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CALL FOR PROPOSALS – Contemporary American Realism panel at SCMS 2010
Chair: Justin Horton
justinbhorton@gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) Symposium
The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley
Keynote Speakers:
Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
CFP: Twilight series
SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 10-13/02/10)
The 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 30th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 24-28, 2010.
This is a special call for papers on the Twilight book series.
The following topics are a small sampling of what might be addressed:
• sexuality and chastity in the series
• translation of the books into movies
• the Twilight books as young adult literature
• Twilight fan culture including online fandom
• intersections with other vampire and werewolf mythos
• gender
Please send queries and 250-word paper proposals to:
CFP: Lost
SW/TX PCA/ACA (11/15/09; 10-13/02/10)
The 20010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 30th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 24-28, 2009.
"Let Spirit Speak!
Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora"
April 22-24, 2010
The City College of New York
New York, NY
In many traditional African cultures, there is unity in the material and the spiritual, in the seen and unseen. There is no difference between the sacred and the secular within this system of thought: everything is imbued with the spirit of God. Binaries that dominate Western thought (man/woman; mind/body; light/dark; good/evil) do not function in the same way within these cultures, as the emphasis is not on extremes but on balancing these radical differences, on reconciling them.
An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2010/Buchan/index.htm
Saturday 10 July, 2010
Proposals are invited for 20-minute conference presentations on the life and writing of John Buchan (1875-1940). This event will commemorate the 70th anniversary of Buchan's death and celebrate the imminent emergence of his works from UK copyright on 1 January 2011.
Submitted proposals will focus on some or all of the following:
Call for Book Chapters
To all scholars interested in language, culture, and identity
Proposed Title:
Global English: Issues of Language, Culture, and Identity in the Arab World
Global English today is touted as the lingua franca of the world. English can now profess to be the language with the most non-native speakers and learners, and as such its current role on the world's stage cannot be overlooked.