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CFP: [Collections] CFP: Exploding Genre

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Monday, June 30, 2008 - 2:33am
Justin Scott-Coe

Call for Papers
Exploding Genre
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Deadline: 20th December 2008

CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Globalizing Ecocriticism (NEMLA; Boston, 26 February-1 March 2009)

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Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 11:09pm
nicole merola

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: [Science] Globalizing Ecocriticism (NEMLA; Boston, 26 February-1 March 2009)

updated: 
Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 11:09pm
nicole merola

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: [Theory] Globalizing Ecocriticism (NEMLA; Boston, 26 February-1 March 2009)

updated: 
Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 11:09pm
nicole merola

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: [18th] "Alan Bray's Friendship" (ASECS, 3/26-29 2009)

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Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 6:15am
Michael Thomas Taylor

The Gay and Lesbian Caucus invites 5-10 minute roundtable discussion topics on the work of Alan
Bray for the 2009 ASECS conference (March 26-29). His two main works, Homosexuality in
Renaissance England (1982/1995) and The Friend (2003), span twenty years of academic
achievement in the study of homosexuality, family, and friendship. We are looking for ideas and
thoughts on the development of his theses or more specifically on his self-proclaimed "puzzling"
notions of homosocial and public friendship as they concern eighteenth-century scholarship.
Please send your proposals to both chairs: Michael Taylor -mttaylor_at_ucalgary.ca- and Kristi
Krumnow -kristi.krumnow_at_usu.edu.

CFP: [Theory] Language, Spectatorship, and The Queer Gaze

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Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 7:05pm
Christy McDaniel

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

CFP: [Gender Studies] Language, Spectatorship, and The Queer Gaze

updated: 
Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 6:59pm
Christy McDaniel

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
itself 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

CFP: [Collections] Arab Feminist Theory

updated: 
Friday, June 27, 2008 - 9:23pm
Anastasia Valassopoulos

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.

CFP: [Science] Phobia: Constructing the Phenomenology of Chronic Fear, 1789 to the Present

updated: 
Friday, June 27, 2008 - 3:45pm
Vike Martina Plock

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)

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