CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED: 18th & 19th Century Popular Women's Fiction in English panel at Rocky Mountain MLA Conference in Albuquerque, NM, October 14-16. Submit short abstract by 4/15/10.

PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) is the western regional affiliate of MLA. The 2010 conference will take place November 13-14 at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. This special session will analyze Spanish inquests of the sea, as portrayed across different time periods. We are particularly interested in explorations of the "sea" as a:
a)Bridge between cultures and identities,
b)metaphor of a search for personal freedom, and/or
c)symbol of creative borders that celebrate "uncomfortable" identities and expressive modes.
While literary works are the main focus of this session, we welcome papers that relate the literary to the visual arts as well.

Please note that we are extending the deadline for the TWELFTH NIGHT critical anthology. The new submission deadline is 30th April 2010.

Please see the complete cfp here: http://www.romanbooks.co.in/twelfthcfp.php

N.B.

We do sincerely apologize for an inadvertent error in our last CfP. The Arden edition of TWELFTH NIGHT is edited by J.M. Lothian and T.W. Craik and NOT by Kenneth Muir. We are extremely sorry if this has caused any inconvenience.

COSMOPOETICS: Mediating a New World Poetics

Department of English Studies and St John's College, University of Durham UK
8-10 September 2010

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Derek Attridge (York)
Stephen Bann (Bristol)
Michael Davidson (UCSD)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Spenser's Aesthetics

The International Spenser Society will sponsor a panel at the Renaissance Society of America Meeting in Montreal 24-26 March 2011. What is a Spenserian aesthetic? What is Spenser's relation to the history of aesthetics? What is the relation between an aesthetic and a historical Spenser? What are the aesthetic demands of allegory?

Please email 300 word abstracts and a very brief cv by Monday 11 May 2010 to chris.warley@utoronto.ca

This proposed Modernist Studies Association 2010 panel seeks to explore modernist articulations within Canadian war literature in order to map connections between the country's participation in international conflict and its literature's place in the field of transnational modernism. Does Canadian modernism develop, as some critics have argued, out of the country's participation in the First World War? How do Canadian texts about war employ, question, or contest modernist aesthetics? How do representations of war change throughout modernism's tenure? Papers might address how Canada's decolonization and growing independence from England affects literary representations.

Present Tense is currently seeking submissions for its inaugural issue. We are a peer-reviewed, blind-refereed, online journal dedicated to exploring contemporary social, cultural, political and economic issues through a rhetorical lens.

Seeking to address current or presently unfolding issues, we publish short articles of no more than 2,000 words, the length of a conference paper. We also encourage conference-length multimedia submissions such as short documentaries, flash videos, interviews and podcasts, as well as reviews that are thematically related to the goals of the journal.

Here is a suggestive, though by no means exhaustive, list of topics that potential submissions might address: