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Title: Sacred and Profane Consumption in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Organizers: Rebecca Flynn, University of South Dakota, rebecca.flynn@usd.edu and Salvatore Musumeci, University of Sioux Falls, salvatore.musumeci@usiouxfalls.edu.
Research articles on Anglo Indian world drama,and American drama including works in translation of 12-15 pages length are invited for Journal of Drama Studies, published by The Shakespeare Association of India for October 2009 issue. The journal has International editorial board of members and most of the contibutors are senior reserchers or academics from all over the world. Articles typed in MS word or Rich text format with MLA style may be submitted on or before 15 Jan 2010. Send email attachment to bhimsdahiya@gmail.com
"American History and Culture" area
SW/TX PCA/ACA
31st Annual Conference, February 10-13, 2010
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2009
Http://www.swtxpca.org
Conference hotel: Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras Avenue NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, (505) 842-1234
The Department of English Language and Literature and the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Gordon College invite paper submissions for their first annual Literatures and Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium (LLUC). Undergraduate students from all colleges and universities are encouraged to submit 8-10 page papers in English dealing with any linguistic or literary topic. Please provide a 100-200 word summary (abstract) of your essay in addition to your completed paper. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes.
Gordon College is located on Boston's historic North Shore, just 25 miles north of Boston.
Although scholars generally agree that the Chicano literary movement gained its primary momentum around 1959 and was dominated nearly exclusively by male writers for decades, a number of Mexican Nationals, both men and women estranged from their country by the Mexican Revolution, had already been writing about their homeland and their separation from it well before 1959 from within the United States.
4th Biannual Graduate Student Translation Conference
April 23-25, 2010
University of Michigan
Keynote speaker: Susan Bernofsky
We are seeking graduate student translators to participate in the 4th Biannual Graduate Student Translation Conference to be held April 23-25, 2010, as part of the University of Michigan's Year of Translation. We hope to gather emerging and established translators for a weekend of workshops and roundtables, as well as a keynote address and reading by Susan Bernofsky, recipient of multiple awards from the PEN Translation Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Cinematic Desire
A CUNY Graduate Center interdisciplinary conference
Sponsored by the Cinema Studies Group
March 4-5, 2010
UPDATED deadline for abstracts: December 11, 2009
Conference site: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/filmstudies/csg/conference/index.html
Each year the RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association) conference includes a regular session dedicated to the work of Flannery O'Connor. We are looking for papers with new and exciting insights to be presented at the 2010 conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico (October 14-16, 2010), hosted by University of New Mexico.
Paper presentations will be 15 minutes in length for this panel, with additional time for questions and discussion from audience and responses from presenters.
The 18th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM), April 9-10, 2010, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL
Keynote speaker: Dr. George Lakoff, University of California-Berkeley, author of Metaphors We Live By (1980), Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (1987), Philosophy In The Flesh: the Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (1999), The Political Mind : Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (2008).
What a piece of work is man: Exploring Early Modern Masculinity
Conference Date: April 30, 2010
Please send abstracts of 250 words to EMIGconference@gmail.com by January 15, 2010.
Call for Participation
Union for Democratic Communications 2010 Conference
"Democratic Communications, Equal Rights & Global Justice"
EEBO Introductions Series
The editors of the EEBO Introductions series would like to announce the publication of a new batch of Introductions and to invite further contributions to the resource. Those Introductions already published can be seen at:
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/intros/htxview?template=basic.htx&content=index...
Why raise the issue of drawing again? With the proliferation and maturation of digital technologies, what is the use of the hand and the traces it makes on clay, stone, wood or paper? This symposium seeks to examine the technologies of drawing – their marks, lines, scratches, furrows, incisions, touches, dots and dashes, inscriptions, string lines, stains and blotches; pencilled, inked, chalked, brushed, illuminated or erased on diverse grounds.
We are seeking proposals for a collection of essays that will explore the many ways in which early modern understandings of the body created a new paradigm for the theoretical/artificial organization of human knowledge in the sciences, philosophy, logic, literature and the arts.
Abstracts should be 250 words in length. They must communicate a clear connection to the central theme of this collection. To be considered for publication, proposals should be sent to: anatomycfp@gmail.com. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 1, 2010.
Call for Papers: "Bodies of Knowledge: Anatomy, Complexity and the Invention of Organizational Systems, 1500-1850"
Great Writing:
The International Creative Writing Conference
18-20 June 2010
What future is there for Creative Writing?