David Kociemba, editor of Watcher Junior, invites your students' submissions for publication in the sixth issue of Watcher Junior, a refereed, online journal for undergraduate student scholarship in Whedon Studies.

Completed essays and research papers will be reviewed by two members of the board. Essays that do not receive approval for publication will be returned with feedback for re-submission.

We welcome completed essays and research papers on any aspect of Joss Whedon's work. All papers should exhibit familiarity with previously published scholarship in Whedon Studies.

Submission guidelines: http://watcherjunior.tv/submit.php

This panel affiliated with the Flannery O'Connor Society welcomes papers that explore the SAMLA 2010 special focus "The Interplay of Text and Image" in O'Connor and film. While papers dealing with film adaptations of O'Connor's works will be considered, the session's specific goal is to expand our understanding of how filmmakers have incorporated and/or have contrasted O'Connor's themes, character types, etc. in their own works. Preference will be given to papers that seek creative connections between O'Connor's works and films that are not obvious adaptations of O'Connor's fiction.

Please e-mail abstracts (500 words) to Amy K. King at akking@olemiss.edu before Tuesday, 1 June 2010.

In the 25th, 26th and 27th November 2010, there will take place, in Instituto Superior da Maia (ISMAI, Porto, Portugal), the 1st International "50's Generation" Congress, under the responsibility of the Centro de Estudos em Letras (CEL) and the Centro de Estudos de Língua, Comunicação e Cultura do ISMAI (CELCC).

Submissions are invited for a collection of critical essays on Fourth world writings in English after 1947 until 1990. At the inaugural meeting of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP), George Manuel introduced the concept of The Fourth World, a phrase employed to describe indigenous minorities throughout the earth. As the 1980s progress, modern nation states are increasingly being forced to come to terms with their indigenous minorities. The Laplanders of Finland, the Indians of Peru, and the Inuit of Canada are no longer articulating their aims and grievances solely through appeals to their respective national governments.

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New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory is open for submissions for Issue 7.3 (late 2010), and Volume 8 (2011 publication).

The journal considers creative work (in any genre) and critical work relating to Creative Writing practice and the critical examination of Creative Writing. Strong pedagogically focused papers are also considered.

The journal is edited by Graeme Harper. www.graemeharper.com

The journal is independent of any organisation, published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, and includes on its

(Re)Reading John Addington Symonds

Saturday 11th September 2010

A one-day conference at Keele University

Plenary Speakers: Howard J. Booth (Manchester) and Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck)

Seeking a third (and maybe fourth) panelist.

The following is a brief description of the panel:

Because of recent scholarship in anthropology, psychology, and rhetoric, emotion has become widely understood not as innate or universal—but embodied and performative. Recent scholarship in composition has begun to consider if and how emotion is acknowledged, defined, and performed in composition classrooms. This panel hopes to add to this discussion both theoretically and practically by looking at the ethical and pedagogical implications of incorporating a study of emotion into composition courses and by proposing ways in which a rhetoric of emotion can be utilized and scrutinized in the classroom.