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Word, Image, and Contemporary Lyric Voice(s)
42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
www.nemla.org
April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, NJ – Hyatt New Brunswick
Host Institution: Rutgers University
Call for papers for an academic conference (13-16 April 2011) hosted and sponsored by Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville. We invite papers on O'Connor's significance today, new readings of O'Connor's works, comparisons of O'Connor to other modern/contemporary writers, etc. Send abstracts of approx. 500 words to Marshall Bruce Gentry at bruce.gentry@gcsu.edu by 1 Nov. 2010. Responses will be mailed in Dec. 2010. Keynote lectures by Gary Ciuba, Sarah Gordon, W. A. Sessions, Carol Shloss; readings by Marianne Boruch, Kathryn Stripling Byer, E. L. Doctorow, Tom Franklin. Music by Dave Perkins and Friends. Art exhibit by Chris Lawson and Joe DeCamilis.
In our next Director's Spotlight series, PopMatters offers readers an insightful week-long series exploring the work one of the most influential filmmakers of the modern era, Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa.
In this expansive series, we invite writers, cinema scholars, film historians and social theorists from all disciplines to offer their thoughts on Kurosawa's work, it's social impact and the director's cinematic legacy.
August 6 deadline!
We encourage submissions on any topics related to English Studies.
Guest speakers include:
author Dr. Niles Reddick & poet Dr. Brigitte Byrd
Suggested categories include:
· Media Studies
· Popular Culture
· World Literature
· Genre Literature
· British Literature
· American Literature
· Pedagogy
· Composition and Rhetoric
and (writing about) Creative Writing
CFP: Borderlands and Breaking Points: Tension Across the 49th Parallel
Edited by Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch
For a certain class of phenomena, the logic of the national border--that is, the logic of the controlled passage from one side to the other--does not hold. Crime operates by definition outside of the legal frameworks on either side of a border. Rivers flow across borders, regardless of the actions of the governments whose territories they affect. Native communities, in particular those on the U.S.-Canadian border, enjoy sovereign status that gives their members special rights when crossing the border.
Introducing Reconstruction Issue 10.2: Expertise as Knowledge
Edited by Marc A. Ouellette
Commentary:
Editor's Introduction, Marc A. Ouellette
Articles
Kirsty Best, "Concealing screens: Consent, control and the desiring user"
Scott Francisco, "The Innovation Paradox: How Innovation Products Threaten the Innovation Process"
John V. Knapp, "Literary Quests in Sachar's HOLES: A Middle & High School Game for Literary Learning"
Marc A. Ouellette, "Veni, Vidi, Wiki: Expertise as knowledge and a technocratic generation"
David Prescott-Steed, "Doodle Culture: Meditations on the Great Idle Scrawl"
Jason Tocci, "Arcadian Rhythms: Gaming and Interaction in Social Space"
Reviews
Unreliability is a common trope in postcolonial literature, which manipulates narrative focalization and uses unreliable narrators to criticize the possibility of a single reliable perspective. The absence of reliable counter perspectives to balance the unreliable narrator highlights the impossibility of recovering the past, authentic identity categories and representing the other. The absence of a reliable perspective in postcolonial novels exposes ontological uncertainties, futility of the search for authenticity, power imbalances and differential experience of history. The absence of a reliable perspective in these novels thus brings together the political, ethical and aesthetic.
The online journal "Jura Gentium Cinema" (www.jgcinema.org) is seeking articles (3,000-5,000 words) for a special issue on the depiction of Indigenous bodies in motion pictures, from "Apocalypto" to the "Whale Rider".
The articles should critically address cinematic representations of Indigenous cultures that either idealize or negate the Other, while also drawing attention to how films subvert and re-write these representations as part of Indigenous people effort to reclaim their own images and rendering on the silver screen.
Film reviews should be informative and evaluative, without being dismissive: that is, the reviewer should find some value in the work being reviewed.
Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE8) 8th International Conference "The Letter of the Law": Law Matters in Language and Literature 5-8 May 2011. University of Athens, Greece.
CFP: Queer Sites
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
March 10-13, 2011, New Orleans
http://ace.iafor.org/Submissions.html
Education systems across the world are becoming increasingly socially, ethnically and culturally diverse, both as a consequence of globalization and in response to internationalization. The conference theme, "Globalization or internationalization?", has a particular focus on adult, distance and access education, and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this question from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Education, including:
CONFERENCE: American Comparative Literature Association
LOCATION: Vancouver, Canada; Simon Fraser University
DATES: March 31 2011--April 3 2011
Pr C O N - 2 0 1 1
Fourth National Conference on Managing Business Development in Globalized World: Strategies for Excellence
4th-5th Feb, 2011 - Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research focused on verity of aspects needed to achieve Strategies for Excellence, selected papers of the registered delegates, out of those accepted for presentation in the conference will be published in the form of book, which will be released during the conference.
THEMES
This international and interdisciplinary conference seeks fresh perspectives on these issues. In particular, we invite contributions on the following topics:
definitions of Schubert's late style (ontology versus chronology; critique versus synthesis);
text setting in the late songs;
Schubert's late style and Schubert's maturity;
problems in the reception of Schubert's late music;
contradictions in the biographical scholarship of Schubert's final years;
issues in the theory of form;
topic, affect and expression in the late music;
issues of tonal strategy;
Inquire invites submissions from graduate students that clearly strive to reconsider traditional topics in new ways or to take up less canonical forms, genres, and methodologies. We encourage submissions that take an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to describe and discuss the production, dissemination, and reception of literature in all forms across languages, cultures, and national borders.
Guidelines: original work not submitted to another journal, complete essays in English, 5-7,000 words (including bibliography and endnotes), MLA format, 12-pt font, double-spaced throughout, include a separate cover sheet with name, institutional affiliation, email, an abstract (200 words), and a short biography (100 words).