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Labor and Migration in the Americas [UPDATE]

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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 12:19pm
Mercyhurst College Colloquium on the Americas

Labor and Migration in the Americas: Mercyhurst College Colloquium on the Americas, April 16-17, 2010

The Mercyhurst College Colloquium on the Americas invites submissions of papers, presentations and panels from any discipline on topics discussing the peoples of the Americas and how they perceive/relate to issues of work and labor.

The event begins on the evening of Friday, April 16 with a reading by Mexican-American Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist Ana Castillo.

Papers will be delivered on Saturday, April 17 in a colloquium style (only one panel at a time to allow for greater participation by attendees).

[UPDATE] CFP: With Laughter for All: Toward a New Anthology of American Humor-- American Literature Assn. (May; Jan 20 deadline)

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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 12:02pm
American Humor Studies Association

The American Humor Studies Association seeks proposals for a round-table session at the American Literature Association Conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Embarcadero Center, on May 27-30, 2010.

Session 1—
With Laughter for All: Toward a New Anthology of American Humor
Roundtable Session

For a long time, many humor scholar-teachers have been frustrated by the lack of a humor anthology that serves our teaching needs. Blair's survey/anthology is a great work, but it is now 75 years old. Cohen and Dillingham have done the Southwest, but there are other American humor traditions equally deep and rich; a comprehensive anthology would bring together pieces that are currently difficult to find or simply inaccessible.

American Studies: Citizenship and Belonging

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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 11:55am
Pacific Northwest American Studies Association

2010 PNASA Conference Call for Papers

***Deadline Extended***

Proposals for individual papers or full panel presentations are now being accepted for the annual PNASA conference, April 15-17, 2010, at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park in Spokane, Washington. Papers on topics related to the conference theme, "Citizenship and Belonging," are especially encouraged. Proposals on other topics in American studies are also welcome.

In order to be considered for inclusion in the conference program, please submit an abstract of around 250 words by January 31, 2010, via e-mail to Dr. Brian Donahue, PNASA president. (Previous deadline was January 15.)

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH US: Exploring the Poetics of Place, 10/1-3/10, Submission deadline 4/15/10

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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 11:20am
EAPSU: English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH US: Exploring the Poetics of Place
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven, PA

Inspired by the host university's setting on the banks of the Susquehanna River, between the Alleghenies and Appalachians, the 2010 EAPSU conference theme "A River Runs through Us" invites exploration of the possibilities and permutations of place and its representations wherever we live.

In Susquehanna, River of Dreams, Susan Stranahan recognizes the dynamic intersections of the local with the global when she observes:

[UPDATE] "Dialogues of Displacement: Intersections Between the Literary Texts of African and Asian Diaspora(s)" - January 28th

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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 10:16am
American Literature Association (ALA) / Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS)

DEADLINE EXTENSION: "Dialogues of Displacement: Intersections Between the Literary Texts of African and Asian Diaspora(s)" - January 28th

The proposal deadline has been extended to January 28th. Please see the CFP below, and forward to any interested parties. Thank you.

The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) invites papers that explore the literary connections between African and Asian diasporic communities. What might we learn by looking at the texts of African and Asian migrants comparatively?

We welcome papers that particularly compare and/or contrast ways in which the experiences of both African and Asian diasporic peoples open new textual possibilities. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

[UPDATE] Caribbean Enlightenment conference, 8-9 April 2010, deadline extended

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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 8:53am
University of Glasgow

2nd Call for Papers: deadline extended to 28th February 2010

Caribbean Enlightenment
An Interdisciplinary Caribbean Studies Conference
8th to 9th April 2010, University of Glasgow

Keynote Speakers
J. Michael Dash, Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
Paget Henry, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Brown University
Kei Miller, University of Glasgow
Nick Nesbitt, Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen

Time and Space in Words and Music: The 1st Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum

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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 7:55am
The Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF)

Call for Papers: "Time and Space in Words and Music"
The 1st Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, November 4-6, 2010

The Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF), founded in 2009 under the auspices of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), offers 'emerging scholars' additional opportunities to present papers – including but not limited to work in progress – and establish a scholarly network of those who share an interest in word and music studies. The central event of the Forum will be a biennial conference, held in alternating years with the WMA international conferences.

Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies (Abstracts due: 15 April 2010)

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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 12:11am
Meagan Timney/Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria

The proposed multi-disciplinary collection seeks to illuminate connections between Victorian and twenty-first-century technologies, as well as ask how we might consider "virtuality" in relation to Victoriana. It will explore the networks and connections facilitated by technology by combining close reading, broad theoretical questions, project descriptions, and pedagogical methods.

"Wild Tongues: Concepts of the Untamed in Scholarship, Teaching, Writing, and Beyond" - Abstract Deadline 3/15/10

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Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 7:51pm
2010 University of Texas at San Antonio English Graduate Symposium

2010 UTSA English Graduate Symposium

The 2010 UTSA English Graduate Student Symposium "Wild Tongues: Concepts of the Untamed in Scholarship, Teaching, Writing, and Beyond."

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

May 1, 2010 at University of Texas San Antonio in San Antonio, TX

Keynote Speaker: Norma Alarcón

Proposal Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010

How do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how do you bridle and saddle it? How do you make it lie down?
- Gloria Anzaldúa

Simone de Beauvoir: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 5:02pm
Simone de Beauvoir Society

102 years have passed since her birth, 24 since her death, 61 since the publication of her masterpiece, The Second Sex, a work that changed forever the way in which the world looks at women. Yet Simone de Beauvoir, widely considered as the inspiration for modern feminism, still represents an essential reference for millions of women and men all over the world who have been influenced by both her theoretical and her narrative works and by the example of her own life.

UNC-CH Institute of African American Research Humanities Writing Competition, March 1, 2010 DEADLINE

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Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 4:41pm
Tomeiko Ashford Carter/Institute of African American Research

The Institute of African American Research (IAAR) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will offer a $1000 prize for the best cross-disciplinary, collaborative effort in the Arts and Humanities that yields a historically-grounded script on a topic of African American research. Established and aspiring scholars and writers with expertise in creative writing, literary criticism, philosophy, history, communications, performance studies, sociocultural anthropology, and other relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply. Submitted scripts will be considered for production. There are no limits on the historical time frame or genre of writing. Scripts should be submitted electronically and in hard-copy format to the IAAR by March 1, 2010.

maternity and early modern romance narratives in English

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Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 2:53pm
Karen Bamford and Naomi J. Miller

Proposals are invited for an anthology of essays exploring the intersection of maternity and romance narratives in early modern England. We are particularly interested in romance narratives by women or non-canonical authors. Send 500 word abstracts with a short cv by April 1, 2010, to Karen Bamford (kbamford@mta.ca) and Naomi Miller (njmiller@smith.edu). Completed essays will be due Dec. 15, 2010.

CFP Realism's Mixed Modes, German Studies Association 2010, October 7-10, Oakland, California

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Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 1:34pm
Geoffrey Baker

CFP "Realism's Mixed Modes" German Studies Association 2010, Oakland, California

Realism's Mixed Modes

Eric Downing has pointed out, in his book _Double Exposures_, that realism continues to be viewed as a "heavily normed discourse or style, that purports to universal, transparent, natural, and ahistorical status, and the simultaneously and necessarily excludes or represses both self-consciousness and otherness. Katherine Kearns has also written that realism is "often charged with blindsiding social, political, and epistemological complexities, with throwing its considerable materialistic weight against all that would challenge or suborn the status quo."

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