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[UPDATE] Second Call for Papers- Rupture Symposium 2011 (abstracts due 1 March 2011)

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 10:38pm
The Division of English / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The Division of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in association with the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences [CLASS], is organizing a three-day Contemporary Conference from 24 to 26 June, 2011. The Rupture Symposium, as part of this conference, deals specifically with the subject of "rupture" in literature.

CFP: PAMLA Conference, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (November 5-6, 2011; Paper Proposal Deadline 3/25)

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 9:37pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference is being held November 5-6, 2011, at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. PAMLA has over a hundred approved sessions on a wide range of literary and language topics. For the list of sessions, guidelines for how to propose a paper, and the online paper proposal form, please go to: http://www.pamla.org/2011/

For any questions about PAMLA, please email PAMLA Executive Director Craig Svonkin: svonkin@netzero.com

CFP: Modernist Ethics (MSA 13 Buffalo, NY; 6-9 October, 2011; deadline April 1 2011) I am seeking papers that address how modern

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 5:08pm
Modernist Studies Association

CFP: Modernist Ethics (MSA 13 Buffalo, NY; 6-9 October, 2011; deadline April 1 2011)
I am seeking papers that address how modernist fiction articulates ethics, challenges existing ethical models, and explores areas of ethical ambiguity. Possibilities:
• tensions or continuities between early-twentieth-century ethicists (e.g., Spencer, Moore) and the ethics of modernist fiction
• tensions or continuities between modernist fiction and contemporary ethics (e.g., Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, Zizek; or Nussbaum, Rorty, et al.)
• the ethics of particular writers or even of particular works – what do they posit, what leave unsaid or indicate is unsayable?

Birmingham Cityscapes 2011

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 4:18pm
Robert Lawson, Birmingham City University



Call for Papers

Birmingham Cityscapes: An Inter-disciplinary Urban Research Conference

Date

Saturday 18 June 2011

Location

Seacole Building, City South Campus, Birmingham City University, UK

Keynote Speakers

Dr Mike Beazley, Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies, University of Birmingham

Paul Slatter, Director of Chamberlain Forum Limited, Birmingham

Conference Description

American Literary Tourism Anthology (Oct. 30, 2011)

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 3:01pm
American Literary Tourism

American Literary Tourism (Anthology)

Literary tourism has a long history in American culture. From visits to the grave of the fictional eighteenth-century Charlotte Temple, to the restoration of Salem's House of the Seven Gables as a turn of the century settlement house and tourist attraction, to competing twentieth-century Faulkner Festivals, literary tourism has become ingrained in American culture. Its currency is evident in the recent success of such events as the Zora Neale Hurston festival, held up as an exemplary example of how community revitalization can be achieved through the strategic development of cultural heritage tourism.

No(bodies): Ghost Children in Juvenile Literature (15 March 2011)

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 2:44pm
ChLA Sponsored Session for MLA 2012 Conference

ChLA Sponsored Session for MLA 2012 Conference

No(bodies): Ghost Children in Juvenile Literature

This panel seeks to explore the figure of the ghost child in children's and young adult literature. Trapped in a permanent state of childhood/adolescence, the ghost child, through its lack of body, does not physically mature, thereby experiencing a stasis that is both tragic and frightening; however, in many texts the ghost child undergoes some type of transformation that allows it to "grow up" in perhaps alternative ways. Papers might consider, but are not limited to, what the ghost child suggests about the following:

Global Environmental Literature: Comparative Approaches to Environmental Criticism

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 2:34pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 2011 Convention (Scottsdale, Oct 6-8)

This panel aims to highlight the direction the field of environmental studies is headed: more interdisciplinary and global approaches to environmental concerns. Please send one-page proposals to Ali Brox (ali_brox@yahoo.com) by March 1, 2011.

For more information about the RMMLA convention: www.rmmla.org

Dreaming of Babylon: The Work of Richard Brautigan

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 10:51am
Jill E. Anderson

Seeking papers to fill out a panel proposal on Richard Brautigan's work for MLA 2012.

This panel seeks to explore any aspect of Richard Brautigan's work--poetry or prose. His work has been largely ignored by the academic community so I seek people with an interest in Brautigan who wish to recover his work. Your readings could take any number of angles, but personally I am most interested in ecocritical, historical, and gender studies readings.

CFP: Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements

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Monday, February 7, 2011 - 9:54am
Heather McIntosh, Boston College

Call for Book Chapters and Book Chapter Proposals

Working Title: Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements

Editors
Lisa M. Cuklanz, Ph.D.
Communication Department, Boston College
cuklanz@bc.edu

Heather McIntosh, Ph.D.
Communication Department, Boston College
mcintoha@bc.edu

Submission Deadlines:
Proposals or completed papers: May 15, 2011

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