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States of Crisis - Graduate Student Conference - Friday, 9 October 2009

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 11:31pm
Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University

States of Crisis
Friday, 9 October 2009
Brandeis University
Department of English and American Literature
Seventh Annual Graduate Conference

Since its origin in the ancient Greek krisis, "decision," related to krites, a judge, the term crisis has referred to ideas of discernment, evaluation, criticism, and sifting of evidence. In literary studies, for example, one can see moments of crisis in shifting aesthetics and changing genres as well as in literary tradition(s), character representation, and ideas of narrative. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches and scholarship, this conference will explore different responses to the idea of crisis in the humanities and social sciences.

M/C Journal 'obsolete' Issue

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 8:41pm
M/C Journal (http://journal.media-culture.org.au)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 10 March 2009

M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'obsolete' issue of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal.

[UPDATE] Expertise in the Early Modern World (grad) - 5/8-5/9/2009

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 7:44pm
Princeton Renaissance Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

EXPERTISE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

An interdisciplinary graduate student conference sponsored by the Princeton
University Renaissance Studies Program

May 8-9, 2009 at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Keynote speaker: Sarah Blake McHam, Department of Art History, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick

Children's Literature Panel (PAMLA Nov. 6-7, 2009; deadline March 15, 2009)

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 4:49pm
PAMLA- Tiffany Hutabarat


This panel is open to any paper submissions dealing with the reading, adaptation, pedagogical use or critical interpretation of children's literature.


Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
Themes in children's literature, past to present
Role of friends and enemies
Adults as villains
Evolving ideologies of children's literature
Classroom use of children's literature (elementary, secondary or higher education curriculums)
Reception of children's literature, past and present
Adaptation of children's literature into film or television
Critical studies on specific genres and/or periods of children's literature

1st Annual Conference on Louisiana Studies

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 2:27pm
Shane Rasmussen / Northwestern State University

The 1st Annual Conference on Louisiana Studies will be held September 26, 2009 at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The Conference is co-sponsored by the Folklife Society of Louisiana, the Louisiana Folklife Center, and the NSU College of Liberal Arts.

"H.G.Wells, Modernism, and Modernity" Special Session 2009 M/MLA Annual Convention

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 2:25pm
MMLA November 12-15, 2009, Union Station Marriott, St. Louis, Missouri

H.G. Wells was convinced that writing must communicate a direct social purpose and that its aesthetic qualities must be joined inextricably with it, which put him, necessarily, at odds with much of the Modernist aesthetics of the early 20th century (especially the idea of art for art's sake). And yet, Wells' rejection of certain aspects of emerging Modernism was not a disavowal of writing that concerns itself with beauty, truth, and pleasure (the realm of aesthetics); nor was it an implicit critique of aesthetic sensibility and its socio-historical significance. Rather, for Wells, to abstract the realm of the aesthetic from everyday life, from the here and now, was to make it largely irrelevant.

Francis William Newman Graduate-Student Essay Contest

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 2:16pm
Journal: Intellectus ante Fidem / Francis William Newman Society

The FWNS sponsors the annual Francis William Newman Graduate Student Essay Contest and welcomes qualified submissions from March through July.

Intellectus ante Fidem is to be published under the auspices of the Francis William Newman Society by the Philosophy Documentation Center. It will be made available in digital format to institutional and individual subscribers through the database POIESIS. For details, please see our posting: http://www.fwnewman.org/Journal/index.html

Consider David Foster Wallace, A Conference - University Of Liverpool, 29/30 July 2009

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 12:53pm
University Of Liverpool

The passing of the writer David Foster Wallace in September 2008 presents not only a tragic and significant loss to the literary world, but also an important opportunity to consider the impact and magnitude of the remarkable body of work he leaves us. From the irreverency and piercing social commentary of his journalism in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider The Lobster to the monumental, sprawling majesty of his gargantuan novel Infinite Jest, Wallace's writing is increasingly considered to be one of the most significant literary canons of the second half of the twentieth century.

Celebrating the Dead: Annniversaries and the Literary Afterlife - 22 April 2009 [Update]

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 12:25pm
University of Bristol

This postgraduate conference will explore the rituals and ceremonies of literary commemoration from a variety of perspectives, and in various literary periods. Proposals are invited that examine how anniversaries contribute to the ways in which afterlives are remembered, sustained, and given their distinctive shapes.

Plenary Speaker: Professor Adam Piette (University of Sheffield)

Topics which may be covered include, but are not limited to:

1) The literature of celebration: ritual and ceremony, anniversary,
repetition and the cyclical event

2) The literature of commemoration: elegies, epitaphs, and posthumous
publications - our duties to the dead

The Veil and Cultural Dialogue/Conflict in Global Fiction, 4-5th May 2009,

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 11:12am
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Call for Papers:

The Veil and Cultural Dialogue/Conflict in Global Fiction, 4-5th May 2009, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Deadline: 25th March 2009
Contact: Dr Tabish Khair, tabish_khair@hotmail.com AND engtk@hum.au.dk

The veil has become a common sign of cultural conflict in many parts of the world. It can also be seen as a topic for cultural dialogue.

Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry (Submissions Deadline 17 April 2009)

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 8:26am
Gylphi Limited

Editors:
Professor Robert Sheppard (shepparr@edgehill.ac.uk) Edge Hill University
Dr Scott Thurston (S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk) University of Salford
Reviews editor:
Piers Hugill (phugill@soton.ac.uk) University of Southampton

Call for Submissions: Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
(http://www.gylphi.co.uk/poetry)

DEADLINE FOR INCLUSION IN ISSUE 1 - FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2009

[UPDATE] Atlantic Exchanges

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 7:27am
Mark West / University of Glasgow

The extended deadline is now Friday 27th March.

Glasgow University's postgraduate journal eSharp is currently accepting submissions for its 13th issue on Atlantic Exchanges.

This issue emphasises cross-cultural Atlantic exchanges, noting that the ocean has served not to separate but to connect
the peoples of the Atlantic continents - Africa, South America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe - from 1492 to the present day. 'Atlantic Exchanges' seeks to encourage inter-cultural perspectives in a variety of disciplines.

eSharp welcomes submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research and contributors are invited to interpret the theme broadly.

Subjects may include, but are not limited to:

UPDATE 31 MARCH 2009

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 3:19am
BAKEA HERO (EXTENSION)

PAMUKKALE ÜNİVERSİTESİ

BAKEA
Uluslararası
Batı Kültürü ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları
Sempozyumu

PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY
BAKEA
International
Symposium of Western Cultural and Literary Studies

7-8-9 Ekim 2009

7-8-9 October 2009

The BAKEA Symposium welcomes papers from the researchers in the fields of English, American, French and German Cultures and Literatures

Extended deadline for proposals:
31 March 2009

Solitude and the Modern Metropolis

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Monday, March 9, 2009 - 1:51am
Ulrich E. Bach, Texas State University

Call for Papers: "Solitude & the Modern Metropolis" @ PAMLA in San Francisco 11-6/7-2009

Those modernist texts, which are concerned about the solitude of the metropolis, are in first place texts about the trauma of moving to the big city. For example, the depressive Malte Laurids Brigge and his impending move to Paris, or Esther Greenwood, in Plath's "The Jar Bell" and her move to New York City. It seems that not so much the city renders its residents lonely, but the loners find in the cityscape the space to realize their solitude.