Globalizing Ecocriticism

Taking up the call of ecocritics who point out that the field needs to continue broadening its
approach beyond localisms, this panel seeks papers that foreground the global (broadly conceived)
as a productive site for ecocritical thinking. Potential topics might include: exploring linkages
between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches, theorizing transnational ecocriticisms, examining
supranational environmental movements, interrogating discourses of global risk, thinking about
diasporan ecological subjects, and probing the possibilities of glocal ecocriticism.

This panel is co-sponsored by the Association of the Study of Literature and the Environment.

CFP: "Queer Perspectives on the Eighteenth-Century Family" at the Annual Conference of the
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 26-29, 2009 in Richmond, Virginia
Panel organized by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus.

For Lacan, the object of one’s gaze always “stares back.”
According to Slavoj Zizek, “the gaze as object is a stain preventing me from looking at the
picture from a safe, objective distance.” There is always something about an image, once it is
within one’s recognition and within one’s trajectory of desire, that interferes with the full
achievement of self-identity. What does it “do,” then, to Queer Identity to see representations of
it upon a screen?
 
This session invites participants to consider how communication-based practices of
virtualization and “the Gaze” reinforce, reproduce, and remediate separations between "social

Call for Papers
Special Issue of Feminist Theory

ARAB FEMINISMS

Guest Editor: Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Feminist Theory calls for papers for a special issue on Arab feminisms and Arab feminist theory
today. The special issue (to be published in 2010) will speak to transcultural concerns and seeks
to make explicit reference to the place of Arab feminism and Arab feminist thought within the
broader spectrum of current western and postcolonial feminism.

Immigration and Settlement Studies-Ryerson University
Graduate Student Conference
Call for Papers:
Contemplating Migration and Settlement in Global and Local Contexts

October 4th, 2008
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario

Immigration and Settlement Studies-Ryerson University
Graduate Student Conference
Call for Papers:
Contemplating Migration and Settlement in Global and Local Contexts

October 4th, 2008
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario

Phobia: Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

An international conference hosted by the Glamorgan Research Centre for
Literature, Arts and Science

8-9 May, 2009

The ATRiuM Campus, Cardiff

Keynote Speakers: Laura Otis (Emory University) and Andrew Thacker (De
Montfort University)