From the revolutionaries of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, the heroines in films by directors such as Nadir Moknèche, Raja Amari and Laïla Marrakchi, to the feminist voices of Hélé Béji's and Gisèle Halimi's texts or the incisive critique of phallocentric discourse of Fatima Mernissi's essays, women from the Maghreb have and continue to be associated with the hopes of modernity, freedom, and democracy. In the 21st century, they have emerged as important players in the socio-political and cultural transformations that have taken place since independence from France.

Virginity has long been a trope found in literary and cultural texts, however, how do we understand virginity and why does it matter become two questions worthy of consideration. This joint-panel between the Canadian Comparative Literature Association and the Canadian Association of Hispanists aims to work through the poetics and politics of virginity in narrative, poetry, cinema, graphic novels, and popular culture. In many regards, though virginity has been studied, particularly in Medieval Literature, and aspects of Renaissance and Classical Literature, we have yet to see much consideration of virginity as a theoretical problem in modern texts.

The New York School Society will sponsor a session on "New Work on Kenneth Koch" at the American Literature Association's 2011 Annual Conference. The publication in 2007 of both The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch and the Library of America Selected Poems is only the most notable indication of recent interest in Koch's work. We invite proposals on any aspect of Koch's poetry, prose, drama, teaching, collaborations, or influence on contemporary poetry. Please send proposals or abstracts (up to 250 words), along with a brief biography or curriculum vitae, to Ben Lee (blee15@utk.edu). Submissions must be received by January 21, 2011.

Black Camera invites submissions for a special issue on Afrosurrealism in Film/Video, i.e. black experimental film to be published Fall 2013.

Black Camera is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study and documentation of the Black
Cinematic experience and is the only scholarly film journal of its kind in the United States.

Event: April 15-16, 2011
Abstract Deadline: January 3, 2011

KEYNOTES:
Timothy Campbell (Cornell University)
Catherine Malabou (University of Paris X-Nanterre)
David E. Johnson (SUNY Buffalo)

animal.machine.sovereign.
2011 Graduate Student Conference
Department of Comparative Literature
State University of New York at Buffalo

For more information, please visit the conference website at:
http://animalmachinesovereign.wordpress.com

This is the first announcement of the special edition of Academic Exchange Quarterly (ISSN 1096-1453) on Expanding the Language Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base. Feature editor: Anna Franca Plastina, University of Calabria, Italy.
Deadline: August 31, 2011
This issue will examine practical and theoretical approaches to language. Contributions are invited from Educators and researchers from all fields related to language.
Manuscripts may focus on language in a number of ways. These include:
- second language acquisition
- translation
- language for specific purposes (LSP)
- language for science and technology (LST)
- teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL)

A Statement in Recension: The Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing for the
21st Century University