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Gendered and Racialized Technologies of Change: Moving Discreditedf Knowledge from Margin to Center

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 8:03pm
Florida Consortium for Women's Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: January 15,2011

Florida Consortium for Women's and Gender Studies Conference
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
April 1-2, 2011

Gendered and Racialized Technologies of Change:
Moving Discredited Knowledge from the Margins to the Center

We understand "gendered and racialized technologies of change" to comprise the techniques and practices through which feminists and queer activists generate change in the organization of social, political, and economic relations. The purpose of this conference is to cross disciplinary boundaries and bring together feminist and queer discourses regarding these technologies.

Special Topics Session: "Productive Silences" (Annual RMMLA Conference October 6-8, 2011)

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 6:28pm
Pamela J. Rader/ RMMLA

2011 Rocky Mountain MLA Annnual Conference
Scottsdale, AZ
October 6-8, 2011

Special Topics Panel: Productive Silences

History and the history-making process, while seeking to remember, often call attention to singularity of perspective, which results in silencing the memories of survivors. Literature then steps in to fill the gaps or
the lacuna of silence. In this imaginative, fictional realm, silence and those silenced by historians, dictators, and forgetfulness find agency. Understood as a form of resistance, silence becomes a literary ruse: a voice or a perspective that once lacked agency now finds a place on the page.

CAL STATE FULLERTON GRAD CONFERENCE 2011

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 5:04pm
ACACIA

RETALIATION 2011

The Acacia Group at Cal State University, Fullerton is currently accepting proposals for its 2011 Graduate Conference, Retaliation. The conference will be held on Friday,
January 28th and Saturday, January 29th. The Acacia Group is an organization of English graduate students and faculty members committed to developing student scholastic advancement while fostering a strong sense of academic community.

Eighteenth-Century English Literature (3/1/11; RMMLA, 10/6-10/8)

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 4:32pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Stephen Sweat (panel chair)

Announcing a call for papers for the Eighteenth-Century English Literature session(s) at the 65th annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Oct. 6-8, 2011, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The conference will be hosted by Arizona State University.

We invite fifteen-minute paper submissions focusing on any aspect of English literature in the eighteenth century. Last year's panel included the elegiac in Charlotte Smith's poetry, political economy in Defoe's novels, the narrative theory of Hogarth's engravings, and utility and pleasure in Francis Burney's letters and fiction. Papers on all authors, genres, and periods within the period will be considered, as we hope to create a pastiche of scholarship.

April 1st and 2nd 2011; A New Breed: Cross-Genre Approaches to Creative Writing Theory, Pedagogy, and Craft

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 4:26pm
Graduate Students in English Association at the University of North Texas

With the increasing prevalence of cross-genre and hybrid forms of literature, the creative writer is faced with a new set of questions that need to be addressed. We are defining genre in its most basic sense: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, but are eager to see papers that push the boundaries of these categories. We seek to explore how this new perspective produces multi-faceted creative forms and raises new questions of craft. How does cross-pollination create a need for a new understanding of genre? How does multi-genre work repackage fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in new and interesting ways? What effect does the integration of the creative process into the academy have on our understanding of how genre works? How do we teach across genres?

Theory in the Flesh: Bodies of Scholarship, Activism, and Community

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 4:22pm
University of Texas at San Antonio

2011 UTSA English Graduate Symposium

The 2011 UTSA English Graduate Student Symposium "Theory in the Flesh: Bodies of Scholarship, Activism, and Community"

Sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio

May 7, 2011 at The University of Texas San Antonio in San Antonio, TX

Keynote Speaker: AnaLouise Keating

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1, 2011

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives-our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings-all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. – This Bridge Called My Back

CFP: ATHE Performance Studies Focus Group Emerging Scholars Panel

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:37pm
Performance Studies Focus Group - Association for Theatre in Higher Education

CFP: ATHE Performance Studies Focus Group Emerging Scholars Panel

The Performance Studies Focus Group at the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference invites submissions of papers for its Emerging Scholars' Panel. The theme of the conference is 'Performance Remains, Global Presence: Memory, Legacy, and Imagined Futures' and it takes place at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois from August 11-14, 2011.

"Travelling Melville" - MLA Melville Society Panel (Seattle, January 5-8, 2012)

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 10:37am
Milette Shamir

The title of this panel does not refer to the several trips Melville took during his lifetime, or to the many voyages depicted in his novels. It evokes, rather, the influential essays "Traveling Theory" (1983) and "Traveling Theory Reconsidered" (1994), in which the late Edward Said argued that a text's movement from its point of origin to other geographical locales and historical situations is never a facile process. As a text is unhinged, transferred, translated, and institutionalized in a new setting, explained Said, it meets changing conditions of acceptance and unexpected forms of resistance. On the one hand, its movement may tame the force that was provoked by its original circumstances and render it subdued and sterile.

Special Effects: New Histories, Theories, Contexts

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Friday, December 10, 2010 - 7:06am
Edited by Michael Duffy [Towson University], Dan North [University of Exeter], and Bob Rehak [Swarthmore College]

Deadline for Abstracts: 1 March 2011
Deadline for Submissions: 1 January 2012

Commitment

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Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 11:31pm
The department of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine

The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine present an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on April 29th, 2011.
COMMITMENT
Keynote Speaker: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o