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Me, Myself, and Los Angeles: Narrating the Modern Self in the City of Angels
Proposed Special Session for MLA 2011, Los Angeles
Free Exchange Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
English Department, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2010 March 13-14 with evening performance March 12th.
Submit abstracts (critical or creative) to freeex@ucalgary.ca.
He's the Silent Type: Modern Masculinity in Silent Film
Special Session Proposal for MLA 2011, Los Angeles
CALL FOR PAPERS
SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
2010 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services (179 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115), Saturday 23 October 2010
Proposals by 1 June 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
MONSTROUS MEDIEVALISMS 2010
A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
Sponsored by The Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages: http://popularcultureandthemiddleages.blogspot.com/
2010 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American
Culture Association (NEPCA)
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services (179
Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115), Saturday 23
October 2010
Proposals by 1 June 2010
Arab American Art and Culture:
Challenges, Reappraisals, and Possibilities
RAWI, the Radius of Arab American Writers, announces its third national conference, "Arab American Art and Culture: Challenges, Reappraisals, and Possibilities. This conference will bring together Arab American, Arab, and Anglophone-Arab writers of all genres in performance, critique, and conversation.
RAWI welcomes individual paper or full panel proposals. Individual paper proposals should include a presentation title, short biography, and 300-word abstract. Full panel proposals should include presenter bios, both panel and presentation titles, and a description of each presentation, including titles.
Power and Politics
Although Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus make clear in "Surface Reading: An Introduction" that the essays appearing in the Fall 2009 special issue of Representations amount to "neither a polemic against nor a postmortem of symptomatic reading" they also clearly mean to "distance" surface reading from interpretive practices dedicated to uncovering what a text "represses(3). In particular, Best and Marcus mean to distinguish surface reading from the mode of reading championed by Fredric Jameson in The Political Unconscious.
1st Annual Quebec Universities English Undergraduate Conference (QUEUC)
March 26 & 27, 2010
Hosted by Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Undergraduate students from departments of English Literature attending Quebec universities are encouraged to submit papers to this conference. Essays may address literature from any genre, region, or historical period. This is a wonderful opportunity for undergraduates attending Quebec universities to meet one another and present their ideas in a collaborative conference setting. Participants will also gain valuable professional experience for future graduate studies and post-graduate careers.
The conference is sponsored by Valdosta State University's English Graduate Student Association.
The complexities of literature and language studies can fragment graduate students to the degree that they lose sight of the commonalities among the components of their discipline. This conference seeks to reconnect us to the common allure of language, literature, and the contingent sub-disciplines that likely drew us to this multi-faceted field. We encourage submissions, especially from graduate students, on topics related to the conference theme.
"GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and
Space"
This call for papers is for a proposed panel for the 2011 Berkshire
Conference on the History of Women at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The conference's theme is "GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space." In keeping with the conference theme, this panel is a retrospective analysis of Dr. Darlene Clark Hine's theory of dissemblance (now over twenty years old) and seeks
papers that addresses dissemblance and its application to women's gender and sexual identities across socieconomic class, age, time, place, etc. in the African Diaspora.
Request paper proposals for a proposed special session at the 2010 MLA convention in Los Angeles, CA. The session will explore provocative sub-titles or epigraphs in individual works of post-Renaissance fiction. Papers that engage recent theories of paratextual elements by scholars such as Jerome McGann and Gérard Genette are especially welcome, as are those analyses that merge rhetorical and literary perspectives
Please submit 500-word abstracts to Dr. Steve Severn by March 15th 2010.
Electronic submissions are preferred:(ssevern@mail.wtamu.edu)
Paper copies may be mailed to:
Dr. Stephen E. Severn
West Texas A&M University
Box 60908
Canyon, TX 79016
CFP: Bodies of Knowledge Symposium and Conference
Women's & Gender Studies at USC Upstate
March 18-19, 2010
This spring the 3rd Annual Bodies of Knowledge Symposium will be hosted by the Women's and Gender Studies program at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, SC. This year will see the symposium expand to include a scholarly conference in addition to the usual LGBTQ lectures by star quality scholars, artists, and activists. The organizers invite paper and panel proposals for presentations relating to the broad umbrella category of QUEER EPISTEMOLOGIES AND PHENOMENOLOGIES.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature session, MLA 2011 (for a group of sessions in line with the MLA conference theme, "Writing Lives")
Lives on the Move: Medieval Seascapes and Pelagic Methodologies
Papers on medieval seas, archipelagos, islands, coasts, especially work utilizing cultural geography, Mediterranean studies, or other comparatist methodologies. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider University, mgoldie@rider.edu, and Steven Kruger, CUNY, skruger@GC.cuny.edu.