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Speaking of Grief: Death and Language in Modernism (MSA 11, 5-8 November 2009, Montréal, Québec, Canada)

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 10:00pm
Daniel Moore (Queen's University, Canada)

If the Holocaust motivated aesthetic theorists and writers to rethink the premise of the literary mode altogether, stated in one form by Theodore Adorno in his 1951 claim that to write "poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," early-twentieth-century writers tended to respond to the most violent and rife deaths of their time by zeroing in on words themselves. We may find the most prominent meeting of fatality and diction in the modernist period in attacks on languages of militarism and commemoration launched from a host of quarters, in particular by ex-servicemen following the Great War.

Matter '09: A Creative Theology Event and Anthology (Deadline May 15, 2009) Conference: Sept. 17-19, 2009

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 7:20pm
Shechem Ministries, Inc.

Shechem Ministries' "Matter '09: A Creative Theology Event" is now accepting submissions of papers and artwork for the conference September 17-19, 2009, at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Selected papers and artwork will be presented at the conference and will be published in the anthology of the conference, Matter, published by Shechem Press.

CFP: Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy - Detroit, MI, 10.30-11.1.09

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 6:03pm
Midwest PCA/ACA

Dear Humor / Horror, SF, Fantasy Scholar:

You are invited to submit a paper to the Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association annual meetings being held at the Book Cadillac Westin Hotel, Detroit, Michigan, from Friday through Sunday, October 30-November 1, 2009.

More details about the conference, the hotel and its rates can be found at the MPCA / MACA website.

Literacy Narrative(s) and Human Dignity; Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC / 4Cs); Deadline 4/22

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 4:53pm
Nicole duPlessis / Texas A&M University


This panel submission to the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) will examine literacy narratives (broadly defined) that show a link between human dignity and the acquisition or practice of literacy (reading or writing), or the influence of literacy on interpersonal communication and relationships. In particular, we are interested in

*Links (positive or negative) between literacy (the ability to read and/or write) and human dignity

*Portrayals in narrative fiction or creative nonfiction of the acts of reading and writing as a means to understanding of human dignity

*Literate techniques of interaction ("reading" others' actions or personalities) as a means of humanizing or dehumanizing the Other

Disposable Culture and Spaces of Consumption in Medieval Europe

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 4:31pm
Rebecca Flynn and Salvatore Musumeci

Call for Papers:
Disposable Culture and Spaces of Consumption in Medieval Europe
For the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held 18-21 March 2010, on Yale University Campus, New Haven, hosted by Connecticut College, Southern Connecticut State University, Trinity College (Hartford), University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, and Yale University.

Nineteenth Century Popular Culture Panel - Proposals May 1 2009 - Conference October 30-November 1 2009

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 4:18pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association

The MPCA/ACA is seeking paper proposals that address any aspect of 19th century American popular culture. We are especially interested in papers that focus on culture from a specific critical perspective; however, no particular approach is required. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Literature
- Dime novels
- Politics
- Sports
- Religion
- Westward expansion
- Native Americans
- Women in popular culture
- Entertainment

Send a 250-word abstract along with full contact information to panel chair, Patrick Prominski (pprominski@gmail.com). Be sure to include MPCA/ACA in the subject header. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2009.

"The Monstrous Middle Ages and the Wretched Renaissance" OCTOBER 29-31, 2009

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 3:05pm
Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference

The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites you to attend its inaugural meeting at the Carson Springs Convention Center in Newport, Tennessee on October 29- 31, 2009. Come join us in the beautiful Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the beautiful Fall color season!

Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance. We are especially interested in papers
dealing with the teaching of the macabre, monsters, heretics, the occult, torture, anything appropriate for presentation over the Halloween weekend! Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight double-spaced pages).
Papers of authors in absentia will not be read.

Diaspora and Memory in Contemporary Spain - M/MLA Conference Nov. 12-15, 2009 (Deadline 4/20/09)

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 1:30pm
Kathy Korcheck, Dept. of Modern Languages, Central College

This panel examines, with regard to descendants of Spanish exile (1936-1955), Andreas Huyssen's question of whether "it is possible or even desirable for a diasporic community to migrate into the history of the host nation." The so-called "Ley de nietos," a provision that widens the scope of Spain's 2007 Law of Historical Memory, allows for descendants of exile in countries such as Argentina, Cuba and Mexico to apply for and obtain Spanish nationality. Papers are invited on literary and filmic texts dealing with reverse migrations and their potential influence on the recovery and revision of historical memories of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism. Investigations into new media's impact on descendants of exile are particularly welcome.

