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New Jersey College English Association
35th Annual Spring Conference
Seton Hall University
Saturday, April 14th 2012
Whether one is a participant, a casual spectator, a die-hard fan, or a critic, sport, in all its varieties and forms, plays a significant role in the lives of most people throughout the world. The rhetorical devices employed within and around sports are complex and far-reaching, establishing connections across myriad of discourses.
Introducing: Reconstruction 11.4
Editor's Introduction:
"Something to occupy the time": Activism and Anagnorisis, by Marc Ouellette
Articles
Talking to Yourself: Garfield Minus Garfield as an Introduction to Techno-Companionship , by Andy Engel
Cabelian Way, by Mike DuBose and Cristian Pralea
American Circus Re-Invented: Queering Cirque Du Soleil, by Michael Johnson Jr.
Wincest is the Best, or, Raep is What Happens When You Say No: Subversive Humor and Serious Business in Capslock Supernatural, by Britt Eira Long
Poetics: Performance and Genre Bending
Absence and Sociality in Live Film Narration: Poets of the Unreeled in Miami , by Alan Clinton
Texas A&M University's English Graduate Student Association Graduate Conference:
"Retrofitting English Studies: When Diversity Becomes an Afterthought"
April 7-8, 2012
Speaker: Jay Dolmage
The editors of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media seek additional articles for its fourth issue to be published online in 2012.
In response to the conference topic on "Landmarks," I issue a call for papers for a special session panel at the 2012 British Women Writers Conference on George Eliot's Middlemarch. Not only is Eliot a landmark woman writer who wrote an important landmark in the history of the novel, her novel itself engages issue of landmarks in a wide variety of ways. The novel engages the high culture, Classical landmarks of Greece and Rome through the comparisons of Dorothea to a new Antigone, as well as through her honeymoon trip to Rome. But these well-known figures and sites of human history and achievement are implicitly contrasted to achievements, people and epochs that are not likely to be memorialized.
The importance of negotiations as to what constitutes Britishness in present-day Britain can be seen in a variety of areas, from the "Britishness Test" introduced in 2005 for those who are applying for UK citizenship to scholarly works that attempt to categorize national identities or research projects such as "Britishness", undertaken by the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past at the University of York. In a recent essay (Wasafiri, 64, Winter 2010) John McLeod has registered a pronounced shift regarding the realms of nation and identity in the approach of contemporary Black British writing or rather "contemporary black writing of Britain".
Extention of deadline: January 30, 2012.
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's birth, the Mount Royal University Department of Languages and Cultures invites communications in French and in English to be presented at a one-day pluridisciplinary colloquium on Saturday, April 14, 2012.
Papers from various disciplines and fields are welcome, whether from 18th, 19th or 20th century perspectives.
Abstracts of 200 to 300 words should be sent to the organizers no later than January 30, 2011.
The organizers will respond by mid-February 2012.
A maximum of 10 papers will be chosen.
On 17 December 2010, Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi performed an act of self-immolation in protest of widespread state corruption. Galvanized by Bouazizi's gesture of dissent, Tunisians protested en masse, successfully demanding the removal of the oppressive regime in power. The Tunisian experience inspired what would come to be known as the Arab Spring, threatening the overthrow of totalitarian regimes across the Middle East, most notably in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.
UPDATE: Negotiating Belongings and Longing to Belong: in African American Women's Writings of the 19th & 20th Centuries