Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS)
Annual Conference 2008
August 13-16
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, NL.

AMERICAN LEGACIES
**Deadline for Proposals: April 20, 2008**

CAAS invites paper proposals for its annual conference, which will be
held in St. John’s, at Memorial University of Newfoundland August 13-16.
Please send 500 word proposals to: CAAS 2008 Committee, c/o Michael Epp
(michaelepp_at_trentu.ca). Please include with proposals your name, academic
affiliation, email address and any AV requirements your paper will have.

CULTURAL MEMORY

A DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM

JUNE 25-27, 2008, at Hazelwood House, South Devon, U.K.

A Project of the CENTRE FOR CRITICAL CULTURAL RESEARCH in the Faculty of
Arts at the University of Plymouth, U.K.

Considering culture as creative practice and a way of life, both of which
are historically specific, how is experience remembered, represented and
shared? How and why do memories and representations shape present
attitudes, intentions, politics, power structures, cultural work and
imagined futures? Among aspects of the theme which may be covered are:

Memories of place framing social formation;

Shared memories as means of empowering social groups;

disClosure: a journal of social theory • Issue 18: WAR

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 1, 2008

The editorial collective of disClosure seeks submissions that explore WAR
as it is understood in a variety of areas and disciplines. Possible topics
might include:

 
Terror
Torture
Trauma
Territoriality
Genocide
Resistance
Sovereignty

Geographies of War
Historiographies of War
War and the Economy
The Media and War
Identities and War
Memories of War
Gender and War

The deadline for proposals for the one day seminar on Women Travellers in
India has been extended to Monday 3rd March.

As part of the Maria Graham research project, the Centre for Travel
Writing Studies at Nottingham Trent University will be hosting three one-
day seminars in 2008. These will focus on women travellers to each of the
three principal regions that Maria Graham visited and wrote about: Italy,
India and Latin America.

The CTWS accordingly invites proposals for 20 minute papers that consider
any aspect of women’s travel, or women’s travel writing, relating to each
of these regions. The papers can approach the topic from any disciplinary
angle, and can focus on any historical period.

Due: March 15, 2008

Send to:
48 Waverly Terrace #1
Bloomfield, NJ 07003

We have two papers and are seeking 2-3 more for a panel on
representations of Latino and Latin American masculinities in literature
and popular media. The first paper EXAMINES HOW TV AND FILM images of
overbearing Latina mothers FRAME Latino men AS BOTH MACHOS AND "MAMA'S
BOYS." The second paper examines the tenuous relationship of hegemonic
masculinity to gender, national identity, and family in Cristina Garcia’s
novel, Monkey Hunting.

Constructing the Body, Constructing the Text:
Literary and Scientific Discourses of the Human Body
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Deadline Extended: March 15, 2008

Deadline Extended: March 15, 2008