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Why is fortune telling often used as a narrative device? Please send abstracts addressing the prospective movement or the narrative conflict induced by a fortune teller in film, television or contemporary literature by MARCH 15.
The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) at George Mason University invites paper proposals for our 4th annual Cultural Studies Graduate Conference. The Conference will take place on Saturday, September 25th at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Call for Papers
"Utopia," according to Frederic Jameson, "has always been a political issue, an unusual destiny for a literary form." Human history has had no shortage of fantasies of perfect worlds, or of dystopian visions that form their obverse. Even today, when the notion of "progress" is subject to fraught debate, utopian hopes and dystopian warnings can be found in discourses ranging from advertising to religion, film to cable news.
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Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2010
The (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism conference, organised and led by postgraduate students, aims to attract doctoral researchers from across a diverse range of disciplines including Anthropology, Architecture, Cultural Studies, English, History, Journalism, Modern Languages, Music, Philosophy, City and Regional Planning, Politics, Religious Studies, Sociology and Welsh. It invites researchers to consider how the concept of multiculturalism – and its re-construction – may influence their own work.
Call for Essays/Articles for an Edited Collection On:
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF FABIOLA CABEZA DE BACA:
"New Mexican Woman and Pioneering Writer."
The 2009 MLA Annual Convention included a panel dedicated to graphic novelist Alan Moore, another on Autobiography in Graphic Narratives, as well as papers on science fiction writer Octavia Butler and the Halloween horror film series—all evidence that fiction once relegated to the margins of academia has begun to attract serious critical attention. This panel aims to investigate how texts from previously non-canonical genres—sci-fi, detective fiction, graphic novels, film, etc.—can be productively included in undergraduate literature and composition courses. Please send proposals of no longer than 250 words along with a brief biographical sketch by May 15th to:
Tracy Bealer
'Ryght as it is ymad in Fraunce': Franco-English Poetic Translation(s), 1350-1550
20 March 2010, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford
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Submissions are invited for publication in "Re-imagining Africa: Creative Crossings" edited by Simon Gikandi (sgikandi@Princeton.EDU) and Jane Wilkinson (fjwilkinson@alice.it). In its first issue devoted specifically to Africa, Anglistica opens to creative writing and artworks. The issue will include words, sounds and images by African artists, alongside interviews, theory and criticism. Deadline for completed articles: 15 June 2010.
International Conference "Unity in Diversity" on the Niche Areas in Commonwealth Linguistics, Literature and Culture
"The minor but not dismissed, the dismissed but not excluded,the excluded but not forgotten"
Department of English, Szczecin University, Poland, 21 -24 October 2010.
Recent literary, linguistic and cultural studies have been largely dominated by burgeoning new theories paving the way for the most interesting and up-to-date concepts, notions and ideas. Yet there are many scholars whose main research area is centered at the peripheries of these mainstream discoveries thus leading to the emergence of niche fields of study within current literary and linguistic research projects.