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Poe Studies special feature: Violence, Pain, and Trauma (2/15/2010)

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 10:19pm
Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation

For the next issue of Poe Studies, Volume 43 (2010), we plan a special thematic feature: Violence, Pain, and Trauma. Poe's violence is often so stylized that critics tend not to take it seriously as violence. Instead, we recognize the satire in the abuse suffered by the narrator of "Loss of Breath" and the decapitation of Psyche Zenobia, and we contemplate the symbolic meaning of Rowena's torture in "Ligeia" and Madeline's premature burial in "The Fall of the House of Usher." But given the fact that violence is pervasive in Poe's tales and poems, should we not also consider what his work implies about the nature of physical cruelty, of suffering and anguish?

[UPDATE] Imagenext: Visions Past and Future Deadline Extension

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 7:36pm
University of Florida Graduate Comics Organization

The University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the 2010 UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, "ImageNext: Visions Past and Future," which will be held in Gainesville, Florida on March 26 and 27. Guest speakers will include UCLA's David Kunzle (The History of the Comic Strip, Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer), John Porcellino (King Cat), Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix, That Kind of Girl) and University of Iowa's Corey Creekmur (Director of the Institute for Cinema and Culture).

Hemingway and Hollywood, 2011 MLA in LA (Jan 6-9); deadline Mar. 1, 2010

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 6:16pm
Suzanne del Gizzo/Hemingway Foundation and Society

The Hemingway Foundation and Society invites presentations that consider topics such as Hemingway's relationship to the film industry, celebrity, movie stars, adaptations--old, recent, and current--of his writing, the politics/business of film, etc. for the 2011 MLA in Los Angeles, Jan 6-9.. 250-word abstracts to Suzanne del Gizzo (delgizzos@chc.edu) by Mar. 1, 2010.

ANZAMEMS 2011 8th Biennial International Conference

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 5:20pm
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Call for Papers and Panels

The Australian and New Zealand Association
for
Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Inc.

Eighth Biennial International
Conference
2-5 February 2011

University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand

Keynote speakers:
Professor Alastair Minnis (Yale Unviersity)
Professor Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College)
Professor Frances E. Dolan (University of California at Davis)
Professor Dauvit Broun (Glasgow University)

http://www.otago.ac.nz/mems/anzamems

We wish to invite proposals for papers and panels for ANZAMEMS 2011.

Sound Reproduction and the Literary (Special Session @ MLA 2011, Deadline: 3/15/10)

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 4:26pm
Jentery Sayers, University of Washington / Dene Grigar, Washington State University

This panel will explore the role of digital/analog audio when composing literature and criticism by emphasizing storage, fidelity, and sound design; audiovisual synchronicity; and audio recording histories and literature.

Please submit a 300-word abstract with a CV by March 15, 2010 to jentery@uw.edu and dgrigar@vancouver.wsu.edu.

Queries welcome.

[UPDATE] - Grad Colloquium: Martyred Bodies and Religious Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - CFP ext. to 13 Jan.

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 4:17pm
Medieval and Early Modner Institute

A CALL FOR PAPERS
"MARTYRED BODIES AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE"

THE 6TH ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM HOSTED BY THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN INSTITUTE (MEMI) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
FEBRUARY 26-27, 2010
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 3, 2010 (EXTENDED TO JANUARY 13, 2010)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TODD OLSON, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. DR. OLSON IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A BOOK ENTITLED CARAVAGGIO'S PITIFUL RELICS: PAINTING HISTORY AFTER ICONOCLASM.

Ends of Time: Apocalypses Ancient and Modern (MLA 2011)

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 3:46pm
Classics and Modern Literature Discussion Group, MLA

This panel, organized by the Classics and Modern Literature Discussion Group, will explore the ways and means of eschatological pronouncements from antiquity to the present. The apocalypse is an ultimatum that both threatens and consoles; the etymology of the word ("uncovering") points toward future and past alike. The apocalypse marks time while disrupting its continuity; it holds the present hostage to a final aim, which gains reality from what is adjourned or lost in anticipation. How does the apocalypse give voice to the oppressed? How does it militate for revenge? Under what circumstances does the apocalyptic event arise and by what detours does it, as a performance, pass from a symbolic sphere into fulfillment?

Burney and the Gothic

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 2:27pm
The Burney Society of North America

Call for Papers
The Burney Society of North America
Biennial Conference
Burney and the Gothic
Portland, Oregon
October 28-29, 2010

[UPDATE] Martyred Bodies and Religious Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 1:31pm
The Medieval and Early Modern Institute / University of Alberta

A CALL FOR PAPERS
"MARTYRED BODIES AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE"

THE 6TH ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM HOSTED BY THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN INSTITUTE (MEMI) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
FEBRUARY 26-27, 2010
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 13, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TODD OLSON, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. DR. OLSON IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A BOOK ENTITLED CARAVAGGIO'S PITIFUL RELICS: PAINTING HISTORY AFTER ICONOCLASM.

Queer Ecology (ASLE panel at MLA, 6-9 January 2011 in L.A.)

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 1:13pm
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) panel at MLA (6-9 Jan. 2011 in L.A.)

Queer Ecology
ASLE panel at MLA (6-9 Jan. 2011 in L.A.)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore the relationship between ecocriticism and queer theory. How do ecocriticism and queer theory mutually reinforce and/or challenge each other? What underlying assumptions in ecocritical theory are called into question by queer theory, and vice versa? What does it look like to "queer" ecocriticism? What does it look like to "green" queer theory? What is the relationship between queer ecology and ecofeminism?

How do particular literary texts illustrate or dramatize answers to these questions? How do literary texts express a "queer ecology"? Paper proposals may address any or a combination of these questions.

Pulp Fiction and the Environment

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Monday, January 4, 2010 - 1:06pm
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) panel at MLA (Jan. 6-9, 2011)

Pulp Fiction and the Environment
ASLE panel at the MLA (Jan. 6-9, 2011 in L.A.)

Proposals are invited for presentations that examine works of pulp fiction—e.g. fantasy, science fiction, westerns, mysteries, thrillers, romance novels—for their environmental and/or ecological significance. What are the strengths and/or weaknesses of pulp fiction as a medium? What is the relationship between green pulp fiction and more traditional environmental literature (such as H. D. Thoreau's Walden)? How does green pulp fiction complicate or enrich what it means to practice ecocriticism?

Paper proposals may address any or a combination of these questions.

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