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[UPDATE] Approaches to Teaching Ethnic American Literatures in the 21st Century

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 6:55pm
Helane Adams Androne, PhD/Miami University of Ohio, Middletown campus

Call for Papers: Approaches to Teaching Ethnic American Literatures in the 21st Century [Update]

Contemporary ethnic American award winning authors like Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, and Jhumpa Lahiri have interpreted and provoked self-legitimization of the varied realms of ethnic experience and memory in American society. Ethnic American literatures present an ongoing dialogue between ethnic individual and mainstream culture, history, class, religion, politics and sexuality. All of these issues are at play for teachers attempting to establish ethnically inclusive literary curriculums.

Reimagining the Poet-Critic: Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 5:46pm
UC Santa Cruz Poetry and Politics Research Cluster

We welcome you to participate in our discussions and investigations surrounding the role of the poet-scholar in this two-day conference at UCSC. As a practitioner of both the arts of poetry or other "imaginative" writing and more theoretical or critical work, the poet-critic or poet-scholar inhabits a compelling space both inside and outside the university. We are interested in the relationships between these two activities and the ways they come together to affect the reading and writing practices of the poet-critics themselves and their readership.

CSU Fullerton's Annual Graduate Conference, February 5-6, 2010 (Revised Deadline)

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 3:30pm
Acacia Group

CSU Fullerton's Annual Graduate Conference, February 5-6, 2010
The Acacia Group at Cal State Fullerton, an organization of English graduate students and faculty members committed to developing student scholastic advancement while fostering a strong sense of academic community, is currently accepting proposals for its annual graduate conference.

While the Acacia Conference is organized to meet the needs of graduate students and faculty, we welcome contributions from academics at all levels.

popular narrative and the environment

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 1:30pm
StoryTelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative

StoryTelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative invites submissions articles for its special issue devoted to popular narrative and the environment.

[UPDATE] The Aural Archive, ACLA, April 1-4, 2010, New Orleans (11/23/09)

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 10:25am
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. 23, 2009 [Deadline extended]

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?

The Drawn Map -- CFP deadline December 20th, 2009

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 8:11am
English Graduate Student Association at Northeastern University

The Drawn Map.
March 13-14, 2010
Northeastern University's
English Graduate Student Association
Call for Papers

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Martin Brückner,
University of Delaware

Faculty Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University

& Professionalization Roundtable:
"Mapping the Archive"

CFP: Sleep Dealer SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/1/09; 10-13/02/10)

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 6:46am
Ximena Gallardo / SW TX PCA ACA

Call for Papers: Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer, SW/TX PCA/ACA

The 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 30th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 10-13, 2010.

The Area Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer. This year our area will be honored with special events, films, guests, and presentations!
Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, or 500 word panel proposals to

Ximena Gallardo
xgallardo@lagcc.cuny.edu

CFP (ALA Proposed Panel 5/27/10-5/30/10): "The Patriotism of the Mindless": Violence Against the Black Body as Patriotic Act"

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 6:37am
D.H. Simmons

The title of this panel, borrowed from James Baldwin's "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon," suggests its emphasis. I seek papers examining literary representations of metaphorical or literal violence against the black body, particularly male, as signifiers of patriotic Americanness. In addition to other interventions, papers engaging the following are welcome:

Politics of Fear; Fear of Politics, September 2010. Final call for papers deadline 15 May 2010

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 5:47am
Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) University of Brighton

We live in a world that is dominated by fear. We are increasingly afraid to walk in our city streets, populated as they are by feral youths, drug-dealers and surveillance cameras. The threat of global warming and climate change is ever-present, and accompanied by the even greater fear that we'll be too late to do anything about it. Then of course there's terror: frightened of a Taliban invasion, apparently, we are still fighting in Afghanistan after eight years and pursuing a worldwide "war on terror". And if that's not enough, we are becoming ever more afraid of alcohol, of food, of being too fat, of being too thin; and afraid even of sex.

VIRGINIA WOOLF MISCELLANY: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND SPIRITUALITY Abstracts due January 30, 2010

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 11:05pm
Amy C. Smith and Isabel Mª Andrés Cuevas

Virginia Woolf Miscellany prepares to publish a new issue about "Virginia Woolf and Spirituality." This issue of VWM was born out of a lively and unexpected discussion of spirituality in Woolf's work on the Virginia Woolf Listserv. We are seeking essays (up to 2000 words) about any topic related to Virginia Woolf and spirituality. Possible topics include: