A roundtable addressing the interactions between religious belief,
religious doubt, and the imagination in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill.
250-word abstracts and vitae by 15 Mar to Emily Merriman at San Francisco
State University, estm_at_sfsu.edu
Participants will write short papers to be distributed and read in advance
of the roundtable discussion.

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CFP: Essays for Edited Collection â€" Deadline Extended
Tentative Title: British Sporting Culture: The Literature and Culture of
Sport in the Long Eighteenth Century
 
Sport is emerging as one of the most compelling and playful areas of
academic inquiry. In the past few decades, important studies of sport
have been written from a mostly historical or sociological perspective.
But sport has not been established as an important sub-discipline in
literary and cultural studies, particularly in the long eighteenth
century. For centuries, sports have been organized, and competition has
been viewed as both ritual and recreation. But several important aspects

CFP: Don DeLillo and Play
Sponsored by the Don DeLillo Society
2009 American Literature Association Conference
Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2009

Glossator 7: Black Metal Commentary
Volume editors: Nicola Masciandaro and Reza Negarestani
Call for Proposals
PDF: http://nicolamasciandaro.googlepages.com/Glossator-BlackMetalCFP.pdf

And thereafter I saw the darkness changing into a watery substance, which
was unspeakably tossed about, and gave forth smoke as from fire; and I
heard it making an indescribable sound of lamentation.â€"Corpus Hermeticum

Transnational Humanity: The Invention of Human Rights through the
Nineteenth-Century Novel

This ACLA seminar will explore the transatlantic invention of human
rights, and the construction of the multivalent discourse of "humanity,"
through the nineteenth-century novel. Novels have participated in
directing and redirecting the discourse of the "human"â€"the human as closed
system, as biopolitical species-being unit, as rational individualâ€"by
charting interiorities that are deemed to constitute a "human."

Transnational Humanity: The Invention of Human Rights through the
Nineteenth-Century Novel

This ACLA seminar will explore the transatlantic invention of human
rights, and the construction of the multivalent discourse of "humanity,"
through the nineteenth-century novel. Novels have participated in
directing and redirecting the discourse of the "human"â€"the human as closed
system, as biopolitical species-being unit, as rational individualâ€"by
charting interiorities that are deemed to constitute a "human."

MESS
An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference sponsored by the
Department of English Language and Literature, University College London
Institute of English Studies, University of London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/about/mess.htm

10 March 2009
Senate House, University of London
Bloomsbury, London

Keynote address by Prof David Trotter, University of Cambridge

Proposals welcome from a range of fields addressing, discussing and
exploring, in its many forms, the idea of MESS in relation to creativity,
constraint, product, process, chaos and conformity among other possible
perspectives. Some considerations: