"GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and
Space"

This call for papers is for a proposed panel for the 2011 Berkshire
Conference on the History of Women at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The conference's theme is "GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space." In keeping with the conference theme, this panel is a retrospective analysis of Dr. Darlene Clark Hine's theory of dissemblance (now over twenty years old) and seeks
papers that addresses dissemblance and its application to women's gender and sexual identities across socieconomic class, age, time, place, etc. in the African Diaspora.

Request paper proposals for a proposed special session at the 2010 MLA convention in Los Angeles, CA. The session will explore provocative sub-titles or epigraphs in individual works of post-Renaissance fiction. Papers that engage recent theories of paratextual elements by scholars such as Jerome McGann and Gérard Genette are especially welcome, as are those analyses that merge rhetorical and literary perspectives

Please submit 500-word abstracts to Dr. Steve Severn by March 15th 2010.

Electronic submissions are preferred:(ssevern@mail.wtamu.edu)

Paper copies may be mailed to:
Dr. Stephen E. Severn
West Texas A&M University
Box 60908
Canyon, TX 79016

CALL FOR PAPERS: Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature session, MLA 2011 (for a group of sessions in line with the MLA conference theme, "Writing Lives")

Lives on the Move: Medieval Seascapes and Pelagic Methodologies

Papers on medieval seas, archipelagos, islands, coasts, especially work utilizing cultural geography, Mediterranean studies, or other comparatist methodologies. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider University, mgoldie@rider.edu, and Steven Kruger, CUNY, skruger@GC.cuny.edu.

The American Humor Studies Association seeks proposals for this panel at the American Literature Association Conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero Center, on May 27-30, 2010.

Humor and the Great Divide

2010 PNASA Conference Call for Papers

***Deadline Extended***

Proposals for individual papers or full panel presentations are now being accepted for the annual PNASA conference, April 15-17, 2010, at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park in Spokane, Washington. Papers on topics related to the conference theme, "Citizenship and Belonging," are especially encouraged. Proposals on other topics in American studies are also welcome.

In order to be considered for inclusion in the conference program, please submit an abstract of around 250 words by January 31, 2010, via e-mail to Dr. Brian Donahue, PNASA president. (Previous deadline was January 15.)

DEADLINE EXTENSION: "Dialogues of Displacement: Intersections Between the Literary Texts of African and Asian Diaspora(s)" - January 28th

The proposal deadline has been extended to January 28th. Please see the CFP below, and forward to any interested parties. Thank you.

The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) invites papers that explore the literary connections between African and Asian diasporic communities. What might we learn by looking at the texts of African and Asian migrants comparatively?

We welcome papers that particularly compare and/or contrast ways in which the experiences of both African and Asian diasporic peoples open new textual possibilities. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

Call for Papers: "Time and Space in Words and Music"
The 1st Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, November 4-6, 2010

The Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF), founded in 2009 under the auspices of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), offers 'emerging scholars' additional opportunities to present papers – including but not limited to work in progress – and establish a scholarly network of those who share an interest in word and music studies. The central event of the Forum will be a biennial conference, held in alternating years with the WMA international conferences.