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CFP: "Revisiting the Epistolary Novel" (ASECS 18-21 March 2010, Albuquerque, NM)

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 3:11pm
Dr. Robyn Schiffman

This panel proposes to rethink the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. Through email, texting, blogging, and epistolary novels with email as the medium, our current twenty-first century reality might in fact be much closer to the eighteenth century than we think. This panel seeks to revisit discussion about the eighteenth-century novel in letters and in so doing will make study of this genre modern and fresh. Welcome are abstracts that reexamine commonly taught and studied lettered fictions and also lesser well known novels. Please send 250 word abstracts to Dr. Robyn Schiffman, Fairleigh Dickinson University, rls@fdu.edu.

CITYSCAPES/LITERARY ESCAPES// COLLOQUE URBANITÉS LITTÉRAIRES, September 10-12, 2009, University at Buffalo

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 10:57am
University at BUffalo/Formules Journal



CITYSCAPES/LITERARY ESCAPES// COLLOQUE URBANITÉS LITTÉRAIRES

The University at Buffalo (SUNY) in collaboration with the journal Formules (Paris) will host an international conference on "Urbanités Littéraires" / "Cityscapes/Literary Escapes."

The goal of the conference is to study relations between writing and the urban environment, and specify interactive engagements between literature, architecture, and urbanism. Principle aspects to be examined are:

CFP: ASECS 2010 Imperial Translations

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 9:06am
Joanne van der Woude / Harvard U English

Old Texts in New Worlds. Accepted Panel at ASECS March 18-21, 2010, Albuquerque NM.

Illuminating the Everyday Imagination [NEMLA, April 7-11, 2010; abstracts by 9/30/09]

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 9:20pm
Elaine Auyoung

This panel considers the imagination's literary significance in relation to its underestimated role in everyday cognitive life. Papers may combine analysis of specific texts with psychological, philosophical, or cognitive accounts of the imagination. How does literary representation reflect the everyday imagination at work? How do fictional characters and narrators model commonplace imaginative acts? Most important, how does literature engage our ordinary imaginative powers in such extraordinary ways? Send 300 to 500-word abstracts to Elaine Auyoung at auyoung@fas.harvard.edu.

[update] William Blake and His Influence 4/7-11 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; proposals by Sept. 30, 2009

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 6:29pm
Josephine McQuail / Northeast Modern Language Association Convention

Papers are welcome on William Blake and his influence on any one of the many artists or movements he impacted, including not only literature but visual arts and music: including but not limited to the Pre-Raphaelites, the Ancients, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Ginsberg and the Beats, Van Morrison, Billy Bragg, Patti Smith, composer William Bolcom, -- not to mention popular writers like Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Harris, etc. What do the artists "half create/And what perceive" in their own vision of William Blake? What is Blake's legacy today? E-mail abstracts or complete papers (limited to 10-12 minutes presentation time) to Josephine McQuail or mail to Dr. J. McQuail, Box 5053, 5 William L.

Alfred Hitchcock - SWTX PCA/ACA - 31st Annual Conference - February 10-13, 2010

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 4:22pm
Michael Howarth - Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations

Call for Papers: Alfred Hitchcock
Abstract/Proposals by November 15th 2009

Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations - 31st Annual Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 10-13, 2010
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1-505-842-1234
Fax: 1-505-766-6710

Panels now forming for presentations on the films and career of Alfred Hitchcock. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations.

CFP [SCMS Panel] 7/31/09; 3/17/10-3/21/10; Los Angeles

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 1:09pm
Dr. Douglas A. Cunningham

CFP: Society for Cinema Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2010

Motion comics are (in most cases) digitized, panel-by-panel, animated translations of comic books or graphic novels. This new medium has gained high visibility most recently as a result of Warner Bros.' adaption of D.C.'s WATCHMEN into the motion comics format as part of the studio's overall efforts to promote the live-action film version of the famed graphic novel. Several additional comics have, however, been adapted into this format, including BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE, STEPHEN KING'S "N.", I AM LEGEND, SPIDER WOMAN, and ASTONISHING X-MEN, among many others.

Proposed Essay Collection – From King of the Jungle to Cultural Icon: Tarzan at 100

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 12:49pm
Edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Annette Wannamaker

From King of the Jungle to Cultural Icon will be an interdisciplinary essay collection marking the 100th anniversary of Tarzan of the Apes. Since its debut in serial format in 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs' narrative about an orphaned white boy being raised by a band of black apes in the African jungle has become a transnational literary classic, frequent cinematic, film and comic book icon and powerful—as well as problematic—cultural archetype. This collection will allow critics from a wide range of disciples to explore the past place, present status and future importance of Tarzan in popular print, visual and material culture.

[update] postcolonial short story - final call

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 12:09pm
Dr Paul March-Russell / University of Kent

This is the final call for the following collection of essays on the postcolonial short story. Please note that we can be flexible about the July deadline but that we do need expressions of interest before that date. Publishers are interested in this project and we would like to contact them as soon as possible with our final selection of abstracts.

Dr Paul March-Russell (University of Kent, Canterbury) and Dr Maggie Awadalla (Imperial College, London/SOAS) are proposing a new collection of essays on the postcolonial short story.

CFP-Edited Collection on Hitchcock's VERTIGO and the Specificities of Place

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 1:39am
Dr. Douglas A. Cunningham

Seeking essays (25-30 pages in length) for a proposed book entitled, PORTALS OF THE PAST: VERTIGO AND THE SPECIFICITIES OF PLACE. In short, this collection of essays will be concerned with explorations of the ways in which specific places in the San Francisco Bay Area (Fort Point, the Presidio, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Mission Dolores) and Monterey County (e.g., Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Point Lobos State Park, the Mission San Juan Bautista, etc.) inform readings/experiences/memories of Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece, VERTIGO.

(Selected essays: Disney Documentaries and Docudramas (7/15/09)

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Monday, June 22, 2009 - 5:27pm
A Bowdoin Van Riper

CFP: Disney's Documentaries

Contributors are being sought for articles to complete an edited volume (working title "Beyond the Mouse: Disney's Documentaries and Docudramas") that is designed to explore the full range of Disney films designed to educate viewers about specific people, places, things, events and concepts from the real world.

Virginia Woolf Miscellany Aug. 31

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Monday, June 22, 2009 - 2:00pm
Patrick Collier/Ball State University

The Virginia Woolf Miscellany seeks short essays (2,000 words maximum) investigating Virginia Woolf's interactions with periodicals. Particularly welcome are essays that read periodicals themselves as complex cultural texts while contextualizing and/or historicizing Woolf's contributions. Essays that shed new light on Woolf's evolving attitudes towards journalism and the print marketplace are also welcome.

Submit essays via email attachment to Patrick Collier at pccollier@bsu.edu.

Andrew Marvell Society at the South-Central Renaissance Conference 18-20 March 2010, Corpus Christi, Texas

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Monday, June 22, 2009 - 12:24pm
Andrew Marvell Society

Deadline: 1 December 2009
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi will host Exploring the Renaissance 2010 on March 18-20 2010 at the Omni Hotel on the seafront in the heart of Corpus Christi's lively marina district. The Andrew Marvell Society will be hosting the 2010 Louis Martz lecture, to be delivered by Professor Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway, University of London). A special session (with presentations by Joan Faust, George Klawitter, and Timothy Raylor) will be devoted to discussion of Marvell's difficult lyric, "The Definition of Love." Other proposals for papers or for sessions are now invited.
Proposals are especially welcomed on the following topics:
• Marvell and Milton
• Royalist Marvell

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