Contemporary Canadian Identity and Literature

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 12:17pm
Shannon Howard/University of South Alabama

M/MLA session seeks papers addressing the idea of marketing the "Canadian Experience," either in conversation with United States mass culture or in opposition to that culture. Contemporary Canadian fiction examining consumer cultures of the North American continent may be examined in terms of their place in defining Canada as a nation. Please send abstracts by April 20 to Shannon Howard, Univ. of South Alabama, ksh804@jaguar1.usouthal.edu.

[UPDATE] "Catastrophe and the Cure": The Politics of Post-9/11 Music (Deadline May 1, 2009)

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 11:53am
Anthology Theorizing Post-9/11 Music

In current debates about the War in Iraq, it has become commonplace for politicians and journalists to conjure the specter of the Vietnam War as a means of quantifying the impact of the current war in American culture and throughout the world. Surprisingly, though, few have scrutinized these comparisons to examine the differences between the popular music of the Vietnam era and the music of the current post-9/11 era. While the Vietnam era found countless bands and musicians responding in protest to that war, there has arguably been a significantly smaller amount of contemporary musicians who have taken overt stances, in their music, about the politics of post-9/11 life, in America and elsewhere.

Re(Viewing) the Landscape of Visual Rhetoric: Topics in Visual Rhetoric; SAMLA Conf. Nov 6-8, 2009; Abstracts Due May 31, 2009

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 11:52am
Mary Hocks, English Dept, Georgia State University

RE(VIEWING) THE LANDSCAPE OF VISUAL RHETORIC: TOPICS IN VISUAL RHETORIC
The SAMLA special session on visual rhetoric welcomes paper, panel, and performance proposals on topics that deal with all aspects of visual rhetoric, such as visual culture and the Web; teaching visual rhetoric in the classroom; image use in blogs; exploring identities with visual rhetoric; visual rhetoric in student writing; (re)presentations of the body; visual rhetoric in politics; visual rhetoric of physical spaces; visual rhetoric and environmental issues; and other relevant topics.

DIVERSIFICATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: DYNAMICS OF THE DISCIPLINE

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 11:46am
Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE), Department of English, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

CALL FOR PAPERS
DIVERSIFICATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS:
DYNAMICS OF THE DISCIPLINE
9th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies
Organized and hosted by:
Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE)
Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno
Brno, Czech Republic
4 – 6 February 2010
Keynote Speakers: Andreas H. Jucker (Universität Zürich)
Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow)
Martin Hilský (Charles University, Prague)

CFP: Great Writing, UK Creative Writing conference (5/26/09)

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 11:42am
Great Writing, the UK's International Creative Writing conference

GREAT WRITING 2009
Friday 19th June - Sunday 21st June 2009

This year's host:

Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom

The Writers' Dozen -- 12th Great Year!

Keynote: Jesse Sheildlower, Roving Editor for the Oxford English Dictionary, a talk on words for those who creatively use words!

Great Writing, an international Creative Writing Conference, invites papers/creative work/panel suggestions for this 12th Year
Conference.

The organizers will consider creative work as well as papers on creative writing teaching, creative writing theory and method, and on contemporary writers and their work.

CFP: New Writing: Creative and Critical Writing (7/1/09)

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 11:34am
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

Call for Papers (critical or creative work)

The first independent journal of its kind in the world, New Writing publishes both critical and creative work - offering a forum for debate, as well as an avenue for the publication of the best stories, poems, works of creative non-fiction or works for the stage or for the screen, in all its contemporary varieties.

PERMANENCE AND CHANGE - PROPOSALS 15th MAY / CONFERENCE 13th and 14th AUGUST 2009

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 10:38am
Permanence and Change: The Roles of Culture and Language / 3rd Annual International ACSA (Asian Cultural Studies Association) Conference

3rd Annual International ACSA Conference

PERMANENCE AND CHANGE: THE ROLES OF CULTURE AND LANGUAGE

Bangkok, Thailand, 13-14 August 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACSA seeks to provide a forum in which a broad spectrum of issues in Asian cultures and languages can be researched and critically discussed. It seeks to offer opportunities for interdisciplinary studies and an arena for in depth exchanges of the cultural dynamics of Asia today. The scope is international and the commitment is to further dynamic understanding among and about Asia today. ACSA welcomes all scholars, graduate students and interested persons in Asian cultures and languages.

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