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First Women and the Politics of Looking: Gender, Indigeneity and Representation -- January 1, 2010

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Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 2:16pm
Wendy Gay Pearson, Film Studies, University of Western Ontario

First Women and the Politics of Looking: Gender, Indigeneity and Representation

Ed. Wendy Gay Pearson, Kimberly J. Verwaayen, Ernie Blackmore and Renée E. Bédard

Description:

This anthology will focus on the representation and especially the self-representation of Indigenous girls and women in the arts. The editors are particularly interested in articles that address questions of cultural imagination, resistance, recuperation and the complex politics of representation within the fraught spaces of cultural and geopolitical contexts that may be considered variously colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial.

Polluted Places/Impure Spaces

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Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 1:37pm
ACLA

Participants in this seminar will examine the voices that emerge from polluted or impure sites. This "pollution" could take many forms, and comprise an array of relations. Any polluted locations — in as many forms as we can discern or devise — are fair game for our study: prohibited or tabooed Superfund sites, reconstituted dumps, artificial nature, tainted texts and ritually impure space.

These are the places that invite "cleansing" in the name of "purity" — like the swamps around New Orleans from which the maroon Bras Coupé strikes in G.W. Cable's The Grandissimes.

International and Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Role of Storytelling and Orality in the Imaginary, Literary Aesthetics and

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Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 8:34am
GRECFAC

International and Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Role of Storytelling and Orality in the Imaginary, Literary Aesthetics and the Arts

Martinique
November 10-17, 2010

Following the November 2008 colloquium in Martinique, "Realism and Modernity in Caribbean and Panamerican Literatures," GRECFAC will dedicate an international and multidisciplinary symposium to the exploration of storytelling and orality in literary aesthetics, visual and performing arts, and the imaginary.

CFP Europeanness of European Cinema

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Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 7:04am
Film Studies Department - King's College London

POSTGRADUATE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

THE EUROPEANNESS OF EUROPEAN CINEMA

Keynote Speaker: Thomas Elsaesser

Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau

Studies in European cinema have often been focused on specific countries, genres or auteurs. However, there has been, since the 1990s, a renewed interest in European film as an entity with a significance beyond the sum of its parts. Promoted by the policies in support of the audiovisual industry set in motion by the Council of Europe and the European Union, this new interest led to an amplified debate on Europe and the cinema that is produced and consumed there.

New Directions in Critical Theory: Borders, Power, Community-- April 30-May 1 2010

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Friday, October 30, 2009 - 7:42pm
New Directions in Critical Theory

New Directions in Critical Theory
April 30-May 1, 2010
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

New Directions in Critical Theory: Borders, Power, Community

"Borderlands, contrary to frontiers, are no longer the lines where civilization and barbarism meet and divide, but the location where a new consciousness . . . emerges."
—2010 New Directions Keynote Walter Mignolo
(From "Globalization, Civilization, and Languages")

UPDATE: Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture (12/15/09; SW/TX PCA/ACA; 2/10/10-2/13/10)

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Friday, October 30, 2009 - 6:49pm
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations

Submission and Registration Deadline – December 15, 2009

Three Travel Fellowships available for graduate students: deadline – December 31, 2009 – application found here: http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/113.html

Call for Papers/Proposals for the Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture Area of the 31st Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA

February 10-13, 2010
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Conference web site: http://www.swtxpca.org/

Is Hip-Hop History? Conference February 19-20, 2010

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Friday, October 30, 2009 - 4:42pm
The City College Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education

The Center for Worker Education at the City College of New York is proud to host its first hip-hop conference, Is Hip-Hop History? As the first hip-hop conference hosted by a worker education program, it aims to provide a forum that features the work of researchers, hip-hop industry practitioners, artists, and working adult students.

"The Life of the Text: Creation, Reception, and Explication" [12/1/09;2/19/10]

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Friday, October 30, 2009 - 2:56pm
Natures 2010--a graduate student humanities conference--Feb. 19, 2010

Graduate students working in all areas of humanities studies, including art, film, history, religion, literature, and the performing arts are encouraged to submit abstracts. Papers on a wide variety of subjects will be considered. Topics may include, but not be limited to:
The Life of the Text: Creation, Reception, and Explication
(how texts are produced, read, or investigated)
Creation: conditions of composition and inspiration
Reception: seeing the text/reading the text
Explication: practices and examples of scholarship on texts
Visual texts/auditory texts/tactile texts
Children as producers or consumers of texts
Film as/and text: the intertextuality between film and other disciplines

7th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference: Tolkien in the Classroom

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Friday, October 30, 2009 - 1:58pm
Tolkien at UVM

This April 9-11, 2010, the English department will host the three-day J.R.R. Tolkien conference. Leslie Donovan will be our guest speaker. Papers can be on any subject but special consideration will be given to those abstracts relating to the theme of Tolkien in the classroom. Please submit abstracts or complete 8-10 page papers electronically to cvaccaro@uvm.edu by January 15, 2010.

CFP: The World and the Stage: Reassessing Theatrical Paradigms, Envisioning Global Rights (ACLA 1-4 April 2010; 13 Nov 2009)

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Friday, October 30, 2009 - 1:51pm
Florian Becker, Bard College

CFP for papers to be given as part a linked set of three panels at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, April 1-4, 2010, New Orleans, USA

"The World and the Stage: Re-assessing Theatrical Paradigms,
Envisioning Global Rights"

Seminar leaders: Florian Becker (Bard College) and Brenda Werth
(American University)

http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=249

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