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SAVE THE DATE and CALL FOR PAPERS
BYRON AND THE BOOK
The 36th International Byron Society Conference
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26-31 July 2010
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A Book's a Book, altho' there's nothing in't.
- Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
"Carried Across: Translations, Temporalities, and Trajectories"
A Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of English at University of Rhode Island
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, currently Visiting Professor at Duke University, and author of several books, including Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991), Writing Diaspora (1993), Ethics After Idealism (1998), and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007)
Translatus (Latin root of "translation"): transferred, handed over, conveyed, carried across
New Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture is a collection of essays featuring the work of established and emerging scholars in the areas of eighteenth-century commerce, race, law, genre and gender. The century that witnessed capitalistic growth, slavery and, in some countries, the abolition movement, the emerging of newly distinctive literary genres and fashionably defined gender roles is no longer understood as simply the time of Augustan restrictions and budding Romantic sensibilities.
Call for Papers
Education is a 'drawing out' – of knowledge, experience, of the learner and of the teacher. Situations, narratives and interrogations of teaching and learning occur frequently in Shakespeare's plays and many other texts of the period. The problems of teaching 400-year-old texts, under different societal, technological, cultural, and even geographical constraints, remain challenging today.
Indian English Fiction constitutes an important part of the world literature today, and women novelists have made significant contributions to it. The proposed anthology is intended to focus on some of the latest perspectives on noted Indian Women Novelists. Interested scholars are requested to submit a 200-250 words abstract along with short bio through e-mail as MS Word attachment to Dr. Indu Swami at induswamionline@yahoo.com latest by March 31, 2010. The deadline for submission of full length papers (3000-7000 words) in latest MLA style is April 30, 2010. The anthology will be published by a reputed Indian publisher and a free copy will be provided to each contributor.
Edith Wharton on Rodeo Drive: This panel will examine the intersection of Wharton studies with popular culture and material culture. Send 300-word proposal and 1 page cv to murraym@wcsu.edu by March 15.
Sponsored by the Edith Wharton Society, an affiliated organization of the MLA.
Proposed special session seeks papers considering emotion and affect in the early modern courtly sphere. The emotional life of a courtier, emotional displays at court, emotion in courtly literature, etc. Abstracts by Mar. 2 to Bradley J. Irish (birish@mail.utexas.edu).
More than 50 years later, contemporary scholars, including Bill Mullen, Gary Okihiro, and Vijay Prashad, are responding to the 1955 Bandung Conference's powerful vision of an Afro-Asian world of color poised to take back the reins of history and challenge the global hegemony of the world's superpowers. These scholars' work emerges not from theoretical models of hybridity within postcolonial and cultural studies but — like the Bandung Conference itself — from anti-imperialist and transnational political agendas. Significantly, as Colleen Lye suggests, this work comprises a third stage of ethnic studies, mediating between limited, nation-bound multiracial analysis and the perceived lack of historical specificity in diaspora models.
Call for Papers: Community and Conflict
2010 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Graduate Conference in Literature and Rhetoric/Composition
4th Annual Conference in Carbondale, Illinois
Dates: March 26 & 27, 2010
Registration Fee: $25
The Southern Illinois University-Carbondale's Association of English Graduate Instructors and Students (AEGIS) will be holding its 4th annual AEGIS conference at the SIUC Student Center. Please join us as a first-time or returning panel participant, speaker, or chair for conference experience and conversation within our discipline.
Proposals are being accepted in the theme of community and conflict. Possible paper topics can include, but are certainly not limited to:
Inviting papers considering the intersection of environmental and social cultivation in nineteenth-century Britain, in either colonial or domestic contexts. Please send 350-word abstract by March 2, 2010 to change@missouri.edu
Benedict Anderson's "philological-lexicographic revolution" and after. Cultural standardization and fixity in the regime of print-capitalism; implications of fluid lexicographical practice and access online. Abstracts by March 15 for possible Special Session at the MLA convention, Los Angeles, Jan. 6-9, 2011.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31ST
An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2010/Buchan/index.htm
Saturday 10 July, 2010
Proposals are invited for 20-minute conference presentations on the life and writing of John Buchan (1875-1940). This event will commemorate the 70th anniversary of Buchan's death and celebrate the imminent emergence of his works from UK copyright on 1 January 2011.
Submitted proposals will focus on some or all of the following:
The PhD in Humanities Program (http://louisville.edu/humanities) and the Association of Humanities Academics at the University of Louisville announces the annual University of Louisville Graduate Conference in Humanities, April 16, 2009.
Inviting papers that foreground thematically important references to letters of the alphabet in early modern English literature.
250 word abstracts + short CV
MLA 2011 Special Session
"I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin of the whale. I have had controversies about it with experienced whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists ashore. My original opinion remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion. The question is, what and where is the skin of the whale?"
--Herman Melville, Moby-Dick