ACLA seminar - "Migrations" (Vancouver, Mar.31 - Apr.3)
ACLA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada,
March 31- April 3, 2011
Proposals are now accepted for the ACLA panel titled "Migrations".
PANEL DESCRIPTION:
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ACLA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada,
March 31- April 3, 2011
Proposals are now accepted for the ACLA panel titled "Migrations".
PANEL DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for contributions to a special issue, "War Cinema," of JG Cinema, an online journal that deals with film, globalization, and issues of social justice. This issue will deal with war cinema and address question such as the following: how does cinema move between the national and the global in imagining, reflecting, fictionalizing, or inventing life during wartime? How does film confront, evade or displace issues of war and wartime? How can we think about both film and war in a global context? What categories of social cohesion or contestation have emerged from the way cinema has staged wartime?
From Jane Gallop's 'French Theory and the Seduction of Feminism', Meaghan Morris' 'Room 101 or A Few Worst Things in The World' to Douglas Kellner's 'Baudrillard's Affront to Feminism,' the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard has been widely condemned in the 80s and 90s as an anti-feminist philosopher. This criticism makes some sense: Baudrillard's major mistake has indeed been his caricaturizing of feminism and feminist theory as mere emancipation or equal rights discourse.
Writing teachers know that writing itself is not a neutral act of articulating knowledge, but a highly contested act of constructing oneself in relationship to one's environment. We are also aware of how online spaces differ from traditional spaces and how those differences affect the way that teachers and students construct themselves in relationship to each other. This edited collection will look at how teachers in different disciplines have grappled with these issues and what they can tell us about writing as an act of negotiating identities.
Possible topics:
This session invites papers on Lacan's own readings of medieval ethics,philosophy and literature; dialogue between Lacan's
writings and specific texts/authors; the often but not inevitably vexed relationship between Lacan and historicism. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED TO 9/27/2010.
The panel will address the ways in which medievalists have created, or can create, a dialogue with the work of the philosopher Alain Badiou. What is – or could be -- the impact on medieval studies of Badiou's radical reframing of ontology? What do medievalists make of his insistence that philosophy must acknowledge its dependence on four extra-philosophical conditions of thinking, namely science, politics, art and love? What of his dispute with the linguistic turn in philosophical thinking and in the humanities' disciplines in general, a turn that has had a profound effect on recent medievalist work of the past two decades? How does Badiou figure as a "count-as-one" in medieval studies? The deadline for this panel has been extended to 9/27/2010.
CALL FOR PAPERS, SPECIAL ISSUE – "CAPITALISM AND IDENTITY"
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN DRAMA AND THEATRE, SPRING 2011
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is now accepting submissions.
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and welcome submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction with race, class, place and nationality. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies publishes two regular issues a year, in addition to a specially-themed summer issue, and accepts submissions year-round.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Collecting/Collectibles Area of the Popular Culture Association
2011 Conference – April 20-23, San Antonio, TX
The Collecting and Collectibles Area of the Popular Culture Association invites paper submissions on any topic involving collecting for the 2011 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, to be held April 20-23 at the Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio.
Topic areas might include:
The University of Connecticut is accepting registrations for the the New England Medieval Conference, to be held in Storrs, CT November 5-7, 2010. The conference theme is "Other Worlds and the Otherworldly in the Middle Ages." It will feature seven papers by faculty from colleges and universities throughout New England; a musical performance by the University of Connecticut Collegium Musicum; and a plenary address by Norris J. Lacy, The Pennsylvania State University, entitled "Arthurian Interstices: The Spaces Between Worlds." The conference program and registration form are available at http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc/.
African literature has often envisioned queer encounters within the frame of Afro-diaspora. Wole Soyinka's Joe Golder from The Interpreters (1965), the emblematic figure for such encounters, is an African American returning from the "other side" of diaspora. Simultaneously, travel across Afro-diasporic geographies frequently queers African protagonists, as their bodies and desires extend in new spaces and assume new configurations. Those who travel from Africa to Europe, the U.S., and the Caribbean experience their desires as unruly, refusing to follow the ethno-racial demands and sex-gender object choices their personal and collective histories dictate.
Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture Area
POPULAR CULTURE AND AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter and Riverwalk Hotels
San Antonio Texas
April 20-23, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
Creative Writing Workshop Weekend
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This panel addresses the various relationships between seriality and temporality.
The serial principle has a important influence on contemporary culture: novels, movies and television shows, comic books, video games, etc. are published in series. Consequently, this principle largely informs contemporary ways of conceiving, producing and making sense of narratives in general. This panel wants to locate the importance of seriality within our present-day mediascape.
Comic Art & Comics
***Call For Papers ***
Comics: Graphic Novels, Strips, Panels, Films, and Everything in Between
The Comic Art & Comics Area of the Popular Culture Association invites all comics scholars to participate in the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association to be held April 20-23, 2011, in San Antonio, Texas. Details of the conference can be found at the conference website.