The 16th annual conference focuses on Victorian obsessions with vulgarity and propriety. We invite proposals on manners and mores in politics, culture, society, religion, art, science, economics, rural life, and other Victorian matters of decorum and propriety and what Victorians deemed vulgar, crude or crass. We encourage papers across all disciplines, including (but not restricted to) art history, literature, gender, history of science, history, material culture, political science, performance, life writings, journalism, photography, popular culture, and economics.

By March 15, 2011 email 300-word abstract and 1-page CV (name on BOTH) to: Laurel.Williamson@sjcd.edu

We invite you to submit a paper/abstract to the 6th International Education in a Changing Environment Conference, Creativity and Engagement in Higher Education, to be held at the University of Salford from 6-8 July 2011.

The program committee invites submission of full papers and of abstracts for Pecha Kucha, workshop, demonstration, performance or poster sessions.
The proposal accompanying each paper/abstract should indicate how the work fits within one of the following three conference themes:

* Social Media: exploring how social media can be used to facilitate, engage, support or deliver learning.

DEADLINE December 12, 2010

The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara invites paper proposals for our tenth annual conference, "The Future of Literary Studies, 1500-1800." The conference will take place on March 11-12, 2011 at UCSB and features a constellation of keynote speakers including Helen Deutsch (UCLA), Jean Howard (Columbia), Heather James (USC), Leah Marcus (Vanderbilt), Stephen Orgel (Stanford), and Clifford Siskin (NYU).

For the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, the Publications Committee has approved development of a volume devoted to the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Samuel Coale and Christopher Diller. The volume will collect different points of view on teaching Hawthorne to undergraduates and will contain original essays discussing useful techniques and resources for the instructor. Teachers of Hawthorne are invited to complete the survey questions for the volume at www.mla.org/approaches and to contact the designated editor for additional information or to submit an essay proposal. The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2011.

Special session at October 6-8, 2011 RMMLA in Scottsdale, AZ on "Narrative Horizons: Emerging Trends in the Study of Narrative." The session could include a broad range of topics, from life-writing to digital storytelling to narrative identity.

Proposals should be e-mailed to Heidi_Bostic@baylor.edu by March 1, 2011.

For more info: http://rmmla.wsu.edu/call/default.asp

With the support of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Courts and Media, based at National Judicial College and the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, is pleased to announce the creation of the

Reynolds Courts and Media Law Journal

We will begin publishing in 2011, and are seeking legal and scholarly articles on the interaction of the courts and the media, and the impact and implications of this interaction. Examples of possible article topics include, but are not limited to:

Co-op Mode: Interactivity and Narrative
The Sixth Annual University of Ottawa English Graduate Conference
May 21-22, 2011
Call for Papers

"Games can't tell their stories through disconnected segments of gameplay strung together by cut scenes. Games need to tell their story through the gameplay. Narrative should drip from every texture and be integrated into every facet of the world. It should come through in the menus and the interface and in every loading screen."
- Daniel Floyd and James Portnow