CFP: “Science and Fiction” Panel: The Legacy of Philip K. Dick (03/31/08;
Midwest Modern Language Association, 11/13-11/16)

“Science and Fiction” Panel of the Midwest Modern Language Association:

Panel Title: The Legacy of Philip K. Dick

Trauma and Performance Studies

Contributors are invited to submit papers that explore the relationship
between the developing and interdiscplinary field of performance studies
and that of trauma studies. How can understandings of performance,
performativity, and performative arts contribute and speak to
contemporary psychological, social, legal and cultural understandings of
violence and trauma?

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

Trauma and Performance Studies

Contributors are invited to submit papers that explore the relationship
between the developing and interdiscplinary field of performance studies
and that of trauma studies. How can understandings of performance,
performativity, and performative arts contribute and speak to
contemporary psychological, social, legal and cultural understandings of
violence and trauma?

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

Call for Posters and Demonstrations

Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies Conference

University of Maryland, College Park May 2-3, 2008

URL: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/diaspora2008

Call for papers: (dis)junctions 2008

Panel: The Technological Body on Film

Call for papers: (dis)junctions 2008

Panel: Wilde Things

Contributors are invited to submit critical work on Oscar Wilde. These papers may address any
aspect of Wilde scholarship.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
The dramatic works of Wilde
Wilde’s Political Prose
Wilde as Critic
Hetero/homosocial bonds in Wilde’s fiction
Wilde and construction of masculinity
Wilde’s life and career

Abstract should be 250-300 words, contained within the body of the email, and sent to
maggiegover_at_mac.com by February 15, 2008.

Torture Porn: The New Splatter Film?