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"Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures": Noise, Affect, Politics

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 1:18pm
University of Salford and Islington Mill

Call for Participation:

"Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures": Noise, Affect, Politics

University of Salford and Islington Mill, July 1-3 2010

Organising Committee:

Dr Michael Goddard, Dr Benjamin Halligan and Professor David Sanjek

"If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon and Garfunkel." – Lars Ulrich

Call for Movie Reviews

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 1:13pm
Jura Gentium Cinema

The journal "Jura Gentium Cinema" (www.jgcinema.org) is seeking reviews (between 5000 and 10000 words) for the following movies:

1) "Amreeka" by Cherien Dabis (AKA "Amerrika" (Fr)). Muna (Nisreen Faour), a divorced Palestinian woman, leaves the West Bank with Fadi (Melkar Muallem), her teenaged sun, to the city of Illinois. Both mother and son hope to start a new life in America but go through a difficult transition. Fadi must adapt to the hallways and classrooms of his new high school. And Muna must keep up with the pace cooking hamburgers at a local White Castle.

[UPDATE] AADS Dissertation Fellowship - Due Friday, January 22, 2010

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 1:05pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Boston College

Boston College's African and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) announces the inaugural year of its dissertation fellowship competition. Scholars working in any discipline in the Humanities or Social Sciences with projects focusing on any topic within African and/or African Diaspora Studies are eligible. We seek applicants pursuing innovative, preferably interdisciplinary, projects in dialogue with critical issues and trends within the field.

This 2010/2011 fellowship includes a $30,000 stipend, health insurance, a $1,500 research budget, and a fully equipped office. The fellow must remain in residence for the 9-month academic year, deliver one public lecture, and teach one seminar course.

UPDATE: CARSON McCULLERS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE AND 94TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (FEBRUARY 17-19, 2011)

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 9:06am
Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians

The Carson McCullers Center at Columbus State University (Columbus, GA) seeks papers and panels on a wide range of topics related to McCullers' work and influence. The conference is especially open to multi-disciplinary perspectives and emerging works by scholars and graduate students. While the committee remains open to any topic related to McCullers, we especially encourage discussions of her influence, her plays, her novels, her short stories, gender implications of her work, film adaptations, issues of race class, and/or sexuality, regional perspectives, issues of disability.

Gertrude Stein Society at ALA (May 27-30, 2010; San Francisco; Deadline 1/15/10)

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Monday, November 23, 2009 - 8:55pm
The Gertrude Stein Society of the American Literature Association

In anticipation of the founding of the Gertrude Stein Society at the next conference of the American Literature Association (May 27th-30th, San Francisco), papers which consider Gertrude Stein's work in various contexts are invited. In particular,

1) Papers that deal with Stein's writings as published in the journal transition, whether considered independently or in relation to other writers publishing there; or

Quilters in the Digital Age

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Monday, November 23, 2009 - 8:51pm
Amanda Grace Sikarskie / Michigan State University

When one thinks of quilters and quilting, computers, and especially Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking and virtual worlds, may be the very last thing to come to mind. After all, even in a culture boasting an increasing diversity of perspectives and voices, technology in the West continues to be constructed as a primarily masculine endeavor. And yet, women, including quilters, of all ages are using sundry digital technologies. Very little up to date work has been done in this area. Specifically, there has been a dearth of focus upon women in cyberspace.

Food and the Social Imagination in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

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Monday, November 23, 2009 - 7:50pm
Salvatore Musumeci

Food and the Social Imagination in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.

American Association for Italian Studies
Annual Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Campus, April 22-25, 2010.

Deadline for submissions: 2 January 2010.

This panel looks to feature interdisciplinary papers that consider the authenticity of cultural representations of food and wine in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Please submit a 350-500 word abstract via email by January 2, 2010.

CFP—The Sixties: The Culture, the Movements, and the Summer of Love

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Monday, November 23, 2009 - 5:53pm
Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual National Conference

CFP—The Sixties: The Culture, the Movements, and the Summer of Love

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual National Conference
Wednesday, March 31 through Saturday, April 3, 2010
Renaissance Grand Hotel—St. Louis
St. Louis MO

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2009

The Sixties Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions on any aspect of the decade. Topics of interest might include, but are not limited to:

The situation of art professionals in a global (post-national?) world / 19-21 February 2010 / deadline 15 December 2009

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Monday, November 23, 2009 - 5:04pm
Parallax Venice www.parallaxvenice.com

Call for Proposals
Parallax Offsite (MK)
19 - 21 February 2010
Milton Keynes

Parallax is seeking proposals for presentations at the symposium concerning the situation of art professionals in a global (post-national?) world.

Established by emerging artists, critics, curators, art historians and art managers who met whilst working at the 53rd Venice Biennale Parallax Venice aims to facilitate exchange of experience, knowledge, ideas between art professionals across geographical, political and professional boundaries.

Special Issue, Journal of Boyhood Studies

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Monday, November 23, 2009 - 2:16pm
Jeffery Dennis/Journal of Boyhood Studies

Papers wanted for a special issue of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, "Boyhood on Film." We are not interested in reviews of specific films per se, but in historical, cultural, literary, and sociological analyses of how boys, both preteen and adolescent, have been portrayed in film. Scholars from all disciplines are welcome. We are particularly interested in papers that acknowledge and address differences in race, class, nationality, and sexual orientation. Papers should be between 3500 and 4000 words and use APA style. Possible topics might include:

Intellectual Exchange and Networks in Europe 1500-1660: Aproaches from the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Monday, November 23, 2009 - 1:29pm
The University of Chicago Early Modern, Renaissance and Western Mediterranean Workshops

An interdisciplinary graduate conference, to be held May 7-8, 2010 at the University of Chicago. This conference will create a forum for investigating how ideas moved through Europe in the formative years of 1500 to 1660. We welcome all approaches and interpretations of this topic, including but not limited to considerations of the social networks, trade routes, epistolary webs, as well as the multiple forms of literary transmission, by which ideas traveled in Europe from one place to another and from one period of time to another.

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