We are seeking paper proposals for a panel on nineteenth-century education
in the arts and its connections to English nationalism and/or British
imperialism at the 2008 MLA conference in San Francisco. Potential topics
could include but are not limited to the development of schools in the
“industrial arts”; the construction of a history of English art; the place
of art and literature in a modern university education in Britain and the
colonies; the adult education movement and the arts; the role of drawing in
formal and informal education; the role of British literature and art in
educating colonial subjects and/or imperialists; state-sponsored

For New York College English Association, April 11-12, 2008 at Borough of
Manhattan Community College, NYC. Call for papers and/or roundtable
discussants on the theme of reconciliation or anti-reconciliation and
national, regional, ethnic or cultural identity in literature, movies and
in our classrooms. What are the neglected critical approaches,
pedagogies, books, poems, or movies, etc. in this arena? What is the
relationship between globalization and immigrant and diasporic
reconciliation? How must college educators prepare themselves to engage
these themes with their students?

Got an exciting term paper? Wish you were published? Looking for a way to
get your arguments heard?

S.C.O.U.T. B.A.N.A.N.A., in conjunction with Michigan State University's
African Studies Center and Office of International Development, invites
you to submit a manuscript to Articulate: Undergraduate Scholarship
Applied to International Development.

Submissions are invited on any topic relating to Romanticism to
the panel chair, Chris Valeo, at cvaleo_at_mail.ewu.edu by March 1,
2008. These submissions should be 300-word electronic abstracts,
formatted as a standard Word document or RTF.

Everyone submitting an abstract will be notified about acceptance by
March 15, 2008.

RMMLA membership is not required to submit an abstract. However, those
selected to be presenters must become RMMLA members (or renew
membership) by April 1, 2008.

Convention information and submission and presentation guidelines can be
found on the RMMLA website at http://www.rmmla.org

New Directions in Critical Theory is an
annual interdisciplinary graduate student
conference at the University of Arizona; the
2008 conference will focus on a selfconscious
examination of the ways we do
work at the university. While interdiscplinarity
questions the boundaries that mark off
everything from university departments to
methods of inquiry, the space between
disciplines is not a neutral zone. When we
shuffle prefixes and suffixes in an attempt to
announce new disciplines and identities, we
work in a liminal space that we participate in
creating. This endeavor must be undertaken
cautiously; remapping disciplines and
identities is never an innocent game.

School of Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
June 25, 2008
 
This one-day event sponsored by the School of Film and Television Studies
will examine how discourses of tabloidism, “reality,” and scandal shape
the construction of female celebrity in contemporary and historical
periods. It originates with the broadly-felt sense that female celebrity
(at least of a certain kind) is seen to be depreciating in value and it
asks why this might be the case. While work on stardom/ celebrity has
acknowledged the existence of hierarchies of fame, surprisingly little
attention has been paid to how such hierarchies are gendered. We will

The British Association for Victorian Studies
Ninth Annual Conference

Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions

Organised by Gowan Dawson, Holly Furneaux,
Julian North and Joanne Shattock on behalf of the
Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester

1-3 September 2008

Plenary speakers:
Professor William A. Cohen (University of Maryland)
Professor Christopher Lane (Northwestern University)
Dr Samantha Matthews (University of Sheffield)
Dr Michael Roper (University of Essex)
Professor Rebecca Stott (University of East Anglia)
Dr Paul White (University of Cambridge)