works that examine the
conjunctions/disjunctions between enactments and perceptions of empire from
antiquity to the present. Participants are not limited to issues
concerning national empires but are welcome to examine those of media,
corporate, and technological empires as well.

Potential topics include:

Diasporas and migrations: geographic, cultural, ideological, rhetorical,
technological, or other

Reverse colonization: of place, media, or technologies

Imperial borders and language: dominance, discrimination, acculturation,
assimilation

Teaching/subverting imperial ideology: empire, education, and resistant
pedagogy

CFP: [Collections] Student writing guides on major authors

updated: 
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 4:11pm
Douglas D. Sanders

Facts on File, a New York publisher of reference books for schools and
libraries, is seeking authors to write approximately 80,000-word
manuscripts, following established series guidelines, offering strategies
and techniques for writing about a particular author. These are not
critical works but guides for the student, providing interpretive models
and establishing the link between reading classic works then effectively
writing about them. Contributors are sought for the following authors:
Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Langston Hughes, and Gabriel Garcia
Marquez. The ideal author will have a PhD, broad knowledge of the assigned
author’s life and works, and an ability to write clearly, cleanly, and

CFP: [Graduate] Translation/Transformation Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 10:09pm
Jodine Perkins

Translation/Transformation

We are happy to announce an exciting collaboration between The Ohio State
University Folklore Student Association and the Indiana University Folklore
& Ethnomusicology Student Associations. The conference aims to create a
space for graduate and undergraduate students to share their research
within their respective fields as it relates to the study of academic and
vernacular interpretation of everyday life.

CFP: [Rhetoric-Composition] Collection: Don't Panic!: The Instructor's Guide to Assignments and Activities

updated: 
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:27pm
Vickie Willis

CFP (Collection): Don’t Panic!: The Instructor’s Guide to Assignments and Activities for First Year
Composition

I am seeking submissions of first-year composition assignments and activities to be included in
a resource anthology for instructors of first-year composition classes. The goal of this
sourcebook is to provide instructors (first time teachers, adjuncts, grad students, or faculty) with
resources for new assignment ideas, new pedagogical tools, and references for assignments and
classrooms activities.

CFP: [Collections] Collection: Don't Panic!: The Instructor's Guide to Assignments and Activities

updated: 
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:25pm
Vickie Willis

CFP (Collection): Don’t Panic!: The Instructor’s Guide to Assignments and Activities for First Year
Composition

I am seeking submissions of first-year composition assignments and activities to be included in
a resource anthology for instructors of first-year composition classes. The goal of this
sourcebook is to provide instructors (first time teachers, adjuncts, grad students, or faculty) with
resources for new assignment ideas, new pedagogical tools, and references for assignments and
classrooms activities.

UPDATE: [American] Mark Twain Session for the SAMLA conference in 2008

updated: 
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:22pm
Ms. Jules A. Hojnowski

 

Mark Twain's Angelfish Club:
Was it a Writing Club?
Or Something else?

2008 is the 100th Anniversary of the official
beginning of this club.

Proposals are invited for the Mark Twain Circle Panel at the 2008 SAMLA
Meeting in Louisville, KY, November 7-9, 2008, Hyatt Regency Louisville.
Presenters may discuss any of Twain's depictions of teaching writing, the
writing club or ?.

Please send 250 â€" word proposals or papers to Ms. Jules A. Hojnowski,
(jah_at_twcny.rr.com), by July 1, 2008

Thank you!
 

CFP: [General] Mark Twain session at SAMLA in 2008

updated: 
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:18pm
Ms. Jules A. Hojnowski

 

Mark Twain's Angelfish Club:
Was it a Writing Club?
Or Something else?

2008 is the 100th Anniversary of the official
beginning of this club.

Proposals are invited for the Mark Twain Circle Panel at the 2008 SAMLA
Meeting in Louisville, KY, November 7-9, 2008, Hyatt Regency Louisville.
Presenters may discuss any of Twain's depictions of teaching writing, the
writing club or ?.

Please send 250 â€" word proposals or papers to Ms. Jules A. Hojnowski,
(jah_at_twcny.rr.com), by July 1, 2008

Thank you!
 

UPDATE: [International] The Individual and the Mass

updated: 
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 4:59pm
Nicola Rehling

THEME

The School of English of Aristotle University, Greece, in cooperation
with the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE), invites
scholars to submit proposals for the 7th International HASE
conference “The Individual and the Mass” to be held in Thessaloniki from
30th May to 1st June 2008.

This conference aims to address the cultural and linguistic implications
of individual and group or mass identity, past and present, and to
stimulate discussion on changing social bonds in the global environment
of late modernity.

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