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ACLA: Forms of Floods. Submission Deadline November 13

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 9:09pm
Joseph Jeon/University of San Diego, Benjamin Widiss/Princeton University

Floods represent chaos: the overwhelming not just of everyday life but of entire prevailing natural and social orders, the destruction of boundaries and moorings, the triumph of formlessness and flux. This seminar examines, then, the challenges — both formal and ethical — entailed in representing floods. We will investigate the technical modes that attempt to formulate something often defined against form itself, and, at the same time, the moral implications of rendering natural disaster aesthetically. We will further ask what parallels and divergences we might discern between attempts to reassert form rhetorically, and those to reassert social and physical structures, in floods' wake.

Roundtable on Teaching Latina/o Literature. Deadline 1/4/10. ALA at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco May 27-30, 2010

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 5:48pm
Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association

Roundtable on Teaching Latina/o Literature.

This session will explore ways of teaching Latina/o literature from a variety of perspectives in a diversity of settings and from a range of approaches—both within and beyond Latina/o Studies. What are the particular challenges and opportunities that teaching this body of work present to teachers and to students? We especially want to invite participants who are new to teaching Latina/o literatures to join us. Please send a short (300 word) statement of interest along with a very short version of your CV (1-2 pages) to eliza_rodriguezygibson@redlands.edu by January 4, 2010.

America's Civil War Then and Now, Home and Abroad

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 5:45pm
2010 ACLA Conference, New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010

Now seeking proposals for the following seminar at the 2010 ACLA conference in New Orleans from April 1-4.

As a principal port and cosmopolitan heart of the Confederacy, New Orleans was an early target for the Union forces during the Civil War. Captured early on, it was spared the destruction of other Southern cities. The story of New Orleans's Civil War, then, is one of tension, occupation, and observation from afar. This panel will draw inspiration from New Orleans's position as both intimately involved (New Orleans' Memorial Hall boasts the second largest collection of Confederate memorabilia in the country) and yet removed from most of the war's violence to examine representations and remembrances of the American Civil War.

Latina/o Lit at ALA. San Francisco May 2010. Deadline: 1/4/10

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 5:43pm
Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association

CFP: Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association, 2010

The Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association seeks proposals for the American Literature Association's 21st annual conference at the Hyatt Regency in the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco on May 27-30, 2010.

We are particularly interested in seeking out proposals that address the following topics:

• Representations of Identity in Memoir, Autobiography and Testimonio
• Science Fiction in the Caribbean/Latin American Diaspora
• Roundtable on Teaching Latina/o Literature

The Aural Archive, ACLA, April 1-4, 2010, New Orleans (11/13/09)

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 5:18pm
Michael Cohen, Louisiana State University; Sarah J. Townsend, New York University

"The Aural Archive"

ACLA annual convention, New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010

Proposals due: Nov. 13, 2009

This seminar aims to draw out several theoretical and methodological questions lurking behind recent work in media studies, performance studies, musicology, and literary studies: If the aural realm is ephemeral (as is often said), how does it factor into the historical record? When you listen to your archive, what and how do you hear? And how do you theorize the silences and noises in the archival grain?

Investigating Conflicts at Public Demonstrations: A Conference on the Powers of Protest, New Technology, and Crowd Control

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 5:13pm
The Protest Study Project at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center

An informal network of students, faculty, and activists tentatively working under the banner of "The Protest Study Project" have proposed a weekend conference in New York on March 20-21, 2010 (we are awaiting final approval to hold this event at the City University of New York Graduate Center). The goals of this conference are to provide a forum for academic and activist discussions about the urgent legal, practical, and theoretical issues that emerged from Pittsburgh, and to place these discussions in larger transnational and historical contexts. The conference urges presentations, panels, roundtable discussions, and workshops on any number of perspectives and reactions to multiple issues.

Afterlives of the Nineteenth Century (ACLA 2010)

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 2:38pm
Criscillia Benford, Marty Gould, Rebecca Mitchell


The buzz surrounding recent Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice and Zombies captures the ambivalence — equal parts horror and delight — evoked by the perpetual resuscitation of the nineteenth century. Leaving others to fight Austen's zombies, this seminar sets its historical sights slightly later, taking the figure of the zombie as a point of departure. Does Victorian Britain, like the zombie, refuse to remain quietly dead and buried? Or do we keep digging it up?

CHOPIN AND LISZT: Two Composers and their Relation to the Parisian Musical Scene

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 10:32am
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca (Italy)

CHOPIN AND LISZT: Two Composers and their Relation to the Parisian Musical Scene

International Conference

ORGANISED BY: Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca, in collaboration with Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice

DATES: 2-4 December 2010
LOCATION: Lucca (Italy), Palazzo Ducale

Vox Redux // Ventriloquism

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 8:34am
Autopsia Online Journal

Autopsia is an online, international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that provides a diverse forum for scholars and professionals to interrogate and challenge the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of mass culture. Autopsia invites critical and/or theoretical examinations that further our understanding of the serial consumption and the circulation of ideas, images and objects that flow from numerous centers, margins and multiplicities of production from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The journal welcomes submissions for publication that perform autopsies on a broad range of media: film, literature, art, and philosophy with a particular emphasis on how these cultural productions function as commodities.

The Beginnings of Central American Narrative: A Disregarded Tradition

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Friday, October 23, 2009 - 6:13pm
Brújula: Revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Beginnings of Central American Narrative: A Disregarded Tradition

Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos
Publishes at the University of California, Davis

Archival Travels / Traveling Archives

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Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:26pm
ACLA

We are inviting paper proposals for the 2010 Annual American Comparative Literature Association Meeting (New Orleans, April 1-4).

Archival Travels / Traveling Archives

* Seminar Organizers: Anne Kingsley, Northeastern U; Aparna Mujumdar, Northeastern U

Land of Promise: Stories of the immigrant in multicultural Canada (February 3-4-5, 2010, proposals due December 15, 2009)

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Friday, October 23, 2009 - 11:35am
Centre for Canadian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature,Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

In a multicultural and multilingual context, immigration has been an integral part of the national identity of Canada.
Modern Canada constitutes of a large percentage of Diasporic population who contribute extensively to the making of Modern Canada. In the wake of globalization, the evolution of Canada as a Multicultural State has been receiving much attention from mass media. This again has been a contested terrain since the settlement of a chosen race in a promised land has resulted into the subjugation of the Peoples who have been residing in the geo-political entity which came later to be known as Canada.

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