We are soliciting submissions for a collection of critical essays on Race and Identity in Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father to be published in 2011. Our purpose is to look at significant aspects of Obama's memoir, examining its place in African-American literary tradition and in relation to the relevant historical and cultural productions that inform it. Proposals / precis should be submitted as word attachments by March 15, 2010, with completed papers due by June 15, 2011, to:
Dr. Michael Zeitler
Associate Professor of English
Texas Southern University
zeitlerma@tsu.edu

What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English – the first decade
International Conference, 8-11 July 2010, University of Lincoln, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS–EXTENDED DEADLINE:
1st FEBRUARY 2010

Please email 200-300 word proposals for papers and brief biographical note to the conference organisers Dr Siân Adiseshiah sadiseshiah@lincoln.ac.uk and Dr Rupert Hildyard rhildyard@lincoln.ac.uk Deadline for proposals: February 1st 2010
Conference website: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/index.htm

Forum: The University of Edinburgh's Online Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts

Call for Papers - Issue 10 - Space(s)

CALL FOR PAPERS
ROBERT BROWNING AMONG THE VICTORIANS – AND AFTER
Browning Bicentenary issue of Victorian Poetry
Summer 2012

Robert Browning is a quintessentially Victorian poet, deeply rooted in the period's culture, and conscious of its politics and intellectual and religious debates. At the same time, he is a significant – though not always duly acknowledged – influence on later authors. He has also lent himself well to twentieth-century critical theory, having been claimed by approaches as wide-ranging as Deconstruction, New Historicism and feminism. How do we assess him 200 years after his birth, in an age when a variety of critical theories coexists with a strong interest in broader issues of Victorian culture?

Call for Papers / International Conference
The City and the Ocean: Urbanity, (Im)migration, Memory, and Imagination
Conference held by the Center for the Humanities, National sun Yat-sen University
Oct 16 and 17, 2010

The conference will take place in Lodz, Poland on 28-29 October 2010 The suggested areas for discussion will include: - Monty Python's humour - the language of Monty Python - the visual poetics of Monty Python programmes and films - Monty Python and the British tradition of humour - Monty Python and the idea of Britishness - Monty Python and stereotypes - cultural subversion and iconoclasm - Monty Python and counterculture - The postmodern contexts for Monty Python - The influence of Monty Python on British/international culture - The reception of Monty Python abroad (in Poland and elsewhere) The reviewed selection of essays following the conference will be published. Abstracts ca.

Reading and Writing in Prison

An interdisciplinary conference
Edinburgh Napier University, 4-5 June 2010

This conference aims to bring together scholars, writers and practitioners to share their perspectives on the significance of reading and writing in prisons.